Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to The Christian O'Connell Show podcast showtime.
Speaker 2: Oh they might fall asleep.
Speaker 3: I've got this bag of pigs hoards, but that's all
Speaker 3: I really bought with me.
Speaker 4: Touch my pecks.
Speaker 1: They are lukewal The Christian O'Connell Show, Gold one oh
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Speaker 4: Show, one thousand, two hundred and ninety. Good morning, Patsy,
Speaker 4: Morning boys, Good morning Jack Post Morning team. Today Wednesday.
Speaker 4: On the show, we always do a thing at eight
Speaker 4: o'clock this morning called what are the odds? Your stories
Speaker 4: of coincidence and chance. Someone's already messages me this morning, Christian.
Speaker 4: I was listening to the podcast or the show from
Speaker 4: August to six, and I was having my dinner and
Speaker 4: the first thing that comes on is Patsy talking about
Speaker 4: Lamb Shanks. Will guess what my dinner was. Oh, yam,
Speaker 4: Lamb Shank. What are the odds? Wow? It started two
Speaker 4: hours early. Jack has brought his guitar in today. This
Speaker 4: is a before woman's day for you, Jackie Boyce. So
Speaker 4: you're singing immediately after the show.
Speaker 3: Yes, Bianko and I are singing together today at Gordie's daycare.
Speaker 3: We've been asked to perform four songs for the kids.
Speaker 3: Well been asked, Bianca volunteered us other parents.
Speaker 4: That's the spirit, that's that's who you want and performing
Speaker 4: what the children do.
Speaker 3: They asked parents to do, like can you come in
Speaker 3: and do anything with the kids. Yesterday's parents just read
Speaker 3: them a book.
Speaker 4: Come on, and I'm guessing that you were practicing yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've rehearsed my songs. Do you want me to
Speaker 3: play you in?
Speaker 4: I want? I want to hear the opener. Okay, Now,
Speaker 4: first of all, you said that Bianch is your backup singer.
Speaker 4: This is Jack and Biancher from a week ago at karaoke.
Speaker 4: A man, Jack, he's actually cruel to put that in
Speaker 4: front of young minds who could be irreparably broken. But wait,
Speaker 4: he's got a backup singer. His wife suddenly reading a
Speaker 4: book is what you two should be doing together. Those
Speaker 4: poor children, think of the innocent mind.
Speaker 3: So we went into that karaoke session without any rehearsal.
Speaker 3: We rehearsed our songs twice. Yeah, our whole playlist.
Speaker 4: How did he go? You're happy?
Speaker 3: You tell me I'm going to play you some old
Speaker 3: McDonald had a farm. Okay, this is interactive as well
Speaker 3: with the kids, so you guys can be.
Speaker 4: The kid brilliant.
Speaker 3: Old McDonald had a farm.
Speaker 4: Someone's rushing through this. Yeah, he's been rehearsing. This is
Speaker 4: with rehearsal.
Speaker 3: McDonald, Old McDonald had a farm. I think your voice.
Speaker 4: Can you get the audio where chat went? You decide? Oh?
Speaker 5: My old McDonald had a bit of a down.
Speaker 3: Now yeah, yes, tell you what.
Speaker 4: Listen, listen, Okay, you get in your head now, turn
Speaker 4: like their voice, right, spin around, you know the turn
Speaker 4: around and then come back now. But imagine that we
Speaker 4: are children, we're Gordon. Okay, so when you come back
Speaker 4: around on your chair, get that game face on and
Speaker 4: not that pitchy high too low crap.
Speaker 3: Donald Morning children, money, mister post. Now, I am Gordy's
Speaker 3: dad and this is Gordy's mom, and have we got some.
Speaker 4: So I love it.
Speaker 3: Have you guys ever heard of old McDonald?
Speaker 5: Yes, well, old McDonald.
Speaker 3: Had a farm. Found it e that's not.
Speaker 4: Am I? Please? No more, no more, Jack, if you
Speaker 4: are that nursery council now nine four one four one
Speaker 4: four three worst children's entertainer.
Speaker 1: Ever Christian Donald's show podcast.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid to say that Jack's coming with another song
Speaker 4: in a minute. I've actually listened to a minute of
Speaker 4: him mangling old McDonald again.
Speaker 3: This is why musicians will do a.
Speaker 4: Sound Absolutely, it's lucky as to be in at that
Speaker 4: sound check.
Speaker 3: To get the cob webs out of the system. This
Speaker 3: has honestly always been my problem with singing. Once I
Speaker 3: lock in, I feel like I can capably see.
Speaker 4: But I've never heard by the way i've heard you
Speaker 4: sing it for he is, I've never heard that locking in.
Speaker 4: You must do it in secret, real secret somewhere. I've
Speaker 4: heard it locked out, mane.
Speaker 3: Sometimes finding the entry is the hardest.
Speaker 4: It's like cracking the coach a safe is it like
Speaker 4: the tumblergu in one went.
Speaker 3: But once you're in the treasures.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, poor Gordy is all I can say.
Speaker 3: Three hours from now now, I think I've got McDonald
Speaker 3: where it needs to be. Or do you want to
Speaker 3: hear another song?
Speaker 4: It's entirely up to you. I'm going to I'm going
Speaker 4: to say he just tuned in. By the way, Jack
Speaker 4: sport is guitar and today after the show he's off
Speaker 4: to his son Gordon's too to is kindy and he's
Speaker 4: performing soon four songs there today.
Speaker 3: Yes, volunteering, no pay.
Speaker 4: Well you shouldn't be paid either, based on.
Speaker 3: This, Maybe I'll put a kids like a bustard.
Speaker 4: So what's the song about to hear?
Speaker 3: This is old McDonald just I've changed the I've changed
Speaker 3: the key it was. It wasn't in my.
Speaker 4: Room, That's what it was, all right?
Speaker 3: Old McDonald had a farm ey together, Now on that
Speaker 3: farm and this is where I was pointing to the
Speaker 3: kids and go, oh you young boy, Christian, what animal
Speaker 3: did you have on the farm? Pick on that farm?
Speaker 3: He had a pig.
Speaker 4: With a point point here and there, here, there everywhere?
Speaker 4: McDonald slashing.
Speaker 5: Locked in.
Speaker 4: Okay, then okay, that's your opener. What's song too? You've
Speaker 4: got them?
Speaker 3: Then we go into the wiggles. Yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 3: called point your finger and do the twist. Ye can
Speaker 3: you point your finger and do the twist?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Can you point your finger and do the twist?
Speaker 4: He's got the children's in a grin and face on.
Speaker 3: Well we gotta get up and get down, get back
Speaker 3: up and turn around your finger and do the twist.
Speaker 4: So are you going to need to get up and
Speaker 4: then get down?
Speaker 3: And the song a bit they will be encouraged to
Speaker 3: dance during that.
Speaker 4: Who's doing the encouragement back up vibes and choreography and
Speaker 4: singing she's.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping she'll do more of the interaction with the
Speaker 3: children and I'll just worry about the scene right, rather
Speaker 3: than put on the kids entertainer voice.
Speaker 4: I think you have to do. Otherwise they can't get
Speaker 4: who this Jack Post character is the rest of us.
Speaker 4: Let them in, Jack, Let them in. You will have
Speaker 4: to do a bit of him, him.
Speaker 3: Jack, and maybe I do some funny singing, and then
Speaker 3: that gives me an excuse that if it's not quite unpitched,
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, it's like a class yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, then you're saved them. But well, don't you looking good?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 4: Podcast Yesterday was King Charles's last day and it's wildly
Speaker 4: successful tour down under. I'm pretty sure him at the
Speaker 4: same time next year he knows he's always welcome here.
Speaker 4: Yesterday he was doing the fleet review, which mainly appeared
Speaker 4: that he was sort of wandering around warships with a
Speaker 4: hard hat in high vizabeth and stuff, just pointing at
Speaker 4: random rivets. Saw that out that looks that looks terrible.
Speaker 4: And then he also gave a speech where obviously someone
Speaker 4: had sort of worded him up about hey, listen if
Speaker 4: you want to befriend the locals here okay mentioned smashed
Speaker 4: avo and the wine they like.
Speaker 6: I think that Sydney is a world famous through his cuisine,
Speaker 6: withether it's smashed avo, a pair of or a cab save,
Speaker 6: and that is what I hope has been on display.
Speaker 4: Now bless him, but it actually sounds a high in
Speaker 4: today's modern world. That's not how human is it. It's
Speaker 4: an impersonation of what you think English posh English people
Speaker 4: sound like.
Speaker 6: I think that Sydney is a world famous through his cuisine,
Speaker 6: whether it's smashed avo, a pair or a cab save,
Speaker 6: and that is what I hope has been on display.
Speaker 4: It doesn't even sound human what he's trying to say,
Speaker 4: and I hope it's been on display. Even like who
Speaker 4: says cuisine. None of us know would be even say
Speaker 4: the word cuisine, but the one he says, it's very
Speaker 4: possuble cuisine.
Speaker 3: It sounds like someone doing an impersonation of him, where
Speaker 3: you would say, no, that's too much. Pull back a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 4: What did he think that people will start going to
Speaker 4: cheer and night?
Speaker 6: He is like us, for Sydney is a world famous
Speaker 6: through his cuisine, whether it's smashed avo, a path or
Speaker 6: a cab Sam. That is what I hope has been
Speaker 6: on display.
Speaker 4: Wow. We do you think you're ever going to see
Speaker 4: him here again?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: No, when he leaves, wave goodbye. He ain't ever coming back.
Speaker 1: World On Australia, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Time for this week Battel of the Decades, a song
Speaker 4: for the eighties, nineties and two thousands, which put a
Speaker 4: song up representing the eighties, nineties and two thousands. You
Speaker 4: decide which song you want to hear this morning. Three
Speaker 4: songs enter, one song leaves one era to rule them all.
Speaker 4: It's Christian o'connall's battle Love that Decade, Batsy You ready?
Speaker 7: I am ready, even though producer Caitlin just came in
Speaker 7: here and got in my head and said it better
Speaker 7: be good today. That's because the other two are exceptional.
Speaker 4: So we are holding aces be a fact. I actually
Speaker 4: think this is a battle between Jack and I. You're
Speaker 4: not even in it this week.
Speaker 2: Excuse me? Wait and say you're holding.
Speaker 4: And it is a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you won't be seeing what I'm holding. You'll
Speaker 2: like what I'm holding.
Speaker 4: I've seen what you're holding. I'm about to pan out. No, okay,
Speaker 4: what have you got them for the eighties parents?
Speaker 2: I've got Bruce Springstein Glory Days.
Speaker 4: Now. You know I love the boss, but this saying.
Speaker 2: Hang on, just hang on a minute? Stop the music?
Speaker 2: Are you saying? He's your man?
Speaker 4: Is my man?
Speaker 2: Don't like this song?
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't care for Glory Days, the fifth
Speaker 4: of seven top ten singles from the boarder USAMA, But
Speaker 4: I don't care for this one. Jack.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it on you will find this.
Speaker 4: I love Bruce, but this I find it a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is enjoy moment. I can't believe you you
Speaker 2: hang it on your man, Bruce.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked. I can't go on all the ones you
Speaker 4: could have got the eighties there were some bigger bangers.
Speaker 2: Than Glory Days happened to like Glory Day's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 4: It's a good song, but is.
Speaker 2: It enough deserves its space in this seventh.
Speaker 4: Al Right? I see Glory Days on Bruce Springston and
Speaker 4: I go I'm representing the nineties, and I go to
Speaker 4: one of the biggest voices, not just in the nineties ever,
Speaker 4: Mariah Carey. Guys, this Wednesday. Okay, it's Wednesday. I know
Speaker 4: this is competely Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think even
Speaker 4: Bruce when he hears fantasy would go, God, damn it, madam,
Speaker 4: you've got a voice. Oh my god, listen to this.
Speaker 4: It's so much sugary greatness. Let it is your soul
Speaker 4: and it's a fantasy. It's Mariah Carrie. What a voice?
Speaker 4: How does she do that? Big?
Speaker 8: Where you go?
Speaker 4: What is that? It's so much? What is that goal?
Speaker 7: This was obvious soundtrack of the Jackie chan What was
Speaker 7: the movie where the little girl was kidnapped?
Speaker 2: And was on this soundtrack?
Speaker 4: Oh, Shimmer's list.
Speaker 9: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guy, there's some music that's quality.
Speaker 4: No, and then suddenly.
Speaker 2: You should hang your DJ.
Speaker 4: Holding up the chests popped out. It's a fantasy, man,
Speaker 4: Jackie boy.
Speaker 3: He didn't worry arguing amongst yourself because I'm holding a
Speaker 3: silver bullet. This song, when I was fourteen years old,
Speaker 3: really got my attention.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, we don't need this creepy set up with
Speaker 4: the wizards and the old Wizards cloak out, the staff
Speaker 4: polishing underneath it.
Speaker 3: Listen to this lineup, Christine Aguilera, Lil Kim Meyer, Pink.
Speaker 3: The song is Lady Mamaalade.
Speaker 2: No, you too have lost the plot this week.
Speaker 4: This is this is a crime against humanity and music.
Speaker 3: Understand, this is not great.
Speaker 4: This is a man who's given up on life.
Speaker 2: I'd say the vote's quite obvious today.
Speaker 7: Needs clearly, Bruce, I was actually real.
Speaker 3: To give me the win and go. Don't worry about anything.
Speaker 4: I'm giving you is my vote of a finger, single
Speaker 4: finger in the air. Everything about this bad Go to fox.
Speaker 4: I've ever play it all right, guys, emotions are running high.
Speaker 4: You can hear it. Do this? Emotions are running high?
Speaker 4: Can we agree that? So you vote right now than
Speaker 4: on oh four seven five three one o four three.
Speaker 4: If you want to hear glory das by the Boss,
Speaker 4: then you just vote eighties.
Speaker 2: Any taste.
Speaker 4: If you want greatness in your ears, in your heart,
Speaker 4: you want to let Mariah carry in, you've owned nineties
Speaker 4: to fall seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 3: If you don't actually like music, don't need the witness please.
Speaker 4: Yeah's text in two thousands and the Turd emoji two
Speaker 4: oh four and I know what song you want? Seven
Speaker 4: five oh three, one oh four three you decide right now.
Speaker 4: The winning song is played next.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope in the years I had ahead of
Speaker 4: me that I never hear Jack ever tell me what
Speaker 4: caught his eye when he was fourteen. That's a weekly feature.
Speaker 4: We do not need to go into what caught Jack's
Speaker 4: fourteen year old eye? Christine Aguillera, what else is on
Speaker 4: that list? Do not phone in? There are no prizes.
Speaker 4: No one wins. Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days, Speig winning of
Speaker 4: the Ballot of Decades? Today? What on Patsy ten to
Speaker 4: seven Wednesday Morning, Christian O'Connell's show. Next week on the show,
Speaker 4: We're going to have a load of you in for
Speaker 4: the longest pop whoever can fire a champagne, cook the
Speaker 4: furthest wins five thousand dollars in cash and you get
Speaker 4: lawn chickets the Champions Steaks Day Saturday, November the ninth,
Speaker 4: and you get five hundred dollars worth of food and
Speaker 4: drink for you and five mates. It's an amazing price.
Speaker 4: What if some of the waits to the Melbourne Cup Carnival,
Speaker 4: November the second of the ninth. It's almost here where
Speaker 4: fashion meets celebrity and adrenaline meets jackpots. Get really for
Speaker 4: the longest pop pop right now? Shake that bottle up.
Speaker 9: We need some people for the longest pop. Hey, you
Speaker 9: won a win five K. Gotta pop that clock, baby
Speaker 9: Poppe bar oh.
Speaker 4: Way today the Champagne athletes that we're looking for. If
Speaker 4: you work in a warehouse, today's for you, my friends.
Speaker 4: It is warehouse Wednesday. If you work in a warehouse
Speaker 4: calling now nine four one four one oh four three.
Speaker 4: Anyone on the team ever worked in a warehouse?
Speaker 3: I did, and I didn't mean to you. I did
Speaker 3: work experience any yeah, guitar.
Speaker 4: Sho mean he didn't mean starts having a job in ause.
Speaker 3: I thought I did work experience in the guitar shop,
Speaker 3: but I thought it'd be testing the airs, testing the
Speaker 3: guitar strings, that sort of thing. All week I spent
Speaker 3: out the back of their warehouse folding down boxes.
Speaker 4: My experience working a warehouse exactly the same job, folding
Speaker 4: down the boxes. And this is what happens. That the
Speaker 4: best outcome for me, like Jack and I, is you
Speaker 4: might get a radio show. Otherwise in the power world,
Speaker 4: we're still doing those boxes. That's exactly the warehouse I
Speaker 4: did for six weeks once they told me that I'd
Speaker 4: be working out the front on the till and they
Speaker 4: saw how bad or was it customer service going. There's
Speaker 4: a little boxes that need breaking down right now for you,
Speaker 4: young O'Connell.
Speaker 3: No math needs to be done with returning pats.
Speaker 7: I can't imagine you ever watched ye I did when
Speaker 7: I left you year twelve before I went to UNI,
Speaker 7: I worked to a book warehouse, like a pop up bookshop,
Speaker 7: and it was actually really hard work.
Speaker 4: Do you mean one of those temporary little bookshops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was massive. Though it was huge.
Speaker 3: It was an old so you would get the order,
Speaker 3: put it in the mailing pouch, send it out.
Speaker 2: No, I no, even before mailing. No, people would can't
Speaker 2: before one shopping.
Speaker 4: I know you're old time, before.
Speaker 5: Mailing before watching a cave like cave paintings, smoke signals.
Speaker 7: More online shopping, and I'm like you two. They were
Speaker 7: very trustworthy and I even did the banking at the
Speaker 7: end of the night and took the money to the
Speaker 7: to the bank and put it in the hole in.
Speaker 4: The wall three chickens from farmer Childs.
Speaker 2: I hated it. I didn't like it.
Speaker 4: I was actually very happy breaking down boxes. I have
Speaker 4: to say, all right, warehouse friends, give us a call
Speaker 4: right now. Do you think any warehouse right now there's
Speaker 4: people like you and I cha they still breaking down
Speaker 4: the boxes, or that they have a machine that does
Speaker 4: that for you.
Speaker 3: Know, I think it's it's an intricate job. Got to
Speaker 3: get them as floods just about crunch No.
Speaker 4: Nine one four three. Give us a call on Warehouse Wednesday.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast Next Thursday.
Speaker 4: On the show the Longest Pop, each of you gets
Speaker 4: a bottle of champagne. Shake it up, you release the cork.
Speaker 4: Whoever fires the cork the furthest wins a ridiculous price.
Speaker 4: It's so much money for fire off for champagne. Cook
Speaker 4: five thousand dollars in cash five grand and you earn
Speaker 4: five mites off to Steak's Day and we'll also give
Speaker 4: you five hundred dollars food and drinks voluncher as well.
Speaker 4: Everyone that comes to take part next week gets a
Speaker 4: double pass to go to Steaks Day. So it's everyone's
Speaker 4: gonna be winning something all right, welcome to the Longest
Speaker 4: pop pop.
Speaker 9: Right now, shake that bottle up. We need some people
Speaker 9: for the longest pop. Hey, you won a win five K.
Speaker 9: Gotta pop that cock baby popp it bar.
Speaker 4: Oh way, yesterday we were looking for tradees. Today it's
Speaker 4: our friends that work in warehouses. On warehouse Wednesday nine
Speaker 4: four one four one oh four three like Harry, Good morning, Harry,
Speaker 4: good morning. Welcome to the show. Harry, Welcome to the
Speaker 4: Longest pop So tell us about the warehouse. What do
Speaker 4: you make?
Speaker 8: What do you do as we build tiny homes on trailers?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, my wife is obsessed with these two
Speaker 4: of these books. Yeah, what's the name of the company?
Speaker 8: Made by bear right?
Speaker 4: Okay? And they are amazing. You two seen these tiny homes.
Speaker 4: You can bind them, they wheel them in or like
Speaker 4: crane them in and drop them.
Speaker 3: I've seen them, yes, friends of our stadium. One just
Speaker 3: last month. They're going crazy. We never heard about tiny
Speaker 3: homes before. And another everywhere became a big thing during COVID, didn't.
Speaker 8: Harry, Yeah, they did, they did, and definitely popular with
Speaker 8: those airbnbs and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I think it'd be great? You
Speaker 4: know sometimes we have meetings here and people just crash in.
Speaker 4: We'd like gobbedygook. I'd like a tiny home on the
Speaker 4: roof where we could just have meetings up there in
Speaker 4: our tiny home on the roof of this building.
Speaker 3: Or he said they were on trailers, we can.
Speaker 4: This is it, Harry. I'm putting in an order today.
Speaker 4: Freedom from bosses and salespeople. They'd have to chase after
Speaker 4: us meeting on the back of the trailer being driven
Speaker 4: at speed round Maybourne, maybe the movie speed. We'd have
Speaker 4: to keep it by a certain speed. Harry. This is
Speaker 4: a great da Harry, exactly what do you do then?
Speaker 4: Are you're the warehouse manager? Do you own the company?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 10: No, I'm actually some apprentice carpenter and we build them.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, so they built order?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you know what? Here's another thing, right, So if
Speaker 4: you're a carpenter, is there any way you could come
Speaker 4: in when you're in next week because I'm going to
Speaker 4: select you bring the saw on the tools. I need
Speaker 4: a lock on this studio door that only I have
Speaker 4: a master Keith, Would you put a lock on the
Speaker 4: studio door here? Please?
Speaker 10: I can do that for you, yes.
Speaker 4: Harry, you're coming down next week if only for that. Okay, Harry,
Speaker 4: you through it. We'll see you for the longest pop
Speaker 4: next week sounds great? All right, thanks according in Harry.
Speaker 4: We'll see you next week. All right, tomorrow, le' sea
Speaker 4: back tomorrow. We're looking for teachers on Teacher's Thursday. Immosnow
Speaker 4: Tucker's daughter Factory Friday. In case you're wondering if I've
Speaker 4: got anything to go to or have, It's factory Friday.
Speaker 1: Look, Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: You believe what Jack did yesterday. I, out of all
Speaker 4: the people that we work with on this team, I
Speaker 4: never would have figured you would have done this.
Speaker 3: I pitched up picked up a hitchhiker yesterday for the
Speaker 3: first time in my life.
Speaker 4: Wow, this is this is un jack behavior.
Speaker 3: Beach road in Sandringham. Innocent looking guy walking along and
Speaker 3: had his thumb up. And when I saw it, it was
Speaker 3: like when you see a penny farthing or something. You're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you don't see that at all anymore.
Speaker 3: A hitchhiker. And I thought, you know what, I own
Speaker 3: to shock myself, shock my team. I'm going to pull
Speaker 3: over and pick up this hitch hiker.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So describe in twenties thirties, because straight away when you
Speaker 4: I mean years ago, right when I was going to
Speaker 4: my dad used always pick up hitchhikers. It used to
Speaker 4: used to see. It was a common thing to get
Speaker 4: around places, was hitchhiking, and that most of them would
Speaker 4: have a little cardboard temporary sign that would say where
Speaker 4: they were trying to get to, and if you were
Speaker 4: going along the way, you would take them like a
Speaker 4: couple of k's there and then drop them off and
Speaker 4: someone else to do it. So it was a normal
Speaker 4: thing to see hitchhikers. And now now you really don't.
Speaker 4: You're too worried that you might get attack.
Speaker 3: Sadly, yes, well I didn't think of that at the time.
Speaker 3: He looked innocent enough.
Speaker 4: What does innocent mean?
Speaker 3: He was like nineteen or twenty right, probably only like
Speaker 3: five foot nine, I would.
Speaker 4: So do you think I could take him if he went?
Speaker 3: I just did.
Speaker 2: He didn't look like someone serial killers aren't tall.
Speaker 3: He just didn't look like someone who would attack. I
Speaker 3: don't think he I didn't realize as I pulled up
Speaker 3: to him. So he's walking in the same direction I'm driving,
Speaker 3: so I'm only really seeing the back of him. He's
Speaker 3: got his thumb out, but also trying to get somewhere,
Speaker 3: which I also like because I thought, oh, he's at
Speaker 3: least helping himself get there. He just wants to get
Speaker 3: up there a little.
Speaker 4: I'm not getting on that big. I'm not gonna your
Speaker 4: all this internal dialogue. I gotta be honest. If I'm
Speaker 4: desperate to get someone, I see someone like Jackpot, like,
Speaker 4: do you know what? Actually it's I'm thinking about. It's
Speaker 4: a lovely that. I'll walk a little bit further.
Speaker 3: He couldn't believe his luck when I pulled over. Oh
Speaker 3: he was an interesting character. I'll say that.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 3: So it wasn't until I pulled over that I realized
Speaker 3: he had an open can of beer in his hand.
Speaker 2: Oh no, not a good sign.
Speaker 3: Jack fair enough, nice sunny day, and he'd been at
Speaker 3: the beach with his friends. But he lost his phone
Speaker 3: on the beach in the sand somewhere, and so now
Speaker 3: he had not already.
Speaker 4: There's too much in this story is in there.
Speaker 3: He had no way to get to his friends. All
Speaker 3: he wanted was a lift of Sandringham Station. It was
Speaker 3: a five minute truck. Okay, yeah, I know, Okay, So
Speaker 3: he jumps in the car. But then I asked him
Speaker 3: how long he's had his thumb up for. He goes
Speaker 3: almost half an hour, and I said, oh, that is
Speaker 3: way longer. I thought, he goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I guess these days people are worried about I don't know,
Speaker 3: getting murdered.
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 4: He actually named it, Oh God.
Speaker 3: Then he said told me the story about the phone.
Speaker 3: Then he said, and I guess it's calm and me
Speaker 3: losing my phone because I was at a bush stuff
Speaker 3: on the weekend and I stole someone's back.
Speaker 4: He's in your car now check.
Speaker 3: Then we actually had a conversation about it. Maybe the
Speaker 3: universe is trying to teach him a lesson and that
Speaker 3: he won't do it next time. And he sort of
Speaker 3: nodded at that and thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you at any moment then thinking this this
Speaker 4: could turn This.
Speaker 2: Is how I die.
Speaker 3: Actually, as I was getting closer to the station, I
Speaker 3: saw a police car. I thought, happens. Maybe I could
Speaker 3: wave out the.
Speaker 4: Window, flashing her night, raise your eyebright, I've got one.
Speaker 4: I've got one.
Speaker 3: But I dropped him off. He was innocent enough. He
Speaker 3: thanked you very much. And years ago, when Bianco and
Speaker 3: I were in New Zealand. And you will think this
Speaker 3: is reckless, but we got told that in Queenstown people
Speaker 3: hitchhike all the time there and New Zealand is a
Speaker 3: very friendly.
Speaker 4: It's a very safe country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we tried to hitchhike to the airport when we
Speaker 3: leaving queen.
Speaker 4: Oh my word, no needs it's a chance like that.
Speaker 3: And no one would pick us up. Someone came and
Speaker 3: picked us up as pity and said, oh you're I
Speaker 3: see your suitcases. No one's going to pick you up.
Speaker 4: Who plans on an airport flight? We're going. We don't
Speaker 4: need to book a tack sie will it? Hitchhike?
Speaker 3: So this is many years later, that was maybe ten
Speaker 3: years ago. This is me paying it back to the universe.
Speaker 3: Now I got picked by that lady ten years ago,
Speaker 3: and now I've paid it for it.
Speaker 4: You did a good thing, like perhaps you did your
Speaker 4: family ever pick up hitchhiker?
Speaker 7: Hell no, no. But back in the seventies and eighties,
Speaker 7: you're right, it was commonplace. It was absolutely you wouldn't
Speaker 7: batter an Eyeland.
Speaker 3: So if you saw this guy yesterday, you would.
Speaker 2: Just no way I would have picked him.
Speaker 3: Would you have stopped?
Speaker 4: I don't think I would have done no, because you
Speaker 4: just think, what's what it going on? And I got
Speaker 4: me honest, Even if I pulled over and I saw
Speaker 4: the canter Bear, I just would have gutted it. And
Speaker 4: I think he would have understood even more efficive. Now
Speaker 4: I think he would have understood. I was like, oh right,
Speaker 4: there's too much wandering around the like with an open
Speaker 4: Canada bit. It's just not the right look that says
Speaker 4: I want to lift in your car. Oh you got two,
Speaker 4: we're both to have a beer. Reaching off we go,
Speaker 4: all right, when have you recently? I don't think I
Speaker 4: can't remember the last time I saw a hitchhiker?
Speaker 3: Have you maybe we asked have you been a hitchhiker?
Speaker 3: Or have you picked up a hitchhiker?
Speaker 1: Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Rest assured my friends that Jack the phone bouncer has
Speaker 4: just thrown someone out the door of the show. I
Speaker 4: deserved him, Patsy going, no, I know it's a hell
Speaker 4: of a story, but I think it's too sinister for us.
Speaker 4: When are we ever going to do the sinister show?
Speaker 4: Never if this tune do we've asked this? We're just
Speaker 4: going to hitchhiker stories. We don't even need to know
Speaker 4: what happened there. Chris has got a hell of a
Speaker 4: story about a hitchhiker. Jack Pick did a good thing
Speaker 4: and saying he picked up a hitchhiker. We're looking for
Speaker 4: your hitchhiking stories on nine four one four one four
Speaker 4: three Morning Team. I broke up with my ex due
Speaker 4: to a hitchhiker. We pick him up and she brought
Speaker 4: him home and cheated on me. Yeah, she said they
Speaker 4: just watched a movie together. But I know what happened.
Speaker 4: Nine months later she had his kid baby came out
Speaker 4: with the woman with his thumb up in the air.
Speaker 2: Oh the poor guy.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 4: How in my high school years we spent at boarding
Speaker 4: school and ice to spent my weekends hitchhiking around the
Speaker 4: Bay of Islands at the top end of New Zealand.
Speaker 4: One time I was given a lift by a priest.
Speaker 4: It was on his way to church a few k's
Speaker 4: down the radio was pulled over by a traffic cop
Speaker 4: and booked for speeding. That's a bit tight. He's racing
Speaker 4: to spread the good words. Who books a priest for speeding?
Speaker 4: He's doing God's work. He's a man on the mission.
Speaker 4: Was he really a priest who knows Jay. Good morning,
Speaker 4: We're good Jay, welcome show. So what's your hitchhiker story
Speaker 4: for us?
Speaker 10: So what I was about five at this back of
Speaker 10: the early nineties. I was with my dad. We're driving
Speaker 10: back from his work. We ran out of fuel, so
Speaker 10: we had to walk to the server to get some.
Speaker 10: As we're walking back where you got the guy pulled
Speaker 10: over and pick us up. He was at a bitty boke.
Speaker 4: Wow, not a lot to those little carts.
Speaker 10: There is not a lot there would be that. My
Speaker 10: dad is over six foot tall. He sat in the
Speaker 10: little train of the back with his body tagging out
Speaker 10: the boat. Whilst I love a joke.
Speaker 4: Head, there's enough for a human normally a dog, and
Speaker 4: then some snacks if you're lucky. Yes, yes, yeah, that
Speaker 4: must have been quite the same all of you crammed
Speaker 4: into little mini moke.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have to drive about ten minutes like that.
Speaker 4: Great Jay, thanks for coming mate, Thanks for showing the story.
Speaker 4: Have a good day, Joanne, Good morning, good morning, Good morning, Joanie.
Speaker 4: What's your hitchhiking story? Oh, well, I.
Speaker 12: See in Queenstown. It reminded me when Jack said Queenstown.
Speaker 12: We were picking my mother in law up from the
Speaker 12: airport are there. As we were leaving Queens Town, we
Speaker 12: saw these two young guys standing on the Father Road
Speaker 12: with a sign and usually they put like the location,
Speaker 12: but they just had the direction, so they said south
Speaker 12: and then under that we won't kill you.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not falling for that. Maybe you'll falling
Speaker 4: somewhere for that one, but no, I'm pretty sure Ted
Speaker 4: Bundy tried that one. Well.
Speaker 12: We have quite the dark sense of humor, so we
Speaker 12: were like, that's funny, that's clever. If they're still there
Speaker 12: when we come back, we'll pick them up. They weren't
Speaker 12: still there when we came back, so somebody else had
Speaker 12: obviously l liked it as well. But we found them
Speaker 12: a little bit further down the.
Speaker 13: Road and picked them up.
Speaker 4: Wow, we won't the.
Speaker 12: Same sign out. They still had their same sign.
Speaker 4: That's great, Jennine, thank you very much your story. Thanks
Speaker 4: you calling him.
Speaker 1: Thanks Faith Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: I still can't let go but the fact that someone
Speaker 4: booked a priest for speeding. Christian was driving a truck
Speaker 4: on Rosebuds of Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula. So a
Speaker 4: guy walking down the side of the road. It was
Speaker 4: a windy day. Figured he must have gotten stuck, so
Speaker 4: I picked him up. Once he was in the truck,
Speaker 4: I tried to get to know it so it wasn't awkward.
Speaker 4: I asked him what he does. He told me he's
Speaker 4: a business lawyer. It didn't make any sense, so I said,
Speaker 4: where are you just going? And hitchhiking goes? Wow, I
Speaker 4: need to get to Flinders. I got a very serious bitsiness. Okay,
Speaker 4: is that the lawyer you want? How do you get
Speaker 4: a height? Christian? I was hitchhiking to a wedding again,
Speaker 4: you said, leaving it already to chance, aren't you? And
Speaker 4: a bloke pick me up? Then ten days later I
Speaker 4: was walking back and the same guy picked me up.
Speaker 4: What are the odds? Or was he just patrolled in
Speaker 4: the streets? Who knows? All right, Yes they're on the show.
Speaker 4: We started to mention this towards the end of the
Speaker 4: show about who these days has a hobby. If you
Speaker 4: do have a hobby, can you let us know what
Speaker 4: it is? This morning on nine four one four one
Speaker 4: oh four three after show had a emails Joanna, my
Speaker 4: hobby is Faberge eggs. We've seen these these ornate with
Speaker 4: jowels things, not to take my time and decorate the meaning.
Speaker 4: I haven't done it much lately. I did the trophy
Speaker 4: in nineteen for you guys for the winner of oh ah,
Speaker 4: yes it was a beautiful one who let the grands out.
Speaker 4: I do remember, now, Heather. My hobby is crochet. I've
Speaker 4: been mating making and not mating. That's a different hobby.
Speaker 4: That's my hobby. I've been making little penguins to take
Speaker 4: to local doctors surgeries so they can be given to
Speaker 4: upset kids. Oh hell, what a lovely thing to do.
Speaker 4: Jody's hobbies hobby is I don't know you consider this
Speaker 4: hobby but collecting sea glass?
Speaker 3: Oh I know sea glass, well, you know, you kind
Speaker 3: of stuff on the shore and the sand has a
Speaker 3: road of the shatagers, so it's all nice and smooth.
Speaker 4: She sir sent me a photo of a pile of the.
Speaker 7: Lips to make something out of it.
Speaker 4: It's okay actually, and Rebecca's into geo cashing. We did
Speaker 4: this for a hot six week minute, that's all it
Speaker 4: was with the kids. So we're going to do this
Speaker 4: every weekend. It's like an adventure and you follow it
Speaker 4: is once you don't. It is good fun for a
Speaker 4: short while.
Speaker 3: What's the idea you pick it up from a geocaching location.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you go on the app and then you work
Speaker 4: out we know how long it would take you to
Speaker 4: find it, roughly, and then you find these little they're
Speaker 4: normally like little tins or lunch boxes with some things in.
Speaker 4: You leave something, you take something out, and then you
Speaker 4: go and hide it somewhere itself and then log where
Speaker 4: it is, the coordinates and stuff like that. Like I said,
Speaker 4: once you've done it once or twice, So I'm over
Speaker 4: geocashing now, Rio. What is the definition? What's the difference
Speaker 4: beween the past time and a hobby?
Speaker 3: Great question, Christian, thank you.
Speaker 14: As defined by Webster, a pastime is an activity that
Speaker 14: you do to just help you pass the time, hence
Speaker 14: the term pastime.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 14: But a hobby is something you actively pursue other than
Speaker 14: your work, that is done for relaxation.
Speaker 4: Reading is a then would be a hobby.
Speaker 3: But I think reading is a hobby.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 15: I think reading is for enjoyment to relax, Yes, but
Speaker 15: would you do it if you had if you had
Speaker 15: something else to do, like a more active hobby, wouldn't
Speaker 15: you just choose that over reading.
Speaker 3: Reading is just like oh, I've got no I.
Speaker 4: Choose to actively read for you discipline. I like to
Speaker 4: read a couple of books. Yes, I must discipline myself
Speaker 4: by reading books. I like to try and read a
Speaker 4: couple of months.
Speaker 14: Then I'd say hobby.
Speaker 3: I would say hobbyy, So what hobbies do we have?
Speaker 4: Pats, you got hobby?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 7: I wish I did online shopping. Maybe I don't have
Speaker 7: time these days.
Speaker 4: That's an addiction. There's always a tab open for some
Speaker 4: sort of shopping that I've noticed in that new studio
Speaker 4: of yours.
Speaker 2: You know what I would like to do.
Speaker 7: I do have a list of hobbies I will do
Speaker 7: when I retire, one of which is to decorate all
Speaker 7: the sticks in the garage that I've collected.
Speaker 4: Okay, serial kidder is on the list, real famous hobbies.
Speaker 3: I can't find stick decorating.
Speaker 7: Clearing in sticks, and I do want to do like
Speaker 7: a makeup Cause how many sticks do you have?
Speaker 2: About? Three or four?
Speaker 4: Won't take you long and half an hour.
Speaker 2: Nature they are.
Speaker 4: From now on? Pitch your hobby to patch. She's painting sticks.
Speaker 4: Three of them take half an hour, Pats.
Speaker 2: No, each will be different. One is yours lassive flowers. Another,
Speaker 2: as I've mentioned.
Speaker 4: On the show, makes me sad. How these days? Can
Speaker 4: I just take you into my stick collection? I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh god, you did it and this one's killed. Bertie
Speaker 4: is here? Okay, going now turn you into stick like
Speaker 4: pitch your hobby to patch.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: All getting stories about hitchhikers after Jack picturing up yesterday,
Speaker 4: Christian I picked up a hitchhike. It was a rainy night.
Speaker 4: He had no umbrella, no coat. He accepted with a smile,
Speaker 4: and there was a definite spark between us. Maybe it
Speaker 4: was fate. I wondered, if it was love at first sight?
Speaker 4: What is this a story? A novel? I didn't ask
Speaker 4: his name, and we drove to a hotel. I knew, well,
Speaker 4: you know the rest, Dad? Is that you? I mean?
Speaker 2: It's a song?
Speaker 4: The rest?
Speaker 2: It is a song? Who sings it? We played all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: Oh is that hot?
Speaker 4: Yes? At this time?
Speaker 2: Is he awakened the woman in me? That night?
Speaker 7: I can't think of this song though someone will know it,
Speaker 7: but we played all the time. I can't think he
Speaker 7: sings it.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a real story.
Speaker 4: For me too. Wow, that's powerful stuff there. I don't
Speaker 4: know what so heart? We play alone? What is someone
Speaker 4: to know? Right now? And listen to the show. What
Speaker 4: is the song that that's about the hitchhiker being picked up?
Speaker 3: Not alone?
Speaker 4: One for it?
Speaker 3: So like, I really want to make love to you.
Speaker 4: That's what it's called.
Speaker 2: I want to do?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Since that one?
Speaker 4: Yes? All right, let me read the lyrics to that
Speaker 4: peace the Morning game. My hobby is making chopping boards
Speaker 4: and knife handles and other stuff out of wood.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it is all I want to do is make
Speaker 3: love to you by heart. It was a rainy night
Speaker 3: when he came into sight, standing by the road with
Speaker 3: no umbrella, no coats. I pulled it up alongside aftered
Speaker 3: him a ride. He accepted with a smile. We drove
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 4: But does she send the song? You know the rest? No,
Speaker 4: it doesn't feel like a song there it does it?
Speaker 4: Let's play that song in a minute, actually, can we
Speaker 4: put that in? I love that song? All right, let's
Speaker 4: stay some calls now, Eddie. What's your hobby? Welcome to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 8: Yeah, good morning, Christian.
Speaker 10: I might be his children put model cars and trucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you've been doing that since a kid.
Speaker 10: Or yeah, it might have been doing it since I
Speaker 10: was the I love me?
Speaker 4: And how many have you got an your collection? Have
Speaker 4: you how many of you made? Eddie?
Speaker 10: Oh god, I've got twelve trucks?
Speaker 4: You got thirty five cards, seven army tanks, two bats
Speaker 4: including a it's just titanic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and about four or six for forty JITs awesome?
Speaker 4: And what do you make them out of? Mets or no,
Speaker 4: they come they come just in a plastic kit.
Speaker 10: You got to paint them and glue them put together.
Speaker 4: Oh I know the kids. Yeah, I still love doing
Speaker 4: those as a kid. Yeah, Eddie, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: You cool, Thank you very much.
Speaker 10: You got to have a lovely day.
Speaker 4: I you Eddie. Thanks you calling Simon? Come on in,
Speaker 4: Oh Simon, what's your hobby? Oh?
Speaker 10: I paint handsawds with black point?
Speaker 4: You paint hand sawce?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, well you can paint on the metallic blade.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, it's good to store it in and give
Speaker 8: me tick print of any sort of team.
Speaker 10: I want to go to take a big two inseex
Speaker 10: saws at night?
Speaker 4: And so what do you do it for friends? Or
Speaker 4: you do it for your own? Joy?
Speaker 10: I do so enjoy when basically, well, that's.
Speaker 4: My wife's birthday, and too is Simon. She hasn't said
Speaker 4: what she wants yet. Maybe nice hand painted hand sort
Speaker 4: it's a lovely yeah, lovely all right, Simon, thank you
Speaker 4: very much, Thank you very much. Anyone else recognize a pattern?
Speaker 4: Hit I met.
Speaker 3: It's hard to like. It's hard to hear someone else's
Speaker 3: hobby and not go what is do that for?
Speaker 4: Howard? Good morning? Howard?
Speaker 8: Gooday, Christian here you're going.
Speaker 1: I'm good Howard. What's your hobby?
Speaker 8: Japanese swordsmanship?
Speaker 4: No, no, you've got me. What do you mean?
Speaker 8: Same as the samurai. I've been practicing this for thirty
Speaker 8: odd years as a hobby.
Speaker 4: Well, you to tell me more about it. Are you
Speaker 4: a member of a club?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm a I'm the Australian get instructor for a
Speaker 8: an act called shint Kindo. My teacher is as close
Speaker 8: to living samurais you can get. I guess he's he's
Speaker 8: in the US. He's Japanese. So I traveled to the
Speaker 8: US to learn from him and have been doing about
Speaker 8: the last thirty odd years.
Speaker 4: That's incredible. I mean, it's hard to do it over zoom,
Speaker 4: turn your microphone on. Samurais microphone on. Lads up, now kendo,
Speaker 4: I understand the big the big staff fighting. So did
Speaker 4: you say was kendo?
Speaker 8: It's called shin kindo. So kendo is really a sports
Speaker 8: side of Japanese swordsmanship. Shinkindo is the real side of
Speaker 8: Japanese wordsmanship.
Speaker 3: Ndo below the knees.
Speaker 4: You don't ever laugh at.
Speaker 3: How what I thought samurais were meant to be secretive
Speaker 3: in nature, but calling the radio show telling us you
Speaker 3: are once.
Speaker 8: No samurai definitely never secretive ninja maybe if they actually exist,
Speaker 8: which is a.
Speaker 4: Lot of exist. Friend of mine he was a training ninja.
Speaker 4: You would never see him. He was in training. That's
Speaker 4: so are you a black belt? How long? If you're
Speaker 4: doing it thirty years, you must be a dan a
Speaker 4: black belt?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm an eight standing jujitsu as well, But the
Speaker 8: swordsmanship works via a much older system of grading. So
Speaker 8: we don't really have belt as such.
Speaker 4: We have ranks, but not belt, And so you must
Speaker 4: have summari saws then some amazing ones. Yeah I do
Speaker 4: have a few, And so how do you train in
Speaker 4: them without injuring yourself? Or do you use like the
Speaker 4: wooden ones or rubber ones. Gret.
Speaker 8: We use wooden swords for the most part of perspiring.
Speaker 8: We use real swords for practicing cutting bamboo or like
Speaker 8: a rolled straw mat which represents a limb, or which
Speaker 8: doesn't sound very nice.
Speaker 4: Thanks for editing that morning to all the kids of
Speaker 4: the school on we just chatted a man about severing
Speaker 4: limbs and these are practical skills in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: And when you go over to the US to trade
Speaker 3: with your master, is that what you write on the
Speaker 3: form of why you're visiting?
Speaker 4: Have you practiced these blaze yourself for limbs severance? Hey Howard,
Speaker 4: thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 8: No problem, have a great day.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast with a few stories of
Speaker 1: coincidence and chance.
Speaker 4: You can call us on nine four one four one
Speaker 4: oh four three tap on this week's what are the Odds?
Speaker 4: Believe it or not?
Speaker 10: What are the odds?
Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me.
Speaker 9: Like, were you with Cheryl who married a Hun?
Speaker 4: Who works with the Cheryl.
Speaker 9: Who married a Hun?
Speaker 4: As were previously on what are the Odds?
Speaker 16: My husband and I, Lauren and Matt went to work
Speaker 16: trivia charity Knight. Another couple came over. His name was Matt.
Speaker 16: He introduced his partner as Lauren. There was three others
Speaker 16: that joined the table, another Lauren and another.
Speaker 12: Matt, my father in law, my mother in law and
Speaker 12: myself all hitting holes in one in goal on the
Speaker 12: exact same hole.
Speaker 17: My friend he went to the book fair and looked
Speaker 17: at a Ferrari book, and my brother in a different
Speaker 17: class went to the book fair and got that exact
Speaker 17: shame book that my Frankie Ali looked at.
Speaker 4: Pretty amazing stories. What are the odds? We actually had
Speaker 4: a what are the odds? Happened during the show yesterday.
Speaker 4: I believe it. We were doing a phone in what's
Speaker 4: the oldest piece of clothing you own? And two elderly listeners,
Speaker 4: both called Deborah called the show. One had an old
Speaker 4: chumper with an Afghan hound on the front, that's it,
Speaker 4: and one had old boots. What are the odds? I
Speaker 4: could very believe it, but please it happened. We were there,
Speaker 4: all right, So we have here. I get your pronunciation
Speaker 4: of your name, right, Gianna, Jianna, right, all right, welcome
Speaker 4: to what are.
Speaker 13: Thank you here? What are the odds?
Speaker 9: That's it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. So first I'll to say a
Speaker 13: bit of a backstory. My husband and I both grew
Speaker 13: up in Melbourne, but different sides of the city. But
Speaker 13: we actually met each other in the Quantus Lounge of
Speaker 13: the LA Airport, so it was a bit unusual the
Speaker 13: way that we met.
Speaker 4: You formed a relationship from the concerts land, Well.
Speaker 13: We just you know, we just met. We were both
Speaker 13: I was traveling for work and he was on the
Speaker 13: back of a boys trip. But that's a whole other story.
Speaker 13: So we met in the qantaslund at the LA Airport.
Speaker 13: So then came back to Melbourne and started dating. But
Speaker 13: the story is about Minrna who had a wooden chest
Speaker 13: or trunk that used to sit at the end of
Speaker 13: her bed and I always wanted that chest. But yeah,
Speaker 13: after many years and she unfortunately passed, I asked Mom
Speaker 13: if I could have it. Mum said, yes, you can.
Speaker 13: And this wooden chest used to contain special things in
Speaker 13: it that was important. She used to sit on it
Speaker 13: when she used to get dressed and whatever. But like
Speaker 13: any good Italian woman does, she'd blind the bottomless newspaper.
Speaker 13: And so when I got the chest and I decided
Speaker 13: to restore it to put it into the house. I
Speaker 13: opened the chest and pulled the newspaper out, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 13: what's on it? And I thought that it was the
Speaker 13: sun and it contains birth and death notices. And I
Speaker 13: looked at the date and it was October twenty fifth,
Speaker 13: nineteen eighty and I thought, that's the day after my
Speaker 13: husband David was born. And I slipped it over and
Speaker 13: in mine on his chest was my husband's birth notice.
Speaker 4: Wow, all of the best stories I have got goosebumps. Wow.
Speaker 13: And my mum said that they used to get their
Speaker 13: son delivered every single day, and the newspaper used to
Speaker 13: sit next to the old combustion stove. They used to
Speaker 13: use it to light the fire every night. And she said,
Speaker 13: what are the odds that of all the newspapers and
Speaker 13: all the papers that they burned, it was those pages
Speaker 13: that she put in the bottom of her chest that
Speaker 13: I've had.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is unbelievable.
Speaker 13: No, So we've got it framed in our house. It
Speaker 13: sits above the chest in.
Speaker 4: Our It's such a layered story because you kind of think,
Speaker 4: let you think about fate.
Speaker 13: Exactly, yeah, exactly. So apparently when he was on that
Speaker 13: trip over in the States. Hed was he decided to
Speaker 13: hit on every girl that he saw.
Speaker 4: So I story a little bit, beautiful, beautiful story.
Speaker 2: Numbers than you were lucky? Last did you say?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I was lucky. It's like you know Cinderella. They
Speaker 4: fact he found this shoe, it fitted you.
Speaker 3: Lucky, got heaps of shoes in the back of you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are the odds?
Speaker 4: The odds? Incredible story. I'm so glad you shared it
Speaker 4: with us.
Speaker 13: No worries much later. We always thought it was a
Speaker 13: fantastic story. Whenever we tell anyone, everyone gets really surprised.
Speaker 13: So yeah, just what you guys might enjoy it.
Speaker 4: That's a beautiful story. Thank you very much for calling.
Speaker 13: Take care, Thank you bye.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast it's called what are the Odds?
Speaker 4: Your stories of coincidence and chance? How what's your what
Speaker 4: are the answerers?
Speaker 11: Similar to the trunk story with the newspaper. I've been
Speaker 11: with my husband for eleven years now. But when we'd
Speaker 11: only just been together for a few years, our moms
Speaker 11: hadn't really met properly. But they were both models in
Speaker 11: the eighties, and my mom pulled out an old catalog
Speaker 11: that she was in the eighties and we looked at
Speaker 11: it and his mum was in it as well. They
Speaker 11: were standing side by side in the front.
Speaker 4: And she, oh, oh that's crazy, that's insane.
Speaker 11: It was really freaky. We felt really weird for a second.
Speaker 11: We were like, are we related?
Speaker 4: What are the odds of that? That is crazy?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What a story. Yeah, we're in a roll today. Two
Speaker 4: of these stories been incredible. Now.
Speaker 3: The last caller who had that amazing coincidence hung the
Speaker 3: photo up on the wall of the newspaper. Do you
Speaker 3: have the photo you two moms modeling.
Speaker 11: We don't have it hung up. We do have it somewhere,
Speaker 11: but there like swimwears, so maybe.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, here's our mums. Yeah.
Speaker 11: But they grew up in different towns, so it's even crazier.
Speaker 11: They were both just in Brisbane for the shoot.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a remarkable story, Harriet, Thank you very much
Speaker 4: for sharing it.
Speaker 11: Thank you by.
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Speaker 4: Christian you mail here you say you found yesterday? The
Speaker 4: saddest song in the world is it? Andy? By Donnie Parton.
Speaker 4: I defy any human being not to start balling their
Speaker 4: eyes out during that I haven't heard that song, but
Speaker 4: I'm afraid this song that I suddenly heard out of
Speaker 4: nowhere yesterday will throw shade all over that for sure. Patsy,
Speaker 4: are you familiar with the Abba song slipping through my fingers?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't even. I can't.
Speaker 7: With the daughter growing up, I can't even. I can't
Speaker 7: even hear it.
Speaker 4: But I wish i'd spoken to you yesterday before my
Speaker 4: daughter's graduation. So I think I told you so. It
Speaker 4: was my seventeen year old daughter. She's SA in the
Speaker 4: last few weeks of year twelve, and it was a
Speaker 4: graduation yesterday, so already of her emotional day with us.
Speaker 4: Was my twenty year old daughter two years ago we
Speaker 4: saw her graduating. She's now left home. She's second year
Speaker 4: at University of Melbourne, so already a lot going on.
Speaker 4: This is our last kid going through the school system,
Speaker 4: So a very big day in my family, a lot
Speaker 4: of big emotions for my seventeen year old daughter Lois.
Speaker 4: It was her big graduation day and I knew that
Speaker 4: she was going to be singing at it, which is
Speaker 4: an amazing on her, and so I was already just
Speaker 4: really excited looking forward to seeing my daughter saying I
Speaker 4: love hearing a sing and then just before I said, oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, even't actually told me what is a
Speaker 4: song you're singing? And I just thought it would be
Speaker 4: a nice up one while they played this video, and
Speaker 4: she goes, oh, it's an Abba song slipping through my fingers,
Speaker 4: and I didn't think that I needed to be aware
Speaker 4: of what it was. I thought this is being us
Speaker 4: up one for the mums and dads. An Abba song.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a copy Fernandos something like that. Patsy,
Speaker 4: I've never heard this Abba song, so pats imagine then
Speaker 4: when I see my daughter, I'm already a bit emotional, like,
Speaker 4: oh great, she's going to sing, And then I hear
Speaker 4: the saddest song in the world, Patsy. It's about a
Speaker 4: girl leaving home.
Speaker 7: I know she's a young woman now and she doesn't
Speaker 7: need her mummy or daddy, and I when I hear it,
Speaker 7: don't worry. I've got a lump in my throat. Aes
Speaker 7: you're talking about it.
Speaker 4: But Pads, imagine me sat there right, so my wife
Speaker 4: doesn't isn't really listening to a song she's filming. Aren't
Speaker 4: all to doing it. She's like looking at me. She's surprised,
Speaker 4: startled by the fact I'm shaking, crying the limits the
Speaker 4: opening line. School school bag in hand. She leaves home
Speaker 4: in the early morning, waving goodbye with an absent minded smile.
Speaker 4: I watched her go with a surge of that well
Speaker 4: known sadness. I have to sit down for a while,
Speaker 4: and I think, you've got to be kidding me. Why
Speaker 4: can't they just do a nice upsong that feeling I'm
Speaker 4: losing her forever? Have I listen to this? This is
Speaker 4: your daughter singing it to you at a graduation. She
Speaker 4: leaves home. I'm sorry this was too much for her yesterday.
Speaker 4: There should have been a warning. I'm sitting there like
Speaker 4: I almost want to put my fingers in my ear
Speaker 4: with this is it? A teacher should have came and said, hey, listen,
Speaker 4: this is what the song's about. Get ready. And my
Speaker 4: daughter knew where my wife and I were, so she's
Speaker 4: looking at her ass singing it to us. I'm thinking,
Speaker 4: oh my, does she know the power in the song?
Speaker 4: Slipping through my fingers all the time. I try to
Speaker 4: capture every minute the feeling in it, slipping fingers through
Speaker 4: my all the time. Then two other kids two other
Speaker 4: girls starts singing, her doing the chorus. I'm thinking I
Speaker 4: am done. My wife is still feeling going. She's singing
Speaker 4: so well, and I'm like, when you pay us back tomorrow,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like a double fistpunch to the heart.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you now, Jackie Boy, in sixteen years time,
Speaker 4: call me. It'd be Gordy's graduation and we'll sit down
Speaker 4: and have a chat. It's a moment. Patsy in five
Speaker 4: years time, call me this time in October. We'll have
Speaker 4: a chat about it. It's a it's a It was
Speaker 4: a beautiful so proud, oh my god, so proud that
Speaker 4: in the evening we did it was a dinner and
Speaker 4: the music department were the band and they were incredible,
Speaker 4: so it was like a music coach and that she
Speaker 4: was singing. So they did like a covers band, and
Speaker 4: so we all had a dance in the evening as well.
Speaker 4: But I'm telling you out, I hope I never hear
Speaker 4: that Abba song ever again. If you if you go
Speaker 4: be careful, you go curious for online, you want to
Speaker 4: go and play it today, just be very cal It's
Speaker 4: called slipping through my fingers. It was too much yesterday.
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Speaker 4: I've just dropped my own child, eleven year old daughter
Speaker 4: at school today as you're talking about that song, and
Speaker 4: literally she just turned around a wave to me with
Speaker 4: a schoolberg in her hand. I just bought my eyes out.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Hey, You're welcome. Pleasure to share it with you. Christian.
Speaker 4: I couldn'tdream more about that Abba song. It is the
Speaker 4: most half. It's the sadest song in the world. I
Speaker 4: can only imagine you yesterday. I cried all the way
Speaker 4: through it. When I saw Mamma Me or the musical.
Speaker 4: I didn't know. I've not seen that. I've been very
Speaker 4: lucky in life. Actually, oh, I can myself blessed. I've
Speaker 4: not had it because I'm not a fifty something mum.
Speaker 4: I saw Mama mid the musical. It's used in that, Christian.
Speaker 4: It's a really beautiful song. Christian, I ignored your words.
Speaker 4: I just found that song on spots of crime Wise out.
Speaker 4: I warned you, Norell, I said, don't go and find it.
Speaker 4: You'll want to to just see how sad is it.
Speaker 4: It's really sad, all right, So there's time waste for them.
Speaker 4: Where are you going to cry those tears un tell
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Speaker 4: Any new pillow I have ordered Spiney's pillows. They ask you,
Speaker 4: are you a side, front or back sleeper? Do we
Speaker 4: actually know because most of the time you're asleep? But
Speaker 4: when I do wake up side sleeper myself, Jackie boy, I.
Speaker 3: Had to when now they have the sea pat machine,
Speaker 3: I have to be a full time back sleeper.
Speaker 4: How did you find that?
Speaker 3: Got used to it?
Speaker 4: What are you patsy?
Speaker 7: I'm definitely on my side and I do not move.
Speaker 7: I go to sleep on my side and I wake
Speaker 7: up on my side.
Speaker 3: Always the same sign you do not move, kymatose like that.
Speaker 4: My wife like if you wake up with a cup
Speaker 4: of tea and it's like nine o'clock, I need to
Speaker 4: wake around, especially she's at you know, it's I need
Speaker 4: to put a mirror under the noses on and she
Speaker 4: goes like she's been like you know, inside by movies
Speaker 4: where they've like iced them a thousand years ago. Sleep
Speaker 4: for twelve hours?
Speaker 3: What year is it? Who's the president?
Speaker 4: Who are you all right? It's something all right today
Speaker 4: on the time waste they we're looking for your sauce songs.
Speaker 4: It is National Sauce Day. What are our favorite sauces?
Speaker 4: Jackie boy?
Speaker 3: I do like tomato sauce. It's famous for a reason.
Speaker 4: No, no, but it is the most commonly used. Patsy,
Speaker 4: what's it you?
Speaker 2: I love a bit of hp to, especially on a
Speaker 2: bit of steaks.
Speaker 4: Great on steak, yeah, really nice as well with a
Speaker 4: lasagnya too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mix it in what within the sauceaw as an additive.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid to say, like a child would mix up
Speaker 4: ice cream. I'm fifty one. Favorite sauces around the world
Speaker 4: in America, Ranch of course, Australia, people like Jack England,
Speaker 4: Worcester sauce, Spicy History, Legacy, China, Soy sauce.
Speaker 3: Do you like soy sauce?
Speaker 4: Very good? France? What do you think it is? Good? Guess?
Speaker 3: Thank you holidays, hollandais.
Speaker 2: Everybody to get a good it is?
Speaker 4: It's a rue sauce, I believe, isn't it okay? Now whatever?
Speaker 3: I actually don't know what that means.
Speaker 4: One of those I think involves a whisk and eggs sort.
Speaker 2: Of being, you know, and time is of the essence,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: Master chef, you can't remember chef's time is of the
Speaker 4: essence speed free.
Speaker 2: It becomes like fety cheese.
Speaker 4: If you ever remember remember doing write there down about
Speaker 4: time being. There's some of those early news bullets. We
Speaker 4: go that chewing gum servant? Any who's he?
Speaker 10: Any?
Speaker 4: Who's where? Were we? Sauce here? Tangy show?
Speaker 2: Huhm?
Speaker 4: Sauce saw songs, s songs songs? He corrected himself. Eagley
Speaker 4: Cherry's got a great one. Oh yes, save chicken tonight.
Speaker 3: Gold class.
Speaker 4: Were here last week. You'll be forty red red wine reduction,
Speaker 4: Oh aUI silver Hi sing in the membrane, sing in
Speaker 4: the membrane, Mary Poppin' she loves a bit of ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right. Chim chimmy, that's gold. Yeah. Yeah. And
Speaker 4: one for Jackie Boy with his bland tomato based sauce.
Speaker 4: Smack my ketchup up.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good to gold.
Speaker 4: All right, Jackie boy? What are your sauce songs? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The Pixies are singing about their sauce. Yes, where is
Speaker 3: my hinds?
Speaker 4: Doesn't need to start with it? Wow, it's ballsyro Now
Speaker 4: I'm upgrading it to a gold for thank you.
Speaker 3: The village people love their sauce in the gravy.
Speaker 4: The gravy is good Gold.
Speaker 3: Hell's Bells was a big song by a CDC, A
Speaker 3: rock song. They like their sauce too, Hell's bell samkl
Speaker 3: that is bronze and all the single chipop ladies.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed with bronze. Alright songs,
Speaker 4: what have you got?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Time waste Today, we're looking for your sauce songs. Jackie boy,
Speaker 4: you're ready to mark let's go all right, best in
Speaker 4: show wins spinal these pillows sauce songs. Let's hear it
Speaker 4: for the soy gold, that's for They's good. The only
Speaker 4: way is catch up, Silver, catch up where we belong.
Speaker 4: Bronze cetem Manic Monday Mail, Monday Silver, Come said the
Speaker 4: soy Gold Rob, well done, Dijon bon Jovi Silver, no.
Speaker 3: Song.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I kissed a soy and I liked it.
Speaker 3: Akay enough soy one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot more. It must be love. It
Speaker 4: must have been love. Gold Sartae Night Fever oh great,
Speaker 4: Oh my word, that nutty greatness. Ka Sacha like it.
Speaker 4: That's really good on the poster to sell it, getting
Speaker 4: saucy with it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Silver.
Speaker 4: The angels are right about their upcoming sausage sizzle. That's right?
Speaker 4: Am I ever going to see that sauce again? Not
Speaker 4: worth the long run up? Great, I'm afraid to say. Silver,
Speaker 4: take a chance on me curry sauce ticker Silver plus, No,
Speaker 4: we're wrap the stuff. I can't have it to know?
Speaker 4: What's Sarbi frequency? What Sarby frequency? Ken? Andy thousand island
Speaker 4: in the stream? Silver? It comes to hot pepper.
Speaker 15: The.
Speaker 3: Gold plus.
Speaker 4: He loved that one. Jackie bought a good up? Did
Speaker 4: Johnny be good? Chuck Berry's what are you doing? What
Speaker 4: you just plumbing?
Speaker 3: Your scratching up against the marketphone, rubbing.
Speaker 4: Your beard or something up against? Who else would it
Speaker 4: be you? Hello? Good morning? Heinsey dancer. All right? Who
Speaker 4: is winning today? Who's getting their head rested on beautiful
Speaker 4: spinal e style pillows?
Speaker 3: Here comes the hot pepper, Here comes the hot pepper.
Speaker 4: Well done, Ben on Tomorrow's show, then Tomorrow's show. Today,
Speaker 4: this is back.
Speaker 9: Do you have a name that's a pain. A name
Speaker 9: you always need to explain. Well, we've made my name
Speaker 9: as in name.
Speaker 8: It's my last name, and everyone always often asks me
Speaker 8: how to spell it if they can't hear it.
Speaker 10: Probably, but it's as in Hadley.
Speaker 4: Didy Flanders. Bang.
Speaker 13: My name is my surname as in she, not the
Speaker 13: hotel as in Sheridan.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh wow, done. My name is as in milk,
Speaker 4: cowry and y.
Speaker 9: What is it?
Speaker 3: That's brilliant?
Speaker 4: All right, so that's back tomorrow, Jack, good more, good luck. Okay,
Speaker 4: you will literally take it. He's heading off out of
Speaker 4: here to go and do a tough gig this morning
Speaker 4: till under five year olds.
Speaker 3: Yes, well two and three year olds at my son's daycare.
Speaker 3: We're doing four songs, including Old McDonald had a farm.
Speaker 4: Now, three hours ago Old McDonald had a farm. You
Speaker 4: think it's a pretty simple song. Assured us that he'd
Speaker 4: been rehearsing yesterday and this is how it sounded. A
Speaker 4: couple of hours ago, he was struggling. How did he go?
Speaker 5: You're happy you tell me Old McDonald had a farm?
Speaker 4: All wait, hold hold on, McDonald.
Speaker 5: Old McDonald had a farm. Old McDonald had a bit
Speaker 5: of a down Now Old McDonald had a farm e.
Speaker 4: That's not lock it.
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