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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Which one of you producers spoke to a caller called Matthew.

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Speaker 2: It's just emailing, christ I just called your show about

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Speaker 2: smuggling analyst at substance and they said it was inappropriate

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Speaker 2: to broadcast it. Yes it is, Matthew. Yeah, absolutely, we're

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Speaker 2: too much chocolate and salami. We don't know about dope

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Speaker 2: because it's illegal and you go to prison. Don't email

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Speaker 2: me moaning about that.

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Speaker 3: Don't get a for you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not when I is sticking it as well. All right,

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Speaker 2: last few course, Joe, good morning, Hi Christian. Hey Joe,

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Speaker 2: what have you smuggled him?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't me. It was my elderly grown parents.

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Speaker 3: Let them take the fall.

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Speaker 1: How dare you rebels?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Every year I travel from Victoria to Queensland or Darwin

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Speaker 1: in the with their caravan and I smuggle fruit and

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Speaker 1: vegetables in under the bonnet of.

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Speaker 4: Their car.

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Speaker 1: Because they grew their own fruit and vegetables and they

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Speaker 1: weren't going to part with them at the checkpoint.

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Speaker 3: So where would they hide them around the car? Oh?

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Speaker 1: They hide their pumpkins around the radiator and any knocking

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Speaker 1: cranny that hide.

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Speaker 3: Their inner card boarder. There's no room. Everything's crampy, bloody great.

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Speaker 1: Pump The officers at the you know the straight line,

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Speaker 1: they would go through the car they would go through

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Speaker 1: the caravan. They would never find groma and.

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Speaker 2: Grandpapok bloody grape pumpkin under the bonnet.

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Speaker 3: Radio no idea.

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Speaker 1: I know they got away with it, all the bogies.

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Speaker 3: Very much. You call no I think Linda, Good.

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Speaker 4: Morning, Linda, Good morning, Christian. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good Linda. So smuggling was it you?

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Speaker 4: It was my father, the smuggler.

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Speaker 3: What did he try and smuggle?

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Speaker 4: So he he's a pigeon flyer back in the UK

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Speaker 4: and when he came to visit me in Australia, he

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Speaker 4: smuggled back six pigeon eggs in an egg carton, wrapped

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Speaker 4: in cotton wool and he had to turn them every

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Speaker 4: two hours on the plane. And he now has baby

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Speaker 4: pigeons that he flies back in the UK.

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Speaker 2: So hang on a minute, right, So, because people might

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Speaker 2: not know this, but in the UK, especially up north

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Speaker 2: where you're from, I can tell me an accident pigeon

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Speaker 2: fancying and flying. They competed called pigeon fences. Mike Tyson

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Speaker 2: does this when he's got these coops as well. They

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Speaker 2: raced them.

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Speaker 3: So did your dad race them?

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Speaker 4: Yes, so they're racing now. Yes. So he actually they

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Speaker 4: actually hatch did the eggs because he turned them every

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Speaker 4: two hours on the fly in the toilets. And now

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Speaker 4: he's got baby pigeons.

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Speaker 3: This is amazing. It was like a hen, sort of

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Speaker 3: mother hen.

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Speaker 2: For the eggs he put.

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Speaker 4: He put them in an egg carton wrapped in cotton

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Speaker 4: wool and smuggled them in his backpack and then he

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Speaker 4: went into the toilets every two hours on the fly, an.

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Speaker 3: Egg cart and going in to the toilet every two hours. Yet,

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Speaker 3: what does that do?

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Speaker 2: And so when he came to visit you, they hatched

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Speaker 2: his The pigeons were born in Australia.

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Speaker 4: They was born in Australia. So he was sitting in

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Speaker 4: my garden having a cup of tea, and then he

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Speaker 4: saw the pigeons flying around. So he got in the

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Speaker 4: car and followed where the pigeons were to what house

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Speaker 4: they was at, knocked on the door, had a few

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Speaker 4: chats with him and a couple of cups of tea,

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Speaker 4: and said do you mind if I take a few

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Speaker 4: eggs and he was like no, no, of course. So

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Speaker 4: he brought them back to my house and I was

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Speaker 4: like what are you doing with them? And he was like,

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Speaker 4: I'm taking them back to the UK and he did.

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Speaker 3: So they were born.

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Speaker 2: So he took them back to UK and then that

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Speaker 2: they're hatched and then he starts racing them in competition.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so he put them underneath his own pigeons

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Speaker 4: in the shed so that they hatched, and then he

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Speaker 4: hatched them and now he races them pigeons.

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Speaker 3: Those pigeons don't know they've got Australian kids.

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Speaker 4: They have, Yeah, they have no idea.

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Speaker 3: It could be on like a pigeon version of who

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Speaker 3: do you think you are? Olenda? We're going to send

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Speaker 3: you a golden kettle.

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Speaker 4: What a story, Christian, what legend? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Definitely, all right, thanks a lot mate. Bye. This is

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Speaker 3: the Christian O'Connell Show podcast