Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Which one of you producers spoke to a caller called Matthew.
Speaker 2: It's just emailing, christ I just called your show about
Speaker 2: smuggling analyst at substance and they said it was inappropriate
Speaker 2: to broadcast it. Yes it is, Matthew. Yeah, absolutely, we're
Speaker 2: too much chocolate and salami. We don't know about dope
Speaker 2: because it's illegal and you go to prison. Don't email
Speaker 2: me moaning about that.
Speaker 3: Don't get a for you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not when I is sticking it as well. All right,
Speaker 2: last few course, Joe, good morning, Hi Christian. Hey Joe,
Speaker 2: what have you smuggled him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't me. It was my elderly grown parents.
Speaker 3: Let them take the fall.
Speaker 1: How dare you rebels?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Every year I travel from Victoria to Queensland or Darwin
Speaker 1: in the with their caravan and I smuggle fruit and
Speaker 1: vegetables in under the bonnet of.
Speaker 4: Their car.
Speaker 1: Because they grew their own fruit and vegetables and they
Speaker 1: weren't going to part with them at the checkpoint.
Speaker 3: So where would they hide them around the car? Oh?
Speaker 1: They hide their pumpkins around the radiator and any knocking
Speaker 1: cranny that hide.
Speaker 3: Their inner card boarder. There's no room. Everything's crampy, bloody great.
Speaker 1: Pump The officers at the you know the straight line,
Speaker 1: they would go through the car they would go through
Speaker 1: the caravan. They would never find groma and.
Speaker 2: Grandpapok bloody grape pumpkin under the bonnet.
Speaker 3: Radio no idea.
Speaker 1: I know they got away with it, all the bogies.
Speaker 3: Very much. You call no I think Linda, Good.
Speaker 4: Morning, Linda, Good morning, Christian. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good Linda. So smuggling was it you?
Speaker 4: It was my father, the smuggler.
Speaker 3: What did he try and smuggle?
Speaker 4: So he he's a pigeon flyer back in the UK
Speaker 4: and when he came to visit me in Australia, he
Speaker 4: smuggled back six pigeon eggs in an egg carton, wrapped
Speaker 4: in cotton wool and he had to turn them every
Speaker 4: two hours on the plane. And he now has baby
Speaker 4: pigeons that he flies back in the UK.
Speaker 2: So hang on a minute, right, So, because people might
Speaker 2: not know this, but in the UK, especially up north
Speaker 2: where you're from, I can tell me an accident pigeon
Speaker 2: fancying and flying. They competed called pigeon fences. Mike Tyson
Speaker 2: does this when he's got these coops as well. They
Speaker 2: raced them.
Speaker 3: So did your dad race them?
Speaker 4: Yes, so they're racing now. Yes. So he actually they
Speaker 4: actually hatch did the eggs because he turned them every
Speaker 4: two hours on the fly in the toilets. And now
Speaker 4: he's got baby pigeons.
Speaker 3: This is amazing. It was like a hen, sort of
Speaker 3: mother hen.
Speaker 2: For the eggs he put.
Speaker 4: He put them in an egg carton wrapped in cotton
Speaker 4: wool and smuggled them in his backpack and then he
Speaker 4: went into the toilets every two hours on the fly, an.
Speaker 3: Egg cart and going in to the toilet every two hours. Yet,
Speaker 3: what does that do?
Speaker 2: And so when he came to visit you, they hatched
Speaker 2: his The pigeons were born in Australia.
Speaker 4: They was born in Australia. So he was sitting in
Speaker 4: my garden having a cup of tea, and then he
Speaker 4: saw the pigeons flying around. So he got in the
Speaker 4: car and followed where the pigeons were to what house
Speaker 4: they was at, knocked on the door, had a few
Speaker 4: chats with him and a couple of cups of tea,
Speaker 4: and said do you mind if I take a few
Speaker 4: eggs and he was like no, no, of course. So
Speaker 4: he brought them back to my house and I was
Speaker 4: like what are you doing with them? And he was like,
Speaker 4: I'm taking them back to the UK and he did.
Speaker 3: So they were born.
Speaker 2: So he took them back to UK and then that
Speaker 2: they're hatched and then he starts racing them in competition.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so he put them underneath his own pigeons
Speaker 4: in the shed so that they hatched, and then he
Speaker 4: hatched them and now he races them pigeons.
Speaker 3: Those pigeons don't know they've got Australian kids.
Speaker 4: They have, Yeah, they have no idea.
Speaker 3: It could be on like a pigeon version of who
Speaker 3: do you think you are? Olenda? We're going to send
Speaker 3: you a golden kettle.
Speaker 4: What a story, Christian, what legend? Yes?
Speaker 3: Definitely, all right, thanks a lot mate. Bye. This is
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