Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast
Speaker 1: Why did You Stop Traffic? Craig was doing groundwork for
Speaker 1: a railway and noticing a kidnea walking down the track.
Speaker 1: Stop the train. Well, you can't just stop a train
Speaker 1: because they can't just like tap the brakes go whoa trains?
Speaker 1: Take a car to stop down they traveling a little
Speaker 1: bit of speed. Just run a kidnap, Alex, Hi, why
Speaker 1: did you stop traffic?
Speaker 2: Well, this was actually my father, so he stopped the
Speaker 2: train and cars because he wanted to pick up a
Speaker 2: dollar coin from the train track.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but for people like that, they should be
Speaker 1: allowed to get a little nuts on the trams to
Speaker 1: come off. Spot that. Hang on a second, there was more.
Speaker 2: He couldn't actually retrieve it, so he went back to
Speaker 2: the car and got a screwdriver and he was kicking
Speaker 2: it out and the trams were ringing the well and
Speaker 2: the cars were cheating.
Speaker 1: So funny. I need that one day I might need
Speaker 1: to have to get that trolley out of cols.
Speaker 2: You never know when you're going to need a watch.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, yes, yes, Alex, great story, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Good to Judy now, Judy, why did
Speaker 1: you stop traffic?
Speaker 3: I stopped traffic because I was in labor. I've seen
Speaker 3: to the hospital to have an appointment to see how
Speaker 3: the pregnancy was going, and they said to me, look,
Speaker 3: go for a walk, you're very close. I went for
Speaker 3: a walk to get a feed for lunch, and I
Speaker 3: went into label while I was sitting there having lunch.
Speaker 3: So I was walking back to the hospital and the
Speaker 3: contractions really ramped up, and I was walking back to
Speaker 3: every busy intersection and my mom and my husband had
Speaker 3: their hands out and was stopping traffic because I couldn't move.
Speaker 1: I thought you said they were going to have the
Speaker 1: hands out, not trying to catch the bacay. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of light. That's a lot going on the lights.
Speaker 3: I had to stop every like five steps, and my
Speaker 3: mum was flailing her arms around waving her background people
Speaker 3: to stop, and women in labor bent over in the
Speaker 3: middle of a busy intersection.
Speaker 1: This is incredible. So where where did that? Where did you?
Speaker 1: Where did the baby come? In the end? Did you
Speaker 1: actually get to hospital?
Speaker 3: Years I did, and he came nine hours later. Because
Speaker 3: as soon as I got to.
Speaker 1: The hospital, Judy, thank you very much your story, mate,
Speaker 1: it's very funny.
Speaker 4: So I was driving back to my parents to go
Speaker 4: and ride my own horse, and I turned down one
Speaker 4: of the busy intersections and I saw a car trying
Speaker 4: to herd a loose horse off the road. So I
Speaker 4: pulled over and said, you probably shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 4: I said, let me have a guy, I'll say fucking
Speaker 4: catch it. I went ultra in my car. I had
Speaker 4: no ropes or anything, so I took my shirt off,
Speaker 4: stood in the middle of the road, caught the horse,
Speaker 4: stopped the traffic so I could get into a driveway,
Speaker 4: and waiting for the police to come and help me.
Speaker 1: Wow, a story horse whispering shirtless around your shirt around
Speaker 1: the horse's neck like a lassuit. Yes, I know you're
Speaker 1: doing some kind of striped tease or something for the horse,
Speaker 1: like okay, you're coming with me, like we're going to have.
Speaker 5: So Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it quite the same effective me
Speaker 1: or chat? Did it that? Sorry? Not moving anywhere?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the traffic definitely stopped for a good ten minutes,
Speaker 4: so it worked out quite well.
Speaker 1: This is incredible, What an amazing story. What great thinking
Speaker 1: as well. Bury.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I had really nothing else to you, So
Speaker 4: I needed to get the horse off the road. So
Speaker 4: the first thing you do is, I suppose I read
Speaker 4: a story about a lady taking her bra off, but
Speaker 4: I wasn't that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah there's levels, isn't it that you go to won't
Speaker 1: go to everyone's got the line in the sand. And
Speaker 1: also so the guy thought you could wrangle the horses
Speaker 1: using your car.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was so bad. I didn't actually realize what he
Speaker 4: was doing until I saw the horse trying jump over
Speaker 4: his car, and I was like, oh no, even.
Speaker 1: Kind a western movie. It's his cowboys and cars out
Speaker 1: there the place, And I made that movie Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Cars stuff next season. Pretty love, very funny story. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. The Christian O'Connell show podcast asking you
Speaker 1: right now, why did you stop the traffic? How are you, Sam?
Speaker 5: I'm really good. I'm just on my way to work
Speaker 5: and I've just pulled over and sitting in the emergency
Speaker 5: lane while I talk to you lovely people.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, Sam. And why do you
Speaker 1: stop traffic other than in saturny emergency lane right now?
Speaker 5: Well, it wasn't I that stopped the traffic. It was
Speaker 5: my grandfather. It was about thirty five years ago before
Speaker 5: I was born, and it's a story that's been passed
Speaker 5: down through my whole childhood. And my grandfather went to
Speaker 5: go watch his mighty Colin Wood at the G's to
Speaker 5: win their football game. Wasn't a grand final, it's just
Speaker 5: a regular game. And unfortunately he put Flinders Street into
Speaker 5: a gridlock when he had a heart attack on the tram.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, poor guy, what had they won? And
Speaker 1: he was shocked or no, he was I'm just so happy.
Speaker 5: It was a wonderful way to well. Unfortunately for all
Speaker 5: your listeners out there, he did pass away on the tram,
Speaker 5: but we look at it as such a happy occasion
Speaker 5: because he got to see the football team win.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they say tragedy plus time, but
Speaker 1: this is still quite quite a story about your poor,
Speaker 1: your poor granddad.
Speaker 5: Well he was well until his seventies.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I mean, that's only two years of Patsy.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't wish her off, like you're time
Speaker 1: to go, you've anti time, you're seventy, so go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, Patsy off, you go off.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 1: To illustrate that, you know, I just I'm just showing
Speaker 1: more compassion than in your family member. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a misunderstanding. The show's age fifty one, No proper
Speaker 1: age fifty one, thank you very much. Fifty papers. Bring
Speaker 1: some papers in a ca because it's not an honest
Speaker 1: fifty one if you ask me. But anyway, let's just
Speaker 1: go back to poor old grandad on the tram who's
Speaker 1: just had a heart attack. He died on the tram.
Speaker 5: He did, he did actually die on the trams.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Put Flinders Street into a gridlock when that to get
Speaker 5: all the ambulance was out. It was right out in
Speaker 5: front of the station on Flinders Street, so no traffic
Speaker 5: could move it all until they cleared one everyone off
Speaker 5: the tram, who administered medical attention, and then three took
Speaker 5: him away. He was well into his late seventies when
Speaker 5: he did die. We don't and my grandmother.
Speaker 1: This is toughness for a lot of We have a
Speaker 1: lot of people that you are turning off right now
Speaker 1: with this death sentence. You around announced them this might
Speaker 1: be the last game you go to this weekend whole time.
Speaker 1: She won't be listening Monday. Death is coming this weekend.
Speaker 1: According to you, so you didn't speak at the funeral
Speaker 1: that well you know, boo hooo, but you ask me, yeah,
Speaker 1: taken up space, put in one extra seat now at
Speaker 1: the g You know, it's.
Speaker 5: Such a beautiful thing, like it's a story that I
Speaker 5: always tell because even though it's a sad story, a
Speaker 5: beautiful death, laugh out of it and it's such a
Speaker 5: beauty it's a beautiful death.
Speaker 1: Chef's kiss to go out like that, I hope that's
Speaker 1: why I want to go guys after this these win disco.
Speaker 1: It was it was his time. It was his time,
Speaker 1: all right, Sam, amazing story. We can agree with that.
Speaker 1: It's incredible story.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was so thank you for your time guys today.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Okay, you can move on now
Speaker 1: from that emergency lane. Sounds well. Christian Connell's Show podcast