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Speaker 1: The Big Second week in Hellodearn at our Criterion Hotel.
Speaker 1: Some big thank you to the builder, King Richard we
Speaker 1: call him of Elite Portables Legends sign Writer Cyclone sign
Speaker 1: Writing is incredible, absolutely brilliant. Cucklone wanted to get you
Speaker 1: to do something for our studio Floring Keegan Anderson Florin
Speaker 1: Twoomba painter Barry from Elite Portables as well and the landscaping.
Speaker 1: The legendary Dennis Scott from Selling Houses Australia join us
Speaker 1: next week for the last week, the big final week
Speaker 1: of restoration and the big live show. Shannonoles singing live
Speaker 1: as we reopen this amazing pub. But right now we're
Speaker 1: doing a reno for a pub.
Speaker 2: God Save the Pub, Save the Pub.
Speaker 1: It is pab Reno the Onto parb Renna. Week two
Speaker 1: we are renovating an amazing Australian pub. Tracy and Gary
Speaker 1: of the Accidental Publicans, who is in Queensland one hour
Speaker 1: and a half our side Brisbane. It's called Heldon. There's
Speaker 1: an amazing place there. The Criterion that's the pub. We're
Speaker 1: doing up well thanks to four X. The pub is
Speaker 1: calling somewhere between the first sip and the last laugh.
Speaker 1: It's always a four X. Last week we announced the
Speaker 1: pub and the thing is we are the people have
Speaker 1: been working so hard. They're really up against it. There's
Speaker 1: less than two weeks ago because a week Friday we
Speaker 1: are going up there doing the entire Breakfas show live
Speaker 1: from the pub for the grand re owning Tracy. Lift
Speaker 1: us this update over the weekend. Hi, Christian.
Speaker 3: The Renolds are going so quickly it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: T Iclone and Tony are going to finish off the
Speaker 4: signs on the pub.
Speaker 5: They're going to do a mural for us.
Speaker 6: They're also doing chalkboards to the cafe.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Can't wait for the renos next week.
Speaker 6: Love Tracy.
Speaker 1: Now it's the Tracy. Good news that we're getting some
Speaker 1: local artists to do the murals because having lived here
Speaker 1: for eight years in Victoria, the standards some of those murals.
Speaker 1: It ain't great that credit house one. Come on, look
Speaker 1: looks like he's been an house fire. Jack Reevot shocking, shocking.
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure it's even meant to be him
Speaker 1: just a discent revolt we don't know about. You know,
Speaker 1: there's that third Hemsworth Pete Is it is that third one? Liam, Liam,
Speaker 1: Chris Barry the other one. And thank you so much
Speaker 1: for people who are offering to hal powers. Well, we've
Speaker 1: been in taking with the people who've heard about Tracy
Speaker 1: and Gary. They brought this pub two years ago to
Speaker 1: it into aim to home to retire in, and then
Speaker 1: when they really lose this how much it meant to
Speaker 1: the community and pubs are they're dying out. Sixty percent
Speaker 1: of Ossie pubs have gone over the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do it, so they've never run a pub
Speaker 1: in their life. They're at retirement age, so they've been
Speaker 1: running it seven days a week. Lesser. Tracy, who's got
Speaker 1: more energy than the rest of us, found out within
Speaker 1: two weeks of actually moving into this not pub now
Speaker 1: we're going to keep it running as weub that she's
Speaker 1: got MS as well. So people have really moved by
Speaker 1: this story. If you go onto a socials, you can
Speaker 1: have a look around, you can see all the work
Speaker 1: that's been done and just see they are just they're
Speaker 1: the best of Australians. Actually, they really are tracing Gary
Speaker 1: and you'll want to help them out in whatever way
Speaker 1: you can. Thank you very much the emails we've had
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Lisa Christian, my photographer and former country
Speaker 1: pub bartender over thirty years, please to see you guys
Speaker 1: doing this for the Criterion, which is a beautiful pub.
Speaker 1: Christian through Chocolate Scorpion Creations, I'd love to offer up
Speaker 1: to five hundred dollars worth of cushions featuring Queensland Bush
Speaker 1: photography designed to reflect the classic Aussie pub atmosphere. I
Speaker 1: can also build them all website because I know they
Speaker 1: haven't got that as well. I want to help the
Speaker 1: pub keep going over the next one hundred and twenty years.
Speaker 1: Lisa's part of your business. You also you can help
Speaker 1: us live to one hundred and twenty years. I mean
Speaker 1: that is long term planning, you know. You know people
Speaker 1: have to ask you where you see seven five years,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty incredible lazy. Yes, I'm part of
Speaker 1: them eternal life. Christian had to co workers, tell me
Speaker 1: what you're doing with this reno. We have to reach out.
Speaker 1: We can help. I work at Koloro. We specialize in shades,
Speaker 1: shad teales, umbrellas, whatever you need to keep the pub
Speaker 1: garden nice and shady for families and kids and the oldies. Well, Sophia,
Speaker 1: let me know if we can help. We really do
Speaker 1: need your help. Actually, now, the big thing we really
Speaker 1: need in week two is for the grand reopening. We
Speaker 1: need live music. What is a pub without live entertainment
Speaker 1: and live music? Yeah, obviously, because you know we're a
Speaker 1: big show, we should be to get a good musical act.
Speaker 1: Intern Pete Knew on the show work for twelve years,
Speaker 1: and Karla Jackieo the home of apparently all these big
Speaker 1: show biz interviews. He said he's got the contact book
Speaker 1: of everyone who's anyone in Australia. Who do we think
Speaker 1: we need to try and approach? Who do you think
Speaker 1: it is? Rio?
Speaker 5: I would love to see Vanessa Amorossi.
Speaker 7: I saw her actually at a pub a couple of
Speaker 7: months ago and she.
Speaker 1: She was working there. She was unnot.
Speaker 7: Meet Rapha Amarossi and then she jumps on stay.
Speaker 1: She's a double bread.
Speaker 5: Her voice is still incredible, maybe better than That's.
Speaker 1: A good show. She would You also got to think
Speaker 1: this is grand rix opening, so we want to be
Speaker 1: able to advertise to get a big crowd in for
Speaker 1: two weeks time when we do the big live show.
Speaker 5: Yes we need a big name.
Speaker 1: We need none Meigga than v A right exactly Assi Party.
Speaker 1: Who do you think it should be?
Speaker 6: I reckon it should be Johnny Diesel? Why not be
Speaker 6: a tip of my tongue.
Speaker 1: That's out of rock and room. This sounds like the
Speaker 1: kind of band you'd hear a covers band doing this. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, So who should we try and get to
Speaker 1: play live at the grand reopening?
Speaker 8: The Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're renovating a fantastic pub in Australia, The
Speaker 1: Criterion heldon Queensland. Two weeks time. Renovation has to be over.
Speaker 1: We're doing the entire show. We're heading up there. We're
Speaker 1: going to be doing the reopening live on air and
Speaker 1: we need to bring live entertainment. Who should it be
Speaker 1: At the moment the number one person that people are
Speaker 1: demanding is what if this is Eurovision? Shannonole's your winner?
Speaker 1: Genuinely a runaway. There's more votes of Shannonole than any
Speaker 1: other artists of course, all right, going through some of
Speaker 1: the Texas, some of the other ones bachelor girl to
Speaker 1: batchelor girls scream country pub in Queensland. I'm sure they do.
Speaker 1: Someone's chucking a schnitzel at us from bringing them. They're
Speaker 1: not up there with Barnsy Barnsi and buses and trains.
Speaker 1: Is too know what it is? Whimsy, guys, it's whimsy.
Speaker 5: Yes, I know what you mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, going through the text now, Christian, I
Speaker 1: want a job on brick Laye. Okay, we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that in a minute, right, Christian. What about Thirsty
Speaker 1: Muck Yes, read live band Thirsty Michael Marcia Hines angry Anderson. Christian,
Speaker 1: what about the Rowan stuck own stunts. Well, that's a get,
Speaker 1: that's gettable, guys. You know it's it's fifty between the
Speaker 1: stones and.
Speaker 5: What I think most buzzies would still rather see.
Speaker 1: Nulsy Christian, what about Troy Cassady.
Speaker 5: You begin Queensland on Troy Cassady.
Speaker 1: Chris Man says, Paul Kelly would connect with locals. Okay you, Chris, Christian.
Speaker 1: I saw John Stevens Frida night at the Forum. Still incredible.
Speaker 1: John Steves would be great. He is still very very good.
Speaker 1: True Blue, True.
Speaker 8: Blue isn't me and you I love that song. Is
Speaker 8: it Mom?
Speaker 1: Is it Christian? That's one person who berthly captures the
Speaker 1: spirit of Nancy Parb. You've already said it. It's Shannon. No,
Speaker 1: that's Lisa joining the What are the man that's been
Speaker 1: too interim? Pete here? The man with the contact book?
Speaker 1: I mean, you must have the numbers or the managers
Speaker 1: of virtually everyone I've just mentioned.
Speaker 3: You literally had yelled out, and so I was looking
Speaker 3: at my phone as we go as well. It's so
Speaker 3: funny because do we mention guy Sebastian as well? I
Speaker 3: had his number, but then he's also someone that's had
Speaker 3: I save every single person's phone number, but he's had
Speaker 3: eight different phone numbers over the last fourteen years that
Speaker 3: I've known him as.
Speaker 6: Well, So I update them?
Speaker 1: Is that to avoid you? I mean, whenever I think
Speaker 1: Carle and Jack here, I actually thought he was part
Speaker 1: of the show. Guys. Smaster was on like every third
Speaker 1: show and a big, a big guest comes an eight
Speaker 1: A right guys to maast, Yeah no, because he just
Speaker 1: changes his phone park pretty much.
Speaker 3: Yea, I've got John Williams's number, We've got Marsha Heines's number.
Speaker 6: Angry Anderson's numbers.
Speaker 1: There actually genuinely is impressive. It's a hall of fame.
Speaker 1: You've got all the coats in there.
Speaker 3: It's a bit name dropping, but yeah, I keep everyone's
Speaker 3: phone numbers, even relevant ones and non relevant ones. Really
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, but I think every
Speaker 3: single one of those names, I mean, Shanna, No, he'd
Speaker 3: just be amazing live to be honest.
Speaker 1: He's what you need to do. You type out a text,
Speaker 1: you don't put anyone's name in it, and he cut
Speaker 1: and paste it and send it to all of those
Speaker 1: dear artist. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, dear legend, that eagle,
Speaker 1: dear legend, massive, massive gig brackets cash yep brackets. Tax
Speaker 1: Man won't know about it. Can plug tour dates, merch,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Call me if interested. No tire kick is
Speaker 1: no time wasters legends only. Yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 5: That's how you get deals.
Speaker 1: You just wait for those offers to come pouring back in.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be so good Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Right now, then, we haven't warm business to do. We've
Speaker 1: got to find a great musical act to play at
Speaker 1: the grand reopening of this pub that we've picked to
Speaker 1: do at the Ultimate pub reno, and we really are
Speaker 1: talking over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars being plowed
Speaker 1: into it in a under three week reno. I'm pausing
Speaker 1: as I'm saying that, because it doesn't sound right to
Speaker 1: do a renovation in three weeks. Even three months will
Speaker 1: be too short for reno. There have been people who've
Speaker 1: been working so hard. I have been given at the
Speaker 1: time for free to do this in between other actual
Speaker 1: paying jobs as well. But it's already looking amazing. I'm
Speaker 1: just seeing the photos of the sign. Cyclone was the
Speaker 1: man who offered to do this. Is a local lad
Speaker 1: up there listening to the show and he's something. It
Speaker 1: looks beautiful, looks awesome, and it's on some garish you
Speaker 1: know sometimes when they gut somewhere and make it shiny
Speaker 1: and modern, it loses all the original charm. In fact,
Speaker 1: I call it it's more a restoration. That's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about now. The number one person you want us
Speaker 1: to try and get hold of for the Grandurian to
Speaker 1: play live is genuinely Shannon. No. What are they imagine this?
Speaker 1: Two weeks time on a Friday, all the locals cranking
Speaker 1: up their Massey Ferguson and John dear tractors. Yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: making their way slowly to the live show. Let me
Speaker 1: set off like next Wednesday or something. Crank up the tractors,
Speaker 1: combine harvesters coming across the fields. You think I'm joking
Speaker 1: ring and I've been there. It's ords and fields and fields.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's no roads.
Speaker 1: And then what an image? But then he hasn't got
Speaker 1: one song. Guys, come on drive the attractors, come on, barners.
Speaker 1: This is why they're driving over yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ye.
Speaker 1: People are getting real annoyed behind them. Gang out of
Speaker 1: the way. We're in the tour bus and got Nolsey
Speaker 1: put over farm Obama. I'm thinking, right, bang, hey he's
Speaker 1: got he's got so many big hits, such a Shannon.
Speaker 1: This is presume we get him. Okay, manifestation station, what
Speaker 1: are the bang?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: You got any more big songs? Yeah? I have, actually, guys,
Speaker 1: then he doesn't cover people by us?
Speaker 9: Oh sem Dusty sim Dusty yeah, yes, triblue and you
Speaker 9: know we're in Queens, so you have to change your colors.
Speaker 1: Sound beautiful now, Pete genuine, have you got any contacts? Intern? Pete?
Speaker 1: Now on this show. Have you got any contacts you
Speaker 1: must do with Shannon?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got contacts with Nolsey. We've got him directly,
Speaker 3: We've got management. So I'm we Yep, there we go.
Speaker 3: That's the sound that it makes. Sorry, I wasn't ready
Speaker 3: for that. Boys, ready I will, there we go again. Hey,
Speaker 3: I am mom happy to text Nlsey directly.
Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't put you out. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you so happy to do your job? Thanks God, I'm
Speaker 1: actually want to take a knee right now. Pray to
Speaker 1: the radio gods for dropping Pete in our lapse. He's
Speaker 1: happy to do this. Guy. Sorry, I know that didn't
Speaker 1: sound great, but I'm sure you didn't use stuff like
Speaker 1: that when your old boss was yelling at you to
Speaker 1: get guide back on. I'm happy did that, Carl.
Speaker 6: The good thing is Nlesy does reply to me, which
Speaker 6: is great.
Speaker 3: So I haven't spoken to him for probably over twelve
Speaker 3: months or so, so he's a regular reply so I
Speaker 3: think he'll be good for a reply.
Speaker 1: All right, the why don't we punch up a powerful
Speaker 1: text and offer of the year to Shannon No right now,
Speaker 1: and then you fire it off above the end of
Speaker 1: the day's show A dead is being done bigger than
Speaker 1: the Peace still right now that.
Speaker 5: Trump's don't do I've got I've got a what's.
Speaker 1: What's the opening? Get them with the opening line.
Speaker 5: I'll get him in with a hook and a pun.
Speaker 5: Go on, Nlesy. We need an at asap next Friday.
Speaker 5: What about you? Because he song what about me?
Speaker 1: I like that a lot racket haha, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cover. Yeah, all right, Pete, you're typing this.
Speaker 6: No, I couldn't type fast. I've just repeated again quickly.
Speaker 5: Need need musical act for next Friday.
Speaker 1: Just realized. Also right before he signed his contract to
Speaker 1: join our show, Pete rang me and said, listen, I
Speaker 1: just got one concern. I can't type. I went, I'm
Speaker 1: not We're not not hiring an administrators, you know, like,
Speaker 1: what are you called quarter court stenographer? I don't worry
Speaker 1: about that now suddenly when it actually is really important,
Speaker 1: we don't want to Shannonel get it going with this
Speaker 1: barely sort of who is this robo call?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 6: The good thing is you can edit text me what
Speaker 6: about pe? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What about we? What is who is this guy? All right?
Speaker 1: So what we just? What have you got so far
Speaker 1: need an act?
Speaker 5: Hang on, sorry, Nolan, need a musical act next Friday?
Speaker 1: On the phone?
Speaker 6: Sorry, can you text it to me? Old?
Speaker 1: Copy and paste it and actually, so what are we thinking? Then?
Speaker 7: This is say then meet musical act next Friday. Comma,
Speaker 7: what about you? Question mark brackets haha, so he knows.
Speaker 1: Thousands of our listeners are saying you are the ultimate
Speaker 1: pub act.
Speaker 6: That's really good. And I normally write xx on the
Speaker 6: bottom of the text messages. All right, four xes this.
Speaker 1: Time Suddeny's back in the game. He bord us back in.
Speaker 1: Well done, all right, let's send it off.
Speaker 6: What the.
Speaker 8: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: We have breaking pub news. Over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: We've been our mission to your pubs. The pubs of
Speaker 1: Australia need our help. Then you do to go back
Speaker 1: to the pub. Sixty percent of boss pubs have gone
Speaker 1: they're not coming back. A couple of weeks ago, thanks
Speaker 1: to the hundreds of you that went online to tell
Speaker 1: us about your local pub, we go five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to each to five pubs. Then we now sd a
Speaker 1: pub that we're going to give the ultimate pub of
Speaker 1: reno to over three hundred thousand dollars. It's an amazing pub.
Speaker 1: How a look on our socials. You can check it
Speaker 1: out in all the work that's been doing around the
Speaker 1: clock over the last seven days. It's called the criteria
Speaker 1: in hotels up in Heldon in Queensland. You will fall
Speaker 1: in love with the two accidental publicans, Tracy and Gary.
Speaker 1: We all know about We bought the Zoo. They brought
Speaker 1: a pub. They were going to shut it down and
Speaker 1: turn it into a kind of retirement home for their
Speaker 1: family and grandkids. When they moved in there, they realized
Speaker 1: they just couldn't do it. It would just take away
Speaker 1: the heart of the community, which is what these pubs are.
Speaker 1: So they've been running it for the last two years,
Speaker 1: seven days a week. They've never run a pub before.
Speaker 1: This is like a Jemy Clarkson documentary and we love
Speaker 1: them and judging by all the comments, you guys do
Speaker 1: as well, so we really want to do something right
Speaker 1: by them. At the end of next week it's the
Speaker 1: grand reopening and we're taking a whole show up there.
Speaker 1: We're going to be broadcasting live from a pub. But
Speaker 1: we need a musical act. We need an ossy icon,
Speaker 1: a legend We want the whole community to turn up
Speaker 1: next Friday morning for the Grand reowning to see it all.
Speaker 1: Now it's not so much a reno, it's a restoration.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful looking pub. Yesterday we said who should
Speaker 1: we try and get who is the iconic ossie legend?
Speaker 1: Who would sound brilliant next Friday morning for the Grand Reowning.
Speaker 1: There was one name that came out above all the
Speaker 1: other names. Shannon No, we have news.
Speaker 10: Get o guys, Nasi here and now I've seen the
Speaker 10: post and the deans are blowing up. I'm so I'm
Speaker 10: going to come down and try and help you guys, Yeah,
Speaker 10: at the Criterion Hold and Pub next Friday, and then
Speaker 10: to come down play some songs, maybe even the cover
Speaker 10: that you might like to say next Friday the Criterion,
Speaker 10: howlerd Pubs. Are you there?
Speaker 1: Nolesy is locked in? This is huge news, Shannon No,
Speaker 1: We'll be playing live at the grand reopening of the
Speaker 1: Criteria in Hotel. But what cover does he do? Let
Speaker 1: us know? What do you think?
Speaker 8: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Shannon No, confirmed guest. So he's going to sound amazing
Speaker 1: in that pub next week. Seriously, people, be so excited
Speaker 1: from around to come and see him early in the
Speaker 1: morning at grand reopening. Is this the strangest gig he's
Speaker 1: ever done? Is he had done a reopening of a
Speaker 1: pub before. Also, I tell her what, we don't need
Speaker 1: to high security. Have you seen how he's jacked enormous.
Speaker 1: He is like you know people in prisons when they
Speaker 1: just work, they're just massive.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, he's been at in the yard chopper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is security. And he's the musical act as well.
Speaker 1: I am so and genuinely. Yesterday we got more messages
Speaker 1: saying Shannon Shannon Shanno amongst all the other ones for
Speaker 1: Barnes as well, and all the other great ones as
Speaker 1: well on Thirsty Month, but Shannon's name was the number
Speaker 1: one name. So I hope you're really excited. He he
Speaker 1: will do an amazing job for Tracy and Gary and
Speaker 1: he's the perfect act to do it, singing live. So
Speaker 1: he's going to do a couple of his songs which
Speaker 1: amazed him. And he's also he've just had his message.
Speaker 1: He's up for doing a cover version, which will be amazing.
Speaker 1: It's our version of MTV Unplugged Shannon Nole sings. But
Speaker 1: what is he singing? What do you think?
Speaker 7: I think it's gotta be the most quintessential Aussie pub classic.
Speaker 7: Maybe it'll be a cover of a cover Darryl breikwaits Horses.
Speaker 7: Sometimes the most obvious choice is the best.
Speaker 1: Come on. I know Pats isn't here, but it fills
Speaker 1: up the spirit of Pat. Come on, row one oh one.
Speaker 5: Sometimes that's the best bread, the fastest route.
Speaker 1: What about the song that gets this country dancing? Nutbush?
Speaker 1: Shannon doing Nutbush in a pub, everyone would just like
Speaker 1: suddenly they're strangers. They'd all move as one like you
Speaker 1: do the moment. I mean don't know if you have
Speaker 1: secret classes at school for synchronized Nutbush.
Speaker 5: That is actually how I learned it in te class.
Speaker 1: You're kidding, No, Yeah, I did wonder because I remember
Speaker 1: the first time that it's actually for my wife's fifties.
Speaker 1: When we first moved here. You were there, a lot
Speaker 1: of people came around and we had a party for it,
Speaker 1: and I just played that song because we were and
Speaker 1: that much and either song was a song you want
Speaker 1: to hear. And the wife when I were horrified and
Speaker 1: suddenly we got pushed to the wall of the kitchen
Speaker 1: and like thirty people move as one. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a flash mob.
Speaker 7: I wonder also if maybe it's in our DNA, like you,
Speaker 7: like a bird knows, you know where the homing pigeon knows.
Speaker 1: We know what attitude the nutbush Shannon doing this with
Speaker 1: those mega biceps and triceps and delts. Have you seen
Speaker 1: it's del toy delts are incredible? Oh deltyd gudrum. What
Speaker 1: about this, don't place? Here's a banger? Come on, this
Speaker 1: is a banger Shannon doing this is.
Speaker 5: Not exactly a Friday no way.
Speaker 1: Come on four X now little place with no don't
Speaker 1: worry there is four X Come on, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: This is great as well, Okay, and I like, but
Speaker 1: this is going to take some beating. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: what should Shannon No sing? Let us know what great
Speaker 1: cover version should he do?
Speaker 3: A little tear, Little Places a with no Christian O'Connell
Speaker 3: Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Shannon No live on the show next week at the
Speaker 1: granary opening of our pub, your pub that the ultimate pub.
Speaker 1: Know he's up for doing his hits and he's going
Speaker 1: to do a cover. What should he do? A fantastically
Speaker 1: broad smagas board, charcutere board of various cuts being offered. Beautiful,
Speaker 1: some of them make no sense. Hey, now look a
Speaker 1: lot of people are joining your campaign for horses. Okay,
Speaker 1: iconic Aussie song, This would go down brilliantly there. This
Speaker 1: is a big favorite at the moment, as well as
Speaker 1: quite any people saying it's a song about getting back
Speaker 1: on your feet. That's Tracy and Gary, that's this old
Speaker 1: pub up there as well.
Speaker 5: Very true.
Speaker 1: I love for this, but I'm not sure it's the
Speaker 1: right vibe for grand reopening.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna make the gravy great song?
Speaker 1: And it's Christmas? There is Christmas in July. That's true. Actually,
Speaker 1: actually not the right month's word. Excuse me? Oh are
Speaker 1: we are?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm walking now, I'm walking the train station there, right,
Speaker 1: They've got a train station in Heleman. The train comes
Speaker 1: through twice a week, Yes, yes, not that often. Christian,
Speaker 1: play baby one more time? It will go off? Yes, Christian.
Speaker 1: What about Hotel California? Oh no, because nosey could we
Speaker 1: could rework it Hotel Criteria? I know, because then it's
Speaker 1: a chilling sort of song about you can never leave.
Speaker 1: Maybe Christian, uh and the Runaways. Just at the moment
Speaker 1: is is horses. Also this, Oh I like it? What
Speaker 1: about arms around Me? Good song, community song, very true,
Speaker 1: very true. All right, then listen. At first you're going
Speaker 1: to think this is a joke. It's not a joke.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Just imagine this. So next Friday and when
Speaker 1: we do the grand reopening, we're going to turn it
Speaker 1: into a big party that show. Okay, and rightly so.
Speaker 1: But at the heart of this is about two amazing Australians,
Speaker 1: and that's Tracy and Gary who are getting ready to
Speaker 1: retire and they buy this pub and they think this
Speaker 1: would be a great place to turn into a retirement
Speaker 1: home for us and our our grandkids as well, and
Speaker 1: then they decide to keep it going. Never run a
Speaker 1: pub before Tracy gets a diagnose of having MS, and
Speaker 1: they still have been running it seven days a week,
Speaker 1: run ragged in a pub that really needs some TLC.
Speaker 1: They simply haven't got the money for that. So their
Speaker 1: story is the heart of all of this, okay and
Speaker 1: this renovation. And right now there's King Richard the foreman,
Speaker 1: there's Cyclone the sign writer. All these people we didn't
Speaker 1: know a couple of weeks ago, who a lot of
Speaker 1: them are giving up their time for free to help
Speaker 1: out this pub. Okay, and so it's a community story.
Speaker 1: And when you think community story, there's a song really
Speaker 1: that I think could bring this all together.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, no, just hear this out my eyes closed.
Speaker 1: So you got the lyrics Bob opens up with Bob
Speaker 1: the Builder? Can we fix it Bob the Building? Yes
Speaker 1: we can now original lyrics Scoop, Mark, Dizzy and Rollo two,
Speaker 1: Lofty and Wendy joined the crew. We replaced that with
Speaker 1: King Richard Cyclone and all the other people that worked
Speaker 1: really hard on it joined the crew. Join the crew.
Speaker 1: Just skimmy immediate feedback. Guys, you're in. I know, I
Speaker 1: can see you see in your eyes. I'm in. Pete,
Speaker 1: I mean one all right, Pete, can you speak to
Speaker 1: Shannon's people today? How do you see it? Feel about
Speaker 1: doing a conversion of Bob the Builder? And then let
Speaker 1: get back to me. Okay, we'll do. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Did you know we're on a mission of the moment
Speaker 1: on the Christian O'Connell Show to save the pubs of Australia.
Speaker 2: Ye, God, save the pub.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago we announced in the pub that we
Speaker 1: are saving thanks to four X. The pub is calling
Speaker 1: somewhere between the first sip and the last laugh. It's
Speaker 1: always a four X. The pub is the criteria in
Speaker 1: hotel in held in Queensland. It is a beautiful pub.
Speaker 1: It's not that it needs saving, it needs restoration. It's
Speaker 1: a stunning, striking pub of proper out in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Pub that are and these are dying out.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent of bossy pubs have gone in the last
Speaker 1: two decades, so this is really important work that we're
Speaker 1: doing up there. Over three hundred thousand dollars being put
Speaker 1: into this place for the render, a lot of people
Speaker 1: giving their time for free. One of the legends of
Speaker 1: the place of calling Kim Richard is the foremant Richard
Speaker 1: his update termites.
Speaker 5: Hey Christian, how are you going?
Speaker 11: Just quick update on how we're going with everything up here.
Speaker 11: Our front bars, just to our painted boys have already
Speaker 11: kicked into the stage. We found a few termites, but
Speaker 11: we'll get that rectified pretty quickly. Probably add an extra
Speaker 11: day on for us, but we'll slip into it mate
Speaker 11: and get it done before the big opening. Other than that,
Speaker 11: we're on track. To get it all done, so looking
Speaker 11: forward to seeing you soon mate.
Speaker 1: And now we have a new legend, Dennis Scott's landscaper. Hi,
Speaker 1: I am Dennis Scott.
Speaker 4: I'm a TV landscaper with over sixty.
Speaker 1: This guy screams, TV just hands huh it does? This
Speaker 1: guy is forward facing. He's the next Jamy Jury here
Speaker 1: he sounds like him. Actually, Dennis, Hi, I am Dennis Scott.
Speaker 4: I'm a TV landscaper with over sixty on screen Crazy
Speaker 4: Renovations six super pumped to come on board and help
Speaker 4: out with the four X ber Garden, bringing the good
Speaker 4: vibes and family atmosphere back to a great old Queensland
Speaker 4: country pub. I can't wait they settle in and have
Speaker 4: a cold beer with you.
Speaker 1: Me too, Dennis, I love it, Big d sixty on
Speaker 1: screen credits. Showby's Royalty now coming there bringing the heat. However,
Speaker 1: there's only one Showby's Royalty. Yesterday we confirm the live
Speaker 1: musical act, so we're going up there at the end
Speaker 1: of next week. This all has to be done, which
Speaker 1: is why they're working so hard round the clock and
Speaker 1: why Actually, Termit's being found is not great news. However,
Speaker 1: he's going to rectify that you know what that means,
Speaker 1: some big flamethrower something being on some pesticidebin chucked down.
Speaker 1: So they do it up then queens, and they don't
Speaker 1: have any permits or anything. They don't have local council.
Speaker 1: Just do what you want. We were went up there
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. They had a rodeo rodeo
Speaker 1: event in the pub car park where they told me
Speaker 1: a story as they were laughing their heads off about
Speaker 1: twelve year old getting chased by a ball, been on
Speaker 1: the ball. I'm doing very well and I'm not. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a funny story. He's going to
Speaker 1: be the mayor. Yeah, So we announced that the number
Speaker 1: one music actually we needed to bring some live music
Speaker 1: for the grand reopening. What's apart without some live music
Speaker 1: and the norm one person you wanted to play in
Speaker 1: a pub. It would sound great in the morning, get
Speaker 1: everyone going and everyone in the community really coming around,
Speaker 1: getting around the grand reopening of this beautiful pub. Who
Speaker 1: cried here in hotel Shannon No, Shannon no, now Knowles.
Speaker 4: I'm a team.
Speaker 1: He's taking control of the show. How hell that was terrifying. Dennis,
Speaker 1: Please just get your power of dry mate, we've got
Speaker 1: another nine nine days left on this. Dennis. Now he's
Speaker 1: going to do obviously, Shannon is going to do his hits.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's also going to do a cover version.
Speaker 1: This was the number one song you wanted him to do.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he said, Yes, what a show. It's going to
Speaker 1: be next Friday, the big live show. And to remember,
Speaker 1: get ready the Crazy crew are on tour. We're coming
Speaker 1: up there next Thursday. We're staying the night in a motel.
Speaker 1: You look like a sort of and we're all bunk better,
Speaker 1: aren't we? Yes, shuck on top. Oh, I thought that
Speaker 1: was mine. I don't believe it. So Pete, you're flying
Speaker 1: up today.
Speaker 6: So excited sight check today. I'll check on all these terms.
Speaker 1: I love that all those all those pros that have
Speaker 1: been working there for two weeks and ol Johnny come
Speaker 1: lately jumping on the band wagon. I did get some
Speaker 1: clips of socials and the talks.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. I'm not going to hear to tell
Speaker 3: them how to. I do think job's badys, but I
Speaker 3: guess it's just sort of check in.
Speaker 1: See how a couple of this couple of brush marks
Speaker 1: left and the painting made at the windows when I
Speaker 1: tuk another coat on.
Speaker 3: That, I've got my golden overalls. I'm ready to get
Speaker 3: my hands dirty if they need to. There's some weird
Speaker 3: things going on to the pub, like middle of renovations.
Speaker 3: I think there's like a wedding or something going on
Speaker 3: tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1: They told us about that. I don't know how the
Speaker 1: place is a building site, right, but I do those
Speaker 1: people know that the pub is being renovated.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but how.
Speaker 1: Termuch it's up your wedding dress.
Speaker 3: Sounds like we've got an extra hundred hands to help
Speaker 3: out tomorrow as well, which would be great on the renovation.
Speaker 3: So we'll get this done in seven days.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Have it look on our socials. Just have a
Speaker 1: look at this pub, what it looked like and then
Speaker 1: what it looks like already. It's transforming. It's incredible. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much everyone who's offered to help in various
Speaker 1: ways as well. If there's anything else you want to do,
Speaker 1: have a look at the videos cavalacor on Facebook or
Speaker 1: on Instagram the Christian O'Connell show. You can see them
Speaker 1: and also you'll meet the couple who are the star
Speaker 1: of this. They are reluctant publicans Gary and Tracy head
Speaker 1: to the Christian O'Connell Show. You find us on Instagram
Speaker 1: and Facebook.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's now cross live this pub that we've
Speaker 1: been talking about the last two weeks, The Criterion Pub
Speaker 1: in Heldon up in Queensland, is the pub that we
Speaker 1: are renovating. At the moment, well over three hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars going into this amazing rhinno. Lots of people working
Speaker 1: really really hard, lots of tradees. We've got termite inspectors,
Speaker 1: sign writers or a lot of them giving up their
Speaker 1: time for free as well, and they're really up against it.
Speaker 1: We're up there next Friday for the grand reopening. Since
Speaker 1: you've been away, Pats, we've booked shannono oh.
Speaker 5: I was looking at that on more so exciting, I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's also going to do he's going to cover
Speaker 1: horses as well. Ah, brilliant yep. So Shannon no is
Speaker 1: locked in. So in turn, Pete travel up yesterday. He's
Speaker 1: live at the pub right now where because of the
Speaker 1: result of state of origin, no work has been done.
Speaker 1: I don't hear any hammers, just just beat that.
Speaker 6: Literally it is just me and I think the cafe.
Speaker 1: Is about to open up it as well.
Speaker 3: Everyone, I can just tell you right now is a
Speaker 3: little dusty in Queensland this morning.
Speaker 1: What a big win for Queensland.
Speaker 3: A very big night for Queensland, but a very big
Speaker 3: day here the pub which I did think there'd be
Speaker 3: a lot more tradings here because they said they'll be
Speaker 3: here at six a m. On the dot there's just look,
Speaker 3: there's you know, we're Atrician in the cafe who has
Speaker 3: just made me the greatest egg and bacon sandwich though now,
Speaker 3: and come on, this is really good and I know
Speaker 3: we're all here next Friday, but I think we may
Speaker 3: have found the world's best egg and bacon sandwich.
Speaker 1: And so the big win at State of Origin is
Speaker 1: obviously great for Queensland, however so terrible for productivity today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're still going to be hammering in that while Shannon
Speaker 1: Knowls is singing, excuse me, can you just bunk is there?
Speaker 1: So take us to what you can see right now?
Speaker 1: Where are you in that beautiful pub? And if you're
Speaker 1: into this story, go on to our socials, have a
Speaker 1: look on Facebook, on Instagram, wherever you like to go
Speaker 1: search up the Christian O'Connell show. You'll see some of
Speaker 1: the videos of the renna work, the restoration that's been
Speaker 1: going on over the last two weeks. It looks incredible.
Speaker 1: So how does it look now? Because you went up
Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago, just before Rio and I.
Speaker 3: That's right, I went up and you know what, there's
Speaker 3: been so much done. But I say with nervousness, there's
Speaker 3: a lot to do. They have done a lot, but
Speaker 3: there's a lot to do before next Friday. What have
Speaker 3: we got eight days, seven and a half days to go.
Speaker 1: They've got to be done by next Thursday night because
Speaker 1: obviously then they putting all the radio equipment in for
Speaker 1: the show next Wednesday exactly. So yeah, they have seven
Speaker 1: days ago and we can just today hardy a thing
Speaker 1: that's going to be done.
Speaker 3: Look, honestly, there's a lot to do today. But we've
Speaker 3: got a few struggles today. As I said, obviously Queensland
Speaker 3: one last night, so no one's here yet, but there
Speaker 3: is a wedding this afternoon, well at three o'clock, so
Speaker 3: we've got to get as much as we can down away.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a lot for a wedding party
Speaker 1: to turn up to. I mean the last photos I
Speaker 1: saw while the floorballs being ripped up, they're trying to
Speaker 1: find the termites. Are there? Yeah, look in the wedding photos. Look,
Speaker 1: you got one foot on a floorboard, one on just
Speaker 1: on the ground.
Speaker 3: No, where's Digger. By the way, dig of the dog
Speaker 3: is already I saw watch out wandering around just going.
Speaker 1: To take down. The reason why there's no trades today,
Speaker 1: it's not because they got hungover, is that dog, Digger
Speaker 1: has taken them away somewhere. That zongbe dog. If it
Speaker 1: starts the teration. Gary said that it purrs, it doesn't,
Speaker 1: it growls at its next victim.
Speaker 5: It does, It has a horrible, horrible sort of.
Speaker 1: One of our listeners lived nearby, right and they went
Speaker 1: for a little road trip yesterday. They drove out to
Speaker 1: the pub. You're kidding. Nicole sent me some pictures off
Speaker 1: the front there which looks amazing, and they also said
Speaker 1: they went, you weren't lying about that dog, Dick looking
Speaker 1: fairsome and poised. You're that dog's bacon butty roll Pete,
Speaker 1: it's so good.
Speaker 3: Look honestly, Can I just also say, by the way,
Speaker 3: just a sneaky, peeky behind the curtain a little bit.
Speaker 3: There is a massive team that has put this together
Speaker 3: here for Gary and Tracy, and you can just tell
Speaker 3: already it's really staying to live. I think next Friday
Speaker 3: is going to be massive and the town is one
Speaker 3: hundred percent ready for this pub in a massive way.
Speaker 1: Also, I can tell you it sounds like someone else
Speaker 1: had a big night. Nice peat sounds a little bit
Speaker 1: dusty himself. You send us a photo of a bottle
Speaker 1: of wine that was in your hotel room, Yes, theay
Speaker 1: where you're staying at the question to Woomba, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: it's gone. Look yeah we yeah, all right, we get it.
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Speaker 1: Now in term Pete today. It's in Queensland where they
Speaker 1: only listen to some big hangovers.
Speaker 6: You there, peek, Yeah, I have lots of hangovers here.
Speaker 1: That sounds like, so you're one of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, I'm good. I'm very good.
Speaker 3: I've been I've had a very busy morning actually to
Speaker 3: be fair like, I've actually been helping the trades and
Speaker 3: bits and bobs and the soil.
Speaker 1: Sat there eating another bloody roll that's been shoved in
Speaker 1: your part.
Speaker 6: Adams is doing some mol stuff.
Speaker 3: I've been doing a good job this morning, right Adamah, Sorry.
Speaker 6: I should have gone to someone a bit more believable. No,
Speaker 6: we've just put in.
Speaker 3: I've been taking We've got morning tea soon. By the way,
Speaker 3: I've got to get three snis.
Speaker 1: Do you like to take sugar?
Speaker 3: I'm just basically keeping them happy in a reunabout way.
Speaker 1: Sounds like, yeah, three hours they've already been lifted up
Speaker 1: by the Manchi that is in tern pete going on here.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell you one first of all where
Speaker 1: you are and what you're doing there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course the Criterion Hotel here in Halden now
Speaker 3: Regional Queensland. It is an incredible place itself, but it
Speaker 3: has been having the makeover of a lifetime. Of course,
Speaker 3: we are going to be unveiling this live on the OLP. Sorry,
Speaker 3: someone's doing a burnout run.
Speaker 1: I thought it's your backside. You know that many bacon
Speaker 1: egg rolls it's going to start repeating, I know.
Speaker 3: And can I just say they have the best egg
Speaker 3: and bacon rolls in the world.
Speaker 5: There you go again, signs you're in the country.
Speaker 7: There's people doing burnouts at nineteen am there.
Speaker 1: I know it's a big win, but come on, guys,
Speaker 1: trying to get a radio cross here.
Speaker 6: Sorry, guys, very unprofessionally.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on because we've also got the
Speaker 3: wedding this afternoon, so we need to be bumping out
Speaker 3: of the construction site by about ten thirty this morning
Speaker 3: to then set up for the wedding. We'll get the
Speaker 3: wedding out of the way and then they'll restart the
Speaker 3: renovations later on this evening as well, so there's a.
Speaker 1: Lot they can't be like stopping or downing tools during
Speaker 1: this wedding. What they've done twenty minutes of work and
Speaker 1: it's down tools at half ten.
Speaker 6: I know, right, But we also need let the pain.
Speaker 1: There's so much to work to do it. There must
Speaker 1: be so much to do with the reno before. They've
Speaker 1: only got seven days left and it's the granary opening.
Speaker 1: Shannon Ole's singing live. We're doing the whole show up
Speaker 1: the next Friday.
Speaker 3: It is, as I said, I'm quite shocked. I got
Speaker 3: here last night and I was like, it looks amazing
Speaker 3: what's been done. But there's a lot to do and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people to be involved. So we've
Speaker 3: got about sixty five guests at the wedding, so I
Speaker 3: figure a paintbrush each and we can probably make.
Speaker 1: A good point lea time. Yeah, look great in all
Speaker 1: the wedding photos. And what are those termoits in the
Speaker 1: background now, Pete, what a small thing, big joy for you?
Speaker 3: Well, small thing, big joy obviously for me egg and
Speaker 3: bacon roll having one, but then when you get another one.
Speaker 5: That's what I had this morning till there.
Speaker 1: Nights they are good. I was sort of when you
Speaker 1: sold that you were going to take a day off
Speaker 1: basically to go up there for the night and we
Speaker 1: have to pay for a hotel for you and an
Speaker 1: hour and a half Uber trip that we've also been
Speaker 1: stung for as well. And then another one today as
Speaker 1: well was the fact that you were going to help
Speaker 1: out and work. So far that work is eating two
Speaker 1: bacon and egg rolls and nothing else.
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Speaker 1: Just want to take a moment and say happy birthday
Speaker 1: someone very special on our show, and that is a
Speaker 1: woman right now, Karen Warner. She'd be driving the trades
Speaker 1: hard right now in our pub Renner, because this time
Speaker 1: next week, our breakfast show is live from the Criteria
Speaker 1: in Hotel, this amazing pub that we're renovating at the
Speaker 1: moment in Queensland up in Helendon, and Karen Warner is
Speaker 1: the legend that's been overseeing all of it. And without
Speaker 1: Karen there's no pub Reno. There's no way in this
Speaker 1: short time we've got that it will be done. She's
Speaker 1: called in favors, she's threatened people. She knows where the
Speaker 1: bodies are buried because she's buried them. She is a
Speaker 1: very powerful lady. If there's King Richard the Foreman up there,
Speaker 1: every king needs a queen and we'll bow down to
Speaker 1: Queen Karen. So happy birthday Karen at the Pubble look
Speaker 1: forward to singing next week for a four x of course.
Speaker 1: Atosia birthday today and as sixty five as well and
Speaker 1: still going strong.
Speaker 5: It looks great she does, she does.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned next week for the big one, the big reveal,
Speaker 1: as we go live from the Criterion in Queensland next
Speaker 1: Friday to all of Australia to unveil the big pub Reno.
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