Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian, my name is Yan, I'm also a plumber.
Speaker 3: I was working on the roof of a brothel on
Speaker 3: a hot day, topless in little shorts. Stop it, you're
Speaker 3: exciting us too much, and I lost a ladder. I
Speaker 3: stayed upon that roof for a couple of hours because
Speaker 3: the clients, the men going into a brothel, wouldn't pass
Speaker 3: my ladder up to me as they were too embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1: You know I'm talking to you, sir, far.
Speaker 3: Do you know what just the second plumber store we've
Speaker 3: had today, maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It happened to a plumber. But we want to hear
Speaker 1: about these stories. You must have them.
Speaker 3: They're amazing, all right, So right now then, the only
Speaker 3: way you can get hold of the show is forget
Speaker 3: about calling us.
Speaker 1: That's for the proper radio stations.
Speaker 3: We prefer an old school You text us, give us
Speaker 3: a headline of his story, and we will call you back.
Speaker 3: The phone lines are playing around at the moment.
Speaker 1: Just now. Patsy Kaye was reduced to calling this as
Speaker 1: on our own little mobile.
Speaker 3: Hello, yeah, no, no, no, thanks for picking up Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 1: It's a powerful look.
Speaker 3: I think the station is winding down because they know
Speaker 3: we're off next week.
Speaker 1: On tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They're just doing it bit by bit fax us your
Speaker 3: story for me tomorrow on the show. All right, so
Speaker 3: today you text in four seven five three one o
Speaker 3: four three. We're looking for your stories about why you
Speaker 3: were hiding. I had to hide? Why were you outside
Speaker 3: in your underwear? And what?
Speaker 1: Blew away? Karen? Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Karen. I hope you're well this morning.
Speaker 2: So I am good. Thank you. So my son blew away?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Have you got back in the Stratify
Speaker 1: just over Ecuador? Christian. It's hoping to land sometime Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was looking at it was funny. It was funny
Speaker 2: at the time, not all funny. But we were at
Speaker 2: HMAS so Breust up in the peninsula at the army base. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they had they had an open day and we were
Speaker 2: all standing around for one of the activities they had,
Speaker 2: which was an army helicopter landing. So, as an adult,
Speaker 2: I didn't take into him cat because I've never done
Speaker 2: it or been around it. Before the actual force of
Speaker 2: the wind that the blades give out is amazing, and
Speaker 2: it was hard enough to stand staunch as an adult
Speaker 2: without sort of getting like taking a stand back. You
Speaker 2: had to dig your heels in. So my son would
Speaker 2: have been about five at the time, ten years ago, and.
Speaker 1: At five is peak blown away.
Speaker 2: Age is oh gone, Yes, luckily.
Speaker 1: I hope into the old blender of the blades.
Speaker 2: No, no, I was going opposite way, Thank goodness. I
Speaker 2: wasn't getting getting blown If we can.
Speaker 3: Go around antikock, different story.
Speaker 2: But no, it was just yeah, sort of like concentrating
Speaker 2: yourself as an adult, stand staunch, and we weren't stand
Speaker 2: just stand your ground, not getting blown away, and we
Speaker 2: sort of looked over his shoulder and this poor little
Speaker 2: five year old and his wellies or like it was
Speaker 2: just like taking steps back, like not shock on his face.
Speaker 2: And then he eventually got to a point where he
Speaker 2: just tumbled. It was just yeah, like you know, he's okay.
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, hey, it was just listening to your show.
Speaker 2: You're saying myself and my oldest son, and mean you
Speaker 2: said about getting blown away, and we just yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3: Ever you don't ever move on from that story about
Speaker 3: when you got blown away.
Speaker 1: In my mind, he's getting blown out the wellies. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're taking someone off at.
Speaker 2: The well My gosh. It was funny, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: But there's all the power of the you know, there's
Speaker 2: big army.
Speaker 1: You've got no choice but to go stormch second one,
Speaker 1: have it to a plumber. Storge, Yeah, Storge.
Speaker 3: I love it, Karen, really funny, cool. Thank you very much,
Speaker 3: have a good day. You keep by way, Lisa, Lisa, Hello,
Speaker 3: Hey Lisa, what got blown away?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I worked at the Colt Express service station in
Speaker 4: Port Piarray, South Australia, and my team member and I
Speaker 4: were out the front changing one of those big posters
Speaker 4: two for six dollars posters and their call float and
Speaker 4: she was holding it and she lost a lot of weight,
Speaker 4: and a big wind just came through what we call
Speaker 4: the wind tunnel for forecourt and lifted her off the ground,
Speaker 4: not far, but it lifted her off the ground and
Speaker 4: she stumbled back down and basically had to stumble backwards
Speaker 4: to the end to get her seat. So I laughed,
Speaker 4: and I laughed and I laughed, and she said, can
Speaker 4: you help me?
Speaker 2: No? And I laughed and I laughed like a yeah,
Speaker 2: it's funny.
Speaker 3: It's incredible so far that her sun's been blown away.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, No, she didn't go far off. The grab
Speaker 4: she did did lift her and when she hit the ground,
Speaker 4: she hit running backwoods just because you know.
Speaker 2: You have to get you.
Speaker 3: Yes, Lisa honestly called the show. Any time you sound
Speaker 3: like magd up from Kathin Kim.
Speaker 1: Tell a story, it's already ticlar me today I laugh.
Speaker 5: Thank you, guys. I love your show.
Speaker 3: Oh bless you, we love you calling the show Lisa.
Speaker 3: She really made us laugh today.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lisa, thank you.
Speaker 3: I want to drop a perm and I laughed and
Speaker 3: I laughed and I laughed and I laughed. I want
Speaker 3: that's my ring tone, Karina, good.
Speaker 1: Morning, Good morning, team. How are we all? Team? Good Karina?
Speaker 1: And which one are you calling in about blowing away?
Speaker 5: I'm blowing away. So in Wellington, my grandmother, very petite,
Speaker 5: small woman. I don't know if you know that Wellington
Speaker 5: has the nickname of Windy Wellington.
Speaker 6: Ww Yes. So this particular day, she gets off the
Speaker 6: train station she works in the heart of the city,
Speaker 6: and as she came out of the train station, a
Speaker 6: gust of wind came lifted her off her feet and outstretched,
Speaker 6: grabbing hold of a lamp post, and people.
Speaker 1: Are walking by, and she likes growing poppies.
Speaker 5: Come back very and you know what, very much, very
Speaker 5: much funny little latitude like Mary Poppins.
Speaker 6: She'd make a very good Mary Poppins banana blit her heart.
Speaker 1: She needed to be more stormed. Lack of stornishness in
Speaker 1: this story.
Speaker 5: But no, that was such a funny story with her
Speaker 5: blowing down down the main street and trying to get
Speaker 5: a free.
Speaker 1: We started this phone and there's things that blew away, trampolines, roofs.
Speaker 1: But now it's family.
Speaker 3: Her son, oh, work mate and nana. Where else can
Speaker 3: we go? Knowin four one four one O four three Kenny,
Speaker 3: good morning, Hi. Just his story involve a human being
Speaker 3: being blown away somewhere almost oh brilliant, right?
Speaker 1: Is okay?
Speaker 7: It's another Wellington story. Yep. Back in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 7: my sister and I our first plane trip. We flew
Speaker 7: into Wellington, which is pretty nerve wrecking anyway, and it
Speaker 7: was about it. I reckon a thirty seater play so
Speaker 7: not big. They they had to tie a rope between
Speaker 7: the aeroplane and the terminal, so the passengers hold on it.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're not going up K two and everest.
Speaker 4: No, for real.
Speaker 7: You had to hold on to the rope so you
Speaker 7: didn't blow over and end up on the tarmac in
Speaker 7: front of another plane.
Speaker 1: This is still I don't know if they still do it.
Speaker 2: It's a few years.
Speaker 1: Think maybe not. I reckon.
Speaker 3: I just think for the Women's World Cup we'll be
Speaker 3: sharing it with New Zealand teams again.
Speaker 1: Off the play with crampons.
Speaker 3: And incredible stuff.
Speaker 1: Kelly, thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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