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Speaker 1: All right, we're doing weakest claim to fame right now

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Speaker 3: Oh business like show business?

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Speaker 4: My dad tot Grant doing you how to play the guitar?

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to fame?

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Speaker 1: All right, what have you gotta give us a call? Now?

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Speaker 1: Week claim to fame? You can call me thirteen fifty

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Speaker 1: now oh four seventy five three one oh four three.

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Speaker 1: Last week I saw a pie's legend in a Bunnings

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Speaker 1: near me. You're chatting to him. So, by the way,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? You know you've got a

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Speaker 1: lot going on at the moment. It was buying a

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Speaker 1: specific nut or bolt for his home. Pilates bed ex player,

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Speaker 1: Cura legend, legend, legend, legend, I will preserve his privacy

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Speaker 1: and his right to it. I was so excited. Is

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Speaker 1: tell me about when you see famous people in the wild,

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Speaker 1: It is intoxicated. I'm ashamed to say. He walked past

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Speaker 1: me and do that double take, and then I went

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Speaker 1: and followed him, and then I cut him off by

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Speaker 1: following him and speaking from behind him. You know, tall

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Speaker 1: guy as well that I was coming. So I was

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Speaker 1: just happy to be the other side. Good luck. I'm

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Speaker 1: also trying this weekend. Oh knackled my palate's bed too.

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Speaker 1: I have a very strong core muscles and intrinsic muscles,

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Speaker 1: like you, sir.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you two could mean that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, two guys in one bed, start that rumor. That's

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Speaker 1: why I didn't mention his name, Brio. What's your weakest

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Speaker 1: claim to fame? Well, I actually have one.

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Speaker 3: Do you guys remember the old Gladiator TV series?

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Speaker 1: Right? Those shows were huge? Just love Gladiators.

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Speaker 3: One of my dad's patients friends was one of the

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Speaker 3: giant men, Ron Reeves aka Tower, and I actually got

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Speaker 3: to meet him once as a kid. Oh wow, big day, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: huge day.

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Speaker 1: So one of your doctor Lee your dad one of

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Speaker 1: his patients.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was best friends with Tower. He was the

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Speaker 3: patient was a body builder, right and obviously Tower big guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah nickname yes, yeah, yeah, it's brainstorming that one.

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Speaker 3: Did they having in the UK?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Huge? See massive. I used to be on like

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Speaker 1: a six o'clock on a Saturday night and millions watched it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was all Hue Show and they were all like

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Speaker 1: cartoonish kind of characters with nicknames.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Vulcan was another one, Australian one.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Tenure was linked to Storm. Oh oh

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Speaker 6: So Bonnie's mom's cousin, Melinda has a best friend called Shin. Now,

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Speaker 6: Chanell's sister is Storm from Gladiators.

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Speaker 1: You know what, this sets a new high for weakest

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Speaker 1: claim to name most of our stories and we love them.

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Speaker 1: Ask you're several people removed. That's the biggest one ever.

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Speaker 1: So break it down again for us. If you're joined

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Speaker 1: the family tree, you run out page.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So my wife Bonnie, so her mom's cousin, Melinda has

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Speaker 6: a best friend called Chanell. Name Chanell's sister is Storm.

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Speaker 1: Not on what are you the odds? But hang on,

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Speaker 1: you said, Caitlin, It's for is it four?

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Speaker 2: That is four people removed from him?

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Speaker 1: O my god still hateless.

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Speaker 6: Trifects great and Bonnie used to get all the merch

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Speaker 6: from storm Storm signed. She signed a poster, a gladiator's

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Speaker 1: They've got an accordion at home That TV coin.

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Speaker 2: Way, Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Weeks is claim to Fame? What's yours thirteen fifty five

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Speaker 1: twenty two, Ben's got one? Christian. My dad had the

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Speaker 1: the car from Mad Max when they were filming. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that is a great one. Christian. My Estonian grandfather was

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Speaker 1: for and met Bob Hawk. His poroshkis were to die

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Speaker 1: for by the way he played the piano while puffing

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Speaker 1: away on his pipe. The Triple threats Nicole, what a

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Speaker 1: legend your Estonian granddad was. That's incredible love. So many

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Speaker 1: move on from everywhere The Stonian granddad, Christian week Claim

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Speaker 1: half far nice Jacqueline. Good morning, Jaqueline, Good morning, Jacqueline.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. And what is your claim to fame?

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Speaker 4: My weekest claim to fame is that my French teacher

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Speaker 4: forty odd years ago was Annie Lennox's aunt.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Wait now, Annie Lennox herself is an amazing thing.

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Speaker 1: Who's Scottish and you have yourself a beautiful Scottish accent?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: And is that Edinburgh or Glasgow?

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Speaker 4: Halfway in between? Yea in between Edinburgh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much for giving us a call.

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Speaker 4: Right, thank you, bye, thank you.

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Speaker 1: This is doubt Vill on the show, That lovely half

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Speaker 1: from Virginia. Doubt five. Aaron, good morning.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 2: My weekest game to fame.

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Speaker 5: Is that Kate Blanchett named her son after my brother

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Speaker 5: in law, whoa.

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Speaker 1: Some big plan. You didn't need to see receipts for

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Speaker 5: So in two thousand and four, my mother in law

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Speaker 5: was walking around South Malbourne Market as a Mama's three

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Speaker 5: with a newborn trying to wrangle all the kids, and

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Speaker 5: my brother in law was running around and she's having

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Speaker 5: to go Rome and Rome and come back here.

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Speaker 1: What do you do it?

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Speaker 5: Like right, running everywhere, And Kate Blanchett comes over and

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Speaker 5: was like, Roman is a really nice name, Like she

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Speaker 5: hadn't heard that one before. And my brother in law

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Speaker 5: was trying to act really cool because she's a really

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Speaker 5: big fan of Kate Blanchet and was like yeah, like

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Speaker 5: I'm like, it's a nice name, and lo and behold.

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Speaker 5: A couple months later, she pops out her son named Roman.

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Speaker 1: This is modible. I love this story.

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Speaker 3: Has she taken it?

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Speaker 1: Has she met Kate Blanchett since her back down the market?

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Speaker 5: It has not, but she tells everyone that that's who

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Speaker 5: played the bave. Is that Kate Blanchett? The song after

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Speaker 5: her had got inspirations and.

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Speaker 1: It is a great name. Roman is a great name.

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Speaker 1: Erin thank you very much? She cool, Thank you all right,

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Speaker 1: miss hur Lyrics on the way the story's coming. Then

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Speaker 1: your weakest claim to fame? Have you got an Estonian

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Speaker 1: grandfather that for Bob Hawk and used to smoke a

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