Speaker 1: Question. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 2: So as we all try to come to terms with
Speaker 2: the shock news that Shane Warn is no longer in
Speaker 2: the world, that it's a death that makes no sense.
Speaker 2: It's not just the age, right, that he's fifty two.
Speaker 2: He should not have died at fifty two. It's just him.
Speaker 2: There was just something so big about him. He was
Speaker 2: you know, people say that phrase, don't they largeer the life?
Speaker 2: But he was. You look at any of his highlights.
Speaker 2: He literally liked tiger Woods could do it. He would
Speaker 2: bend the game, force it to somehow an ancient game,
Speaker 2: a rigid game like cricket, but somehow make it bend
Speaker 2: to his will. And the way he played cricket was
Speaker 2: the way he also lived his life. He put himself
Speaker 2: fully into it. There's something really amazing about that, actually
Speaker 2: in transcendent about what he did, which is why I
Speaker 2: think we're all feeling it today. So one thing also
Speaker 2: about Warn is he had time for people and he
Speaker 2: loved to love. So today, as much as we're mourning
Speaker 2: the sudden death of Shane Warn, we also want to
Speaker 2: take a moment to celebrate a great man. An iconic man,
Speaker 2: a Melbourne son. Either morning, we're looking for your weakest
Speaker 2: claim to Warnye. Some of you will have some shabby
Speaker 2: story about a shared passing with Warne. We want to
Speaker 2: mark that and record it today. Don't keep that story
Speaker 2: hidden away. Called us up today. Remember, no weak stories
Speaker 2: about Warny are to be spared. They all need to
Speaker 2: be shared today. Nine four one one oh four three.
Speaker 2: Jackie boy, you met him? I did.
Speaker 3: I met Warne in two thousand and seven during my
Speaker 3: first job in radio. I worked in Adelaide and we
Speaker 3: were doing a fundraiser at a tennis court. Warnie did
Speaker 3: actually so much for charity all his life.
Speaker 2: He half we don't even know about. I mean millions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he raised a million dollars alone selling his
Speaker 3: baggy green in support of the bushfire recovery. Plus so
Speaker 3: much that we don't know about. But he was at
Speaker 3: this event. And you could win your way to receive
Speaker 3: a serve from Warny on a tennis court. I know
Speaker 3: that doesn't make us much sense as facing some spin
Speaker 3: bowling by warning, but you could win your way to.
Speaker 2: Like receiver serve from Warning. The shoulder must have been
Speaker 2: aching or something. He must have been injured surely.
Speaker 3: And I got to meet him after he did it.
Speaker 3: I was working at the radio station and he's such
Speaker 3: a lovely guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably full wattage charisma. This comes from d Christian.
Speaker 2: I was in my early twenties watching a local game
Speaker 2: of footy Shane's brother was playing in when Shane Warn
Speaker 2: suddenly sat on the same wooden fence log only a
Speaker 2: meter from me. I was a little starstruck, but tried
Speaker 2: to stay cool. That seemed changed when I felt a
Speaker 2: rumble along the log. It was showing. Yep, Shane Warn
Speaker 2: farted on the log we were sharing whilst watching the footy.
Speaker 2: We both laughed and then he turned to me and went,
Speaker 2: that's something you'll never forget. Rip thin King. Your weakest
Speaker 2: claim to Warning, Simone, good morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 4: My weakest link is Shane was born on the thirteenth
Speaker 4: of September up the pantry Gary william Angle Hospital, and
Speaker 4: I was born on the fifteenth and his birth notice
Speaker 4: is undermine in the newspaper.
Speaker 2: That is a great Yeah, Warnie came a long way
Speaker 2: from Upper Fine Tree, Gutty. That's amazing, Simon. That's a
Speaker 2: good one, strong start.
Speaker 5: Thanks for that.
Speaker 1: Have a great day and you David.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello David. What's your weakest claim to Warne?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: Well, well so my weakest uh warning is to we
Speaker 1: ended up cleaning bricks and mortar Brits on a house
Speaker 1: that's for a renovation and we end up taking the
Speaker 1: mortar off on Shane Warne's house in Sane Tilda.
Speaker 2: Wow, yes, to take the mortar off, right, David.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were doing he was doing a massive renovation
Speaker 1: and I was only worked on it for a day
Speaker 1: and it was in so killed he had there was
Speaker 1: a wine cellar.
Speaker 2: Had a good look around if you had to take
Speaker 2: the all. So that's outside. We don't have a look
Speaker 2: around the wine there with your big boots. Yeah, big
Speaker 2: big house, big house right. Well.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Celebrate the Great Man Shane warn did a special version
Speaker 2: this morning of our weakest claim to fame. Were simply
Speaker 2: calling it weakest claim to Warnie. Did you meet him?
Speaker 2: What happened? Diane? Welcome to the show, Thanks Christian.
Speaker 6: My weakest claim to Warning I think it was nineteen
Speaker 6: ninety two, ninety three he and the refuse of school
Speaker 6: to film a Marlo commercial were teaching us had a
Speaker 6: ball that you're so lucky.
Speaker 2: Not one legend, two legends if you include my life,
Speaker 2: the trifecta.
Speaker 1: And he was so cute.
Speaker 6: He was He wasn't as fa as all anything. He
Speaker 6: wasn't glad, he was just really cute.
Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing. Thank you very much to give us
Speaker 2: a caller share on that, Diane, Thank you, Lauren, good morning.
Speaker 6: Hello. Yes, my weakest claim to Warnie is I've come
Speaker 6: out of a job interview years and years ago. He
Speaker 6: was outside and I've inhaled his cigarette smoke se can.
Speaker 2: Hand Okay, Yeah, I mean we're looking for one of many. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's sort of thing you normally want to share. It
Speaker 2: inding passive smoke, but it's warning, you know, so all
Speaker 2: bets are off. And was he outside nervous about going
Speaker 2: for the job interview that you're both doing for the
Speaker 2: key role? Was it?
Speaker 6: No, he was rich enough that he wouldn't need a
Speaker 6: job interview.
Speaker 2: All right, he was doing the interview. Maybe it was just.
Speaker 6: Outside on the straight after I got out.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 2: Yat, Thank you, Lauren. Thanks, Sir Clarin. Can't have any confusion, Adam,
Speaker 2: good morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning guys. My weakest claim to Warne was I
Speaker 7: was sort of. After hearing that his tragic passing, I
Speaker 7: was flipping from my Facebook feed and thought that one
Speaker 7: of my best mates from primary school actually won award
Speaker 7: in nineteen ninety two playing cricket at the Elston m
Speaker 7: Cricket Club and Warney presented the award to win. He
Speaker 7: had a photo with him and everything.
Speaker 2: That is pretty cool, And so was your friend pretty
Speaker 2: good at cricket? He must have been great.
Speaker 7: He was very good. But he funnily enough, he grew
Speaker 7: up to become a priest, but he didn't pursue cricket.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Warn he turned him maybe, Adam, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. You cool. Have a great day, guys, play Sharon.
Speaker 2: What's your weakest claim to Warning?
Speaker 8: Hello?
Speaker 5: My weakest claim to Warning is that my brother played
Speaker 5: football with him when they were probably for the sixth
Speaker 5: between six and eight in Country Galley and the football
Speaker 5: team was named the Fleets because they're only little Fellers.
Speaker 5: It wasn't until later in life that we realized that
Speaker 5: it was Shane Warne he played football because my mum
Speaker 5: pulled a photo out the football team photo and said
Speaker 5: that she played with Shane Warn.
Speaker 6: So I love that.
Speaker 2: And there was just an eight year old on a
Speaker 2: dart on a chugging the beer.
Speaker 3: We should know that quite possibly.
Speaker 2: That's a lovely one. Thank you for sharing. I have
Speaker 2: a great day and you Andy.
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you, Christian?
Speaker 2: I'm good, budd. I loving all these stories about warning.
Speaker 2: What have you got for us?
Speaker 8: My week exclaimed flame with warnings? That he stole me
Speaker 8: hot chips?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Just anything?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Someone hold the o bits.
Speaker 8: What we we're coaching a like a Melbourne Stars junior gala,
Speaker 8: like a day for their junior members at the mcg
Speaker 8: And we went for the lunch break and I came
Speaker 8: back with a bucket of chips. And anyway, he kicked
Speaker 8: off the session and he said, Mada, I'm going for
Speaker 8: a dart and he said, I know, is your chip
Speaker 8: sitting over there? Said yeah, absolutely help yourself to one.
Speaker 8: So he took both buckets of chips and he worked off.
Speaker 5: And that.
Speaker 2: It's warning. It's a great story. That is a great story. Andy,
Speaker 2: that's my favorite one so far. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for sharing that today. You're a good man. This is
Speaker 2: the Christian O'Connell Show podcast