1
00:00:09,685 --> 00:00:12,485
Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one in four

2
00:00:12,485 --> 00:00:15,965
Speaker 1: point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free

3
00:00:16,165 --> 00:00:21,925
Speaker 1: iHeart app Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian

4
00:00:21,965 --> 00:00:29,885
Speaker 1: O'Connell show podcast listener show. I was talking about this

5
00:00:30,125 --> 00:00:32,885
Speaker 1: very famous story in the Second World War about the

6
00:00:32,925 --> 00:00:36,405
Speaker 1: Siege of to Brook and coup. Believe you actually emailed

7
00:00:36,405 --> 00:00:40,165
Speaker 1: the show and then Alex Alex was telling us about

8
00:00:40,205 --> 00:00:43,404
Speaker 1: a link in his family to this very very famous

9
00:00:43,445 --> 00:00:45,925
Speaker 1: story which saw the birth of the desert rats. Who

10
00:00:45,964 --> 00:00:49,324
Speaker 1: are what the sas were originally known as. In the

11
00:00:49,365 --> 00:00:52,084
Speaker 1: siege or to Brook, your family were involved.

12
00:00:52,405 --> 00:00:55,205
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Moore said, is my

13
00:00:55,285 --> 00:00:57,885
Speaker 2: great uncle he commanded to Brook. He led the ninth

14
00:00:57,885 --> 00:01:01,765
Speaker 2: Division at t Brook and later at El la Mayin.

15
00:01:01,885 --> 00:01:04,445
Speaker 2: And that is incredible. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it. And

16
00:01:04,485 --> 00:01:07,725
Speaker 2: I'll send you that photo of him and Winston Winston Churchill.

17
00:01:07,805 --> 00:01:11,965
Speaker 1: Winston's got it couldn't be anymore. Winston Churchill, the great Commander.

18
00:01:12,085 --> 00:01:14,925
Speaker 1: He's got cigar there and what a photo. He's also

19
00:01:15,245 --> 00:01:20,885
Speaker 1: effectually got his left hand on your great uncle's shoulder. Yeah.

20
00:01:21,165 --> 00:01:24,965
Speaker 2: So Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield so

21
00:01:24,965 --> 00:01:26,885
Speaker 2: he went, that's a photo from Cairo.

22
00:01:28,005 --> 00:01:30,565
Speaker 1: That's incredible. What snapshot of history for your family.

23
00:01:30,645 --> 00:01:31,445
Speaker 3: It's crazy, isn't it.

24
00:01:31,485 --> 00:01:33,445
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's up at the Australian War Memorial, that that

25
00:01:33,485 --> 00:01:34,325
Speaker 2: particular photo.

26
00:01:34,605 --> 00:01:37,805
Speaker 1: Yeah, your great uncle. Then I can see as well.

27
00:01:38,045 --> 00:01:42,045
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm looking at all his his rankings as well,

28
00:01:42,125 --> 00:01:43,405
Speaker 1: so he must have been he must have done a

29
00:01:43,445 --> 00:01:45,245
Speaker 1: lot of acts services on the.

30
00:01:45,245 --> 00:01:48,045
Speaker 2: Wall, very decorated. Yeah, he's captain at Gallipoli and the

31
00:01:48,045 --> 00:01:51,125
Speaker 2: Western Front. Yeah, and there's a very famous photo of

32
00:01:51,245 --> 00:01:53,565
Speaker 2: him at Lone Pine and he's looking up onto the

33
00:01:53,565 --> 00:01:57,285
Speaker 2: trench and there's just littered with bodies, a really really moving,

34
00:01:57,405 --> 00:01:59,925
Speaker 2: kind of sad photo and it's him there just looking up.

35
00:01:59,965 --> 00:02:02,525
Speaker 2: And then the one I sent you, the one with Churchill.

36
00:02:02,565 --> 00:02:06,845
Speaker 2: But yeah, he retired in Sydney and born in regionald Victoria.

37
00:02:07,285 --> 00:02:10,285
Speaker 3: Is a schoolteacher originally and then and joined the army

38
00:02:10,285 --> 00:02:10,645
Speaker 3: and went.

39
00:02:10,525 --> 00:02:12,484
Speaker 1: Over to How old was when he joined the army

40
00:02:12,565 --> 00:02:14,525
Speaker 1: was just young. My granddad fought the Seconone War. He

41
00:02:14,605 --> 00:02:17,605
Speaker 1: was sixteen. He lied about his age was actually fourteen. Wow.

42
00:02:17,925 --> 00:02:20,085
Speaker 3: He was in his early twenties and became a captain

43
00:02:20,085 --> 00:02:20,685
Speaker 3: at twenty five.

44
00:02:20,765 --> 00:02:22,804
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were just young guys, so.

45
00:02:22,485 --> 00:02:27,085
Speaker 3: So young, and yeah, retired in Sydney and uh yeah pastor.

46
00:02:27,045 --> 00:02:30,165
Speaker 1: Family must be so proud, very proud. Yes, yeah, such

47
00:02:30,205 --> 00:02:31,485
Speaker 1: a great photo as well though.

48
00:02:31,565 --> 00:02:32,645
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mum's maiden name.

49
00:02:32,685 --> 00:02:35,405
Speaker 2: More said, and just there's photos of him everywhere at well,

50
00:02:35,485 --> 00:02:38,125
Speaker 2: my grandparents' house and you're very proud of him.

51
00:02:38,405 --> 00:02:40,205
Speaker 1: Now, all we want to talk about now is fame

52
00:02:40,205 --> 00:02:42,445
Speaker 1: in the family. You go through your family tree. These

53
00:02:42,525 --> 00:02:45,525
Speaker 1: days with ancestry and DNA testing, you can uncover so

54
00:02:45,645 --> 00:02:48,445
Speaker 1: much about your family. Often when we start talking about

55
00:02:48,445 --> 00:02:50,805
Speaker 1: fame in the family, there's a smell that comes in

56
00:02:50,805 --> 00:02:54,044
Speaker 1: the studio of BS and I can see Rio is

57
00:02:54,085 --> 00:02:57,325
Speaker 1: prime with a story that is a little bit of BS.

58
00:02:57,365 --> 00:03:00,045
Speaker 1: If you how about the man who invented the Jeff

59
00:03:00,165 --> 00:03:03,165
Speaker 1: lay Come on, you listen to a man, a man

60
00:03:03,245 --> 00:03:05,605
Speaker 1: who took down romel and you're going to drop the

61
00:03:05,685 --> 00:03:06,645
Speaker 1: dreffel maker.

62
00:03:06,445 --> 00:03:09,125
Speaker 4: Who very decorated and sisters.

63
00:03:09,885 --> 00:03:15,045
Speaker 5: My grandfather, doctor Ernest Smithers, invented.

64
00:03:16,645 --> 00:03:20,285
Speaker 1: Exactly patch is right, she's calling it out. He's gonna lie.

65
00:03:21,285 --> 00:03:24,725
Speaker 1: He had to best mate Homer Simpson. It was his

66
00:03:24,805 --> 00:03:30,085
Speaker 1: name for the Simpsons existed. Doctor Ernest Smithers look it up.

67
00:03:30,325 --> 00:03:33,085
Speaker 1: Invented the jaffle maker. The trade monkey is in his name.

68
00:03:33,565 --> 00:03:34,405
Speaker 1: He invented it.

69
00:03:34,485 --> 00:03:36,765
Speaker 5: So every time you have a toastery you crunch into

70
00:03:36,805 --> 00:03:40,685
Speaker 5: a delicious ham, cheese and tomato number, think, thank you,

71
00:03:40,805 --> 00:03:47,685
Speaker 5: Rio and thank you, You're welcome.

72
00:03:48,205 --> 00:03:48,805
Speaker 4: You're all well.

73
00:03:49,325 --> 00:03:52,005
Speaker 1: Surely though, you should be seting with a family dynasty now, No,

74
00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:52,605
Speaker 1: he was.

75
00:03:52,685 --> 00:03:54,605
Speaker 4: Actually he was a bit of a rogue operator.

76
00:03:54,605 --> 00:03:57,125
Speaker 5: He had a number of inventions and would just invent

77
00:03:57,205 --> 00:03:59,685
Speaker 5: them and then sell the trademark straight away. My parents,

78
00:03:59,725 --> 00:04:01,085
Speaker 5: actually my mum was actually quite poor.

79
00:04:01,165 --> 00:04:01,325
Speaker 1: Yeah.

80
00:04:01,365 --> 00:04:02,845
Speaker 4: They He invented a lot of things.

81
00:04:02,885 --> 00:04:05,605
Speaker 5: Invented the true sliced bread knife, which was a top

82
00:04:05,685 --> 00:04:07,725
Speaker 5: selling bread knife back in the day we.

83
00:04:07,725 --> 00:04:09,885
Speaker 1: Had form and just painting in different things.

84
00:04:10,045 --> 00:04:13,325
Speaker 5: Yes, and also the surfer plane which only our older

85
00:04:13,325 --> 00:04:15,485
Speaker 5: listeners would know. But it was the original boogie board,

86
00:04:15,525 --> 00:04:17,765
Speaker 5: the Ossie original boogey boarders that inflatable.

87
00:04:17,805 --> 00:04:20,045
Speaker 1: While but yeso, that is incredible.

88
00:04:20,485 --> 00:04:22,565
Speaker 5: The only thing we've got to our name from him

89
00:04:22,645 --> 00:04:25,325
Speaker 5: is a lawn bowls green in his name at Sussex

90
00:04:25,325 --> 00:04:27,765
Speaker 5: Inlet on the Sydney South coast.

91
00:04:28,924 --> 00:04:30,924
Speaker 1: So he invented the chairful.

92
00:04:31,164 --> 00:04:33,165
Speaker 4: Yeah, the jaffle maker yeah, and then it was.

93
00:04:33,125 --> 00:04:34,844
Speaker 1: It wasn't a thing, and then he came up.

94
00:04:34,765 --> 00:04:36,204
Speaker 4: With that yeah, and then he goes, how I wanted

95
00:04:36,525 --> 00:04:37,284
Speaker 4: you should sus.

96
00:04:37,404 --> 00:04:38,884
Speaker 1: You should be like your family should be like a

97
00:04:39,364 --> 00:04:41,804
Speaker 1: billionaire dynasty. No, I no, no, we're not on the

98
00:04:41,844 --> 00:04:45,325
Speaker 1: form and grilling machine. Yes, the original you shouldn't be here.

99
00:04:45,484 --> 00:04:47,644
Speaker 4: I know, I know he was. He was a strange unit.

100
00:04:47,685 --> 00:04:49,845
Speaker 4: My mum tells me, all.

101
00:04:49,885 --> 00:04:51,885
Speaker 1: Right, then, what have you got fame in your family?

102
00:04:51,885 --> 00:04:54,964
Speaker 1: Give us called thirteen fifty five twenty two. I'm worried

103
00:04:55,005 --> 00:04:56,924
Speaker 1: now that if I'm an listening to list I'm not

104
00:04:56,964 --> 00:05:01,804
Speaker 1: calling in, you know, because your stories are incredible. This

105
00:05:01,885 --> 00:05:08,444
Speaker 1: one's a bit fighting in the war. Callipoi alamein. You'll watch,

106
00:05:08,525 --> 00:05:10,924
Speaker 1: I know, but this is but they did something significant.

107
00:05:12,085 --> 00:05:13,804
Speaker 1: You know what are they going to call in with now?

108
00:05:14,924 --> 00:05:19,484
Speaker 1: I think Christian my name killed Hitlers, straight on, straight

109
00:05:19,525 --> 00:05:22,885
Speaker 1: on thirteen fifty five twenty two, Shoot your shot. I

110
00:05:22,924 --> 00:05:26,044
Speaker 1: don't know what calls we're going to get now, Christian

111
00:05:26,325 --> 00:05:30,724
Speaker 1: Connell Show podcast, Christian, I'm too shy to talking the radio.

112
00:05:30,765 --> 00:05:33,484
Speaker 1: But our family claim to fame. It's a couple of

113
00:05:33,484 --> 00:05:36,564
Speaker 1: my ancestors were convicted for plotting to kill the Prime

114
00:05:36,604 --> 00:05:40,485
Speaker 1: Minister of England's there's a whole book about them called

115
00:05:40,525 --> 00:05:43,565
Speaker 1: the Plot to Kill Lloyd George. Lloyd George was Prime Minister.

116
00:05:43,565 --> 00:05:46,205
Speaker 1: I think you're on the First World War. That must

117
00:05:46,245 --> 00:05:50,405
Speaker 1: mean Allison that your family must be the Wilderns. O

118
00:05:53,724 --> 00:05:58,725
Speaker 1: Christian my great great grand Auntie Hred ned Kelly. Here

119
00:05:58,724 --> 00:06:01,005
Speaker 1: we go. I wonder when the old ned Kelly's We're

120
00:06:01,005 --> 00:06:03,645
Speaker 1: going to start working a little bit later than I thought. Yeah,

121
00:06:03,685 --> 00:06:07,044
Speaker 1: it's about twenty two links to ned Kelly. I've Adgine

122
00:06:07,044 --> 00:06:09,925
Speaker 1: in the last three minute and fed him for a

123
00:06:09,964 --> 00:06:17,365
Speaker 1: period of time. Sure, okay, what are those odds? All right?

124
00:06:17,364 --> 00:06:19,364
Speaker 1: That's going to Rob here now, Rob, good morning, welcome

125
00:06:19,364 --> 00:06:19,844
Speaker 1: to the show.

126
00:06:20,525 --> 00:06:21,964
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. How are you?

127
00:06:22,085 --> 00:06:24,525
Speaker 1: I'm good, Rob, Thanks you Goring so fame in the family.

128
00:06:24,604 --> 00:06:25,485
Speaker 1: What's it for you? Rob?

129
00:06:26,085 --> 00:06:26,325
Speaker 3: Ah?

130
00:06:26,404 --> 00:06:29,684
Speaker 6: The two people that started chibis Regal Whiskey, my first

131
00:06:29,724 --> 00:06:32,844
Speaker 6: cousins four times removed, so I think.

132
00:06:32,645 --> 00:06:36,445
Speaker 1: It's I think it was two brothers, James and John Chivers.

133
00:06:36,565 --> 00:06:36,964
Speaker 1: That's it.

134
00:06:37,125 --> 00:06:40,604
Speaker 6: Yes, well, my first cousins removed.

135
00:06:41,284 --> 00:06:43,044
Speaker 1: And have you been over there? You've been to Scotland?

136
00:06:43,404 --> 00:06:46,485
Speaker 6: I certainly have going again. In there about four weeks.

137
00:06:46,685 --> 00:06:51,205
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah, it's a beautiful part

138
00:06:51,245 --> 00:06:52,404
Speaker 1: of Scotland as well, isn't it right?

139
00:06:52,885 --> 00:06:55,604
Speaker 6: That's gorgeously, absolutely gorgeous. And when I went to the

140
00:06:55,645 --> 00:06:58,325
Speaker 6: Extual Distillery and they treated us like kings and they

141
00:06:58,844 --> 00:07:00,805
Speaker 6: just kept feeding me whiskey out of the twenty five

142
00:07:00,885 --> 00:07:03,604
Speaker 6: year old and my god.

143
00:07:02,924 --> 00:07:07,884
Speaker 1: No, wonder you're going back. He's back. We've only just

144
00:07:07,885 --> 00:07:13,885
Speaker 1: refilled the barrels. Have a safe trip out there and

145
00:07:13,925 --> 00:07:18,525
Speaker 1: enjoyed lovely story as well. Thanks you calling Rob Fenn.

146
00:07:18,565 --> 00:07:20,124
Speaker 1: Good morning, Fenn, welcome to the show.

147
00:07:21,005 --> 00:07:22,965
Speaker 7: Gooday Christian, Happy Friday.

148
00:07:23,045 --> 00:07:25,925
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Fenn. So fam in your family? What's the story?

149
00:07:26,965 --> 00:07:29,045
Speaker 5: We did some deep diving on my mom's side and

150
00:07:29,125 --> 00:07:31,285
Speaker 5: found out Nick Cave is my fourth cousin.

151
00:07:31,925 --> 00:07:34,325
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Patsy went to school with him

152
00:07:34,364 --> 00:07:34,725
Speaker 1: as well.

153
00:07:35,405 --> 00:07:35,965
Speaker 7: There you go.

154
00:07:36,325 --> 00:07:38,765
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. He was nominated for an OSCAR this

155
00:07:38,845 --> 00:07:45,405
Speaker 1: year for one of his songs for Frankenstein. I think, yeah, yeah, Fenn,

156
00:07:45,405 --> 00:07:47,165
Speaker 1: thank you, that's the one. Fenn, Thank you very much

157
00:07:47,165 --> 00:07:48,605
Speaker 1: for give us a call mate. Have a nice weeken.

158
00:07:49,165 --> 00:07:50,805
Speaker 7: Thank you guys, have a good one.

159
00:07:50,965 --> 00:07:54,085
Speaker 1: Is this the Dick van date one. In radio, they

160
00:07:54,085 --> 00:07:56,165
Speaker 1: always say end if you can, end with the Dick

161
00:07:56,245 --> 00:08:01,085
Speaker 1: van Deke, and we are fulfilling that grace. Good morning morning,

162
00:08:01,685 --> 00:08:04,444
Speaker 1: I'm good. I am very very excited. He's still alive.

163
00:08:04,645 --> 00:08:06,885
Speaker 1: Dick van Dyke is over. I think he's one hundred now,

164
00:08:08,565 --> 00:08:11,285
Speaker 1: I think years. I think he's it's in that complain video.

165
00:08:14,085 --> 00:08:17,445
Speaker 1: Not aware, not aware, he's in your family. I seem

166
00:08:17,445 --> 00:08:18,965
Speaker 1: to know more about it's not even in my family.

167
00:08:19,125 --> 00:08:20,845
Speaker 1: So tell us about Dick van Dijk.

168
00:08:21,765 --> 00:08:25,405
Speaker 7: My grandfather was a dancer in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

169
00:08:25,485 --> 00:08:26,645
Speaker 7: against beside him.

170
00:08:26,685 --> 00:08:33,485
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow bang bang bang bang bang bang, pretty

171
00:08:33,804 --> 00:08:35,925
Speaker 1: bang bang, Chitty Chitty Bang. So when did you find

172
00:08:35,925 --> 00:08:37,325
Speaker 1: this out? Is it a story that's been in your

173
00:08:37,325 --> 00:08:38,885
Speaker 1: family for years, since you were a kid, or a

174
00:08:38,965 --> 00:08:39,525
Speaker 1: recent thing.

175
00:08:40,045 --> 00:08:42,765
Speaker 7: The first time we watched it is as children. Every

176
00:08:42,765 --> 00:08:45,165
Speaker 7: time I watch it, my mama goes, dais your grandfather days?

177
00:08:45,204 --> 00:08:47,365
Speaker 7: Your grandfather? Did you know your grandfather was in Chitty

178
00:08:47,405 --> 00:08:50,205
Speaker 7: Chitty Bang Bank What a great flat, she tells everyone

179
00:08:50,204 --> 00:08:50,845
Speaker 7: when they watch it.

180
00:08:51,165 --> 00:08:53,965
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's brilliant. I love that, grace. Thank you very much.

181
00:08:53,965 --> 00:08:55,565
Speaker 1: You give us a call. Have a nice weekend. No

182
00:08:55,845 --> 00:09:00,165
Speaker 1: you too Christian O'Connell show on podcast,