Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Over the next three days, you have control of the
Speaker 2: billboards of Melbourne. We have one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 2: billboards to give to you today, tomorrow and Sunday as well.
Speaker 3: Christian, what about today? Good luck?
Speaker 2: Far Jack Jenkins in UFC two eighty four in Perth
Speaker 2: this weekend. Ten years to get is making is his
Speaker 2: debut in the US. Very very exciting. Good or to
Speaker 2: Volkanovski as well. I spoke to far Jack's mum yesterday.
Speaker 2: There's one hundred and sixty of them flying over to
Speaker 2: Perth friends, and yeah, that is amazing.
Speaker 4: I would have cost in a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, imagine that. Yeah, so yeah, really really good
Speaker 2: luck and I hope your boy does well as well.
Speaker 3: Joe. All right, so what do you want on the billboards? Marina?
Speaker 3: Good morning?
Speaker 5: Good morning, Christians.
Speaker 3: Good morning Marina. What would you love to say up there?
Speaker 5: Well, look, I've got a say guilt of shine, we'kally
Speaker 5: well for me, So I would like.
Speaker 6: A billboard that shouted to my son Harry reply to
Speaker 6: your mother's text.
Speaker 3: I love this.
Speaker 2: It makes me want to just check my phone that
Speaker 2: I replied to my mom does everyone else getting that?
Speaker 3: Mama aks, So you don't upset Mum.
Speaker 4: You could go into anybody's part and go to the
Speaker 4: last visage to their mom, and there'll be a question
Speaker 4: waiting to be answered.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: I think he would reply to an uber rating quickly.
Speaker 3: Heart break into how old is Harry twenty three? Twenty three?
Speaker 3: He is? An answer is.
Speaker 5: Sometimes going on sixteen? I think the twenty three?
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, hear all right, Marina, it might be you.
Speaker 2: Let's go to die here, Good morning, die.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Happy Friday.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday. What would you love on the billboards?
Speaker 6: I would love to put on the billboard Reading Cinemas,
Speaker 6: please hire my son? Thanks broke Mama.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you said in your boy out to work?
Speaker 4: How old is he?
Speaker 6: He's seventeen. He needs to get his first job. And
Speaker 6: I know he'd really love to work at the cinemas
Speaker 6: because he loves movies and he has applied there before
Speaker 6: but just hasn't heard anything back from them.
Speaker 3: So you want to use this to try and nudge
Speaker 3: Reading Cinemas to give him a job.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's not what you know too, you know.
Speaker 4: Do you want to localize it?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 4: Which wedding cinemas you are, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh, Turnside Park, that's our close. I'd say he's applied previously.
Speaker 2: Shout out Churnside Park high and what's your lad's name?
Speaker 6: His name's Dominic. He isn't bought some kids, and he
Speaker 6: would love it there. He would work very hard, he
Speaker 6: could pay board.
Speaker 3: Spoken like a true motherly always say that about that
Speaker 3: kid in a way.
Speaker 4: We're riding his resume up the billboard. What like, what
Speaker 4: else should we put on? There were previous experience hobbies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hobbies and interests, qualification certificates.
Speaker 6: Watching movies, movies those he say.
Speaker 4: When you're a kid and you're writing your first resume,
Speaker 4: you've got no prevy experience, so you have to fill.
Speaker 2: It up with you always make out like you do
Speaker 2: so much for the community.
Speaker 3: As well as lawn. I put that on there once.
Speaker 6: I haven't had enough time getting to my my lord
Speaker 6: all right, he wants to be a filmmaker, so it
Speaker 6: would be a perfect job for you.
Speaker 3: This is so great to hear about. Do you know what?
Speaker 2: So often when you go to simmers, they're just teenagers
Speaker 2: who are boared working there.
Speaker 4: I mean you used to work seventeen years old. I
Speaker 4: worked at Hoyts Cinema.
Speaker 2: So if you've got someone who's genuinely interesting, surely they're
Speaker 2: going to be a bit more of a good energy
Speaker 2: to be around.
Speaker 3: All right, let's let's put up an advert for your son.
Speaker 3: Then let's do this. Does he know we're doing this?
Speaker 6: By the way, I did mention to it earlier, so
Speaker 6: I just thought I won't make false promises. See what happens.
Speaker 6: But yes, he would be absolutely delighted.
Speaker 3: All right, helped him.
Speaker 6: Get a job.
Speaker 4: All right, let's do it, reading Cinema Churnside Park.
Speaker 6: Please hire my son.
Speaker 3: Please I make it personal.
Speaker 2: Please hire my son. Do you mind if I just
Speaker 2: call him Dom for the sake of wording on the poster.
Speaker 6: Yep, that's fine. That's what he calls himself as well.
Speaker 4: And then he loves movies.
Speaker 6: He loves movies.
Speaker 3: What about this guy loves movies? Like get Dom. I'm
Speaker 3: with Dom. Start that hashtag this guy loves movies. Yes,
Speaker 3: all right, read it back, Jackie boy.
Speaker 4: Reading Cinema's Churnside Park. Please hire my son Dom.
Speaker 3: Sorry, no, it's how you work in a call center.
Speaker 3: I get these people from.
Speaker 4: Please hire my son Dom. This guy loves me.
Speaker 2: This guy loves movies, and then we'll put our phone number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we'll get that up there a SAP.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. The Christian O'Connell show podcast tay here.
Speaker 2: We've asked you what would you like to sound a
Speaker 2: billboard and then we put it up live during the
Speaker 2: show to over one hundred billboards. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I've been so emails, so many emails, so we haven't
Speaker 2: been able to apply to Thank you very much. Some
Speaker 2: of you shared some really intimate stuff about what you'd
Speaker 2: love up there and why. I'm sorry that we couldn't
Speaker 2: get to all of them, but hopefully enjoyed listening to
Speaker 2: the ones.
Speaker 3: We did get to.
Speaker 2: So over the next three days, lots of people are
Speaker 2: going to be seeing these amazing messages. So let's talk
Speaker 2: about first of all, then let's talk about tomorrow.
Speaker 4: All day Saturday, Mitch's billboard will be live. Dear chefs
Speaker 4: of Melbourne, no chips under our parmers.
Speaker 3: I like this.
Speaker 2: It's a powerful begging a plea, isn't it, to the
Speaker 2: chefs of something that we can all get behind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no more soggy chips please.
Speaker 4: Then to Sunday.
Speaker 2: This is like your old lost connections. Was the thing
Speaker 2: you used to call it in the.
Speaker 4: Melbourne misconnections or the one in MX was he's looking
Speaker 4: at you?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the man in the high viz at several polling
Speaker 4: booth last election we shared a moment, call me Julie,
Speaker 4: and then I actually put at the bottom called Christian brackets.
Speaker 4: He'll call Julie nine four one four three.
Speaker 2: Now did any of us know about this? I knew
Speaker 2: you were going quiet over there. He also went, we
Speaker 2: haven't got room on there. But he also had glasses
Speaker 2: that he got out at some moment when they're having
Speaker 2: a little bit of chit.
Speaker 4: Chat starting to write a story.
Speaker 3: It's huge, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Can we spread it out over a couple of billboards,
Speaker 2: all one hundred and thirty six in installments, and then
Speaker 2: the current billboard today came from a lovely woman we
Speaker 2: spoke to earlier.
Speaker 3: Die.
Speaker 2: It was a message for her employee. Well, she wants
Speaker 2: to find her seventeen year old son Dom a job.
Speaker 2: Movie man wants to make movies, needs to get his
Speaker 2: first job.
Speaker 3: So the billboard said.
Speaker 4: Reading Cinema Churnside Park, please hire my son Dom. This
Speaker 4: guy loves movies.
Speaker 2: It's very direct play love this this is wrong. Hey
Speaker 2: die hey, Now, we only spoke to you about an
Speaker 2: hour and a half ago. Hopefully, hopefully it's worked. We
Speaker 2: have someone on the line now who needs to speak
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 5: How are you today?
Speaker 3: I'm good Mark and Mark. What do you do for
Speaker 3: a living? What do you do, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm director of cinema operations for Reading Cinemas.
Speaker 3: Get in and he's gone to the main man dying.
Speaker 5: Hi, hi, die, hi you, I'm good, Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're going to hire my kid?
Speaker 5: Know what? Look, I tell you what looking from CBC,
Speaker 5: who are great friends of Reading Cinemas. He got ahold
Speaker 5: of us this morning because he saw one of the billboards.
Speaker 5: He gave me a call and said to me, you've
Speaker 5: got to hire this guy.
Speaker 3: So story, you've got to put this kid in the picture.
Speaker 5: A great to come. I mean, we've got a man
Speaker 5: opening next week and incre three, so.
Speaker 3: Always great. So you're going to take him on.
Speaker 1: We're going to give him a trial, Christian.
Speaker 5: If you can roll, if he can roll the chop
Speaker 5: pop and pop some popcorn, he's got a job.
Speaker 2: That's it great, awesome, that's really kind of you. Mark,
Speaker 2: thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You're welcome and I will be in touch all right.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I love Yeah. He means you've got to work there
Speaker 3: too next weekend, guys, Get ready for that. Man die.
Speaker 3: This is great news. Well done forgive us a call.
Speaker 6: I'm repped.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to tell my son. He will be
Speaker 5: absolutely thrill awesome.
Speaker 3: I have a lovely weekend. Thanks you calling you.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: I've just realized that's the only one that's gone well,
Speaker 3: no one's ever said thank you. Yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 3: all right doing that. We finally did it, guys.
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