Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Dad Mountdowns and Dad Claim to Fame. Dad mount downside
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: My dad had a huge meltdown. What makes his story fun?
Speaker 2: He is he's a reformed Buddhist, constantly telling my teenage
Speaker 2: sisters and I about keeping calm and keeping himself. And
Speaker 2: then one day out in the paddicle, Walmle died on
Speaker 2: him and this thing was just ripped to pieces. The
Speaker 2: more we laughed at him ripping it apart, the worse
Speaker 2: it goad.
Speaker 1: See even Dana Lama would lose a lot. Or if
Speaker 1: he never used a whipper snipper, you know that would
Speaker 1: test any Is he informed Buddhists like he's quit the monasterym?
Speaker 1: Is that what they throw him out? Dave, We've spoken
Speaker 1: to you about these. We should never put him on
Speaker 1: gardening duties. He's a reformed Buddhist, he's given up the ways.
Speaker 1: So Dad Mountdowns and Dad Claim to Fame.
Speaker 3: I think I've got a pretty significant dead He and
Speaker 3: a couple of mates are responsible for building the first
Speaker 3: road that went all the way through to Bell's Beach.
Speaker 4: My partner's dad.
Speaker 5: He was a tailor and stars especially around Melbourne. He
Speaker 5: even made some suits for Chopper Red.
Speaker 4: My father holds the record for changing ties on a
Speaker 4: mini minor under three minutes by hand.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm just thinking my kids have got nothing. My
Speaker 1: dad plays nickelback. They've actually got nothing to say. You
Speaker 1: need to do something significant on this coming is according?
Speaker 1: All right? So this case some colls here Steve, good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning. You got a dad claim to fame for
Speaker 1: Steve I have.
Speaker 6: We've just found out my father, who's Slovenian in background,
Speaker 6: is related to Millenia Trump.
Speaker 1: This is huge. Wow, this is amazing. And what do
Speaker 1: you mean you've just found out? You haven't breakfast this morning?
Speaker 1: It came out there's been something I've wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you for a long long time.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, it's I've got a cousin in Slovenia.
Speaker 6: We've been doing some research and me pops up gaz
Speaker 6: Off by the way, related to Milaenia Trump Gat.
Speaker 1: So what do you if you've done the DNA testing
Speaker 1: the ancestry.
Speaker 6: Look, I've done my own DNA testing and.
Speaker 1: Milan she rejined. You know she's got relatives in Australia.
Speaker 1: She might be she's got to fight here away from.
Speaker 6: We're having her over for a bar. You know, I might,
Speaker 6: I might try Foster's or something I don't do during
Speaker 6: So yeah, for a snack.
Speaker 3: There, you got.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's a great strong start for dag
Speaker 1: Clean to fame, Steve, thank you very much, she called me.
Speaker 1: Cheers Mike Jack, good morning, Hello Christian Jack. You got
Speaker 1: Jack Clean to fame. I'm very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I recently found out my dad tried out
Speaker 3: for some killed her in the eighties and he made
Speaker 3: it all the way through a pre season and in
Speaker 3: the final game he got cut because Tony Lockett broke
Speaker 3: his leg.
Speaker 1: Tony lock can break your dad's leg. Yeah, well no, wow,
Speaker 1: because he was so threatened by him coming on the
Speaker 1: inside track took him out.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was yeah, friendly fire type thing. He
Speaker 3: told me last year we were at this and Kilda
Speaker 3: finals game at the mc GEN. We'd had a few
Speaker 3: beers each and he said, I try to have a
Speaker 3: kid back when.
Speaker 1: Cynical here, but there suddenly there doesn't grow family trees.
Speaker 1: It kills brain cells and he gets two stories. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, I should have mentioned this. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have gone all the way would have been
Speaker 1: a contented was that breaking my leg?
Speaker 3: He ended up playing pretty decent high level like a
Speaker 3: VFL for box Hill and stuff and a few local
Speaker 3: clubs around the area, so he did play quite well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess the eighty four pre season was
Speaker 3: as bad as high as he could get before injury
Speaker 3: set in.
Speaker 1: It's a good to fame. It's a good story, all right, Jack,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for giving us a call. Now, look,
Speaker 1: Christian Connell Show podcast. That's pretty impressive. But here's your
Speaker 1: dad related to Milania Trump. This is huge. O my word.
Speaker 1: Another update from Daniel Clyde North. Give me real time
Speaker 1: updates about his progress in today. Did you make it
Speaker 1: through Daniel North? He has actually those bit movements, Christian
Speaker 1: Daniel Clyde North again. I'm now on the Monash outside
Speaker 1: Waverley Gardens, almost fifty minutes after my first communication to
Speaker 1: you this morning. I could always give you treffor reports
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Speaker 1: free shipping across Australia. Okay, all right, then Steve's on
Speaker 1: the line. Now, Good morning Steve, Good morning Christian, Good
Speaker 1: morning team. How are you, Steve? So you've got a
Speaker 1: dad claim to fame.
Speaker 8: I'm doing my own claim to fame as a dead
Speaker 8: Christian because I'm representing myself here. My daughter plays basketball
Speaker 8: her first season that she ever played, first season I
Speaker 8: ever cached. We're our final winners by one point.
Speaker 1: That is strong. Start. Wow, sad to say you have
Speaker 1: to ring up about yourself, but no, this is what
Speaker 1: it is to be a dad chat You starved a validation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should be proud. This is amazing, dadding well known, Steve.
Speaker 1: You like the Phil Jackson. Five more rings are coming
Speaker 1: your way, Bill better check. Thanks Christian, And do you
Speaker 1: know what he's getting emotional? Though? You deserve to be
Speaker 1: Steve a games his game, My friend, I'm going to
Speaker 1: reward you with some American apparel. These beautiful Father's Day
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Speaker 1: your way, Steve, wear them as you defend that title.
Speaker 1: Double Champ is coming your way. Okay.
Speaker 8: They will be around the basketball court every Saturday.
Speaker 1: Thank you, very very much, coach. All right, Steve, well done, buddy,
Speaker 1: asho are and what's your what's your daughter's team called?
Speaker 8: She plays for the Basin Wildcats, the Basin Wildcats. Yeah,
Speaker 8: in the East competition.
Speaker 1: All right, good luck, all right, thanks Steve. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Michelle here. Good morning, Michelle, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 7: How are you going.
Speaker 1: I'm good, so you're done. What was his claim to
Speaker 1: fame or is his claim to fame?
Speaker 7: Yep, my dad's claim to fame was when Johnny Farman
Speaker 7: first started, he was Johnny Fan's drummer.
Speaker 1: Well, the original.
Speaker 7: Called the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: I was in the Mavericks. Wow. And then what happened?
Speaker 7: Oh he got Johnny ended up laving them for another band.
Speaker 7: So yeah, my dad and he's just kept going. And
Speaker 7: I did like parties and if anybody wanted a band
Speaker 7: to play, then decide and help them out.
Speaker 1: Did they ever hear from John ever? Again?
Speaker 7: No, he left them and that was it.
Speaker 1: And this is what it's going to be like when
Speaker 1: Pats leaves us. Yes, this is the podcast is to
Speaker 1: bridge out the rainbow, bridge out of here. The menopause
Speaker 1: is her, it's her bridge away from this and we'd
Speaker 1: be like that drummer. You and I would just become
Speaker 1: the Mavericks Mavericks in the Morning. Transmitting to bar mitzvahs
Speaker 1: Son a weekly don't know. I don't rub it in
Speaker 1: it enough as it is. Sounds like she's already rehearsed.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen for us? All those guys are
Speaker 1: doing it, Michelle, Thank you. Ray story. This is the
Speaker 1: Christian o'commells show podcast. We have two Halees here lined up.
Speaker 1: Both were stories about their dad and a claim to fame.
Speaker 1: So Haley number one, Good morning, Haley.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Christian. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm going to welcome to the show. So tell us
Speaker 1: about dad and this claim to fame.
Speaker 5: Well, it's my grandpa. He was in the RAF and
Speaker 5: he was invited to the garden party with the Queen
Speaker 5: twice and had canceled twice due to death in the family.
Speaker 5: And then he was invited again and finally went and
Speaker 5: made the front page of the paper.
Speaker 1: So it was third time lucky for the queen.
Speaker 5: Yes, so he was in the RAF in bomber command.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, the queen really wanted your granddad to go
Speaker 1: to that garden. Ask him again for the third time, ma'am,
Speaker 1: and the queen doesn't get rejected.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, we've got the newspaper. Front page of the newspaper.
Speaker 8: It was lovely.
Speaker 1: Oh about, what a lovely memory. About an incredible mamber
Speaker 1: sound of it.
Speaker 5: He was, He was lovely all right, Haley.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, your story mate, have a good day.
Speaker 5: Thank you, bybye.
Speaker 1: I know, let's go to the other Hayles waiting for us.
Speaker 1: Haley number two, Good morning.
Speaker 4: Good morning everyone.
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 1: I hope you well? So tell us about your dad's
Speaker 1: claim to fame.
Speaker 4: Okay, So my dad's claim to fame was he was
Speaker 4: in the navy with the son of the author who
Speaker 4: created James Bond.
Speaker 1: So the author of James Bond is in Flemy Lemmy. Yes, wow,
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: Yes, so we get lots of stories about how James
Speaker 4: was probably based on his life and you know written
Speaker 4: about him, but it's not really right.
Speaker 1: All right, Haley, thank you very much your story. No
Speaker 1: wries that squeeze Marcus in now. Good morning, Marcus Christian.
Speaker 1: Are we all? Yeah, we're good Marcus. And you've got
Speaker 1: a claim to fame. But dad or mountdown, well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, claim to fame.
Speaker 9: But my father was a bit Mary Parkinson's. Now he
Speaker 9: was retired, but a lot of years ago he went
Speaker 9: with friends out to the Flower Drum in Melbourne for
Speaker 9: dinner and they were in their Black Statesman and he'd
Speaker 9: been injured by a cow, so he's in his suit,
Speaker 9: had a bad foot. Mum Mum pulled up to let
Speaker 9: him out with a friend and he got known either
Speaker 9: by Michael Mick and the staff at the front of
Speaker 9: the restaurant heard Mick and this black va call up
Speaker 9: and went, oh it's Mick Gaddo and they all of
Speaker 9: a sudden Mum was going to drive off to find
Speaker 9: a parking space. They removed bollards and taped off area,
Speaker 9: sealed his car in at the front of the restaurant,
Speaker 9: took him straight up to a special table and they
Speaker 9: didn't pay for a thing all night.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a great a rag great case
Speaker 1: of mistaken identity.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I'm just glad it was just that not
Speaker 9: anything else.
Speaker 1: Amazing story, Marcus, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Mate, noes guys have a great day.
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