Speaker 1: Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3: Tak back to the days of holidays. I know, hopefully soon,
Speaker 3: hopefully soon. What is the dunnest thing you've ever done
Speaker 3: on holiday? You would have been drags somewhere, so you're
Speaker 3: always in one or two camps.
Speaker 2: You're rather the dragger or the dragon or the drag
Speaker 2: e lagging him behind. Know what about two meters?
Speaker 3: Try not to look at your watch, but want them
Speaker 3: to search see that you're looking at that.
Speaker 2: How long would you actually plan on being here?
Speaker 3: You go somewhere, the minimuster coach trip, other strangers on
Speaker 3: the holiday, you got dropped off, the hotel, all that.
Speaker 2: Kinds of the money you paid.
Speaker 3: You know, you're wasting a day when you could just
Speaker 3: be sat by the pool doing nothing, having cocktails. You're
Speaker 3: going to do something and then it's a terrible, terrible
Speaker 3: anti climax.
Speaker 2: I remember when on the way to.
Speaker 3: Take the kids to the first time the year before
Speaker 3: we moved here, and when I came out for a
Speaker 3: secret spying mission. Actually I actually managed to get into
Speaker 3: this building because I want to have a look around
Speaker 3: before decided where we actually could do it. So we
Speaker 3: went to a couple of places of Australia and then
Speaker 3: came here to Melbourne and took the kids here for
Speaker 3: the first time before deciding if we were really going
Speaker 3: to emigrate.
Speaker 2: And I remember on the way, I said, way, we've
Speaker 2: got to stop over.
Speaker 3: Can we stop over in Hong Kong so I can
Speaker 3: see the Bruce Lee statue?
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm dragging.
Speaker 3: I'm making a detour via Hong Kong purely so I
Speaker 3: can see a Bruce Lee statue.
Speaker 2: So we have to get We get Hopeles. He lost right.
Speaker 3: It's actually very confusing to get around Hong Kong, and
Speaker 3: we're all wide eyed, very tired, and we end up
Speaker 3: getting one uber. He drops us the wrong place, getting
Speaker 3: another one. It's a bit nearer, but the other side
Speaker 3: of the big freeway with three different ubers. We get
Speaker 3: there and the first thing I hear is Chris, I
Speaker 3: think it's boarded up, and I'm like, you know.
Speaker 2: You almost start to cry. It is boarded up.
Speaker 3: They do it every ten years to clean Bruce What
Speaker 3: we flew here on.
Speaker 4: The way to austral see the Bruce Lee statue's mind scaffolding.
Speaker 4: I don't got a photo of me looking just so depressed,
Speaker 4: so debrace. My whole world around me shattered.
Speaker 2: I never got still not seeing the Bruce Lee stay.
Speaker 2: But imagine how clean he is now?
Speaker 3: Smartness, I mind if ever went again, I need to know.
Speaker 3: I bet it's the tenth University of cleaning, all right.
Speaker 3: So this morning no. Four one for one oh four three,
Speaker 3: the oest thing you have done on holiday?
Speaker 1: Josh, Good morning, Kristen's Jack.
Speaker 2: Are we thanks for coolness? Josh? What about you? Where
Speaker 2: were you dragged to? Or you drug drugs?
Speaker 5: Honey honeymoon and Hamilton Island and I thought, you know,
Speaker 5: let's go scuba dive and do the do the Great
Speaker 5: Barrier reef or something, And so we booked in and
Speaker 5: went down to the down to the mustering area where
Speaker 5: we had to had to get all the gear on.
Speaker 5: And it was actually just a scuba diving around the pool,
Speaker 5: in the actual hotel pool. It was not out in
Speaker 5: the ocean, just around in the in the public area.
Speaker 5: Pauls in front of all the hotels.
Speaker 3: Chuck in, say some photos. This is what you could
Speaker 3: one the barrier and there some old lady doing stretchers
Speaker 3: and stuff.
Speaker 2: What are some of the gems you saw?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just some bottle tops, lost lost earrings, their ties
Speaker 5: and plenty of feet.
Speaker 2: That's great, Josh, thank you very much and cool. Have
Speaker 2: a good day, buddy, A good day, Keny Coome morning.
Speaker 6: Hello Christian, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm going to welcome to the show, Kenny, Thanks for
Speaker 3: giving us a call. What is the dumbest thing you've
Speaker 3: done on holiday?
Speaker 6: The dumbest thing I've done on holidays? He said, I
Speaker 6: have to go to all the land drover factories in
Speaker 6: England and any other car factory. My husband can get
Speaker 6: us into.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, about any car.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're not that interesting really to go and
Speaker 3: see how they're made by robot.
Speaker 6: How they're made by robots, Birmingham Hazelwood.
Speaker 2: Or the.
Speaker 5: Once you see one factory, haven't you seen them all?
Speaker 6: Right? Right? And you know because as we were told
Speaker 6: in the factories, they have to test them to make
Speaker 6: sure they leak so when it rains you get wet.
Speaker 6: And one of the worst things that happened is are
Speaker 6: so disinterested. I fell flat on my face in front
Speaker 6: of all the work is I fell over a safety barth.
Speaker 3: I still would have been at least that's mildly interesting
Speaker 3: thing that happened for you.
Speaker 2: I got a feeling with a dry for how about
Speaker 2: you ken it? You threw yourself to the ground.
Speaker 6: Then after that, my husband drives me to the land
Speaker 6: River Experience, where in England there's got like a fake
Speaker 6: land drover jungle and we have to drive through water
Speaker 6: in the car.
Speaker 2: This is just.
Speaker 6: You know, I saw a fox and I said to
Speaker 6: the instructor, you want me to floor it and go
Speaker 6: for it? Oh no, we're going to kill the foxes
Speaker 6: here in England.
Speaker 3: They are now protected, put in prison.
Speaker 6: You gave her apparently Apparently so I wasn't very popular
Speaker 6: and that true.
Speaker 3: The thing about car factories is, you know, you think
Speaker 3: about the UK and all the beautiful places you know,
Speaker 3: and see car factories in industry at the States.
Speaker 2: They're just I was. So there's places, aren't they.
Speaker 6: That's your holiday, that's my holiday, and it's just going
Speaker 6: through you. It has been to Mercedis Bend, folks Wagon
Speaker 6: and all these other places. I can't even tell you.
Speaker 4: Why does he want to drag you around these factories
Speaker 4: building cars of Europe?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 6: I don't know. And I'll get home tonight and I
Speaker 6: will tell him this and he will kiss me about
Speaker 6: land Rovers and did I tell Christians this and this?
Speaker 3: And I'll be like, no, I'm a massive fan of
Speaker 3: I've seen every episode over the years of Top Gin.
Speaker 3: Not even they have ever been to a single factory, right,
Speaker 3: I can't remember that episode where they just walked through
Speaker 3: the production line.
Speaker 6: He's a very unique man and twenty twenty three we've
Speaker 6: got a great trip to look forward to, haven't I.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right, COVID for you must have been a
Speaker 5: silver lining you don't have to go to.
Speaker 3: I got hobble feeling you started COVID B hand you.
Speaker 6: You never know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Your secret's safe with us. He keny, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: She call the Christian O'Connell show podcast this morning.
Speaker 3: We're talking about the dullest thing you ever done on holiday.
Speaker 3: I just remembered the thing as well. My wife has
Speaker 3: dragged me to so many things on holidays. One of
Speaker 3: the ones we did it wasn't here on Victoria, but
Speaker 3: there is a bat sanctuary. She took me to a
Speaker 3: bat sanctuary.
Speaker 2: And bats can be interesting though, Yeah, all right, yeah
Speaker 2: for a minute, an hour and a half.
Speaker 3: Of course, once you're there and they're doing you know,
Speaker 3: important work and serving them a rescuing them. You felt
Speaker 3: like you can't go after five minutes, right, because they're
Speaker 3: like volunteers. You're not what volunteers like they you know,
Speaker 3: they're very intense people.
Speaker 2: This is their life. And you don't think about bats stink, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they do it, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And you imagine like there were over two hundred bats
Speaker 3: there right, the stink of the pee and muck, and
Speaker 3: they're all hanging upside down and stuff like that. Once
Speaker 3: you turned a couple of those snaps, you're like.
Speaker 2: The gift shop. There are you in a cave? No,
Speaker 2: in a.
Speaker 3: Greenhouse like backout, currents and stuff like the old bats
Speaker 3: and stuff. The smell of two hundred bats unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 3: a few last schools then Dallas. Thing you've done on holiday,
Speaker 3: let's go to Keith. Good morning, Keith, Good morning, Christian,
Speaker 3: Good morning Keith.
Speaker 2: What's the dullest thing you've done on holiday? Keith?
Speaker 7: When I was fifteen, my mom and dad dragged me,
Speaker 7: my younger brother and younger sister to a nwist resort.
Speaker 3: Right, not only a family experience, is it?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 7: When you're fifteen and he's even oh it's gotta be
Speaker 7: good to be some younger people in the nude, but
Speaker 7: ninety nine point all over the age of fifty weight challenge,
Speaker 7: so they didn't care what they look like.
Speaker 2: And as Kith three, it was horrible. Okay, we'll get it.
Speaker 3: Keith, all right, Keith, thank you very much and cool mate.
Speaker 3: You take care of there.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: Keith has been time traveling from a diven time and
Speaker 3: come to sounded like.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: According to my own new game, can you do an
Speaker 2: the breas? Wow? Reset? John? Good morning, Good morning mane.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All right? And John?
Speaker 1: So we went down south in two thousand and two
Speaker 1: we went to a civil warring actrop.
Speaker 2: Bloody hell, mates, it sounds like you're called him from it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: What John? Civil warring actment? Who took you to that?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Walk it with me. I've been in a history bar
Speaker 1: for I dragged my wife to it, right. He wasn't
Speaker 1: too happy.
Speaker 2: It's not a couple's things. He if on one if
Speaker 2: you name with the old muskets and sticks. How long
Speaker 2: does a battle go for John?
Speaker 1: A few hours and the pretty much want to get
Speaker 1: shot this way there like you see, until the wars
Speaker 1: are are.
Speaker 2: You John, the wars of it. Your wife's fuming. She's
Speaker 2: in the car, mate, she keeps peeping the horn. All right,
Speaker 2: Johnny boy, thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 1: Now that's all right, thank you. Guys.
Speaker 3: Just flashback to Tom ups and tried to warn us,
Speaker 3: didn't He said, hey, this is a warning about Keith.
Speaker 2: He's a salty old character. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast