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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. This is
Speaker 1: how I'm so excited about that it is happening this Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That's one of our listeners target audience who is ninety
Speaker 1: nine at the moment, but turns get this one hundred
Speaker 1: this Wednesday. So born in nineteen twenty five, Now I
Speaker 1: think about how just how amazing our line is at
Speaker 1: the moment. So, you know, yesterday evening, I'm on a
Speaker 1: video phone call with my dad. He can show me
Speaker 1: his garden, I can show him the strange weather we've
Speaker 1: got at the moment of hellstones and then slightly sunny
Speaker 1: and so, but we can see each other the other
Speaker 1: side of the world on a phone. There were no
Speaker 1: phones in nineteen twenty five. There were no TVs. Radio
Speaker 1: was still starting and come through as an emergent technology.
Speaker 1: Also born in nineteen twenty five, Paul Newman, Angela Lansbury,
Speaker 1: Sammy Davis Junior, and Margaret Thatcher. Oh yes, yes it
Speaker 1: was the movies. Charlie Chaplin was the biggest star in
Speaker 1: silent movies. It was going to be another couple of
Speaker 1: years before there were even any talkies. She's lived through
Speaker 1: the last one hundred years of human history has been
Speaker 1: the most dramatic. Obviously, You've got the two World Wars,
Speaker 1: You've got the forties, the fifties, the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, noughties.
Speaker 1: What she's seen is mind blowing. You know, she's gone
Speaker 1: through it and now chatch ebt. So anyway, the only
Speaker 1: reason I know about her is because I was speaking
Speaker 1: to her granddaughter a couple of weeks ago on the
Speaker 1: show Carly.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Hi Christian, how are you going.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. I'm so excited the whole
Speaker 1: team are, because so she's your grandmother, isn't she? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely so, she's one.
Speaker 1: Hundred yees yeah. And now is she still okay? Because
Speaker 1: I said a couple of weeks ago you said she
Speaker 1: listens to the show. If she wants to come in
Speaker 1: and watch some of the show, we'd love to meet
Speaker 1: her and say happy birthday. Is she still up for that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, she's looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It now, Tina, who's been speaking to you, one of
Speaker 1: my team has said that obviously, she is one hundred
Speaker 1: years old this week, so a hearing isn't too great.
Speaker 1: Now we have everything quite loud here. I don't want
Speaker 1: to distress he or anything.
Speaker 2: No, it's going to need to be loud.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's why I have to have it loud
Speaker 1: as well. My headphones are at height. Well, would you
Speaker 1: think she'd be okay to chat to me on the show?
Speaker 1: I don't want to sort of put too much on her,
Speaker 1: like she's going to turn up and suddenly it's not
Speaker 1: at the zoo and we're prodding her and carbon dating her.
Speaker 2: I know she's up for anything. She's yeah, she's always keen,
Speaker 2: so she's very much looking.
Speaker 1: Forward to it. This is incredible. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: get her a gift. Okay, are there any areas I mean,
Speaker 1: she must have had so many gifts to the years.
Speaker 1: She's one hundred this week. Are there any areas of
Speaker 1: interest you think she'd like a gift?
Speaker 2: Well, she loves music a lot. I've been asked this
Speaker 2: question a lot over the last couple of weeks. She's insistent,
Speaker 2: she needs nothing, she wants nothing, but she loves music.
Speaker 2: She was a dancer. She yeah, she is just always
Speaker 2: up for a good time.
Speaker 1: Basically, does she still dance now?
Speaker 2: Oh, she likes too. She's a little bit slower on
Speaker 2: her feet, but she Yeah, she absolutely loves to take
Speaker 2: a spin around the dance floor.
Speaker 1: I was googling the other day, what were the big
Speaker 1: songs of nineteen twenty five? Yeah, and business a different time.
Speaker 1: You imagine it's crackling through the radio. What you need?
Speaker 1: What about it? But yes, sir, that's my baby. Man
Speaker 1: we play this Wednesday for a bat This is a
Speaker 1: banger in his orchestra. Yes, that's my baby, noir, eat
Speaker 1: that head shearing?
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, we did that.
Speaker 1: Would she like some?
Speaker 2: Oh for sure? Always that's the cake.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well listen, Carly, we will see you
Speaker 1: and you're soon to be one hundred year old grandmother
Speaker 1: this Wednesday. We're all super excited. We see them mean.
Speaker 1: Lillian excellent the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So Lillian is
Speaker 1: this lovely lady's name who's coming in on the show
Speaker 1: this Wednesday? She listens to the show. She's ninety nine.
Speaker 1: In a moment, she turns one hundred this Wednesday. Anyone
Speaker 1: ever met at one hundred year old before no, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Don't believe I have. I'm actually so excited what I
Speaker 1: just said about all those other people that were also
Speaker 1: born in nineteen twenty five, like Sammy Davis Junior, Paul Newman,
Speaker 1: and Margaret Thatcher. They're not around, Kaylen you just said,
Speaker 1: but just again into a great thought here about other
Speaker 1: people who are one hundred yees.
Speaker 3: So there would only be like ten, if that many
Speaker 3: people in the world that are over one hundred right now.
Speaker 1: So when she was boris in more than ten, Maybe
Speaker 1: there'd be a couple of hundred. Tina is laughing at
Speaker 1: you over your shoulder. It will just be ten really always.
Speaker 1: You might have to put them in a house together
Speaker 1: and make a reality shot, some sort of flat house.
Speaker 1: Why not zero? You know? Yeah, you must just party.
Speaker 1: You've lived through so much.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking when she was born, everyone that
Speaker 3: existed when she was born are no longer here.
Speaker 1: Listen, when she comes in, she doesn't want to hear
Speaker 1: that kind of chichen about it must be really lonely
Speaker 1: being you or he makes her dead. Not lonely.
Speaker 4: We're here for her.
Speaker 1: We've got to keep the vibes up. Let me let
Speaker 1: me look at your calendar. It must be like just
Speaker 1: back to about a few quick flipping not another one
Speaker 1: these days and barely out of black Tina? Can we
Speaker 1: what does Google say? What does the internet say about
Speaker 1: how many people are over one hundred? Is it nine?
Speaker 1: Like Kaylen's a million? Can anyone go from I think
Speaker 1: it's ten people to half a million?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Now I think you're right these days like we're getting up,
Speaker 1: we're aging older. Half a million people hundred they should
Speaker 1: all live in their own country. We should just have
Speaker 1: Oldsville and it just be a country where it's just
Speaker 1: old people shuffling around and hanging out together.
Speaker 4: Don't believe are the facts that come from you.
Speaker 1: Just clutched a number of it and went ten. Hey, Lellian,
Speaker 1: you want a ten an Australia. No, I reckon you'd
Speaker 1: even be over a hundred one hundred year olds here?
Speaker 3: N crazy?
Speaker 1: You get a letter from the Queen there miracle a miracle.
Speaker 1: Miracle was the Queen from the other side Royal. Before
Speaker 1: she died, she par one might make a home not
Speaker 1: missing out a Lillian. That one's a gamer. Shit be funny.
Speaker 3: According to that he's the king is a very busy
Speaker 3: person writing letters half a million people over one hundred.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why his fingers around. The Christian O'Connell show podcast,
Speaker 1: one of my listeners turns to one hundred this Wednesday
Speaker 1: is blowing our minds today, Lillian, she's coming in on
Speaker 1: the show. We'd like to get her a gift. I
Speaker 1: need somehow what do you get a one hundred year
Speaker 1: old At the moment, The most common idea is newspaper
Speaker 1: from the day she was born. I reckon, she's got
Speaker 1: sixty copies of newspapers. She must have gone through so many,
Speaker 1: so many years where that someone's got a newspaper. Newspapers
Speaker 1: would have looked very different from now. Imagine one from
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty five, like two pages, so partuicicating. You thought
Speaker 1: they were about nine to ten one hundred year olds
Speaker 1: in the world. We found out it's nine hundred. It's
Speaker 1: estimated at nine hundred and thirty five thousand. There are
Speaker 1: six thousand, three hundred, one hundred year olds and above
Speaker 1: in this country alone. A number, isn't it?
Speaker 4: It has this we're living older now, which the science
Speaker 4: of medicine, we're living old. It's six thousand and three
Speaker 4: hundred just in Australia, the oldest Australian turned one hundred
Speaker 4: and twelve two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Whoa and his name of course ken I am ken I.
Speaker 1: They sung that too birthday one hundred and twelve on
Speaker 1: October the fifth. That is incredible. All right, So some
Speaker 1: ideas then, for what do we get Lilian Christian? She
Speaker 1: loves music, needs a present? What does are all old
Speaker 1: people love? Come on? Oh, there's get him out of
Speaker 1: a time and serenade. Yes, I think he's nearly what
Speaker 1: she joins that red club. What about concert by candlelight experience.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they're supposed to be very nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's not going to be She won't be
Speaker 1: walking around and stuff like that. Apparently I'm not charging.
Speaker 1: Of course, her hearing isn't great. You know, there's only
Speaker 1: so much technology can do. You know, maybe you could
Speaker 1: trap some speakers to her head from sons or something
Speaker 1: that's so she can hear a bit easier. Christian, can
Speaker 1: you imagine Lillian when she first heard radio, Well, she
Speaker 1: would have, obviously she were them been gathered around the
Speaker 1: radio like people were all over the world when church
Speaker 1: was announced the end of the war. She would have
Speaker 1: probably been heard about that, and then start to maybe
Speaker 1: when they had the advent of TV scene pictures. Do
Speaker 1: you mean when not every household had a TV? I
Speaker 1: remember like a big girl like who in your area
Speaker 1: had a TV? And then it was like a black
Speaker 1: just a black and white one. Christian, you could get
Speaker 1: letters from King Charles and also now the now the
Speaker 1: pope does the letter right thing too. Oh, Lea's got
Speaker 1: a lot more to send out. Story to Catholics turning
Speaker 1: one hundred blood. Yeah, he's from Chicago, so he probably
Speaker 1: gives them like pizza vouchers and stuff like that. Christian,
Speaker 1: my grandmother is one hundred and five. Wow, do you
Speaker 1: know the incredible thing about Lillian who's a hundred this Wednesday?
Speaker 1: She lives still this by herself.
Speaker 4: You're kidding me?
Speaker 1: Is amazing. He's serious for herself. That's amazing. Christian. My
Speaker 1: mum is listen to this. She's one hundred and one,
Speaker 1: still lives in our family home. Mind is as sharp
Speaker 1: as attached. She's amazing. That's from Leanne. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for all the Christian O'Connell show podcast