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Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: June the fourth, twenty twenty five. The show began seven
Speaker 2: years ago twenty eighteen. Only pats and I remain Wow,
Speaker 2: the founding father and mother. So much has changed as
Speaker 2: I look around survey the kingdom around us now, Patsy,
Speaker 2: so many corpses and you have killed all of them
Speaker 2: are buried in It must the reign of terror.
Speaker 3: Must You're the hardest one to kill off found So
Speaker 3: you'll come for.
Speaker 1: Me one day never and it will be my destiny.
Speaker 2: I will bound down and say, finally, it will be
Speaker 2: a pleasure to be destroyed by the one and only
Speaker 2: radio killer, NonStop thriller Petrina Jones. Do you know actually
Speaker 2: there are in the studio right now that is this
Speaker 2: full of joy? It's like a Santa's grotto in here,
Speaker 2: and it's full of these beautiful cards that so many
Speaker 2: of our gorgeous listeners have taken the time to go in,
Speaker 2: right out and send. And what's magical is I'm reading
Speaker 2: all the messages and there's something really moving about handwriting
Speaker 2: because you don't see it these days. It's Texas emojis.
Speaker 2: It's easier, but it's also quite transactional. And actually, when
Speaker 2: you see someone's handwriting, it's like their voice.
Speaker 1: It's so unique to them.
Speaker 2: How they even spell my name or how they do
Speaker 2: their teas. It's different for all of us. And so
Speaker 2: there are so many beautiful cars we've got up around
Speaker 2: the studio today. Some of the people that have actually
Speaker 2: gone to the effort of sending these cars with these
Speaker 2: some beautiful messages and sharing in that are going to
Speaker 2: be called and receiving one of seven really big prizes.
Speaker 2: We have over twelve thousand dollars worth of prizes thanks
Speaker 2: to ians to give away today on our seventh birthday.
Speaker 2: Ian S were one of the first sponsors to actually
Speaker 2: believe that I would still be here more than a year.
Speaker 2: Rob from That was the first person I met about
Speaker 2: five weeks into the show. He took me up for
Speaker 2: lunch and he's become a great friend and support of
Speaker 2: the show ever since then. So it feels really great
Speaker 2: on seven years to actually be doing something Robin's team
Speaker 2: at Ianes. Some of these I must have said good
Speaker 2: morning to Pam. She's just messaged me and I'm glad
Speaker 2: she's clarified something. Christian, have a happy seventh birthday. Congratulations
Speaker 2: on creating an enjoyable show to listen to. I sent
Speaker 2: you the card, but I thought was a young Christian
Speaker 2: dreaming of being on the radio. Now, Pam, I did
Speaker 2: see that yesterday and he gotta be honest, it startled me.
Speaker 2: It looked like Christian who's had a serious car accident.
Speaker 2: So now I didn't save last night because I was
Speaker 2: worried that there was going to bomb under the car
Speaker 2: or something very From Pam. It was a threat like
Speaker 2: stop radio or this will happen. So you have a choice, Zippy.
Speaker 2: You've had almost seven good years.
Speaker 1: That's enough now. But Pam, I didn't realize that was
Speaker 1: young Christian. I'm dreaming of being on the radio. Look
Speaker 1: at him now, Yes, thank you very much. And I've
Speaker 1: got one here from Emily Hughes. She she made this beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a well, it's a three dimensional card.
Speaker 2: She's she's colored in and drawn the flag of Great
Speaker 2: Britain and the flag of Australia and she's created a
Speaker 2: podium with seven on it did Christian a team. Happy
Speaker 2: seventh birthday. My name is Emily Hughes. Do you remember
Speaker 2: in cars and that when you write to people you
Speaker 2: put your name in up from full name. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: a young rapper.
Speaker 1: My name is Emie Hughes. Don't you forget it?
Speaker 2: And then in a different ink, you know where they've
Speaker 2: looked back at the work she's putting in a different
Speaker 2: ink it eleven years old, bless there's two times. There's
Speaker 2: two stages of life where you mention your age and
Speaker 2: Emily's agent and very old people.
Speaker 1: When I'm seventy nine, I'm seventy nine. Old age mentioners.
Speaker 1: I used to call them, I'm seventy nine, you know,
Speaker 1: Emily Hughes eleven. Don't you forget about it?
Speaker 2: DJ coming at you so, Emily Hughes, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on being on air for so it is twenty
Speaker 2: seven years at the end of this year, you guys
Speaker 2: are our favorite radio station. You also have the best
Speaker 2: jokes in the world from Emily Hughes. Emily Hughes, that
Speaker 2: is a beautiful thing you've made there as well. And
Speaker 2: then one of the ones I've got so many questions
Speaker 2: about someone has sent a carden but they've put your
Speaker 2: face Patsy on a stamp. Oh like the Queen, Well
Speaker 2: it actually looked like a dictator slash tyrant to me,
Speaker 2: have a small aggressive country that's becoming the next rusher
Speaker 2: of like a mad tyrant who's threatening the world with
Speaker 2: a big laser.
Speaker 1: They are going to point at the moon and destroy
Speaker 1: all of us Storia, we'll call it. I don't know where.
Speaker 2: How do you get that's not legal though, is it?
Speaker 2: You can't just put your own photo on a stamp.
Speaker 3: You know you can go to oz post and get
Speaker 3: I think you can. I think they read a great idea.
Speaker 1: For Australian icons. You know, can Freeman, Dawn, Patrina drones
Speaker 1: first right? Just next?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have to bring you in this stamp.
Speaker 2: But thank you very much Chayn who sent them in.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 2: Good morning to Shane in Sydney. Thank you very much
Speaker 2: for joining the show in the last six months. In
Speaker 2: the days leading up to beginning my first radio show
Speaker 2: here in Australia, and you have to bear in mind
Speaker 2: I'd had the.
Speaker 1: Craziest two weeks.
Speaker 2: I literally eleven days before I started my radio career
Speaker 2: here in Australia. I'd finished a radio show that i'd
Speaker 2: done an Absolutely Love for twelve years in London, a
Speaker 2: radio show we had two and a half million listeners,
Speaker 2: and a lot of those listeners had come with me
Speaker 2: from my previous breakfast show that I'd done for five years.
Speaker 2: So for seventeen years I'd been someone's constant, and some
Speaker 2: of those listeners had gone from being forced to listen
Speaker 2: to me during the school run, to go into university,
Speaker 2: to meeting partners, getting married and now forcing their kids.
Speaker 1: So I've been through all these transitions in the life.
Speaker 1: So what it meant was.
Speaker 2: In the last couple of weeks of my show, I
Speaker 2: was getting this mass, mass outpouring of love from people
Speaker 2: that I've never met before, but you have met in
Speaker 2: a way. And so I went from that to the
Speaker 2: biggest pandulum swing you can ever have a knife to
Speaker 2: actually been hated within two weeks. I went from hero
Speaker 2: to zero within two chilling weeks. The other side of
Speaker 2: the world, where people literally had this feeling of like
Speaker 2: arms followed going no, no, now, God, he's English.
Speaker 1: As well, I don't know you, and what I do
Speaker 1: know about if she's really English. Note in the.
Speaker 2: Morning, No, not in the morning, maybe the afternoon maybe,
Speaker 2: or real late at night when I'm half asleep and
Speaker 2: I gonna even work out.
Speaker 1: Oh god, he's English. It's going back to me.
Speaker 2: It was a really violent swing, and a remain of
Speaker 2: that for an awful long time. But one by one
Speaker 2: people were so kind they unfolded arms and they start
Speaker 2: to give the show a go, and you welcome me
Speaker 2: into your life. And still without that over the last
Speaker 2: seven years, and increasingly the last couple of weeks, people
Speaker 2: are still coming to the show, and that thank you
Speaker 2: so much. We don't get to have this magical kind
Speaker 2: of My wife and I now in our fifties. This
Speaker 2: is an amazing second. I like to tell myself it's
Speaker 2: a second act or is it second? Say, let's say
Speaker 2: a second thund the corner.
Speaker 1: It's funny how when I said the final.
Speaker 2: Acts, I looked at Pats stop it that tyrant's face
Speaker 2: and a stamp is all I see as she stamps me.
Speaker 2: You know, like at the end of Inglorious guss a
Speaker 2: face carver.
Speaker 1: You know who the carver will be, Betwena Jones.
Speaker 3: It's amazing, though, what you've done Christian.
Speaker 2: And also I have to just say right, it's amazing
Speaker 2: the transformation and you, Patsy, as you're now launching your
Speaker 2: second season of this incredible podcast, as you're starting to
Speaker 2: stand in your own powers now outside of what we've
Speaker 2: done together on the show, is amazing. It brings me
Speaker 2: so much joy seeing the rise in you, Patsy, from
Speaker 2: where you were. I remember when I Chat was the
Speaker 2: first person I hired, and I said, I need a
Speaker 2: really good news reader. I've always worked with great news readers.
Speaker 2: And the boss here said, hey, there's this woman between
Speaker 2: a Jones and I think she could do so much more.
Speaker 2: And I remember to speak to Patsy and at the time,
Speaker 2: you're wearing these very big missus mangle glasses and I
Speaker 2: was like, she was actually incredibly intimidating.
Speaker 1: She just sat there. I was like, you having to
Speaker 1: be a big part of the shop.
Speaker 2: I got a good intentions already, don't make it in Australia,
Speaker 2: no'arning to be part of it.
Speaker 1: She sat there and she looked through me like I've
Speaker 1: heard it all before from people like you, and they're
Speaker 1: walking away going She's awesome but also genuine.
Speaker 2: I'm actually a bit frightened her. No, no, I did
Speaker 2: feel that, and I think I think that's actually a thing,
Speaker 2: and I still am.
Speaker 1: That is the relationships.
Speaker 2: You're awesome, Pats, and I'm slightly scared by you, like
Speaker 2: when you bowed in here a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: and pointed at me and went, if you got any
Speaker 2: feedback for me? Now intonation in life? Is there anything
Speaker 2: you can say? Soone, Hey, have you got any feedback
Speaker 2: for me?
Speaker 1: That's that's an invitation? Yes, you any feedback from me?
Speaker 2: No, I I never will.
Speaker 3: I remember our first interaction very very differently, and it
Speaker 3: was so refreshing. And I've never had this in radio
Speaker 3: where I didn't know what your expectations of me were
Speaker 3: other than obviously read the news and do it well.
Speaker 3: And I said to you, you know, I think I
Speaker 3: might have said, you know, what do you need from
Speaker 3: me or something? And you said something very simple, and
Speaker 3: I will never forget what you said. You said to me,
Speaker 3: I just need you to be yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it, And actually your journey of the
Speaker 2: last seven years, you'll be.
Speaker 1: More and more yourself on air.
Speaker 2: And I actually remember you're saying, please if you don't
Speaker 2: find something funny I say, don't laugh, And but to
Speaker 2: be fair, you've stayed aggressively true to that. Maybe just
Speaker 2: ease up just occasional once a month. But I remember
Speaker 2: saying to you, please don't because it's so hard for
Speaker 2: women in radio to forge a career. It's a lot
Speaker 2: easier for a guy. It just is stacked in our favor.
Speaker 2: So the fact that you'd even got to you know
Speaker 2: where you are past this says a lot just about
Speaker 2: how great you are. But I remember saying to you,
Speaker 2: please don't ever tell me what you think I need
Speaker 2: to hear yea.
Speaker 1: And then you went, well, what if it's awful, it's rude, And.
Speaker 2: I said, well, let me worry about that bit that
Speaker 2: we have a lot and those are some of my
Speaker 2: favorite bits. So the most shocking bits of the show
Speaker 2: don't come from me. They come from old mate and
Speaker 2: there retirerant on the stamp.
Speaker 3: But it is refreshing because as a woman, you are
Speaker 3: typecast on a lot of in radio, a lot in
Speaker 3: the past where it's like you need to be a
Speaker 3: laughing track or you need to be this, and I
Speaker 3: know that is the last thing you would want from me.
Speaker 3: So I want to thank you for helping me become
Speaker 3: find my voice really and also I've learned more about
Speaker 3: myself personally than I have I think is a brasiler
Speaker 3: in the last seven years. So thank you and celebrating
Speaker 3: you today because what you've managed to achieve in that
Speaker 3: time no one in the world has done. And I'm
Speaker 3: so proud of you as the whole team is, so
Speaker 3: thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Well, perhaps that's a lovely thing to say, and thank
Speaker 2: you for saying that, But we don't get to have
Speaker 2: the show if it isn't for the amazing the team
Speaker 2: that I've made over the seven years, the team right now,
Speaker 2: but also the people that have come over gone over
Speaker 2: the last seven years. But also Patsy, you are a
Speaker 2: massive part of whatever this show is.
Speaker 1: You're a huge part of that.
Speaker 2: So team, let's also now turn to Patsy and go
Speaker 2: well done as well. You had to put up with
Speaker 2: an awful lot for me sometimes, so thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to take a break when we
Speaker 2: come back. That's enough sugary stuff. Christian, get on with
Speaker 2: the goddamn show. I Get what you want is coming
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