Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian No Show Podcast. Did you get
Speaker 1: injured on your birthday? That's the question.
Speaker 2: Go on to a stat twenty This is channing twenty
Speaker 2: two percent.
Speaker 1: That's hig more likely to darn your birthday. Why do
Speaker 1: we think that is? What are you up to your
Speaker 1: on your birthday? Your god? You do you want a
Speaker 1: victory lap at you? Yes, that's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: universe goes ah. This one's getting a bit cocky. It's
Speaker 1: more sort of risky behavior, isn't it.
Speaker 3: You have a few and might do things that you
Speaker 3: wouldn't normally do, like hang out cars or something.
Speaker 1: Cars. I've never seen anyone.
Speaker 2: All right, So who got injured on their birthday and
Speaker 2: an unexpected gift?
Speaker 1: Fiona? Hi, I love Fiona. So this is he did
Speaker 1: this happen to you?
Speaker 3: Or yes it did? It happened to me? It was
Speaker 3: I actually wasn't drunk at all. It was the night
Speaker 3: before my party and it was my fortieth and we
Speaker 3: because we had kids, we decided we'd have a pirate
Speaker 3: scened family party and we ordered a pirate pirate ship
Speaker 3: jumping castle and they were setting it up the night
Speaker 3: before and my kids went on the jumping girls, and
Speaker 3: they're saying, come on, mom, jump on, jump on, And
Speaker 3: I didn't even get to jump. I actually it was
Speaker 3: that time because it was in summer, but it was
Speaker 3: at that time of the night where it gets a
Speaker 3: little bit chilly and on my legs. I was wearing
Speaker 3: shorts and my her legs were quite cold. So I
Speaker 3: went to step on the actual jumping castle and I
Speaker 3: pulled my I think it was the Achilles and I
Speaker 3: didn't break it. I didn't break it. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: warming up. I didn't warm up, did I.
Speaker 1: We've got it now our range, we got warm up
Speaker 1: to go and jump.
Speaker 2: Those exercise bikes. You get these side of foot again.
Speaker 2: Sometimes she started all that before you run on.
Speaker 3: But the problem was that I actually, I actually really
Speaker 3: became a pirate the next day because I had to
Speaker 3: have a crutch and.
Speaker 1: Character. Yes, yeah, you led into it. Well done, Fiona, Fiona,
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 4: You killed me.
Speaker 3: Okay, how we go?
Speaker 1: Thank you? And you don't you just came off. We're
Speaker 1: just doing that. Have a good day, Travis, good question.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm going to Travis? So what happened on your birthday?
Speaker 1: You get injured?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: On my forty third birth I went out abb Salon
Speaker 4: with a couple of mates and I was absailing and
Speaker 4: my foot dot caught and I fell about five meters
Speaker 4: and broke my ankle. So then they sent the ambulance
Speaker 4: and s e s out. They hike into the three
Speaker 4: ambulances and the sees hiking to where I was where
Speaker 4: it broke my ankle, and then they couldn't get me out,
Speaker 4: so they called the helicopter and winched me out. So
Speaker 4: I got a helicopter rides from.
Speaker 1: The pick birthday.
Speaker 2: That this is something I just presume that you've done
Speaker 2: it indoors and that would be intense enough on your
Speaker 2: birthday at forty three.
Speaker 1: But you mean proper ab sailing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, out on the cliff. There's actually a YouTube
Speaker 4: the guys filmed that. It's actually on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Wonder Night sold on to get the ambulance put the
Speaker 2: camera down as.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: One of my sons that I was absent, and we've
Speaker 4: said to me, if you move out the way that
Speaker 4: I think the everybody's going to be a while, we
Speaker 4: could do a couple more jumps. So it's going They're
Speaker 4: not coming in a hurry.
Speaker 1: Dad.
Speaker 4: It's a long walk to get into here. So I
Speaker 4: just moved out the way and we can jump. And
Speaker 4: while we're waiting for their bows to.
Speaker 2: Come and tell me this, Travis, right, I never spoken
Speaker 2: to someone who's been sort of rescued by a helicopter.
Speaker 1: What was that? Like?
Speaker 4: I was pretty full on the raider wash when they're
Speaker 4: actually above you. But the guys from the helicopter, the
Speaker 4: parlot and the and the rescue guy just amazing, just
Speaker 4: you know, really really well trained and yeah, amazing people
Speaker 4: like yeah, it's I was just amazing. The right of wash,
Speaker 4: Like I got dust in every orifice because of the
Speaker 4: right of wash. And then they winched me up and
Speaker 4: just as I got to the helicopter, I started to spin.
Speaker 4: So because I've given me more fe I was like
Speaker 4: it was like a really.
Speaker 2: Watched kind of interested you know, you're off your face
Speaker 2: and spinning through the air.
Speaker 1: You are mate, and get the plane.
Speaker 4: That wasn't pretty much it and and the rescue guys
Speaker 4: like push me in and I'm like, well this is
Speaker 4: then then I spent my whole birthday in hospital and
Speaker 4: my partner at the time is living in the jurist
Speaker 4: so she only found out I was in the hospital
Speaker 4: and she found out while my Facebook, so she wasn't
Speaker 4: too impressed.
Speaker 2: Get all your news, but love, isn't it very much
Speaker 2: our sort of in the house or in family CNN?
Speaker 4: Isn't it fa Yeah? With that, I haven't made out
Speaker 4: absolutely its.
Speaker 1: Helicopter rescue. We'd see all that as a one off experience.
Speaker 1: Travis from the University.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Travis, an epic story, genuine epic story. I'll give
Speaker 2: you pair of just a small thank you for the
Speaker 2: cinemas gold class tickets.
Speaker 1: They're really goods.
Speaker 4: Thanks. Christian text me.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast, and it was
Speaker 2: actually before we start this phone in just you know,
Speaker 2: look mildly looking forward to It's all we can do
Speaker 2: when you turn in forty nine on my birthday Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I'm actually genuinely nervous. Something's going before me. You should
Speaker 2: be Hey, real is a gream reaper.
Speaker 1: Get out of the way, old man. The youth could come.
Speaker 1: You're in the way on the radio, so it's assistic.
Speaker 1: We found it yesterdays. You're twenty two percent more likely
Speaker 1: to die on your birthday. Someone to know? Is this true?
Speaker 1: So far?
Speaker 2: Two calls people who have injured themselves on the birthday.
Speaker 2: There was the jumping castle that an adult. Really, you've
Speaker 2: seen them after a couple of drinks. I've done it.
Speaker 2: You're asking for drive. I've seen like mates of mine
Speaker 2: like bump heads together and it's not gonna sounds out.
Speaker 2: It's dangerous after a couple a kid's party. And then
Speaker 2: there was Travis who was abselling on his birthday and
Speaker 2: fell five meters lucky to break only his ankle, but
Speaker 2: how to be airlifted high on morphine of the what
Speaker 2: dramatic epic birthday? So we want to know who else
Speaker 2: has been injured on the birthday. So two calls so far. Sheryl,
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, So Cheryl, what happened to you
Speaker 2: on your birthday?
Speaker 5: Well, it wasn't me. It was my husband. It was
Speaker 5: his sixtieth birthday. I've gone to work and we raised
Speaker 5: sled dogs. He was taking his dogs.
Speaker 2: Do you casually move on like, yeah, that's what the
Speaker 2: third quarter we've had this week?
Speaker 1: You raise sled dogs? What's a hobby?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: What like the old huskies? You're much much more with
Speaker 2: that little bell.
Speaker 1: Don't have to be like Alaska for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yes, no, no, we do it here. In
Speaker 5: Victoria down the Princess Highway or no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: we do it all over in state forests, all over Victoria. Well,
Speaker 5: great fun. We get a camera Abelaide Queensland. Yeah we listen, we.
Speaker 2: Get it, yes to say it happens?
Speaker 1: Okay, mat right now? So what happened on the old
Speaker 1: sled dogs?
Speaker 5: Taking the dogs for a run out of the front,
Speaker 5: Taking the dogs for run? I've gone to work. It
Speaker 5: was his sixtieth birthday, So how.
Speaker 1: Many dogs will be? Like six? Or three?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Two twos? Enough? Is it? A guy?
Speaker 5: Too plenty for him? At sixty And he goes he's
Speaker 5: racing out the corner like he always has, like an idiot,
Speaker 5: and all the neighbors think he's absolutely crazy with two
Speaker 5: dogs on extended leaves on the front of a scooter
Speaker 5: and and he fell and his leg went behind him
Speaker 5: and he broke his legs. And he's looking at the front.
Speaker 5: He's laying out the front, but everyone's gone to work,
Speaker 5: so there's nowhere around. So he gets himself up and
Speaker 5: like the dogs are ready for a run. They're going
Speaker 5: and he's like, no, no, you're going to come back. So
Speaker 5: he gets them back in. He's hobbled inside and then
Speaker 5: he helps himself to miss himself to the hospital. That's fine.
Speaker 2: Your Australians are tough. How do you drive yourself with
Speaker 2: a broken He.
Speaker 5: Made me at work. He brings me at working, says, oh,
Speaker 5: I think I've broken my leg. I said, do you
Speaker 5: want me to come over? Goes manner. I'll take myself
Speaker 5: to the hospital. Okay, broken leg? Oh he did. He's
Speaker 5: just man.
Speaker 1: Surely it was an automatic.
Speaker 5: Now he got the automatic. We have got a Manu
Speaker 5: cart automating.
Speaker 2: To need to be using both legs or break accelerator,
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So he gets to the hospital breaken league. That's fine.
Speaker 5: But because it was his sixtieth birthday that day, I
Speaker 5: had bought tickets to see Hugh Jackman for that night.
Speaker 5: JA with a broken leg? What I was noting?
Speaker 1: I love the greatest showman.
Speaker 5: I was not going to miss out on seeing h jacks.
Speaker 2: Go on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the show mus go on. So he went with
Speaker 5: a broken leg on coaches.
Speaker 1: So where did you have to see this?
Speaker 2: Normally they get people who are injured. You get to
Speaker 2: go in early and leave early for safety. So do
Speaker 2: you get better seats?
Speaker 5: No, they wouldn't give it or we winning early because
Speaker 5: I rang them to say what has happened.
Speaker 1: Ye coming in hot?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't make any difference. We just got there
Speaker 5: early and just had to wait longer.
Speaker 1: And what was a great showman line?
Speaker 5: Absolutely fantastic. It was worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did your husband and it was?
Speaker 5: He survived.
Speaker 1: And what's happened to the old dog Slay team?
Speaker 2: Is that back in business or was it all packed away?
Speaker 5: Definitely? We have racers. They'll start at the end of
Speaker 5: May and they run till the end of August.
Speaker 2: All right, so you have a season not with a
Speaker 2: Grand final or something. The two best riders, if the.
Speaker 5: Team, if it's the temperature is over fifteen degrees, it's
Speaker 5: too hot, we can't run. So you've got to do
Speaker 5: it in the middle of winter and very early in
Speaker 5: the morning, like we start racing at about six am.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's just been out imasually, just going casually for walk
Speaker 2: with your dog, and there's the flipped slaves going by.
Speaker 5: The Game of Thrones are warbe they're used to him
Speaker 5: because he's been dealing with Probably.
Speaker 4: Couldn't get race in the corner where and where I'd
Speaker 4: love to come and see it.
Speaker 5: He's crazy. We don't racing wherever, We just run the
Speaker 5: dogs and wherever we're racing up in Bendigo. Cool the
Speaker 5: race that we put on. It's our twenty first anniversary
Speaker 5: this year, so we congratulations in July, in the middle
Speaker 5: of June, the June July school holidays. We've got a
Speaker 5: big race on up in Bendigo.
Speaker 1: Okay, lovely, thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 5: No worries.
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