Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Sometimes something will happen and I feel like this is
Speaker 2: another moment as I gradually merge inside into becoming incrementally Australian.
Speaker 2: I felt like the new one. Recently, so I came
Speaker 2: face to face with a Huntsman spider. Now, we don't
Speaker 2: have any deadly animals in the UK, right there's a
Speaker 2: thing good, a grass snake where you might get some
Speaker 2: mild chafing, whereas here snakes things in the water. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of deadly animals and of course spiders. Now
Speaker 2: Huntsmen spiders. I know they're not poisonous, but I'm telling
Speaker 2: you when I saw this thing, it's scared the hell.
Speaker 3: Open and they look terrified. They're actually the friendly one.
Speaker 2: And I was staying in a hotel right by myself
Speaker 2: and I ran. My wife went, there is a bloody
Speaker 2: great huntsman and it's under the bed. And she went, oh,
Speaker 2: Christian's call reception, get them. I said, I'd rather be
Speaker 2: attacked and die from it the core reception. I'm the
Speaker 2: most this person Australia right now, can you come and
Speaker 2: help me get rid of a friendly spider? From under
Speaker 2: the bed. Plus the girl who was on reception was
Speaker 2: about nineteen. So for three days I shared this hotel
Speaker 2: room with this Huntsman spider and he kept coming out
Speaker 2: from under the bed, and then as I got near
Speaker 2: it to try and kid myself and him that I
Speaker 2: was going to remove him, he would just go back
Speaker 2: under the bed. So I never slept very well because
Speaker 2: any moment, you know, when you once you're aware of something,
Speaker 2: you become hyper vigilant, don't you. In the night, no,
Speaker 2: I turn all the lights on and go he's toying
Speaker 2: with me. Now I know he was on my face.
Speaker 2: Where is he? And I was getting down the floor
Speaker 2: looking under the bed. He's on something right now, he's
Speaker 2: going to drop on me. So today on the show,
Speaker 2: I want to know, you're not on Australian until what
Speaker 2: do you think are the key quintessential things that go
Speaker 2: up actually becoming an Australian for me coming face to
Speaker 2: face with a Huntsman spider. Well, and there's another one
Speaker 2: that happened of the week after I saw a photo
Speaker 2: of this. But you said, Caitlin, what have you got
Speaker 2: set up in your backyard?
Speaker 4: I have a rip a few five inch TV on
Speaker 4: a bracket outside swivel so I can have it.
Speaker 2: At any TV is not only Australian, but bogan Australian.
Speaker 3: I saw photos of your barbecue Grand Final barbecue and
Speaker 3: it looks so glaar Did you even see what was
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 4: No, you can actually change the setting, so the picture writer,
Speaker 4: so it's yeah, there's another setting that's like, you could
Speaker 4: go cinema day, cinnamon night sports.
Speaker 2: And who needs to put the team into sportsports? You
Speaker 2: know what? This Grand Fire is not sports enough for me.
Speaker 2: The Swams could have done with that mode themselves. You
Speaker 2: put it into small mode that is. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: classic one. If you're not in Australia until you have
Speaker 2: a backyard TV.
Speaker 4: It was a ripper and I grew up with one.
Speaker 4: It's anyone that I knew growing up in Queensland had
Speaker 4: one in their backyard. You can't beat it.
Speaker 2: And why is it? Why do you need outside and
Speaker 2: they can't just go inside.
Speaker 4: Because the weather's like a beautiful and you will sit
Speaker 4: out there and have barbecues and the kids run around
Speaker 4: the backyard.
Speaker 2: The TV not torture each others on in a minute,
Speaker 2: Remember as well, how big her backyard is.
Speaker 3: Remember when you moved house. She kept going, Oh, my
Speaker 3: backyard so big, so big, bigger than the house backus,
Speaker 3: bigger than the whole house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like another entertainment area.
Speaker 5: It's an outdoor room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Patsy, what do you think You're not an Australian
Speaker 2: until well.
Speaker 5: You talk about wildlife. Growing up, we had a family
Speaker 5: of goannas living in our backyard tree, this hollowed out tree.
Speaker 5: And I'm not kidding, you're not going to believe me,
Speaker 5: but this goanna once came up on our back veranda.
Speaker 5: It was like six foot long. It was huge. It
Speaker 5: was like a coo dragon. It was massive. And then
Speaker 5: another time we had a family of tiger snakes under
Speaker 5: our house.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're kidding under our house?
Speaker 5: Ye deadly, Yeah, of course it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember going out to get on my bike one
Speaker 5: one afternoon and there was like little snakes. It had
Speaker 5: had babies.
Speaker 3: Photo and so they lived in Queensland. They had one
Speaker 3: of those goings. And she's not lying about beIN six
Speaker 3: foot Really it was on the screen, the backscreen door
Speaker 3: holding on so they were taking him from inside the
Speaker 3: house and it was on the other side of the screen.
Speaker 2: That Jurassic Park.
Speaker 5: Really they're massive and this thing used to We're on
Speaker 5: like acreage and it'd run across the back. It was massive.
Speaker 5: It was totally like a Dinasa.
Speaker 3: You can ride it.
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Speaker 2: You're not Australian until Christian and Australian until you've been
Speaker 2: yabbying with a piece of string.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, a bit of beef luncheon on the
Speaker 3: end of the only time I ever caught a yaby
Speaker 3: was it with the meat on the end. You just
Speaker 3: got tangled in that string.
Speaker 2: You're not an Australian until you blow a plugger walking
Speaker 2: to the bottle shop. Great, thinks you've got to warn
Speaker 2: of boots to the supermarket for mark. You're not Australian
Speaker 2: until you've scrapped something down to a trailer and then
Speaker 2: said that's not going anywhere. Jason, I've recently done this,
Speaker 2: so I think it's another milestone towards becoming Australian. You've
Speaker 2: offered a six pack or a case of hera's payment
Speaker 2: for something, definitely, Allison. Yeah, You're not Australian until you've
Speaker 2: had fairy bread with thick, very thick layer of butter
Speaker 2: for Joey you've had to wait for a kidnap kangaroo,
Speaker 2: or similar to cross the road for Sarah, you find
Speaker 2: yourself saying yet nah Menonie. You're not an Australian until
Speaker 2: you point to someone you don't like and then say
Speaker 2: there's your mate, Shane. You've signed the corner response to
Speaker 2: the Angels. Am I ever going to see your face again? Megan?
Speaker 2: You walk barefoot in the street.
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Speaker 2: You're not Australian until you tell flies to f off.
Speaker 2: Christian Chris, You're not Australian until you ask someone how
Speaker 2: they're going and then have absolutely no interest in their answer. Sonia,
Speaker 2: I don't think that is Australia. I actually think you're
Speaker 2: a lot more polite. That's a very English kind of
Speaker 2: thing to do. But I actually don't think you do
Speaker 2: do that here High Gold FM. I am twelve and
Speaker 2: I believe you're not Australian till you have veggimie on toast.
Speaker 2: That's from Georgie Christian an Australian tool. You've said she'll
Speaker 2: be right when you know in fact she will not
Speaker 2: be right. You're not Australian to you've been to a
Speaker 2: party with the bath tub is full of ice for
Speaker 2: all the bring your own booze there. That's from Sue.
Speaker 1: Morning Julie. Yep, you're not Australian until you've been swooped
Speaker 1: by a magpie.
Speaker 2: You're right. Time of the year, isn't it. Yeah, moment
Speaker 2: the Grand Final is over, the magpies come out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, terrifying beforehand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my boy got swooping. He probably he's first swooping.
Speaker 3: Oh no, awakened.
Speaker 2: Was he scared?
Speaker 3: No, he wasn't. He wouldn't and he wouldn't move away
Speaker 3: from the area.
Speaker 2: Key lesson, Julie. Thank you very much. You could have
Speaker 2: a good day you too.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Karen.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 5: Good morning guys.
Speaker 2: Karen.
Speaker 1: You're not Australian until you've bade yourself in a regards.
Speaker 2: It's the matter where you are in the world.
Speaker 1: You spray, you're transported to your backyard in summer.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Karen, thank you very much. She cool, Bye, guys.
Speaker 2: Karen sounded like she could do voiceover work. You know,
Speaker 2: they have that kind of older, more mature Australian voice.
Speaker 2: She sounds like she can I want to buy leone.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good ey, hell are you? I'm good now, Leoni?
Speaker 2: What do you think? You're not Australian.
Speaker 5: Australian until you've been bidden by a red back spider.
Speaker 3: Couldn't wait to get Most Australians haven't been bidden by
Speaker 3: red back spider?
Speaker 2: How they kill you?
Speaker 1: Yes, of course they have. Of course they have.
Speaker 2: Anyone on this team has been bitten by a spider.
Speaker 5: Dad has been bitten once.
Speaker 2: Yeahs. Most of stuff you say, I disregardless to ps
Speaker 2: it's not it is. Lifted him off his feet a
Speaker 2: three day NonStop fighting, butted you up into the air
Speaker 2: and out your gun boots is yet another one.
Speaker 5: No deak gop written on the leg once and he's
Speaker 5: still got the scar on the bottom of his leg.
Speaker 3: Aren't they lethal? I thought he was.
Speaker 5: Very very very sick. Yeah, but obviously lived and then.
Speaker 1: Had me right?
Speaker 2: And what kind of spider was it?
Speaker 5: It was really yeah, baby one.
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