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Speaker 4: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: The show began seven years ago twenty eighteen. Only pats
Speaker 1: and I remain Wow, the founding father and mother. So
Speaker 1: much has changed as I look around survey the kingdom
Speaker 1: around us now, Patsy, so many corpses and you have
Speaker 1: killed all of them, are buried in the reign of terror.
Speaker 5: Musto, You're the hardest one to kill off found So
Speaker 5: you'll come.
Speaker 1: For me one day never and it will be my destiny.
Speaker 1: I will bound down and say, finally, it will be
Speaker 1: a pleasure to be destroyed by the one and only
Speaker 1: radio killer, NonStop thriller betweena giants. Do you know actually
Speaker 1: there are I'm in a studio right now that is
Speaker 1: this full of joy. It's like a Santa's grotto in here,
Speaker 1: and it's full of these beautiful cards that so many
Speaker 1: of our gorgeous listeners have taken the time to go in,
Speaker 1: right out and send. And what's magical is I'm reading
Speaker 1: all the messages and there's something really moving about handwriting
Speaker 1: because you don't see it these days. It's Texas emojisus easier,
Speaker 1: but it's also quite transactional. And actually, when you see
Speaker 1: someone's handwriting, it's like their voice. It's so unique to them.
Speaker 1: How they even spell my name or how they do
Speaker 1: their teas. It's different for all of us. And so
Speaker 1: there are so many beautiful cars we've got up around
Speaker 1: the studio today. Some of the people that have actually
Speaker 1: gone to the effort of sending these cars with these
Speaker 1: some beautiful messages and sharing in that are going to
Speaker 1: be called and receiving one of seven really big prizes.
Speaker 1: We have over twelve thousand dollars worth of prizes thanks
Speaker 1: to Ians to give away today on our seventh birthday.
Speaker 1: Ian S were one of the first sponsors to actually
Speaker 1: believe that I would still be here more than a year.
Speaker 1: A Rob from that was the first person I met
Speaker 1: about five weeks into the show, took me out for
Speaker 1: lunch and he's become a great friend and support of
Speaker 1: the show ever since then. So it was really great
Speaker 1: on seven years to actually be doing something Robin's team
Speaker 1: at ian S. Some of these I must have said
Speaker 1: good morning to Pam, She's just messaged me, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad she's clarified something. Christian, have a happy seventh birthday.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on creating an enjoyable show to listen to. I
Speaker 1: sent you the card, but I thought was a young
Speaker 1: Christian dreaming of being on the radio. Now, Pam, I
Speaker 1: did see that yesterday and he got to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's startled me. It looked like Christian who's had a
Speaker 1: serious car accident. So now I didn't save last night
Speaker 1: because I was worried that there was going to bomb
Speaker 1: under the car or something very From Pam. It was
Speaker 1: a threat like stop radio or this will happen. So
Speaker 1: you have a choice, Zippy. 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. This beautiful. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a well, it's a three dimensional card. She's she's
Speaker 1: colored in and drawn the flag of Great Britain and
Speaker 1: the flag of Australia and she's created a podium with
Speaker 1: seven on it. Did Christian a team? Happy seventh birthday.
Speaker 1: My name is Emily Hughes. Do you remember in cars
Speaker 1: and that when you write to people you put your
Speaker 1: name in up from full name. Yeah, like a young rapper.
Speaker 1: My name is Emie Hughes. Don't you forget it? And
Speaker 1: then in a different ink, you know where they've looked
Speaker 1: back at the work she's putting in a different inkit
Speaker 1: eleven years old.
Speaker 2: Bless.
Speaker 1: There's two times. There's two stages of life where you
Speaker 1: mention your age and Emily's aging. Then very old people
Speaker 1: when I'm seventy ninety, 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? DJ coming
Speaker 1: at you so Emily Hughes, thank you very much. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on being on air for so long. It is twenty
Speaker 1: seven years. At the end of the year, you guys
Speaker 1: are our favorite radio station. You also have the best
Speaker 1: jokes in the world from Emily Hughes. Emily Hughes, that
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing you've made there as well. And
Speaker 1: then one of the ones I've got so many questions about.
Speaker 1: Someone has sent a carden but they've put your face
Speaker 1: Patsy on a stamp. Oh like the Queen. Well, it
Speaker 1: actually looked like a dictator slash tyrant. To me, I
Speaker 1: have a small, aggressive country that's becoming the next Russier
Speaker 1: of like a mad tyrant who's threatening the world with
Speaker 1: a big laser. They are going to point at the
Speaker 1: moon and destroy all of Ustoria.
Speaker 4: We'll call it.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you get that's not legal though,
Speaker 1: is it. You can't just put your own photo on
Speaker 1: a stamp.
Speaker 5: You know you can go to oz post and get
Speaker 5: I think you can. I think they read a great idea.
Speaker 6: For Australian icons, you know, cav Freeman, Dawn Drones.
Speaker 1: I would have to bring you in this stamp. But
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I show them who sent them in.
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell show, go On podcast.
Speaker 1: Good morning to Shane in Sydney. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for joining the show. In the last six months. In
Speaker 1: the days leading up to beginning my first radio show
Speaker 1: here in Australia, and you have to bear in mind
Speaker 1: I'd had the craziest two weeks. I literally eleven days
Speaker 1: before I started my radio career here in Australia, I'd
Speaker 1: finished a radio show that i'd done an absolutely love
Speaker 1: for twelve years in London, a radio show we had
Speaker 1: two and a half million listeners, and a lot of
Speaker 1: those listeners had come with me from my previous breakfast
Speaker 1: show that I'd done for five years. So for seventeen
Speaker 1: years I'd been someone's constant, and some of those listeners
Speaker 1: had gone from being forced to listen to me during
Speaker 1: the school run, to go into university, to meeting partners,
Speaker 1: getting married and now forcing their kids. So I've been
Speaker 1: through all these transitions in the life. So what it
Speaker 1: meant was, in the last couple of weeks of my show,
Speaker 1: I was getting this mass, mass, outpouring of love from
Speaker 1: people that I've met before, but you have met in
Speaker 1: a way, And so I went from that to the
Speaker 1: biggest pandulum swing you can ever have a knife to
Speaker 1: actually been hated within two weeks. I went from hero
Speaker 1: to zero within two chilling weeks. The other side of
Speaker 1: the world where people literally had this feeling of like
Speaker 1: arms followed going no, no, now, God, he's English as well,
Speaker 1: I don't know you, and what I do know about if.
Speaker 2: He's really English nine in.
Speaker 1: The morning, not in the morning, maybe the afternoon maybe
Speaker 1: or real late at night when I'm half asleep and
Speaker 1: I can't even work out Godey's English, it's going back
Speaker 1: to me. It was a really violent swing and a
Speaker 1: remain not that for an awful long time. But one
Speaker 1: by one people were so kind. They unfolded arms and
Speaker 1: they start to give the show a go, and you
Speaker 1: welcome me into your life. And so without that, over
Speaker 1: the last seven years and increasingly the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: people still coming to the show, and that thank you
Speaker 1: so much. We don't get to have this magical kind
Speaker 1: of from my wife and I now in our fifties.
Speaker 1: This is an amazing A second, I like to tell
Speaker 1: myself it's a second act or is it second? Let's
Speaker 1: say a second the corner. It's funny how when I
Speaker 1: said the final acts, I looked at Pats stop it
Speaker 1: that tyrant's face and a stamp is all I see
Speaker 1: as she stamps me. You know, like at the end
Speaker 1: of Inglorious gust Face Carver, you know who the carve
Speaker 1: will be, Betrina Jones.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, though, what you've done, Christian.
Speaker 1: And also I have to just say, right, it's amazing
Speaker 1: the transformation and you Patsy, as you're now launching your
Speaker 1: second season of this incredible podcast, as you're starting to
Speaker 1: stand in your own powers now outside of what we've
Speaker 1: done together on the show, it's amazing. It brings me
Speaker 1: so much joy seeing the rise in new Patsy from
Speaker 1: where you were. I remember when I chat was the
Speaker 1: first person I hired, and I said, I need a
Speaker 1: really good news reader. I've always worked with great news readers.
Speaker 1: And the boss here said, hey, there's this woman betweena
Speaker 1: Jones and I think she could do so much more.
Speaker 1: And I remember I went to speak to Patsy and
Speaker 1: at the time, you're wearing these very big missus mangle
Speaker 1: glasses another one, and I was like, she was actually
Speaker 1: incredibly intimidating, Like she just sat there. I was like,
Speaker 1: you having to be a big I got good intentions
Speaker 1: already make it in Australia. They learning to be part
Speaker 1: of it. She sat there and she looked through me
Speaker 1: like I've heard it all before from people like you,
Speaker 1: and they're walking away going she's awesome, also genuine. I'm
Speaker 1: actually a bit frightened. No, I did feel that, and
Speaker 1: I think I think that's actually a thing I still am.
Speaker 1: That is the relationship. You're awesome, Pats, and I'm slightly
Speaker 1: scared by you when you bowled in here a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago and pointed at me and went, if
Speaker 1: you got feedback for me? Now? Intonation in life? Is
Speaker 1: there anything you can say soon? Hey, have you got
Speaker 1: any feedback for me? That's that's an invitation? Yes, you
Speaker 1: feedback from me? No, I never will.
Speaker 5: I remember our first interaction very very differently, and it
Speaker 5: was so refreshing. And I've never had this in radio
Speaker 5: where I didn't know what your expectations of me were
Speaker 5: other than obviously read the news and do it well.
Speaker 5: And I said to you, you know, I think I
Speaker 5: might have said, you know, what do you need from
Speaker 5: me or something? And you said something very simple, And
Speaker 5: I will never forget what you said. You said to me,
Speaker 5: I just need you to be yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and actually your journey of the last
Speaker 1: seven years, you're being more and more yourself on air.
Speaker 1: And I actually remember you're saying, please, if you don't
Speaker 1: find something funny, I say, don't laugh. And but to
Speaker 1: be fair, you've stayed aggressively truth to that. Maybe just
Speaker 1: ease up just occasional once a month but I remember
Speaker 1: saying to you, please don't because it's so hard for
Speaker 1: women in radio to forge a career. It's a lot
Speaker 1: easier for a guy. It just is stacked in our favor.
Speaker 1: So the fact that you'd even got to you know
Speaker 1: where you are past this says a lot just about
Speaker 1: how great you are. But I remember saying to you,
Speaker 1: please don't ever tell me what you think I need
Speaker 1: to hear. Yeah, and then you went, well, what if
Speaker 1: it's awful, it's rude, and I said, well, let me
Speaker 1: worry about that. Bit that we have a lot and
Speaker 1: those are some of my favorite bits. Some most shocking
Speaker 1: bits the show don't come from me. They've come from
Speaker 1: old mate. And there the tyrant on the stamp.
Speaker 5: But it is refreshing because as a woman, you are
Speaker 5: typecast on a lot of in radio, a lot in
Speaker 5: the past where it's like you need to be a
Speaker 5: laughing track or you need to be this, and I
Speaker 5: know that is the last thing you would want from me.
Speaker 5: So I want to thank you for helping me become
Speaker 5: find my voice really, and also I've learned more about
Speaker 5: myself personally than I have I think is a brasil
Speaker 5: In the last seven years, so thank you and celebrating
Speaker 5: you today because what you've managed to achieve in that
Speaker 5: time no one in the world has done. And I'm
Speaker 5: so proud of you as the whole team is, so
Speaker 5: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Well, perhaps that's a lovely thing to say, and thank
Speaker 1: you for saying that. But we don't get to have
Speaker 1: the show if it isn't for the amazing the team
Speaker 1: that have've made it over the seven years, the team
Speaker 1: right now, but also the people that have come over
Speaker 1: gone over the last seven years. But Patsy, you are
Speaker 1: a massive part of whatever this show is. You're a
Speaker 1: huge part of that. So team that's also now turn
Speaker 1: to Patsy and go well done as well. You had
Speaker 1: to put up with an awful lot for me sometimes,
Speaker 1: so thank you very much. All Right, we're going to
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. That's enough sugary stuff. Christian,
Speaker 1: get on with the goddamn show. I Get what you
Speaker 1: want is coming up next.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Please don't stop swaying and dancing on my account. Rio
Speaker 1: it's just having swaying, don't speak sort of thing you
Speaker 1: do in the bathroom when isn't that so happy that
Speaker 1: I love doing that. There's no one around and you
Speaker 1: find yourself dancing and don't you kid yourself looking mirror like?
Speaker 1: But he could have been a professional dancer. What could
Speaker 1: have been? Oh my god, Parallel lives, Michael Flatley, Christian O'Connell.
Speaker 1: I met him years ago and I'm sure he was
Speaker 1: looking at me thinking I would have been a great
Speaker 1: breakfast show. So I'm looking at me going I had
Speaker 1: feet of flames as well doors Me and Flatley, guys
Speaker 1: strap in. We're about to start changing lives with gifts.
Speaker 1: Seven of these big gifts to give away thanks to
Speaker 1: Ian S and Bosh. Now at quarter to eight, we're
Speaker 1: giving away a big price. It is this. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of such a thing of majesty. If God could
Speaker 1: make fridges, I'm pretty confident that he would make a
Speaker 1: quad door fridge, and he would gather a team from
Speaker 1: the engineers and eggheads at Bosh. He's what that level
Speaker 1: of attention to detail and engineering.
Speaker 6: Yes, Jesus, you get the left door, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then Mother Mary or so she gets you
Speaker 1: on the quad. So it's not Trinity, but it's it's
Speaker 1: the quad. It's a sign different way of him working.
Speaker 1: Actually anyway, this thing has been given away to quarter
Speaker 1: to eight. All right, we'll tell you how you're going
Speaker 1: to win it. But everyone listening, you win a big
Speaker 1: price this morning at quarter to eight. This quad door
Speaker 1: amazing megafridge. Yeah, mega fridge. I mean you have to
Speaker 1: actually take units out to fit this in or ask
Speaker 1: family members that aren't really pulling their way to get
Speaker 1: out and make way for the quad door fridge. We've
Speaker 1: got a fridge room now. Yes, angels sing, and there's
Speaker 1: also six of the prices. And the way I'm doing
Speaker 1: this then the people have been kind enough to go
Speaker 1: to oz post fill out a card and these days
Speaker 1: when you fill out a card or write a letter
Speaker 1: on that, it actually hurts your hands. Yes, that's such
Speaker 1: a good point. A couple of weeks ago and I
Speaker 1: was like I was getting cramp right, and I was
Speaker 1: a third of the way through, like should I type this?
Speaker 1: Should have typed this? But then it's impersonal typing it,
Speaker 1: and it's and it's so hard because actually our spelling
Speaker 1: isn't very good and also I didn't get a pen license.
Speaker 1: If you've ever seen anything written by me, it's wonky donkey.
Speaker 6: It shows there's no pen license.
Speaker 1: But some of the people that have gone to the
Speaker 1: effort of sending me these birthday cards on today's the
Speaker 1: seventh birth of the show, seeing their handwriting is just
Speaker 1: so lovely. But I appreciate the effort, right It's it's
Speaker 1: effort just to listen to the show and be part
Speaker 1: of the show that way, but to go and get
Speaker 1: into the post office paint fore stamp, and ninety percent
Speaker 1: of you have actually done recorded delivery and it's about
Speaker 1: ten bucks. That's the bit I'm astonished by that you
Speaker 1: would care enough to spend ten bucks to send me
Speaker 1: a birthday card. So I'm actually gonna throughout the show,
Speaker 1: we're going to call some of you. You haven't asked
Speaker 1: for the gifts, but we're going to give it to
Speaker 1: the gifts of people that actually haven't asked for them.
Speaker 1: And we're going to surprise some people right now. So
Speaker 1: the people about to speak to have all been told
Speaker 1: that there are about one thousand people on the lines
Speaker 1: right now, and it might be one of them. That
Speaker 1: isn't strictly true. It's just them. But anyway, let's start
Speaker 1: the giving now.
Speaker 7: Saven years off Christian show.
Speaker 1: It's a sollarbration.
Speaker 8: Peez, God saven.
Speaker 1: This for you all right. First of all, good morning too, Noony,
Speaker 1: Michelle Noonan, happy birthday, Thank you so much. And Michelle Noonan,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for your beautiful sharing card and
Speaker 1: you express posted it as well. It was my heart,
Speaker 1: I replied to you straight away, Michelle, my heart really
Speaker 1: goes out to you and your family. And I don't
Speaker 1: understand if you don't want to go into everything that
Speaker 1: has happened to you of the last five years an
Speaker 1: your beautiful husband. But I was just so moved by
Speaker 1: what you how strong you are, being a strong center
Speaker 1: like so many women have to be in tough times.
Speaker 1: It really moved me with all of that that you
Speaker 1: took the time to go to the post office and
Speaker 1: send me such a big letter. So thank you so much, Michelle.
Speaker 2: Noonan, thank you so much.
Speaker 9: And do you know replying to me was the best
Speaker 9: thing because I said to my husband what I was
Speaker 9: going to do, and he just shook, he said at me.
Speaker 1: So I was like, that's the kind of support you
Speaker 1: need in the long term marriage. That's what you know.
Speaker 1: You've got a keeper. I goes, don't bother, don't aim high.
Speaker 8: He won't care.
Speaker 1: I won't even get to him. But no, I loved
Speaker 1: it and it really touched my heart, Michelle, which is
Speaker 1: why I wanted to send you the reply. Now, Michelle,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you the dryer.
Speaker 8: Cool.
Speaker 1: Really you got it, my friend. It's a Bosh eight
Speaker 1: Keno heat pump dryer is come at you, noony y,
Speaker 1: we begin the winning with the mighty Michelle Noonan a goddess.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and congratulations on creating such a
Speaker 2: wonderful show.
Speaker 1: Bless you and enjoy that heat heat dryer. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will all right, Thanks Michelle, Noonann, we go bless you,
Speaker 1: Ludy go to Now we go to beautiful words, great
Speaker 1: writing as well. We should have here Greg. Good morning, Greg.
Speaker 10: Morning Christian, Happy birthday to you and all, and hello
Speaker 10: to Petsy and Rio later show.
Speaker 1: Listen, Greg, what a beautiful card you Now tell me this.
Speaker 1: Did you use a ruler or can you write that straight?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 10: I must admit I didn't use a ruler. I mean
Speaker 10: it's not my writing, suddenly said, it's your writings like
Speaker 10: a snail calling across the No.
Speaker 1: I loved it now, I read I read it twice.
Speaker 1: It really moved me. I must thank Stella as well.
Speaker 1: You're part of a double out there, Greg and Stellar.
Speaker 1: It's like sixty singer you know, on tour on RSL
Speaker 1: somewhere this weekend. Greg and Stella. I love but no,
Speaker 1: you said so many lovely things. We're going to give
Speaker 1: you the Bosh induction cook top.
Speaker 10: Oh jeez, we wrapped. Thank you. That's let's that's fantastic, Christian,
Speaker 10: thanks very much.
Speaker 1: Now, Greg, what this means for you and the mysterious
Speaker 1: Stellar is you get faster cooking, reduced energy consumption because
Speaker 1: I haven't met Stella, but she strikes me someone that
Speaker 1: uses up a lot of energy.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: So it reduces Stellar's energy consumption. And there are seventeen
Speaker 1: power levels for each cooking. Wow, Greg and Stellar do? Wow,
Speaker 1: Greg go, Thank you very much, your car man, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening.
Speaker 10: To love the show. And it's just a great started.
Speaker 10: I thank you, Kristener. It's fantastic, great lessure.
Speaker 1: It's very kind of you to say a LOWD. Let's try.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 1: This was an incredible card. It really leapt out of
Speaker 1: me yesterday when I opened it. Made by you Amy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Amy, Hello guys, Happy birthday Amy, Amy. How
Speaker 1: long did it take to make this incredible card for me.
Speaker 3: It was a bit of a rush.
Speaker 1: It was an afternoon, but it looks like you spent
Speaker 1: all day on this thing. It's a me that pops out.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well at work, I made a well, I helped
Speaker 9: make I paid the city a few weeks ago, so
Speaker 9: I had a bit.
Speaker 12: Of a practice.
Speaker 1: It's so good. And also I love the fact toy
Speaker 1: you've made an old school transistor radio but in the
Speaker 1: shape of a heart.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, everybody loves gold.
Speaker 1: No, I love this. It's really good, so Amy, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. It really lit me up yesterday. Would
Speaker 1: open this up after the show. It's a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: you made. Thank you very much for doing that. Amy
Speaker 1: and Amy, we are giving you a prize.
Speaker 4: You are in Wow.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? No, I'm not. You're getting a
Speaker 1: bosh unlimited. You'll never stop vacuum me. You can't. You
Speaker 1: can't turn off. It's an eternal cleaner.
Speaker 3: Child.
Speaker 1: Welcome to a life of endless, infinite cleaning.
Speaker 12: It sounds brilliant.
Speaker 3: Thank you so very much.
Speaker 1: Guys pleasure, Amy, enjoy that infinite, unlimited rechargeable vacuum cleaner. Amy,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Your lovely words and you can't
Speaker 1: take care.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Christian, thank you very much to Kirsty Isles.
Speaker 1: Trying to hand deliver a beautiful birthday car to me
Speaker 1: this morning at six, but in the dark. It is
Speaker 1: dark this morning. I couldn't find the actual part of
Speaker 1: the Palaco building or a postbox. You're right, it's a
Speaker 1: really strange, mysterious Gotham city building. We're in amongst these
Speaker 1: sort of municipals, sort of healthcare provider level crossings, and
Speaker 1: then there's a race your station on the second flour.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry went out your way. We would love
Speaker 1: to have you coming. You could have come into the
Speaker 1: students said hello, Kirsty. I feel really really bad about that,
Speaker 1: but I get it yet it is impossible, but thank you.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you didn't come out of your way for that. Patsy,
Speaker 1: how was your big lunch yesterday? You were doing You
Speaker 1: looked amazing in your dress.
Speaker 5: It was lovely. We had a Laura Ashley.
Speaker 1: Ashley, yes, a UK designer. Beautiful.
Speaker 5: No, not in any way, shape or form British. But no,
Speaker 5: I went along. I did pack so I had a
Speaker 5: beautiful dress.
Speaker 4: I was very happy with the dress.
Speaker 1: Something very expensive designer from Masachi or Gormou.
Speaker 5: Oh no, yeah, just an online purchase, very very ingenive.
Speaker 5: Not sheen, no, no, not.
Speaker 1: Keep guessing. No.
Speaker 5: But I did bring a lovely pair of boots to
Speaker 5: wear with it. Lovely pair of beige Swede boots. But
Speaker 5: you know, when you turn fifty.
Speaker 1: Huge jab fifty three. So let's be honest, shall we.
Speaker 1: You know, let's let's let's own it.
Speaker 5: I do own it, not fifty three.
Speaker 1: It's not what you're saying when you when you just
Speaker 1: had a birthday today.
Speaker 5: I just, you know, wearing heels. Some days you really
Speaker 5: got to be in the mood anyway. So to come
Speaker 5: to work in the early hours of the morning, I
Speaker 5: had just worn my trusty old white Sketches, which I
Speaker 5: will say had just as friend, No, not the old
Speaker 5: person's friend.
Speaker 1: I went in there about three months ago, and I
Speaker 1: thought because I just walked by and they looked so comfortable,
Speaker 1: and had a quick look on Google and there were
Speaker 1: five thousand and five star reviews. Right, wow, five thousand
Speaker 1: men saying so much comfortable. Yeah, just forget what you
Speaker 1: think about the preconceived of this. So I go do
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm at the age maybe I won't comfort.
Speaker 1: I go in. The guy goes to get me a pair.
Speaker 1: I had a moment of kind of essential acts and
Speaker 1: I got up and went, you're going and I went,
Speaker 1: what times you shut? You put the box here? I
Speaker 1: went five o'clo. We were going to do this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife needs you to look at some They walked out.
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet, Pats there soon.
Speaker 8: I love the choice.
Speaker 6: It's a lifestyle choice.
Speaker 1: It is over style choice. No, but it's a confidence choice.
Speaker 1: You're saying now that comfort matters more than things. I
Speaker 1: don't care how you look something.
Speaker 5: I love these sketches so much. These are my third
Speaker 5: pair of worn out. The other two I've got the
Speaker 5: exact same model of shoe. But what I'm wondering is
Speaker 5: is it socially.
Speaker 1: People like you're listening right now, which ones you well?
Speaker 1: What are they? The sketches what?
Speaker 5: I don't know what the model is, lady's own five
Speaker 5: or I don't know what they are. But they've got
Speaker 5: like tiny.
Speaker 1: Little tongue five lady feet five with like a.
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Speaker 1: Got them at my love them, love theming. Itn't blinging
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Speaker 5: Is it okay to wear them to a social It's
Speaker 5: I'm finding that more and more people.
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Speaker 1: What's the story? Morning Glory, Good morning.
Speaker 13: It's the Christian O'Connell's show Gold one oh four point
Speaker 13: three last year when the unthinkable was announced but the
Speaker 13: Gallagher brothers Lim and no were actually going to do
Speaker 13: the unthinkable, and having interviewed them both separately so many
Speaker 13: times over the years, Liam had always been up for
Speaker 13: a reunion. Noel was very much never up for him,
Speaker 13: and a lot of people like, what's brought the mat
Speaker 13: together again?
Speaker 1: Is it the millions and millions and millions. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's factored into it. I don't think it's all about
Speaker 1: that they've been offered so much money to do Glastonbury
Speaker 1: just as a one off show. You can you two
Speaker 1: just be on the same massive stage one hundred feet
Speaker 1: apart at gaston The pyramid stage is huge. You don't
Speaker 1: have to talk to each other. You stand there, you
Speaker 1: stand on the other side of the wing. You weren't
Speaker 1: like twenty million each. They still said no to that.
Speaker 1: I think it's about them getting into their middle of
Speaker 1: their life. And I think it's their mum who's not
Speaker 1: been very well, Peggy, who's had too many Christmases where
Speaker 1: her sons can't be at the table with her. I
Speaker 1: think it's all of that. And I saw an interview
Speaker 1: last year where one of their I think it was
Speaker 1: Liam's son, said that obviously Liam and No have children now,
Speaker 1: and they're in their twenties, so they're not kids. Don't
Speaker 1: fully understand why their two uncles don't speak to each other.
Speaker 1: And obviously they've gone online, they've listened to the music.
Speaker 1: They know this family story, and this happens to families
Speaker 1: all over the world, from like the Raw family now
Speaker 1: fractioned and two brothers that that can't be together in
Speaker 1: their fifties and so, and they said it started to
Speaker 1: become really awkward. Why they they were worried about going
Speaker 1: to talk to each other because obviously they have so
Speaker 1: much to talk about. The dads were in one of
Speaker 1: the biggest, most important bands in the world, you don't
Speaker 1: even get to talk to, you know, a family relative
Speaker 1: like that. Crazy, And so I think that it became
Speaker 1: a bigger, bigger thing. Whereas that really going to be
Speaker 1: the legacy of Oasises. They were just two brothers that
Speaker 1: couldn't get back together. So it's an amazing story and
Speaker 1: rock and roll has these stories. And when it was
Speaker 1: announced last year, what was incredible. I never thought I'd
Speaker 1: ever see Oasis back together, and it's just like they
Speaker 1: both were like it was just I couldn't see how
Speaker 1: it could ever happen. And then when it was announced,
Speaker 1: it became this incredible global news event. And over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, the biggest demand tickets have been
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. And I was with my daughters last year
Speaker 1: at the MCG the Eras tour, and it was incredible.
Speaker 1: I saw what it did to all the wide eyed
Speaker 1: fans that her music really really speaks to them, It
Speaker 1: connects them. They're drawn to Taylor Swift. This was me
Speaker 1: an Oasis when I was in my twenties one. I
Speaker 1: had no money. There were two working class boys like
Speaker 1: me from very poor backgrounds. They just lit so many
Speaker 1: people up. They're about dreaming big. They actually dreamt big,
Speaker 1: they made their dream happen and living it large, and
Speaker 1: that's what you want from your rock stars. Now rock
Speaker 1: stars don't speak and behavior like that for very good reasons. Okay,
Speaker 1: back in the nineties they were that energy where you
Speaker 1: could dream big and actually make it happen. There was
Speaker 1: something very magnetic about Oasis and the way they were.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen them live over the over the years.
Speaker 1: You know, the live show isn't really about the quality
Speaker 1: of the music. It's about the connection with the fans.
Speaker 1: I saw it Tyler Swift, completely different acts, but the
Speaker 1: same that wide eyed what it's like to have your
Speaker 1: favorite band that really just connects you in ways you
Speaker 1: don't really fully understand. So what I'm saying is this
Speaker 1: news that is now only that last year was next year.
Speaker 1: They're coming to London, They're coming to Australia, They're coming
Speaker 1: to Melbourne, getting tickets, trying to get tickets. That now
Speaker 1: is now next month. They've been rehearsing over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I can tell you I've got friends
Speaker 1: who've been to the rehearsals. Lim isn't even there yet,
Speaker 1: No wants have grown ups in the room, for a while.
Speaker 1: First of all, before we've beat the old Luce cannon
Speaker 1: in I reckon E's going to do it like two
Speaker 1: days before they go on stage. You know, all right,
Speaker 1: we've done the hard work. Brother, You turn up and
Speaker 1: do your bit, okay, just wander on stage and stare
Speaker 1: at the crowd menacingly. So this is that's an amazing prize.
Speaker 1: I am so jealous to be there in London at
Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium, which is an amazing venue. Ninety thousand people.
Speaker 1: How many sold out nights are Wassis doing in Wembley.
Speaker 6: Seven and seventeen in the UK. That's sold out in
Speaker 6: record record time.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest demand for a live concert ever in
Speaker 1: the UK, Bigger than Beyonce, bigger than Taylor Swift and
Speaker 1: fat for men and women of a certain age. This
Speaker 1: is our eras tour, This says actually my era. So
Speaker 1: I've finally worked out what it is and I know
Speaker 1: it is for a lot of people, but just a
Speaker 1: huge demand here in Australia for the shows in Melbourne
Speaker 1: Marvel as well, just selling out so quickly. So we're
Speaker 1: going to fly two of you to London July the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth and that's the first night in London. Andre
Speaker 1: and I were just saying, I'm actually jealous because to
Speaker 1: be there when those two boys walk on stage together
Speaker 1: and then start up whatever the first song is, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if it is, what's the story Morning Glory?
Speaker 1: Like they pick it up like the sixteen years of animosity.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter anymore. It all just dissolves the back.
Speaker 1: Who cares why they're back. We get to have it
Speaker 1: one more time, to re experience that joint. You're not
Speaker 1: just reconnecting with a band into left fifties. I think
Speaker 1: actually you'll reconnect him with that twenty or teenage version
Speaker 1: of yourself. There's always that band where at some time
Speaker 1: in your life they come to you at the right time.
Speaker 1: They're like they're everything too. And that was the otis
Speaker 1: from you in many people all over the world. So
Speaker 1: this is an amazing price. We're going to fly two
Speaker 1: of you to London. We can put you up in
Speaker 1: a great hotel right in the middle of London. So
Speaker 1: even in London in the summertime, well theory in the summertime.
Speaker 1: So don't we put that in the tea's and c's.
Speaker 1: He did say it should be summertime, but I haven't
Speaker 1: been through so many of those UK summers it can
Speaker 1: be a bit sketchy. Hopefully it'd be summertime. It should
Speaker 1: have been through it summertime. You'll have a great week in
Speaker 1: London and on that Friday night on behalf of the show,
Speaker 1: you'll be reviewing it. On the Monday back, you'll be
Speaker 1: there to see history, basically rock and roll history in London.
Speaker 1: So the way you do this, I want you to
Speaker 1: I want us to go to a fan. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: am aware that this is a great prize, but I really,
Speaker 1: my heart really does want to be giving it to
Speaker 1: someone that is an Oasis fan that isn't just doing
Speaker 1: this to get a trip to London. And I'd understand,
Speaker 1: and if you want to do that, please don't take
Speaker 1: part of this. I want it to go to a
Speaker 1: fan that is really going to be one of those
Speaker 1: whoever is you're taking out there, whether you're looking at
Speaker 1: each other, will always remember this. I can't. It's even
Speaker 1: better in a way seeing them when they're at the
Speaker 1: peak of their powers in the nineties. There's something more
Speaker 1: magical about something which didn't look like it was ever
Speaker 1: going to happen. You'll be part of rock and roll
Speaker 1: history to say, oh I was there, I was actually
Speaker 1: there the opening night in London with all of that
Speaker 1: energy and excitement and joy again. So the way you
Speaker 1: do this, I'm asking you to pick an away song,
Speaker 1: anyways of song. There are so many to pick from.
Speaker 1: Write your own lyrics about why we should pick you
Speaker 1: and send it to me. The number one thing to
Speaker 1: remember with this competition, we've done this company us before,
Speaker 1: wildly entertaining. You know what I'm about to say, Rio,
Speaker 1: this is not a singing competition. You do sing, but
Speaker 1: this is not idle. It's not X factor. It's more
Speaker 1: about energy and passion and haven't seen the boys lives
Speaker 1: so many times not great life. Sometimes not great life,
Speaker 1: too much drink and the rest of it doesn't look
Speaker 1: up vocal course, lads, not great life. It was never
Speaker 1: about that, you know. It's more about the energy and
Speaker 1: the passion and the enthusiasm. That's what's going to win
Speaker 1: this sweet So it's sing it and win it. To
Speaker 1: go and see Oasis live in London. You can email
Speaker 1: your entries. You've got a couple of days and weeks.
Speaker 1: You write your own lyrics to any Oasis song about
Speaker 1: why it should be you winning your way there? Email
Speaker 1: your entry. You can record it on your phone, video
Speaker 1: audio the Little Voice memo. We give all these details
Speaker 1: up online as well. But the most important thing you
Speaker 1: need to know right now is you need to start
Speaker 1: thinking about an Oasis song and start thinking about your
Speaker 1: own lyrics. Are you going to sing it with who
Speaker 1: might be coming with you or is it just going
Speaker 1: to be you? Email me your entries when they're ready.
Speaker 1: Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au, good luck,
Speaker 1: let's do this.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Did you know Kevin Sheedy as a connection in Oasis
Speaker 1: through at Uniting? What don't drop something like that? A grenade?
Speaker 1: Do that in the Fishponds? Scottmanfirs. That's all they said.
Speaker 1: Maybe try and get him on or Dave Matthews the
Speaker 1: g WS Giants who is there and tells the story.
Speaker 1: It's a great story, you love it. I know nothing
Speaker 1: about this. We have to find out. Is it a
Speaker 1: good story?
Speaker 8: Rings a Belle?
Speaker 6: I can't remember what it is, but there is a connection.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, we've had Kevin Sheedy on them before. Actually,
Speaker 1: who's conning Christian. He was brilliant, very very funny. All right, Scott,
Speaker 1: well pick up the case on that one. Now today
Speaker 1: is seventy years of the Christian O'Connell Show and thanks
Speaker 1: to one of our first sponsors to jump on board.
Speaker 1: In fact, he was Rob from n S got together
Speaker 1: with Bosh. They're helping us celebrate our seventh birthday. Bosh
Speaker 1: end of financial yearsl ends Monday only Ean s. We
Speaker 1: have some big prizes to give away and the way
Speaker 1: we're doing this was surprising people who sent me a
Speaker 1: birthday card.
Speaker 7: Seven years of Christian show.
Speaker 1: It's a lobration.
Speaker 8: Peez god seven.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, let's go to sending me a beautiful
Speaker 1: spark golden, golden card. It's you, Deborah, Deborah, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the birthday card. It's beautiful. Hello, Hello Debrah,
Speaker 1: Hi chust.
Speaker 5: Seven.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, so thank you so much
Speaker 1: to take the time to make such a beautiful handmade
Speaker 1: card as gorgeous.
Speaker 6: Oh thank you.
Speaker 8: I did that with my neighbor.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh kind And you wrote a poem as.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, well, very quickly we did.
Speaker 14: Come up with a little one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a new one. No, no, this one, Yes,
Speaker 1: that one. It's your birthday today, but a cake we
Speaker 1: cannot bake. Our cook is long time broken, so we
Speaker 1: hope pity can be take It's a haiku, right, okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: we'd love to win the oven forever grateful, we would
Speaker 1: be all right, Yoda Gold is a champion rest radio station.
Speaker 1: Enjoying our special day. We hope you have a blast
Speaker 1: just like we have had listening for the seven plus
Speaker 1: year is past. That is beautiful, Yes, Debrah, Yes you
Speaker 1: can help the oven well.
Speaker 12: Thank you, Christian.
Speaker 1: A Bosh Serie two electric built in oven with pop
Speaker 1: out controls for an easy to clean front. I wish
Speaker 1: I had an easy to clean with pop out controls.
Speaker 12: Thank you, thank.
Speaker 9: You, thank you, thank you girl.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Me actually maybe takes down at
Speaker 1: the end the zebra. Listenbra, and hopefully for the opening
Speaker 1: and the first Millia bake and the of and invite
Speaker 1: that neighbor round. Huh.
Speaker 14: I will be, I will be.
Speaker 3: I'll be baking up my muppin.
Speaker 1: Woh okay, lovely, all the boys come running in the
Speaker 1: yard when those muffins are around, all right, Deebra, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Thanks Christian, thank you now let's get to
Speaker 1: Tony with an Eye. Tony with an eye, good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh, happy birthday Christian.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, Tony, open up your card. It's leanam Niesel
Speaker 1: on the front there as well, which really made me laugh.
Speaker 1: And then confettis and glitter spilled all over my hands.
Speaker 1: I was marked yesterday glitter. My mother was up. You've
Speaker 1: been to a strip club, I said. Card from Tony
Speaker 1: with an Eye with an eye, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for this beautiful cake. And I've got to give for you.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a beautiful washing.
Speaker 12: Machine, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: It's a front loader as well, proper great washing machine
Speaker 1: by Bosh. You've got eleven watch programs, Catton Easy Care
Speaker 1: delicates so you can tackle any load. It got me
Speaker 1: right in the fields, all right, Jeles, you enjoyed that
Speaker 1: washing machine, not Jews Tony doing the wrong thing. Tony,
Speaker 1: Tony all the emotion, no one, are you're going to
Speaker 1: be quiet? Was like someone flipping as to what it is.
Speaker 1: What's happening to Tony with that? I the glitter and Tony,
Speaker 1: I no, I'm taking that oven off you. You're getting it.
Speaker 1: You're getting a dishwasher.
Speaker 2: Brilliant yet Yes, she did.
Speaker 1: She did. These people you give them, give them a
Speaker 1: treat like that, Tony. Tony get dishwasher, stainless, stale freestanding dishwasher.
Speaker 1: It's yours.
Speaker 3: Awesome. That is awesome.
Speaker 12: New that much.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thank you, Tony. Glad we clear that up. Jeels,
Speaker 1: guess what you're getting, Joels, Jewels, You're getting the washing machine.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you birthday. That's why it's
Speaker 1: your birthday today, isn't it, Jewels, Well.
Speaker 12: It is because I just want to wash the machine.
Speaker 1: Yes you have, yeah, I mean, oh, grabby hands. Tony
Speaker 1: tried to get it, but I was like, you got
Speaker 1: Tony with an eye, Tony tools, you get the washing machine.
Speaker 1: I knew that was all meant to happen like this.
Speaker 1: It's all going for a while today. And also thank you.
Speaker 1: This is obviously a moon Pig card. It is so funny.
Speaker 1: It's really really clever. It really made me laugh yesterday
Speaker 1: when I opened it up. Thank you.
Speaker 12: Oh I hope you get the Christine spelt on the front.
Speaker 1: I got the Christine. There's a lot of good jokes
Speaker 1: in there. And also now on the inside there's a
Speaker 1: couple of photos obviously taking the effort to go and find.
Speaker 1: Now there's one I think we did a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. Are you the woman in the photo?
Speaker 3: Yes, well that's that's our billboard.
Speaker 12: And my husband nearly died he was in You called him.
Speaker 1: To get the message on there on the billboard.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and you are so kind you gave them all
Speaker 12: the billboards and he was so wrapped up.
Speaker 1: And how is Marc.
Speaker 12: He's amazing, He's absolutely amazing Christian. He's done such a
Speaker 12: great recovery. It was a really long hard struggle for bypass.
Speaker 12: But no, he's doing great.
Speaker 1: Well send him all our best as well today as well.
Speaker 1: But a big day for you guys. Marco, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for the message as well. But there's a
Speaker 1: photo above that with me, Pats and a woman. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's you.
Speaker 14: No, No, that's not me.
Speaker 12: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Oh, that's a lady. That's that's jewels.
Speaker 1: No random woman who's gotten this moon pink car from you?
Speaker 1: Just like to look at her?
Speaker 3: Is she younger than good?
Speaker 1: I don't even know where she is out there?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 1: I have we need to put this woman up. Who
Speaker 1: are you? Mister lady? In my birthday cards, and I know.
Speaker 12: You asked for handwriting, so I actually will. It's stinger written.
Speaker 12: I had to upload the whole alphabet and it's very
Speaker 12: wonky writing too, but that is my writing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, is that what you did? God? That must
Speaker 1: have taken a lot of effort.
Speaker 12: Did take a lot of effort?
Speaker 1: Well stop it? Anytime someone uploads their finger writing, is
Speaker 1: it really touches me? Jules said, no, the best to
Speaker 1: Mark as well. I'm going to try and find in
Speaker 1: this mysterious woman is Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'd love to know she'll go back to you.
Speaker 1: All right, So everyone got it?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 1: You want to the washing machine, didn't you? Jeels? I'm
Speaker 1: just checking.
Speaker 3: I did want to watch machine.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 12: Thank you for all the love of laugh over the year.
Speaker 1: My pleasure. Likewise, thank you very much. Everyone happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony want that discu didn't she? She made that very clear.
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast, Christian O'Connell show, Your
Speaker 4: chance to call in and win right now an amazing prize.
Speaker 1: So many prizes today, seven big prizes thanks.
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Speaker 1: on the phones. Most born phone thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 1: It is a Bosh stainless still six hundred and five
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Speaker 1: the try door fridge. The big ones and then the
Speaker 1: draw the freeze often laid in there, small shallow drawer
Speaker 1: for chock ices, magnums and such. Maybe some peas you
Speaker 1: want to put in there as well, bigger drawer down
Speaker 1: a moment, your chips and stuff like that. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't need to get into how you audio fridge, but
Speaker 1: just in case any of you who are in confused
Speaker 1: about the tri door system, how do you go from
Speaker 1: three to four?
Speaker 6: You couldn't, you'd be a madman.
Speaker 8: You can.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I don't want to open that big old
Speaker 1: freezer drawer up and go like god, all this other
Speaker 1: stuff in here, because I'd rather have two doors for
Speaker 1: the freezer down the bottom. Why can't down below have
Speaker 1: the life that the two big doors upstairs have? What's
Speaker 1: this call this whole kind of you know upstairs downstairs
Speaker 1: draw We're not down to an abbe.
Speaker 6: But it couldn't be done Christian engineering mirror.
Speaker 1: That's the egg EDGs that work out. Bosh, you've got
Speaker 1: double doors and down the bottom to be like Mummy
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Speaker 8: A mad.
Speaker 1: So sad fine.
Speaker 6: To call their team Christian pigx up so can.
Speaker 1: Oh washing? This is obviously saying when Jack was on
Speaker 1: the show and you never thought you'd get that check.
Speaker 1: I bet if I asked you to sing it now,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you'd sing like an angel. Win your.
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, Jackson could be on the show for g who rio, I'm.
Speaker 6: Matter payfune try it anyway.
Speaker 1: The first person to call me on thirteen fifty five
Speaker 1: twenty two from a payphone wins the quad door fridge. Wow, payphone, payphone, payphone.
Speaker 4: Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey Christian here today Then June fourth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: seven years of the Breakfast Show, We've been given away
Speaker 1: six of the seven big prizes so far. The last
Speaker 1: and final one, thanks to Bosh and Es, is this megafridge.
Speaker 1: It's a quad door fridge. We asked you to be
Speaker 1: the first person a pull over and find a good
Speaker 1: old fashioned payphone and give me a call on thirteen
Speaker 1: fifty five, twenty two. You're ready.
Speaker 7: Seven years Christian show.
Speaker 1: It's a so lobration.
Speaker 8: Heeez god seven?
Speaker 4: Yes, yo.
Speaker 1: On the line now from a payphone? How don't believe
Speaker 1: in East Gippsland? Is that you, John?
Speaker 14: Yes it is so we can hear you.
Speaker 1: It's like you're on the moon.
Speaker 14: Where are you, buddy in a payphone in the too?
Speaker 1: Yes it is, yes, so East Gibson, isn't it? Oh?
Speaker 1: South Gipsland? Okay? And how did it take you long
Speaker 1: to find the payphone?
Speaker 14: Oh no, I just I just live near it, so
Speaker 14: out of the.
Speaker 1: Door, so a very short trip forew to win.
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, I couldn't believe it. I was thought, Oh
Speaker 14: I got to the payphone. I oh man, I forgot
Speaker 14: the number and then we had to run back in
Speaker 14: and get it again.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what those delivery drivers ines have got
Speaker 1: a bit of a drive out from the Bridge City
Speaker 1: out of Gibson with a mega fridge. Fridge lugged that
Speaker 1: out there. I love it, John. So do you need
Speaker 1: any fridge buddy?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 14: Yeah, that good. Yeah, I'm always in for the who
Speaker 14: is it you're wired to fridge?
Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven? You can wake me up at
Speaker 1: two am and say you've got a new fridge, and John,
Speaker 1: I understand. Did you also send us a birthday card?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I posted off on Monday.
Speaker 1: I won't get it till next year from next thing.
Speaker 14: No, it's not that bad. I put priority post on it.
Speaker 14: You'll probably get it today.
Speaker 1: All right, Well listen, I'm so glad and that you're
Speaker 1: the winner from the payphone there and John, enjoyed the fridge,
Speaker 1: and thanks for sending me the card. I look forward to.
Speaker 14: Reading to get fantastic. Thanks very much. I love your
Speaker 14: show listen since day one.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you John.
Speaker 14: You guys I just laugh every every day.
Speaker 1: Oh blessure. Such a lovely thing to say. It's a
Speaker 1: joy to do the show with people like you. John.
Speaker 1: That would enjoy being part of the show as well.
Speaker 1: Thanks to walking to the bottom of your road to
Speaker 1: get that pay phone.
Speaker 14: All right, joyout fifteen twenty steps.
Speaker 1: They're the hardest steps in life, those first fifty. And John,
Speaker 1: you made a get a nice drink for those removal
Speaker 1: guys are coming out of that fridge in your place.
Speaker 14: I'll try and look after it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thank you, John, take care, well done.
Speaker 14: Thanks very ruts.
Speaker 4: Christian Christian O'Connell show go on.
Speaker 1: Podcast, Christian, you sound, by the way like Jeremy Irons
Speaker 1: in Die Hard when you were talking about you must
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Speaker 1: Who was with?
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Speaker 4: Who married?
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Speaker 14: When I was.
Speaker 9: Born, it was either a debate that I was called
Speaker 9: Jennifer or Stephanie. My middle name's Catherine, start with a C.
Speaker 9: And we got neighbors a few years ago with three
Speaker 9: girls in The names were Jennifer, Catherine, and Stephanie, and
Speaker 9: Katherine's felt the same way.
Speaker 10: I had a new guy start at work. We're chatting
Speaker 10: away whatnot, and he goes, hey, did you ever go
Speaker 10: out to this bar a bit half an hour away?
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, yeah, I did. What are the odds
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 10: I had invited him back around to my house in
Speaker 10: the group of our party. Wouldn't know this guy from
Speaker 10: a bar of soap? Look back at my snapchat and
Speaker 10: I'll find a video of this guy.
Speaker 1: Makes you want to do a quiz? Now, would you
Speaker 1: know this person from a bar of soap? I've never,
Speaker 1: ever and on we has heard that from. Added to
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Speaker 1: just packed your She just emailed me, Yes, what are
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Speaker 1: Your story is thirteen fifty five twenty two. It is
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Speaker 4: Okay, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Our first today. Then we have Doug Welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Doug Christian Doug, what are the odds?
Speaker 15: Well, my story is that when I was at nineteen,
Speaker 15: my friend and a few others decided to move the
Speaker 15: teacher's car and twisted twisted his and they went into hospital.
Speaker 15: So I said, I'll come and see you Wednesday, Steve.
Speaker 15: And then on Wednesday I turned out to be quite
Speaker 15: a sunny day, so for the climb, I go, is
Speaker 15: it not going to go to Steve, I'll go for
Speaker 15: a bike ride instead. And I went for a bike
Speaker 15: ride and got hit by a car and they ended
Speaker 15: up taking me into the same hospital and the same room,
Speaker 15: straight across from Steve.
Speaker 10: While his family was.
Speaker 1: So you were going you were destined to go meet
Speaker 1: him that day.
Speaker 10: I should have just done what I said I was
Speaker 10: going to do.
Speaker 1: In my mind, was it that car you tried to
Speaker 1: move that actually knocked you off on that bike?
Speaker 15: And even the next day they're going, come on, people
Speaker 15: need this bed, you know, like I'd set this whole
Speaker 15: thing up and got plaster on my lead from hip
Speaker 15: to tell what.
Speaker 1: That's a nice jo wrong? Doug, thank you very much
Speaker 1: his story. Yes, Hello, hello, Bob, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: What are the ards.
Speaker 11: Bobby Boy, Okay, I had a bait. He's down deceased.
Speaker 11: He's been going for about ten fifteen years now. He
Speaker 11: was a Vietnam veteran.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 11: And when he was coming home on HbA or Sydney
Speaker 11: in the late sixties early seventies, he must have had
Speaker 11: a really bad time over there, because when he was
Speaker 11: out in the Gulf of Vietnam or where we're on
Speaker 11: the way home back to Sydney, he threw his dog
Speaker 11: tags overboard when he came home. He came home and
Speaker 11: then he died of cancer.
Speaker 16: A fisherman from Vietnam obviously pulled him up in his
Speaker 16: debt or on his line, found the dog tags and
Speaker 16: did some research and sent them back to his family
Speaker 16: here in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a beautiful story. And they've got them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they got the dog tags and he threw overboard
Speaker 11: on HBO Sydney on the way back home after twelve
Speaker 11: months in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: What incredible story.
Speaker 11: So what are the odds of that?
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, that's pretty That's a big one. I've
Speaker 1: got to be honest, Rob, that is a bob That
Speaker 1: is a big one. What a beautiful thing for the
Speaker 1: Vitnamese fisherman to do as well. He got a time
Speaker 1: and effort to send them back.
Speaker 11: Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, if he picked them up in
Speaker 11: his dead or on his own or however they fish
Speaker 11: over there, obviously did some research to the name and
Speaker 11: number and everything and sent them back to his family,
Speaker 11: and his wife has still got Yeah.
Speaker 1: You're right, thank you you call. I've actually pulled it
Speaker 1: myself in the phrase fish over there. You're right. You're right,
Speaker 1: those Vietnamese and the same in my homeland. You don't.
Speaker 1: Don't even get me started about how in people fish.
Speaker 1: You're right, it's Vietnamese fish, went out fish. They use
Speaker 1: their pinkies to catch fish. That's how they do it
Speaker 1: over there.
Speaker 4: You know the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian Happy seven years on the show. Today, you and
Speaker 1: the team have given me laughter, smiles and tons of
Speaker 1: useless information. Perfect. Thank you very much. I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to handring cards, but at the moment I'm holidaying
Speaker 1: in Cairns, but I want to tune in today to
Speaker 1: say happy birthday to you and the team. Lorraine. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. That's very connor you do on your
Speaker 1: holidays up there. I love the way Lorraine, Lorraine gets it.
Speaker 1: She signs off here Lorraine bear rackets as in grizzly
Speaker 1: very good. Yes, yeah, that's back tomorrow, this time tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Actually the name game, as in all right, what are
Speaker 1: the yours? Before Patsy's news in five minutes, let's go
Speaker 1: to great Name Ruby. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hi Christian, have your birthday, Thanks Ruy.
Speaker 1: Now what is your story for? What are the odds?
Speaker 1: What have you got for us?
Speaker 2: So, basically, my dad was born in nineteen sixty eight
Speaker 2: and he was adopted when he was a baby. He
Speaker 2: grew up in Sydney with his adoptive family, and then
Speaker 2: when he was in his forties, he found his birth
Speaker 2: mother and reached out with her and learned that she'd
Speaker 2: had kids not long after him, and they had all
Speaker 2: gone to the same high school together and had been
Speaker 2: in the same like sporting settings and group parties and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, that is so that is so spooky for
Speaker 1: him to do work through.
Speaker 2: There's photos of them like at the same house parties.
Speaker 8: You're treating route.
Speaker 1: They had no idea of the incredible.
Speaker 2: Collect idea, not at all. Now. One of his sisters
Speaker 2: looked a lot like him too, So yeah, it is spooky.
Speaker 6: My older sister, Kimberly, she's adopted from South Korea, and
Speaker 6: we went in April to go, you know, on, to
Speaker 6: just start the journey to try and find her birth
Speaker 6: mother or father and see what.
Speaker 1: We can find.
Speaker 6: And haven't found anything yet, but it's a beautiful to
Speaker 6: go on. It is very emotional and I'm just it
Speaker 6: makes me so happy that he was able to find
Speaker 6: them and reunite. It would mean the world.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're still in contact now.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. She's a part of our lives.
Speaker 2: So it's like I have an extra grandmother now.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 1: I love these stories where suddenly you've got an extra,
Speaker 1: extra part view, isn't there there's an extra the family expands. Yes,
Speaker 1: what a beautiful story. Ruby, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: trusting us and sharing that as well. So very health
Speaker 1: felt story.
Speaker 2: Thanks a good day, Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1: Bye, have we got here, Lorii, Good morning, Lorie.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Christian, Happy birthday team.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Laurie Pleasure. You've been listening for long?
Speaker 1: Have you come over recently?
Speaker 3: Know this the whole seven years very rarely missed the show.
Speaker 10: Love.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Laurie. Thanks for being part of
Speaker 1: our lives as well. Now, Laurie's story for was mate.
Speaker 3: When I was a child, now I'm in my sixties,
Speaker 3: I was. My mum used to read me a book
Speaker 3: that was donated to my aunt. My aunt, so she's
Speaker 3: now she's passed, but she's about one hundred and one.
Speaker 3: She was donated. She was gifted a book as a
Speaker 3: reader when she was in grade one for good reading.
Speaker 3: The book was called Budge and Betty and we lost it,
Speaker 3: never found it. And years later, when my twins were
Speaker 3: growing up, they were teenagers, they had a friend whose
Speaker 3: mum worked at a regional library and that was closing down,
Speaker 3: and she gave us a box of books and she said,
Speaker 3: go through these books, you might like them. And in
Speaker 3: there was the book that was donated to my mind. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and in it is inscribed gifted to Audrey Brown for
Speaker 3: great reading in grade one. Now we worked out the
Speaker 3: book is at least ninety years old, and I've taken
Speaker 3: a photo and sent her to her daughter, who has
Speaker 3: confirmed it is the actual book.
Speaker 1: Want to cry?
Speaker 3: What for a wrong? Yeah? So all these years later
Speaker 3: I now have in my possession, the book that belonged
Speaker 3: to my aunt that I got read when I was
Speaker 3: a child, so I was probably three or four years old.
Speaker 1: And it's so much more than a book, isn't There
Speaker 1: all these more generations. So do you say ninety.
Speaker 3: Years it's at least ninety years old this book so
Speaker 3: much has happened showing that time, and we don't know
Speaker 3: where it went and where it got to or it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all the.
Speaker 1: Young kids that would have read it and read it
Speaker 1: and enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and looks it's very tattered and torn and everything.
Speaker 1: And you consumer, I think a bit ted fi.
Speaker 3: I've been read in loved and obviously knew, but like,
Speaker 3: it's just such a key mistake. And now my daughter
Speaker 3: is in early childhood and I'm giving it to her
Speaker 3: as the next generation to take it on and give
Speaker 3: it and she'll have it for her children to read
Speaker 3: to them.
Speaker 1: So, you know what, not that long and it will
Speaker 1: go into one hundred years and beyond.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: There's something about the magic of children's books. I have
Speaker 1: virtually you know, you can't keep every keepsake from your
Speaker 1: children book. Virtually all the books I have kept and
Speaker 1: when you touch them. I bet it's saying with this
Speaker 1: book that special books, especially children's books, right, because their
Speaker 1: joyous things, children's books, they have this incredible energy to them.
Speaker 1: And about when you touched it again, you felt that
Speaker 1: almost like a magnetic energy to it when you touch them.
Speaker 3: Well, it's the wonderment of how I learned to explore
Speaker 3: as a child about what reading was all about. And
Speaker 3: I've tried to instill in my children that reading is
Speaker 3: an exploration of life and all the dreams that you
Speaker 3: can have. And now my daughter's doing that with her
Speaker 3: generation of children she's teaching, and it just warms your heart.
Speaker 3: It's just really warms your heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wonderment is a beautiful word. I love that word.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, I was going to do
Speaker 1: a podcast called Wonderment. I just I didn't have any
Speaker 1: idea what it was. I just loved the phrase and
Speaker 1: so I but I absolutely love the phrase wonderment. You're right,
Speaker 1: that is the power reading it is.
Speaker 3: It's the power of passing on and like for me,
Speaker 3: you know, my mum would be so thrilled to know
Speaker 3: that reading through that will be the fifth generation going
Speaker 3: through that book. It's gone through five generations, and then
Speaker 3: when my daughter has her child, it'll be the sixth generation.
Speaker 3: We'll have that book and keeping it going. And she
Speaker 3: said it'll pass through history again. And that's where it
Speaker 3: excites me that reading is still such a universal thing
Speaker 3: that we can all be part of, because like these days,
Speaker 3: you know, we've all got iPhones and iPads and all that,
Speaker 3: and we've lost that wanting to learn and read and enjoy.
Speaker 3: You know, there's nothing better than sitting in a corner
Speaker 3: and picking up a book and sitting in the sunshine
Speaker 3: and reading.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's the best thing. Well, just losing
Speaker 1: yourself in the book. And the important thing is that
Speaker 1: kids are listening right now. There's so many great powerful
Speaker 1: distractions your phones and your game stations and playboys now.
Speaker 1: But what reading does and why it's really important to
Speaker 1: because it gives you empathy. Because if you can't read
Speaker 1: a book and not empathize about a character you don't
Speaker 1: even know, whether that's Harry Potter. You have to enter
Speaker 1: into somebody else's world and imagine what it's like to
Speaker 1: be them, and right now, they're One of the things
Speaker 1: that we're losing is empathy for each other. It's a
Speaker 1: very angry time to.
Speaker 3: Be alive to where their thinking is, where they're going
Speaker 3: on their journey. It's the transportation of you going into
Speaker 3: their mind and where they're taking you on a journey
Speaker 3: of what you're reading. And yeah, I just loved That's
Speaker 3: what reading is to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lauria, it's the same to me. Literally, my life
Speaker 1: was changed with my dad. We didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of money for new books or books and meals growing up.
Speaker 1: That dad took me to the local library where it's free,
Speaker 1: and reading changed my entire life. I still read three
Speaker 1: or four books a month. My dad in that moment,
Speaker 1: introduced them at the age of nine. Of the joy
Speaker 1: of books changed everything for me. I learned more from
Speaker 1: books i did at school. I wasn't gring to school.
Speaker 1: The books change my life still do now anything. If
Speaker 1: I'm ever any good at this is because of reading.
Speaker 1: That's it for me. Every single week of reading something,
Speaker 1: I love it. Laurie. This has been like it's like
Speaker 1: listening to a Ted talk and no, no, a better
Speaker 1: Ted talk actually, because it's spontaneous and the way you
Speaker 1: have a like a word magician that comes from someone
Speaker 1: who has a deep love of learning and reading.
Speaker 3: I think that's just old age.
Speaker 1: I think no, no, that's mastery. That's mastery. That's not
Speaker 1: old age. That is mastery, Laurie, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: You should know that now listen. A very small gift,
Speaker 1: but I'd love to say thank you, because you never
Speaker 1: know who's listening when you when you have conversations like
Speaker 1: this on the radio. We're doing the show and it
Speaker 1: bubbles along and it's all froth and it's lovely. And
Speaker 1: then sometimes it's lovely about the show we have and
Speaker 1: people like you, Laurie's when sometimes you can dip a
Speaker 1: bit deeper into a conversation and I love that what
Speaker 1: you said about the joy of reading and that powerful story.
Speaker 1: You never know who won't we be listening right now,
Speaker 1: a kid who's having a tough time, or actually just
Speaker 1: Fanci's reading because somebody outside of Mum and Dad said
Speaker 1: you should read. It's good for you. It really really is.
Speaker 1: It did transform my life and still does and you
Speaker 1: know what it's done for your family's love as well.
Speaker 1: So as a small thank you, I'd love to give
Speaker 1: you one thousand dollars for our Call of the week.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: Christian Oh no, honestly, your your story and just what
Speaker 1: you said is so powerful reminder to all of us
Speaker 1: about the joy of learning and understanding what it is
Speaker 1: to be us and be alive.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Christian. That really makes my day.
Speaker 1: How many books can you get with that? Can I
Speaker 1: come down bookshopping with you? Maybe one or two for me?
Speaker 3: Well? The surprising thing is most of my books come
Speaker 3: from Vinnie's or something.
Speaker 1: That's a great place to get them. Though.
Speaker 3: I volunteer, and so does my daughter. We do.
Speaker 1: That's what you do. Yeah, you are those people, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Volunteer we do. What a lovely we get it. Thank you, Christian,
Speaker 3: and thank you for the show. I love it. I
Speaker 3: listen to it every day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Worry Lurie. Really beautiful chat. It's a real
Speaker 1: joys chat to have with you today on a very
Speaker 1: special day for us. Laurie, You're awesome. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for your story as well. So mad and enjoy
Speaker 1: spending that one thousand dollars you can actually buy a finish.
Speaker 3: I donate some money to them too.
Speaker 1: All right, good on you, all right, thank you a
Speaker 1: deep joy for all of us, and we'll have everyone
Speaker 1: listening right now. Thank you very much, Lorrie. That's lor there.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful mind of the joy of books. She's
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