Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian not conn Show podcast.
Speaker 2: How did you get a black eye? That's where I
Speaker 2: want to hear this morning after my mum slipped off
Speaker 2: the weekend. The few glass of rose. Here, I on
Speaker 2: a garden gnome. What have verny British accident to happen
Speaker 2: as well? Sick garden nome? I think you all think
Speaker 2: that every busher person's home guard and those garden nomes
Speaker 2: and that so a Midsummer murders ninety four one four
Speaker 2: one oh four three. Robin, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Christian. How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Robin, So tell us how did you get
Speaker 2: your black eye?
Speaker 3: I got my black eye walking my dog?
Speaker 2: Byy What happened?
Speaker 3: Well, I've got a golden lab, so every everyone and
Speaker 3: every animal she meets is her friend and a potential playmate.
Speaker 2: The beautiful dogs. I love labs.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she is. She's so friendly, A bit too
Speaker 3: friendly in this case, because I was walking her on
Speaker 3: my left side and unbeknownst to me, on the other
Speaker 3: the road. I was literally only like one hundred meters
Speaker 3: from home, and on the other side of the road
Speaker 3: there was a dog standing there and my dog decided
Speaker 3: it was time to play. So she just decides to
Speaker 3: run in front of me, and she's on the lead.
Speaker 3: Of course, she just decides to run in front of me,
Speaker 3: and I didn't realize, and my legs got and I
Speaker 3: was hanging on to her with both hands so that
Speaker 3: she wouldn't cross the road, and my legs got caught
Speaker 3: up in the lead, and then I went and went
Speaker 3: crash off my forehead, not one, not one, but two
Speaker 3: black eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh God, that's a nightmare. What it looks it was?
Speaker 3: It was. I literally it's wondering did knock me out?
Speaker 3: Because I literally had to just sit there on the
Speaker 3: pavement for a couple of minutes before I could actually
Speaker 3: stand up again.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is it was.
Speaker 3: It was a doozy and I had a swollen nose
Speaker 3: and everything that I recognized me.
Speaker 2: Your nose puffs up and everything, get everything.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: It was a real doozy.
Speaker 2: And then you tell people, right, oh yeah yeah, the
Speaker 2: dog people go yeah, Robin, thank you very much. She called,
Speaker 2: have a good.
Speaker 3: Day, worry you too much?
Speaker 4: Ash?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Ash? What happened? How do you get the
Speaker 2: black eye?
Speaker 6: A long story short, I had COVID and I didn't
Speaker 6: want to waste my time being stuck at home, so
Speaker 6: I thought i'd paint the side of the house. Issue is,
Speaker 6: we're currently building a deck down that side of the
Speaker 6: house and it's all just joyce and bearers, so it's
Speaker 6: quite the tripping hazard. I was a bit dizzy and
Speaker 6: I just didn't leave my foot high enough and my
Speaker 6: body intermented on my cheek on one of the joys.
Speaker 6: My cheek, and I'll be quite a black art.
Speaker 2: Do you know what? You know? I had COVID and
Speaker 2: I tell you what, there was no paint in the
Speaker 2: side of the house. I don't think it's part of
Speaker 2: the sort of recovery program issue by well stained ors
Speaker 2: isolate and you paint your houses. Nothing asen there any
Speaker 2: of that. Sorry, the phone playing up there, Jeremy's on
Speaker 2: the line, Jessu by Christian. Good morning Jeremy, And how
Speaker 2: did you get your black eye?
Speaker 7: Mate playing kicked the kick Well, I was out the
Speaker 7: back kipping the foot and had to sit on My
Speaker 7: mate went up to the hangar and closed line the
Speaker 7: clothes line.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh crooky, you're lucky you didn't get real
Speaker 2: real damage.
Speaker 7: Oh. I had fourteen stitchers, seven on the inside the
Speaker 7: sould for one and seven on your hair tie.
Speaker 2: More stitches than the sharing. Did you get the most morning?
Speaker 2: Did you get the mark?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: I could well do.
Speaker 1: The Christian Connor Show podcast.
Speaker 2: My mum actually gave usself a black art the weekend,
Speaker 2: tripped over and hit her eye on a garden gnome.
Speaker 2: We've now raided the hand of Marbera sound effects. So
Speaker 2: whatever story you've got about how you gave yourself a
Speaker 2: black eye, I've got five different options that would choose
Speaker 2: that I think is appropriate for whatever your story is.
Speaker 2: All right? Who we got here? Young Christopher's on the line,
Speaker 2: junior listener? Hello Christopher?
Speaker 4: Hi? When I was six or seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of years ago. And how old are
Speaker 2: you now? Christopher?
Speaker 4: I'm ten?
Speaker 2: Okay? And uh and you're getting ready for school?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah?
Speaker 2: And mom and dad make you listen to the show?
Speaker 2: Do you choose to listen to us?
Speaker 4: When I first heard it, I really enjoyed it. So
Speaker 4: now whenever we go to school we listen to it.
Speaker 2: That was off cold a bit on us, but it's
Speaker 2: good to know that we're all good. Me and you?
Speaker 2: All right? So carry on? Couplees you about six or seven?
Speaker 2: And what happened.
Speaker 4: I saw a kid jump down close to the piano
Speaker 4: and walk off in school, in the drama class or
Speaker 4: my old school. Ye, and I said, hmm, I want
Speaker 4: to do that. So I was going to jump down,
Speaker 4: but I tripped on the curtains, so my head went forward,
Speaker 4: and but my body stayed the same and I hit
Speaker 4: my forehead on the piano.
Speaker 6: School.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that would have really hurt. Did you
Speaker 2: see story.
Speaker 4: I got a big hematoma and.
Speaker 6: I got two black eyes. I looked like a zombie.
Speaker 2: Yes, a little zombie zombie. Christopher, God, bet that hurt, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then the funny The funny part is I
Speaker 4: was I had to pick my sister up from.
Speaker 2: School the school drop the car from.
Speaker 4: Year five we went to the same school and said, oh,
Speaker 4: I got a hematoma. And then one of the year
Speaker 4: five says, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Yes, good, good question. It's a very big word, isn't
Speaker 2: it hematoma?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And even the year five teacher was impressed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I bet that teacher didn't even know what
Speaker 2: a hematoma was. No, you do, Oh they did that.
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah. And Christopher, is Thursday a good day
Speaker 2: at school for you? What do you what do you
Speaker 2: look forward to on a Thursday? What have you got?
Speaker 4: I'm well, it's casual closed day today.
Speaker 2: I always used to think there's a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: with that, aren't they to get your best outfit?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I go where are you going with jeans? T shirt?
Speaker 4: I'm wearing a I'm wearing a Golden State Warriors T shirt?
Speaker 4: And uh, this gets the global leaders like vote on
Speaker 4: a fundraiser to do so you bring money and I'm
Speaker 4: a global leader, so but I missed one of them meetings.
Speaker 2: You are kicking goals in life. You're nine years of age.
Speaker 2: You're a global leader. Your adult life is going to
Speaker 2: be an anti climax, no heats, no more global. You've
Speaker 2: conquered the world at nine global.
Speaker 4: It's it's not a very big deal. We just done.
Speaker 2: You're so modest.
Speaker 4: We just say, oh, which fundraiser would anybody like to do?
Speaker 4: And we vote on it and that's basically it.
Speaker 2: You sound like a very kind hearted young man. I
Speaker 2: hoe you raise some good money today.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: That's right. You have a good day. Hey, Christophy, you
Speaker 2: call the show whenever you want, got it, got it all?
Speaker 2: Good bye bye now, Danny, good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, calling from Tasmonia. I've got a great little story.
Speaker 2: Hello about where about Santasi.
Speaker 5: I'm in northern Tasmona. I've been long system I.
Speaker 2: Haven't been there. I've been to Hobart and I really
Speaker 2: want to go up there, especially beautiful. I love tasman
Speaker 2: It's stunning.
Speaker 5: The wineries are amazing.
Speaker 2: You've got me. I'm leaving in and out. How did
Speaker 2: you get that?
Speaker 7: Sorry? Was that?
Speaker 2: How do you get your black eye?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 5: I had a retail meinswear store, and the regular customer
Speaker 5: came in and I'm served this actuluente China, And I said,
Speaker 5: what happened to mate? And he said, well, on the weekend,
Speaker 5: I went fishing, and he said, a bit of trout fishing,
Speaker 5: and you know those ball sinkers that are on the
Speaker 5: end of your fishing line. You know, the whole obviously,
Speaker 5: the whole debating. He got a snag on a rock
Speaker 5: and then he said, I just yanked it really hard
Speaker 5: and flew back and it actually went in between the
Speaker 5: bridge of his nose and the back of his eye.
Speaker 5: I went actually in behind his eye. I know.
Speaker 4: It was terrible.
Speaker 5: Anyway, he said, because he was by himself, he didn't
Speaker 5: want to pull it out because he didn't know what
Speaker 5: damage he was going.
Speaker 2: It's like something about Mary.
Speaker 4: Isn't it is? It is?
Speaker 5: So he had to drive to the emergency ward with
Speaker 5: the fishing lines and the rod in his hand.
Speaker 2: Story, how was he driving like that?
Speaker 3: I know it was.
Speaker 5: I just could not. I could not believe.
Speaker 6: I actually didn't believe it.
Speaker 5: But he showed me where he went into the emergency
Speaker 5: Vegon and I didn't do any damage. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so lucky Danny.
Speaker 5: You can imagine me now, Christian, when I go fishing on.
Speaker 2: Danny. Great story. Thank you very much for giving us
Speaker 2: a call.
Speaker 4: No worries.
Speaker 1: So Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Some amazing stories about how you gave yourself or how
Speaker 2: you got a black eye this morning. Jenny Hello, Jenny hey, Christian,
Speaker 2: thank you very much for waiting the other side of
Speaker 2: the news. So desperately want to hear your story. So
Speaker 2: how did you get your black eye?
Speaker 8: So many years ago in the eighties, we were camping
Speaker 8: up the coast one summer and we stopped a roadside
Speaker 8: camp place near the highway. So very young, having a
Speaker 8: great time, drinks flowing freely, and something hit me in
Speaker 8: the eye, didn't think too.
Speaker 5: Much of it.
Speaker 8: Woke up the next morning in the tent, but I
Speaker 8: was all swollen, bruised, black cass and I found out
Speaker 8: a few days later in my so finally meet it
Speaker 8: that some of the guys were throwing eggs at the
Speaker 8: passing trucks. I'm in the weirs of the morning and
Speaker 8: one of the eggsplanded in my eye. The trips I
Speaker 8: wore sunglasses too hard.
Speaker 5: My black eye.
Speaker 8: Moment, but with a very good camping.
Speaker 2: Trip response like I so someone threw an egg at you?
Speaker 8: Yes, and could have possibly bring my sister one of
Speaker 8: my friends.
Speaker 2: With a friendly fire. Jenny, thank you very much you called.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I love hearing stories about things
Speaker 2: that get thrown at people. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: It's just a funny idea. Is this someone throwing someone
Speaker 2: in the eye. Let's now actually use Jenny's story what
Speaker 2: got thrown at you? I remember about fifteen years ago
Speaker 2: the radio station i'd worked for, they asked me to
Speaker 2: come on host their sales awards. Do right, and it
Speaker 2: was like up in Scotland. So I was flowing up
Speaker 2: there and they said, hey, listen, really go for it,
Speaker 2: really take the mickey out the managers, because then their
Speaker 2: teammates would love that. So telling me that's like red
Speaker 2: rag to ball, So I like, okay, I'll really unload
Speaker 2: on the anyway doing this god awful gig. I'm really
Speaker 2: it's not going very well. They're just like talking amongst themselves.
Speaker 2: They've been drinking all day and you're just in this
Speaker 2: this room with them. There's no stage or anything. And
Speaker 2: one of the one of the ladies there, one of
Speaker 2: the team leaders, she literally had some strange suit on
Speaker 2: and it looked like she was just come straight from
Speaker 2: a production of Bugsy Malone. So I was mentioned that
Speaker 2: isn't a great hot bugsy MALONEA tonight all of her
Speaker 2: teammates go. She looks at them. They're sat around tables
Speaker 2: where they've been eating, and they've got like desserted on them.
Speaker 2: She picks up a cake. I'm not joking about it.
Speaker 2: You would have loved it. She picks up, comes at me,
Speaker 2: throws the gut out at me because she's like hammered
Speaker 2: right heckle by cake.
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