Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: extraordinary scenes yesterday at about what nine twenty is when?
Speaker 1: So is it is that right now?
Speaker 2: Is that official?
Speaker 1: Abouts? Here? A magnitude six five point nine? I believe
Speaker 1: just a fraction of six. Yeah, you could round it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the seismologists should have just rounded up, because in fact,
Speaker 1: if I was around there, I say almost seven. You know,
Speaker 1: once you get about the five, you don't really worry
Speaker 1: about It's something radio figures come out and your number one.
Speaker 1: But you know there's a little site fudge of it
Speaker 1: where they just claim it anyway, So peraraently, where was
Speaker 1: the ePIE Center because they're saying that was it Mansfield? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mansfield which is northeast of Melbourne about what is it
Speaker 1: three and a half hours four hours away?
Speaker 3: That's your old stop.
Speaker 1: It's not far. Yeah, relatives felt the ground move yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think everyone felt something yesterday. Tom you know his
Speaker 1: girlfriend works in surgery. She's a doctor. She was in surgery. Obviously, people,
Speaker 1: because if you think about what anyone is doing in
Speaker 1: a big city like Melbourne at exactly that moment in
Speaker 1: the morning, they're doing stuff and we're in lockdown, but
Speaker 1: there's still a central service has been carried out. People
Speaker 1: are performing procedures now. There was an open heart surgery
Speaker 1: going on, and you can imagine the shake. Jack and
Speaker 1: I were in this studio just having a meeting. It
Speaker 1: was swaying puts it mildly. It made the building feel flimsy,
Speaker 1: And that's what many people said the same thing. This
Speaker 1: building is flimsy. That's what I like, because I remember
Speaker 1: just thinking, so is this it? I'll die because this
Speaker 1: building won't survive much more of this. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: barely a day goes by there's not a horrible smell
Speaker 1: of crap out there where the sewer problems. Remember like
Speaker 1: once a week the male toilets are just bunned up
Speaker 1: where they're out of order, and just walking into a
Speaker 1: reception there's often a horrible smell of an open tree.
Speaker 1: If they can't even get the toilets working, it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna survive five point nine on the rick.
Speaker 3: This does have a feeling of like one of the
Speaker 3: first buildings in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little be Now it's actually Betty. But if that's
Speaker 1: taking a count out any longer, and we're on the
Speaker 1: second floor here. I did actually think, so, wait, is
Speaker 1: this it we die? Yeah, and we didn't move a muscle. No,
Speaker 1: we're in an emergent, sitting there with your feet up there.
Speaker 1: Jack and I were stood up. I remember one point
Speaker 1: grabbing hold of the studios, like that's going to save me.
Speaker 2: This will.
Speaker 1: My biceps are pretty strong and probably stronger than probably
Speaker 1: stronger than manitude six. I thought you were going to
Speaker 1: secure the radio.
Speaker 2: Equipment, secured the station.
Speaker 1: Captain goes down with the station and I'm just dinner
Speaker 1: in that trailer. This radio station is thirty years old
Speaker 1: to my true. Yeah, I just yeah, I just read that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anyone told any of us. Yeah. Here
Speaker 1: they're having a party on it that we're invited to.
Speaker 2: This is like my DA stream.
Speaker 1: I'm being rejected everywhere, even my own radio station. Also,
Speaker 1: this radio station would be thirties heading into Middle Ages. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson was a guy that's start discussing it at
Speaker 1: a press conference with Scomo.
Speaker 2: I was very thorry you had an earthquake, just yeah
Speaker 2: in the Mansfield that's right in Victoria, which I know, Well.
Speaker 1: Right, we need to contact number ten down in street.
Speaker 1: How does Boris Johnson, even though he's aware of the
Speaker 1: state of Victoria. Great, how does he know about Mansfield?
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson? Has he ever been to Mansfield? Has he
Speaker 1: got Are there any relatives have here? We to undercover this?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 2: I was very thorry you had an earthquake? Just yeah,
Speaker 2: in the Mansfield that's right in Victoria, which I know well, not.
Speaker 3: Even I've been there, like I've passed her on my
Speaker 3: way to the Skifield.
Speaker 1: I know, well, yeah, not that I know of. I know. Well,
Speaker 1: how justify that? Boris The Christian O'Connell show podcast. I
Speaker 1: got an email here from Adam this simpler show right now,
Speaker 1: Hello Adam, Christian, listen to you play in excess from
Speaker 1: the Grand Final. I was there, been to four Grand
Speaker 1: Finals as a Saints fan, always a hugely disappointing day,
Speaker 1: and it has played. They were great. And as we
Speaker 1: were trudging back Laka after yet another disappointing Grand Final,
Speaker 1: I was stood in my sent Kilda kit. We looked
Speaker 1: over and I saw Kirk Pengilly from an excess walking
Speaker 1: as well. He looked over, saw me and my family.
Speaker 1: Our eyes met. I could see nothing but a sympathy
Speaker 1: in his eyes, and he sort of had been one
Speaker 1: of those that like that was ugly. That's from Adam.
Speaker 1: Just to clarify some of them. We just played this
Speaker 1: out earlier for Boris Johnson and Scomo talking about the quake.
Speaker 2: I was very sorry you had an earthquake just yet
Speaker 2: in the Mansfield that's right in Victoria, which I know well.
Speaker 1: So a lot of you have found out.
Speaker 2: I've told us.
Speaker 1: Then. The reason why Boris Johnson really does know Mansfield
Speaker 1: well is apparently quite a few of you texting him.
Speaker 1: Boris was apparently a teacher at timber Top.
Speaker 2: Oh really imagine having.
Speaker 1: Him as a teacher. It would be an amazing chaos
Speaker 1: but incredible. Every lesson would be amazing with Boris. So
Speaker 1: yesterday when with the big earthquake shook Melbourne, Jack and
Speaker 1: I I were in the studio. The show had just
Speaker 1: finished at nine o'clock, I think it was around sort
Speaker 1: of twenty past nine, nine to twenty five, and it
Speaker 1: went on for we now know went on for ten seconds.
Speaker 1: We're on the second floor. The building was already shaking,
Speaker 1: and then when it all calmed down, no one really
Speaker 1: knew what was going on. We just thought it was
Speaker 1: some building work. This building weren't going on in here,
Speaker 1: and it was only then when we realized when we
Speaker 1: were told that it had been an earthquake, and it
Speaker 1: was possibly a five point eight five point nine. But
Speaker 1: the incredible thing was loads of you were calling in.
Speaker 1: There was this instinctive need for all of us to
Speaker 1: talk about what we've just been through and compare notes.
Speaker 1: You want to talk to somebody, and so me, Jack
Speaker 1: and Pats jumped into the studio and recorded a load
Speaker 1: of calls with you guys. And I'm really glad we
Speaker 1: did because so this was live yesterday. I reckon what
Speaker 1: minutes after the earthquake magnitude six. Here were some of
Speaker 1: the calls RTT. So did you feel that quake?
Speaker 3: Yeah, dann in point cook make everything in the shed
Speaker 3: was moving around, and me mate across the road, Daddy's
Speaker 3: prel water was moving a bit of foot over each side.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You were okay? Were you frightened?
Speaker 3: It did shivering me a little bit. Yeah, I've never
Speaker 3: felt an earthquake before.
Speaker 1: Stay safe, Brett. Thanks to Colling Buddy.
Speaker 3: Budd Karen tell you what it was horrible.
Speaker 1: I work in the general store, and post office at
Speaker 1: Panton Hill.
Speaker 3: The whole place started shaking. I thought a truck had
Speaker 3: hit the shot. The doors on the storage cabinet fell down,
Speaker 3: and it was just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're scared. At first, I thought what was that.
Speaker 1: Then it just kept rumbling and rumbling, and I thought,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And I ran outside and I couldn't
Speaker 1: see anything, and then I realized, I think we had
Speaker 1: an earthquake. IM glad you're okay, Karen, thanks to Corning.
Speaker 1: Take care look after yourself.
Speaker 3: Thank you by John.
Speaker 1: Did the earth move for you.
Speaker 3: In a big way?
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 3: We were sitting in the mid noddles, just waiting for
Speaker 3: our order to come through, and the car started shaking.
Speaker 3: We thought they were tricking us, just walking up and
Speaker 3: shaking the back.
Speaker 1: To get those shakes shaky. It's a new promotion, the
Speaker 1: shaky Shakes in town, and weren't.
Speaker 3: Forfee enough, so I was trying to prof others it more.
Speaker 1: John, take care, Thanks Mick.
Speaker 3: I was inside me Fair Tree and I was just
Speaker 3: making up paint because I'm doing a bit of painting there,
Speaker 3: and then I've felt like a little tremor and I
Speaker 3: looked up on the roof because they've got cross bars
Speaker 3: across the roof, and they sounded shaking like man. I thought, whoa,
Speaker 3: here we go.
Speaker 1: Were you scared?
Speaker 2: No, not really.
Speaker 3: I was just dumping and I thought, while I shake him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack and I did nothing. We just stood there talking. Lenano,
Speaker 1: come in and carry me out. Where's Kevin Well?
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