Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you on the next half
Speaker 1: an out about Korea one eighties. I've got lovely text
Speaker 1: on one of you yesterday in Patsy's News yesterday was this.
Speaker 1: I think you had some stats packs about people who
Speaker 1: later on their life really regret that they feel trapped
Speaker 1: in the jobs that they kind of didn't think they'd
Speaker 1: be doing for the rest of their lives and they
Speaker 1: wish they could have gone back.
Speaker 2: About fifty people or something when they were surveyed, about
Speaker 2: a fifth thought, nah, I wish I hadn't have done this,
Speaker 2: and it's too late to change now once they're in
Speaker 2: their fifties.
Speaker 1: And then Trisha said that she's in her sixties and
Speaker 1: that's not true. She did a career one eighty where
Speaker 1: she was a cleaner, and she went back and retrained
Speaker 1: and she's now a teacher's aide and has never been
Speaker 1: happy and she's in her sixties. So I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from people during the next half an hour. It
Speaker 1: might motivate someone today about actually, it's never too late,
Speaker 1: and there are so many people who've got these really
Speaker 1: amazing stories about carea one eighties. There's a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who was my first mentor in radio and one
Speaker 1: of the best radio presenters there's ever been, called Tony
Speaker 1: and he used to be He used to have a
Speaker 1: massive radio show in the UK in a city called Newcastle.
Speaker 1: Newcastle was a big, very very well known and loved
Speaker 1: city in the north of England. Tony's breakfast show was
Speaker 1: so big there. You know how the ratings were. It's
Speaker 1: a percentage of how many out of a universe of
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, how many are listening to your radio show.
Speaker 1: Tony Horn for about eight years had fifty seven percent
Speaker 1: of that city listening to him every single morning. Huge, right,
Speaker 1: you know where we are. Imagine if you're at fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent. And he literally was the city anyway. He
Speaker 1: did breakfast radio for years and years and years and
Speaker 1: years and then just got burnt out. He is now
Speaker 1: a different person, far happier. He's a postman, right, and
Speaker 1: he still listens to my show sometimes and give me
Speaker 1: notes and feedback, which I love. My mentor is still
Speaker 1: out there listening to.
Speaker 2: Me, sweet together, whistling up and down even street listening
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 1: And no one would know and he's a post in
Speaker 1: the city that he used to be the main guy.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible story. So PARSI, do you know anyone
Speaker 1: who's in a career.
Speaker 2: My girlfriend Lennie, who I met in radio. Lenny was
Speaker 2: an absolute news reading legend, so big at Triple M
Speaker 2: in the eighties and had a long radio career, then
Speaker 2: went into PR and has suddenly had a complete change,
Speaker 2: is now studying to be a funeral director with a
Speaker 2: major group here in Melbourne. So that change of you know,
Speaker 2: I think she just got herned out after COVID. She
Speaker 2: work for the Health Department and that was hard. It
Speaker 2: was tough doing PR during those years, and she's thought,
Speaker 2: you know what, I need to do something completely different
Speaker 2: and she's taking all those amazing people skills she's got
Speaker 2: and she's going to marry it with the funeral industry
Speaker 2: and she'll be brilliant with families. She'll be so good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, hardcore course apparently like it's as you can imagine,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty involved, but complete change.
Speaker 1: Directors. You met the one Alex that we have for
Speaker 1: my mother in law. Last year she made what is
Speaker 1: just like the worst time for my wife and her
Speaker 1: sister going through all. It's just like this overwhelming admin
Speaker 1: you have to get into immediately when you're also trying
Speaker 1: to process grief. She was incredible, just like they make
Speaker 1: such a difference in people's lives going through that.
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