WEBVTT - MINI: Blown Away

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<v Speaker 1>Quest.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>on the show, then we got the story from Fiona,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought we could get some more stories about

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<v Speaker 2>things blown away and flying away Christian. I bought a

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<v Speaker 2>big painting on canvas. They brought it out to the

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<v Speaker 2>car and I realized it was too big to fit

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<v Speaker 2>to the station work and I had so I try

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<v Speaker 2>to attach it to the roof rack with string and

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<v Speaker 2>duct tape.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know when you see people who have tried to

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<v Speaker 2>do this, they don't it's only two k's, it's not far,

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<v Speaker 2>and they look so nervous. You know that isn't making

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<v Speaker 2>it back to your house. I thought if a drive

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<v Speaker 2>home at Snail's pace, everything would be okay.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't.

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<v Speaker 2>About two hundred meters up the road, the painting flew

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<v Speaker 2>off the roof and landed in the middle of the

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<v Speaker 2>road and I had to stop the traffic. So yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>were talked about why did you have to stop the traffic?

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<v Speaker 2>But I think there might be more stories from you

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<v Speaker 2>this morning on nine four one four, one oh four

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<v Speaker 2>three about things flying away. I remember being up about

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<v Speaker 2>a year and a half ago on a holiday. We're

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<v Speaker 2>up on the Gold Coast and I brought this gazebo

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<v Speaker 2>to protect us from the sun. Only the wind changed

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<v Speaker 2>really quickly and the gazebo and being just in the sea,

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<v Speaker 2>I could see this gazeba tumbling. It was like doing

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<v Speaker 2>several flipping and people were like moving their kids out

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<v Speaker 2>of the way, and you know when they look at

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<v Speaker 2>down the beach and go, where's the jet that didn't

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<v Speaker 2>secure this or but were enough sand and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>we don't need to wait it down too much as

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<v Speaker 2>a lovely sunny day kids. I then had to get

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<v Speaker 2>out and run. I was actually chasing this gazebo and

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<v Speaker 2>it's bloody. Had to get one of those it starts

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<v Speaker 2>because it became then a kind of sorts as the

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<v Speaker 2>wind was behind sort of pulling me.

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<v Speaker 3>At what point do you just leave and go shuffle

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<v Speaker 3>the family off the bat It's not our.

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<v Speaker 2>Someone else's problem. Yeah, jackie boy, if you've got to

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<v Speaker 2>saw about something flying away.

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<v Speaker 3>I had one over summer. I tried to do a

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<v Speaker 3>DIY project with Mum and Dad's old outdoor umbrella, one

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<v Speaker 3>of the big ones that you hoist above an outdoor setting,

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<v Speaker 3>and I took the top off it and just put

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<v Speaker 3>the canvas umbrella on the outdoor. I guess it's like

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<v Speaker 3>an open pergole of that backyard, so it's got no shade.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought I'll just use the big umbrella and make

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<v Speaker 3>a shade class with it. Tied it down with metal wire,

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<v Speaker 3>so I thought it was solid. It wasn't even a

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<v Speaker 3>week up there before it snapped the wire.

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<v Speaker 1>And blew off. Wow to go next door.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it's thankfully it didn't because if it did, it

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<v Speaker 3>could have really caused some damage. It just went further

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<v Speaker 3>into the backyard.

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<v Speaker 1>So what just like metal wires, use cable ties or anything.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I thought it was stronger than I thought metal

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<v Speaker 3>wire was strong. The cable ties would have come off

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<v Speaker 3>surely plastic.

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<v Speaker 1>Christian Connell's show podcast, Patsy, what's your story? What flew away? Mate?

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<v Speaker 4>Dad was taking me to UNI back in the day

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<v Speaker 4>and he had strapped my wardrobe on the top of

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<v Speaker 4>the roof or actually no, he'd sort of put the

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<v Speaker 4>wardrobe in the back of his ute on the tray

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<v Speaker 4>and like put straps around the cab.

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<v Speaker 1>You mean like a wooden sort.

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<v Speaker 4>Of old style wardrobe because there wasn't a wardrobe in

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<v Speaker 4>my room and he'd got those you know, those stretches.

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<v Speaker 2>In my mind, this is a walking one. It's an

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<v Speaker 2>actual room.

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<v Speaker 3>Floor room at university.

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<v Speaker 1>There's an entire room being towed. And you see those

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<v Speaker 1>wide loads.

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<v Speaker 2>It's one of those cabins. It's perhaps he's walking wardrope.

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<v Speaker 5>I wish it was.

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<v Speaker 4>No, it was just one of those secondhand, old wooden

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<v Speaker 4>ones that's about one hundred years old.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to weigh a ton, did he used.

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<v Speaker 4>To weigh a ton? Anyway, So we were setting off

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<v Speaker 4>from Country Victoria into Melbourne and we hit about eu

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<v Speaker 4>Rolla and Dad had to break suddenly on the freeway

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<v Speaker 4>and this thing you could just hear, like the twing

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<v Speaker 4>of those stretchy things with the hooks on the end. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>it come loose, and the thing just, I swear, just

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<v Speaker 4>flew over the top of the cab and just banged

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<v Speaker 4>in front on the freeway and it was spinning like

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<v Speaker 4>some sort of breakdowncer on its back, just going round

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<v Speaker 4>and round and round. It was just and it just

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<v Speaker 4>fell apart.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, no, your nineties flying across the freeway.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know. Those things are called octopus springs. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>yeahsome aren't they.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, when you stretch something and if you if

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<v Speaker 2>you don't get there rhyin a hook up with its

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<v Speaker 2>other other half and put it together and they fly back.

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<v Speaker 1>They will smash you in the wrist. I always get

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<v Speaker 1>the back of your hand.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm always scared of doing them.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know that's what it's called. Steve's on the line, Steve,

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<v Speaker 2>what flew away?

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<v Speaker 6>Hey, Hey, guys, my daughter's trampoline.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, trampolines and umbrellas always get blown away, don't they.

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<v Speaker 1>So what happened?

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<v Speaker 6>It was a really windy day and I've got a

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<v Speaker 6>knock at the door, and my neighbor has asked me

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<v Speaker 6>if I was missing something from my backyard. Enough, the

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<v Speaker 6>trampoline was missing. So I went next door with my

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<v Speaker 6>neighbor and found the trampoline perfectly placed in the middle

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<v Speaker 6>of the backyard at his place, and damaged like someone

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<v Speaker 6>had just put it there.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's the perfect land and a ten from the judges.

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<v Speaker 1>So what do you have to do? Did you just

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<v Speaker 1>roll it down the road back to yours?

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<v Speaker 6>He helped me carry it back next door. Not very heavy,

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<v Speaker 6>big big round one with the mesh on the sides.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they used to. We were hardcore. You smashed that.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's up to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing good's coming your way. We weed out the thickies,

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<v Speaker 2>let them bounce off. Now we keep all the thickies

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<v Speaker 2>in the net, you know, Steve, thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 1>You call it. Let's go to Sam. Good morning, Sam.

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<v Speaker 5>Hi Christian Patson, Jack, how are you well?

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<v Speaker 1>Remembered? And Sam? What flew away?

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<v Speaker 5>So my sister and her partner were at the park

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<v Speaker 5>one day and her pet ferret was swooped by a bird,

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<v Speaker 5>and the bird took the ferret and flew away with it. No, luckily, luckily.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm still the family. Did it get yourself a proper dog?

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<v Speaker 1>The ferret was taken away?

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<v Speaker 5>Well luckily for her at that time when they're at

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<v Speaker 5>the park, she had like a little leash for it,

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<v Speaker 5>and had it on a leash like a dog.

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<v Speaker 2>And that she was what was she then taking away?

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<v Speaker 2>As reverse popping flying across the suburbs.

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<v Speaker 5>She managed to unclutch the bird and get her pitt.

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<v Speaker 1>See down at the dog park. It's incredible. So she

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<v Speaker 1>got the ferret back?

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<v Speaker 5>She did, She did get the ferret back.

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<v Speaker 2>God a story that little fellow had when he got

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<v Speaker 2>back to tell his little ferret friends what happened to

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<v Speaker 2>him that day.

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<v Speaker 1>Lovely stuff, so all right, sounds actually cool.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.