Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell shoe shoe show. You me ho this new
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Speaker 3: Pro professional Here. Animals on public Transport, Christian. When I
Speaker 3: first got my cat, took him home on the train.
Speaker 3: It was a three hour trip. That's a long type
Speaker 3: of little cat. They wouldn't let here. They wouldn't let
Speaker 3: me have him with me in the carriage, so we
Speaker 3: had to ride up the front with the conductor.
Speaker 4: That's so cute.
Speaker 2: I could hear a sad little meal the whole trail.
Speaker 2: Great view up there, loove three hours.
Speaker 3: All right, lines are open right now? Nine four one
Speaker 3: four one four three. Animals on public transport? What have
Speaker 3: you dropped? And do you have a name where you
Speaker 3: have to do the old my name as in and then.
Speaker 2: Explain what it is. Let's go to Is it Waquina?
Speaker 2: Have I pronounced that right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, so Jaquina? So how do you explain it to people?
Speaker 3: What is your name as in?
Speaker 4: Okay? I always say my name is as in Joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 4: But he added a on the H.
Speaker 2: I think that makes it more complicated. If any of
Speaker 2: us are honest, who knows how to be spelled jaquin?
Speaker 2: No one does? Is A three as a q A
Speaker 2: you and I. It's it's a lot going on and phoenixes. Yes,
Speaker 2: what did he use?
Speaker 4: So people don't know who he is and they're like, okay,
Speaker 4: can you spell it? And then I say, okay, j
Speaker 4: a q because.
Speaker 2: Then you got he was the joke.
Speaker 5: After after.
Speaker 3: It's so complicated, just do what perhaps done and just
Speaker 3: say my name is.
Speaker 4: Pat Well in the end actually, because people will say, oh,
Speaker 4: is there a shorter version to your name?
Speaker 6: And then when I spell it, yeah.
Speaker 3: When I moved here for a year, I heard that.
Speaker 3: I was like, like, what's your name to go christianly
Speaker 3: go Chris okay and yeah, okay, Now I just go
Speaker 3: it's just easier you call what we want, yeah Chris, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: How I'll be here.
Speaker 4: Then correct so when I spell it over the phone,
Speaker 4: because I say waquina. When I spell it over the phone,
Speaker 4: I go j A and I go, oh, I thought
Speaker 4: it was w.
Speaker 2: A k I n A what joaquina? Wakanda? And tell
Speaker 2: me this. I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Now, have you got two ends at the end of
Speaker 3: your name before the A no, just what gotcha?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: If I have a need to take down your name
Speaker 3: or know now or meet someone else with your name,
Speaker 3: or I'm chatting to Jaquin Phoenix, need to book him
Speaker 3: into reception? All right, thank you very much, of call
Speaker 3: with any one of our show Beanie hats okay, thank you, Marlin,
Speaker 3: good morning, Marlin.
Speaker 5: Hi you going Christian?
Speaker 2: Now, Marlin? Your name as in Marlon Brando. Now it
Speaker 2: depends who you're talking to.
Speaker 3: So I understand him and Pat's word of a certain age.
Speaker 3: But what about if you're dealing with like a twenty
Speaker 3: year old, They're not going to know who Marlon Brando is? Now,
Speaker 3: do you reckon?
Speaker 5: No? No, not really, Like a lot of the time
Speaker 5: I get confused with the Fish or Nemo's dade.
Speaker 2: I forgot he was called that as in Neo's dads.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look that that spelt differently, but that's generally
Speaker 5: what I get away with. And then my last name
Speaker 5: is McLoud, so it's in McLeod's daughters, not as in
Speaker 5: like mc cloud ye l e O d.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got you've got a lot going on with
Speaker 3: your name as well. You've got to do two as in, haven't.
Speaker 5: You yeah, it's it's it's definitely a trouble in life.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it's the first world problem, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Martin, thank you very much. She called my I
Speaker 3: have a good day thanks to killing the show. Cheers, counting,
Speaker 3: good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: So your name, as in, what do you say to people?
Speaker 1: Well, our last name has two pronunciations, so if you
Speaker 1: say it with the original Italian, you could pronounce it
Speaker 1: like a facial pastor, which is more squetti.
Speaker 5: So who.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, if you say it is Aussie Bergan, it's like
Speaker 1: the big knife, Michelle.
Speaker 2: That's two wildly different words, aren't they though, Kerm.
Speaker 1: Yes exactly, and people constantly get it mistaken. Otherwise, if
Speaker 1: you take my maiden name, which is German, it's keeeny.
Speaker 1: I just say my grandfather, whose first name was Bert,
Speaker 1: was the person who invented swim with be Keeni.
Speaker 2: That's very clever, theo way you broke it the down
Speaker 2: actually I impressed.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, A cool no worries, all right,
Speaker 3: keep this coming. Then, if you've got a name where
Speaker 3: you have to say us in and you've got some
Speaker 3: handy go to way of explaining what your name is,
Speaker 3: and We're so looking for your stories about what have
Speaker 3: you dropped? And animals on public transport?
Speaker 2: Christian no Connall's show podcast.
Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's show. Do you have a name? We have
Speaker 3: to every time you're explaining it to somebody, how to
Speaker 3: spell it, how it sounds, you have to do, as
Speaker 3: in you've got to go to Christian. My name is Loats.
Speaker 3: When asked a spell it, I say, it's like boats,
Speaker 3: but with an L, not a B. Also, when I
Speaker 3: was three, my sister was carrying me at a caravan park.
Speaker 3: She suddenly saw a frog, freaked out, dropped.
Speaker 2: Me on the ground and ran away.
Speaker 3: Wow that is quite she drops you, all right? So
Speaker 3: on today's show, what have you dropped? Animals on public transport?
Speaker 3: And do you have a name? As in what do
Speaker 3: you say to people? Nine four one four one O
Speaker 3: four three. Laura, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Laura, Good morning everybody. My name's Laura, and I'm Itallian.
Speaker 7: But it's not spelled La. You are a it's spelled
Speaker 7: l O R. And I have to explain to everybody
Speaker 7: it's like Dora but with a L. And everyone looks
Speaker 7: at me really strange. And then I even get asked,
Speaker 7: how do I pronounce your name and how do you
Speaker 7: spell it?
Speaker 2: So Laura.
Speaker 3: I just presume there was only one way I was
Speaker 3: spelling Laura. So there's a different Italian variation.
Speaker 7: Well, apparently it's a German. It's the German spelling I
Speaker 7: was told by if I work with children and family
Speaker 7: told me. The grandmother goes, oh, are you German? And
Speaker 7: I said no, I'm actually attaining. She said, We're all
Speaker 7: spelling is spelled how the Germans would spell Laura. So
Speaker 7: go figure.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know what my parents are thinking, but I
Speaker 7: think I've ever only had one person in my whole
Speaker 7: entire lifetime when they've set me mail, have not asked
Speaker 7: me how to spell my name, and they've actually spelled
Speaker 7: to lra. And every time I get anything spelled that way,
Speaker 7: I'm in shock. I work, as I said, with children
Speaker 7: in the parents. When I get cards, like at Christmas
Speaker 7: time or a thank you card or something, it's always
Speaker 7: l A U R A spell l everywhere so they
Speaker 7: can see it, but no one, no one even knows that.
Speaker 7: And I actually worked somewhere with they called me for
Speaker 7: six months Laura.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nowhere near Laura, is it no?
Speaker 7: And when I left, they said goodbye Laura. And in
Speaker 7: the end, I just I was sick of telling them
Speaker 7: that my name calls me Laura.
Speaker 2: That's it. I've done out of here.
Speaker 3: All right, Laura as in Dora. Correct, We've gotcha, all right,
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Laura as in Dora.
Speaker 2: That's you cool, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Have a good day, babe.
Speaker 3: I thought we're going to get a few more jobs.
Speaker 3: Then I think it's Laura as in once I was
Speaker 3: working with.
Speaker 2: We got a full CV either. We went through that resume.
Speaker 2: My friend Michael, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 8: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Good So you've got a story about animals on public transport,
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 8: My parents had an outing of the city and they're
Speaker 8: at a tram stop waiting to come home. So they
Speaker 8: had been a good Samara and thought I'd give this
Speaker 8: lady a hand lifting the pram into the tram and
Speaker 8: they said that they got it up there, and Mom
Speaker 8: had a look, and then she had to look again
Speaker 8: and she starts laughing. It's like you've just given a
Speaker 8: lady a hand with a cat inside the pram. That
Speaker 8: my dad turned round. He's like just shook his head like.
Speaker 2: To do still help somebody out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, great, he's a good Samaran. But then he's just
Speaker 8: like now he's thinking twice when there's a pram when
Speaker 8: he heads into the city again. So she's like, you've
Speaker 8: never seen.
Speaker 3: You know, we call out for me once cat and
Speaker 3: the prams. That's how arrogant cats are. If we're going
Speaker 3: to town. You got ferry around and would take the tram.
Speaker 8: He was brought back by it. But we're still give
Speaker 8: him bit of crap about it. So yeah, it's good fun.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: The love it all right, Michael, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Have a good eight guys.
Speaker 3: All right, Rob, good morning, Wrath Animals and Public Transport.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Christian, Good morning everyone. I was backpacking
Speaker 6: around Africa and I had to take a taxi. They
Speaker 6: called him a tattoo in Swahili. Twelve Nairobi up to
Speaker 6: Mount Kenya. And on the journey, the taxi driver decided
Speaker 6: to pull over and buy a chicken that I had
Speaker 6: to buy. I had to hold the chicken for the
Speaker 6: entire journey.
Speaker 3: It is there's a many questions. So they were they
Speaker 3: were just selling, like a truck stop or somebody. We're
Speaker 3: just selling chickens at the side of the road.
Speaker 6: He must have had a regular pullover point where he
Speaker 6: bought a chicken on a regular base.
Speaker 2: He was a chicken guy. He's around eleven on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2: We managed to catch him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely So how long did you have to hold
Speaker 3: the chicken for?
Speaker 6: Well, it's three hours from Mount Kenya.
Speaker 2: What should he start hooping or sort of pecking around,
Speaker 2: wouldn't it.
Speaker 6: I'm a farmer's son, Christian. I can cope with that
Speaker 6: sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Sorry, stupid question, which I should have known Rob. All
Speaker 2: right then, Rob, lovely, Thank you very much, You cool,
Speaker 2: thank you. A bit testy there though, they're a good so.
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