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Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Guys, it's Wednesday. It's the middle of the week. Let's
Speaker 2: imagine a Wednesday. It's halftime. Are you winning or losing
Speaker 2: your week so far? We call it the midweek scores.
Speaker 2: Let us know how this week is going so far?
Speaker 2: Few would you say you're winning or losing? Let me
Speaker 2: know Text me four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 2: Giant l all over me. Probably smell of it today
Speaker 2: as it came into it. Guys, and I apologize. I
Speaker 2: have tried to sprits and spray, but you can't. Sometimes
Speaker 2: a stench of loser. You know, I told you we are.
Speaker 2: We're moving home. We're downsizing now. My wife and I
Speaker 2: are empty nester. So in the new downsized place we're
Speaker 2: moving to at the end of the year, there's no
Speaker 2: room for me to have a even a small desk
Speaker 2: in an office. So I'm reduced to speaking to companies
Speaker 2: that do that. You know, it's big business. During COVID,
Speaker 2: a lot of people had these like pods studios, yes.
Speaker 1: And they're called garden studios. Now, all right, garden studio.
Speaker 2: However, because the dimensions that I've now been whittled down
Speaker 2: to by my wife, I'm not making such which is
Speaker 2: two meters by two meters.
Speaker 1: No, sorry, that's not any no, no, no. A lot
Speaker 1: of them are saying anything. Do you know what.
Speaker 2: I've contacted to so many companies to do this. They've
Speaker 2: all most of them said, so far, we don't go
Speaker 2: down that small because you know why, we don't make
Speaker 2: cells for Guantanamo Bay. I'm looking for a garden Guanamo
Speaker 2: Bay cell.
Speaker 1: Next year's the biggest year of my career.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be running a national radio show from
Speaker 2: a cell in the gardens two.
Speaker 1: Meters by two meters. You know.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing meetings and business deals. And they'll be like, wait,
Speaker 2: you're in a small shed you start. Have you been kidnapped?
Speaker 4: Is this strictly due to the size of the house
Speaker 4: or is this because Sarah.
Speaker 1: Has you're allotted space.
Speaker 2: I never even thought about this. She always shew word
Speaker 2: going to contain me. After twenty seven years in marriage,
Speaker 2: she's cracked it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: There's simply no room. A little look area over there.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, some flowers are going to go though.
Speaker 2: That's a dog's bed. Now we've allocated.
Speaker 1: They're whopping two meters two meters by two meters.
Speaker 2: I've got to get Oh, I can get smart. Seriously,
Speaker 2: you want to not be at a house a prisoner
Speaker 2: in there, but your husband running a national radio show
Speaker 2: from a two by two meters sell.
Speaker 4: Viol likes the Geneva convention.
Speaker 1: Can I hire someone as a lawyer?
Speaker 2: Have I got rights or did I sign them away
Speaker 2: at the marriage all to twenty seven years ago?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolute losing at the moment companies ago. Wait did we
Speaker 2: misread the emails at that time? But you don't mean
Speaker 2: two by two?
Speaker 5: I bet you still need counsel approval for it, though I.
Speaker 2: Don't think even the council will care about that. What
Speaker 2: is this a dog kennel? My wife was what it
Speaker 2: was a it's a sort of garden potting sheds. It
Speaker 2: doesn't even have a window. It doesn't even have a window.
Speaker 2: There's a slight sort opening through the door. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: exactly it was a potting shed. And then my wife
Speaker 2: even said with that, she was like that roof looks
Speaker 2: a little bit high, fall into it like an animal.
Speaker 2: Why mean you be happy, Sarah? So yeah, just just
Speaker 2: losing life. It's going to get too hot. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't do about air con. Alex, oh my goodness to
Speaker 2: challenge me. Next year isn't going to be befriending Australia.
Speaker 2: It's going to be surviving in that cell. That's even
Speaker 2: if I find a company that want to be involved
Speaker 2: in this death project, no one will take on.
Speaker 1: Alex. How's your week go? And hopefully you're doing better?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Pretty good, pretty good, started very well.
Speaker 1: But look book Wake for.
Speaker 6: Any with young children, book Wake is upon us and
Speaker 6: that main stress. Not so much for me, more for Bonny.
Speaker 6: She had to source some kimono's.
Speaker 2: Kimonos, kims kimono. You're a man of the world, kim
Speaker 2: where they're going on some shogun But I.
Speaker 1: Haven't, I haven't. I don't have the hard to say.
Speaker 6: I think it's kimono kimo but they're something kimonos.
Speaker 2: No, that's that's the bogan versions. Just a dressing gown
Speaker 2: nine only flammable dressing gown kimono.
Speaker 1: That's right. Marketplace has come to the rescue once again.
Speaker 1: Oh great, you're getting your kids.
Speaker 2: Second and kimonas you know, it's some old guy who's getting.
Speaker 1: Ready of his kimonos. They came under the kimono.
Speaker 6: So they had to get into the car last night,
Speaker 6: Body and the girls and drive over to Port Melbourne
Speaker 6: and they found one for.
Speaker 1: I think it was thirty five dollars. Yeah, the real
Speaker 1: ones are silk, can't they? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yes, And this one apparently just came from Japan, was.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah, straight down off the docks at portmo.
Speaker 1: I went a stray from Japan.
Speaker 4: I actually do believe that, because when I came back
Speaker 4: from my Japan trip in twenty eighteen, I thought, you
Speaker 4: know what I'll get, You know what I'll wear all
Speaker 4: the time, a traditional active Japanese kimono. So I brought
Speaker 4: a full proper silk kimona.
Speaker 1: Think I'm more like a dragon, no a dragon scene
Speaker 1: or just played.
Speaker 4: It was a white one like a classy geisha would wear.
Speaker 1: A look for you, good lordie.
Speaker 4: But obviously never warned again, you just get caught up
Speaker 4: in that holiday. Definitely where they go about that exactly.
Speaker 6: And the other one came from docklands, so probably were
Speaker 6: just off the boat. I'm not too sure. But what
Speaker 6: they're going as well. They've got this wonderful little book.
Speaker 6: It's about traditional dress in Japan, and they love it.
Speaker 6: They read all the time, and they really desperately wanted
Speaker 6: to go dressed as these little Japanese girls dressed.
Speaker 2: So what they putting on their feet because they were
Speaker 2: those kind of like wooden So there's yourself some slides.
Speaker 1: Now we haven't got that far.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, ha cat round portmow.
Speaker 1: We're getting second anthongs. That's this morning's job. They're blowing
Speaker 1: a plug or something like that.
Speaker 2: I remember last year we had some great stories about
Speaker 2: book week.
Speaker 3: Tree together a black crape paper witch costume, which was
Speaker 3: lovely until morning recess when it rained and all the
Speaker 3: dye ran off. In her wisdom, my mom dressed me
Speaker 3: as a bright green Winfield Green's partner cigarettes. My cousins
Speaker 3: in prep and her dad forgot it was a dress
Speaker 3: up date. So he grabbed a babe bar, put some
Speaker 3: holes in the side, stuck it over her head and
Speaker 3: pulled her arms out where he put the holes, which
Speaker 3: she went as a slabber beer.
Speaker 2: Those last two, the Windfield Green Cigarettes and the VB
Speaker 2: slab of Bear, the two Hall of Famer calls. If
Speaker 2: you've got any stories about outfits for well, I say
Speaker 2: about outfits in italics again quotation marks give us a
Speaker 2: called thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 1: Christian Gondal Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Well fantastic news for listener Sarah Christian, I'm definitely winning.
Speaker 2: Found out I'm pregnant after over a year doing fertility treatment.
Speaker 2: The best of youse. Congratulations Sarah, amazing news camera and Christian,
Speaker 2: I'm winning filled up the car before I went up
Speaker 2: to two dollars a liter. Wow, what you're driving out
Speaker 2: late at night? That the guys on the land are
Speaker 2: changing the money before they do it the amounts, Christian.
Speaker 2: Most garden sheds are bigger than your new home office.
Speaker 1: They're three by three.
Speaker 2: Can we just move on right? There's nothing funny about okay, guys.
Speaker 4: I had to look on Google images for two by
Speaker 4: two ships and you can barely You could barely stand
Speaker 4: up there too.
Speaker 2: By the time you fit a tiny desk in there
Speaker 2: and a chair, you're going to be that door will
Speaker 2: open and hit the desk chair.
Speaker 1: You know in these photos it holds one bike. It's
Speaker 1: the footprint of a king sized bed.
Speaker 2: We've worked out cells that people have I've murdered people
Speaker 2: are in are bigger than my next home office.
Speaker 1: That's the content that I'm living out.
Speaker 2: And yeah, most companies don't trifle with things that small.
Speaker 2: Why would they? Why would they? Patsy, how's your week?
Speaker 2: Are you winning or losing?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 5: Definitely winning. We've had a great week. We've got some
Speaker 5: great family news yesterday. So my brother who has been
Speaker 5: fighting cancer for the last ten years, he's doing this
Speaker 5: amazing trial at Petermack Hospital.
Speaker 1: That one an amazing place.
Speaker 5: Oh, they are absolutely phenomenal, and it's given him a
Speaker 5: new lease of life. And the trial has been so
Speaker 5: successful on Karl and the other twelve or thirteen participants
Speaker 5: that they're unraveling it to other patients as well. Like,
Speaker 5: it's just phenomenal this treatment. It's out of the US anyway.
Speaker 2: So what is it is it? Is it a new
Speaker 2: kind of medication or advanced drug.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a new chemo drug and it is just phenomenal.
Speaker 5: And you know, it ebbs and flows. It's like an
Speaker 5: emotional roller coaster. And he's been so stoic. He's been
Speaker 5: such an inspiration. Karl and we have you know, I
Speaker 5: have the same cancer that he still has ten years ago,
Speaker 5: but his fight unfortunately is continuing on. And and we
Speaker 5: did get a heads up a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 5: when he you know, he's going there every two three weeks.
Speaker 5: He can't do anything, can't barely pass wind without the
Speaker 5: team knowing. Like, it's very strict.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's not Melbourne. It's a beautiful heart, mate.
Speaker 2: We didn't need to know about the flash.
Speaker 1: He's fighting cancer. He doesn't. He fight his system and
Speaker 1: the radio going hey listen.
Speaker 2: He can't even shut without a warning signal at Peter back.
Speaker 1: It's not Carl again, Nogg puff Puff's Carl.
Speaker 5: It's very strict. But anyway, his last appointment a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks ago, scans didn't look so good and we
Speaker 5: were told to sort of kind of prepare ourselves because
Speaker 5: it may may not be good. When he did the
Speaker 5: follow up yesterday. So you know, when your medical experts
Speaker 5: tell you that, you take notice and you think, okay,
Speaker 5: you know, let's pick ourselves up up again and get
Speaker 5: ready for what this next challenge is going to be
Speaker 5: and how we can best support him. And you know,
Speaker 5: you feel like you're a cat with nine lives and
Speaker 5: you're getting all these chances and you think, you know,
Speaker 5: is this going to be it? Anyway? Luckily it wasn't.
Speaker 5: So even the experts and specialists, his whole team couldn't
Speaker 5: believe it. He said, he hadn't even sat down in
Speaker 5: the professor's office and he said, well, guess what, it
Speaker 5: hasn't spread. And so we were just it was just
Speaker 5: the most pleasant surprise because we were you hope for
Speaker 5: the best, but you prepare for the worst in those situations.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So just absolutely on top of the world. And I'm
Speaker 5: sure we all had a really heavy sleep last night,
Speaker 5: so much so that I slept through my alarm this morning,
Speaker 5: so I had such a lovely relaxing.
Speaker 2: We'd have understood if you just missed today's show. So
Speaker 2: I must love to you as well.
Speaker 6: Mate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so really really great day. And you know it's
Speaker 5: just he's got another chance again. So it's like he
Speaker 5: can's got that freedom to choose of I said, you
Speaker 5: know you and Cheryl, my sister in law, I said,
Speaker 5: you need to do something special this week. You need
Speaker 5: to go out for dinner and celebrate it.
Speaker 1: We needs to do in all serviences is go and
Speaker 1: treat himself a fart yeah, and not have to tell anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, enjoy it, not be a problem for
Speaker 2: the team that Peter Mack a whole specious team on that,
Speaker 2: you know, just a celebratory one.
Speaker 1: Other cars you can buy.
Speaker 5: But he said, you know what, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 5: going to do exactly what I do because I've been
Speaker 5: given this gift to just have and it is you.
Speaker 5: You just enjoy all those regular you see the beauty
Speaker 5: in the regular things of life.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're right, I bet you.
Speaker 5: You know a lot of people listening who are going
Speaker 5: through it and family members who are going through it
Speaker 5: will relate to that where you know, just hanging a
Speaker 5: light of washing out because you can, that's what it's about.
Speaker 5: So you had a great, great day yesterday.
Speaker 2: What a beautiful story of hope as well, because you're right,
Speaker 2: there'll be a lot of people listening right now are
Speaker 2: on their own cancer treatment journey. Pancy, So stories like that,
Speaker 2: we know all the other ones, but they're also stories
Speaker 2: like your brother actually, yah, and it's very very important
Speaker 2: to remember those as well, because that is an incredible.
Speaker 5: Story living with cancer. So it's not necessarily yes, you
Speaker 5: can live with cancer and you can lead full lives,
Speaker 5: and that's what he's doing. He's grasping every opportunity, making
Speaker 5: the most of it. And yeah, I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1: Beautiful stuff, Patsy, and much love to your brother Karl,
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