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Speaker 1: Hey, this is.

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Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast. Have it been in your

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Speaker 2: local paper? Tell us why I give me a call?

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Speaker 2: Thirteen fifty five twenty two If it's easier to text

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Speaker 2: and share story four seventy five three one oh four three.

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Speaker 2: I'm finding these stories the best listener. Matthew was in

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Speaker 2: the Herald Sun editorial for questioning God's existence. I could

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Speaker 2: be that today. It's all the tide is against us today.

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Speaker 2: On the show, Christian, my wife won a wedding package

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Speaker 2: had a photo in the local paper.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 2: I love the story from Connie Christian. I was in

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Speaker 2: the paper when John Farnham came to visit hospital. I

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Speaker 2: was in the school choir but it was in a

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Speaker 2: car accident day before and couldn't attend. He came to

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Speaker 2: visit me and sat in my hospital bed and we

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Speaker 2: had a photo taken for the local paper. Connie, what

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Speaker 2: a gorgeous story, Christian. I was a local paper when

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Speaker 2: I was sixteen. I'd written to local council. Really angry

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Speaker 2: at the state of the paintwork on the obelisk. It's

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Speaker 2: not going on for sixteen year old lad. Isn't it

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Speaker 2: an icon in the tourism area here? My letter made

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Speaker 2: it to the front page. The obelisk got painted surely afterwards.

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Speaker 2: I love that Michelle concerned young residents and this is

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Speaker 2: an epic one. Christian I was in the local paper

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Speaker 2: riding a tandem bike with people of a certain age.

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Speaker 2: Will understand what a big moment this was for a

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Speaker 2: young kid. With bill Odie from The Goodies.

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Speaker 1: Christian I was.

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Speaker 2: Dressed as Timbrook Taylor from the Goodies. We rode around

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Speaker 2: fed Square in Melbourne. Phil said to me, please don't crash,

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Speaker 2: young man. We had some really bad ones.

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Speaker 1: A few years ago. What did But what he means

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Speaker 1: was he kids can't.

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Speaker 2: Write a tano with one of the legendary goodies.

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Speaker 1: That is. That's one of my favorite ones so far.

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Speaker 2: I love Christians on the front mage Nose to nose,

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Speaker 2: lying on the ground with a local Greens counselor and

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Speaker 2: a turtle. We had built a turtle island in the

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Speaker 2: Blue Mountains. I would really have explain this if you

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Speaker 2: could go no to nose with the green counselor and

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Speaker 2: the turtle. Get down there, guys, really really lean in. Ah,

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Speaker 2: these are fantastic. Let's get an MJ. Now morning MJ,

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Speaker 2: Good morning gang, how are you doing. We're good, welcome

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Speaker 2: to show, MJ. And why are you in your local paper?

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Speaker 4: Well, it was obviously a much more innocent time. I

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Speaker 4: don't think you'd get away with it nowadays, but there's

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Speaker 4: a picture of us in the local paper. We'll have

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Speaker 4: backs anyway, lined up at the urinal with the Premier

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Speaker 4: John Kaine at the time and.

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Speaker 2: Anyone else nervous at this called Prince Andrew was visiting and.

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Speaker 1: Sorry that just form me known as Prince.

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Speaker 4: No stage fright, but it was, yeah, the opening of

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Speaker 4: a toilet block at the primary school and we all

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Speaker 4: lined up there in Christender.

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Speaker 2: This is incredible, This isn't This is a new front

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Speaker 2: runner for the best one, m J. The local toilet

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Speaker 2: block got opened. That gets a little paper. That's it

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Speaker 2: and it needs a photo op as well. The Premier

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Speaker 2: at the time, you're right, it's got busy stuff to do.

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Speaker 2: This is incredible scenes and you're right, different time, that's

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Speaker 2: a scandal now, Pat like.

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Speaker 1: That that's that's someone.

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Speaker 2: That's someone resigning by the end of the day, George

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Speaker 2: Marca m J.

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Speaker 1: Great story. Thank you for sharing.

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Speaker 5: No worries day is George, LA police officers and traps

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Speaker 5: for George.

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Speaker 1: Don't you dare say that great man's name in vain? Janelle?

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Janelle, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: How are you Christian?

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Speaker 2: I'm good Janelle. Welcome to the show as well. Now, Janelle,

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Speaker 2: what's your story about? Make it into your local paper.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was in the Sydney Morning ferrald because I

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Speaker 3: was the first person to break down in the Sydney

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Speaker 3: Harbor Tunnel ten minutes after it opened.

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Speaker 3: My husband and I were in the car and we

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Speaker 3: ran out of fuel, ran out of petrol. He driven

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Speaker 3: we had our dog Arrow in the back seat, and

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Speaker 3: Arrow was the first dog to go through first playing

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Speaker 1: This is incredible.

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Speaker 2: So it's two first first person break down and first

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Speaker 3: That's it. And it was funny because it was in

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Speaker 3: the tow truck's birth the tow trucky's birthday that day,

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Speaker 3: and he was over the moon and we got tod

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Speaker 3: we got owed to the loo to be a brisan.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Any scenes, what scenes?

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Speaker 3: I will say it was one of the highlights of

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Speaker 3: my life because it was like a party. This is

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Speaker 3: before children at about three ten in the morning on

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Speaker 3: the north side heading down into the tunnel, and I

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Speaker 3: was in about the first twenty people, and it got

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Speaker 3: kind of an exciting thing back when you're twenty one

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Speaker 2: An incredible story and it's immortalized forever in the local newspaper.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've even got it on video, which I discovered us.

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Speaker 2: Did you make it onto the onto the news?

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Speaker 3: No, No, we were videoing it. We had the video

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Speaker 3: camera with us and I'd forgotten about this tape and

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Speaker 3: I had a transfer and here's my husband feeling about

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Speaker 3: who should have put the petrol up there? And I

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Speaker 3: remember going, it's not in parks, should I put it in?

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Speaker 2: And this is all you too, bickering is all caught

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Speaker 2: on camera on tape.

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Speaker 3: My husband was filming. I think he thought it was

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Speaker 2: Bit of a free can also home those home sort

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Speaker 2: of camcorders back in when you I think you said

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Speaker 2: in the nineties ninety two that would have been a

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Speaker 2: big a big camera as well.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't too bad. But yes they weren't petite, that's

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Speaker 3: for sure, not without your mobile phone these days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant story channel, that's my story. Yeah, that is

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Speaker 2: a great story. I'm going to send you two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty dollars suspend at chemist Warehouse.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic story. Thanks for sharing.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: And thanks welcome. Thanks forgiving the show ago in Sydney

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Speaker 2: as well. You know what we should talk to me

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Speaker 2: on the show about things that you've still got on

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Speaker 2: video cassette.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like that.

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Speaker 2: I know obviously something you know everyone that our video

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Speaker 2: because we got married in nineteen ninety eight, so we

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Speaker 2: were given the video of it and then we transferred

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Speaker 2: to the DVD and now it's a thumb driving all that.

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Speaker 2: But some people still have video cassettes with things that

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Speaker 2: are still recording on there. I bet those old TV

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Speaker 2: shows that people have still got on video cassettes that

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Speaker 2: they don't want to. We still my wife still has

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Speaker 2: a video the video, actual video cassette. And when she

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Speaker 2: did bungee jumping in nineteen ninety seven, yoh yes.

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Speaker 1: How many times you guys have been watching that one?

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Speaker 1: Too many times?

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