Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast,
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. It's gonna be one you next out
Speaker 1: for the Longest Pop. Let me describe the scene. We
Speaker 1: are on the roof of the radio station. It's the
Speaker 1: old Palacco building in Richmond. It is a fresh morning today.
Speaker 1: There is a slight breeze. Why is this relevant because
Speaker 1: you're the next Now people are gonna be firing champagne
Speaker 1: corks off the top of this building. Jack. Now we're
Speaker 1: up here. Every chance champagne corks are going over the
Speaker 1: side of this building.
Speaker 2: Definitely. I remember it being longer.
Speaker 3: When we came up here maybe two years ago to
Speaker 3: do something. I thought there was plenty of rou We'll
Speaker 3: definitely have corks going off into Richmond.
Speaker 1: So if you drive out in Richmond on Punk Road,
Speaker 1: watch out. Champagne corks about to start flying in a
Speaker 1: couple of seconds. All right, Longest Pop is about to begin.
Speaker 4: Pop right now, shake that bottle up. We need some
Speaker 4: people for the Longest Pop. Hey, you want a win
Speaker 4: five K. Gotta pop that cock baby pop it bar ohway?
Speaker 1: All right, So we can do two heats and then
Speaker 1: we're going to work out who are the two that
Speaker 1: furthest fired their corks and then they go into the
Speaker 1: big grand final? Jack? Who we've got in Heat one?
Speaker 3: We got seven contestants per week. Quickly introduce yourself and
Speaker 3: what you do.
Speaker 1: My name is Mark. I'm a mathematics teacher.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the triggonometry expert.
Speaker 1: And he's looking great. He's dressed up for spring carnival.
Speaker 1: Shame on the rest of you look very scruffy today.
Speaker 2: I'm Sophie. I'm as Sophie.
Speaker 1: How old are If you don't want me ask you? No,
Speaker 1: you're not give that champagne ball to me. It's Schoolies
Speaker 1: doesn't start for another couple of weeks. There's no way
Speaker 1: you're twenty two. Doogie house aer MD.
Speaker 2: We need to say photo ID for you. Don't open that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, do you get that lot? Sophie on the.
Speaker 5: Way and someone asked me if I was here with
Speaker 5: my mum.
Speaker 1: Sorry, good luck, Sophie, Okay.
Speaker 2: Contest A number three. I am Harry.
Speaker 6: I build tiny homes in a warehouse Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Got that lock for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much on it. I still need it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the studio.
Speaker 2: Contested number four.
Speaker 1: This lady like she's shivering and trying to stay alive.
Speaker 5: I am I'm Kylie and I'm a nurse at Saint Vincent's.
Speaker 1: Oh, good for you, Good luck, Kylie.
Speaker 2: Contest the number five. Hi, I'm Charlie and I manufactured things.
Speaker 1: All right, your AI Are you you manufactured thing? It's
Speaker 1: very powerful lady, she's a transformer.
Speaker 2: Contested number six. It is Geelong Cat's outfit.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I'm Calvin and I'm a spectacle maker. A spectacle maker, yeah,
Speaker 2: spectacle maker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been doing it for a long long time.
Speaker 2: And finally contested number seven. I'm Cali.
Speaker 1: I'm from Geelong and I work in finance. All right,
Speaker 1: good luck? All right, So you understand the rules and regulations,
Speaker 1: but just a kaylin, can you just remind them and
Speaker 1: also remind me and Jack I've ready forgotten.
Speaker 5: Okay, So just qualification off to the right side of
Speaker 5: the building because there's too much shrubbery. Please do not
Speaker 5: hit it off there anywhere else free as if you
Speaker 5: go over the front of the building, that is absolutely
Speaker 5: the courts.
Speaker 1: Every time you say if you go over, I get
Speaker 1: very nervous. We can't afford to lose any of the
Speaker 1: as a child here as well, pretending to be a nurse.
Speaker 5: If it goes over the front, that will also be valid.
Speaker 2: And that's absolutely fine.
Speaker 5: If two go the same distance, you will all go
Speaker 5: through to the final. Those two or whoever are the
Speaker 5: same distance, we will give you ten seconds of shaking.
Speaker 5: You will have to stop.
Speaker 1: They already shaken right now. After this. Some of you
Speaker 1: are so cold.
Speaker 5: It is freezing up here. You have to stop, and
Speaker 5: then you can We'll do a three two one pop. Okay,
Speaker 5: good luck, good luck.
Speaker 3: Everyone, and they take the little metal cages off their
Speaker 3: champagne now.
Speaker 1: Now, yes that was cage. Oh my god, I'm just
Speaker 1: realized I'm still in front of all of that to
Speaker 1: lose my eyes. If only there was a child nurse here.
Speaker 1: Wait there is.
Speaker 2: Okay, So for the shaking, should we give them a countdown?
Speaker 1: Yes, they's start the countdown? First of all, have you
Speaker 1: all decays of champagne bottles? Thank you? Okay, start the shaking.
Speaker 6: I guess shake now ten nine eight, seven, six, five
Speaker 6: four three two one.
Speaker 2: When you're here, my, can you hear my air horn?
Speaker 2: Fire those corks?
Speaker 1: Nothing has been released yet. They can't actually get well,
Speaker 1: where's where's one gone right to the end. Hi, they're
Speaker 1: going to the end of the course. The corks are
Speaker 1: going a lot further than I thought. The spectacle maker
Speaker 1: can't release his cork. He's oh no, it's a little dribbler.
Speaker 1: Finance lady does a great one, all right. They went
Speaker 1: a lot further than I thought. One of them alments
Speaker 1: hit rio right, almost went off. So who are the two?
Speaker 1: There's that purple and green? Purple and green?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Is that blue? No? Blue? Who's color blind? Not me? Blue?
Speaker 1: Lou blue and green? Blue and green? Got chaos here
Speaker 1: up on the roof.
Speaker 2: So who is it going to?
Speaker 3: Two of our corks hit the end of the building
Speaker 3: without going over.
Speaker 2: We're calling that a draw. So who are out?
Speaker 1: So what three go through from this heat?
Speaker 2: Two to go through from our heat? Harry, let's go.
Speaker 1: We just found out it's called Harry. Why do we
Speaker 1: need to know his name again?
Speaker 2: Forgot?
Speaker 1: Have you changed your name in the last two minutes? Sir? Ok? Right,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. See Harry, and nice to catch up. And
Speaker 1: are you through? Child? Yes, the child reddy food child
Speaker 1: nurses make it through. This is amazing. Florence Nightingale's Granddaughter's
Speaker 1: made it through what seems today? All right, we come
Speaker 1: back with the second round. Next The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it sounds like Coldplay live last night.
Speaker 1: Here on the roof of our radio station. It's gone
Speaker 1: one at four point three. It's the Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 1: We are ready for the second eat in the longest
Speaker 1: pop up for grabs. Then just after eight this morning,
Speaker 1: the grand final is whoever can pop there caught the
Speaker 1: furthest on the champagne bottle wins five thousand dollars in cash. Jack.
Speaker 1: Who is in this heat? The second and final heat
Speaker 1: this morning?
Speaker 2: Contestant number one. My name's Migl.
Speaker 1: I'm an architect.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, we spoke to you yesterday, our two days ago
Speaker 1: and now good luck, thank you.
Speaker 3: Contested number two is George Lucas, also known as Hi.
Speaker 1: Can I make several kinds of rope for a li bit?
Speaker 1: Good luck Cam?
Speaker 2: Contest number three. I'm Scotty and I'm a business manager.
Speaker 1: Good luck Scottie.
Speaker 2: Contest number four.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm a pe science teacher. Good
Speaker 1: luck Sarah the p science teacher can Test number five.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Paula.
Speaker 5: I work in disability, and I've got a sidekick making
Speaker 5: relation chutney.
Speaker 1: Bye some it's downstairs for you guys. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. And you come in your pajama today. Frank,
Speaker 1: you just came straight from bed.
Speaker 2: I thought we were asking people to dress like I
Speaker 2: was going to the race.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Australia. This is how they go to the races.
Speaker 1: If you've been to the races, this is how off
Speaker 1: them looked like. Straight from Peter Alexander.
Speaker 2: Contested number six. I'm rolling on a chippy.
Speaker 1: Rod's giving nothing away. He's got a poker face alight.
Speaker 1: So he missed me nursing it like a baby on
Speaker 1: his chest.
Speaker 2: You just got to give a warm partlet strategy.
Speaker 1: Now we'll say that the two finalists five minutes ago
Speaker 1: all had bottles that were room temperature.
Speaker 2: Okay, you had a choice if you wanted it cold
Speaker 2: for warm, call me min between my leg. This is
Speaker 2: number seven.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put my eyes there. I'm now
Speaker 1: going to look away professionally produce fashion and not like that.
Speaker 1: I hope all right, Well luck everybody. I am getting
Speaker 1: out the way so I don't lose an eye. Child
Speaker 1: nurse you're still here. Thank you very much, I say so.
Speaker 3: Two contestants already through to the final from heat one.
Speaker 3: This is the second and final heat. Ten seconds of
Speaker 3: shaking and then when you hear the air horn, that's
Speaker 3: when you pop the bottles.
Speaker 1: Good luck, everybody, begin the shaking signal, Jack Tenney, one
Speaker 1: of them six got in a business mancher banging it
Speaker 1: on the ground. A lot of vigorous shaking. What pop?
Speaker 1: All right, they're now trying to release their corks. Whoever
Speaker 1: goes the furthest we'll go into the grand final. Corks
Speaker 1: are being pop right now. We'll let them go off
Speaker 1: the top of the berry. Oh my, how all corks
Speaker 1: have been released?
Speaker 2: Seven have been related. He had one hit the walls.
Speaker 3: The rooftop is seventeen meters, so we've had another one
Speaker 3: go full seventeen.
Speaker 2: We have just one winner from this heat. It is yellow.
Speaker 2: It is Rod the Champagne Verot.
Speaker 1: He goes to the Grand final after eight this morning,
Speaker 1: winning five thousand dollars. Give yourself a round them plase
Speaker 1: actually very much a coming along everyone who was at
Speaker 1: Lucky today. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, which is about
Speaker 1: to get ready for the Grand Final of the Longest Pop.
Speaker 1: We're not in the studio now, we've traveled during that song.
Speaker 1: We're on the roof of the radio station, which is
Speaker 1: the legendary Palaco Building in Richmond. It is fresh today,
Speaker 1: the wind has picked up, and there are three people
Speaker 1: who have made their way into the Grand Final of
Speaker 1: the Longest Pop. In the next couple of minutes, say
Speaker 1: one is gonna win five thousand dollars in cash, them
Speaker 1: and five mites off to steak stay as well, with
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars in drink vouchers and food vouchers as well.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's sir remind who has made it
Speaker 1: into the grand final today? Three brave athletes.
Speaker 2: Harry, how are you feeling? Nervous? Sided?
Speaker 1: Ready?
Speaker 2: Young Sophie? Hey you feeling I'm pumped up, ready to go?
Speaker 2: And Rod's a huge fire last time? Hey you feeling?
Speaker 2: Where do you go?
Speaker 1: All right? So what if he's gonna win five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: They've each got their champagne bottles, They've each got their
Speaker 1: own way of releasing the cork. Whoever's cork goes the
Speaker 1: furthest wins the five thousand dollars. Joe in the studio
Speaker 1: played the theme tune pop.
Speaker 4: Right now, shake that butttle up. We need some people
Speaker 4: far the longest. Pop Hey, you wanna win five K?
Speaker 4: Gotta pop that cock, baby pop it far?
Speaker 1: Oh wait all right. At the end of the course
Speaker 1: that we have here on this beautiful synthetic grass, we
Speaker 1: have Rio, the umpire and adjudicator. Rio are you ready, Christian?
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 7: I'm perched on the rooftop looking down. Hopefully we'll see
Speaker 7: some corks fly over the rooftop into the parking and
Speaker 7: I'll be there ready to see who's the winner.
Speaker 1: Okay, should that happen, what then happens to measure from
Speaker 1: where they are now to where they land?
Speaker 2: Well, we'll se simply use our eyes.
Speaker 1: And we also have Oh that sounds fair. I suppose
Speaker 1: I don't do that on the Race of Stompson Nation
Speaker 1: last week. We just use our eyes. This five brandy,
Speaker 1: they'll be throwing us off the roof.
Speaker 3: We also have also Rio has to lean into his
Speaker 3: laptop which is a foot away.
Speaker 2: And now you're talking about the side.
Speaker 1: Of the Blindest Man in Melbourne.
Speaker 7: We've also got three spotters on the ground there.
Speaker 1: To make sure who is the have we or is
Speaker 1: that this sort of radio free.
Speaker 7: No, no, there actually are three actual.
Speaker 2: Human beings ready to see.
Speaker 1: Great to have human beings stay partners today. I just
Speaker 1: need to point out the level of detail here they
Speaker 1: Have you seen that giant microphone boom above you so
Speaker 1: we can hear the champagne.
Speaker 2: Corks something from a Hollywood field.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's that the Beatles making Sargent Pepper's album up here.
Speaker 1: All right, are we ready to find our winner? Yea
Speaker 1: champagne our sweets? Are you ready? Okay? It is a
Speaker 1: bit chilly up here. Good luck, May the best cork win.
Speaker 2: Now you can start taking your metal cages off the top.
Speaker 1: Of the champagne bottles. Now they've got the champagne bottles.
Speaker 1: Whoever pops there caught the furthest Whin's five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in cash. Let me know when you have uncaged your
Speaker 1: champagne bottles. Yep, Okay, Now he's just struggling at the moment.
Speaker 1: We have special shaking music as well for the final
Speaker 1: Let's play the shaking music. They're now have to start
Speaker 1: shaking for the next ten seconds. Play the shake music.
Speaker 4: Shake, Shake, Shake, shake that bottle, Shake that bottle.
Speaker 1: Special shape. Music shaking must now please stop?
Speaker 6: All right, contestants three two good luck.
Speaker 1: Let's find out who is winning the longest pot. They're
Speaker 1: fumbling at the moment. Whoa, whoa who no one. We
Speaker 1: have one clear winner that has gone off the top
Speaker 1: of the building. It's the child nurse. It's the child nurse.
Speaker 1: Is it a child nurse? Yes, we have a winner
Speaker 1: numbers child. I just want to invest that money. But
Speaker 1: when you grow up and you can dry well done,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do with five thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: Take myself on a well deserved holiday.
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: And where do you nurse? Where do you work?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: You're nearby ship. Please don't do that or you'll be
Speaker 1: in one of the walls.
Speaker 2: You probably just set a cork through the.
Speaker 1: Window of the build.
Speaker 2: I might try.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you know what? There's some tough luck guys,
Speaker 1: but a great winner. Oly nurse is not paid enough.
Speaker 1: You work so hard. I'm so glad that's you somewhere
Speaker 1: in Richmond right now? Is your cork? Have you seen
Speaker 1: the human beings? Have they seen it yet? Rio the court?
Speaker 1: Anyone stop leaning over the side like that.
Speaker 2: I really want to say it.
Speaker 7: They're still looking for the cork, but I can confirm
Speaker 7: I saw with my eyes it went over.
Speaker 2: I saw with my.
Speaker 1: I saw with my actual eyes at work he went over. Hey,
Speaker 1: well done. So also you're off the race stand. If
Speaker 1: the steak stay you in five minutes, you'll have an
Speaker 1: amazing time.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: Well done, well done, great winner as well, well done.
Speaker 1: All right. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast