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Speaker 4: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Before the show, I was threading through all the emails
Speaker 2: have come in overnight and during the day yesterday, I
Speaker 2: saw a lovely one from a doctor who read my book,
Speaker 2: and he sent me a lovely email about my book
Speaker 2: and my story of moving here and all that. And
Speaker 2: then I noticed at the end I was doing this
Speaker 2: lovely email and everything you had to say about it.
Speaker 2: He signed off with a way too casual b W.
Speaker 5: I never I'm not familiar with b W.
Speaker 1: I'm not either. I thought, any thing is it English reference? Be?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you couldn't. You couldn't do the extra few letters,
Speaker 2: b W. You talk to me about connection and then
Speaker 2: bobs me up with the camera. I opened my eye
Speaker 2: into a book, share my heart with you, and you
Speaker 2: we get is a BW?
Speaker 1: I bw'ed him and eye those apples? The b W
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? Now?
Speaker 2: B you can't even say he's a doctor as well.
Speaker 2: We might have to go if he's got time to
Speaker 2: write a big email then finish it off. Well only
Speaker 2: it takes what another.
Speaker 1: Second b W doesn't need shortening.
Speaker 2: It's up there with mate doodle bro yes, way too casual.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Two ways you can get your stories on the show
Speaker 2: between now and A and the number is thirteen fifty
Speaker 2: five twenty two. I was gifted an Oasis smug Monday.
Speaker 2: It came all the way from London and I didn't
Speaker 2: even have a twenty four hours. I broke it yesterday.
Speaker 2: I will say this, this was a flimsy mug. I
Speaker 2: brought in all that was left of it today, which
Speaker 2: was the handle, and I placed it down here after
Speaker 2: talking about it on the show, and literally placed it
Speaker 2: onto an A four pad and it crumpled again like
Speaker 2: a daddy long legs.
Speaker 5: It's almost like a prop mug.
Speaker 2: Well that's why I think I don't think this is
Speaker 2: an official merch one. Josh, Yeah, all the way back
Speaker 2: to business class and you get me a mug, probably
Speaker 2: from a dodgy cells guy down an alleyway somewhere in
Speaker 2: a backstreet of London. Oh no, I've got it's half
Speaker 2: a hand all right now? My waitis mug anyway? The
Speaker 2: phone in you only had it for a couple of hours.
Speaker 2: I was so happy to get this waissmuk. I barely
Speaker 2: had it twenty three hours.
Speaker 3: You messaged the group chat yesterday, so sad about it?
Speaker 1: Still sad.
Speaker 2: I opened the bin this morning and organ see was
Speaker 2: the o of Oasis. The rest of it shattered into
Speaker 2: a thousand pieces, as if it was some ancient min vas.
Speaker 1: Slim.
Speaker 2: This moug was never going to last more than one
Speaker 2: or two SIPs. I don't think he can even contained
Speaker 2: hot drink. But anyway, you only had it a few hours.
Speaker 1: I'd love to speak to it.
Speaker 2: But even when they've I'm sure we've had stories before
Speaker 2: where people that picked up brand new cars and driven
Speaker 2: it like not even a k and they've crashed it.
Speaker 5: Oh that's my worst.
Speaker 2: That's almost as bad as my Oasis mark. It's damn
Speaker 2: close close by, no cigar. You only had it a
Speaker 2: few hours before I got damaged or broken. Thirteen fifty five,
Speaker 2: twenty two, and then you your story is about your
Speaker 2: story about that hideous ignife.
Speaker 5: Beautiful, beautiful item of clothing of.
Speaker 1: The four quadrant special.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've got a jacket with four quadrants beautiful colors purple, yellow.
Speaker 1: Blue, and a real cool brand in it. Catman Do. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You don't see many.
Speaker 2: Thirty year olds gallivanting around town, you know, enjoying a
Speaker 2: night out in a Catman Do.
Speaker 1: Normally the reserve is someone like me hiking.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, Mountain Buller technically outdoors with bringing in.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, hiking hear inside. Oh, bring my big hiking
Speaker 2: book down for lunch tomorrow with us. Then we'll go
Speaker 2: for a team.
Speaker 1: She was like, parachute fabric, wasn't it Actually that's what
Speaker 1: it is, Yes, the one that's cool.
Speaker 2: I know it's that one patch it is. You're right, No,
Speaker 2: it's very rah rah hey Breakfast Club nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 5: It actually doesn't want to zip up back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually nineteen eighty two called the word you can have it.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm bringing it back no matter if.
Speaker 1: You're wearing in tomorrow. Is it coming out to lunch tomorrow? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing all my food at you in.
Speaker 3: It, and I'm going to bring it in and you
Speaker 3: guys will go.
Speaker 5: It was actually so wrong, jacket. You can take a photo.
Speaker 2: You know what team I think we're going to. It's
Speaker 2: going to accidentally get thrown out tomorrow during the show.
Speaker 3: Anyway, my boyfriend accidentally threw it out that.
Speaker 2: And then was us thinking that gay people had more style.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do my own show straight Eye, Straight
Speaker 2: Eye for the gay Bruce Lee T shirt.
Speaker 1: Now I've got T shirt.
Speaker 2: I've got a nicer country road T shirt for you
Speaker 2: guys as well to wear.
Speaker 3: Why don't you bring in something for me that you
Speaker 3: think I would look good in. It's something from your wardrobe,
Speaker 3: wear similar height, and I'd like to try it on.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would accessorize you tomorrow. I accept the challenge.
Speaker 2: Get ready to meet a nice new shirt with your
Speaker 2: name on it.
Speaker 5: I look forward.
Speaker 1: Oh, I make those eyes pop.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it got accidentally thrown out and you only had
Speaker 2: it a couple of hours thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 2: I think we'd lost our weight there. I'd actually forgot
Speaker 2: what we were asking the audience. Now I was getting
Speaker 2: excited about what shirt will a bit for Rio?
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell shot gone podcast.
Speaker 2: You only had a couple of hours, Christian, I can
Speaker 2: top twenty three hours to your Oasis smile before you
Speaker 2: broke it lasted thirty minutes. I bought a card GPS
Speaker 2: Jimmelos back in the day. Yeah, yeah, that big old
Speaker 2: thing and honest Tom Toms, yeah from office works, got
Speaker 2: home unpacked and and accidentally dropped it on the floor.
Speaker 2: The screen cracked. Oh oh, Rich Alex, you got a
Speaker 2: story about it. Only lasted a couple of hours.
Speaker 6: In my family, no one let anything near me because
Speaker 6: I'd always break it. Excuse me, so I'd like, I've
Speaker 6: broke a saw once. Mom just brought a brand new all.
Speaker 6: I snapped it in half. I don't know how.
Speaker 1: It's like a strong man act.
Speaker 6: I know, just everywhere. I broke the neighbor's motorbike, his
Speaker 6: motorbike stand. I somehow sat on it and snapped off.
Speaker 1: That didn't go down well.
Speaker 6: But also Dad, he got this pump fixed this this
Speaker 6: water pump kind of crucial for a house on a farm.
Speaker 6: And he got it fixed up, and I went to
Speaker 6: town to pick it up, and I'm driving home.
Speaker 1: I was sort of in that age where you sort
Speaker 1: of get a bit larry, you start to drive a
Speaker 1: bit fast.
Speaker 6: You know, went round a corner, fishied a bit, pump
Speaker 6: flies off the back of the truck.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, pump smashes into about ten piece.
Speaker 2: No, you're kidding, did you think about this driving away
Speaker 2: just hanging out.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, what do I do in
Speaker 1: this situation?
Speaker 6: And it's just like he's just arrived at the scene
Speaker 6: and he's just looking around, going what have you done.
Speaker 1: Getting that thing fixed?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, all right, let's get a Gary now. Good morning, Gary,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the showmate.
Speaker 7: Thank your morning. When I finished my apprenticeship as a
Speaker 7: chef many years ago, my bosses a reward, gave me
Speaker 7: a bottle of Graine Hermitage and proudest punch took it
Speaker 7: home to my two flatmates, twisting and tails and said,
Speaker 7: oh you told them what it was for, and so
Speaker 7: on another happiest pigs in mud. And I put it
Speaker 7: under my bed and came back. Came back the next
Speaker 7: night after working, and I found the two of them
Speaker 7: sitting at the kitchen table drinking it out of a
Speaker 7: coffee cup.
Speaker 2: Panholes. Crange is about sort of eight nine hundred dollars
Speaker 2: a box. It was like the premiere wine in Australia.
Speaker 2: It's wide you record is one of the best wines
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, this is a This is a nine seventy.
Speaker 7: It's probably worth about sixteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Now more than that. They go for thousands.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh a coffee cup. Drinking it out of
Speaker 7: a coffee cup.
Speaker 2: You must have been exco twisting towns and in prepped.
Speaker 5: Did you finish it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: What are you doing that night? Did you cut your
Speaker 5: losses and drink it?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 7: I all I got to do was sniff the coffee
Speaker 7: cups that and worse.
Speaker 4: After abusing them left, right and center, twisting tails, Twisty
Speaker 4: in tails, Yes, Twisty got up to make the magnanimous
Speaker 4: gesture of washing it out and handing me the empty bottle, and.
Speaker 7: As he washed it, it slipped out of his hand
Speaker 7: and smashed on the poor bottle.
Speaker 2: This went from being the nicest story about a very
Speaker 2: generous gift to you to then an act of almost
Speaker 2: trees and from your friends.
Speaker 1: That is terrible.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't speak to them for ten years.
Speaker 1: I get it though, this incredible story. Do you know what?
Speaker 2: As I'm listening, I'm thinking, you know, the Penfold Grange
Speaker 2: is about eight hundred, nine hundred dollars. I'm thinking, if
Speaker 2: only they were away, we had one thousand dollars every
Speaker 2: week to give away on the show.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give it to you now.
Speaker 2: Gary, we're going to write this long. There's a fellow
Speaker 2: wine love. I've never had the grange, but you've got
Speaker 2: to get a bottle. I think it's about seven hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty eight hundred dollars. You've just won a thousand
Speaker 2: dollars for a call of the week.
Speaker 7: Oh God, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Go and go and get that bottle of wine. Okay,
Speaker 2: treat yourself to the grange you never had back then.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I'll send you a photo with me with it
Speaker 7: in my hand.
Speaker 1: I want to see in a coffee cup, though.
Speaker 5: Twistian tails.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to get an oasis on.
Speaker 1: Gary.
Speaker 2: Really really funny stories are painful one, but they're often
Speaker 2: the best ones we have. Gary, thank you very much
Speaker 2: for calling up and showing that enjoy spending your one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars whatever you end up spending on.
Speaker 1: But thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Cheers, guys, pleasure Gary Gars our call of the week
Speaker 2: this week. Well, thanks to Mercedes Benz Berrick, let's talk
Speaker 2: trade ins.
Speaker 1: Can we I mean wait a week.
Speaker 2: To talk tradings with Mercedes Ben's Berrick. I put some
Speaker 2: time on my diary an hour ago, but they were
Speaker 2: too busy. They were better any trading offer by up
Speaker 2: to ten thousand dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 1: What I know, what what? What? What?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's true.
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