Speaker 1: Christian O'Connor Show Podcast. Shane Crawford has come out of
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Speaker 1: there's been no footy. Are supposed footy correspondent has come
Speaker 1: out of ice. He's come out of hibernation. Not to
Speaker 1: talk about footy like he should be doing, but actually
Speaker 1: he wants to get in. He wants in on the
Speaker 1: Wheatbix challenge we're setting up for Friday. Andy reckons he
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Speaker 1: get rid of the cords. This morning it's seven forty five,
Speaker 1: but Shane Crawford wants in before that. Then still trending.
Speaker 1: This is where we talk about it. And we're still
Speaker 1: getting emails and calls from yesterday's show. And there's two
Speaker 1: things you're still talking about. One thee was the thing
Speaker 1: yesterday about escaped pets and escaping pets. After my this
Speaker 1: puppy pool I've got just decided to walk himself home
Speaker 1: from a dog walk we just started. It was too
Speaker 1: cold whatever this first one from Jan Thomas Runaway Cockatoo.
Speaker 1: One of our family pets was a sulfur crested cockatoo
Speaker 1: named Palm. All right, yellow crest Uh. Sulfur's gray, though,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah? So yellow? Is it sulfur? I thought
Speaker 1: sulfur was yellow? No, no, sulfuros were you? It's like
Speaker 1: a gray color, isn't it? So? For the producer brown,
Speaker 1: He's got lots of say in sulfur. He was desperate
Speaker 1: to get on the mic. He's just grabbed the mic.
Speaker 1: Producer ban sulfur? Is the yellow? The yellow cristed? Is it? Really?
Speaker 1: Who knew? We knew so much about the color of
Speaker 1: cockatoos too, perhaps, Why are you weighing in on the
Speaker 1: whole sulfur crested cockatail?
Speaker 2: I think they are yellow because we used to have
Speaker 2: one as kids.
Speaker 1: Cockatoo. Yes, what's his name?
Speaker 2: His name was Cocky?
Speaker 1: Oh my, come up with that one. Cocky the cocktail.
Speaker 2: He used to sit on the fence and pick the
Speaker 2: hairs out of my dad's arm, one by one. He
Speaker 2: was a beautiful bird. Wait, your dad would put his
Speaker 2: arm up over his head to invite the bird in,
Speaker 2: or no, we'd let him out. Of the cage.
Speaker 1: What your dad, cocky?
Speaker 2: We'd let him out every afternoon.
Speaker 1: He never had a happy hour. It's three o'clock, it's
Speaker 1: time for cocky getting daddy's armpit.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Dad would sit on the fence and just put his
Speaker 2: lean his arm on the fence, and Cocky'd get on his.
Speaker 1: Talks to the isn't he letting the cocky is his
Speaker 1: arm hair? And he used to confuse Netflix, let's not judge,
Speaker 1: because they didn't have Netflix. That's not what we uhould
Speaker 1: do for entertainment younger listeners.
Speaker 2: But he used to copy my mum's voice because if
Speaker 2: Dad got a phone call in he was like we
Speaker 2: were on a property. So Mum would stick ahead out
Speaker 2: the back door and say hey phone, and the cocky
Speaker 2: would say.
Speaker 1: Right fine, just like. This email concerns a talking cockatoo.
Speaker 1: And at first, when I was reading a patsy, I
Speaker 1: thought they don't really talk today, this one does. Let's
Speaker 1: read on that. I didn't know you had about pet crockatoo.
Speaker 1: That's great, all right, So this one's called Pommy's the
Speaker 1: old sulfur crested cockatoo named pom. We lived in Mornington
Speaker 1: and when my brother and I went out to the
Speaker 1: horses or bikes. Pom that's the crockatoo. Okay, the sulfur
Speaker 1: crested cockatoo and dog Jackie would come with us. What
Speaker 1: a scene that is, you know, brother and sister, the
Speaker 1: dog Jackie and then obviously Palm, the sulfur crested cockatoo,
Speaker 1: all moving as one unit. One day We're bouncing down
Speaker 1: towards the beach with Palm on my handlebars. Awesome, that's
Speaker 1: such a cool visual. It is wings out enjoying the wind.
Speaker 1: He'd never flown, but a flock of seagulls flew overhead
Speaker 1: and he took off, following them out to sea. Something
Speaker 1: sad about this, isn't there? Want to be with the
Speaker 1: bigger kids. We watched horrified as he suddenly spiraled round
Speaker 1: and round and down into the sea. Poor old Pommy.
Speaker 1: We raced to the fisherman's beach boat shed begged the
Speaker 1: loan of a rowing boat, and out we went. When
Speaker 1: we got to all this feather looked like little pimpricks.
Speaker 1: That was Sodom with seawaters. He saw us coming and
Speaker 1: all we heard was what are you doing? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? One of the two phrases he spoke. He
Speaker 1: repeated this and til he maugs to fish him out.
Speaker 1: He never flew again, and we all know why. There's
Speaker 1: some Jan Thomas, what a story. Amazing And yet when
Speaker 1: I read this last night, Pats and they don't talk,
Speaker 1: did they? But obviously he did say what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? So they came to rescue him
Speaker 1: with their little fisherman's boat they got hold of. That's great, Jan,
Speaker 1: I love that story. I think there's more to talk
Speaker 1: about with talking parrots and cockatoos. If anyone has ever
Speaker 1: had one of these talking animals, please give us a call.
Speaker 1: So what was the stop phrase for your one? Cocky? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, he used to swear as well, but he used
Speaker 2: to say ray fine. Whatever my mom said, he copied.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? He was to swear as well well.
Speaker 2: He'd follow my dad outside as he was doing his jobs.
Speaker 2: And if he was cracking it because the moa wouldn't start,
Speaker 2: you got to be careful what you said around him
Speaker 2: because he'd repeat everything.
Speaker 1: No, obviously we're on the radio right now. But how
Speaker 1: bad would Corky get with.
Speaker 2: The pretty bad?
Speaker 1: What like f bombs?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: From a cockatoo. What's funny? Yes, remember, but you said
Speaker 1: Brat in his early days here said he had the
Speaker 1: number of the Melbourne swearing parrot. Maybe we need that
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the second year of the show. We let
Speaker 1: you go if you did have a talking cockatoo. Christian,
Speaker 1: my dog escate for stop that pet stories. As a
Speaker 1: new mum, living off minimal sleep and working like a robot,
Speaker 1: we had an electrician working at our home doing some
Speaker 1: work and he left the side gate open, and we
Speaker 1: lived in near very busy main road. Whilst I was
Speaker 1: breastfeeding my daughter, I saw a small, little black toy
Speaker 1: poodle that we had wandering out of the house towards
Speaker 1: the main road. Without thinking, I quickly put my daughter
Speaker 1: down and ran out towards the main road to grab
Speaker 1: the dog and bring him inside. Upon holding my dog,
Speaker 1: I noticed that I'd run out with my top off
Speaker 1: and my breasts exposed to the entire street as well.
Speaker 1: Though they had two sets of puppies, but I did
Speaker 1: manage to get them back. That's amazing story, Sarah. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's take some calls then on still trending. So
Speaker 1: we're looking for stories about escape pets and also swearing
Speaker 1: and talking cockatoos on nine four three. And the other
Speaker 1: thing we've got a lot of stories still to come
Speaker 1: about is searching for Australia's longest unfinished DIY project. Peter
Speaker 1: took us at the end of the show yesterday to
Speaker 1: twenty five years for an unfinished DIY project. If you
Speaker 1: can talk twenty five years, give us a call, Christian
Speaker 1: Christian Connell Christian O'Connell show and still trending where we
Speaker 1: take some more calls and stories because you're still talking
Speaker 1: about what we were talking about yesterday on five topic Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Two things are still in the play right now, and
Speaker 1: that is our search for Australia's longest unfurnished DIY pro project,
Speaker 1: which is up to twenty five years with Peter at
Speaker 1: the end of yesterday's show. But the big thing we've
Speaker 1: slipped into now is originally talking about escaped pets and
Speaker 1: then with this amazing story from jan Jan Thomas who
Speaker 1: gave us this beautiful story. Jack just said to me
Speaker 1: during the song there it was like a scene from
Speaker 1: a children's book or a traumatization.
Speaker 4: Characters from Maturing story riding with the cockatoo on the
Speaker 4: front handlebars.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that cockatoo spoke. Patsy had a
Speaker 1: pet one again, after working with her almost two years,
Speaker 1: we've never heard about Cocky. Let's do a phone in
Speaker 1: one day about rubbish names and pets that you had
Speaker 1: as well. Cocky the cuckatoo who would swear as well,
Speaker 1: but spoke just like Palm, the one who actually said
Speaker 1: what are you doing when they let him fly away
Speaker 1: with seagulls and he fell to the sea. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's go the lines nine four one four one
Speaker 1: o four three Jack impacking him. Good morning, Hey, young Christian,
Speaker 1: I'm good Jack. What can you tell us? Then? You
Speaker 1: have you had a cockatoo that spoke?
Speaker 4: I had one myself, was cold Billy. But many years
Speaker 4: ago the Jannawa Hotel had a sub crested cockatoo. It
Speaker 4: was out the back near the men's journal, and it
Speaker 4: could bout, it could, but it could mimic the sound
Speaker 4: of pay on the tin wall, and man could it
Speaker 4: way like a trooper?
Speaker 1: Really? Was it part of the hotel attraction, like a
Speaker 1: sort of residence lounge singer?
Speaker 4: Uh No, it was just the hotel owner's pet.
Speaker 1: What an amazing traction to go to Lemna Ryan and
Speaker 1: then see a parent that tom mimits all those sounds. Jack,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. You call sorry, mate, you've got
Speaker 1: another thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a bit like the Gipsy Point Hotel, only
Speaker 4: just down the road near Malacoda. They had a pet
Speaker 4: kangaroo for many years and it used to come in
Speaker 4: to the bar. It would drink beer. Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: really famous.
Speaker 1: Really what like a rival to the cockatoo down the road. Yep, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to ask you. I don't think we
Speaker 1: need to. I think when you say it came in
Speaker 1: and track beer. All right, Jack, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: She called. Let's go to Richard. Richard. Good morning, good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, Richard. Okay, so you had a this is
Speaker 1: a talking parrot.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was an Amazon. It was a yellow headed
Speaker 3: Amazon parrot that could mimic my ring tone, which is
Speaker 3: R two D two.
Speaker 1: So please could we have some kind of impression of
Speaker 1: what that would sound like, what the parents sound like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, there's no way I'm going to do
Speaker 3: R two D two.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, but but the parent would do
Speaker 1: your R two D two ring tone.
Speaker 3: Yes, note for note in the right tones as well.
Speaker 1: Anything else or just that. Oh.
Speaker 3: I also had the little like clown horn for my
Speaker 3: email and he would mimic that as well, and I'd
Speaker 3: go check my phone all the time and I'm like,
Speaker 3: would you stop it?
Speaker 1: It was a parent alert tone. That's incredibly had a
Speaker 1: very well trained Richard Richard.
Speaker 3: He also he also talked very well as well, but
Speaker 3: I can't remember exactly what he said.
Speaker 1: All right, Richard, thank you very much. She cool. No,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to Sally'd stay one last couple
Speaker 1: before the add Sally, good morning, no inquest, I'm good mate.
Speaker 1: So have you got a talking cockatoo?
Speaker 2: Yes, my tops.
Speaker 1: He's had a couple, but the last one we used
Speaker 1: to pull up in the driveway and as soon as
Speaker 1: we got out of the car, the cocky would go
Speaker 1: rack off. Wow, we just check in there that he
Speaker 1: wasn't letting a few little naughty ones go no.
Speaker 3: No, that was exactly what it tell us to all
Speaker 3: just rack off. Yeah, so we knew what Pop thought
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: All right, Sunny, thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 3: No worries to have a good day.
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