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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: All right, lines are opening now. Then for this week's

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Speaker 1: week is Clain to Fame, where we always say, no

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Speaker 1: Clain to fame is ever too weak for this no

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Speaker 1: business like show business.

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Speaker 2: My ma'am with a marriage to Molly Mildream's cousin.

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Speaker 3: I want did a speed aware of course with JK

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Speaker 3: from Jamericai. My work colleague was once a Gorilla Graham.

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Speaker 1: Filo Christian O'Connell's weakest Clint to fame? All right, your

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Speaker 1: weakest claim to fame?

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Speaker 4: What have you got?

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Speaker 2: Lillian?

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Speaker 1: Yes, hello, Lillian, Yeah, that's you. You're first up today, Lillian.

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Speaker 1: What's your week? Is Clain to Fame?

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Speaker 3: I cooked for Hugh Jatsman and his wife in a

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Speaker 3: Buddhist monastery.

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Speaker 1: Wow, so you were a chef a Buddhist monastery.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I used to run the kitchen Budist Monastery, Budhist Monastery

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Speaker 3: in Brighton and on a Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, we'd have

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Speaker 3: people from the public coming because they had resident people

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Speaker 3: that lived there. And he's come in quite often with

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Speaker 3: his wife for dinner and go to the teachings that

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Speaker 3: the president Lama would do.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing. I've heard of like the resident poets

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Speaker 1: and residents and an artist in residence, but never an

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Speaker 1: actual sort of Buddhist in residence, yell in residence.

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Speaker 3: And there was this years ago before he was the

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Speaker 3: Hugh Jackman that we love from movies or.

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Speaker 1: We love are you now? And that's a big Buddhist question,

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Speaker 1: I issue, the Great Showman are simply a being.

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Speaker 2: He has just started his career.

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Speaker 1: So nobody, we are all a body of no nothing

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Speaker 1: knowing this is in Brighton, you say, in Brighton for

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Speaker 1: the old monks? Is it they got lunu lemon robes,

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Speaker 1: Archie's loafers for Bob. I'd have to look out for

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Speaker 1: that pop over and have a look around there. Amazing scenes, Lenny,

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Speaker 1: How long did you do that for? What's that? How

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Speaker 1: long did you do that for?

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Speaker 2: I was there for about two or three years?

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 3: And you remember what Hugh Jackman ate for dinner? I

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Speaker 3: think it was an eggplant parmesana that I'd done that night,

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Speaker 3: and I'd just done a veggie soup and then it

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Speaker 3: was a I think.

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Speaker 4: It was a baked custard for sweets that night.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Buddhists, don't they. You know he came. He

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Speaker 1: came in quite a few times. You come for the food.

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Speaker 1: You saved the day, So take your pick.

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Speaker 4: They weren't three dinners.

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Speaker 3: They used to pay a sittin amount for these three

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Speaker 3: course meal and and we always got a chip.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's lovely, wonderful stuff. Lillian, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: She cool, no worries, have a good day.

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Speaker 1: This is the Christian o'connells show podcast. We're looking for

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Speaker 1: your weakest claim to fame, Vernick. Yes, good morning, good morning,

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Speaker 1: I'm good Vernick. Welcome to the show. So what is

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Speaker 1: your weakest claim to fame? Vernick?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: Rod Stewart asked me to have a cocktail with him

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Speaker 4: one evening.

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Speaker 1: Did he he is? And where was this that's incredible?

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Speaker 4: At the Hilton in Melbourne?

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Speaker 1: All right? And so was it before a show or

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Speaker 1: any other details or speaks for itself? I am men

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Speaker 1: ask me out all the time.

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Speaker 4: Well, I owned a hairdressing someone in Berwin and at

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Speaker 4: night I used to try to unwind and do my

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Speaker 4: bookwork on the piano at the Hilton.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there to my book work on the piano

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Speaker 1: at the Hillton carry the one Strangers in the Night.

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Speaker 4: Story this. So I'd sit there and I'd have a cocktail,

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Speaker 4: and of course in farm I'd have to go to

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Speaker 4: the bathroom. So I went to the bathroom, and in

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Speaker 4: going there, I take my glasses off because you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm relaxing my eyes after some.

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Speaker 1: Absolute last, dropped them in and the toilet bowl and

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Speaker 1: flushed them away. How did do your account to see? Then?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I walked down to the toilet and all the

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Speaker 4: bathrooms all right? And Rod Stewart confronted me and said,

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Speaker 4: would you like to have with me.

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Speaker 1: Picking up checks by the box?

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Speaker 4: Come on right for ready?

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Speaker 3: You didn't have your glasses?

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Speaker 1: Are sure.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I was a hairdresser, so you know you

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Speaker 4: recognized the Barnett.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the glasses on my notes. Let me

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Speaker 1: just touch it? Yes, be it?

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Speaker 4: So I said to him, sorry, I wouldn't have a

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Speaker 4: drink with you because this head looks like a toilet brush.

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Speaker 1: None of this is true? Yeah, lovely story. Then none

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Speaker 1: of it's true. It never happened. Lovely story though, Kate, Kate, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Hi Christian, how are you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? No, no, great.

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Speaker 1: We're currently hosting Jack and Ry at the moment and Kate,

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Speaker 1: what is your what is your weakest claim to fame?

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Speaker 2: I went to school with John Farnham's niece.

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Speaker 1: This is more like sorry, we can believe this happened.

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Speaker 2: She's a very lovely girl and I still catch up

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Speaker 2: with her every now and then when I go back

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Speaker 2: up to Sydney. But when John Farnham tours, everyone became

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Speaker 2: her best friend at school because everyone wanted to go

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Speaker 2: backstage to meet John Farnum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, before there was the swift fever. Next week there

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Speaker 1: was fancy fever. Okay, nothing, ah, okay, take care than's

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Speaker 1: going the show mate?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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