Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian o'connald show.
Speaker 2: Podcast yesterday on the show chapter Guy called Darren, a
Speaker 2: place called Donald. Donald has learned from a lot of
Speaker 2: places around Australia have done and invested money, tourism, money marketing,
Speaker 2: big bucks into trying to build something massive big. This
Speaker 2: country is famous around the world for very big things,
Speaker 2: some of them brand them.
Speaker 3: So we hope they get the giant Kookoba.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm looking to do, is a five meter
Speaker 2: high kookob to put Donald on the map.
Speaker 3: We've done some research.
Speaker 2: There have been a couple of big things that never
Speaker 2: quite got off the ground and need off the ground and.
Speaker 3: Up into the air.
Speaker 2: Rip the Big Chris when they tried to be a
Speaker 2: giant Chris Hempsworth.
Speaker 3: She is ab out of marble, of course of Greek God.
Speaker 4: Remember we talked to the tam mayor, yes, and he
Speaker 4: was all about it, but he didn't even know what
Speaker 4: he wanted to build it out of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Five years on, construction still yet to have started. Untilenty
Speaker 2: nineteen Queenstontown of King Roy launched a foulder attempt to
Speaker 2: build the Big Nut.
Speaker 3: Do you want to be known as that ome of
Speaker 3: the big nuts.
Speaker 2: Townsfolk were jealous of their rival city of Chinchilla had
Speaker 2: a big melon. What we need is a big nut
Speaker 2: nut versus melon. My money's on the nuts. Rip the
Speaker 2: big bin chicken in bit Burgh. Thousands of signataries but
Speaker 2: never getting off the ground up into the air. Hopefully
Speaker 2: the kooka bar of Donald isn't another than Cooko bar
Speaker 2: is going to make him. Don't think of this because
Speaker 2: this country is famous for these big things. If there
Speaker 2: was a Mount Rushmore, a giant, a really big, bigger
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore here in Australia and it's only got the
Speaker 2: four best big things that are around this country, what
Speaker 2: has to go on there? Right, make your case, state
Speaker 2: your case for just one big thing that you love
Speaker 2: would have to go on the Mount Rushmore of Australia's
Speaker 2: big thing partic Kately, what do you want to make
Speaker 2: the case for?
Speaker 5: It has to be the big banana, without a doubt,
Speaker 5: the coolest big thing in Australia.
Speaker 3: Now why is.
Speaker 2: It the coolest big thing in Australia Just a giant banana?
Speaker 5: Well it's one. It's positioned perfectly for everyone that goes
Speaker 5: through Coffs Harbor. Right, So when you drive through cos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, leading COFs Harbor.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's not as you're going north towards Brisbane, right.
Speaker 3: Perfect petition is because if it was east, yeah, not
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 4: I just hate to detour somewhere in Coffs Harbor. Again,
Speaker 4: we're losing time here.
Speaker 3: She's stuck in the freeway system of COFs Harbor.
Speaker 2: Thank god.
Speaker 5: We see the Big Banana. The best thing about it
Speaker 5: is you can walk through the Big Banana, which is epic.
Speaker 3: And again that's the best thing about it. You can
Speaker 3: walk through it.
Speaker 5: No, but also it has a toboggan. Well at least
Speaker 5: it you can get frozen bananas dipped in chocolate, which
Speaker 5: is the best thing for a kid. So we used
Speaker 5: to go and visit it every year when I went away,
Speaker 5: we used to stay more Google gud Yep, you.
Speaker 3: Should go and visit every year. Kids. We're going it's
Speaker 3: that time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we walk through and you won't have to detailn't
Speaker 4: walk through it again.
Speaker 6: I believe it.
Speaker 5: It was also one of the first big things in Australia,
Speaker 5: so it was born out in like sixty four.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 3: I do agree with that.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it should go on the
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore. It was the first at the top, the top,
Speaker 2: right at the top, and again you walk through this
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore, but you go through the banana first and
Speaker 2: you buy those frozen bananas.
Speaker 3: Caanaan Genuinely, it's like it's Christmas Day.
Speaker 5: I'm so proud of the big Banana. Like I can't
Speaker 5: express to you how great it was as a kid.
Speaker 5: It was the best thing we ever did. We were
Speaker 5: like the big Banana. We got photos in front of
Speaker 5: it every year. I'll send a photo to you guys, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: I want to see you looking happy in front of
Speaker 2: the big banana. All right, lines are open now, so
Speaker 2: the big Banana. We're agreed, just going on the Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Things in Australia. What else is up there with it?
Speaker 3: Like a kid on Christmas dake, I guess you go
Speaker 3: and play with your remote control car.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Talking about big things in Australia. What are the best ones?
Speaker 2: Though there's a Mount Rushmore for the best four? What
Speaker 2: has to go up there? Nine four one four three
Speaker 2: Christian are talking about the ones that aren't here anymore? Please,
Speaker 2: can we have a moment of silence for the giant
Speaker 2: earthworm in Victoria? Where was r ip the giant earthworm?
Speaker 2: It got demolished a few years ago.
Speaker 3: If you demolished.
Speaker 2: A big thing, you need to replace it. I should
Speaker 2: think with a bigger thing whatever it is, all right,
Speaker 2: So Patsy, what would you have up on the Mount Rosmore?
Speaker 7: It's hard. I'd go the big giant Koala at Dad's
Speaker 7: Will's Bridge.
Speaker 3: I've seen that. That's nice.
Speaker 7: You go in his belly and go up the stairs.
Speaker 7: And he's got eyes like he's own crack. He looks
Speaker 7: a bit sort of startled, doesn't he.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the look there going Forkala. The
Speaker 2: other one is the massive all of them?
Speaker 3: Then no, we've got nothing.
Speaker 7: What about Kelly at glenn Rowan in my old romping ground.
Speaker 7: He's standing between his legs.
Speaker 3: Around Kenny.
Speaker 2: Old enough, all right, one for one, Linda, good morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning Christian and Crewe. Now, if you're thinking about
Speaker 8: the big banana, don't bother you may as well just
Speaker 8: drive past, take a photo and just keep going. If
Speaker 8: you wanted to see something, you could see the rocking
Speaker 8: horse in Giant Rocking Horse in South Australia. But the
Speaker 8: best of all would be the Giant Lobster. It in
Speaker 8: South Australia.
Speaker 2: Now that is that's great. I've got photos of my
Speaker 2: kids under that. They were excited. The Giant Lobster is great.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was excellent.
Speaker 4: I didn't know you've been to the Giant Lobster too,
Speaker 4: because he's got a dark place in our broadcasting history.
Speaker 4: On Hamish and Andy, why happen Well, similar to us
Speaker 4: trying to raise money for the Big kooker Burrough yesterday,
Speaker 4: we tried to money for the Lobster when it looked
Speaker 4: like it might have to get demolished because they couldn't
Speaker 4: repaint it or something. It costs twenty grand to keep
Speaker 4: him up keep for the lobster. So we did a
Speaker 4: drive and like everyone raised money for the lobb of.
Speaker 2: Mind this is Hamis Nandi Rots so his biggest, most
Speaker 2: successful show ever.
Speaker 4: No one, you know, poultry amounts. No one really wanted
Speaker 4: to put in their own hard the Lobster. So then
Speaker 4: we had to do and I'm embarrassed to say this
Speaker 4: the worst thing we've ever done probably on the show.
Speaker 4: The Bank of South Australia said, look, we'll come in
Speaker 4: and we'll give you the twenty grand, but you have
Speaker 4: to interview our mascot on air. So we had to
Speaker 4: interview a magpie.
Speaker 2: That's not Judge Jack. You never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 2: I will save my laughter.
Speaker 3: We had to interviewer air.
Speaker 4: Magpie called the piping shrike.
Speaker 3: On it pushing all the bank stiff. Oh no, poor polio.
Speaker 2: Well if you see the giant lobster and look at
Speaker 2: the paint, how good it is? You know Nandy had
Speaker 2: to pay the piper for that.
Speaker 9: Good morning Steve, Good morning gang, Happy Friday to all Friday.
Speaker 2: Steve.
Speaker 3: What else has to go on to me? The Mount rushmore?
Speaker 9: Then, okay, don't worry about your big lobsters and bananas.
Speaker 9: Out at Clyde in Melbourne South East, they've got the
Speaker 9: giant wheelbarrow. And let me tell you it is dead
Speaker 9: set enormous. It would be between five and ten meters high.
Speaker 9: It has to be fifteen millions long. It's a dirty, great, big,
Speaker 9: rusty old wheelbarrow that is in the middle of a playground.
Speaker 3: Can I ask why.
Speaker 9: I'm almost tipping? It's a nod to the farmer folk
Speaker 9: that used to be on the land before before they
Speaker 9: turn into housing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a nic. It's iconic. It's like a giant wheelbrow.
Speaker 3: I mean compared to big things, it's not that big.
Speaker 9: Have you seen the slight of a normal wheelbarrow.
Speaker 3: He's got Listen, he's got the Porsche.
Speaker 2: Okay, we understand a normal wheelbrow, so let's not fold
Speaker 2: out over the mega wheelbarrow.
Speaker 3: I'll give you that.
Speaker 4: It's bigger than an a wheelbarer. But we're talking about
Speaker 4: the banana of the clod, which has a lot in it.
Speaker 9: You can walk bana. Give me a spell.
Speaker 1: Every year.
Speaker 9: Today we go to the Clyde Cricket Cricket Club and
Speaker 9: every one of us we drive passis wheelbarrow and the
Speaker 9: people haven't seen it before. They're absolutely gobsmack.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'd be gobsmack, Steve. It's a strong case.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. You come, have a good weekend.
Speaker 9: You're welcome to you guys.
Speaker 3: Claire.
Speaker 6: Good morning, good morning, Happy Friday.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Claire, and what big things you go on
Speaker 2: our Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 6: Definitely the big pineapple in Namboe, Queensland. It's been there
Speaker 6: for years and years. I dispute whether it was banana kneesess.
Speaker 3: We thought the pineapple was first. Please, sure the Pineapple.
Speaker 3: I met the Bill Bryson, but when he.
Speaker 2: Came to I'm pretty sure Bill Bright says that the
Speaker 2: Pineapple was first, but I could be wrong here.
Speaker 6: But it's also famous for another reason. Lady Die and
Speaker 6: Charles came out to tour the Big Pineapple and I
Speaker 6: was fortunate enough to take the day off school and
Speaker 6: I managed to get a good photo of Lady Die
Speaker 6: on the Nutmobile there.
Speaker 2: So it's got excuse me, can't they're now king that
Speaker 2: the nutmobil?
Speaker 3: We can't call him that? What do you mean Nutmobill?
Speaker 6: There's a nuts from next door to the Big Pineapple.
Speaker 6: It's all part of the one tourist attraction. So they're
Speaker 6: like little macadamia nuts in half with you know, so
Speaker 6: you can see through the middle. And yeah, I got
Speaker 6: a really good photo of Lady Dye sitting in the Nutmobile.
Speaker 3: That is a moment captured that.
Speaker 2: That is so good. Yeah, Big Pineapple has to go
Speaker 2: on our Mount Russell.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, thank you very much. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 6: You two bye.
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