1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Christnell Christian O'Connell show. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 2: Song that sums up my weekend is this. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 3: Primitive and crash life of a parent is for when 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 3: the kids are younger, that you will be woken up 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 3: during the night because they can't go to sleep, have 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 3: nightmares or this is what it is to be a parent. However, 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: once they get into over the age like ten and teenagers, 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 3: that's all in the past and different kind of challenges 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 3: come along. 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: But that is in the past until Saturday night. 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 3: I was woken up for the first time in about 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 3: I don't know eight years by one of my teenage 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 3: daughters who said she couldn't sleep. My wife was fast asleep, 14 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 3: and I said, what is it? And she said she 15 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 3: was really wide that that Chinese satellite was going to 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 3: land on us. 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: And I was like, you kidding. I said it was 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: like three am. 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 3: It's said, sort of a very wide drop. So have 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 3: you seen mat And she held up on our phone. 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 3: She said she'd been every hour waking up looking at 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 3: a phone getting the late latest as to where it 23 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 3: was where that Chinese satellite, and she had all the dimensions. 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: It was like twenty two tons. I was starting to 25 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: get a bit worried. 26 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 3: I said, but it's chosen us with the unlucky people 27 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 3: to be. 28 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: Flat great way to go out. Yeah, I said that. 29 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: I said the book will go to number one when 30 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: it comes on a. 31 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 3: Couple of weeks time it come up posthumously, they go, 32 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: this is what he would have wanted us to buy 33 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: his book. I said, we'll be a Wikipedia separate sights 34 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 3: about the family that were unlucky enough. 35 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: No one else asked to get flattened under twenty two times? 36 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: She goes, would it if that land on us? Would it? 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 3: Curse went, they're not digging us out. They're not digging 38 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 3: us out. We're under twenty two tons falling Chinese satellite. 39 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: We're done, done, done down. I said, it's not going to. 40 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: Land on us. 41 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 4: When did you get that bump on your head? Chinese 42 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 4: subject a weekend. So he got me thinking, you know, 43 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 4: there was always one thing that I think you remember 44 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 4: that scared you as a kid and you were unable 45 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 4: to sleep? 46 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: What was it for you? 47 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 3: What was the thing the one thing that scared you 48 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: as a kid that gave you sleepless nights? Rosie, thanks 49 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: the cooling again? What kept you awake as. 50 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 5: A kid didn't keep me awake. But back in the 51 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 5: nineties I worked My first job was at Mathis and 52 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 5: Kristin Hill and if you worked out the factor in 53 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 5: the food prep you had to go around at night 54 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 5: and kick pick up all the rubbish that people throughout 55 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 5: their carts. This was a Friday night. The foot he 56 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 5: was on, one of the guys went out. He came 57 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 5: back seconds later. His face was sheet white. Was like, 58 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 5: oh my god, oh my god, there's a UFO out there. 59 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 5: He would have looked outside and those who remember there 60 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 5: used to be a whitman's blimp, so would go around 61 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 5: the footy ground when the food he was on and 62 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 5: he was so scared that this was a UFO coming. 63 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: To get in. 64 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 5: But he had to call his parents that picked him up. 65 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 5: I had to finish his shift and go home because 66 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 5: he was Could. 67 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: He ever go back to work? Did they take way 68 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: those little five stars? 69 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 4: Also? 70 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: How many UFOs? 71 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 4: How many aliens have branding on the side of their ship. 72 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: Well they're really they're really on point ones, you know, 73 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 3: special company to get branding for them. 74 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: They won't stand out in a very clatted Alian market. 75 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: Rose. 76 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: That's ivan what scared you and kept me awake at 77 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: night as a kid. 78 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: A diesel powered steam roller coming around the corner of 79 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: my quiet street and shepherd. 80 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 2: And this is very specifical. 81 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 3: It's coming around the corner, is coming to Shepherdon a runaway, 82 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 3: very slow, runaway steamroller. 83 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: Nod a driver. 84 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 3: Oh okay, And did you imagine that you would go 85 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 3: under that big old roller? 86 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: Be flatmed? 87 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: I thought it would squash be so I hid behind 88 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: my mother's apron take. 89 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 3: My mouth first, human shield. That's how strong mums are. 90 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 3: You can't find a love with a steamroller. That's how 91 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 3: strong they are. 92 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 2: Adam, What was it for you? What scared you at 93 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: night as a kid? 94 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: It still scares me now. 95 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: But I was worried that the world would flood and 96 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 2: the ocean would match up with everything, and then therefore 97 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: sharks would be swimming down the streets to come and 98 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: get me. 99 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: Don't turn over that maybe it was a shark drive 100 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: around the corner and shepherd him to go, Hey. 101 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 2: Shark driving a steamroller? Double nightmare. Shut up. 102 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 3: The idea of sharks is coming down streets terrifying. Feels 103 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 3: like a rock movie, doesn't it. Only one man can 104 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: stop the sharks. Shark punch up nine. Adams calls Christian 105 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 3: Connell Christian 106 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: O'Connell show podcast