Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian no Common Show podcast. Yesterday on
Speaker 1: the show, we're a call from a very charming young man, Evander.
Speaker 1: At the end of the call, this is how he
Speaker 1: signs off. I've been doing this Lork almost twenty four years.
Speaker 1: No one's ever signed off like this.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, Christian, still love them. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your time, Christians.
Speaker 1: I never hear it again, but just to get that
Speaker 1: once in a career is a beautiful moment, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: while we're chatting to him, towards the end of the call,
Speaker 1: I was saying how well spoken he was, and Evander,
Speaker 1: I've got to say, what do you want to do
Speaker 1: when you grow up? Who've got any idea? Because if
Speaker 1: you ever want to do radio, you have a great
Speaker 1: way of talking. You could easily take over from me.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks Christian, Yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do with Vander?
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: Yep, go over that. Then. It's one of the hardest
Speaker 1: passes we ever had on the show. And whatever he
Speaker 1: literally passed away. Those headphones have my being handed over
Speaker 1: to the young Padawana so that I'll have so much
Speaker 1: money I'd own the station and the group that own
Speaker 1: all the other stations with my robotics company. I love
Speaker 1: the ambition. I believe in Evander he will do that.
Speaker 1: I believe in Evanda will more than I believe in myself.
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: You go for it, you go for it. And it
Speaker 1: reminded me of the dreams we all had at fourteen.
Speaker 1: We all have various dreams at fourteen or what you'll
Speaker 1: think the future of your life and the future grown
Speaker 1: up you is going to be Jack? What was it
Speaker 1: for you? Rockstar at fourteen?
Speaker 3: One hundred percent rockstar had the guitar out had was
Speaker 3: trying to cobble together a band at.
Speaker 1: My high school.
Speaker 3: And you know, I enjoy this job. But imagine me
Speaker 3: traveling the world now on stage the next huge rock band.
Speaker 3: You guys would be wanting to interview me. Are you
Speaker 3: still there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't think it was going to take
Speaker 1: a turn like that. I thought that sort of would
Speaker 1: be a nice thing just to talk about, just you know,
Speaker 1: the dreams were at fourteen. I don't really want to
Speaker 1: get called some people who then are going to sort
Speaker 1: of say where they are right now and you're you. Also,
Speaker 1: you're in a great position. You have a great job
Speaker 1: right now, you have a job.
Speaker 3: I love this job.
Speaker 1: Earlier I heard about earlier. I like this job. But
Speaker 1: what would the band have been called? Then? The band
Speaker 1: that should have become the big thing?
Speaker 3: I had a few names lined up. One was show Pony.
Speaker 1: Say No More and the other ones love the name
Speaker 1: show Pony, going to show pony from now on. You
Speaker 1: are like a show pony. You did become show pony
Speaker 1: in a way. You are this show's pony. You're a
Speaker 1: beautiful little pony, and sometimes you gotta be real careful
Speaker 1: with that pony. You give you a little nip or
Speaker 1: give you a little kick. You don't know what he
Speaker 1: get in with that pony, but he's a beautiful pony
Speaker 1: in that paddock.
Speaker 3: The other band name was the high Rollers.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3: But show funny because we weren't high rollers. That was
Speaker 3: so people would be like, ah, they're just like you
Speaker 3: and me, but they're pretending to be high rollers.
Speaker 1: I think we know what stopped you achieving those dreams.
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: He's not alternaty, he's not got show, Pony right or
Speaker 1: the high Rollers. He's just got that robotics company.
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: Yesterday when I said, oh, it's like a fan of
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, he actually want this, I can take God
Speaker 1: leave he's not that smart, all right. So, Patsy, you
Speaker 1: at fourteen, what were your dreams?
Speaker 5: My dream was to become an FM newsreader for a
Speaker 5: major metropolitan Melbourne station. Seriously, it was fourteen year old dreams.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're not there on your hands and knees praying, Oh,
Speaker 1: dear God, please protect my family in FM. Do you
Speaker 1: know what that is? God? It's frequency modulation.
Speaker 5: In my dream, God, if I could.
Speaker 1: In a metro station, not stuck out here in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere.
Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly how I felt. I was doing community radio.
Speaker 5: We experience at the local station.
Speaker 1: I'm not Whitney US and Discover Meats.
Speaker 3: Patsy hasn't lived up to your dreams.
Speaker 5: No, not at all, you too, This is not what
Speaker 5: I wanted at all.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show, I'm looking for a new show.
Speaker 1: Pony who has dreams? I mean on radio station in
Speaker 1: a metro city. I've got the keys, I've got two keys.
Speaker 1: Kids like it. Give us a call. Tell us about
Speaker 1: you at fourteen? What were your dreams at fourteen? Did
Speaker 1: you have dreams of becoming a show pony.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Christian o' carl's show podcast.
Speaker 1: It's Christian and the Show Pony. So we just found
Speaker 1: out that was I'm gonna rename you Jackie boy. Now
Speaker 1: you become a show pony like a phoenix on the flames.
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to be a show pony as the artist.
Speaker 3: It was the band who is going to be called show.
Speaker 1: No believe it be it. You are my donna, You're
Speaker 1: the Show's madonna. You are show pony, b show pony.
Speaker 1: Change your Instagram name immediately, chopone, Oh think about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so we're talking this morning. Then after Evander
Speaker 1: called the show yesterday, and Evander, I've got to say,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do when you grow up?
Speaker 1: Who got any idea? Because if you ever want to
Speaker 1: do radio, you have a great way of talking. You
Speaker 1: could easily take over from me. Thanks Christian, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you want to do with Vander?
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: Yep, go over that. Thenander is fourteen with big dreams.
Speaker 2: I want to own my own robotics engineering company.
Speaker 1: I want a great way. Signed off yesterday's call.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, Christian, Thank you, Evander.
Speaker 1: All right, So what about you at fourteen? What was
Speaker 1: your dream? Nine four one one four three, Good morning,
Speaker 1: don Allen, Christian. When I was ten, actually decided that
Speaker 1: I want to be a carpenter. When I was fourteen,
Speaker 1: I started my apprenticeship, qualified in nineteen seventy, started my
Speaker 1: own business in nineteen seventy four. Retired last year. Listen
Speaker 1: to you guys every morning, I reckon I be around
Speaker 1: three hundred plus homes. Loved every single minute of it,
Speaker 1: don Ana, What a lovely thing to say.
Speaker 3: He would have been about eighteen when he started his
Speaker 3: own business.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's amazing, incredible, isn't it.
Speaker 1: What a lovely thing to say about what your life became,
Speaker 1: what your work was that he loved every single minute
Speaker 1: of it. Don Thank you very much your email. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Andrew now Andrew, Yeah, good morning guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my dream at fourteen was to become a professional
Speaker 4: Formula one driver overseas.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So, like Lewis Hamilton, you want to be
Speaker 1: that level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I ended up self funding a go kart when
Speaker 4: I was seventeen and so I took a part time job.
Speaker 1: A super much it's a leth or. My mate wanted
Speaker 1: to be a four whelaw one driver as well. He
Speaker 1: was a crazy Irish kidney. He had his go krt
Speaker 1: and his mum and dad were ferrying him around every
Speaker 1: weekend those races. So Hamilton's where they all start, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously Matt Hamilton, Mark Webber who was
Speaker 4: sort of my year, he took the dream and went overseas.
Speaker 4: But yeah, they all start and go cut Christians. So yes,
Speaker 4: I made a start. But it's a competitive industry as
Speaker 4: you probably know. And you know a lot of guys
Speaker 4: want to get to the top and a lot of
Speaker 4: guys angels want to get to the top. But civil
Speaker 4: engineer these days, star design roads. I don't race on
Speaker 4: them these days. So there you go.
Speaker 1: But you should enjoy for me to one of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great sports not to see. You know,
Speaker 4: Mark Webber did really well, Ricardo is going well. I mean,
Speaker 4: Halberton is a star, and yeah it's a great sport
Speaker 4: I mean and Neil said here next month, and yeah,
Speaker 4: you know that's it's a really good it's an upside
Speaker 4: down aeroplane, but yeah, basically, but yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 1: It does appear to me. To me, it's not been
Speaker 1: stretching to rocket, you know. And then they're made to
Speaker 1: drive in it for like five hours. Andrew, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. You called take care, have a good day.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Tom Christian.
Speaker 1: Your prize to that true that I like that you
Speaker 1: started something. And let's go to Darren. Darren, good morning.
Speaker 6: You get a Christian. When I was Forday, my mother
Speaker 6: brought me the Guinness Book of Records and I said, mom,
Speaker 6: one day, one day, I'm going to I'm going to
Speaker 6: break one of these records. And it took me twenty
Speaker 6: thirty odd years, but I ended up for the community
Speaker 6: radio station. They wanted someone to do something weird and wacky,
Speaker 6: and I said, here, I attempting the world record in
Speaker 6: Queen's Birthday weekend in two tharsand I did sixty two
Speaker 6: hours straight with just fhippling him in the breaks, every.
Speaker 1: Gad what so down. So yeah, when you when you
Speaker 1: were fourteen, then yeah you got you fell in love
Speaker 1: with like we all did it tenas is the amazing
Speaker 1: big book, the Guinness Book of Records.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, top shelf.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, sixty two hours. What was that like
Speaker 1: to do a community radio show for that long?
Speaker 6: It wasn't too bad. I had to the other percent
Speaker 6: of staying on the other side of their I was
Speaker 6: still on the other side of the this so I
Speaker 6: didn't steal their shows. And my mother actually ran me
Speaker 6: and the sipping on the on the Sunday afternoon, said
Speaker 6: what the hell are you doing? And I said, it's
Speaker 6: all your faults. You gave me the book.
Speaker 1: And what was the name of the commission station? Yeah, Adam,
Speaker 1: what was the name of community station that he did you?
Speaker 6: It was up in Sunbury on three and three m
Speaker 6: I g.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one Patsy's worked about all of them.
Speaker 1: By the way, I had to make that FM dream
Speaker 1: come true. That my.
Speaker 3: Dar, if we got a kid, if we got a
Speaker 3: copy of the Guinness World Records, now would we see
Speaker 3: your name in there?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, Look it was broken within a years someone
Speaker 6: and I think someone who was but but I had
Speaker 6: planned to do forty but the Guinness people read me.
Speaker 6: We've got contacted me your week before the elector, the
Speaker 6: the attempt, and said some black from Demark's done forty eight.
Speaker 6: It was most.
Speaker 1: Ask the've actually got a wind of it somewhere went
Speaker 1: up to here in Sunbury. Well sorry about that, Darren,
Speaker 1: but thank you for how much she called me.
Speaker 6: Thank you, cheers, thank you damn it.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. Christian.
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