Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 2: Why did you have to cry out for help? And
Speaker 2: you didn't see the sign? You didn't read the sign?
Speaker 2: Nine four one one oh four three. Good morning, Karen,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hi, hey guys, Christian, Jack and Pat.
Speaker 1: And why did you have to cry it for help? Karen?
Speaker 3: Oh, well, this was a fewyears back, in my early twenties.
Speaker 3: I just started riding a motorbike and we lived in
Speaker 3: a canhouse complex and I'd ridden the bike home and
Speaker 3: managed to squeeze it in next to the car and
Speaker 3: the wall of the garage. And I'm not a big girl,
Speaker 3: a little over five foot, not much to me, and
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever sat on a motorbike,
Speaker 3: but those things are quite heavy. And it tipped a
Speaker 3: little bit too far to the right and caught me,
Speaker 3: pinned me up against the wall of the garage and
Speaker 3: I couldn't move it. It was too heavy.
Speaker 4: I was stuck.
Speaker 3: There for maybe about ten minutes, calling out. Thankfully my
Speaker 3: partner was home. He was at the back of that unit.
Speaker 3: But I was well and truly stuck behind the motorbike
Speaker 3: with my leg pinned.
Speaker 4: I could not could not get out it was too heavy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is when you've got there's no other viable
Speaker 2: option other than to call out and cry out for help.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was back before everybody had a phone in their pocket,
Speaker 3: so I wasn't about to be able to ring anybody,
Speaker 3: and being off the street certainly wasn't going to be
Speaker 3: anybody walking past. If he hadn't been home, I would
Speaker 3: have been there until I don't know he got home
Speaker 3: from work.
Speaker 5: I suppose.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's awful. Just the embarrassment as well.
Speaker 1: And what was his reaction when he saw you laughter?
Speaker 6: Oh he thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Karen, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I love riding the bike, but those things are heavy
Speaker 3: and they get away and you pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially be a penned like that one. Karen, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, Evil Canegal for your call.
Speaker 5: Have a great day, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's get to Maria.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Come morning Maria, Good morning christ and here you going.
Speaker 1: I'm good Maria. So what happened to you? What's your
Speaker 1: story crying out for help?
Speaker 7: Okay, about ten years ago, was a bit of a
Speaker 7: chunky woman and took myself on a holiday to Bali.
Speaker 4: And I was going on to do a parastling and
Speaker 4: the guys were holding up these flapper things. One's green,
Speaker 4: one's red, and they're telling me, you know that when
Speaker 4: you see the green, you run, and well I didn't.
Speaker 4: I ran when it was red, and I was dragged
Speaker 4: along the beam.
Speaker 6: One of those old fashion.
Speaker 1: Like knocking over families, like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, calling your house.
Speaker 1: Oh those stories states there like scars, aren't they? They
Speaker 1: stay with you forever.
Speaker 7: I'll never do that again.
Speaker 1: Painful. Let learn. That's Maria. Thank you very much for
Speaker 1: sharing that with us, mate.
Speaker 4: Thank you take having wonderful day and you thank.
Speaker 1: You very much. She was great. Alex, good morning, Good
Speaker 1: morning Christian, Good morning Alex. And what happened to you? Mate?
Speaker 8: I didn't read the signed in German, a bit like
Speaker 8: Patsy's story. We were young kids, teenagers went on a
Speaker 8: school trip to Germany, and this is before the wall
Speaker 8: went down, so East Germany was on the on the books,
Speaker 8: and we visited three cities and when we were in
Speaker 8: Weine mar one of my mates decided to bring a
Speaker 8: footy on the trip, as you do, being an Osie kid,
Speaker 8: and we went around kicking the footballer in a park
Speaker 8: and didn't read that you weren't allowed to play games there,
Speaker 8: and that led to four police cars dogs and the
Speaker 8: cops over there have machine guns and let's just say
Speaker 8: we weren't playing foot you very well.
Speaker 1: At that time. Happy, well, they like machine gun in
Speaker 1: the shriff.
Speaker 8: We were likely to walk away with a football and
Speaker 8: lucky our teacher wasn't too far to explain that we
Speaker 8: went very good at German obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a terrifying story.
Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, let's just say put it down for on
Speaker 8: the rest of the day. But thankfully, but what a
Speaker 8: school trip, right exactly? You got stories from it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right then, Alex, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: You cool, Thanks guys, thanks for a great show.
Speaker 2: Oh pleasure, thank you very much. A great story. Nine
Speaker 2: four one one O four three. Why did you have
Speaker 2: to cry it for help and you didn't see the signs?
Speaker 8: Cal Brighter, you're listening to the Christian Carl Show podcast.
Speaker 1: You're on form this morning.
Speaker 2: Amazing stories about why you had to cry out for
Speaker 2: help and also when you didn't see or read the signs.
Speaker 1: Since early on this.
Speaker 2: Morning it felt like there's a theme also underneath, and
Speaker 2: some sort of shows are like this where there's like
Speaker 2: another thing happening underneath it. Germany keeps coming up. We
Speaker 2: feel that not intentional, but it just feels like it's
Speaker 2: a running mate on today's show. It's the good old
Speaker 2: country of Germany. Let's go to Fiona here. Good morning, Fiona,
Speaker 2: morning Christian.
Speaker 1: All right, Fiona, So you didn't read the sign? What
Speaker 1: will happened?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I didn't read the sign. In Germany, I was backpacking.
Speaker 4: I was about twenty years old, and I went to
Speaker 4: the Science Museum in Berlin. I'm a scientist now, I've
Speaker 4: always just loved sign wow. And they had exhibits there,
Speaker 4: little models and figures and moving parts and levers and buttons,
Speaker 4: and there was a big sign sort of you know,
Speaker 4: up tool attentions. Don't touch the displays, please do not
Speaker 4: touch the exhibits. But it was so interesting and I
Speaker 4: just had to. I just had to touch. And I
Speaker 4: got such an electric shock that electrified the whole exhibits.
Speaker 4: So the kids and people like me didn't touch, and
Speaker 4: it blew my arm back, took my breath away, and
Speaker 4: then all the guards came and they just smoked. They
Speaker 4: didn't say anything to me, They just snicked.
Speaker 1: The foreigners electric Germans love it so every exhibit had
Speaker 1: an electric current running through it. That is incredible.
Speaker 2: And still, despite that curiosity being electrocuted, you still then
Speaker 2: go on to actually dedicate your life in science.
Speaker 1: As a scientist. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, the rest of us would have gone, I want
Speaker 2: no more that the science world scares me. You actually
Speaker 2: went towards the danger. That's incredible, Fiona.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 4: I did not do it again.
Speaker 3: It was fascinating you touched the exhibit again, or you'd
Speaker 3: become a scientist.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've become a scientist. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What area of science do you work in now?
Speaker 4: Then I work in medical science. So hepatology all about blood.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Well, thank you for what you do, Fionda. Thanks
Speaker 2: for sharing your short story.
Speaker 1: We love that.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Have a great day and you.
Speaker 1: Butlinda, good morning.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Christian. How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Belinda? Now why were you crying out for help?
Speaker 1: What happened? Belinda?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 9: I had a sawback and a colleague of mine had
Speaker 9: suggested going home and having an EPSOM salt bath.
Speaker 7: So I did.
Speaker 9: Had the bath was just relaxing. It had gone cold.
Speaker 9: I'd let the water out that I stayed in the bath,
Speaker 9: and the combination of letting out the water, me drying
Speaker 9: and the salt, and I became stuck to the baths.
Speaker 9: It created a suction.
Speaker 1: Like a kind of barnicle human barnacle.
Speaker 9: So flashing around like a beach wale.
Speaker 7: Called out to.
Speaker 9: My husband help and he just came and put their
Speaker 9: laughs at me.
Speaker 1: Why who lets out the water? And stayed, I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I'm out there before the water. It's seriously because it's freezing.
Speaker 1: It's horrimonial, damp and cold real quickly.
Speaker 9: Well, my back was boor and I never claimed to
Speaker 9: be normal anyway.
Speaker 1: So it's fire and so winter. Did he have to
Speaker 1: pull you? We like to pull you up? What did
Speaker 1: he have to do?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 6: And he just stood there, laughed and walked off, and
Speaker 6: then I called out to him and I said I
Speaker 6: really do need your.
Speaker 9: Help, and he came back and just stood there and
Speaker 9: kept laughing at me. So I'm like laughing around.
Speaker 1: And still you're still there.
Speaker 2: Now become Blinda the barn like a local attraction merlady.
Speaker 9: I ended not managing to get myself onto my side
Speaker 9: and getting up.
Speaker 1: What he still help you?
Speaker 10: This is his husband another year He stood there laughed
Speaker 10: the whole time dokay.
Speaker 1: Listen, Belinda, thank you very much for sharing your story.
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
Speaker 11: Thanks Christian, that.
Speaker 1: Was Blinda the Barnacle. Everybody what a story. So it
Speaker 1: feels like someone have a children's book the Christian Connell
Speaker 1: Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Really really funny stories. Thank you so much for sharing them,
Speaker 2: stories about when you had to cry out for help.
Speaker 2: And also you didn't notice or read the sign. And
Speaker 2: it does feel like that there is a private phone
Speaker 2: in going at the moment about stories to do with Germany,
Speaker 2: and the show is all the better for that. So
Speaker 2: much as Germany keep coming up and every other call
Speaker 2: we're thinking about maybe every two weeks. We just spent
Speaker 2: a wheel whatever country of the world it lands on
Speaker 2: to see what are the countries can give us as
Speaker 2: many stories that Germany has for some reason today, would
Speaker 2: it only ever be Germany's feature?
Speaker 1: All right, Leanne, good morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning. How are you, Christian?
Speaker 1: I'm Goodlee, and welcome to the show. So you didn't
Speaker 1: read the sign?
Speaker 7: Yes, we went on a trip to Malta and heard
Speaker 7: about this beautiful secluded beach and thought, oh, we'll go
Speaker 7: and check it out. So have you and I drove
Speaker 7: down and didn't realize you're not meant to you mental,
Speaker 7: leave your car up the top because it's extremely steep
Speaker 7: sort of you know, Cobbley is sort of road, and
Speaker 7: we didn't realize drove our car down and once you
Speaker 7: turned down, once you get down, you said, got to
Speaker 7: turn to the left, and thought, oh no, like everyone's
Speaker 7: just staring at us, and we were like, we are stuck.
Speaker 7: We cannot get, we can't.
Speaker 2: Those old European villagers have got the most narrowest of streets,
Speaker 2: that's what they all have, those tight and tiny, little
Speaker 2: fit cars.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 7: It was so we we were just dying. And then
Speaker 7: all these local men, because obviously beautiful people in Malta
Speaker 7: happy to help out, and they came and helped us
Speaker 7: try to We had to physically like lift the car
Speaker 7: to be able to turn.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's amazing. How many times a day
Speaker 2: are they doing that when it's tourist season?
Speaker 4: The car off laughed.
Speaker 7: Their heads off. They were like, oh, here we go
Speaker 7: another one.
Speaker 1: How many guys did it take to lift?
Speaker 7: Honestly, there was like probably ten bus you know, young men.
Speaker 1: Are you are you in car? Rick? Sure? Now barried around.
Speaker 7: Yep, And they were like they were saying to me, like,
Speaker 7: get out of the car because they were worried it
Speaker 7: was going to tip. So I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: Like it was just hilarious. So we went back years
Speaker 7: later and obviously did not make the same astudy and yeah,
Speaker 7: left the car.
Speaker 1: At the top. I've learned. Yeah, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: your story mate. Have a good day.
Speaker 7: Thank you the Peza.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Peter, Yeah, good morning, guys. How are you man?
Speaker 1: We're good. You didn't read the sign? What happened, Pete?
Speaker 11: Well, I didn't really read the sign very well. We
Speaker 11: were in France, my daughter and I and staying in
Speaker 11: an apartment had a lift in it which was fairly small.
Speaker 11: One this day, she thought I'll take the lift because
Speaker 11: we've been news in the stairs. And she got in
Speaker 11: and then I thought I'll jump in too, and I noticed.
Speaker 5: The lift said three adults, so we got in there.
Speaker 5: But the part I didn't really was it said two
Speaker 5: hundred kilo limit and I'm.
Speaker 8: One hundred and sixty.
Speaker 5: I was one hundred and sixty kilos and six foot
Speaker 5: four and combined we were over the weight limit. So
Speaker 5: the door was locked behind us, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 5: no problem, and we're over there, over the limit. I'll
Speaker 5: get out. But yeah, it didn't work that way.
Speaker 1: The door said no, you made your choice. Mate there
Speaker 1: for a.
Speaker 5: While and we couldn't We couldn't move, we couldn't actually
Speaker 5: turn around. I had a backpack on, and she went on,
Speaker 5: I couldn't turn She couldn't do it. So she was
Speaker 5: facing the wall and I was stuck behind her And
Speaker 5: what we were there for twenty five minutes and hoping
Speaker 5: someone would come along.
Speaker 1: And kick panic attacks sounds a nightmare for you both.
Speaker 5: Well, I was more concerned because I needed the pee,
Speaker 5: so I was getting desperate. So anyway, I thought it
Speaker 5: was funny at the start. My daughter was panicking, and
Speaker 5: so of course you blamed me. Oh god, good dad
Speaker 5: read the sign.
Speaker 2: This is like a two person plane, isn't it. A
Speaker 2: door turned her down in a really confined space.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was very embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Oh, Pete, thank you very much, your story mate, No worries,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Squeeze, thank you the squeeze before the Patsy's
Speaker 2: News Morning.
Speaker 6: Katie, Good morning Christians. My story involves rather painful experience.
Speaker 6: I tried waxing for the first time and literally glued
Speaker 6: myself to the floor.
Speaker 2: Well, five minutes goo, we add Belinda the parnicle let
Speaker 2: the water drain out of a magnesium salt barth and
Speaker 2: got stuck to the side of it. Now, ladyclude hersself
Speaker 2: to the floor.
Speaker 1: This is amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was waxing a more intimate area and put
Speaker 6: it with the easier to do it on the child floor.
Speaker 6: Was seeing there, trying to brace myself to work up
Speaker 6: the courage to rip the wax away, and clearly left
Speaker 6: it too long and it's solidified and stuck me to
Speaker 6: the floor.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be rude or anything, but are
Speaker 1: you facing up or are.
Speaker 6: You thankfully I was facing up night.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I just got just stay in his perish. I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't want anyone know. I'm not sorry. There's
Speaker 1: no Triples zero service that can help me. I did
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 6: I did have to brace myself to free yourself myself
Speaker 6: on the floor, and that was rather excruciating and less
Speaker 6: some gray. Oh my, wow, what a tale this still
Speaker 6: laugh about today?
Speaker 1: How many years ago is this?
Speaker 6: Oh would have been at least twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing? And still it's still a painful story.
Speaker 6: Oh, I left that up to the professionals from now.
Speaker 2: From then on, Katie, thank you very much, your story mate,
Speaker 2: really really great.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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