Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, Welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast,
Speaker 1: No Claim to Famous two week for us the best
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Speaker 2: I did an upflush with carlimin O, Jason Dollavan and
Speaker 2: Lollie Meldrum. My uncle made the wedding cake from the
Speaker 2: movie to Castle for the moment to Kickboxer on Top.
Speaker 3: I was rescued from walking into traffic.
Speaker 2: By Michael Caine.
Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to face.
Speaker 1: But that one sort of fell apart a bit, did
Speaker 1: it with upon examination? Like an old art fat that
Speaker 1: sort of crumbles in your fingers when you hold it
Speaker 1: up to the light. Wait a minute, Oh right, knowing
Speaker 1: for one for one O four three, you're weak pain
Speaker 1: to fame?
Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark, Hey, good morning, Christian, Good morning all.
Speaker 1: Good morning, my welcome show. And what is your week
Speaker 1: claim to fame?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my weakest claim to fame is I once worked
Speaker 4: as a bodyguard and I was able to guard Nicholas
Speaker 4: Cage and his bodyguard while they were in Melbourne filming
Speaker 4: a show. Filming goes right actually, and I was able
Speaker 4: to guard their home while they had a sleep.
Speaker 1: So you're a bodyguard who guarded the bodyguard. It's the
Speaker 1: Russian dog of bodyguards and you're the big dog.
Speaker 4: They have to have a rest as well, so it
Speaker 4: was just pretty much disguarded.
Speaker 1: But he can't need to rest. What a great question
Speaker 1: guards to bodyguard when he needs to rest? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: mind does?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was an interesting time, so it was a good, good, fun,
Speaker 4: fun job as well. Just had to keep people away
Speaker 4: from the building pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh so how do you get selected for that?
Speaker 1: Nicholas Cage, in my mind, would make you fight ten
Speaker 1: men while he watched sat on a throne drinking blood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I was just.
Speaker 1: A job and yeah, paying conditions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the boss picked me out and asked me if
Speaker 4: if I do it. I had just recently got the
Speaker 4: bodyguard license a few years back, and yeah, got the job.
Speaker 4: So yeah, luckily, no, there was no trouble. But yeah,
Speaker 4: some other exciting things happened on the job elsewhere. Yeah
Speaker 4: that what Oh no more more just you know pists
Speaker 4: with other other shows and other campaigns. Just regular pists
Speaker 4: or people drunk, drunk and loitering and causing trouble.
Speaker 1: But now tell me about that. I'm fascinated by the
Speaker 1: bodyguard license. What do you have to do to get
Speaker 1: qualified as a bodyguard? Because often thought about doing it
Speaker 1: after the show, so just being a bodyguard for a
Speaker 1: couple of hours sleeping.
Speaker 4: It's probably more regulated now, but this is going back regulator.
Speaker 1: The regular is not the fun out of it. Bash
Speaker 1: A few people in those kick a few balls and
Speaker 1: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I would bring some leaterers in if you could finish
Speaker 3: itet practiced.
Speaker 4: About twenty years ago. You do like a certificate three
Speaker 4: in security and then there was extra courses to do
Speaker 4: to do bodyguard training as well. But but yeah, it's
Speaker 4: definitely more heavily regulated these days.
Speaker 1: And what do you use Do you usually use the
Speaker 1: diamond formation when you're out with the principal?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, looked there was. There was a lot of
Speaker 4: practical tips in the training.
Speaker 1: Defensive driving and evasive driving. I seriously looked into when
Speaker 1: I had daughters, I was like, I might take a bodyguard.
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. I looked into all the modules. It
Speaker 1: was like evasive driving and they were talking about the
Speaker 1: triangle to protect the principle. I still do this now.
Speaker 1: The triangle were out about put a potential boyfriend in
Speaker 1: a sleep fold.
Speaker 4: The driving would be fun. I didn't do those courses.
Speaker 4: I was more on foot.
Speaker 1: But what if you needed to get Nicholas Cage out
Speaker 1: there quickly? And it was just like I didn't do
Speaker 1: the course. It was an one hundred.
Speaker 4: Bucks his bodyguard, his bodyguard wake him.
Speaker 1: Up with sleeping beauty. It was less.
Speaker 4: Regular guy was highly experienced, the really cool bloke.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Mark, great, God, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I send you a prize. Thank you, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, Good morning, Simon, Yeah, good.
Speaker 2: Morning, Christian. My wickest claim to fame is that and
Speaker 2: now live in the house where James and Vince past
Speaker 2: band members of Pseudo Echo, grew up.
Speaker 1: There should be a little plaque outside on the walls
Speaker 1: saying that they should have a different like a colored one,
Speaker 1: shouldn't they for like rock and music sort of why
Speaker 1: that building is significant, like your one.
Speaker 2: Absolute claims to fame. And I mean the most amazing
Speaker 2: thing is that we've sort of kept it a little
Speaker 2: bit of a stitch in time, and the garage is
Speaker 2: still full of all the egg cartons and the soundproofing,
Speaker 2: and this is where they sort of grew up rehearsing
Speaker 2: and sound cool. You would have played their funky towns,
Speaker 2: would have done their all their old old hits sort
Speaker 2: of thing, getting it ready for that time and place,
Speaker 2: you know, a few quite a few years ago.
Speaker 1: It's like you were living in a little museum there.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, it's it's it thinks of history in yeah,
Speaker 2: which is great.
Speaker 1: That's brilliant. Simon, Thank you very much, you call mate.
Speaker 1: So are you desperate to try and win in the
Speaker 1: show round at yours with Pseudo Worker to play back
Speaker 1: in that garage.
Speaker 2: I think I think it'd be a great homecoming for
Speaker 2: them for them all sort of things. So yeah, we'd
Speaker 2: love to ye see them.
Speaker 1: I love that. Simon, good luck and thanks for calling mate,
Speaker 1: Thanks mate, cheers, Terse, good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh tell the morning, Kristin. How are you good to
Speaker 3: speaking to you? And now listen my weakest clime to fame.
Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? I had lunch with Johnny Farannham.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing to get one on one with John Farnham.
Speaker 3: When I was eleven eleven years old, I raised the
Speaker 3: most money in my school for underprivileged children and off
Speaker 3: to the Hillton we went for lunch.
Speaker 1: Not those underprivileged kids though you can have the old
Speaker 1: jumbo brawn.
Speaker 3: No, we got the money for them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, okay double meaning going.
Speaker 3: On here, yeah yeah yeah, but still that was awesome.
Speaker 3: I felt like a million bucks.
Speaker 1: But the bill was so obviously is it you and fancy.
Speaker 3: Beg your pardon?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So it was about thirty kids from different school.
Speaker 1: All right, there's a load of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and we all got to meet him like
Speaker 3: it was bombarded. We're like eleven and twelve year old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's up the buffet, he's trying to put
Speaker 1: the salady together down.
Speaker 3: They're like the rock star then that he was with
Speaker 3: all his blond hair and everything, and it was just awesome.
Speaker 3: One of just the nicest person, really nice person.
Speaker 1: Yeah great, used to hear he's recovering one at the
Speaker 1: moment as well. And so did he sit with all
Speaker 1: you thirty kids? What was it like it? It sounds like
Speaker 1: cares like a long banquet table with him him at
Speaker 1: the top of it. Go kids, stop throwing food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, we were all just as quiet as mine.
Speaker 3: It was, brien, it was the best day ever.
Speaker 1: Oh lovely, that's a great story. Thank you very much, Teres.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: It's better thought under privileged kids all outside on the
Speaker 1: streets and no, not sorry, Simon, Simon, what's your weakest
Speaker 1: claim to fame?
Speaker 4: My weakest find the fime is Russell Groo Gilbert grab
Speaker 4: my hat's foot, slipped it on his head.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean that's TV goal. This is the pinnacle, the
Speaker 1: heyday of TV, and I think we've deserted it really,
Speaker 1: so take us through it all. So what what was
Speaker 1: it on? Hey?
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, hi has that day here?
Speaker 4: He's doing the pre show warm up and he just
Speaker 4: pointed to me and he said, oh, Jeremy, give me
Speaker 4: your hat, and he put it on his shoe and.
Speaker 1: Flipped it on his head, and that I'm not choking, right,
Speaker 1: that's all it took years ago to get a career
Speaker 1: on primetime TV. Simon, what a moment, what a ca
Speaker 1: to Hey, my friend, there's nothing weak about that. It's
Speaker 1: too powerful for this, Simon, Thank you very much. The
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