Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 2: Podcast show number one thousand. For us, it's just a
Speaker 2: mini milestone for us, it's no big deal for you guys.
Speaker 2: All we ever asked is that you give the show
Speaker 2: a go, which you do every morning and if you
Speaker 2: want to you can listen to the show.
Speaker 1: That's just amazing. But we love it how you are
Speaker 1: part of the show.
Speaker 2: Your stories in the last hour about your high school embarrassments,
Speaker 2: of shames and not getting speaking parts. They are the
Speaker 2: lifeblood of the show. We make it with you guys
Speaker 2: every single day, and that's to join it. And I
Speaker 2: do appreciate that when obviously I did start here some
Speaker 2: one thousand shows ago and English guy, I know, an
Speaker 2: English Guy of the Morning.
Speaker 1: There's quite a bit of a gear change Australia.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't met with open arms, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be the same thing from Australian washing
Speaker 2: up in in England suddenly just putting himself on air
Speaker 2: each day. But I will say this, don't ever waste
Speaker 2: a midlife crisis.
Speaker 1: If you find.
Speaker 2: Yourself in one, do something really big and crazy, like
Speaker 2: moving to the other side of the world with your
Speaker 2: family and deciding it might be quite a good laugh
Speaker 2: to put yourself on the radio. Best thing we ever
Speaker 2: did my family was moving here. We are so lucky
Speaker 2: to have this life. And when I talk about that,
Speaker 2: the reason is because actually, if there's no one given.
Speaker 1: The show a go, even people who are like arms
Speaker 1: folded to begin with, I get that I would have
Speaker 1: been the same.
Speaker 2: You know, you still gave me a chance, which is
Speaker 2: a very Australian thing to give someone a go.
Speaker 1: And here we are.
Speaker 2: There are lots of people around us and in the
Speaker 2: industry said the show won't last. It's not really about
Speaker 2: what we do so much. It's what you guys have
Speaker 2: brought out in us, especially me as well. I think
Speaker 2: I've been through about two hundred different versions. I think
Speaker 2: I've actually been through a thousand different Christians in the
Speaker 2: one thousand shows. So thank you very very much for
Speaker 2: giving the show and go by that. You've given me
Speaker 2: and my wife and my family a new life here
Speaker 2: and this is home for us. If you ask Jackalbatti,
Speaker 2: they would tell you we love it here. This is
Speaker 2: where it's all about now for the rest of our life.
Speaker 2: I love the honesty from this guy here Christian when
Speaker 2: you first started. I actually sent you an email to
Speaker 2: your boss saying who employed this twat from Britain? Ps
Speaker 2: I'm still listening, probably still wandering the same thing sometimes.
Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Also a big thank.
Speaker 2: You to Jack and Pats, because I've got no idea
Speaker 2: what it must have been like for you guys, joining
Speaker 2: this crazy adventure thinking I don't know, maybe he'll work,
Speaker 2: maybe it'll be here for a year or so, But
Speaker 2: there've been adventure. So thank you very much for all
Speaker 2: your belief and everything you've done for me and my
Speaker 2: family of the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Jackie boy, where was it for you? You were in
Speaker 1: a very different place.
Speaker 3: Companies, truly is the adventure is the best word for you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was coming off a decade with Hami,
Speaker 3: she and Andy. It's the only job I'd ever had
Speaker 3: before was working on that show.
Speaker 1: And then you really have been blessed one.
Speaker 3: So I feel very honestly, very privileged to you with
Speaker 3: you both, and you are both of you a lifelong
Speaker 3: forever friends and people that I deeply love and and
Speaker 3: I've really enjoyed the past five years. And also the
Speaker 3: privilege of even meeting everybody who came out on Friday
Speaker 3: night and people who are calling in on the phone
Speaker 3: this morning just to say congratulations and thank you. Thank
Speaker 3: you from us as well, because it's a real privilege
Speaker 3: for us to be able to do this.
Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, it's a lovely word. Patsy.
Speaker 2: You you have You were just amazing from day one.
Speaker 2: I remember just feeling that you had so much more
Speaker 2: to give. You are a huge part of whatever this
Speaker 2: show is.
Speaker 1: You are a very very big part of it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, just seeing you really come into just being you, Patsy,
Speaker 2: nothing else, just you.
Speaker 1: You're incredible.
Speaker 2: When the listeners see you or they talk about you,
Speaker 2: they absolutely love you. And it is so hard. You know,
Speaker 2: here's me saying it's hard for an English guy who's
Speaker 2: unown to come here. It's way harder for a woman
Speaker 2: in radio to actually be herself. You always castle these
Speaker 2: very narrow rows now narrow sort of roles by men
Speaker 2: in radio control radio. So to see how you've gone
Speaker 2: the last couple of years has been amazing and a
Speaker 2: real joy, Patsy.
Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Oh, look, it has. It's been such a on it
Speaker 4: for me, and you know, I still pinch myself every day.
Speaker 4: There'd be so many people that you could have had
Speaker 4: in this role, and the fact that you've given me
Speaker 4: a chance and that you've given me I'm so emotional today.
Speaker 4: The air in which to breathe and for me to
Speaker 4: just be me means more than you'll ever know, and
Speaker 4: it means a lot to me.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you deserve it.
Speaker 2: You're such an amazing soul. I was going to say present,
Speaker 2: You're just an amazing soul.
Speaker 1: Now you are.
Speaker 3: I mean like when you introduced Paths onto stage on
Speaker 3: Friday night with five hundred hour of our listeners, they're
Speaker 3: the roar of the crowd. I mean you're just like
Speaker 3: you're the fan favorite.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you are, and you should be. Patsy No,
Speaker 1: I just you know.
Speaker 4: I think what I've learnt in the last five years
Speaker 4: is that deeper connection. What I've sort of treasured most
Speaker 4: of it is a deeper connection with the listeners and
Speaker 4: in sharing my life, sometimes we tend to overshare, but
Speaker 4: that's what a good Preaki presenter does.
Speaker 2: We all know what you and your husband get up
Speaker 2: till Saturday morning. I find myself throwing up at the
Speaker 2: thought we beg you not to overshare, keep talk talk.
Speaker 1: Us about that Saturday afternoon to night. Some of us nightmares.
Speaker 4: No, but it's just that deeper connection with the audience.
Speaker 4: And believe me, they've they've done more for me than
Speaker 4: I could do for them. So thank you. I thank
Speaker 4: you every day for the opportunity and I love you
Speaker 4: both as you know.
Speaker 2: All Right now, last couple of days, we've had a
Speaker 2: little friend in the studio, right and he's a really
Speaker 2: really lovely guy called Josh, and nobody's on reception, but
Speaker 2: he's a very talented guy, and he's been looking after
Speaker 2: Jack and I in the studio where nobody Rio would
Speaker 2: sit or Kaitlyn. Our producers are on holiday at the moment.
Speaker 2: Obviously they didn't want to didn't fancy stick around to
Speaker 2: say happy birthday to me.
Speaker 1: They started to take that's the moment to take a holiday.
Speaker 2: But now, Josh, I've noticed for the last hour you've
Speaker 2: got a poem there.
Speaker 1: Yes, this isn't.
Speaker 2: Rehearsed, by the way, I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2: Is it going to make us cry because we're very emotional.
Speaker 5: Not at all, not at all. It's just it's just
Speaker 5: a love letter. I guess you would say.
Speaker 2: Sorry hello, should said Chad, we want to do a
Speaker 2: phone I didn't learn my lesson letter.
Speaker 1: I don't need a love letter.
Speaker 5: It was inspired by Pats's beautiful poem around the Matildas,
Speaker 5: and so this is just really something, I guess, a
Speaker 5: message to everyone out there, but but mainly to you
Speaker 5: guys as well. So it's for everyone, Josh, We're all yours, Christian,
Speaker 5: Jack and Pats. Here you go. One thousand shows and
Speaker 5: many more to follow. So without dilly dally or delay,
Speaker 5: I came to say, hope you have a great one.
Speaker 5: This is everyone's day, so stand up and shout hip
Speaker 5: hip paay for even Muhammad Ali the Greatest would say
Speaker 5: you fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
Speaker 5: This show has heart the world can hear and see.
Speaker 1: That's so nice. Thank you, Josh. I love that. That's
Speaker 1: a very very kind thing to say. Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, we are back tomorrow morning for show number
Speaker 2: one
Speaker 1: Thousand, The Christian Connell Show Podcast