WEBVTT - FULL: The Suez Special 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:05.040 Good morning. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.040 It's a Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.560 Good morning, It's a Christian O'Connor show on Gold Thursday Morning. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, Patsy, Good morning, Christian, Good morning, Jack. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.640 Good morning Christian. My grandfather was the first doctor in Woodonga. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:20.360 He used to get paid with chickens. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.080 Yeah. I take it you're looking at a fame in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.119 your family tree that we put up yesterday on the 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.479 show facebook page where sometimes we put some of the 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.400 ideas we're thinking of doing the next day. And we 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.360 were towards the end of three topic yesterday or what 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.280 are we talking about? And the lady said about the 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.080 guy who stole the crown jewels? Yes, what was that on? 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.239 Colonel Blood was. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.960 Up weakest cane to phone and it was the last 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.760 call before going to the news yesterday at eight point 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.879 thirty we said, let's come back to this. There's so 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.280 much going on with this about a very very very 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.519 distant relative and the family tree who stole the crown jewels. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.840 And so we put up yesterday about fame in your 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.120 family tree. Please read that one again about the first 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:56.920 doctor and Wadonga. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.600 This is this comes in from Abby Shlink. My grandfather 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.400 was the first doctor. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.600 And we have a named by the way, Abby Schlink. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.120 Doctor Schlink was her grandfather. I assume my grandfather was 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.279 the first doctor in Mudonga. He used to get paid 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.000 with chickens. There are so many good ones on here. Bernadette, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.280 Princess Mary of Denmark is my sixth cousin. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.760 Ither say when they say Princess Mary of Denmartin that 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.840 we're all going to go, oh wow, Princess Mary. We 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:29.360 all know Princess Mary of Denmark. She's Australian. Yeah, she 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.399 was Mary Donaldson. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.720 Yes it tassy girl, right friends. Albert Renoirs, former president 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.600 of the Seychelles, was a distant cousin on my dad's side. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.199 That's from Cliff this morning. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.480 No cousin is too distant, just likecond on Wednesday, no 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.119 claim to famous two week, No cousin is too distant 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.720 this morning for fame in your family tree. What an 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:54.400 amazing night last night to honor an amazing man, Michael Gadinski. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.560 You know, when it was first announced that Sandy passed 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.280 away and peop were talking about legacy, which he truly 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.360 did leave behind, all those artists coming together where they 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.600 were leaving, you know, very personal, really great messages about 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.200 what Michael Goodinski meant to them and also what he 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.839 did for this country for music and culture and arts 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.160 is incredible. And then all the ones that were actually 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.560 there on stage. What an amazing night. There were so 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.600 many highlights. We've got a couple of little bits here 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.800 which are fantastic. This is a lovely intro to one 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.840 of his songs by Ed Sheeran, who Michael Golinski literally 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.720 made a big start in Australia, bringing him out many times. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.760 The first year, I think it was just very small crowds, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.040 and he brought him out the following year and he 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.560 got bigger and bigger, and I think Ed now holds 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.520 the record for one single tour biggest selling artists, over 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.120 one point one million tickets he's sold in that huge 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.080 breakthrough tour in twenty fifteen. I think was all twenty fourteen, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.160 But I have listened to this. I was watching them 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.640 as a feed that was sent out and I was 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.639 watching some of it last night. I did like the 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.680 look on Ed Sheeran's face. First of all, it comes 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.120 all the way over, he flies over, he does two 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.440 weeks in quarantine, and then he walks out on stage. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.160 He's given a tambourine to be a backing tambourine player 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.000 with Jimmy Barnes. You can see him looking around life. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.480 They know, they know I'm just not a tambourine player. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:06.960 They're not. I'm med sheer and I've done two weeks 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 in quarantine. You know I need more than a tambourine. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.359 Where's my guitar? Anyway? Having listened to this, thank you 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.320 so much for having me here. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.760 Michael would be absolutely buzzed that this is in the 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.800 odd labor chose a couple of songs today that meant 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.919 a lot to me, and I know that Michael these 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.919 were his favorites. Basically, this first one I played to him. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.960 I have a very vivid memory of being at him 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.360 and his house in Port Douglas about three o'clock in 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.680 the morning, both on deck chairs, and I play him 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.480 this song Castle on the Hill. It's like twenty fifteen. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.880 I think he must have misheard the lyric wrong because 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.320 he started from that point screaming at me whenever he 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.400 saw me. We were younger then, and I never told 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.640 him it was actually I was younger then, But from 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:48.840 now on it's we were younger then. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.480 And Springsteen did a good one as well. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.840 I started in the music business fifty years ago when 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.559 the promoters were all guys. Was bigger than life personalities 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.280 with the tour bus and acted as more than just 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.760 your promoter, but as hosts of the city you were visiting. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:11.240 Michael Gaginski was one of the very last of that breed, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.520 and as such he was very very. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.960 Special to me. This is great as well. This is Ed. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.400 Shearon and Kylie Minogue have listened to this. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.800 We thought it'd be kind of fun to go back 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:23.320 to where it. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:24.680 All began, at least for me. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.080 In nineteen eighty seven. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.360 Ed was not even a glint and his mother's are, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.120 and yet he managed to than this song for tonight. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.280 I love it. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.279 Okay, So if you feel like joining in the courses, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.200 please do. This is we love. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.000 If you get into you, there's only one. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:50.080 There will only be one. You have a heart forever. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.000 Everybody's doing dance. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.560 Now come, lady promotion. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.400 No, you'll get to laggating the cheers. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:08.120 Come on, you. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.080 Want to bring your heads. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.320 All? Do we need to pay more money or something 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.159 of the license and I want to hear more of that. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.560 That's the locomotion. Ed shearing, cunning, Me and old last 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.719 night Rod Laver Arena, but the big tribute for the 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.520 great Michael Goodinski The. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.800 Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.720 This week, We're getting excited Tomorrow morning. Dave Sherwood, an accountant, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.720 getting ready for another hard day, crunching those numbers over 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.440 that Excel spreadsheet. Tomorrow morning, eight o'clock, live on the show, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.440 showing a TV out of a window, just as Axel Rose. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.360 Just an average Friday on this show. Jack it's going 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.920 to be down there, and this is a bucket list 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.320 he wants to do. It's is fortieth tomorrow, it's forty tomorrow. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.799 He wants to have that rock star experience. We're going 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.640 back to work as an accountant, so we'll be talking 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.160 about bucket list this week. If there's anything on your 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.839 bucket list that we could make happen. And yesterday we 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.080 were going into the mind of jack Post, which is 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.800 always like a maze of wonder, amaze of wonder. We 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.840 found out that Jackie Boy wants to go to space 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:25.920 if possible. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.159 If possible, I imagine we'd all go. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.479 It's possible if you've got a couple of billion kicking 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:33.440 around in a Bank account. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.480 First radio show to broadcast from orbiting around. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.160 The world, and we couldn't get the radio show from 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:43.919 my place down the road in Hampton. Ain't k you 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.400 think we're going to put you you're down the line 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.120 in space? Tremon my friend, It's more likely you will 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.840 be in space. Then I think you're dreaming too much. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.479 You think we can actually hear you in there. There's 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.800 absolutely no way. And the other one was obviously the 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.280 Catch of Marlin. Yes, and then I found out it's 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.039 the boat that cat Well, you got mega hook. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.120 Low at the hook and then the hook, something's going 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.080 to be on the boat. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:06.400 Yeah. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.919 I mean I won't be driving the boat because I 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.760 don't have a boat license, but I'll be there and just. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.920 Making you stop. That fella in the Suez right now? 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.600 I mean, how do you I was watching the newslas 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.120 sight that this mega shipping container that's wedge right now 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.360 in the sewer's shipping canal. There was some guy on 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.360 the news last night who said that the helmsman I 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.680 don't even know is that the captain. Does he work 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:25.040 with the count? 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.080 So the captain's the captain, who's the helmsman? 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.880 Is he at the back? 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.400 Of the ship. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.080 Is he there, Jack Post? But anyway, the helmsman, the guard, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.840 the news this went. It's very Australian worth covering such 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.680 a big story when basically he lost control of it. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.280 I think, how can you It's not a jet ski 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.360 where they going whoa really quickly? They are so slow? 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.120 How do you lose control of one of those things? 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.600 It's like twenty thousand tons? How did he lose control 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.600 of it? What was the helmsman doing? Was he on 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.920 his phone? Or we need to get into that last morning. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.600 It's an amazing story. Anyway, Let's go to Melissa, one 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:04.120 of our lovely listeners, Melissa Robinson Christian talking about bucket lists. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.680 I started one after the movie came out with Jack 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.440 Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:10.640 Yeah, called the bucket List. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:11.680 I've never seen it. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.080 Oh yeah, I've seen it. They sit on top of 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.240 the pyramids at one stage. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.160 That's it. What do in their bucket list? Is it? 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:18.320 Just? 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.520 Do you think they just got together, got drunk and went, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.200 what's a great way for you and I just to 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.040 hang out and go to load of cool places. Let's 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.920 come in the movie called the bucket List and get 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.000 some bozo to write it. Next thing you know they're 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.600 on top of the pyramids, is that the movie is 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:32.719 them taking off bucket list. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.600 All I remember is them on top of the periods. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.240 But that was one of their bucket list items. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.400 My list started small, attached and has grown over the years, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.439 where things crossed off and others added. Now this list 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.080 is actually a spreadsheet. There must be no word of 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.280 a lie. What thirty to forty items? 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:48.600 This is amazing. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.040 Yeah, and I have to say, Melissa, I feel that 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.960 I thought i'd led had a pretty adventurous lifestyle. I 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.800 feel really boring. Look at this. There's loads She's already 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.880 ticked off like hot Air, balloon flight, Sydney Bridge Climb, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.080 dandon On Rangers, treetop warp, Mornington, Poincia, Hot Springs, Delsford, Spa, Weerribee, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:10.280 Open rain Zoo, all Climate, ab sailing, V eight racet 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.720 bat hers. She's been to Cuba, Mexico, actually pitchew to 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.760 do the trail there, the track there we was supposed 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.079 to be amazing. She's learned how to make Paela. She 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.960 has the part. I mean, I don't think that's not 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.520 in the movie. Is it? Rolling in an afternoon on 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:24.640 a health making. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.640 But that's the thing she's done is only a quarter 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.679 of what she wants to do. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.360 So have you seen some of the others on this 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.880 bucket that she hasn't yet done? 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.679 I love how some are so particular, like the Jamilla 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.400 Wildlife Lodge in Canberra. I want to stay at that place. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.040 I want to walk along Victoria's Silo Art trail. And 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:44.559 then some are just Europe. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.199 Yeah, and then brackets it says too much, too much, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.680 want too much, too much money? Or swim with Great 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.920 White Sharks, Adelaide slash Melbourne. She's not fussy, you know 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.280 Adelaide slash Melbourne, which depends where the sharks are. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.199 Oh maybe that's to compare the sharkses. Oh yes, I 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.040 saw the Adelaide ones, the Melbourne Ones. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.400 Adrenaline Adventures. And then here in block capitols, not theme parks, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.480 so what else is there? And the pastor making. She 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.160 wants to do what Jack Nicholson did with in the 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.960 movie as well. Wants to go to Egypt as well. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.560 These are amazing. So if you do have something, maybe 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.320 you don't even have a bucket list, but now you 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.960 start to think about one, please email us. We're looking 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.480 to try and make more of these happen, especially a 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.400 Pilo one. That's quite an easy one to work. Tick off, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.760 isn't it. Email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.400 dot au. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.840 The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.920 We're talking about the worst red lights of Melbourne. I 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.480 know you think, geez, how do I missed that one? 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.000 Where's the podcast, Christian? It's up online. It's good to go. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.160 We'll talk about the worst red lights of Melbourne every day. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.719 My chip into work is blighted. The minute before I 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.400 get to the joy Houses radio station. There's this god 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.439 awful traffic light as you going down Punt Road and 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.240 you try and take a an innocent right, an innocent 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.120 right into Rowena Parade. I'm there for four minutes, back 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.320 there today for four minutes. I don't get it. I 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.600 just all I want is someone to just investigated. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.400 Even if traffic's not coming the other way, there's nothing 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.079 coming the other way, but you're still sitting there, sat there. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.360 So we have a go on the line. Now is 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.520 our man on the inside at vic Rose. We have 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.840 Chris Miller on the line. Come morning, Chris. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.920 Morning, Christian, Jack Patsy here are you going? 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.640 We're good? What can you say? I don't even the 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.560 last twenty four hours, VIC Roads have had a few 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.880 calls about that traffict night or whether you've heard people 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.160 complaining about it before. Do you think did you know 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.360 the one? I mean the one on Pipe Road as 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:29.720 you're going to Rowena. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.559 Right opposite the gate to get into the MCG there. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.400 And obviously Christian, we heard about your troubles yesterday, so 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.920 we've begun an internal investigation into the operation of that. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.240 I demand the Royal Commission. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.319 We in fact have excavated on the way no look 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.280 Punt Road going into a Wiener parade. It's basically Christian. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:50.800 The way it works is we try and give green 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.960 time to as many people as possible. So along punk road. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.640 To the Insight, they called it green time. I'm going 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.000 to start using that now with family and friends to 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.320 impress them it's green. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.400 Time, trying to give you all equal green time. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.360 Well, at the moment, all I'm getting from you guys, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:07.600 is that too much red time. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.199 Well, there's a little detector under the road. Don't know 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 whether you realize that, but there's a piece of magnet 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.040 that basically detects the metal of your car. So the 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.760 key is make sure you run over that, because if 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.480 you don't run over that, the traffic lights won't know 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.679 you're there. The other problem I suppose with tunt Road 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.960 and Hoddle Street is because each individual intersection talks to 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.120 each other, they're all in sequence, so we can't basically 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.240 get a red light in the middle of a green wave. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.079 There's another one for you. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.680 So it's basically what we're asking for is you know, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.840 maybe this is a conversation offair. Is some kind of 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.079 remote control that I can use. No one else knows 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.319 about a special arrangement. I can just wind the window 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.000 now and give it a little click and then suddenly 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.640 it goes green and I've got green time go. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.080 I could kind of see some money in the state 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.720 government for that. I'll have a chat to our Roads 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.240 min it's to Ben Carroll, just to see if we 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.280 can't go to come up with some sort of charge 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:55.240 my control the. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.400 Lights talking to each other. How do they do that? 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.439 Well, essentially all of melbourne'sraffic lights do that. It's a 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.800 system called scats and essentially it's all designed to basically 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.240 cater for peak hours. So in the mornings, everyone's coming 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.960 towards the city, so all of the lights are set 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.880 up so that all the green time or most of 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.360 the green time is headed towards the city. Opposite happens 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.880 in the afternoon. Essentially, the traffic bus are very clever. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.360 They know how many cars are there, they know what 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.720 speed the pod cars are going through the intersection. Lots 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.480 of information. And believe me, the people who program these 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.520 traffic lights have got enormous brains. The algorithms that it 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.040 takes to sequence a traffic mega mega mind. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.640 What's all the noise in the background by the way 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.760 is and the traffic lights talking to each other. Now, Chris, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:36.199 where are you? 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.560 I'm in the traffic operations setter. So I'm here with 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.680 about twelve hundred cameras. I'm currently looking at people that 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.520 have crashed into each other on the Ring Road up 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.800 near Sydney Road. We had an initial crash just near 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.640 Pascoval Road. Then people going Outtona bound its flowed to 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.560 have a look and they've crashed into each other as well. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.840 You are sat in front of all those different cameras 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:54.880 all over Melbourne. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.680 Absolutely, and this is the room where we can control 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.920 the traffic lights. We control all those overhead signals for 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:02.200 the freeways. So when we've got you know, our vic 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.640 growd's incident response cruisinggs, for example, saving someone who's run 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.839 out of fuel or got a flat tire, will need 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.640 to close the lane and reduce the speed down to 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.400 forty because obviously when there's people on the road, we've 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.560 got to reduce those speeds. But this is the room, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.720 the nerve center, where it all happens. We've also got 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.440 the guys from PTV controlling the trams and the trains 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.520 and all that sort of stuff. So it's it's a 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.000 great room to be and you should come visit us 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:22.320 one day. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.120 Do you know what, genuinely I'd love to go to 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.440 see that by on people driving the work Chris. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.640 Can people cheat the system? We heard yesterday that people 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.160 try and roll over the sensor in the road and 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.240 then back off it, back on it, back off it, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.800 back on it. And also people flash their lights at 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.440 the traffic lights to either of those work. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.480 Neither work now and no need to hit the detector 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.560 more than once. It's a magnet. And in fact, when 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.200 you move away from the detector, the lights think you've 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.320 gone and you're not there anymore, So get it on 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.840 the detector, sit there and say that the lights will 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.920 happen in their sequence. But as the flash of your 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.040 lights at it, no, you'll just look on an idiot. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.600 Last question for me. We like on the show, Chris, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.920 We like trying and give an usual, different, original prizes away. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.320 Is it possible that I could give away a price 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.280 for a week where if we worked out what a 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.640 listener's trip to work was, you just organized it was 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:09.640 all green lights. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:15.720 Great, just do it on the Italian Job, the Melbourne Jobs. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.680 Anyway, we can do that for a prize, just for 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.560 a week. What a great car that would be. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.760 I think it'd be difficult to get across the line. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.560 In fact, the only time I've known that ever happened 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.520 is when Prince Harry and Megan arrived. So special to 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:27.160 get that right. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.720 I got that remote control clicker eye want that as well, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.360 Chris Royal green tie. Yes, yes, Chris Miner, thank you 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.040 very much. We catch up again soon and Jack and 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.040 I would love if you genuine to come around and 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:38.840 have a look around there. It sounds amazing, excellent. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:39.960 You welcome anytime, guys. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:44.560 Thanks Chris, have a good day. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:49.400 Christian Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.920 So once a week on a show, we like to 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.120 pair through the speakers, having a look at what you're 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.680 up to. Something creepy going on. It's just just interested 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.920 see what what are we seeing? What are we seeing? 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.840 If we were to look through the speakers, what are 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.840 you up to right now? I'm always fascinated about as 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.520 we're chantering on, as we do Monday to Friday, sixth 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.920 or nine, chuntering on in the background, what are you 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.440 actually up to? Would you love there to be like 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.400 a radio goggle box? What are they actually up to? 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:18.960 You can see what they're up to while the show 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:19.520 is going on. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.120 Set that up. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.840 I guess what hidden cameras in the speakers they. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.480 Know about it. We get them to sign the papers. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.960 They don't know. When google box, you know that none 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.240 of those families now they're being watched. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.800 We get families. I guess they're sat around. You don't 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.280 really sit around the radio anymore. That seems like in the. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.080 Nineteen fifties, you know, listening to His Majesty's voice said, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.360 is it the BBC? We are at war? It's not 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.840 like that now, gathered around listen to a secret sound. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.720 But then we get the comments of the gather. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.840 Around cash Man's back children. Tell the neighbors to come 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.240 on over. We have a Calor radio, only one on 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.960 the streets. All right, let's take some let's se how 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.280 we take some girls. Next note now here we got here, Andrea, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.720 good morning and good morning. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.399 I am walking in the pitch black with a headlamp on, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.560 walking my dog Blue out in Southwest Victoria, listening on 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:11.960 the iHeart radio app. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.879 Thank you very much. That's I love the image of 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.840 you in the lamp, the kind of miner's lamp. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.879 I saw a headlamp run of this morning, and it 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.880 just made me think, like, how badly do you want 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.560 to get out and about in the morning that you 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.840 have to put the head lamp on. But I guess, Andrea, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.639 you want to be out and about white's dark. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.480 Well I do, because I don't sleep very well. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.040 I wake up nice and early. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.200 So I turn that headlamp off. It might be sort 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.920