1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast, Let's do it No. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: Business like show business. 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 3: My dad wrettled Andre the Giant at Festival Hall. 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: Elker Colin Hay, the lead singer of Men at Work, 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: changed his car tire. 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 4: He's plumbing apprenticeship with John far Christian O'Connell's weakest claim 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 4: to face. Those were just last week's no no claim 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 4: to fame is too weak for us. 9 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: Melanie kicks us off. Christian. 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 4: A couple of months ago, I find this is you'll blimey, 11 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 4: this is a story. Coule of months ago, I finally 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 4: got through the station to share my weakest kind of fame. 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 4: The young gentleman that answered the phone was very polite. 14 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 4: It won't be Jack, there must be you Rio. I 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 4: as speak to tell him my story. 16 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 1: He cracked up. 17 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 4: He couldn't stop off. He put me on hold, then 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 4: forgot about me. That must be Jack. 19 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: Anyway, me mailing. 20 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 4: Ten years ago, we got married on the beach at 21 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 4: Fiji at our Favorites or plantation, Iroland. A few years 22 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 4: prior to that, one Castaway the movie had been filming. 23 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 4: Tom was staying there. Tom Hanks left the raft and 24 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 4: Wilson the volleyball as a gift to the hotel, even 25 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 4: looking after him. 26 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: I was conceived the plantation I've seen that. Is that right? 27 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: It's true, one hundred percent true. You were conceived plantation. 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: It's a long story on the raft don't come and 29 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: I'm kidding it. 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 4: The rafts are ruin. This is amazing. Right next to 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 4: where we got married. For the wedding photos, I sat 32 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 4: on the raft from the movie Gustaway with Wilson as 33 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 4: one of the guests. That is great, mouth. Thank you 34 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 4: very much. All right, So as always, you give us 35 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: a call. Tell us your weakest claim to fame. More 36 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 4: of us have got a very shabby, shoddy week claim 37 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 4: to fame. That a really great one. We want to 38 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 4: celebrate those every week. Nine four four one o four three. 39 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: John's up first today, John Christian, Where we go, John? 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: What is your weakest claim to fame? 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 5: My mum used to catch the bus to school with 42 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 5: Barry Crocker. 43 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: Wow, I mean. 44 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 1: What a school trip that must have been with a 45 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: young Barry Crocker. 46 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: He was used to work on Myers in Geelong apparently, 47 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: and he used to look after on the way to 48 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 3: school and make sure she didn get off of the 49 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: wrong stop or something. 50 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: Or he did the neighbours theme? Is that right? Is 51 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: that Barry Crockatt original Neighbors the same Christian which I 52 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: know you'd be into. 53 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, he must have made a few quid from that 54 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 4: huge theme tune this week. So much money from that. 55 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: I love that. What a great one involving Barry. We've 56 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: never had a Barry. 57 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 4: Krocker, and I hope we get more Barry Crockers from 58 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 4: this moment on with. I hope you've opened up a 59 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 4: portal now for more Barry Crocker stories. 60 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: John. That's a great one. I send you a price. 61 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: Thanks you cool, Thanks man, Kay, didn't know we're going 62 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: to get that this morning. Barry Crocker's story. How we 63 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: got here? 64 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: Chris, Hey, Christian? Here you going? 65 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. 66 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 4: Welcome to show, Christoph. And what's your weakest claim to fame? 67 00:02:59,520 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: Mate? 68 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: Well, I was in the early eighties. I was the 69 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 2: Chevron and it was a Sunday night. I was having 70 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 2: a few drinks and at the bar with the girl 71 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: friend and I turned to the left and there was 72 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: meat Life. He was at the bar and he was 73 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: just standing there and I had to talk to him 74 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 2: because I said, mate, it's the best album that came 75 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: out of the seventies and I know every word to it. 76 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: And he said, thank you very much. Drink he continued, 77 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: He continued to continued to drink the beer. 78 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: You held another one. No, you don't want it. 79 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 4: No body melt want to be next to me here. 80 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 4: That's a great one, Chris, Thank you very much your story. 81 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 4: Let's go to who we. 82 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: Got here, Brendam Brandom. 83 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 3: How are Yeah? 84 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to Brandon. What's your weakest clean to fame? Uh? 85 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 5: Is here at a Balie charity golf event. 86 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 2: I outdrove Nick Raywolfs. 87 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Wow, that's some big talk. You know, what did you really? 88 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: Was that one of those stories that is a big guy, 89 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: very athletic guy, big wins. 90 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 4: He's a lot of power in there. 91 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: Pocket rocket, get out. 92 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: I doubt this. I'm called him, bs. 93 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 4: No, you call up and shave a great man of 94 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 4: that trying to throw shade on Rue. 95 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: No way, no, no, yes, no, it's not called wenstate, Bs. 96 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 4: It happened like a child. It happened the pocket rocket. 97 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 4: You learn a golf called the pocket rocket? 98 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: All right? Where is your weakness going to fame. 99 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 4: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Let's go to 100 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 4: Anna here, Anna, Hello, Hello, welcome to the show. 101 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: Thanks to calling. 102 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 5: Thank you Anna. 103 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: What have you got for us? Then? What is your 104 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: weakest clean to fame? Mane? 105 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 5: My weakest claim to fame is Kylie Minogue came to 106 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 5: a party at my house. 107 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: Oh this is this is a big woo. 108 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 5: Yes, a long time ago, nineteen eighty four, just before 109 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 5: she hit the screens on Neighbors. She was famous sin 110 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 5: as Danny Minogue's sister, and Danny was really big and 111 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 5: young talent time. And I was having a party to 112 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 5: go away overseas, and somebody I knew was going out 113 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 5: with Danny Minogue's sister and she was coming to our party. 114 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: So how have you You're thrown a party to go overseas? 115 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: Back in the eighties, that was a big deal. 116 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 5: I was going. I was going to be an exchange student. 117 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 5: So I was where did you go? I went to Malaysia? 118 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: Oh cool? And so how long was Kylie there? Can 119 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: you remember any of it? 120 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 3: Was? 121 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 4: All those stories, it's a very distant memory. 122 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 5: It's nearly forty years ago. She she was very small 123 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 5: and very quiet, younger. I think she's always been small. 124 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: I don't think she got any bigger at the party. 125 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 5: She's quiet, she didn't talk to anyone. She sat in 126 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 5: the darkest part of the. 127 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 4: Sadness, and she was in the shade of her sister 128 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 4: Danny story from shade. 129 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 5: She would have been at Camberwell High at that time, Dave, 130 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 5: I believe she would have been at school. Yeah, yeah, 131 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 5: she would have been, because she's younger than me, but 132 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 5: not by much so and I was seventeen, so yes, 133 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 5: well she would have been. 134 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you did that. So we get a 135 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: timeline here, and I bet you. 136 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 5: She had like a bubble skirt on and lace gloves 137 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 5: or something. I think she might have had those sort 138 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 5: of high waisted you know, LEVI five oh one? 139 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, what does she what? She did she pair that with? 140 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 4: I don't know, like brogues. 141 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 5: I think was the go. 142 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 4: Then awesome than a good day? 143 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: Thank you Da? 144 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 5: Yes, hello, how are you? 145 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: I'm good Da? What is your weakest claim to fame 146 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: for us? 147 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 3: Well, this is going back a few years when I 148 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 3: was playing competition tennis just locally. Oh no, no, it 149 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 3: was the Nearly Park Tennis Club. Then it's one of the three, 150 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 3: and I played against Pat Casha's mom all day. 151 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: I'll take you and your mom. 152 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 3: That's my only claim to fame. But yeah, she she 153 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 3: was our pet. 154 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 5: Pet bought this for. 155 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 3: Me, and Pet bought that. 156 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: Return myself. Will have been your last rounder. How'd you go? 157 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 3: Well? I won't a baby by ten guys because she wouldn't. 158 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:07,679 Speaker 3: But she wasn't. 159 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: In scoring system. 160 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 3: Nick Revot drove longer than him. 161 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 4: Claims today, Ronda, we love that. 162 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: With Sandy Prize, you really might us laugh today. 163 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 3: Thank you, oh thank you. 164 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: Brighter. 165 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 3: You're listening to the Question of Carl Show podcast