Speaker 1: Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Christian No Come On Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Jack's got an amazing story. I would file this under
Speaker 3: extreme huffing. We've all done something in a hulf.
Speaker 4: We get into huffs. Everybody gets into huffs.
Speaker 3: But this is something you need to do, something to
Speaker 3: just charge the huffing energy, you know, to break up
Speaker 3: the huff that you're in.
Speaker 5: You're both in. Everyone has a different way to process it.
Speaker 4: But get this, this will be hard to beat. My
Speaker 4: friend has an argument with his partner and leaves the house.
Speaker 4: Wants to cool off after he's hulf so he goes
Speaker 4: through a drive ends up driving to Sydney from Melbourne.
Speaker 4: From Melbourne, ends up driving to Sydney. By that time,
Speaker 4: his huff is cooled a bit. He goes through a
Speaker 4: Maca's drive through and then comes back to Melbourne. One
Speaker 4: big round trip.
Speaker 5: Or twelve hours easily.
Speaker 4: Isn't it more ten hours to Sydney one way?
Speaker 5: Of course, it's about twenty hour. That's a day half
Speaker 5: a long half.
Speaker 4: That's a very long hlf.
Speaker 3: You must have done stuff in a half, pat Sy,
Speaker 3: I've gone shopping once and a half that we didn't
Speaker 3: even need to go shopping.
Speaker 5: I just went to huff around the supermarket.
Speaker 4: But at least that's a helpful huff.
Speaker 5: They're not angry shop and only came up with three bits.
Speaker 3: Actually, my brain wasn't working right, Caitlin, What have you done?
Speaker 5: In a huff?
Speaker 4: I drove to Geelong and.
Speaker 5: Just took off, just took off.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 4: I had a fight and I got in the car
Speaker 4: and I just drove to Geelong.
Speaker 5: What did you do in Geelong? Just half around?
Speaker 2: I washed my car.
Speaker 1: And walked along there.
Speaker 3: It's awful because at some point the half goes, but
Speaker 3: you're so committed you don't want to look foolish to
Speaker 3: you like, I know, she's just a.
Speaker 5: Really nice day. Actually used to hang out by myself.
Speaker 5: You know, it wasn't the half wasn't it wasn't doing
Speaker 5: it in a half? All right, So we want to
Speaker 5: know what did you do in a half? This morning
Speaker 5: we all do this.
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Speaker 3: Asking you what did you do in a half? Tack's
Speaker 3: friend drove to Sydney. Didn't need to just after a
Speaker 3: big argument, trying cool down. Obviously cool down probably about
Speaker 3: the first hour into a heavy road trip.
Speaker 4: But once you're on that highway.
Speaker 3: Committed, committed to a pointless gesture, and then I had
Speaker 3: a Maca's there and then drove the long, long, long
Speaker 3: drive back. I'm probably in a half by with yourself
Speaker 3: by the end of it. I'll Partici kating as well.
Speaker 3: Drove in a half all the way to a long
Speaker 3: and spent the day there. So what have you done
Speaker 3: in a half? Nine four one one four three, Matt?
Speaker 3: Good morning? Hey you go mate, I'm good Welcome to
Speaker 3: the show. So what did you do Matt? In a half?
Speaker 7: I had a really bad day at work, got home,
Speaker 7: partner was carrying on at me. So I went out
Speaker 7: to the garage, where I normally spend a lot of
Speaker 7: my time, and I bought a.
Speaker 4: Car from the garage.
Speaker 7: From the garage, I was sitting on my phone. I
Speaker 7: was on eBay and I just bought a car.
Speaker 3: What did you get?
Speaker 7: I bought an E the Eat Wagon. And reason I
Speaker 7: bought it was I liked the wheels.
Speaker 4: Unseen so you didn't even you hadn't visited it earlier on.
Speaker 7: No, just literally, I just do it impulse buyers. I've
Speaker 7: got ten cars as we speak, and I was like,
Speaker 7: I want another car. So I bought one.
Speaker 3: Impost by Maybe you know a pair of shoes or
Speaker 3: trainers or so a car?
Speaker 5: I didn't. You can get cars on eBay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, here you buy whatever you want almost yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, all that from a garage where he spends a
Speaker 3: lot of time. Okay, that isn't amazing, that's extreme. Nothing
Speaker 3: isn't to go and order a brand new car and
Speaker 3: a half. Matt, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You killed me.
Speaker 7: I have a good day, no problems you too, John.
Speaker 5: Goes Hey, Johnny, what did you do in a half? Then? John?
Speaker 1: In a half? I had a bit of a dispute
Speaker 1: with the missus, so I went to the airport and
Speaker 1: though the cans.
Speaker 3: This is why Cane is so popular. It's lots of
Speaker 3: people husbands, wives or by them.
Speaker 5: I should have said, this.
Speaker 4: Beautiful place for a half.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they should make it part of the tourism
Speaker 3: strap line.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's the best place in Australian mates.
Speaker 5: Great, yeah, beautiful love that. So you you flew up
Speaker 5: in a half, had some time there? What did you?
Speaker 5: How long were you there for?
Speaker 1: Nine years?
Speaker 5: It's a big old half. Then wasn't he.
Speaker 1: The half aday? Last of the duration of the flight?
Speaker 1: And then I got over and I'm telling love of cans,
Speaker 1: got a.
Speaker 5: Job to start a new life up there?
Speaker 1: All from a half basically.
Speaker 4: And were you still with you? Do you remain with
Speaker 4: your partner?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: We're best friend still, this is our fifteen years later,
Speaker 1: we're still good mates. So it all worked out well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But what happened with the relationship after you decided
Speaker 3: to stay out there and get a job?
Speaker 5: Do you still see her?
Speaker 1: Or a long distance mope?
Speaker 4: So you got off the flame, the huff's cooled down,
Speaker 4: You're feeling better before you decide to go back home
Speaker 4: and see you partner again? You life for a job.
Speaker 1: And what.
Speaker 5: The job at the airport? You know with someone hiring?
Speaker 5: Do you need a job yet?
Speaker 3: Actually?
Speaker 1: Yes? Oh just the atmosphere in the last still up there?
Speaker 1: I just went you know what? Why not?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: When you explain it like that simple way.
Speaker 3: To your life almost zenlight? Really well put it, John,
Speaker 3: Thank you very much to give us a call.
Speaker 5: All right, what have you done on a huff? Two?
Speaker 3: Amazing course, went to cats, stayed at the nine years
Speaker 3: and brought half from the carriage.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: I'd like to think every day you learn something new.
Speaker 5: What well, if we learned the show today, is that.
Speaker 3: Because only dudes have called into the reply to the
Speaker 3: question what have you done in a huff?
Speaker 1: Men?
Speaker 5: Huff?
Speaker 4: Men? Half? Maybe women don't have we huff?
Speaker 3: Even the Merry and Webster Online Dictionary definition gives female
Speaker 3: examples obviously written by dude. There's no men in there
Speaker 3: that we're only hearing about what you did in huff
Speaker 3: from guys flying to cans, buying cars on the phone
Speaker 3: on eBay or in a huff?
Speaker 5: Do you think men huff?
Speaker 1: Moore pats Ah, Yeah, probably My huffs are very short lived.
Speaker 5: I reckon, I've like driven around the block and then
Speaker 5: just lost patience, so gone home again.
Speaker 3: I think it's more a volcanic eruption. Is how my
Speaker 3: wife processes stuff, and then I'm the one with sort
Speaker 3: of scolding months on the hot laughter. All right, let's
Speaker 3: go to Ben and Coome onring Ben, Good morning, Ben,
Speaker 3: What do you do in a huff?
Speaker 5: Who was a huff with?
Speaker 6: Oh? Okay, so I was eighteen living at home, had
Speaker 6: hulf with my mother. I don't even remember what it
Speaker 6: was about.
Speaker 5: The worst huffs to.
Speaker 6: Get into my huff? Yeah, So I don't remember what
Speaker 6: it was about, but I thought, okay, well, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe I'll just have a little walk around. This is
Speaker 6: up and tap gipps Land. I thought, okay, I'll walk
Speaker 6: around and I hang out with the horse and the
Speaker 6: dog calm down. And she said, I've got people coming
Speaker 6: over on you sulking around. God was like, I or
Speaker 6: go somewhere else, so I was, so I just immediately
Speaker 6: went for a walk. I'm wearing my I got my
Speaker 6: single and my shorts and tongues on, nothing else. It's
Speaker 6: about seven o'clock the day I save him, so it's
Speaker 6: still bright and I just walked. I thought, all right,
Speaker 6: I'll just walk out to like, you know, past the
Speaker 6: drive on. You know, we'll get to the road and
Speaker 6: then we'll turn around. All be good. But when I
Speaker 6: got there, I was like, I'm still angry. So I thought, hey,
Speaker 6: I can't stay on the radio. I thought, all right,
Speaker 6: well we'll just keep walking then, so I kept walking.
Speaker 6: I walked to I walked to the next town. I
Speaker 6: was in Langling. So I walked in Niora, which I
Speaker 6: would later find out as twelve k away.
Speaker 3: Pilgrimage until the Sick looking for Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: It was a lot of self reflection or just exhaustion.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Anyway, how long was your round trip?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I walked at about seven and I think
Speaker 6: I got back about ten or ten thirty. Now, I'll
Speaker 6: just remind you there's no foot palls or anything. That's
Speaker 6: just sort of road and bush right there. Anyway, So anyways,
Speaker 6: when I got when I got to the next town,
Speaker 6: it was done to get dark, and I was thinking, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm going to get back home. I anyway ended up
Speaker 6: getting pitch black and cold, and then I didn't have
Speaker 6: anything on me right right, Uh So I pretty much
Speaker 6: had to rely on the lights of passing cars and
Speaker 6: the sense of a dead animal that I had walked
Speaker 6: previously over. No, No, it was awesome, I felt. I
Speaker 6: thought it was the coolest thing. Like I was getting
Speaker 6: back and I'm like, oh, geez, how much longer I
Speaker 6: can't see anything? And then I'm like, oh, it stinks.
Speaker 6: I'm like, wait a minute, that's the same stink that's
Speaker 6: stunk before I'm getting closer to home. So I got
Speaker 6: home and we both didn't really have anything to say.
Speaker 6: I was just she was just like, you might want
Speaker 6: to have a shower, because I looked down and like
Speaker 6: and everything all over my leg like moccasons and probably
Speaker 6: at the back of my shoulder was numb as well,
Speaker 6: and the cold was just awful. So yeah, he's half
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 3: It's like Cormt McCarthy's The Road That's never ending Road
Speaker 3: of Trials, amazing stuff. Revenant as well at times hopefully
Speaker 3: not any boy.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much your epic story.
Speaker 6: Never been so glad to smell a dead animal A.
Speaker 3: Great way to leave it, sir Ben, we're Senterprise British storytelling. No, yeah,
Speaker 3: we have to go I reckon week is Midday with Ben.
Speaker 5: It felt like we were getting that story a real time.
Speaker 4: Our producer actually came in and said, start with Ben
Speaker 4: because he's a quick one.
Speaker 5: I'm nervous about to go to these others. This is
Speaker 5: canceled plans. It's never ending breakfast show. All right, let's
Speaker 5: take a break.
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