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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Show. This week we've opened up the big

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Speaker 1: book of listeners. Who has the shortest commute, who's got

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Speaker 1: the longest commute? And what is the oldest hand me

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Speaker 1: down in your family? Nine four one four one oh,

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Speaker 1: four to three?

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Speaker 2: You know, the shortest commutes. I had the dream of

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Speaker 2: living only a minute's walk from this radio station, banker

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Speaker 2: and actually and I went to an open inspection for

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Speaker 2: a house on this street.

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Speaker 3: But it's a double ed sword.

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Speaker 1: If if you're that close, it's too easy for Sue

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Speaker 1: the boss to say, hey, can you pop back in?

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Speaker 1: You know, this guy wants to meet the show, and

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Speaker 1: so that suddenly you're too near.

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Speaker 2: That's true, But I just I love the idea of

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Speaker 2: the alarm going off then a minute later I'm in here.

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Speaker 1: I think in an ideal world, you'd be either asleep

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Speaker 1: in the studio or.

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Speaker 3: Above the studio.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting closer and closer and just having a bed somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Y yeah, yeah, and we just wake you up during

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Speaker 1: Patsy's news at six. All right, so nine four one four,

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Speaker 1: I know, four to three, who's got the shortest commute,

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Speaker 1: he's got the longest one and oldest.

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Speaker 3: Hand me down in your family. Morning, Haley, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 4: How are you going?

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Speaker 3: We're good, Hailey, welcome to the show. So short or

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Speaker 3: long commute? What's it for you?

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Speaker 4: I think I have the shortest commute.

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Speaker 3: How long?

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Speaker 4: Eight hundred meters?

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Speaker 3: That is good? Retty good? And how so?

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Speaker 4: So I run my own company, and I was working

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Speaker 4: from home, and so I wanted something nice and close.

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Speaker 4: So I still drive to work every day. Takes me

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Speaker 4: about three minutes. But yeah, I rented an office space

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Speaker 4: eight hundred meters away. He drives anything, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's three minutes. If if it's traffic, it's four.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, probably two four minutes to walk.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And like do you have to pay for parking

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Speaker 3: at the other end? Is no?

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Speaker 4: Get I get a reserve spot. But also I just don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm not originally from Melbourne, so I don't like getting

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Speaker 4: rained on when the weather decides to change on me.

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Speaker 2: Come on, last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'm not originally for Melbourne. But a little bit of

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Speaker 1: tinkle of rain in that eight hundred meters shuffle to

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Speaker 1: get to work is getting or where are you and Brolly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I still haven't purchased for them.

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Speaker 3: Hayley, this is amazing. You can now on your journey.

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Speaker 4: I've just arrived at the office.

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Speaker 3: Well at the start of the call, you just left home.

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Speaker 4: I've driven there in the space of this one call.

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Speaker 3: This is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I love that, Hailey. That's going to take some beating

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Speaker 1: eight hundred meters and still driving.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you very much to give us a call. Say, Petra,

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Speaker 3: good morning.

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Speaker 5: Good morning guys. How are we good?

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Speaker 3: So you've got a long commute.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I've got a long commute and a hand me

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Speaker 5: down too.

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Speaker 3: Fa. Okay, what have you got the let's first of

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Speaker 3: a we'll talk about the longest commute. Then how long?

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Speaker 5: So it takes me about between two hours fifteen two

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Speaker 5: and a half hours each way when I drive to work,

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Speaker 5: So you're.

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Speaker 3: Talking about four to five hours there and back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you coming from and going to?

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Speaker 5: I work in Port Melbourne and I live in Stepford,

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Speaker 5: hi Reef, which is past Belaret.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that is it's more like a pilgrimage

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Speaker 1: less than a work. Seriously, that's what's an epicture. You've

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Speaker 1: got to take snacks back yeah, Kip that blood blood

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Speaker 1: sugar level going up. Wow, you need to stop for

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Speaker 1: a loupe break.

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Speaker 5: Nine loue breaker and get to work.

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Speaker 1: I mean imagine that, see when you turn up to

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Speaker 1: when you turn up to work, no time.

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Speaker 3: Pushing those doors open.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, how did you feel here in the last call,

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Speaker 2: Haley say it takes it three minutes to drive to work.

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Speaker 5: I'm head that experience on too, for I don't think

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Speaker 5: it was quite har Yeah, it was about three minutes

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Speaker 5: to get to work and it was sixteen years ago

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Speaker 5: when I worked at Tall. So when I first started

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Speaker 5: working at Tall sixteen years ago, my home to the

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Speaker 5: workplace was about Oh it's probably a little bit longer

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Speaker 5: than eight hundred meters. It's just over a kilometer. And

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Speaker 5: I've just gone back to Tall and now I'm doing

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Speaker 5: two and a half hours each way.

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Speaker 3: Oh my this I mean you are Employee of the

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Speaker 3: Year Tuesday. I can't wrap my head around that.

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Speaker 1: I think in like the decise you can go from

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Speaker 1: London to Scotland every day and work up there and

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Speaker 1: come back to London. That's insane and you've got it

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Speaker 1: too for so it's amazing your community shirt time you

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Speaker 1: go to work and what's the long hand me down

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Speaker 1: you got as well?

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Speaker 5: So I've got a green leaf wedgewood plate that's handed

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Speaker 5: down to the elder s Fiell of every generation.

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Speaker 3: How many years has that been in the family?

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Speaker 5: Ah? I know definitely it's been me and my mom,

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Speaker 5: my grandmother and my great grandmother, and it would be

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Speaker 5: beyond that because they went back through to Scotland. So

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Speaker 5: I've managed to trace back that the family tree to

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Speaker 5: seventeen hundreds and so.

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Speaker 3: So you reckon this plate is on what the seventeen

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Speaker 3: or eighteen hundreds?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Do you eat off it?

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Speaker 3: Or is it she does that long trip? I'm kind

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Speaker 3: of chess on it every morning.

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Speaker 5: It's on a special stand in my crystal cabinet. But

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Speaker 5: waiting for my daughter to get her own house and

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Speaker 5: all that sort of stuff so I can eventually hand

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Speaker 5: it off to her and not have the responsibility and won't.

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Speaker 1: She get there's a special stand come with it as

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Speaker 1: well in the glass cabin.

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Speaker 5: Shop when just.

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Speaker 1: So I know now, because I'm going to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we make the ship for sure. The shows are

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Speaker 1: very good when you're on your epic trips. Are you

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Speaker 1: on this big pilgrimage now or when do you go?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: I am on the pilgrimage now. I've pulled over to

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Speaker 5: the side of the road. Seven going to take a

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Speaker 5: lot of it, so.

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Speaker 1: Bad, but it was worth it.

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Speaker 5: So yes, I've been going since quarter past six this morning.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm going to give you?

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Speaker 1: One thousand dollars for our call of the week. My god, Honestly,

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Speaker 1: anyone who's that committed to their work deserves next.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you are Cooler of the week.

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Speaker 1: Turn the car around. She's not coming in to day.

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Speaker 1: Told so much, honestly, get some snacks.

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Speaker 3: Get some snacks on us.

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Speaker 5: We can get you to Easter on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It's such a lovely, cheery person as well. I think

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Speaker 1: if I was stuck in travel that long, I would

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Speaker 1: be like this. You're on Cooler of the Week. You

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Speaker 1: get one thousand dollars and couldn't go to anyone more deserving.

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Speaker 3: You've cheered us up this morning as well.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you so much, really really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Our pleasure. Safe trip onwards.

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Speaker 1: Now get going, get going, yeah, shiving there far round lunchtime.

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Speaker 1: Call of the week each week, thousand dollars for our

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Speaker 1: favorite caller whenever we hear it like petrol there thanks

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Speaker 1: to Mercedes Benz Berrick with a guaranteed minimum or three,

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Speaker 1: came more than anyone else who trade in. There's no

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Speaker 1: excuse not to trade in at Mercedes Benz Berrick.

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