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Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: You probably were how radio works.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you've read about all the goings on
Speaker 2: the moment with Carl and Jackie O. It's dominated the
Speaker 2: news headlines all of last week and for the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and.
Speaker 1: Obviously we are a breakfast show as well.
Speaker 2: On as of January this year, this show is in
Speaker 2: all five cities. We are Australia's first ever national commercial
Speaker 2: breakfast show.
Speaker 1: And last week was a big moment because it was.
Speaker 2: The first radio ratings of the year, and in this
Speaker 2: country radio ratings are hysterical, ridiculous. I still can't believe
Speaker 2: it's actually reported as news in the UK. It's just
Speaker 2: news for radio nerds. And then I'm moved here and
Speaker 2: it was actually on. It was actually on the TV
Speaker 2: news I saw. I remember the first couple of months
Speaker 2: of the show here in twenty eighteen. I was just
Speaker 2: watching the TV news and I suddenly saw my face
Speaker 2: and there was a graph that was not going up
Speaker 2: to the right I don't know whether I had it
Speaker 2: upside down the TV company, but was going down down
Speaker 2: down to the mom right. And there's a picture of
Speaker 2: me with the headline expensive foreign import, as if I
Speaker 2: was some sort of as if I was a car,
Speaker 2: like a beautiful Silk or Jaguar, Jaguar or Ross Royce.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was nothing.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a lot of the time, and
Speaker 2: it was and saw the hysterical reaction. The team all
Speaker 2: saw this, our family saw it. Friends of mine had
Speaker 2: been clipping shots and sending it to me just to
Speaker 2: give you an idea, so of what happened. So Melbourne,
Speaker 2: we're sitting strong in Melbourne. In Sydney, obviously, the ratings
Speaker 2: that came out last week were for the first six
Speaker 2: weeks of our show and all the breakfast shows in Sydney.
Speaker 2: The reason why we're focusing on Sydney at the moment.
Speaker 2: And like I said, we're in all the cities, but
Speaker 2: Sydney right now is wide open because of what's happened
Speaker 2: with Carne and Jackio. So it is crazy. It's like
Speaker 2: a it's like a mad rush right now in Sydney
Speaker 2: for a lot of available listeners. So it really was
Speaker 2: a big deal in radio and the news last week
Speaker 2: about the first ever ratings for two thousand and twenty six,
Speaker 2: and we came in as a brand new show. I've
Speaker 2: only been on air for six weeks, thirty odd shows.
Speaker 2: We came in at number four. You would have thought
Speaker 2: that I'd come in at number four hundred and forty four.
Speaker 2: Here's some of the headlines, radio Star suffers brutal ratings collapse.
Speaker 2: Then they paired it with a photo I've never seen
Speaker 2: before of me looking to be honest Britney spears demented.
Speaker 2: I don't know where they found that photo, but it
Speaker 2: was an appropriate photo for a man who suffered an
Speaker 2: apparent when he teas collapse. The other one that I
Speaker 2: loved with a friend of mine, I don't even know
Speaker 2: how he found it was the main news What was
Speaker 2: the main news website in Indianee And on the main
Speaker 2: news website was a picture of me with the headline
Speaker 2: radio veterans ratings bomb.
Speaker 1: What's it got to do with Indonesia?
Speaker 2: But as we say in radio, if you can make
Speaker 2: it in Chakata, you can make it anywhere. It's early days, okay,
Speaker 2: And actually I think you know what coming in Strong
Speaker 2: at number four. You imagine back in the day, you
Speaker 2: listen to Casey Cassim, you're recording your top ten countdown.
Speaker 2: Then there's a hot new entry for Spandel Bali or
Speaker 2: Wham at number four. It's a big deal. So I
Speaker 2: think this is a strong Stark. Guys and the Boss
Speaker 2: had a big chat with me over the weekend, and
Speaker 2: I want every single team member to listen in right
Speaker 2: now because I think you're gonna You're gonna double down
Speaker 2: on your efforts right now when I hear about the
Speaker 2: bonus and incentive that's being offered to every single team member.
Speaker 2: Team I've been told that if we can get from
Speaker 2: fourth to third in the Sydney Breakfast Shire ratings one
Speaker 2: on this show, everyone who works on this show, get
Speaker 2: to meet Tray.
Speaker 1: Now you've got me, Ye with me?
Speaker 2: Now, I'm with you now, Operation Meet Tray begins right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely in true.
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Speaker 2: single one of us, every single one of us, Well,
Speaker 2: we climb to that podium finish P three whilst all
Speaker 2: the other fools they're up against in Sydney right now,
Speaker 2: they're all they're all trying to get to number one,
Speaker 2: number two. The smart play here that no one is
Speaker 2: talking about is P three. Actually they've done research people
Speaker 2: that win bronze medalists. They're the happiest of all the medalists.
Speaker 2: Silver's like, my god, if I just if I just well,
Speaker 2: it's Lebahama. I could we've got the gold medal. Le
Speaker 2: Bronze is like wow, I can't believe I'm on the podium.
Speaker 2: I actually got our medal. That's going to be us guys,
Speaker 2: if we work together as one, a win for Operation
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we can finally get on the lowest rung
Speaker 1: of the podium, not the lowest rung. It doesn't money.
Speaker 2: You're on the on the podium with a meat trading
Speaker 2: our handsagne. Forget about the champagne. I'd rather have a
Speaker 2: meat trade. Some pork chops, some lamb chops, Surline Scotch,
Speaker 2: Phil Rabbi. This is a Heroes meat tray and here's
Speaker 2: everyone listening right now. I need your help to take
Speaker 2: part in Operation Meat Trade, the most powerful form while
Speaker 2: for our marketing. We've got other people that listen to
Speaker 2: our show every single day. You are genuinely part of
Speaker 2: our family. We make the show for you, guys. And
Speaker 2: so at the moment, there are people in our marketing
Speaker 2: department here at the radio station coming up with all
Speaker 2: kinds of word playing, word magic to try and sell
Speaker 2: the show to new and possible listeners in Sydney. And
Speaker 2: I think the best people that we should ask to
Speaker 2: help really with that.
Speaker 1: Is you, guys.
Speaker 2: If you listen to the show and you keep coming
Speaker 2: back to us, why how would you sell this show?
Speaker 1: In one line?
Speaker 2: Someone who might be listening to us right now in Sydney,
Speaker 2: you're flicking around over the next week or two as
Speaker 2: they are looking for a brand new radio show. It's
Speaker 2: hard to actually for us to actually say what it is.
Speaker 2: It's not for me to say what the show is,
Speaker 2: your takeaway, whatever it is to you, And so I
Speaker 2: genuinely love to know in one line, what is the show?
Speaker 2: How would you describe it? How would you sell it
Speaker 2: to someone in Sydney right now.
Speaker 1: That maybe they're pretty gut it.
Speaker 2: They've lost their breakfast show they've been listening to for
Speaker 2: years and they're flicking around at the moment. Suddenly they
Speaker 2: come across us and they're like, is the Is this
Speaker 2: the guy that Indonesia has turned on right now? And Indonesia, Indonesia,
Speaker 2: don't give up too soon on me, please. I'm hoping
Speaker 2: by the end of the year you'll be erecching our
Speaker 2: statue in my name my friends in Jakarta. I will
Speaker 2: not let you down. We've got this show is good
Speaker 2: for bronze. I said that to the boss. I said,
Speaker 2: mark my words, Boss, I reckon, we're good for third
Speaker 2: place in those Sydney ratings with money or me taken
Speaker 2: third by the end of this year. So Operation Meat
Speaker 2: Tray listeners tell us in one line, how would you
Speaker 2: describe the show? How would you sell it to somebody?
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