WEBVTT - FULL: Double Dinking 0:00:09.685 --> 0:00:12.205 I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more gold one I 0:00:12.285 --> 0:00:15.645 four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the 0:00:15.685 --> 0:00:17.005 free iHeart app. 0:00:18.204 --> 0:00:19.084 Got anything good? 0:00:19.725 --> 0:00:23.884 Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:00:27.325 --> 0:00:30.285 Good morning, Pats, Good morning everyone, goome on in, Good 0:00:30.285 --> 0:00:33.165 morning and goodbarding. The man who spreads lies and misinformation 0:00:33.205 --> 0:00:36.485 about the England cricket team and calls it sports news 0:00:36.525 --> 0:00:40.445 Alex All true. Actually normal cheating ways in the cricket 0:00:40.525 --> 0:00:44.604 yesterday now using technology snick home more like cheeto. There 0:00:44.644 --> 0:00:46.805 wasn't a nick It wasn't a cheeto. 0:00:47.245 --> 0:00:48.764 That was just a bit of a woopsie. You know, 0:00:48.845 --> 0:00:50.284 we all, we all make mistakes. 0:00:50.925 --> 0:00:53.565 Australians love to chuck a lazy oh on the end 0:00:53.604 --> 0:00:55.925 of words and that and it's snicko in the UK. 0:00:56.005 --> 0:01:02.685 It's a snickometer here snick But even when the Indian 0:01:02.685 --> 0:01:05.525 team were moaning about it, they're having a go at snicko. Yes, 0:01:07.965 --> 0:01:09.365 oh my goodness, going to be hot for the whole 0:01:09.445 --> 0:01:12.685 the player today, isn't it? Yes? Yes, say forty forty 0:01:12.885 --> 0:01:16.925 degrees oh though all day Yeah, wow, that is intense. Hey, 0:01:17.205 --> 0:01:20.165 good morning Sydney. So this is day four for us. 0:01:20.525 --> 0:01:23.685 We came Sunday and we are the show replacing the 0:01:23.685 --> 0:01:26.045 great Jonesy and Amanda. And the great news is that 0:01:26.525 --> 0:01:28.445 Jones and Amanda, I just also want to say this. 0:01:28.685 --> 0:01:31.805 Yesterday my wife was having a massage and the lady 0:01:31.845 --> 0:01:33.325 doing it, you know, they have the little chit chat 0:01:33.325 --> 0:01:34.765 stuff and then she gets my wife, Oh you got 0:01:34.765 --> 0:01:37.245 an accent? What are you doing here? And my wife 0:01:37.885 --> 0:01:39.885 loves to tell everyone what I do for a living. 0:01:39.925 --> 0:01:44.085 It is it's scruciat. No. Yeah, happened yes day dinner 0:01:44.365 --> 0:01:46.965 and it had no impact nor shit it. People don't care. 0:01:47.365 --> 0:01:49.245 It's not like, oh my God, Jesus is here the 0:01:49.285 --> 0:01:53.325 miracle world. They literally don't care. Why why would they? 0:01:53.445 --> 0:01:56.325 So she starts, she starts saying about, oh, my husband's here, 0:01:56.325 --> 0:02:00.685 and oh the lady the masses goes, oh is he 0:02:00.765 --> 0:02:03.885 the man who's kicked out Jones and Amanda's wife goes, oh, 0:02:03.965 --> 0:02:06.525 that is not what's happened, and it isn't it isn't 0:02:06.885 --> 0:02:09.845 you know? Jones. Amanda had me on their show Friday. Amanda, 0:02:10.245 --> 0:02:12.605 I adore She's been a guest on my podcast. She 0:02:12.645 --> 0:02:16.245 was the best guest on my podcast, Stuff of Legends, 0:02:16.285 --> 0:02:18.605 and I had great guests like Ricky Gervais and Hamish Blake, 0:02:18.685 --> 0:02:21.965 but Amanda's episode was the most popular one. They are, 0:02:22.205 --> 0:02:24.685 trust me, after sol on doing breakfast radio. If you 0:02:24.725 --> 0:02:26.965 spoke to them right now, they'd be smiling. You know. 0:02:27.005 --> 0:02:29.245 They are looking forward to doing an afternoon show and 0:02:29.245 --> 0:02:32.045 getting more sleep. So they've left it to us suckers 0:02:32.045 --> 0:02:34.285 to do the breakfast show for the next few years. 0:02:34.285 --> 0:02:37.285 So you get one great radio station come January. We're 0:02:37.285 --> 0:02:39.285 going to be waking up in the morning. In the afternoon, 0:02:39.285 --> 0:02:41.925 you get the brilliant double acts of Jonesy and Amanda. 0:02:42.325 --> 0:02:44.805 But yeah, everywhere my wife gone this week, she's trying 0:02:44.805 --> 0:02:46.685 to spread the good words. They don't want to hear 0:02:46.685 --> 0:02:47.245 it right now. 0:02:47.525 --> 0:02:52.725 It would have been a rough massage as she really 0:02:52.765 --> 0:02:53.644 got those knots out. 0:02:54.405 --> 0:02:56.885 So my point in saying is that is that we 0:02:57.405 --> 0:03:00.725 are we are very aware of what you're going through 0:03:00.765 --> 0:03:02.805 at the moment. It is a lot, it's so much, 0:03:02.805 --> 0:03:05.165 it's so much. One of our team, Josh, went down 0:03:05.165 --> 0:03:08.364 to Bondi yesterday to pay us suspects and we said 0:03:08.405 --> 0:03:10.924 in a lot of the local first responders to drop 0:03:10.965 --> 0:03:13.165 off some gifts, and even as he was telling me 0:03:13.165 --> 0:03:16.085 about it, we were both getting emotional because it comes 0:03:16.125 --> 0:03:19.045 in waves. I found that and I'm not from this city. 0:03:19.085 --> 0:03:20.765 I've been spending a lot of time here next year 0:03:20.765 --> 0:03:23.805 and I really have and owly extraordinary. My wife and 0:03:23.845 --> 0:03:26.325 I've really fallen in love with Sydney, like really, like, 0:03:26.405 --> 0:03:28.685 oh my god. We didn't expect this. It's such a 0:03:28.685 --> 0:03:32.205 beautiful city, really super friendly people, and to find to 0:03:32.285 --> 0:03:34.605 find connection in the city this week in such an 0:03:34.645 --> 0:03:37.845 extreme week as he's even extra special but on our 0:03:38.125 --> 0:03:39.965 I really hope that what we are doing on the show, 0:03:39.965 --> 0:03:42.405 whilst he whis he's trying to make your mind up, 0:03:42.485 --> 0:03:44.565 are we allowed into your mornings, which I totally get. 0:03:44.605 --> 0:03:46.485 We've got to earn your trust. I do hope that 0:03:46.525 --> 0:03:48.645 we are providing some form of comfort and support in 0:03:48.685 --> 0:03:50.805 a really hard week. And so what we've been doing 0:03:50.805 --> 0:03:53.005 at the start of every show is amongst all the 0:03:53.605 --> 0:03:56.205 horror of Sunday Night and the last few days, there 0:03:56.205 --> 0:03:58.645 are stories of hope that we really need to hear 0:03:59.005 --> 0:04:03.325 and celebrate. There's obviously Ahmed, you know, and thank just 0:04:03.365 --> 0:04:05.845 what he did is just giving people something to hang 0:04:05.885 --> 0:04:09.085 on to. It's such a senseless act on so Say Night, 0:04:09.245 --> 0:04:11.925 and it's not just armored. Armored did something incredible. But 0:04:11.965 --> 0:04:15.165 there's the poor elderly couple Boris and Sofia lost their 0:04:15.205 --> 0:04:17.844 lives wrestling with the gunman as soon as they got 0:04:17.885 --> 0:04:20.685 out the car for a couple of minutes. Incredible, incredible 0:04:20.685 --> 0:04:22.725 acts of heroism. So we start the show the right 0:04:22.765 --> 0:04:25.445 way with stories of hope PASSI what have you got mate? Yeah? 0:04:25.484 --> 0:04:28.804 So go fundme for Ahmed is just growing by the hour. 0:04:29.085 --> 0:04:32.205 So the funds are now at two million, four hundred 0:04:32.205 --> 0:04:36.325 and ninety seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty five dollars. 0:04:36.364 --> 0:04:40.364 Just incredible and a half milliadible and beautiful comments. 0:04:39.924 --> 0:04:42.085 From by the way on Armored. I was watching the 0:04:42.125 --> 0:04:44.764 local news yesterday and they had a couple of local 0:04:44.844 --> 0:04:48.125 characters that obviously as local customers. Yeah, and as much 0:04:48.164 --> 0:04:50.365 as there was something, he is a lovely guy's lovely guy. 0:04:50.404 --> 0:04:53.244 They seems to also be concerned about when was when's 0:04:53.284 --> 0:04:55.924 he coming back to work? Well? I meant to like 0:04:56.284 --> 0:04:59.164 go another couple of blocks to get my darts. Christmas 0:04:59.164 --> 0:05:00.525 coming up, We've got to deal with my family. 0:05:01.885 --> 0:05:04.564 Isn't it beautiful? Though the local community embraces he means 0:05:04.565 --> 0:05:06.445 obviously shy, very loved. 0:05:06.245 --> 0:05:08.204 It's a shrine tobacco shop. 0:05:08.565 --> 0:05:10.124 And also come on back. 0:05:10.044 --> 0:05:13.604 To Sonya Miller's written You're a ray of light to 0:05:13.685 --> 0:05:16.925 the worldmed thank you for giving us all hope in humanity. 0:05:17.404 --> 0:05:20.845 The word hero has never been more true. You and 0:05:20.885 --> 0:05:24.044 your family deserve never to work again when you wish 0:05:24.085 --> 0:05:27.284 to spend time together. This is the way of the universe. 0:05:27.364 --> 0:05:31.245 Thank you, beautiful stuff. Rio's what's your story of hope? 0:05:31.284 --> 0:05:31.645 This morning? 0:05:31.645 --> 0:05:33.765 For us, I haven't been able to stop staring at 0:05:33.765 --> 0:05:36.525 that photo of Jacko, who I just realized is from 0:05:36.724 --> 0:05:40.724 Bondai Rescue. Actually the lifeguard run down from Tamarama to 0:05:40.804 --> 0:05:45.005 Bondi his barefoot, He's in his blue lifeguard out use photo. 0:05:45.484 --> 0:05:46.685 It is stunny. He's got his. 0:05:47.364 --> 0:05:50.924 Defibrillator slung a on his shoulder and he's sprinting towards 0:05:50.924 --> 0:05:54.164 the danger. And I saw the interview with the woman 0:05:54.164 --> 0:05:56.445 who took the photo and she said, there are people 0:05:56.565 --> 0:06:00.124 just streaming up, like coming up Bondi Road, and he 0:06:00.445 --> 0:06:01.405 is like pedal to. 0:06:01.364 --> 0:06:04.484 The metal, sprinting down towards the danger. 0:06:04.565 --> 0:06:06.765 And it just it gives me chills every time I 0:06:06.804 --> 0:06:09.284 look at it, because every part of your body must 0:06:09.325 --> 0:06:10.964 just be crying out. 0:06:11.044 --> 0:06:12.564 You're saying, don't don't run. 0:06:12.404 --> 0:06:15.645 Towards so scared towards them, you know, really scared, like 0:06:15.685 --> 0:06:17.684 we can't even imagine what it's like to have that fear. 0:06:17.924 --> 0:06:19.565 Yes, no, no way, I love it. 0:06:19.604 --> 0:06:22.604 And you can just see he's moving at speed. Yes, 0:06:22.964 --> 0:06:25.445 he's sprinting down there to be of service. He's got 0:06:25.445 --> 0:06:28.004 that defair prackle about that his bare feet as well 0:06:28.044 --> 0:06:29.645 on the on the heart time maker that as he's 0:06:29.685 --> 0:06:31.964 running down. It's one of the along there with armored 0:06:32.005 --> 0:06:35.324 as well. It's one of the defining images of what's happened. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:35.484 --> 0:06:38.205 I'd love to speech to him today or tomorrow, if 0:06:38.205 --> 0:06:40.004 you'd be happy to talk to us, if anyone knows 0:06:40.044 --> 0:06:42.205 him or his family. Just I don't want to. I 0:06:42.245 --> 0:06:44.004 don't want to upset the guy I just saw. He 0:06:44.044 --> 0:06:47.445 can hear our Thanks. Yes, yeah, he's given people hope. 0:06:47.525 --> 0:06:49.004 You know these people do. And this is why we 0:06:49.085 --> 0:06:51.844 love these stories. Alex, what's your story hope? This morning? 0:06:52.085 --> 0:06:52.645 A couple of. 0:06:52.604 --> 0:06:56.924 Sporting events yesterday and last night, I thought, did it perfectly? 0:06:57.164 --> 0:06:59.445 We had, of course the Ashes test in Adelaide, and 0:06:59.565 --> 0:07:03.045 we had John Williamson the True Blue Rendition that it 0:07:03.164 --> 0:07:05.925 gave me chills. My goodness, gracious, it was just amazing 0:07:06.284 --> 0:07:08.284 minute silence as well, and the Black armbands. 0:07:08.525 --> 0:07:10.965 It's really powerful that you're doing your live. We played 0:07:11.005 --> 0:07:12.925 it yesterday morning and it moved us all to tears 0:07:12.885 --> 0:07:14.405 and I know we did a lot of people listening, 0:07:14.685 --> 0:07:17.725 but I was crying again watching it was beautifully done. 0:07:17.765 --> 0:07:19.125 What a great way to mark all. 0:07:19.405 --> 0:07:22.365 Yeah, and then last night the big Bash game at 0:07:22.405 --> 0:07:26.045 the SCG between the Sixers and the Adelaide Strikers, they 0:07:26.045 --> 0:07:28.685 have them minute silence, but then after that they had 0:07:29.045 --> 0:07:33.045 a round of applause for those first responders, for those 0:07:33.245 --> 0:07:35.645 people things to do, and there were there were smiles 0:07:35.645 --> 0:07:38.565 on faces, which I thought was really touching, you know, 0:07:38.645 --> 0:07:41.885 to honor those people, to say hey, thank you and 0:07:41.925 --> 0:07:44.045 we're going to clap for you right now because you 0:07:44.125 --> 0:07:48.085 did something extraordinary arriving on that scene and caring for 0:07:48.125 --> 0:07:50.445 those poor people. So I thought it was really well 0:07:50.445 --> 0:07:51.085 done yesterday. 0:07:51.205 --> 0:07:53.124 All right, if you know any stories of hope that 0:07:53.165 --> 0:07:55.244 we're not talking about and we need to, please let 0:07:55.325 --> 0:07:57.485 me know, you can message me O four seven five 0:07:57.765 --> 0:07:58.885 three one O four three. 0:07:59.325 --> 0:08:03.045 But Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:08:02.845 --> 0:08:06.245 We're staying in many this week in quind of Dark 0:08:07.364 --> 0:08:11.485 actually is Smulley Airbnb. The wife is really happy about. 0:08:13.845 --> 0:08:16.005 So she went to have a massage yesterday and I 0:08:16.085 --> 0:08:20.325 went for a little wonder and I suddenly saw a 0:08:20.565 --> 0:08:23.804 really beautiful, old looking pub right Hotel Stained. People know 0:08:23.845 --> 0:08:26.485 this pub in that area, and I went in because 0:08:26.525 --> 0:08:29.485 of the they had me on. Two great slogans outside 0:08:29.845 --> 0:08:33.725 it simply said rooftop and I knew obviously from living 0:08:33.804 --> 0:08:35.964 him in seven years. Australians don't you like to use 0:08:36.005 --> 0:08:37.845 too many letters and words where they don't have to. 0:08:38.125 --> 0:08:40.605 I think it's the heat. You got to preserve your energy. 0:08:40.925 --> 0:08:43.724 So I pres went they mean rooftop bar, because Australians 0:08:43.765 --> 0:08:46.765 love a rooftop bar. So excited and didn't say, now 0:08:46.765 --> 0:08:49.325 in England we do have rooftop bars, not that many. 0:08:49.485 --> 0:08:50.925 Why would you want to go and have your drink 0:08:50.965 --> 0:08:54.405 in the rain. You know it's gray, low clouds, snow 0:08:54.485 --> 0:08:56.605 hanging out or snow hanging over your heads, but we 0:08:56.605 --> 0:08:59.085 would say rooftop bar. Here another fact that we just 0:08:59.125 --> 0:09:00.844 know you know what I'm talking. I don't need you 0:09:00.965 --> 0:09:03.725 to say. I just seem to say rooftop. And then 0:09:03.765 --> 0:09:07.684 the other one was round bar. Ah she used to 0:09:07.725 --> 0:09:11.005 love that horse, that big kind of community round bar. 0:09:11.645 --> 0:09:13.605 So I was like, look, okay, I'm not going up 0:09:13.605 --> 0:09:15.605 on the roof, not on this boiling weather. Okay, but 0:09:15.725 --> 0:09:19.165 the round bar take my money. I go in and 0:09:19.285 --> 0:09:22.724 is a beautiful horseshoe bar. And obviously there's there's people 0:09:22.765 --> 0:09:27.125 are all watching the cricket. Okay. And the guy serves 0:09:27.204 --> 0:09:29.125 me and he recordiz my accent. He's like a brave 0:09:29.165 --> 0:09:31.725 man coming in here. I said, are there any other goes? No, 0:09:31.925 --> 0:09:34.165 you're the only one I've seen. I said, do I 0:09:34.165 --> 0:09:36.124 need to go and hide on the roof? Is he 0:09:36.245 --> 0:09:39.045 just lying? So I just sort of started whispering any 0:09:39.125 --> 0:09:41.925 conversations with people. So anyway, while I'm in there. When 0:09:41.925 --> 0:09:43.564 I was it was from eight This pub is from 0:09:43.605 --> 0:09:44.925 eighteen seventy nine. 0:09:45.204 --> 0:09:46.325 What's before federation? 0:09:46.525 --> 0:09:49.605 Yes, that's a very old pub. I'd love to find 0:09:49.605 --> 0:09:52.444 out what is Sydney's oldest pub? To be hard to be, 0:09:52.684 --> 0:09:54.005 that's got to be one of them, Shorty. 0:09:54.165 --> 0:09:57.365 Yeah, the rock isn't it? Isn't it the great Fortune 0:09:57.405 --> 0:09:58.285 of war or something? 0:09:58.605 --> 0:10:01.725 All right, that's exactly right. How do you tune up? 0:10:01.885 --> 0:10:05.285 Patsy is a seasoned pub fighter and drinker, and she's 0:10:05.324 --> 0:10:08.124 been spending money this week going round bars and fighting. 0:10:07.725 --> 0:10:09.045 People for cash fights. 0:10:09.204 --> 0:10:14.005 I honestly, Sydney has some of the most sensational pubs. 0:10:14.045 --> 0:10:16.204 It really does, yeh. Story. 0:10:16.485 --> 0:10:19.604 They have not torn them down. Melbourne tends to tear 0:10:19.684 --> 0:10:22.965 stuff down and rebuild, but they cherish their pubs and 0:10:23.005 --> 0:10:24.405 they are just a thing of beauty. 0:10:24.405 --> 0:10:26.165 Look you, you've been out in Melbourne, the city you're 0:10:26.165 --> 0:10:27.765 born and prayed your mum and dad live, and you've 0:10:27.765 --> 0:10:30.005 been out of it four days and now you're throwing 0:10:30.045 --> 0:10:32.925 shade on them now, dare you? But yesterday some of 0:10:32.925 --> 0:10:35.324 our listeners have found us and they are crying right now. 0:10:35.365 --> 0:10:37.684 They're week bits and the way do we never Patsy 0:10:38.444 --> 0:10:41.525 Pub an old pub? You know why? She meets some 0:10:41.564 --> 0:10:44.165 of her old friends in them, that one in eighteen 0:10:44.245 --> 0:10:46.364 seventy nine. Pats is twin sister. 0:10:47.005 --> 0:10:49.365 But you turn around the corner and there's another beautiful 0:10:49.365 --> 0:10:52.165 pub and everyone's sitting outside and drinking in the sun 0:10:52.245 --> 0:10:53.684 and just socializing. 0:10:54.245 --> 0:10:57.165 The difference between a pub and a bar very big. 0:10:57.285 --> 0:10:57.444 Yeah. 0:10:57.525 --> 0:11:00.484 Bar is your shiny new one is yea, and they 0:11:00.525 --> 0:11:03.565 are They're nice, but they're not the pub. Pub is 0:11:03.605 --> 0:11:06.085 what you, you know, generationally you grew up in there, a 0:11:06.084 --> 0:11:09.564 center of a community. Are kind of like a church, 0:11:09.645 --> 0:11:12.285 but with alcohol. Actually churches do have alcoholics live. You 0:11:12.324 --> 0:11:14.965 notice that too. The wine is a little bit earthy, though, 0:11:15.005 --> 0:11:16.285 I find sometimes. 0:11:15.885 --> 0:11:17.485 Yeah, the wineless isn't as long as anyway. 0:11:17.444 --> 0:11:19.605 Then my wife has finished her massage right, and we 0:11:19.684 --> 0:11:22.165 go for a restaurant in this Italian place that came 0:11:22.485 --> 0:11:25.165 and we could only get the tabletop dining. It's fully 0:11:25.165 --> 0:11:28.725 booked out, or so they said. My wife obviously wasn't 0:11:28.725 --> 0:11:31.684 happy that we were being delegated to tabletop, you know. 0:11:31.765 --> 0:11:33.244 And the lady went to me, she tried to sell 0:11:33.245 --> 0:11:34.564 it to me. She went, hey, you know what you get. 0:11:34.684 --> 0:11:36.564 You get a great dinner and you get a free show. 0:11:37.444 --> 0:11:40.205 I don't like seeing them chopping the food up dinner 0:11:40.204 --> 0:11:42.484 and a show. I don't want to see people walking 0:11:42.525 --> 0:11:46.165 in the kitchen making money. Know it's not show, is it? 0:11:48.005 --> 0:11:52.885 People working really hard in the heat, stressed. So anyway, 0:11:53.804 --> 0:11:56.645 they and suddenly we realized why we're facing away from 0:11:56.725 --> 0:11:59.245 the restaurant. It's where all the beautiful people go in 0:11:59.285 --> 0:12:02.925 manly every time the door's open, it's a procession of more. 0:12:03.125 --> 0:12:07.405 They look like runway models. Yeah, young, vibrant, perfect skin. 0:12:07.925 --> 0:12:11.165 And then and we are facing the kitchen. Ugly table 0:12:11.204 --> 0:12:13.165 we're on. I didn't want to say it, but that's 0:12:13.204 --> 0:12:16.365 a good feeling I got was like, turn around, get 0:12:16.405 --> 0:12:19.765 those old faces facing the kitchen. Maybe some steam can 0:12:20.125 --> 0:12:24.805 steam out some of those wrinkles. Free botox. And my 0:12:24.845 --> 0:12:26.725 wife keep going every five minutes. Excuse me, excuse me. 0:12:26.804 --> 0:12:29.125 I can't help but notice some of these tables are 0:12:29.125 --> 0:12:32.365 still empty, earthfully booked. The whole time we're in, those 0:12:32.405 --> 0:12:35.925 tables in the shop window were empty. I'm now going 0:12:35.925 --> 0:12:37.564 to say to the marketing I don't think you can 0:12:37.605 --> 0:12:39.725 put me on a poster. Maybe just the back of 0:12:39.725 --> 0:12:43.285 my head. That's how you sell that shut to Sydney 0:12:43.324 --> 0:12:43.925 in the new year. 0:12:44.405 --> 0:12:48.604 The Christian O'Connell show podcast The Proclaimers. 0:12:48.645 --> 0:12:51.045 I can tell you this fact about the two Scottish 0:12:51.045 --> 0:12:55.565 brothers with the very heavy glasses. They should be nown 0:12:55.605 --> 0:12:58.485 for spanks savers. I was at the festival fifteen years 0:12:58.485 --> 0:13:00.845 ago and I love Proclaimers. They're a great man. They're 0:13:00.845 --> 0:13:03.925 brilliant live as well. And I was waiting in the 0:13:03.925 --> 0:13:06.525 wings to bring them on stage right and I suddenly 0:13:06.525 --> 0:13:11.525 see also stood near me is unmistakably Hollywood star Paul Rudd. Right, 0:13:11.605 --> 0:13:14.165 So I go, are you fan? And he goes, yeah, 0:13:14.204 --> 0:13:16.204 I love them. I love them. I said, I'm just 0:13:16.245 --> 0:13:17.885 about it introducing Do you want to come out with me? 0:13:17.965 --> 0:13:20.605 He goes, would that be okay? I'd love that? And 0:13:20.684 --> 0:13:23.964 so I met Paul Rudd and then we both went 0:13:23.965 --> 0:13:26.005 on I've never met before my life. We both got 0:13:26.005 --> 0:13:29.165 on stage together to introduce the Proclaimers. I've never seen 0:13:29.245 --> 0:13:32.525 anyone enjoy them anything more. Whenever I see ant Man 0:13:32.525 --> 0:13:35.525 now Paul Rudd, I always think I bet hestall. Listen 0:13:35.765 --> 0:13:39.205 he smashed out those hits hit Spotify wrapped. It would 0:13:39.204 --> 0:13:40.684 have had the Top five and there would have been 0:13:40.684 --> 0:13:43.725 the Proclaimers. I'm sure. Good morning to you, Julie Christian 0:13:43.765 --> 0:13:46.684 omg listen to this morning talking about the Hotel Stain 0:13:47.245 --> 0:13:50.525 that very old pub in Manley. I've got the I've 0:13:50.525 --> 0:13:54.005 got a Hotel Stain key ring tag from nineteen eighty 0:13:54.045 --> 0:13:56.245 six when I was there as a backpacker. Wow, they 0:13:56.285 --> 0:13:58.165 used to have a jackpot on Friday night. The tag 0:13:58.204 --> 0:13:59.965 and a number on it which he put into the drawer. 0:14:00.005 --> 0:14:02.205 I never one, but I did wake up Dusty most 0:14:02.245 --> 0:14:05.925 Saturday mornings. Christian took about oldest pubs in Sydney. The 0:14:06.045 --> 0:14:09.125 Lord Nelson in the Rocks. That is the oldest pub 0:14:09.125 --> 0:14:12.684 in Sydney. It's been open since eighteen forty three, which 0:14:12.765 --> 0:14:15.204 is pretty incressive. Impressive, but nothing compared to a lot 0:14:15.204 --> 0:14:17.645 of the old pubs that you have yet. I've drunken 0:14:17.684 --> 0:14:20.244 one that is from nine four seven. 0:14:20.085 --> 0:14:21.845 A d nine four seven. 0:14:21.965 --> 0:14:27.605 Yeah, what it's like over a thousand years? Yeah, pubs 0:14:27.645 --> 0:14:33.245 that whole thousand years. It's like, how did it work? 0:14:33.525 --> 0:14:34.045 Yeah? 0:14:34.605 --> 0:14:36.845 What did they kind of store? The drink must have 0:14:36.845 --> 0:14:39.925 tasted revolted, would have been warm? Your thing that we 0:14:40.045 --> 0:14:43.245 like that warm beer? Anyway, it's a crawl line while 0:14:43.285 --> 0:14:45.205 we'd won that, but I know they the first time 0:14:45.205 --> 0:14:48.445 I came to Australia Sydney twenty four years ago, my 0:14:48.525 --> 0:14:50.244 wife and the first thing we did when we got 0:14:50.245 --> 0:14:52.605 to Sydney was go to that Lord Nelson pub walks 0:14:52.685 --> 0:14:55.525 up to Rocks because it's a real iconic area for tourists. 0:14:55.605 --> 0:14:57.005 Come to Rocks and it's got some great pubs in 0:14:57.165 --> 0:14:58.805 and I a mider Lord Nelson because he's on the 0:14:58.845 --> 0:15:01.205 corner there. And also they have I hope they still 0:15:01.205 --> 0:15:03.485 have them. I love it when the proper pubs have 0:15:03.525 --> 0:15:07.725 the frosted glass. Ah, yes, my old school Yes, the 0:15:07.765 --> 0:15:10.885 big heavy impauled pint glass. Yes. And also those the 0:15:11.325 --> 0:15:13.885 taps as well. You know when they're all frosted. I'm 0:15:13.885 --> 0:15:14.805 sure it's an effect. 0:15:14.885 --> 0:15:18.165 Yes, yeah, yeah, it's all ice logos. Yes, I crusted over. 0:15:18.285 --> 0:15:19.045 Yes, I love that. 0:15:19.485 --> 0:15:23.285 The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:15:22.765 --> 0:15:25.565 Good morning to Dandrey in Wonda. I'm doing an early 0:15:25.605 --> 0:15:28.165 morning bread deliveries right now, Thank you so much. A 0:15:28.165 --> 0:15:30.525 few beautiful emails shared that with the team. Thank you 0:15:30.685 --> 0:15:32.885 very much for them. All right, Day four on this 0:15:33.045 --> 0:15:35.605 and I'm trying to make my Weird and Wonderful Guide 0:15:35.645 --> 0:15:40.405 to Sydney. As I get to know this great city, 0:15:41.005 --> 0:15:42.805 I want to fast track that process. I'm not going 0:15:42.885 --> 0:15:44.685 to go on Google. I'm not going to ask AI. 0:15:45.285 --> 0:15:49.445 I need the information, the real useless guide to Sydney 0:15:49.765 --> 0:15:52.685 so fast, So much has been discovered, and actually a 0:15:52.725 --> 0:15:55.484 lot of people are from Sydney. Don't know some of 0:15:55.565 --> 0:15:58.165 these half truths. Doesn't matter if any of them are true. 0:15:58.605 --> 0:16:02.605 Don't buy the fact checking it. We're not interested. All right, 0:16:02.645 --> 0:16:04.325 weird and wonderful guy into Sydney. What have we got 0:16:04.325 --> 0:16:06.365 so far? Rio? You had the first one. 0:16:06.445 --> 0:16:08.805 Yes, first off we've got the town whole step which 0:16:08.845 --> 0:16:11.685 was an intergenerational spot for teen loitering. 0:16:12.285 --> 0:16:14.125 Perhapsy what if we as have we discovered? 0:16:14.125 --> 0:16:16.845 Well, Alex brought up that there's a lone panther that 0:16:16.925 --> 0:16:19.285 lives in the Blue Mountains and listener Bob is seen 0:16:19.405 --> 0:16:21.885 not only not only once, but twice in the fact 0:16:22.005 --> 0:16:23.325 that lives in the sewer system. 0:16:23.565 --> 0:16:26.484 In fact, now it appears there's several. They're a roaming gang, 0:16:26.485 --> 0:16:30.405 the panthers, roaming gang using the underground system to move 0:16:30.725 --> 0:16:33.965 underneath us undetected up to under there. Well, yeah, I 0:16:33.965 --> 0:16:36.725 think they've been. I think it's an underground system they 0:16:36.765 --> 0:16:39.725 have all over Australia and they're probably helping the Australian 0:16:39.725 --> 0:16:43.845 team cheat yesterday done moving that snick Oche they were 0:16:43.885 --> 0:16:46.325 they were. I'm sure if we look at the image again, 0:16:46.365 --> 0:16:50.445 there's a panther pore there, Alex, our shoud we discover. 0:16:50.365 --> 0:16:52.645 Guard dogs at the Sydney Opera house to ward off 0:16:52.645 --> 0:16:54.085 those pesky seagulls? 0:16:54.365 --> 0:16:56.805 Are you trying to eat your chips? Now? This is true? 0:16:56.885 --> 0:16:57.885 It sounds like a lie. 0:16:57.965 --> 0:17:00.765 Mad dogs an Englishmen and its border colleagues. We found 0:17:00.765 --> 0:17:03.045 out there is a company doing this. They do have 0:17:03.165 --> 0:17:06.004 dogs that ward off. And we found out yesterday that 0:17:06.525 --> 0:17:11.244 the pesky seagulls, there's a boss seagull and unless you 0:17:11.365 --> 0:17:13.485 deter that one, it won't work. 0:17:13.725 --> 0:17:16.685 Yes, you got to take this take the post. 0:17:16.205 --> 0:17:20.085 The alpha goal, the alpha goal. All right, some brand 0:17:20.085 --> 0:17:22.045 new ones. You've got a brand new one. So something 0:17:22.085 --> 0:17:23.645 from our weird and wonderful going to Sydney. 0:17:23.725 --> 0:17:27.165 Yes, I've got to tell you about the failure that 0:17:27.365 --> 0:17:30.525 was the Sydney monorail built in nineteen. 0:17:30.565 --> 0:17:35.725 Yes, the Simpsons moment. It was literally literally. 0:17:35.325 --> 0:17:40.445 Like the Simpsons episode nineteen eighty eight. A private company 0:17:40.485 --> 0:17:44.005 came in and pitched to Sydney, hey have this amazing future. 0:17:43.685 --> 0:17:46.125 Of travel above the ground. 0:17:46.205 --> 0:17:49.405 Around Darling Harbor, but only this very small loop around 0:17:49.485 --> 0:17:50.165 Darling Harbor. 0:17:50.525 --> 0:17:55.365 And exactly like the Simpsons episode, it was incredibly unreliable. 0:17:55.405 --> 0:17:58.045 It broke down all the time. It was very ugly. 0:17:58.445 --> 0:18:00.205 You could actually walk faster than. 0:18:00.125 --> 0:18:02.245 It's if you wanted to get eight to point B, 0:18:02.605 --> 0:18:03.125 you could just. 0:18:03.085 --> 0:18:05.365 Walk past it get anywhere you want to go. Later. 0:18:06.125 --> 0:18:08.925 One architect I'm just reading here called it the most 0:18:08.965 --> 0:18:11.525 tragic thing that happened to the urban fabric of Sydney 0:18:11.565 --> 0:18:14.525 and the most offensive structure I've ever seen in my life. 0:18:14.565 --> 0:18:15.764 So how long did it last? For? 0:18:16.085 --> 0:18:19.005 It went nineteen eighty eight to twenty thirteen. It was 0:18:19.045 --> 0:18:22.484 pulled down because no one would use it. Also, no one, Well, 0:18:22.605 --> 0:18:25.085 there's no possible use for any Sydney side to go 0:18:25.205 --> 0:18:27.005 from one interdeing harbor to the other. 0:18:27.045 --> 0:18:28.685 I'm afraid to say I have been on it. 0:18:28.885 --> 0:18:29.405 You've been on that? 0:18:29.565 --> 0:18:32.445 No I remember now, of course why not? Tourists came 0:18:32.485 --> 0:18:35.805 here in two thousand and one monoail the future of travel, 0:18:35.805 --> 0:18:38.165 and I just remember it was actually quite underwhelming. Yes 0:18:38.165 --> 0:18:41.045 it's not anything, and also it was only tourists using 0:18:41.045 --> 0:18:43.485 it as well, because obviously you locals knew. Yes, yes 0:18:43.565 --> 0:18:46.365 it's nothing. No what this is not the vibe. It's 0:18:46.405 --> 0:18:47.285