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Speaker 1: Good morning, Pats, Good morning everyone, goome on in, Good
Speaker 1: morning and goodbarding. The man who spreads lies and misinformation
Speaker 1: about the England cricket team and calls it sports news
Speaker 1: Alex All true. Actually normal cheating ways in the cricket
Speaker 1: yesterday now using technology snick home more like cheeto. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a nick It wasn't a cheeto.
Speaker 2: That was just a bit of a woopsie. You know,
Speaker 2: we all, we all make mistakes.
Speaker 1: Australians love to chuck a lazy oh on the end
Speaker 1: of words and that and it's snicko in the UK.
Speaker 1: It's a snickometer here snick But even when the Indian
Speaker 1: team were moaning about it, they're having a go at snicko. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, going to be hot for the whole
Speaker 1: the player today, isn't it? Yes? Yes, say forty forty
Speaker 1: degrees oh though all day Yeah, wow, that is intense. Hey,
Speaker 1: good morning Sydney. So this is day four for us.
Speaker 1: We came Sunday and we are the show replacing the
Speaker 1: great Jonesy and Amanda. And the great news is that
Speaker 1: Jones and Amanda, I just also want to say this.
Speaker 1: Yesterday my wife was having a massage and the lady
Speaker 1: doing it, you know, they have the little chit chat
Speaker 1: stuff and then she gets my wife, Oh you got
Speaker 1: an accent? What are you doing here? And my wife
Speaker 1: loves to tell everyone what I do for a living.
Speaker 1: It is it's scruciat. No. Yeah, happened yes day dinner
Speaker 1: and it had no impact nor shit it. People don't care.
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh my God, Jesus is here the
Speaker 1: miracle world. They literally don't care. Why why would they?
Speaker 1: So she starts, she starts saying about, oh, my husband's here,
Speaker 1: and oh the lady the masses goes, oh is he
Speaker 1: the man who's kicked out Jones and Amanda's wife goes, oh,
Speaker 1: that is not what's happened, and it isn't it isn't
Speaker 1: you know? Jones. Amanda had me on their show Friday. Amanda,
Speaker 1: I adore She's been a guest on my podcast. She
Speaker 1: was the best guest on my podcast, Stuff of Legends,
Speaker 1: and I had great guests like Ricky Gervais and Hamish Blake,
Speaker 1: but Amanda's episode was the most popular one. They are,
Speaker 1: trust me, after sol on doing breakfast radio. If you
Speaker 1: spoke to them right now, they'd be smiling. You know.
Speaker 1: They are looking forward to doing an afternoon show and
Speaker 1: getting more sleep. So they've left it to us suckers
Speaker 1: to do the breakfast show for the next few years.
Speaker 1: So you get one great radio station come January. We're
Speaker 1: going to be waking up in the morning. In the afternoon,
Speaker 1: you get the brilliant double acts of Jonesy and Amanda.
Speaker 1: But yeah, everywhere my wife gone this week, she's trying
Speaker 1: to spread the good words. They don't want to hear
Speaker 1: it right now.
Speaker 4: It would have been a rough massage as she really
Speaker 4: got those knots out.
Speaker 1: So my point in saying is that is that we
Speaker 1: are we are very aware of what you're going through
Speaker 1: at the moment. It is a lot, it's so much,
Speaker 1: it's so much. One of our team, Josh, went down
Speaker 1: to Bondi yesterday to pay us suspects and we said
Speaker 1: in a lot of the local first responders to drop
Speaker 1: off some gifts, and even as he was telling me
Speaker 1: about it, we were both getting emotional because it comes
Speaker 1: in waves. I found that and I'm not from this city.
Speaker 1: I've been spending a lot of time here next year
Speaker 1: and I really have and owly extraordinary. My wife and
Speaker 1: I've really fallen in love with Sydney, like really, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. We didn't expect this. It's such a
Speaker 1: beautiful city, really super friendly people, and to find to
Speaker 1: find connection in the city this week in such an
Speaker 1: extreme week as he's even extra special but on our
Speaker 1: I really hope that what we are doing on the show,
Speaker 1: whilst he whis he's trying to make your mind up,
Speaker 1: are we allowed into your mornings, which I totally get.
Speaker 1: We've got to earn your trust. I do hope that
Speaker 1: we are providing some form of comfort and support in
Speaker 1: a really hard week. And so what we've been doing
Speaker 1: at the start of every show is amongst all the
Speaker 1: horror of Sunday Night and the last few days, there
Speaker 1: are stories of hope that we really need to hear
Speaker 1: and celebrate. There's obviously Ahmed, you know, and thank just
Speaker 1: what he did is just giving people something to hang
Speaker 1: on to. It's such a senseless act on so Say Night,
Speaker 1: and it's not just armored. Armored did something incredible. But
Speaker 1: there's the poor elderly couple Boris and Sofia lost their
Speaker 1: lives wrestling with the gunman as soon as they got
Speaker 1: out the car for a couple of minutes. Incredible, incredible
Speaker 1: acts of heroism. So we start the show the right
Speaker 1: way with stories of hope PASSI what have you got mate? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So go fundme for Ahmed is just growing by the hour.
Speaker 5: So the funds are now at two million, four hundred
Speaker 5: and ninety seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty five dollars.
Speaker 5: Just incredible and a half milliadible and beautiful comments.
Speaker 1: From by the way on Armored. I was watching the
Speaker 1: local news yesterday and they had a couple of local
Speaker 1: characters that obviously as local customers. Yeah, and as much
Speaker 1: as there was something, he is a lovely guy's lovely guy.
Speaker 1: They seems to also be concerned about when was when's
Speaker 1: he coming back to work? Well? I meant to like
Speaker 1: go another couple of blocks to get my darts. Christmas
Speaker 1: coming up, We've got to deal with my family.
Speaker 5: Isn't it beautiful? Though the local community embraces he means
Speaker 5: obviously shy, very loved.
Speaker 1: It's a shrine tobacco shop.
Speaker 2: And also come on back.
Speaker 5: To Sonya Miller's written You're a ray of light to
Speaker 5: the worldmed thank you for giving us all hope in humanity.
Speaker 5: The word hero has never been more true. You and
Speaker 5: your family deserve never to work again when you wish
Speaker 5: to spend time together. This is the way of the universe.
Speaker 1: Thank you, beautiful stuff. Rio's what's your story of hope?
Speaker 1: This morning?
Speaker 4: For us, I haven't been able to stop staring at
Speaker 4: that photo of Jacko, who I just realized is from
Speaker 4: Bondai Rescue. Actually the lifeguard run down from Tamarama to
Speaker 4: Bondi his barefoot, He's in his blue lifeguard out use photo.
Speaker 2: It is stunny. He's got his.
Speaker 4: Defibrillator slung a on his shoulder and he's sprinting towards
Speaker 4: the danger. And I saw the interview with the woman
Speaker 4: who took the photo and she said, there are people
Speaker 4: just streaming up, like coming up Bondi Road, and he
Speaker 4: is like pedal to.
Speaker 2: The metal, sprinting down towards the danger.
Speaker 4: And it just it gives me chills every time I
Speaker 4: look at it, because every part of your body must
Speaker 4: just be crying out.
Speaker 2: You're saying, don't don't run.
Speaker 1: Towards so scared towards them, you know, really scared, like
Speaker 1: we can't even imagine what it's like to have that fear.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, no way, I love it.
Speaker 1: And you can just see he's moving at speed. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's sprinting down there to be of service. He's got
Speaker 1: that defair prackle about that his bare feet as well
Speaker 1: on the on the heart time maker that as he's
Speaker 1: running down. It's one of the along there with armored
Speaker 1: as well. It's one of the defining images of what's happened. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love to speech to him today or tomorrow, if
Speaker 1: you'd be happy to talk to us, if anyone knows
Speaker 1: him or his family. Just I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to upset the guy I just saw. He
Speaker 1: can hear our Thanks. Yes, yeah, he's given people hope.
Speaker 1: You know these people do. And this is why we
Speaker 1: love these stories. Alex, what's your story hope? This morning?
Speaker 1: A couple of.
Speaker 6: Sporting events yesterday and last night, I thought, did it perfectly?
Speaker 6: We had, of course the Ashes test in Adelaide, and
Speaker 6: we had John Williamson the True Blue Rendition that it
Speaker 6: gave me chills. My goodness, gracious, it was just amazing
Speaker 6: minute silence as well, and the Black armbands.
Speaker 1: It's really powerful that you're doing your live. We played
Speaker 1: it yesterday morning and it moved us all to tears
Speaker 1: and I know we did a lot of people listening,
Speaker 1: but I was crying again watching it was beautifully done.
Speaker 1: What a great way to mark all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then last night the big Bash game at
Speaker 6: the SCG between the Sixers and the Adelaide Strikers, they
Speaker 6: have them minute silence, but then after that they had
Speaker 6: a round of applause for those first responders, for those
Speaker 6: people things to do, and there were there were smiles
Speaker 6: on faces, which I thought was really touching, you know,
Speaker 6: to honor those people, to say hey, thank you and
Speaker 6: we're going to clap for you right now because you
Speaker 6: did something extraordinary arriving on that scene and caring for
Speaker 6: those poor people. So I thought it was really well
Speaker 6: done yesterday.
Speaker 1: All right, if you know any stories of hope that
Speaker 1: we're not talking about and we need to, please let
Speaker 1: me know, you can message me O four seven five
Speaker 1: three one O four three.
Speaker 3: But Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: We're staying in many this week in quind of Dark
Speaker 1: actually is Smulley Airbnb. The wife is really happy about.
Speaker 1: So she went to have a massage yesterday and I
Speaker 1: went for a little wonder and I suddenly saw a
Speaker 1: really beautiful, old looking pub right Hotel Stained. People know
Speaker 1: this pub in that area, and I went in because
Speaker 1: of the they had me on. Two great slogans outside
Speaker 1: it simply said rooftop and I knew obviously from living
Speaker 1: him in seven years. Australians don't you like to use
Speaker 1: too many letters and words where they don't have to.
Speaker 1: I think it's the heat. You got to preserve your energy.
Speaker 1: So I pres went they mean rooftop bar, because Australians
Speaker 1: love a rooftop bar. So excited and didn't say, now
Speaker 1: in England we do have rooftop bars, not that many.
Speaker 1: Why would you want to go and have your drink
Speaker 1: in the rain. You know it's gray, low clouds, snow
Speaker 1: hanging out or snow hanging over your heads, but we
Speaker 1: would say rooftop bar. Here another fact that we just
Speaker 1: know you know what I'm talking. I don't need you
Speaker 1: to say. I just seem to say rooftop. And then
Speaker 1: the other one was round bar. Ah she used to
Speaker 1: love that horse, that big kind of community round bar.
Speaker 1: So I was like, look, okay, I'm not going up
Speaker 1: on the roof, not on this boiling weather. Okay, but
Speaker 1: the round bar take my money. I go in and
Speaker 1: is a beautiful horseshoe bar. And obviously there's there's people
Speaker 1: are all watching the cricket. Okay. And the guy serves
Speaker 1: me and he recordiz my accent. He's like a brave
Speaker 1: man coming in here. I said, are there any other goes? No,
Speaker 1: you're the only one I've seen. I said, do I
Speaker 1: need to go and hide on the roof? Is he
Speaker 1: just lying? So I just sort of started whispering any
Speaker 1: conversations with people. So anyway, while I'm in there. When
Speaker 1: I was it was from eight This pub is from
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2: What's before federation?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a very old pub. I'd love to find
Speaker 1: out what is Sydney's oldest pub? To be hard to be,
Speaker 1: that's got to be one of them, Shorty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the rock isn't it? Isn't it the great Fortune
Speaker 5: of war or something?
Speaker 1: All right, that's exactly right. How do you tune up?
Speaker 1: Patsy is a seasoned pub fighter and drinker, and she's
Speaker 1: been spending money this week going round bars and fighting.
Speaker 2: People for cash fights.
Speaker 5: I honestly, Sydney has some of the most sensational pubs.
Speaker 1: It really does, yeh. Story.
Speaker 5: They have not torn them down. Melbourne tends to tear
Speaker 5: stuff down and rebuild, but they cherish their pubs and
Speaker 5: they are just a thing of beauty.
Speaker 1: Look you, you've been out in Melbourne, the city you're
Speaker 1: born and prayed your mum and dad live, and you've
Speaker 1: been out of it four days and now you're throwing
Speaker 1: shade on them now, dare you? But yesterday some of
Speaker 1: our listeners have found us and they are crying right now.
Speaker 1: They're week bits and the way do we never Patsy
Speaker 1: Pub an old pub? You know why? She meets some
Speaker 1: of her old friends in them, that one in eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine. Pats is twin sister.
Speaker 5: But you turn around the corner and there's another beautiful
Speaker 5: pub and everyone's sitting outside and drinking in the sun
Speaker 5: and just socializing.
Speaker 1: The difference between a pub and a bar very big.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bar is your shiny new one is yea, and they
Speaker 1: are They're nice, but they're not the pub. Pub is
Speaker 1: what you, you know, generationally you grew up in there, a
Speaker 1: center of a community. Are kind of like a church,
Speaker 1: but with alcohol. Actually churches do have alcoholics live. You
Speaker 1: notice that too. The wine is a little bit earthy, though,
Speaker 1: I find sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the wineless isn't as long as anyway.
Speaker 1: Then my wife has finished her massage right, and we
Speaker 1: go for a restaurant in this Italian place that came
Speaker 1: and we could only get the tabletop dining. It's fully
Speaker 1: booked out, or so they said. My wife obviously wasn't
Speaker 1: happy that we were being delegated to tabletop, you know.
Speaker 1: And the lady went to me, she tried to sell
Speaker 1: it to me. She went, hey, you know what you get.
Speaker 1: You get a great dinner and you get a free show.
Speaker 1: I don't like seeing them chopping the food up dinner
Speaker 1: and a show. I don't want to see people walking
Speaker 1: in the kitchen making money. Know it's not show, is it?
Speaker 1: People working really hard in the heat, stressed. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they and suddenly we realized why we're facing away from
Speaker 1: the restaurant. It's where all the beautiful people go in
Speaker 1: manly every time the door's open, it's a procession of more.
Speaker 1: They look like runway models. Yeah, young, vibrant, perfect skin.
Speaker 1: And then and we are facing the kitchen. Ugly table
Speaker 1: we're on. I didn't want to say it, but that's
Speaker 1: a good feeling I got was like, turn around, get
Speaker 1: those old faces facing the kitchen. Maybe some steam can
Speaker 1: steam out some of those wrinkles. Free botox. And my
Speaker 1: wife keep going every five minutes. Excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1: I can't help but notice some of these tables are
Speaker 1: still empty, earthfully booked. The whole time we're in, those
Speaker 1: tables in the shop window were empty. I'm now going
Speaker 1: to say to the marketing I don't think you can
Speaker 1: put me on a poster. Maybe just the back of
Speaker 1: my head. That's how you sell that shut to Sydney
Speaker 1: in the new year.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast The Proclaimers.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this fact about the two Scottish
Speaker 1: brothers with the very heavy glasses. They should be nown
Speaker 1: for spanks savers. I was at the festival fifteen years
Speaker 1: ago and I love Proclaimers. They're a great man. They're
Speaker 1: brilliant live as well. And I was waiting in the
Speaker 1: wings to bring them on stage right and I suddenly
Speaker 1: see also stood near me is unmistakably Hollywood star Paul Rudd. Right,
Speaker 1: So I go, are you fan? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love them. I love them. I said, I'm just
Speaker 1: about it introducing Do you want to come out with me?
Speaker 1: He goes, would that be okay? I'd love that? And
Speaker 1: so I met Paul Rudd and then we both went
Speaker 1: on I've never met before my life. We both got
Speaker 1: on stage together to introduce the Proclaimers. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anyone enjoy them anything more. Whenever I see ant Man
Speaker 1: now Paul Rudd, I always think I bet hestall. Listen
Speaker 1: he smashed out those hits hit Spotify wrapped. It would
Speaker 1: have had the Top five and there would have been
Speaker 1: the Proclaimers. I'm sure. Good morning to you, Julie Christian
Speaker 1: omg listen to this morning talking about the Hotel Stain
Speaker 1: that very old pub in Manley. I've got the I've
Speaker 1: got a Hotel Stain key ring tag from nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: six when I was there as a backpacker. Wow, they
Speaker 1: used to have a jackpot on Friday night. The tag
Speaker 1: and a number on it which he put into the drawer.
Speaker 1: I never one, but I did wake up Dusty most
Speaker 1: Saturday mornings. Christian took about oldest pubs in Sydney. The
Speaker 1: Lord Nelson in the Rocks. That is the oldest pub
Speaker 1: in Sydney. It's been open since eighteen forty three, which
Speaker 1: is pretty incressive. Impressive, but nothing compared to a lot
Speaker 1: of the old pubs that you have yet. I've drunken
Speaker 1: one that is from nine four seven.
Speaker 2: A d nine four seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what it's like over a thousand years? Yeah, pubs
Speaker 1: that whole thousand years. It's like, how did it work?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What did they kind of store? The drink must have
Speaker 1: tasted revolted, would have been warm? Your thing that we
Speaker 1: like that warm beer? Anyway, it's a crawl line while
Speaker 1: we'd won that, but I know they the first time
Speaker 1: I came to Australia Sydney twenty four years ago, my
Speaker 1: wife and the first thing we did when we got
Speaker 1: to Sydney was go to that Lord Nelson pub walks
Speaker 1: up to Rocks because it's a real iconic area for tourists.
Speaker 1: Come to Rocks and it's got some great pubs in
Speaker 1: and I a mider Lord Nelson because he's on the
Speaker 1: corner there. And also they have I hope they still
Speaker 1: have them. I love it when the proper pubs have
Speaker 1: the frosted glass. Ah, yes, my old school Yes, the
Speaker 1: big heavy impauled pint glass. Yes. And also those the
Speaker 1: taps as well. You know when they're all frosted. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's an effect.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, it's all ice logos. Yes, I crusted over.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Good morning to Dandrey in Wonda. I'm doing an early
Speaker 1: morning bread deliveries right now, Thank you so much. A
Speaker 1: few beautiful emails shared that with the team. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for them. All right, Day four on this
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to make my Weird and Wonderful Guide
Speaker 1: to Sydney. As I get to know this great city,
Speaker 1: I want to fast track that process. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go on Google. I'm not going to ask AI.
Speaker 1: I need the information, the real useless guide to Sydney
Speaker 1: so fast, So much has been discovered, and actually a
Speaker 1: lot of people are from Sydney. Don't know some of
Speaker 1: these half truths. Doesn't matter if any of them are true.
Speaker 1: Don't buy the fact checking it. We're not interested. All right,
Speaker 1: weird and wonderful guy into Sydney. What have we got
Speaker 1: so far? Rio? You had the first one.
Speaker 4: Yes, first off we've got the town whole step which
Speaker 4: was an intergenerational spot for teen loitering.
Speaker 1: Perhapsy what if we as have we discovered?
Speaker 5: Well, Alex brought up that there's a lone panther that
Speaker 5: lives in the Blue Mountains and listener Bob is seen
Speaker 5: not only not only once, but twice in the fact
Speaker 5: that lives in the sewer system.
Speaker 1: In fact, now it appears there's several. They're a roaming gang,
Speaker 1: the panthers, roaming gang using the underground system to move
Speaker 1: underneath us undetected up to under there. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they've been. I think it's an underground system they
Speaker 1: have all over Australia and they're probably helping the Australian
Speaker 1: team cheat yesterday done moving that snick Oche they were
Speaker 1: they were. I'm sure if we look at the image again,
Speaker 1: there's a panther pore there, Alex, our shoud we discover.
Speaker 6: Guard dogs at the Sydney Opera house to ward off
Speaker 6: those pesky seagulls?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to eat your chips? Now? This is true?
Speaker 2: It sounds like a lie.
Speaker 1: Mad dogs an Englishmen and its border colleagues. We found
Speaker 1: out there is a company doing this. They do have
Speaker 1: dogs that ward off. And we found out yesterday that
Speaker 1: the pesky seagulls, there's a boss seagull and unless you
Speaker 1: deter that one, it won't work.
Speaker 2: Yes, you got to take this take the post.
Speaker 1: The alpha goal, the alpha goal. All right, some brand
Speaker 1: new ones. You've got a brand new one. So something
Speaker 1: from our weird and wonderful going to Sydney.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've got to tell you about the failure that
Speaker 4: was the Sydney monorail built in nineteen.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Simpsons moment. It was literally literally.
Speaker 4: Like the Simpsons episode nineteen eighty eight. A private company
Speaker 4: came in and pitched to Sydney, hey have this amazing future.
Speaker 1: Of travel above the ground.
Speaker 4: Around Darling Harbor, but only this very small loop around
Speaker 4: Darling Harbor.
Speaker 2: And exactly like the Simpsons episode, it was incredibly unreliable.
Speaker 2: It broke down all the time. It was very ugly.
Speaker 2: You could actually walk faster than.
Speaker 4: It's if you wanted to get eight to point B,
Speaker 4: you could just.
Speaker 1: Walk past it get anywhere you want to go. Later.
Speaker 4: One architect I'm just reading here called it the most
Speaker 4: tragic thing that happened to the urban fabric of Sydney
Speaker 4: and the most offensive structure I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: So how long did it last? For?
Speaker 4: It went nineteen eighty eight to twenty thirteen. It was
Speaker 4: pulled down because no one would use it. Also, no one, Well,
Speaker 4: there's no possible use for any Sydney side to go
Speaker 4: from one interdeing harbor to the other.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to say I have been on it.
Speaker 2: You've been on that?
Speaker 1: No I remember now, of course why not? Tourists came
Speaker 1: here in two thousand and one monoail the future of travel,
Speaker 1: and I just remember it was actually quite underwhelming. Yes
Speaker 1: it's not anything, and also it was only tourists using
Speaker 1: it as well, because obviously you locals knew. Yes, yes
Speaker 1: it's nothing. No what this is not the vibe. It's
Speaker 1: just not the place to be.
Speaker 2: There's a better way to get from A to B.
Speaker 1: It's Alex. Whatever you've got for my weird and wonderful
Speaker 1: guide to Sydney today.
Speaker 6: And just one more thing about the monael it's great
Speaker 6: for people from the country.
Speaker 1: People from the country love the monorail.
Speaker 2: Which is like but anyway, I guess.
Speaker 1: So wide eyed those farmers you know. Oh my word,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this on the farm basically impressed mover in
Speaker 1: the barracks of hay in that Oh wow. And the
Speaker 1: Clavelli Groba is pretty fast you it's animals. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a headline you're going to touch.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want like local sex press. You really got
Speaker 1: to be you need to know about the old parameter.
Speaker 3: Don't.
Speaker 1: Actually we don't. It's not what it sounds, okay, not
Speaker 1: like what it sounds. It's actually a fish.
Speaker 6: It's this great, big blue groper and you'd be swimming
Speaker 6: at Clavelly Beach and all of a sudden you'd feel
Speaker 6: a presence, you'd feel something, but they're staring at you
Speaker 6: with this gigantic groperes.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've seen it at Gordon's Bay, have you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: beautiful old thing. But there's rumors that it's been that
Speaker 4: it's passed away.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, keep it. Lights check again. You just
Speaker 1: found out you just ending up there. It's a light.
Speaker 1: Well are you trying to focus? Yesterday's newspaper? Son of
Speaker 1: I think the son of Blaye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yes, that's what I meant to say there's
Speaker 2: the new.
Speaker 1: Gen Yeah, all right, what have you got then for
Speaker 1: my weird and wonderful guy to Sydney? What do I
Speaker 1: need to know? You can give us a call thirteen
Speaker 1: fifty five twenty two, and you can also send me
Speaker 1: a text message if it's easier four seven five three
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm trying to make my weird and wonderful
Speaker 1: guy to Sydney. What useless piece of information or half
Speaker 1: truth are or made up story have you got? Farra
Speaker 1: completely weird and wonderful guy to Sydney. Yet again, we're
Speaker 1: back to graveyards. Yesterday, Rio is trying to flex the
Speaker 1: largest graveyard in the Southern Hemisphere Rookwood. Yeah, Rookwood. So
Speaker 1: the rivals are what Antarctica, I don't know, actually in
Speaker 1: Southern America.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, take that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's our graveyard. This is a graveyard, Christian
Speaker 1: where the Sydney Town Hall is. That's the graveyard. That's
Speaker 1: from Shane Second Day with Graveyard Chap. There's a cafe
Speaker 1: in Kutimber with a tree inside it that's run by
Speaker 1: a car. Oh okay, it's that true. Type spreading lice.
Speaker 2: But they make a damn good flat white.
Speaker 1: All right, what have you got from our weird and
Speaker 1: wonderful guy to Sydney. You can give us a called
Speaker 1: thirteen fifty five twenty two and you can send me
Speaker 1: a text message with yours O four seven five three
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Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: We're a wonderful guy into Sydney. What have you got
Speaker 1: for me? Second mention of the cafe with a tree
Speaker 1: inside it in cutimber Tyler first of all recommended that
Speaker 1: one to us, and then someone asked, going, hey, question
Speaker 1: that tree cult cafe is and the varies in capitals.
Speaker 1: It is very good. What elevates a cafe for me?
Speaker 1: And that's a good cafe? Two? Very good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, chili, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: The quality of their coffee is like major.
Speaker 1: Why is there such a variety? You're right patch, Why
Speaker 1: does it vary so much?
Speaker 5: Is this different beans?
Speaker 1: I guess why don't If you if you're arrival place
Speaker 1: and you had they had more customers, you go and
Speaker 1: try their coffee and then you maybe get a spy
Speaker 1: in there and go whether they get the beans from.
Speaker 1: We should do that. Surely you would just hone in
Speaker 1: on where the rivals more popular bass getting the beans from.
Speaker 1: She was stinking with mankey ass beans.
Speaker 4: Your solution is to set up an elaborate y firing,
Speaker 4: essentially go deep undercover.
Speaker 1: I'd go on current affair, Christian. Did you know that
Speaker 1: the Sydney Opera House is a nightmare to park? They
Speaker 1: designed it without enough car parks because the architect who
Speaker 1: designed it didn't drive. Now this is why we're doing
Speaker 1: the Weird and Wonderful Guy to Sydney, that Danish guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is fantastic. Thank you very much. As your contacts
Speaker 1: on the show this week, please put your names on
Speaker 1: your messages so we can say hello properly. But that
Speaker 1: is a great one, as is this. When I first
Speaker 1: moved to Australia seven years ago, obviously I had to
Speaker 1: learn new language. Yes you know it's many English, but
Speaker 1: there's so many varieties. I used to have a thing
Speaker 1: in my in my phone just to help me out
Speaker 1: as I was putting the pieces together and taking them apart,
Speaker 1: and used to we just the note was labeled it's
Speaker 1: not called that here. The first one was in the UK,
Speaker 1: as you're a kid and you're out your bike and
Speaker 1: you've got a friend behind you. In the UK, that's
Speaker 1: a backie there on the back. It is simply called
Speaker 1: a backie. Please don't google that. It might be called
Speaker 1: something else. Now that's up to you. If you google
Speaker 1: it and you see images, aren't aren't too young? That's
Speaker 1: together on the bike and sweated. It's not called that here.
Speaker 1: Now in Melbourne it's known as a dink.
Speaker 5: Someone on you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that sounds rude as well.
Speaker 2: You keep.
Speaker 1: Yourself sir, But it's not called that here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Double a double, yes, yes, now I get that. That
Speaker 1: seems to make more sense than a dink double because
Speaker 1: there's two of you. Double the fun exactly. I wonder
Speaker 1: around the world what words they have for getting some
Speaker 1: on the back of the bicycle. Yeah, it's such an
Speaker 1: innocent thing. From growing up, Why was that so much fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah, every kid had to do. It's like way to
Speaker 2: get around.
Speaker 1: But the most fun I always think was was riding
Speaker 1: the bike. Being up front. Yeah, it was terrifying, but
Speaker 1: behind got no control because also it was a personal
Speaker 1: response because they had control and power to start doing
Speaker 1: those works. Yeah, yeah, your passenger pothole. Yeah. Another thing though,
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of messages about the great potholes
Speaker 1: of Sydney. It is like driving around the moon. Why
Speaker 1: are there's so many nipping potholes.
Speaker 2: It's almost like we've put them there. There's so many.
Speaker 1: There's a tourist attraction. Yeah, come see the great potholes
Speaker 1: of Sydney. All right, keep this coming our GUYE to
Speaker 1: Weird and Wonderful Sydney four seven five three one O
Speaker 1: four three.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for everyone who's been sending us
Speaker 1: emails and notes. Is an extraordinary week in Sydney, and
Speaker 1: the fact that you're taking any times as you struggle
Speaker 1: to process everything that's happened and happening as well to
Speaker 1: send us us notes as well saying hello and welcome
Speaker 1: to Sydney. I've got a really really important email actually
Speaker 1: Yester evening that I just wanted to share now from
Speaker 1: Melody Palmer. Christian. Welcome first of all to Sydney Radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you Melody. We'd like to just talk about the
Speaker 1: completely unsung heroes of our police officers. It's very easy
Speaker 1: for people to say they're just doing their job, but
Speaker 1: I'm here to say is much more than that. My wife,
Speaker 1: a nearly thirty year veteran, could benny contain the need
Speaker 1: to act. She sat at the dinner table with her
Speaker 1: phone blowing up Sunday night. Her face was set like
Speaker 1: stone about not being there to help. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine how many other officers all over New South Wales
Speaker 1: that grip their phone in horror. You can't pay someone
Speaker 1: for that when people are running away, Our policemen and
Speaker 1: women are running toward danger. In mostly all the eyewitness
Speaker 1: footage I saw this tablet instant. I saw police officers crouched,
Speaker 1: guns drawn down, ready to act. Every single one of
Speaker 1: these people wanted to go home to the loved ones
Speaker 1: that night. Not all of them did, and many will
Speaker 1: carry yet another scar of a job they put their
Speaker 1: hand up to do. Melody, really really important reminder. And
Speaker 1: I think over the next couple of days, whenever you
Speaker 1: see a first responder out about, thank them, Just ask
Speaker 1: how they are and thank them for their service. Now
Speaker 1: on this the last couple of days, we've been talking
Speaker 1: about the first responders and what can we do to
Speaker 1: help them. A couple of weeks ago, I came with
Speaker 1: the idea that I wanted to come and do the
Speaker 1: show here this week to get to know you guys.
Speaker 1: So we arrived Sunday afternoon and we all know what
Speaker 1: unfolded Saturday night. We had all these ideas and plans
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you did for what this week
Speaker 1: was going to be like. And one of the things
Speaker 1: I do know about your Australians is you love a
Speaker 1: Christmas ham. And we had twenty five these Christmas hams
Speaker 1: and suddenly not right to start just giving Christmas hands
Speaker 1: away for obvious reasons, but I thought, we've got someone
Speaker 1: why don't we go and give them to some of
Speaker 1: the local first responders as a small thank you if
Speaker 1: they want them. And so Joshama Show went down to
Speaker 1: Bondai yesterday and to see some of the first responders
Speaker 1: and you can hear how he got on next. He's
Speaker 1: got some beautiful stories before that. This is the song
Speaker 1: really that he speaks to what Melody and all the
Speaker 1: first responders do for us.
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Speaker 1: So, like I was saying, we had these Christmas hams
Speaker 1: and last week it seemed like this would be a
Speaker 1: nice way to say hello. It feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm moving into a new neighborhood and going around all
Speaker 1: the local neighbors saying hello, introducing myself and I've got
Speaker 1: a gift for you before Christmas, okay, And so now
Speaker 1: we had it this week, everything changed and it is
Speaker 1: we're all where we can't be doing that, it's not right.
Speaker 1: But look, we've got these Christmas hams. Why do we
Speaker 1: give them some the first responders if they'd like them.
Speaker 1: So yesterday a lovely man on the show called Josh
Speaker 1: You went down to Bondi You went to the first
Speaker 1: responders to see if they wanted these just very small
Speaker 1: gifts to say we see you and thank you for
Speaker 1: your service. So what was that like?
Speaker 7: It was a really special moment and one that I
Speaker 7: didn't know was going to be as special as it was.
Speaker 7: But as I went down to Tema Emma Surf Life
Speaker 7: Saving Club, which is now their sort of main meeting
Speaker 7: point to sort of connect to do debriefs, and so
Speaker 7: I knew I was kind of going to a main
Speaker 7: point for them, and I didn't even know how to
Speaker 7: enter him. Was it the front door, was it the
Speaker 7: back door? How do you enter a stiff life saving club,
Speaker 7: and do you want.
Speaker 1: To get in the way. They're also an act of
Speaker 1: life saving club. You don't want to be an inconvenienced.
Speaker 1: But we wanted to go down and say thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm laugh not just us on the team here, but
Speaker 1: everyone in Sydney absolutely.
Speaker 7: And I met a gentleman by the name of Ben
Speaker 7: there and he was sort of working out already, you know,
Speaker 7: shirt off, ready to go and jump in the water,
Speaker 7: and he met me with so much warmth and straight
Speaker 7: away he was just taken by the gesture and nothing
Speaker 7: more than just a big thank you. And he told
Speaker 7: me straight away that I needed to speak with a
Speaker 7: couple of other people, and one was a man named
Speaker 7: Rory who actually on Sunday was there when it was
Speaker 7: all happening and all the chaos. His first instinct was
Speaker 7: to actually run towards the water and to save people.
Speaker 1: And truly, and this is because obviously people were trying
Speaker 1: to find a safe refuge in the water.
Speaker 7: Yeah, people freaking out, not knowing what to do. And
Speaker 7: it just really makes it very very real in that
Speaker 7: moment to hear firsthand just how brave, how incredibly.
Speaker 1: Brave, and the young kids, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and to not think of yourself and it's just
Speaker 7: a lovely thing to be able to give them something.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I think even now it's it's just to
Speaker 7: your point there just being able to say a hello
Speaker 7: to people and really almost just that human element that
Speaker 7: people are there and people are being brave. It's quite
Speaker 7: a special thing to actually hear it firsthand.
Speaker 1: What was it like to go down a Bondi's.
Speaker 2: It's very silent.
Speaker 7: It's almost like the air and like time is like
Speaker 7: standing still, like everything's slower down.
Speaker 1: There, boys sacred ground now, isn't it? Yeah? Unwittingly it has,
Speaker 1: you know, when you sent me a photo of it yesterday,
Speaker 1: I really felt just from the photo the silence of it,
Speaker 1: because actually going to Bond that is not a place
Speaker 1: of silence. Normally it's a place of noise, chaos, laughter,
Speaker 1: people meeting up, you know, life happening there vividly and
Speaker 1: and all the stuff I've seen. It's very very quiet, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's just so strikingly different.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and you know, nobody speaking, but then there is
Speaker 7: sort of communication with the prayers and the loves and
Speaker 7: the thought.
Speaker 1: Is an act of silent respect, isn't it that Actually
Speaker 1: they don't need the words. The silence is are the words?
Speaker 1: And so you went also to other first responders. You
Speaker 1: went to the police.
Speaker 7: Yeah, went to Bondo Police station and I was wondering
Speaker 7: if they can accept it, like is it in their
Speaker 7: company policy?
Speaker 1: Again, been told by the ambulance staff couldn't accept them.
Speaker 1: They're not allowed to accept gifts, which I find extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I think that's a real shame. So anyway, you went
Speaker 1: to the police station and how are they Yeah, they
Speaker 1: grabbed those hands off.
Speaker 2: Here the.
Speaker 1: Fish were the hams.
Speaker 2: They had to get clear and they asked.
Speaker 7: I spoke with a gentleman named Andrew and he goes,
Speaker 7: I've just got to check check with my sergeant. And
Speaker 7: he went away and came back and came back with
Speaker 7: the biggest smile on his face.
Speaker 1: What else is that sergeant going to say? Staying in
Speaker 1: at ten seconds and we get at the chip, how
Speaker 1: many as you reckon it's gone, follow him, see where
Speaker 1: he goes, come back to his face, get more Christmas hands.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love a Christmas hand? Right? So they took
Speaker 1: the hams. They did great, they did.
Speaker 7: And then as I was leaving it, really it's stopped
Speaker 7: me because I was leaving and there was a whole
Speaker 7: group of girls walking in all holding flowers and they
Speaker 7: were just going to go the desk after me and
Speaker 7: give flowers to the police. Yeah, it's just so lovely
Speaker 7: because it's like those are the kindness and cares that
Speaker 7: you maybe don't see, and to see it in person
Speaker 7: it was.
Speaker 1: It was very special, brilliant, lovely. If there's anyone else
Speaker 1: you think we need to hear about or we should
Speaker 1: be talking to, please let me know.
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Speaker 1: Good Morning to shon a beautiful message here from Shona.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing this, Christians. Shout out to both
Speaker 1: the staff at Lifeblood and the people manning the phones
Speaker 1: that beyond Blue Lifeline and all the other support services.
Speaker 1: They are having to manage their own emotions and similar tenancy,
Speaker 1: help process other people's all while their workloads have ramped
Speaker 1: up multifod They are heroes every single day. Shona, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for reminding us of those people can
Speaker 1: only imagine what the cause must be like. But also
Speaker 1: I know want amazing service there be to people who
Speaker 1: really really need help right now. So yesterday on the show,
Speaker 1: I was just talking about old school radios, and whether
Speaker 1: it was in a car or at home, and there
Speaker 1: would actually be a physical dial. Now you think about radio,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a digital one, isn't it. You're punching
Speaker 1: the numbers. Now you've got your pre sets, and then
Speaker 1: you've got people in management who sit in big offices
Speaker 1: and they go, you got to get O'Connell. You've got
Speaker 1: to get the P ones. You've got to get the
Speaker 1: P two s to P ones. Why are you only
Speaker 1: P three? Oh, you got to be P one in
Speaker 1: this game, or Cindy's gonna wrench you out by easter.
Speaker 1: My mission next one is P one. We go to
Speaker 1: go P one pre set one? Oh?
Speaker 2: Is that what that means?
Speaker 1: Say it all?
Speaker 2: I never really knew what ignore all of it. They
Speaker 2: just make up this want us to be that the.
Speaker 1: People, And I'm like, how do you does it mean anything? Oh?
Speaker 1: I tell them what all matters? Are they listening? Are
Speaker 1: they enjoying the show? I don't care what I'm P five.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm going to stop that in the new year.
Speaker 1: I'm going to demand you, if you listen to the show,
Speaker 1: make me P five P five. I feel more comfortable
Speaker 1: as a P five sometimes you're gonna know, look in
Speaker 1: the mirror and go you're P five. You got a
Speaker 1: P one. Also, by the way, in.
Speaker 2: This it's so squeaky, it's so he's.
Speaker 1: Inching captive chairs from well, oh, I need to constell
Speaker 1: me whereabouts in North Siffy Can I go and get
Speaker 1: some w D forty? Why would a chair be this
Speaker 1: squeaking in a radio studio where there must be silence? Again,
Speaker 1: I think this is another spoiling technique from Jonesy, not Amanda.
Speaker 1: I actually it's a Manda smiling assassin under the hook.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always saw every day coming in here and put
Speaker 1: like a you know, I'm crawling around chicken for traps.
Speaker 1: What have they done today? You know this? This was
Speaker 1: me yesterday. They're using it pass again in here overnight
Speaker 1: and on you Tube. Jones So, yes, I was talking
Speaker 1: about the old old school radio dials and you would
Speaker 1: actually dial in, you'd have to actually actively tune into
Speaker 1: the radio show. Kids these days have no idea about
Speaker 1: that that that phone, the smartphone, is the remote control
Speaker 1: of their life. It's all there, every movie that's ever
Speaker 1: been made, every TV show that's ever been made, all
Speaker 1: knowledge that's ever existed. It's all on their on their phones,
Speaker 1: and so I want to do today John, the next
Speaker 1: half and out. What would kids today have no idea about?
Speaker 1: It drives me mad right now? No one is on time. Okay,
Speaker 1: years ago, if you didn't arrive to meet your friends
Speaker 1: at midday on the town hall steps, you didn't have
Speaker 1: a day out with your mates doing shenanigans. You were
Speaker 1: always there. There was no just message again, just around
Speaker 1: the corner trying to part park into nightmare today five
Speaker 1: minutes away, when we know no one's ever five minutes. No,
Speaker 1: they're at least fifteen to twenty minutes away. Everyone's always
Speaker 1: late these days. No one gets it because they don't
Speaker 1: have to, but you do.
Speaker 2: There's no stakes anymore.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you got there early to meet your friends.
Speaker 1: Otherwise people must have thought little Tommy must be very
Speaker 1: ill done if he's not here right now at midday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got no, it just.
Speaker 1: Got missed out and you never waited because you were.
Speaker 1: Everyone knew what he's not coming.
Speaker 2: He's one minute late. He must be gravely ill.
Speaker 1: Real What would kids these days have no idea about?
Speaker 2: Kids these days would never know that.
Speaker 4: In the mid two thousands, ring tones were the most
Speaker 4: important currency you even existed, and you had to spend
Speaker 4: painstaking hours going on a website and manually typing in
Speaker 4: ring tones into your phone so you could have say
Speaker 4: the crazy.
Speaker 2: Frog, give me the old ring ing ing.
Speaker 1: Ing ing?
Speaker 2: What up?
Speaker 4: Does anyone still have a ring tone that's not like
Speaker 4: the stock ring tone?
Speaker 2: I would love to know.
Speaker 1: Yes, yesterday I was in a shop and a guy
Speaker 1: who was like a middle aged dad my age, his
Speaker 1: phone went off and he had an old school Nokia
Speaker 1: with new Order Blue Monday as the ring tone. Wow,
Speaker 1: And he was doing that thing because it was really
Speaker 1: loud and it was an unusual ringtone, and everyone was
Speaker 1: looking around in this very quiet shop, and I looked
Speaker 1: at him, away, it's that blue Order New Monday, went yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he was trying to like fumbling. You know, you're always
Speaker 1: fumbled when you're trying to turn it off. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know people still had bespoke ringtime amazing. Do
Speaker 1: you like eight bit versions? Weren't they? Yes?
Speaker 2: There was like poly monophonic ring times, then there was polyphoni.
Speaker 1: Phonic was like the cutting edge. It's a polyphonic gold
Speaker 1: FM in polyphonic radio, technology, Alex, what's yours? Kids today
Speaker 1: would have no idea about.
Speaker 6: There are kids listening to us in the car right
Speaker 6: now and they're pressing a button to wind down the window.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'd in press buns as kids. We wound the
Speaker 1: window down. That's why my daughter was in a car
Speaker 1: that goes down. I was in this ancient car. What
Speaker 1: do you mean just it was one as you had
Speaker 1: to wind a handle to get the air conon. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just outside. That's not the air condon that's like
Speaker 1: whatever that temages is coming in.
Speaker 2: That's that's why gen z have such weak four.
Speaker 1: Right that crank in that hand or if you take
Speaker 1: age as well. It was slick and quick and sometimes
Speaker 1: just get stuck and you have to grab the window
Speaker 1: and like push it down, yes, or pull it up,
Speaker 1: pull it up as you were if you wound Patsy.
Speaker 1: What's it for you?
Speaker 5: Kids today would have no idea with the windows, remember
Speaker 5: the little tiny the triangular one had one.
Speaker 1: Of those see those anymore?
Speaker 5: So you had like two openings. You didn't just have
Speaker 5: the mat.
Speaker 1: It was like a cellah just to the front.
Speaker 5: For me, it was having to wait to use the
Speaker 5: landline at home.
Speaker 1: That created that creates so much tension.
Speaker 5: Yes, and if you ever had to call STD, you
Speaker 5: always had.
Speaker 1: To do between It was for sexually transmit.
Speaker 5: That if you had to call into state from Victoria,
Speaker 5: you'd have to between seven and eight because you've got
Speaker 5: like a half price call RAID at the time.
Speaker 1: So would call it into state as a kid. I
Speaker 1: my friend Mark in Adelaide. Now one back in your
Speaker 1: day had interstate friends.
Speaker 5: It was like for beellies and stuff like if we
Speaker 5: had to call an art to thank her for a
Speaker 5: birthday card that she'd sent with five bucks, you'd have
Speaker 5: to do it between seven and eight before that because
Speaker 5: it's more expensive.
Speaker 1: And just also when we did start to get the
Speaker 1: phrase home computer, nonsense that anymore. The phrase a heartways
Speaker 1: they've got home computer and it would always sit somewhere
Speaker 1: with a special desk a media unit for the home computer.
Speaker 1: And that also created because if you were like chatting
Speaker 1: on AOL and someone picked up the phone, I'm online
Speaker 1: on the super Highway Information super Highway when it was
Speaker 1: always about and the website is www forwards. Do you
Speaker 1: remember forward slash, backslash? What's the thing all right? So
Speaker 1: what would care today have no idea about give us
Speaker 1: a called thirteen fifty five twenty two, and you can
Speaker 1: also use polyphonic technology and SMS. The show four seventy
Speaker 1: five three one O four three. I'm going to go
Speaker 1: and find out whether this Rerati station as a fax
Speaker 1: machine as well to get some ancient technology into.
Speaker 3: This The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: On our Friday, On The Christian O'Connell Show, we always
Speaker 1: try and give people a big Friday energy. Tomorrow a
Speaker 1: different kind of Friday show. We do someone called the
Speaker 1: People's Playlist, where I give you a theme and then
Speaker 1: you pick songs. We play your songs. You're in control
Speaker 1: of the music every Friday on our show and it's
Speaker 1: called the People's Playlist. I give you a theme, you
Speaker 1: pick all the songs about that theme. Tomorrow is just
Speaker 1: simply going to be songs for Sydney like Al John,
Speaker 1: I'm still stirning where you want to hear David Bowie heroes,
Speaker 1: any songs that really speak to what we've gone through
Speaker 1: this week and what's needed tomorrow morning. However it is
Speaker 1: you going to feel it might be a song where
Speaker 1: you want to add a message to it as well
Speaker 1: to first responders or anybody or anything you want to say.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow morning from seven thirty till nine, that whole
Speaker 1: hour and a half is your songs for Sydney. And
Speaker 1: if you want to pick one today and email me
Speaker 1: and help me to say a few words on your
Speaker 1: behalf or please call in use the microphone, share the microphone.
Speaker 1: You can say it yourself to whoever you want to
Speaker 1: say it to. Email me Christian at Christian o'connorll dot
Speaker 1: com today you right now, though, what would kids today
Speaker 1: have no idea about? These are great? Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for sharing them, Christian, good morning. I believe that
Speaker 1: if you told a kid today about four on the floor,
Speaker 1: they would have no idea what you were talking about.
Speaker 1: I also remember learning to drive with the column shift.
Speaker 1: Me too, that kids will be baffled by.
Speaker 2: What's on the floor. I don't know what there's the
Speaker 2: kids today?
Speaker 1: One of them three on the tree? Y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, say.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's Awkwards. There was three on the tree. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If we were doing that now you'd be standing. You
Speaker 1: will want having fun and shenanigans. You're too busy on
Speaker 1: your apps.
Speaker 5: As if a manual wasn't difficult enough. Yeah, you had
Speaker 5: to change gears sort of on the left side.
Speaker 1: Steering active thing to drive like.
Speaker 5: All all your limbs were moving when you were driving it.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know you drive limbs.
Speaker 2: It was just like everything.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We didn't have power steering, No, it was.
Speaker 1: Tony was a big deal as well. Crank and that
Speaker 1: right this ship right straight Christian. I customized my ring
Speaker 1: tones for contacts based on the song that reminds me
Speaker 1: of them. I love that. I want to go through
Speaker 1: your phone with you. What would we be under? Not sure? Still,
Speaker 1: don't I change Christians something? Kids today would have no
Speaker 1: idea about lining up overnight to be the first in
Speaker 1: line for concert tickets. Yes, now it's worse. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then that's easier. Yeah, now it's absolutely worse. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take some calls here. Let's go to Lisa. First
Speaker 1: of all, Good morning, Lisa, welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Sames Christian, good morning and welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Lisa. Thank you for saying that, Lisa,
Speaker 1: what were kids today have no idea about?
Speaker 8: So I used to have to actually get up off
Speaker 8: the couch to turn the t beyond know what she did?
Speaker 9: If I wanted to chase channel.
Speaker 8: I had to get up again.
Speaker 1: Chase. Yeah, and it was always the young kids job.
Speaker 1: Your dad, Sonny didn't do that, your mom. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, my dad would just sort of throw his
Speaker 1: slipper at me and out was a queue to the
Speaker 1: human remote control to get up. That's what it was. Only
Speaker 1: like one or two channels anyway. It was like now
Speaker 1: and there's like a thousand channels. It's just like And
Speaker 1: also TV used to shut down at night. Someone you
Speaker 1: to bed, You need to go to bed. You're gotta
Speaker 1: get up and go work in a factory tomorrow.
Speaker 2: They just had no show, no get someone would say
Speaker 2: good night lazy.
Speaker 1: Didn't they didn't know. Yeah, that's right. They didn't have
Speaker 1: enough shows. Is color bar? This is no twenty four
Speaker 1: hour TV. No. Some guy in a dicky bow tie
Speaker 1: in the UK woulgo good night England and play the
Speaker 1: national app not that banger of a song. You know
Speaker 1: me too, Lisa, have a lovely Christmas. Thank you for
Speaker 1: giving the show Ago and thanks your story.
Speaker 8: You're welcome.
Speaker 10: Good day.
Speaker 1: See yet we've got not second Lisa's Yes, it looks
Speaker 1: like it go back to make Lisa's Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 10: Goodbye, guys, welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Lisa. And they're all kids today
Speaker 1: have no idea.
Speaker 10: About picking up a phone receiver and getting tangled up
Speaker 10: in the chord between and then slamming it down at
Speaker 10: the end of an angry phone call.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so satisfying.
Speaker 1: God, I miss those. You can't do that with a smartphone,
Speaker 1: you know, your smudgy fingers and you're trying to hang
Speaker 1: up on someone. They're doing Hello Hello, and you got
Speaker 1: hang away. I'm trying to hang up on you, just
Speaker 1: keep missing it with my angry fingers. How many movies
Speaker 1: have got that iconic scene, you know, get in in
Speaker 1: right now and need you badging gun? Donbe you know?
Speaker 1: And it cop shows all that phone simon that and
Speaker 1: it's not the same. Now, that's great those big old
Speaker 1: rotary phones as well. He's talking about no power steering.
Speaker 1: What a workout. It was dialing a number tape forever.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what it was doing. Why did
Speaker 1: you change, Geen? It would that look darling? Winding it
Speaker 1: all the way around and if it was a nine
Speaker 1: in the zero Lisa, great stuff? Have a lovely Christmas.
Speaker 10: You say, you guys, all right, we're.
Speaker 1: Going to take the break. We'll take some more of
Speaker 1: your calls next. These are brilliant, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: What would kids these days have no idea about? You
Speaker 1: can call us with yours thirteen fifty five twenty two,
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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Show. What would kids? Excuse me? The bits
Speaker 1: of nice squelchy eighties keyboard out. This is eighties kids
Speaker 1: that he says, have no idea about? Morning, Jenny Christian
Speaker 1: enjoying the show, Welcome to Sydney. Thank you, Jenny's joy
Speaker 1: being here. What kids would know about today? Getting threatened
Speaker 1: with the slipper you mentioned it earlier. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they're something too proud of Christian you did that these
Speaker 1: days you get suited, Christian. I remember going to the
Speaker 1: pictures in Sydney years ago. Before the film started, everyone
Speaker 1: would have to stand as they played God Save the Queen.
Speaker 1: You're winding me up shape. That's not true? Is it
Speaker 1: that cannot be true.
Speaker 3: Did they?
Speaker 1: Apparently? What back in the day, way back in the day,
Speaker 1: Morning Guys, kids today would not know about the high
Speaker 1: Beama dimmer switch on the floor of the car. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a great one, Dave. Kids have no idea but
Speaker 1: rewinded the video tanks before returning it to the store.
Speaker 1: Assume of that, Please be kind rewind cars without parasteering. Yes,
Speaker 1: kids would have no idea today using a pencil to
Speaker 1: wind a cassette tape that had just uns all everywhere,
Speaker 1: hugely unreliable technology the cassette. Let's take some more of
Speaker 1: your calls. You've got Jane on the line now, morning Jane,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: And welcome to the Morning Show in Sydney.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much, Jane, thanks for giving us
Speaker 1: a go. So, Jane, what would kids today have no
Speaker 1: idea about?
Speaker 8: They would have no idea of the UbD for you
Speaker 8: had to actually find the street, find the number, and
Speaker 8: then you had to go ten pages in to actually
Speaker 8: get to the next part.
Speaker 10: Of the road G four.
Speaker 9: Or if you were going on a.
Speaker 8: Big road trip, you had to get the big map
Speaker 8: out and like picture where you're going to go on
Speaker 8: which highway? You're going to do use and you.
Speaker 1: Had to planet I'm not joking right, the night before
Speaker 1: a trip, and then all you'd have to write outta
Speaker 1: and it would be on the passenger seat, as if
Speaker 1: you're Marco Polo going on around the world trip just
Speaker 1: to go and see your nan down the road.
Speaker 8: If you and if you accidentally put the map the
Speaker 8: wrong way, you'd be going the wrong direction and then
Speaker 8: you'd be getting yelled at because you can't.
Speaker 1: And also because everyone these days has got like, you know,
Speaker 1: the instant map, you know, Google Maps, Apple Maps on
Speaker 1: your phones. There's no reason to be lost. You don't
Speaker 1: ever see someone with the hazard lights on leaning through
Speaker 1: the pass your window. Excuse us? You know where? Do
Speaker 1: you know what the red iron Bob is.
Speaker 8: For having the book on their steering while they're driving
Speaker 8: with you?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's right. Yes, it was quite an audial
Speaker 1: navigating around and then the jaw you got when you
Speaker 1: arrived somewhere. You're my god, that's a big old trip there.
Speaker 1: We've got to do it in reverse. That's a great one. Jane,
Speaker 1: thanks go on the show and giving us a go
Speaker 1: and have a lovely Christmas.
Speaker 8: You two, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Let's go to Jeff the poster. You sent me
Speaker 1: some lovely emails a while ago and when you heard
Speaker 1: that we were coming to Sydney Morning Radio. Lovely to
Speaker 1: speak to you. Jeff. Good morning, good morning, Welcome, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Jeff. What would kids these days have
Speaker 1: no idea about?
Speaker 9: Oh, he's your favorite show, you'd have to wait a
Speaker 9: week for the next episode like Binefeld.
Speaker 2: I remember, you can't fans and you didn't have to
Speaker 2: wade away. Now you just stop everything and have it
Speaker 2: all at once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids on Saturday night they wanted to watch
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie and they were like flicking through every
Speaker 1: Christmas movie ever made. I mean, you know how lucky
Speaker 1: you are. You just would watch whatever Christmas movie the
Speaker 1: TV bosses decided you would watch.
Speaker 2: That year, you got what you got and what you
Speaker 2: got was home alone.
Speaker 1: Again. That's a grow on Jeff to post. You have
Speaker 1: a lovely Christmas mate, You're true. Thank you have you
Speaker 1: got here? Tony, Good morning, Tony, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Good morning guys.
Speaker 9: How are you doing. Welcome to city.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Tony. Thanks forgiving the show ago, Tony.
Speaker 1: Will we kids today have no idea about mate.
Speaker 9: Mate saving you twenty cent pieces and then heading down
Speaker 9: to this spacey arcade.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you felt like a tycoon that pocket full
Speaker 1: of change and oh my god, the game's adventures you
Speaker 1: were going to have. That's it, whining the pinnies, the
Speaker 1: pitbull machine. Yes, you're right there. You look about now.
Speaker 1: It's a very simple joys, but it was everything. You'd
Speaker 1: be hours down there, and even when you run out money,
Speaker 1: you would just watch strangers playing games and people just
Speaker 1: crowd around as he's putting his name in. It's carving
Speaker 1: it up on the leaderboard. That's a great one, Tony,
Speaker 1: have a lovely Christmas thanks to calling the show.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're taking your stories and he calls, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is brilliant. What would kids these days have no
Speaker 1: idea about? Christian Kids these days wouldn't know about fine
Speaker 1: tuning the knob on the TV. Uh, that's what you
Speaker 1: had when you got that new TV. You had to
Speaker 1: tune in to find all the chat the channels. Now
Speaker 1: you just turn it on. You got download apps. You've
Speaker 1: got every TV showing movie you ever made.
Speaker 2: It's just as annoying every app.
Speaker 1: No you're right, You're right, it's it's the passwords. Oh
Speaker 1: was this the one of the date of birth? In
Speaker 1: my age?
Speaker 2: You ar code?
Speaker 4: After four months on the streaming service drives me insane.
Speaker 1: And then your kids starts sharing the passwords to their
Speaker 1: friends and I'm like, yes, no, I can't watch TV. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: friends watching my my account algorithms. I love it though.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you check into an Airbnb and some guy
Speaker 1: has left as a counter open, I start watching. Yes,
Speaker 1: so let's missus what I might go? Why are you
Speaker 1: watching fifty shaded gray? Just a great confusion? Oh, what
Speaker 1: fun Teresa question. Back in the day, working in an office,
Speaker 1: we had an old Sylvester switchboard where you had to
Speaker 1: plug the call into the correct line. It was a
Speaker 1: huge switchboard. Yeah, isn't that phrase, Oh you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to call now, speak to the switchboard operator and they
Speaker 1: will connect my call. They're actual cables.
Speaker 2: And he's just didn't you do you? Mister?
Speaker 1: Yes? I remember years ago intoviewing Bob Geldoff, and I
Speaker 1: was still what was it like to actually put live
Speaker 1: aid together? Because it was in the eighties and obviously
Speaker 1: they're phoning like megastars all over the world. And he's
Speaker 1: said at one point he was arranged the day that
Speaker 1: he could speak to the Pope. He needed to get
Speaker 1: the Pope's endorsement, and so Bob Geldof needs to speak
Speaker 1: as an irishman himself. It was a big moment. I said,
Speaker 1: what is that? Like? What did you have? Is like
Speaker 1: direct line? Has he got like a gold phone in
Speaker 1: his Vatican crib? So is someone in the front office go, hey,
Speaker 1: you there, take the hat off. You're gotta put the
Speaker 1: big old school phone to your ears. It's that crazy
Speaker 1: irishman Bob Girloff. Anyways, No, no, you got the vatic
Speaker 1: And he said you had the nuns run the switchboard.
Speaker 1: Of course they do. That's whose man sweat. He goes,
Speaker 1: and they were stern. They don't just put any winning
Speaker 1: indie person going to get poping. That's Bob Gildoff. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: try and get hang out another prank call for island.
Speaker 1: These are great Christian will were kids today have no
Speaker 1: idea about going down to your local milk bar, looking
Speaker 1: in the cabinet, seeing all those lollies. He's going to
Speaker 1: even just picked them out. Yeah, you're right, milk bars.
Speaker 1: And now it's scratchies. Yes, you're right, Yes, those.
Speaker 2: Are grown up lollies, scratches and tintams.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Let's take some calls now, who
Speaker 1: have you got here, Kathy, Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Oh, thank you, Welcome to Sydney, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Kids wouldn't know that shops aren't open all the time,
Speaker 9: that you had to get in by five o'clock, and
Speaker 9: the half day on the Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sunday's everything close.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sundays was a day of rest, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: Basically Clint meant our dance, just went to the local
Speaker 1: pub and did even less, which was the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: Old school dad seventies and eighties is about one calorie
Speaker 1: a year as a dad, and that was to pick
Speaker 1: up the slipper to throw it at you ask your mother.
Speaker 1: The other one was like when my dad came home
Speaker 1: from what he worked in the car factory, so he
Speaker 1: had a really tough job. Answer. But the rule was
Speaker 1: you don't disturb your dad for the first two hours
Speaker 1: that he was home. Now, with dad myself, you constantly disturbed.
Speaker 1: I was out of dinner last night. My kids are
Speaker 1: ringing up, were going have you changed the password. That's
Speaker 1: a lovely call. Have a lovely Christmas. Thank you for
Speaker 1: giving our show ago, Kathy, Thank you bye, Belinda, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. We know you're there. Blinda.
Speaker 5: Ah, Hi, Christian, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good with Blinda. Thank you very much, Blinda. Thanks
Speaker 1: you for on the show. Yep, so they don't know
Speaker 1: about encyclopedias. You had to go down to the library,
Speaker 1: or go and find a friend who had the world
Speaker 1: books and do your assignments at the airplace. I'll find
Speaker 1: in the relevant one at said you remember, they're all
Speaker 1: broken up, won't they.
Speaker 2: We had that at their house. We were the Encyclopedia house.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, the nerd We also had, oh well, a
Speaker 1: place of learning and knowledge.
Speaker 4: The only computer game we were allowed was Encyclopedia, and.
Speaker 1: That was a holy grail for nerds. I was intimidated
Speaker 1: by those kids. You're always destined for great things, But
Speaker 1: look at.
Speaker 2: Us in the same studio.
Speaker 1: Levels out and that message goes to everyone waiting for
Speaker 1: the results today. It all levels out. Oh that's so
Speaker 1: funny about the encyclopedias. Yes, it was a joy of
Speaker 1: learning as well and finding something out. He has to
Speaker 1: turn so many pages, and yes, periodicals and alously you
Speaker 1: would have to do research in the library.
Speaker 5: Yes course you never said at home unless you were
Speaker 5: rich like yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh he had Carter Belinda, great stuff, Have a
Speaker 1: lovely Christmas. Take care you do. Thank you all right,
Speaker 1: this is coming up for what is the time. It's
Speaker 1: eighteen minutes past eight here on Golden Sydney. It's the
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for all your contributions to what
Speaker 1: would kids these days have no idea about? Somebody who
Speaker 1: called in earlier was talking about wind up watches and
Speaker 1: a producer, Katy, was telling me about this. She went,
Speaker 1: oh my god, wind up watches, and I went, I
Speaker 1: only have wind up watches. Still, yeah, this watch I'm
Speaker 1: wearing now, I only used wind up watches. And I
Speaker 1: saw that she had an Apple Watch. I brought an
Speaker 1: Apple Watch and sold it back after three days. Gharsly things,
Speaker 1: garsy fake things. No, what did you you know? What?
Speaker 1: I didn't like? The thing was constantly shaking with alertz
Speaker 1: and these one alerts. This is my wife, gang, can
Speaker 1: you get milk and lou roll? So I don't need
Speaker 1: that on my hand. I don't want it on my phone.
Speaker 1: I really don't want that's not an alert, and my
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Speaker 1: Remember no, no, I don't know, but Charlie doesn't. Picked then, Christian,
Speaker 1: I have memories of I think we've got a fellow
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