Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right today on the show, and they want to
Speaker 1: hear your stories about crazy uncles. This came off the
Speaker 1: back of yesterday. I got this text message from Tamika
Speaker 1: when we're asking you who you named after christ My
Speaker 1: uncle was in charge of naming my brother. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys, I've never heard of this,
Speaker 1: so you know, sometimes it might be a book or
Speaker 1: a movie that influences kids' names and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But actually just palming it off to out of any
Speaker 1: family member, your mum or dad, I could maybe understand.
Speaker 1: But the uncle in the family tree is the home
Speaker 1: of the crazies. My uncle was in charge of naming
Speaker 1: my brother. Not knowing what to call him, he put
Speaker 1: a bet on the horses and said the next jockey
Speaker 1: to win when I named them after them. The jockey
Speaker 1: was a girl, so that didn't work, so we changed
Speaker 1: it to the cricket and the next batter to play.
Speaker 1: That was Brett Lee's first Test match, and my brother
Speaker 1: is named Brett Lee. The incredible scene. So I want
Speaker 1: to know today about crazy uncles. Jack, You've got crazy uncle.
Speaker 3: My uncle was a police officer and when I was
Speaker 3: years old, I went on a bust with him. My
Speaker 3: job was to sit in the back of his family
Speaker 3: van with a blanket over my head, filming on a camcorder.
Speaker 3: What yes in the service station parking lot as he
Speaker 3: bought chipped PlayStations in pirated games from people in the
Speaker 3: trading post. He was undercovered.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is like a movie Jess and I was twelve,
Speaker 1: but must have been so exciting.
Speaker 3: I was scared, scared. I was scared because I was
Speaker 3: really scared that the light on the cam quarter would
Speaker 3: be seen by one of these illegal pirtors.
Speaker 1: And where was this going on in Melbourne?
Speaker 3: This was in the eastern suburbs, Southeastern suburbs, so like
Speaker 3: Noble Park. Where else did we go? Dandy Noole?
Speaker 1: So do you did a whole day of this?
Speaker 3: Did a whole day of So he was posing undercover,
Speaker 3: posting as a regular person buying pirated PlayStation games.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that that was the big crime,
Speaker 1: you know, before ice came the city, simple simpler. I'm
Speaker 1: on the big one at the moment. This is like
Speaker 1: a Narcos perhaps you myself some.
Speaker 2: Crazy uncle Ken was a crazy driver so if you
Speaker 2: ever went he had this big, huge Fairmont car, and
Speaker 2: if you ever went in the car with him, Mum
Speaker 2: and dadd say, whatever you do, don't engage in a
Speaker 2: conversation with uncle Ken.
Speaker 1: Did they go, that's a fun uncle.
Speaker 3: What you meant to do, was aki, Whatever you do
Speaker 3: for your own safety, you do not talk to your.
Speaker 1: Speak to him. I was talking about Uncle Ken before.
Speaker 1: Do not speak to him or engage.
Speaker 2: It had this big front bench seat and he would
Speaker 2: put his arm, his left arm over the seat. But
Speaker 2: if you talk to him, he would take his eyes
Speaker 2: off the road and like look at you while he
Speaker 2: was driving.
Speaker 1: My seventy year old daughters has that at the moment
Speaker 1: you have ice forward.
Speaker 2: You just would and so you just would not talk
Speaker 2: at him. And then the other thing when he had
Speaker 2: big they lived in glen Roy and they had this
Speaker 2: massive long driveway, and so he'd back out, he'd reverse out,
Speaker 2: and if there was a car coming, he'd go all
Speaker 2: the way back into the garage again. So instead of
Speaker 2: just waiting sort of across you know, the sidewalk, well,
Speaker 2: he'd go all the way back up the driveway into
Speaker 2: the garage.
Speaker 1: Don't engage, and we're going to throw. We'll have a
Speaker 1: code now, we'll call it. Let's do an Uncle Ken here.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 2: It could take twenty minutes to get out of the driveway.
Speaker 1: I'm not engaging. Christian Connell Show podcast