Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 2: On a Friday, we'll always ask you the best question
Speaker 2: of the week, what time are you knocking off today?
Speaker 2: And then we want to know what is the highlight
Speaker 2: of your weekend? It is not called Friday, but see
Speaker 2: what is ahead of you this weekend.
Speaker 3: We've got a.
Speaker 4: Big weekend because we have my husband's side of the
Speaker 4: family's Christmas. Because the family is getting so big, we
Speaker 4: have a pre Christmas thing because they all do you know,
Speaker 4: they're all having the nieces and nephews have their own babies.
Speaker 3: Now, it's good to do pre Christmas because what ends
Speaker 3: up happening in our extended family is we do it
Speaker 3: in January. Oh no, we can't do it in February.
Speaker 3: By March April, we're finally having the Christmas Day.
Speaker 4: Getting it possible to find a weekend that everyone's free.
Speaker 4: But it'll be fun. So we go and do that
Speaker 4: and go and see all the Christmas lights up in
Speaker 4: Wangaratta in our hometown. So I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 4: it because we haven't seen them for so long because
Speaker 4: of lockdowns and stuff. We haven't been home all year.
Speaker 5: So wow, Yeah, we want to be really emotional for you. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm looking for Chris is really exciting. He is.
Speaker 4: And there's two babies which I've touched on before. Two
Speaker 4: new babies in the family were yet to meet, so
Speaker 4: I can't wait for a cuddle.
Speaker 5: Jackie boy, What are you up to this weekend? Bianca?
Speaker 3: My wife works at a great charity that does work
Speaker 3: with refugees in asylum seekers. They're doing a big market
Speaker 3: day tomorrow at their.
Speaker 5: New venue Spouce.
Speaker 3: Oh it's I should have had the address ready, but.
Speaker 5: Hang on a minute. So she works for it.
Speaker 2: She Jenny, works for an amazing charity. Right, they did
Speaker 2: all the similar stuff you're on the radio. Come on,
Speaker 2: she's growing your body.
Speaker 5: You're run right now.
Speaker 3: Everybody will know Clifton Hill Machers. It's pretty much next
Speaker 3: door to Clifton Hill Market.
Speaker 2: That's where you want to really plug. A farmer's market.
Speaker 2: All the most farmers market all trade on the fat.
Speaker 2: They're near to a macas.
Speaker 3: Smell the waft of the nuggets.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, you know you're there. Smell the grease for
Speaker 5: the Marcus.
Speaker 3: It used to be called Mosquito Bar, then it was
Speaker 3: the Skinny Elephant. Now it's their new free to feed venue.
Speaker 3: They're doing a big market day, great food down there.
Speaker 3: It starts at ten am tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Well done, well recovered, well recovered. He did good.
Speaker 2: The highlight of my weekends, probably some but to well Chris.
Speaker 2: We going through So mother in law flew over from
Speaker 2: the UK, not seeing her daughter and the granddaughters for
Speaker 2: two two long years. Wasn't sure if we'd all be
Speaker 2: together for Christmas. We now are. She's out of a
Speaker 2: seventy two hours quarantine. So tomorrow night, for the first
Speaker 2: time in two years, family dinner.
Speaker 5: Family.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds simple, right, but a family dinner
Speaker 2: when we haven't seen family for two years is a.
Speaker 5: Really big thing.
Speaker 2: The thing is, though, when when they all get together.
Speaker 2: So you got my wife, you got her mum, yep,
Speaker 2: and our two daughters. It's three generations are very powerful,
Speaker 2: spirited and I am none of those things. I got
Speaker 2: my eyes right, I'm on edge the whole time. It will,
Speaker 2: it will kick off. There's three How can it not.
Speaker 2: You've got three generations. They're like Russian dolls, the future
Speaker 2: of ladies, the former future of ladies. And then there's
Speaker 2: me sat there right, and here's what happens. It will
Speaker 2: kick off, It will kick off, right, and then I
Speaker 2: don't know whose side to go on?
Speaker 5: Right. The kids look at me like, grow a set, dad.
Speaker 5: My wife looks at me like grow a set. Mother
Speaker 5: in law that says like, please grow a set. Pick
Speaker 5: a side, coward.
Speaker 3: It's like going swimming in choppy waters. For years, there's
Speaker 3: just no relief.
Speaker 5: I even did the old Do you.
Speaker 2: Know what might be nice for you ladies to go
Speaker 2: out to my I do another one next week so
Speaker 2: they can just blow it out.
Speaker 5: Because two years there's gonna be stuff happening there.
Speaker 2: So if you feel a rumbling tomorrow night, it's not
Speaker 2: the earthquake, it's the O'Connor family din around about seven
Speaker 2: o'clock tom night in the Elwood area. But I cannot wait.
Speaker 2: That is actually what families are.
Speaker 5: It's the bickering. It's and then I know what, haven't
Speaker 5: they always bring up stuff from years ago? Don't they?
Speaker 2: Oh, gim with that time, Nana once we all had
Speaker 2: a family holder then when we first moved here with
Speaker 2: my mother or even Byron Bay and they all went
Speaker 2: to see a movie just in the afternoon, an innocent thing, right.
Speaker 2: This literally was the biggest argument that family's ever had.
Speaker 2: I picked them up at four o'clock in the afternoon
Speaker 2: on Saturday Sunday afternoon, Barron Bay and I was parked
Speaker 2: outside the cinema.
Speaker 5: They got in right and I said, how was the movie?
Speaker 5: And my mother in law were why don't you ask
Speaker 5: your children?
Speaker 2: And I pulled away, just wanted to just rolled out.
Speaker 3: How do you have an argument in a cinema?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And talk that's tomorrow family.
Speaker 2: Well, Christian Connell's show podcast, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 6: Good morning Christian, Jack and Patty.
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: Hey, mak we go excited about whatever's going to happen
Speaker 2: in hour's time.
Speaker 5: Mark, how are you? How's your week?
Speaker 6: It's been pretty good, pretty good?
Speaker 5: And Mark, we'll tell me you knocking off today, I.
Speaker 6: Hope at three o'clock. Got a lot of stuff to
Speaker 6: do tonight.
Speaker 5: What's going on? What's going on? Tell us Mark, it's the.
Speaker 6: Last birthday today. It was mine last week, so we've
Speaker 6: got a tapist party tonight, also some family and friends.
Speaker 5: Awesome, Well, I hope you have. And what have you
Speaker 5: got to do?
Speaker 6: I've already just made the marinaded lamb and caramelized on in.
Speaker 3: Fetta you're making all the tap angry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, making it all And then.
Speaker 2: I thought you going to a restaurant. Oh my word,
Speaker 2: you really have a lot of work.
Speaker 7: That is.
Speaker 2: Tapas is Spanish and it's such hard work prevents. That's
Speaker 2: why they sleep for most of the day, chopping.
Speaker 5: Up, marinate and that you can't do that whole day.
Speaker 2: You've got to rest, have a little snooze in the yes, Mark, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's why they do that.
Speaker 5: You need to see esther this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Mark, you boy, Well, I hope it goes well, buddy, Okay,
Speaker 2: hope your wife has a great birthday.
Speaker 6: Well done.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: Knock Off Friday.
Speaker 2: What time do you knock off today and what's the
Speaker 2: highlight of your weekend? Eloise, good morning, Good morning, Heloise.
Speaker 2: Will tell me knocking off today?
Speaker 8: Oh, I reckon about three point thirty. And then I've
Speaker 8: got a bunch of nurse friends that we're all going
Speaker 8: to go to the curlers driving around and hit some
Speaker 8: balls and have some fun and have some drinks.
Speaker 5: Awesome, awesome. And so is that your work together?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we teach in the School of Medicine at Dacon.
Speaker 7: Together oh, good on you.
Speaker 5: Great, we'll have a fantastic stick girls like else? And
Speaker 5: where's this? Where are you going?
Speaker 8: So it's the Curlewis Driving Range, So we're down on
Speaker 8: the coast. So it's actually at Curlewis. So down the
Speaker 8: ocean grove down that way.
Speaker 2: Beautiful down there, ocean grown a couple of which times
Speaker 2: and friends of ours have moved to Barwin Heads. Lovely
Speaker 2: around there, beautiful windows. And Luise, have a great Friday
Speaker 2: night with your mates.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you will do.
Speaker 5: Let's go to Dan.
Speaker 2: Good morning Dan, Danny, Danny, Good morning, Hello Dan, Dan.
Speaker 5: What's have we not going have today? Three o'clock, three o'clock?
Speaker 5: And then what happens?
Speaker 8: I'm going to my first have a baby shower on
Speaker 8: the weekend?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 5: Okay? And who's a baby?
Speaker 6: A girl from work?
Speaker 5: Awesome, Patsy, what happens at a baby shower?
Speaker 4: All sorts of shenanigans?
Speaker 2: Yes, whatever, right, there's always booze involved with their mates
Speaker 2: about the baby. Oh, shenanigans, gambling fights.
Speaker 3: That's what the new magic mark is about.
Speaker 8: She'll give you some tips. Yeah, well, once I go,
Speaker 8: I'll call you back and give you some tips.
Speaker 7: The next year.
Speaker 4: All right, okay, yes, we need to give you one jack.
Speaker 5: What happens. I've never been to a baby show. It's
Speaker 5: just for ladies only.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's a bit like a hen's party.
Speaker 4: You play games, all right.
Speaker 7: Thank you, part good morning, Yes, good morning Christians, a
Speaker 7: big pat the big Big Toe Club.
Speaker 2: Hell you, hey, buddy, good to hear from you. And
Speaker 2: tonally knocking off today?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I drive a truck. I'm knocking off at
Speaker 7: twelve o'clock today because my granddaughter is getting christened at
Speaker 7: the Russian Orthodox Church this afternoon, and I get to
Speaker 7: see my mother. She's coming down from Seymour for the
Speaker 7: first time in twelve months. And I hope she doesn't
Speaker 7: bring the lader houses.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Germans, Well they're not Russians. But anyway, let's go with it.
Speaker 2: Pers hit from you again, all right, buddy, when listen,
Speaker 2: have a lovely family afternoon. Okay, but it's lovely going
Speaker 2: to be seeing your mom today.
Speaker 7: Yes, will by, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas
Speaker 7: to you as all next year.
Speaker 5: All rights back next year? Sound a threat?
Speaker 6: Is this?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Sarah?
Speaker 7: Good morning, Christian. How are you I'm going Sarah, how
Speaker 7: are you I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm actually got my partner's birthday Sunday and we're going
Speaker 1: bowling and out to or you can eat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and what are you what's the all you can eat.
Speaker 8: Seafood?
Speaker 2: Seafood, isn't it? It's the bowling first.
Speaker 6: Yeah, bowling then dinner.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're trying to pick up those ten twelve kables
Speaker 2: and the prawns in your tongue.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling a bit seafood. Well, that sounds an amazing birthday.
Speaker 5: You're a great day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I hope so you will?
Speaker 5: You will?
Speaker 2: It would be great fun, all right, Sarah. Hope you
Speaker 2: enjoy and hurt your part and joys of birthdays are
Speaker 2: on the bowling.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Christian Chris, Hello, Chris On, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to the radio show.
Speaker 5: You know, thank you mainly my end, Chris. How about you?
Speaker 5: What you knocking off?
Speaker 3: I'll probably knock off about four o'clock today.
Speaker 1: After all the rain and everything yesterday, we can't really
Speaker 1: do all of a lot with our with our works.
Speaker 1: I'll probably knock off about four o'clock to finish the weekend.
Speaker 5: What do you mean with all the rain we had?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: You know, yes, what's going on? In the world. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to finish the day.
Speaker 6: I'll work for a garden supplies mob.
Speaker 1: So pretty much like if we can't deliver to a
Speaker 1: lot of the landscape of groups because it's.
Speaker 2: Too well all right, yeah, yeah whatever today BEARNIFL studied
Speaker 2: out there, get working, knocking off early, just be honest
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 5: Blame the weather.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have to finish show half Aye today
Speaker 2: because that rain the other week.
Speaker 5: How about that? All right, Chris, I have a good weekend.
Speaker 5: A brighter note.
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