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Speaker 1: A stunning looking morning. It's gonna be warm today, Pats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be beautiful and sunny today. We're
Speaker 3: going for a top of beer with me while I
Speaker 3: go through. I know it's thirty one tomorrow and I
Speaker 3: think today is twenty five, but let me double check that.
Speaker 1: Listen ready for the show as head of news, have
Speaker 1: all the news ready.
Speaker 4: It's actually is.
Speaker 1: It's buried under in a handbag somewhere.
Speaker 4: And my lipstick under my bits of paper.
Speaker 1: He's on a different tap to the team won.
Speaker 3: Mostly Sunday twenty two, the same tomorrow, but thirty one tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh so summer finally here now, finally here about time.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we finally closed the door on our family home
Speaker 1: since we moved to Australia. Big moment for my wife
Speaker 1: and I when you're suddenly confronted with just a shell.
Speaker 1: It's just a shell, and suddenly your voices already echo
Speaker 1: as well because there's no furniture. There's literally nothing there.
Speaker 1: By the way, my wife said, must have said twenty times,
Speaker 1: you don't need to go and check in all the
Speaker 1: drawers and stuff like that. I've been through this house
Speaker 1: a million times. I found a drawer with all of
Speaker 1: our passports. Oh no, so they buy the house and
Speaker 1: our identities, Sarah, what about this lower draw It's the
Speaker 1: same in every hotel we ever stay in. Christ You
Speaker 1: don't need to check all the drawers. It's always that
Speaker 1: lower one. Phone charges in here. Yeah, all of our passports,
Speaker 1: medicaire cards. It was like we were spies. We were
Speaker 1: burning it, all your identities with the new house.
Speaker 4: Oh lucky that you were there, Christian.
Speaker 1: So as we were closed the door and sticking about
Speaker 1: this family home, you know, that's been our home since
Speaker 1: we moved here seven years ago. So much, you know,
Speaker 1: might not sound like a lot for a family home
Speaker 1: to be their seven years, but when you think about
Speaker 1: when we moved here, my daughters were just about to
Speaker 1: become teenagers. They're now nineteen and twenty one. They don't
Speaker 1: live at home with us anymore, they're at university. And
Speaker 1: then there's the two years that everybody lost in Melbourne
Speaker 1: with lockdown as well. A lot has happened in this house.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, as we're saying goodbye to our wife,
Speaker 1: wasn't really really emotional, so I thought, she needs a
Speaker 1: cheering up, she needs a premium steak dinner.
Speaker 4: Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1: I treat my lady right, which is why I've booked
Speaker 1: as a table at Squire's Loft.
Speaker 4: Oh gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's steak and what they also do. Alex,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever had the honor yet
Speaker 1: since you moved here to go, you've got to get
Speaker 1: that change. You've got to go to Squire's Loft. There's
Speaker 1: something old school about it. Put it this way, right,
Speaker 1: They had a side of a jack of potato. I've
Speaker 1: not seen that on a menu in many, many years,
Speaker 1: right since the nineties. I had a ribby steak and
Speaker 1: side instead of a salad of a jacket potato. Yes, drown,
Speaker 1: but oh my god, this incredible old school mushroom sauce
Speaker 1: in one of those silver school canteen boaty things. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 4: It was so good in chips on the side.
Speaker 1: No, the jack of potato was a proper jacket potato.
Speaker 1: Pat You can't double up with cabs? What's up with
Speaker 1: this guy? What do you want to do? Blow up
Speaker 1: for Christmas? And chips? Two jack of potatoes.
Speaker 3: When the state came. Did have all those beautiful criss
Speaker 3: crosses on it.
Speaker 4: Yes, looked from the grill.
Speaker 1: Yes, the lattice affects you has quite an art. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was so good. Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: proper old school places this. When I was booking it online,
Speaker 1: you had to agree sort of check the terms conditions.
Speaker 1: We do not allow split tips and good someone has
Speaker 1: kicked off there. They've had too many bogans fighting there
Speaker 1: over the over a split menu of the split bill
Speaker 1: with it to have that in the tees and seas
Speaker 1: says that this is a thing. Also, everybody else that
Speaker 1: was there last night Wednesday night Christmas parties, of course
Speaker 1: it was full of like long tables and some dull
Speaker 1: guy getting up obviously the boss doing these speeches that
Speaker 1: no one was listening to. Oh my god, it was
Speaker 1: so good. Now, one thing in the move at the
Speaker 1: moment this week I'm worried about is obviously our life
Speaker 1: is this couple boxes and counsel. At the moment, I
Speaker 1: have forgotten where I'm worried that I've actually lost in
Speaker 1: the move. The Christmas presents. You know, I think most
Speaker 1: of us have a go to place. Don't we are
Speaker 1: hiding place. Yes, I don't know that we've only you
Speaker 1: know it's only our third night in the new place.
Speaker 1: Last night, I don't know the new hiding place. I
Speaker 1: don't even know where the presents are. They're so well hidden.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they are. Where do you hide
Speaker 1: the bets?
Speaker 4: I do it all the time.
Speaker 3: At the moment, I have got them in the car
Speaker 3: boot because I'll tell you why, Because Chris and Audrey
Speaker 3: always sniffed them out, and so I thought they'll never
Speaker 3: look in the car boot. And I am notorious for
Speaker 3: doing that as well. Where I will hide a present,
Speaker 3: where I will you know no one will find it.
Speaker 3: I'll know exactly where it is, only I forget where
Speaker 3: it is. I found an old rocking horse that we'd
Speaker 3: got for Audrey when she was about eighteen months old,
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you, in a car boot up in
Speaker 3: the roof space and that's creasey. She was like eight
Speaker 3: or nine at the time. And I thought, oh, that's right,
Speaker 3: we got her a rocking horse that Christmas. She never
Speaker 3: got it because you.
Speaker 1: Forgot about a misplaced and in time, those rocky horses
Speaker 1: are huge.
Speaker 3: Totally forgot about it, this beautiful handmade rocking horse that
Speaker 3: we got at this sort of bespoke market when she
Speaker 3: was little.
Speaker 4: I thought, oh, I sure love that. Totally forgot we
Speaker 4: had it, found it up in the roof space.
Speaker 1: Did you give it to her now?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, I got it.
Speaker 1: Teenagers do not want They would probably still light the
Speaker 1: rocking horse, but they won't be want to be seen
Speaker 1: to asking for a rocking horse.
Speaker 4: No, but I do it all the time.
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to put in a really safe
Speaker 3: space so I don't lose it, but inevitably I totally forget.
Speaker 1: Where are Yeah, I'm still waying from a Christmas present
Speaker 1: that my wife has had hidden for three years. And
Speaker 1: as we were leaving the house last night, I went,
Speaker 1: at some point, when they move in, they're going to
Speaker 1: find that shirt you got me three years ago that
Speaker 1: I've never ever had.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian, where do I hide the Christmas presents? I have
Speaker 1: a fake hamper with dirty clothes. I bury the presence
Speaker 1: under the dirty clothes. Safe. Bet the kids will never
Speaker 1: go anywhere near it. Then that's genius. They're never gonna
Speaker 1: hampty that wash them Christian. My mate hid all the
Speaker 1: presents in his car boots like Patsy did his car
Speaker 1: got stolen.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me that.
Speaker 1: I kissed a guy who started good a Christmas bonus, Christian.
Speaker 1: My dad used to hide the Christmas presents at the
Speaker 1: top of his cupboard. Once we figured out, he said, well,
Speaker 1: if you want to ruin the surprise, go for it.
Speaker 1: I'm not finding another place. That's a proper old school dad,
Speaker 1: isn't it where they just worked out what's the least
Speaker 1: amount of effort I could put into being a dad.
Speaker 1: I chat to my dad now and I can see
Speaker 1: him judging me, like, oh, you know, I'm worried about this,
Speaker 1: and I'm doing this for the girls and I'm worried
Speaker 1: about that. I can see him just thinking, you're doing
Speaker 1: it all right. So, Dad, I think you were a
Speaker 1: dad like in the eighties when it was the easiest
Speaker 1: time to be a dad. Yes, literally the bare minimum minimum.
Speaker 1: It was constantly go and talk to you mum about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, go and ask your mum about that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever even asked my dad to
Speaker 1: help with homework or any school projects, because it would
Speaker 1: have been odd.
Speaker 3: You know Dad's now, it's so beautiful, how how involved
Speaker 3: dads are.
Speaker 1: And it's not because you want to be involved. That's
Speaker 1: why you have kids is to enjoy. You know, there's
Speaker 1: so much pressure on parents that to be the perfect parent.
Speaker 1: The most important thing is to enjoy having kids.
Speaker 6: That's why you bought in books and then through the
Speaker 6: rest of Christmas Day you just sit there reading books
Speaker 6: all afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yes, do something. Now, what have you done about Hardy
Speaker 1: because you got three young kids? Yes, Christian, So what
Speaker 1: are you doing about the presents? Have you got them yet?
Speaker 1: You've got you all the present sorted.
Speaker 6: I'm getting touchy, I'm getting stressed, I'm getting nervous.
Speaker 1: I went in yesterday.
Speaker 6: I said, Bonnie, We've got to buy some of these
Speaker 6: presents for these kids. He's like, no, no, no, why
Speaker 6: aren't we just waiting to we get up to newcast
Speaker 6: It all just north of Sydney, which is where we're
Speaker 6: going to be spending Christmas, and we'll buy the presents there.
Speaker 6: And I'm thinking, hang on, we're going to be spending
Speaker 6: a day or two just before Christmas fighting the stress
Speaker 6: and all the people.
Speaker 1: That's a recipe for recipe for disaster those shops are
Speaker 1: just heaving as well. Most of the stuff is gone.
Speaker 6: I know we're getting up there on like the twenty
Speaker 6: the twenty first of December, so.
Speaker 1: I'm getting anxious now anxiety.
Speaker 6: It was this Alfred Hitchcock moment, you know, when the
Speaker 6: camera sort of out. You know, it's like, no, are
Speaker 6: we really doing this because we can't take all the
Speaker 6: presents in the car.
Speaker 1: If we do buy them now, you go get one
Speaker 1: of those U haul things maybe attached them to a
Speaker 1: roof with a tiny bit of rope.
Speaker 6: We have one of those pod things, but that's back
Speaker 6: in Sydney. We're all over the shop, so we're going
Speaker 6: to have to wait till we get up there to
Speaker 6: buy the bulk of the presence. So just good luck
Speaker 6: to me all it is.
Speaker 1: Also it's queuing for all the by the way, what
Speaker 1: a great thing is of the last couple years where
Speaker 1: they go do you want me to give for up?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 1: It's always yes, isn't it? Yeah? Who says no?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, They do it so beautifully done.
Speaker 4: A lot of them too.
Speaker 3: It's great because our local plaza they've got the Salvos
Speaker 3: that do it each year.
Speaker 4: So you feel like you're.
Speaker 1: Also supporting a good courses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like gold coin donation and they do it
Speaker 3: beautifully for you.
Speaker 1: What I love about when they do the gift upright,
Speaker 1: so they wrap it perfectly and they do this thing
Speaker 1: with the ribbon. I don't know how they do it
Speaker 1: where they get something and they they can make it
Speaker 1: curl up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you get the scissors, and how do people
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 1: Who teaches someone to do that? Oh?
Speaker 4: It's easy.
Speaker 3: You just like run it like you get It's the
Speaker 3: way you hold your hand and you just like to
Speaker 3: do something.
Speaker 1: With one of the blades of the scissors where they
Speaker 1: and it then coils up beautifully. There were certain skills
Speaker 1: in life where I'm always like, who told you to
Speaker 1: do that? It's like when I first met my wife
Speaker 1: and suddenly she would come out of the shower and
Speaker 1: she would do this thing with a towel on her
Speaker 1: head where it was like a couple of twelves and
Speaker 1: so that that instant kind of thing on top of
Speaker 1: a lady's head, and I'm like, how, what where do
Speaker 1: you learn how to do that?
Speaker 4: This magic?
Speaker 6: I've tried that with my girls and that's it's impossible.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 1: No, no, we don't know. We don't have the right DNA.
Speaker 1: It's like a secret lady, a gami thing. All right,
Speaker 1: coming there, let me know where DoD you hide your
Speaker 1: Christmas presents?
Speaker 2: The Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1: Go on into Judy Christian. I remember nearly fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: rummaging through my mum and Dann's room searching for what
Speaker 1: I might be going for Christmas. I was tough to
Speaker 1: find a set of jacks, yes, and give my age away.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't know what they are now. I used
Speaker 1: to play with Jack's Jackson, the rubber ball, those metallic
Speaker 1: things worsens are standing on a up some piece of
Speaker 1: lego was standing on some jacks. Do kids even play
Speaker 1: Jackson anymore?
Speaker 3: My grandmother used to keep wasn't the bone, like the
Speaker 3: real bone, proper bone out of the chicken to play Jackson.
Speaker 3: She'd wash it and put it on a window seal
Speaker 3: to dry it. That's how we had Jack's for the
Speaker 3: sheep's knuckle him something in the chook as well.
Speaker 2: Someone might know.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so we didn't.
Speaker 3: Have bought jacks with boats, Yeah, I know, like real.
Speaker 4: Off the farm.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And you'd go around there and she'd have,
Speaker 3: you know, she'd done two or three roast chooks or something,
Speaker 3: and you'd think, oh, yes, the more jacks, and they'd
Speaker 3: be on the windows.
Speaker 1: Bone jacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure it was out of the chuck.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have to google. Can you still
Speaker 1: buy jacks? Are they still those metallic ones? It used
Speaker 1: to come like a set of like a load of them,
Speaker 1: didn't they with the with the rubber ball? I bet
Speaker 1: kids aren't playing Jackson? Can you ever look online? Are
Speaker 1: jacks still available? The metallic ones? I don't want any
Speaker 1: plastic rubbish.
Speaker 7: I've got the plastic ones which I'm used to. They
Speaker 7: are available at Big w for nine ninety five.
Speaker 1: They're still being sold. She says, there's still a demand
Speaker 1: for good old school jacks. Used to play all these
Speaker 1: games with them. I'm pretty sure one was called the
Speaker 1: Pig and the Pen.
Speaker 4: Oh remember that Jack's from the.
Speaker 1: Rooftop made all that happen, Christian. I have my presence
Speaker 1: in the kids linen cub day. Never go in there,
Speaker 1: Alex shop online, click and collect when you get to newcast.
Speaker 1: That's a idea. There you go, Michelle, Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: for that, Christian, I would say no to wrapping if
Speaker 1: it was Roan Atkinson doing it like in love. Actually see, actually,
Speaker 1: well he's clearly never done it, Christian. The beauty being
Speaker 1: a trade in the toolbox, we have our own hidden
Speaker 1: compartments and sections that you can put deliveries to protect
Speaker 1: the gifts in. Christian. Speaking of Christmas, did you know
Speaker 1: today is the most common day of the year for
Speaker 1: couples to split up?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Really, I didn't know that. It's known as breakup days?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, wow?
Speaker 1: Why now because it's Christmas?
Speaker 6: Pressures?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a stresses I could.
Speaker 1: Understand if it was like the twentieth twenty first twenty second,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're really up against it and suddenly go,
Speaker 1: you did get that full of gifts. That's the main problem.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's do some of your emails. We call this
Speaker 1: a late to the party hype lames the parts of
Speaker 1: your home for your emails. Christian at Christian O'Connell dot
Speaker 1: com dot au. Marie's got a story about half in
Speaker 1: and half out that we're talking about this week. Christian,
Speaker 1: I remember the time I got stuck half in half out.
Speaker 1: I was hanging some washing out and immediately locked myself
Speaker 1: out keys inside. I figured i'd climb through through a window.
Speaker 1: Whilst attemptingness, I stood on an ail sticking out the board.
Speaker 1: When I checked my foot, I managed to step straight
Speaker 1: into dog oo. I'm now angry, swearing I'd try to
Speaker 1: pry open the kitchen window. I got it open, but
Speaker 1: apparently shoes with dog peel on them are incredibly slippery
Speaker 1: on the kitchen sink. I ended up half doing the
Speaker 1: splits before giving up and climbing back out. Still stuck
Speaker 1: outside plan B, I found a long pole and managed
Speaker 1: to gel breakstyle reach across the kitchen to hook my
Speaker 1: car keys. By the way, there was a whole sp
Speaker 1: in London of crimes where people would put a long
Speaker 1: pole with a hook at the end of it through
Speaker 1: your letterbox, because you know, you'll just dump your keys
Speaker 1: on the sideboard by the door and then hike them
Speaker 1: on like it's like a fairground game, and then retract
Speaker 1: back across front door and out through the letterbox. Only
Speaker 1: about this once when the police were at my door
Speaker 1: and they were going around our neighborhood right door to
Speaker 1: door telling people not to leave their keys out the
Speaker 1: side because these hooking game gangs and shook gans sing
Speaker 1: out of Charles Sticker's movie Wondering the Streets were a
Speaker 1: long six rup pole with the nail at the end
Speaker 1: of it. So anyway, I said, I don't, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a thing, and they were like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: So we'd like to demonstrate to you right now, close
Speaker 1: your door where do you normally leave your keys? So
Speaker 1: now I'm in this strange scenario. There are two police
Speaker 1: officers constables right at the met police peering through my
Speaker 1: letterbox talking to me. I'm positioning where I normally used
Speaker 1: to dump my keys. They then get a pole and
Speaker 1: reenact what this crime would be. They managed to steal
Speaker 1: my car keys to police officers while we react to
Speaker 1: what might happen. Anyway, back to plan and Marie found
Speaker 1: a long pole mass to jawl brak star reach goss
Speaker 1: the kitchen to hit my car keys. Thankfully had the
Speaker 1: house kid hatch success and made it back in with
Speaker 1: dog poo still on my shoes, dog poo on the sink,
Speaker 1: a hole in my foot, and a strained groin from
Speaker 1: almost two in the splits. Marie great, I know that
Speaker 1: smell you never ever, But do you get rid of
Speaker 1: the did and those shoes? You can clean them all
Speaker 1: you want, You clean them all they want. You still
Speaker 1: smell that rancid smell. These shoes has gotta go. I
Speaker 1: love these shoes. They've been tainted forever with dog poo.
Speaker 6: You wash your hands about five times, scrubs and nails
Speaker 6: with that nail brush.
Speaker 1: You talk about old school things, do they still exist?
Speaker 1: The ancient game of jacks? And also nail brushes? Should
Speaker 1: we go around it? And Grandad's always had that nail
Speaker 1: brush next to a bar of soap. I come in
Speaker 1: the last way I saw a neil brush. Christian. Two
Speaker 1: years into our marriage, I changed up my routine and
Speaker 1: left the house at four am for the gym every morning.
Speaker 1: For one week, I noticed that the front door was
Speaker 1: always unlocked. I finally asked my husband why he was
Speaker 1: the door never locked. He looked at me and said, oh,
Speaker 1: my dad does that what I said, confused because we
Speaker 1: never ever lived with his tad and my husband hadn't
Speaker 1: lived at home for five years before we met. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the light bulb went off at my
Speaker 1: husband's head and realized that it has now become his responsibility,
Speaker 1: and he'd not been locking the door since we got
Speaker 1: married for five years.
Speaker 4: Oh there's something really sweet about that.
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't locking the door. Its the guy's job
Speaker 1: to cure the perimeters like he's dead, always did it
Speaker 1: is a grown man relaxt that's from Marie and Steve
Speaker 1: is over the last color week has been writing a
Speaker 1: poem about the previous week's shows. Here's his last one
Speaker 1: of the year from Steve. Steve, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for doing this. If you dig Patsy's car and he
Speaker 1: don't leave a note, be very concerned because she can
Speaker 1: be cut throat. What you have stepped on is the
Speaker 1: name of the game. There were lower leg injury to
Speaker 1: Granny Smith or was to blame in partner patrol. You
Speaker 1: can remain incognito about habits that annoy more than any mosquito.
Speaker 1: The second ashes t at the gabbarism must with added
Speaker 1: ear war with added earworm and other pom bites of dust.
Speaker 1: It seems both Gary and Barry live at North Pole.
Speaker 1: Perhaps Santa needs to exercise more self control. Or by
Speaker 1: the way, Reo is off sick today, so get ready
Speaker 1: for a new clause member Shazzar clause.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no thing.
Speaker 1: You got to know that Barry has a sister, a
Speaker 1: Bogan sister, So shaz A clause is going to be
Speaker 1: on the show in five minutes time. Seven years, Christian
Speaker 1: have flown by so many stories to tell with an
Speaker 1: exceptional team led by Christian O'Connell. Next year the show
Speaker 1: will be heard all across our nation. Gold of Fame
Speaker 1: will become the most beloved station. Steve, as always, you
Speaker 1: got an email or story for the show. Yes, we
Speaker 1: are on the last two shows of the year, but
Speaker 1: us my inbox will still be wide open over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Always Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com.
Speaker 2: Today you the Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to ten days of ian esmus every single day.
Speaker 1: We have a big prize thanks to Ian s and
Speaker 1: higher upgrading to your kitchen, bathroom and laundry before the
Speaker 1: festive season. Now some of you might not know this,
Speaker 1: but Santa has a Bogan brother called Barry Claus.
Speaker 3: Far reclauses come in at down Fair reclauses come.
Speaker 2: In a test.
Speaker 4: He's making a list You's truckers.
Speaker 8: With gifts like washers and dries and a bloody beef
Speaker 8: fridge fair re Clauses come in at down stopping at
Speaker 8: the Pub of the Crown.
Speaker 1: Barry Colaus is coming to town. Well this morning, Barry
Speaker 1: Clauses not coming to town. It was the Christmas do
Speaker 1: last night at the Grotto and Sandy Barry hit the
Speaker 1: shots and the taquita shots too hard. He's a little unwell.
Speaker 1: He's nursing a barocca right now. But there's another family
Speaker 1: member who is available who's more hardcore, and that is
Speaker 1: the bogan's sister that Santa has. Yeah, he might have
Speaker 1: heard about her, Shasar Clause. Who is on the line now, Shaza.
Speaker 8: Hy Chrissa Elia.
Speaker 1: It's great to speak to Shazzar Clause. So nice.
Speaker 8: I've got the call up this morning, a bloody stoke.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And were you at the works do last night
Speaker 1: at the Grotto? What were you drinking?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: I went, I went early and I had a couple
Speaker 8: of lemmies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the lumbriscos, lovely classy.
Speaker 8: They were a delight. And then I saw Barry getting
Speaker 8: a bit up and about, so I thought I'll leave,
Speaker 8: I'll go home. I had to do my beauty routine,
Speaker 8: and so I did that, and then I went to
Speaker 8: bed nice and early because I thought maybe I might
Speaker 8: be needed today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and did you watch a movie last night?
Speaker 8: Yeah? As I got home because I had a few lemmies,
Speaker 8: I was like, oh, am, I getting to the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 8: But you wouldn't guess what I watched because you wouldn't
Speaker 8: think of it as a classic Christmas movie. It's but
Speaker 8: it's Christmas themed. I watched my favorite girl, Sandra Bullock
Speaker 8: in while you were sleeping.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh you're right. I wouldn't really think that
Speaker 1: is a classid Christmas movie whatsoever, shaz.
Speaker 8: No, Well, it's a rom com and I love my
Speaker 8: rom com and it's said a Christmas time. So Sandy
Speaker 8: b she falls in love with this bloke, he ends up.
Speaker 1: You know, isn't that every movie she's in, apart from
Speaker 1: that one in Space.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 8: But he has a coma and then she falls in
Speaker 8: love with the brother while he's in a coma. Anyway,
Speaker 8: it's all a Christmas time and they have Christmas dinners
Speaker 8: and anyway.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's about a Christmas coma.
Speaker 8: Correct Christmas time.
Speaker 1: Okay, God, Jason, now listen, shassy clause, as we try
Speaker 1: and get you back on track. Shazick Obrio's back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Shazow clause. What's the price? What's the prize today?
Speaker 8: It is a cracker. It's a higher five hundred.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you got some run with your
Speaker 1: sinuses because you sound like participating. It's going to bang
Speaker 1: that sinuses at the moment you got fat.
Speaker 8: No, no, that's just a natural voice. And I've just
Speaker 8: done a bit, you know up here up there.
Speaker 1: In North Pole. Yeah, some foss up the old cyprusis. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's very might just sell like a real nazy sort
Speaker 1: of young brat or something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, but that's just it all year round.
Speaker 7: What a joy?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, that price, what is it anyway?
Speaker 8: Yes, so it's a quadant door fridge. It's valued over
Speaker 8: two thousand dollars and the best thing about it is
Speaker 8: it can actually stuck up to four hundred bottles of Lambrushco.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we told these responsibly. You actually counted
Speaker 1: out find it hundred bottles of Lambrisco or stacked in there,
Speaker 1: rip out the salad draws.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Before I left the Christmas party last night was like,
Speaker 8: oh go and check it out. So I popped all
Speaker 8: the bottles that were ready for all the other lady
Speaker 8: four hundreds fit.
Speaker 2: It in there.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. And I know you loved wine from a box,
Speaker 1: don't you. Yes, absolutely, card Bordeu as you call it
Speaker 1: card Bordeaux.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And then at the end of the night, I
Speaker 8: just blow it up and I use it as a pillow.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, tell you what, Shusy, you're all car, Sharon,
Speaker 1: You're all car all right? So calling now? Then lines
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Speaker 2: The Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1: Good Morning Christian, Good morning Martin. The original jacks game Christian,
Speaker 1: also known as knucklebones or five stones, was made from
Speaker 1: natural materials, most commonly the ankle bone of a sheep
Speaker 1: or goat. That's why you're might have been using the bones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're on a farm, they had sheep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, knuckles, you know, Yeah, knuckles you used to get
Speaker 6: and you'll have a sheep knuckle. And I was like,
Speaker 6: that's weird, but no, it's normal.
Speaker 1: His these days would never have any idea about what
Speaker 1: basic games we would play actually for hours. I still
Speaker 1: love playing jacks for hours. All right, So guys, we
Speaker 1: can't meet his chatting. We got shazy clause on the
Speaker 1: line at the North Pole. Reclauses come in, he's sick.
Speaker 1: Reclauses come in, all right, Shaza clause. Santa's bogan sister
Speaker 1: is on the line giving you a brand new fridge
Speaker 1: thanks to higher and ian es. Shazo, you're still there?
Speaker 8: Get a yes, Christian, I'm still here. I've just had
Speaker 8: my big bricky and I'm ready.
Speaker 1: In a roll. Yeah. How many week bigs do you have? Shaza?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: Easy?
Speaker 10: Four to five a day.
Speaker 1: I reckon wow w and you out on the jet
Speaker 1: ski later today I will be.
Speaker 8: Absolutely I think the North Pole is cold. That you
Speaker 8: are incorrect. We get out whether it's rain, hale.
Speaker 1: Or short lovely stuff. Okay, so today start probably shaz
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 8: Higher five hundred and eight liters black quad door three
Speaker 8: just valued over two k Christian, which is a rip
Speaker 8: up bit more than my jetekee.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get ash on now.
Speaker 10: Good morning ash, Good morning, Good morning Shazar, Good morning Christian.
Speaker 9: Morning.
Speaker 10: Now I'm desperate for a new fridge.
Speaker 1: What's the situation, what's happening, what's going on at home?
Speaker 10: Not only to store my lambusko, I need a nice
Speaker 10: place for that. However, yesterday, my poor kids, I've been
Speaker 10: blaming them. I have a very old, old, hand me
Speaker 10: down fridge. Turns out the seal was broken and it
Speaker 10: was starting to break than yesterday I got. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: got home from work and the place was like the
Speaker 10: bio hazards. So the fridge was given up. It's gone
Speaker 10: for holidays. Now I don't have a fridge, and I'm hosting.
Speaker 5: Christmas here in two weeks.
Speaker 10: So I have people that live with me. I have
Speaker 10: I look after my elderly grandparents. And we're Italian, so
Speaker 10: I've got the Italian Christmas.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, there's Christmas and then there's Christmas plus that's right.
Speaker 10: So currently have an eski and.
Speaker 1: I'm happy one. Then they walk it up at Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's on, it's big, it's she really is, yes, and
Speaker 1: I have no fridge, So what are using at the
Speaker 1: moment and yes, oh you poor thing. I mean kets
Speaker 1: have you got as well?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, hey listen, that's it we're putting all together. You
Speaker 1: are today's winner.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: You've got the brand new mega fridge, fod or so
Speaker 1: much Italian Christmas in there, but the old folks in
Speaker 1: it chill them out on Christmas Day they get the overheat.
Speaker 10: Thank you so much. And also pass on my love
Speaker 10: to Darry as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he's nicely very King's ice hangover at the moment,
Speaker 1: just went big at the grotto works to last night.
Speaker 1: You hate to see it on a young lad like that.
Speaker 1: I really do you do? You're still on the line.
Speaker 1: I thought we'd faded you down. Ash. Have a lovely
Speaker 1: Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 10: Okay, thank you so much, you too.
Speaker 1: I really hope berries back Tomorrow We'll start with Shazza
Speaker 1: clause bon Jovi Now last big prize to be one
Speaker 1: tomorrow on the show.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Do we know Have they cleaned up the offel on
Speaker 1: the West skate? That was the first thought I had
Speaker 1: this morning. Did they clean up all the offul on
Speaker 1: the West skate? Those are my waking thoughts today. All right,
Speaker 1: So we're going to do this the next half an hour.
Speaker 1: And it's I think something you'll enjoy doing this. I'm
Speaker 1: asking you to tell me about the story of your
Speaker 1: year in six words. Now. The reason why it's six
Speaker 1: years six words is it actually Hemingway, so that you
Speaker 1: can tell a great story. You don't need to write
Speaker 1: a great, big novel. You can tell a story in
Speaker 1: just six words. So this year, when you think about
Speaker 1: what's happened in your life, in our lives, in any year,
Speaker 1: there's so much change that goes on. There's so much joy,
Speaker 1: there's so much happiness, there's so much regret, there so
Speaker 1: much loss, all of it. What it is to be alive,
Speaker 1: us human, gloriously messily human. So I have a think
Speaker 1: about your year, and how would you tell me the
Speaker 1: story of it in six words? So to give you
Speaker 1: an example for me, I was thinking about this last night.
Speaker 1: How would I sum up this year another year of
Speaker 1: extraordinary just change in my life at home and at work?
Speaker 1: And I was thinking yesterday evening my wife and I
Speaker 1: closed the door, literally closed the door, and it felt
Speaker 1: like the closing of a not a chapter in our lives,
Speaker 1: but an entire book of our lives on our family
Speaker 1: home that we've had since we moved to Australia seven
Speaker 1: years ago. And obviously when we moved here, both of
Speaker 1: our daughters were on the cast. We're becoming teenagers. They're
Speaker 1: now nineteen and twenty one. They don't live at home anymore.
Speaker 1: We've sold the family home. We've downside. We moved out.
Speaker 1: Last night was the last night I closed the door.
Speaker 1: My wife was getting emotional. She said, Chris, I can't
Speaker 1: better close the loor. Can you close the door? And
Speaker 1: gon to go and wait in the car. I looked
Speaker 1: into that house and it was like at a museum.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a home anymore. It was like, this isn't
Speaker 1: a home anymore. Now this is somebody else's home. I
Speaker 1: felt like I needed to get out of here. And
Speaker 1: actually the new people they move in to that at
Speaker 1: midday and they've got young kids, they've already picked out
Speaker 1: the bedrooms and it feels like it's already moving on.
Speaker 1: So how would I describe this year for me? This
Speaker 1: year it'll be the leaving year and the growing year.
Speaker 1: Both of those things are in our lives, aren't they?
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like Jack at work leaving the show.
Speaker 1: Not the year I thought we were going to get
Speaker 1: this year on the show, nowhere near it. But Jack
Speaker 1: suddenly left the show and with all my love as well,
Speaker 1: and I wish him all the best. But Jack suddenly
Speaker 1: left in the middle of this year. But with that,
Speaker 1: leaving our youngest daughter and leaving home as well, tremendous
Speaker 1: growth as well. The show has changed Jack I hired.
Speaker 1: You know, when I start the show seven years ago,
Speaker 1: it's me Jack and Bats. Him leaving suddenly this year
Speaker 1: was a really big thing. I wanted, how were we're
Speaker 1: going to how were we going to get through it?
Speaker 1: How were we going to grow through it?
Speaker 9: But we did.
Speaker 1: I'm very, very proud of the show this year, and
Speaker 1: Real came along and Alex Kmberlong. So my WHI has
Speaker 1: been the leaving year at home, a youngest daughter moving out,
Speaker 1: and then Jackie Boy, which feels like another sort of
Speaker 1: kid I had as well, moving out the family radio
Speaker 1: show home. That's how would suone up in six words?
Speaker 1: For me, it's the leaving year, but also the growing year.
Speaker 1: It's been an amazing year. I've loved this year. There's
Speaker 1: been leaving and there's been growing. So yeah, that's it
Speaker 1: for me, perhatsy, what's it for you?
Speaker 3: I love that this for me, I think it's this
Speaker 3: version of us even richer, and it's kind of a
Speaker 3: little parallel to yours in a way in that Chris
Speaker 3: and I coming up to Christmas, have really been lamenting
Speaker 3: about you know, there's no Christmas Elf anymore. There's no
Speaker 3: going to visit Santa. There won't be making the reindeer
Speaker 3: food to leave out on Christmas Eve because Audrey is
Speaker 3: going on, you know, very close to fifteen now, and
Speaker 3: it's like where have those years gone? The years are
Speaker 3: going so fast, but what has replaced it is this
Speaker 3: beautiful you know, we're pivoting into this beautiful, rich sort
Speaker 3: of experience with her as she grows into her herself.
Speaker 3: So you know, she's really into a theater this year.
Speaker 3: We've been to two live performances with Odds and just
Speaker 3: seeing her shine and in her element. She's sung in
Speaker 3: front of the school a couple of times, and she's
Speaker 3: just got into this amazing peer program at school for
Speaker 3: next year. She's charting her course as she should, and
Speaker 3: to see that as a parent is just beautiful and
Speaker 3: so Chris and I, Chris and I have got to
Speaker 3: catch up to that. So we feel like we're doing
Speaker 3: this massive, big pivot and it is it feels like
Speaker 3: a really big year in that we're setting the course
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty six. We're all, you know, doing our
Speaker 3: own thing and rocking with that. But the major thing
Speaker 3: for us is our home life and just axling into
Speaker 3: her new orbit and moving along with it. You'd know
Speaker 3: what obviously what that's like with the girls, but.
Speaker 1: It's a big thing. People don't talk about this from
Speaker 1: mums and dads, right They talk about what happens with
Speaker 1: the kids and the teenage and stuff that You're right,
Speaker 1: that age to al is out now that fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen girls were going through that, they really start to
Speaker 1: see their character being revealed. You know. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like a flowers in unfolds bit by bit and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, okay, and it's a marvel. But also then
Speaker 1: what you actually also need to put your attention on
Speaker 1: is night is finding meaning in this second part of
Speaker 1: our lives and what that is for you. That's been
Speaker 1: the big thing for Sarah and I this year is
Speaker 1: like working out all right. It suddenly like they give
Speaker 1: you the gift of time, they give it back to
Speaker 1: you and then you have to go, oh, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are we going to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What next?
Speaker 3: And that's the thing we're finding, you know, as she's
Speaker 3: going out to parties and sort of socializing more. It
Speaker 3: is just more of Chris and I, which is beautiful,
Speaker 3: and rediscovering each other and knowing that that friendship from
Speaker 3: you know, because we've been together over thirty years now
Speaker 3: that it's still there, which is really beautiful, and it's like, well,
Speaker 3: what would we like to do tonight?
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just it
Speaker 4: feels yeah, why not.
Speaker 1: It's a big ear for you, Chris and Andrea at
Speaker 1: the language.
Speaker 4: There's three in this real liflationship.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's where no, that's where we're at.
Speaker 3: Is just trying to, you know, keep up. It feels
Speaker 3: like a marathon.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, we're here now, this is a really
Speaker 4: nice pace.
Speaker 1: But do not think my time. Since I've known you
Speaker 1: in seventy years, I think this year that you've also
Speaker 1: grown Patsy as well. Yeah, i'd like to think so
Speaker 1: already has as well. You're constantly teaching your kids a lesson,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean the ones that you say in
Speaker 1: bore them with. I mean how you actually handle and
Speaker 1: live your life. That's the biggest. The kids are always
Speaker 1: watching us, who're always teaching your kids a lesson, And
Speaker 1: most of the lessons don't involve words. They watch how
Speaker 1: you handle your life, your joy, your pain, your anger.
Speaker 1: They're always watching you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. It's like a mirror, isn't it when
Speaker 4: you have kids, it's like a mirror.
Speaker 1: Of I think it's more like a hall of mirrors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, at a sideshow more to the point.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's actually quite beautiful. And to see her
Speaker 3: forming her own opinions, and you know, we can have
Speaker 3: discussions about world affairs and or simple as just sitting
Speaker 3: and watching our shows together.
Speaker 4: That's just the best.
Speaker 1: You're an awesome mmy. You and Chris the great parents,
Speaker 1: as are you.
Speaker 4: Thanks man.
Speaker 1: All right, So tell us what is this story? What's
Speaker 1: this year for you? Twenty twenty five? What has happened?
Speaker 1: Tell us the story of your year in six words
Speaker 1: four seven, five, three, one oh four three will go
Speaker 1: through yours next.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell shaw go on podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for everyone who's telling me the
Speaker 1: story of their year twenty twenty five in six words,
Speaker 1: Christian met the love of my life. That's from Max,
Speaker 1: Congratulations Max. Julie's is menopause, insomnia, laughter, love, loss, gratefulness,
Speaker 1: six red if our Natalie toxic family cuts off, never
Speaker 1: happier Natalie, congratulations, Luke never building a house again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks quite easy and approachect. I mean, sorry on
Speaker 1: the block, doesn't it. Marny reunited with first love after
Speaker 1: twenty seven years. Marny, Congratulations, that's incredible. Christian My six
Speaker 1: word year, unimaginable, heartbreak and unstoppable, motherly strength as nothing
Speaker 1: as fist as a mother's strength, and love keeps coming.
Speaker 1: They're great. Tell me the story of your year in
Speaker 1: six words and text me oh four seven five three
Speaker 1: one oh four three News and Sport on the way next.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 1: What's this year?
Speaker 2: What is your year?
Speaker 1: In six words? Uh, tell me all about it? Oh
Speaker 1: four seven five three one o four three. Fiona, Big
Speaker 1: year for our Fiona, move to Paradise, Ballana, love it beautiful,
Speaker 1: par say Christian my year hard work. Employee of the year.
Speaker 1: I love this one National champion shot put ruptured ACL
Speaker 1: sorry to hear that. That is a rough way to
Speaker 1: end the year. Karen her year in six words, life
Speaker 1: changes are doable with friends. That's lovely, Karen Janelle Morning
Speaker 1: Janelle six word year, heavy year, friendships formed, book born.
Speaker 1: That is a lot good on there. Congratulations on the
Speaker 1: book birth thing as well. Someone's said there a lot
Speaker 1: good on the shit chaos, Gremlins, Gremlins. You got gremlins,
Speaker 1: Christmas chaos, Gremlin's growth, Family understanding evolving, Alex, what's for you?
Speaker 1: Big year for you and your family? You now live
Speaker 1: in Melbourne? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6: I've been shaking just getting ready to talk about this
Speaker 6: because it's been such a massive, massive year for myself
Speaker 6: and my family.
Speaker 1: Wild is a good word for it. Christian.
Speaker 6: You know, I've sort of reflected on it, and it's funny.
Speaker 6: Bunnie and I look at each other often and say,
Speaker 6: can you believe we're living in Melbourne now? We just
Speaker 6: have those moments and it's just been an incredible year
Speaker 6: because my six word year is ending much better than
Speaker 6: it started. It started pretty badly with my departure from
Speaker 6: the Today Show, and I was in a real funk.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing was going so
Speaker 1: much as wall. You're a guy who's had a really
Speaker 1: successful career as a journalist, right, You've got to do
Speaker 1: some stuff. You must have had so much shame around
Speaker 1: that as well. An unfair and unfair way to be
Speaker 1: let go of a job as well.
Speaker 6: Oh definitely, and so small, so sudden as well, and
Speaker 6: so unexpected. And yeah, it just left me and my
Speaker 6: family in serious limbo and we're like, what do we
Speaker 6: do now?
Speaker 1: Where do we go?
Speaker 6: And so so started a few months of looking inwards
Speaker 6: and reflecting on what comes next and where I go
Speaker 6: with my career.
Speaker 1: There must have been a scary time you were a
Speaker 1: dad with three young kids as well, terrifying terrified it was.
Speaker 1: We thought, this is it, this is the end of
Speaker 1: my career that you've built up. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: I was getting offers from mates to go and work
Speaker 6: on their nurseries, which was nice.
Speaker 1: You know, I had to do something, and luckily I had.
Speaker 6: Some other things going on with particular sporting clubs like
Speaker 6: the Penwrith Panthers, who are fantastic to me.
Speaker 1: And then and you became their actual mascot for a
Speaker 1: couple of most tie we don't talk about those moments
Speaker 1: you're in the outfit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the things I had to do Christian the cart wheels.
Speaker 1: Hey, dads have got to earn a coin, exactly right.
Speaker 1: But then again, your good self came along.
Speaker 6: I'll never forget that phone call, that our long phone
Speaker 6: call out of the blue, really and we got on
Speaker 6: like a house on fire. And here I am in
Speaker 6: Melbourne to so thank you to you and this wonderful team.
Speaker 6: What a team this is we got to We're blessed.
Speaker 6: We have a lovely team here as well. I hope
Speaker 6: it comes across all that.
Speaker 1: If you ever enjoy the show, that is one hundred
Speaker 1: percent because of the team environment we have here.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It all comes out of that.
Speaker 6: It's all embracing and there's an enormous amount of support,
Speaker 6: which I haven't always had in my past jobs, let
Speaker 6: me tell you that much. So it's just a really
Speaker 6: lovely place to be and so exciting for next year.
Speaker 6: I'm so blessed, so thankful and just cannot wait for
Speaker 6: what comes next.
Speaker 1: All right, Keithy's coming. They're lovely by the way, and
Speaker 1: it might take you a bit of time to think
Speaker 1: about it as well, because when you look back over
Speaker 1: you so there's so much you actually forgets what's upen
Speaker 1: because actually we don't. We're rarely in the present. We're
Speaker 1: always looking ahead or trying to strategize and manage today,
Speaker 1: next week, Christmas, in a couple of weeks, time, new year,
Speaker 1: the job and work. You're constantly you never hear, You're
Speaker 1: always somewhere else. And actually, when you take a moment
Speaker 1: to reflect, which we never do, we're always constantly somewhere else.
Speaker 1: And even before the show, we're all talking about next year,
Speaker 1: because we are. I've spent seven years of my life
Speaker 1: all building for next year. I can't wait. But I've
Speaker 1: had to remind myself that actually, right here and now
Speaker 1: is that is magical. Was wondering it's not going to
Speaker 1: get better because I've got a national radio show. It's
Speaker 1: allowing yourself to receive just all the blessings we've had
Speaker 1: everything this year. Sometimes we're always like, oh, when I
Speaker 1: get to that place, life will be better, And it's
Speaker 1: the wrong way to live your life. It's all about now,
Speaker 1: and you look back at your year and like what
Speaker 1: you've been through that have been so much laughter in
Speaker 1: your lives. This year, to me tears so much unbearableness
Speaker 1: of it all, so much joy, so much excitement, all
Speaker 1: of that wonder as well. So take your time think
Speaker 1: about your year and it might be something you want
Speaker 1: to sit down tonight with a pen and paper and
Speaker 1: actually write out a few goes of it. That's what
Speaker 1: I did yesterday too, about half an hour to really
Speaker 1: fine tune to what this year has been for me,
Speaker 1: the leaving year and the growing year, and then send
Speaker 1: it to me to right if you want. Christian at
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell dot com dot au, the.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: I reckon we could publish a book with all these sharings,
Speaker 1: each one a page of somebody's life of the year.
Speaker 1: So much happens, doesn't it in a year. There's no
Speaker 1: such thing as an average year of any of our lives.
Speaker 1: So we're asking you we always do it. At the
Speaker 1: end of the year, reflect on your year and then
Speaker 1: tell me the story of your year in six words.
Speaker 1: And for those who are thinking about it, maybe you're busy,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the kids to school, and you
Speaker 1: know you wait for your exam results today as well.
Speaker 1: Good luck to everyone is actually you have a think
Speaker 1: about it today. And the thing that actually, when you
Speaker 1: do this and you think about the story of your
Speaker 1: year in six words, we are story machines. As human beings,
Speaker 1: we're constantly making stories about our lives. Who we are,
Speaker 1: who we don't think we are, how much joy we're allowed,
Speaker 1: how much anger we're allowed to be, and all these
Speaker 1: family stories. When you start to write the story of
Speaker 1: this year in six words, it reminds us that we
Speaker 1: can edit at any time the story of we think
Speaker 1: we are or what the year was. And you might
Speaker 1: find that you start out with one version of a
Speaker 1: story of this year, and then when you spend a
Speaker 1: bit more time of it and you go under the
Speaker 1: surface of it, or maybe take a bigger perspective of
Speaker 1: all of your year and what you've been through, the
Speaker 1: story can change, and you can edit no matter what's
Speaker 1: happened to you this year, no matter what hardships you
Speaker 1: might have been through, frustrations, the things that you didn't
Speaker 1: get you thought you deserved. You can tell your own
Speaker 1: story about what that is. And knowing that and editing
Speaker 1: it and crossing out and retelling that story is an
Speaker 1: incredibly powerful thing to do. We can always edit the
Speaker 1: story of what's happened to us in our lives at
Speaker 1: any time. Alex Christian, I six words, failed foster dog
Speaker 1: and now have four dogs? Is that a feul? When
Speaker 1: is a foul not a fail? Alex? Congratulations to Steve,
Speaker 1: one of our very lawal listeners and ocog Christian of
Speaker 1: six Words. I turned sixty and I'm in perfect health.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Steve. That's saying someone because I know you're a
Speaker 1: Carton fan, so that the stress of being a can't
Speaker 1: found to still how perfect health is amazing? Melissa tough?
Speaker 1: You for Melissa breast cancer tough. More positives are though.
Speaker 1: Now I hope you're doing well, sending you lots of love.
Speaker 1: This person hasn't put their name on it. That's a
Speaker 1: lot going on here. I've been trying to understand this
Speaker 1: for the last couple of minutes. I just read it out.
Speaker 1: Best friend affair with sister's husband. Oh, steps back in amazement. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: best friend affair with sister's husband. So are you reading
Speaker 1: this guy? So her best friend had an affair with
Speaker 1: her sister's husband. No, Now, women are smarter than men.
Speaker 1: Tina's going no, No, no, no, no, no, what am
Speaker 1: I missing? Tina? What do you think that is? I
Speaker 1: think you're right.
Speaker 4: I'm agreeing with you.
Speaker 1: I'm just shocked. So her best friend has had an
Speaker 1: affair with her sister's husband.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm reading.
Speaker 1: And that's shocking, I think. So on Caitlin's a bit
Speaker 1: more wise and you see it all. What's up?
Speaker 7: What I think the sister's best friend had an affair
Speaker 7: with her husband?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yes, Sometimes during the show I replied to some of
Speaker 1: the text messages that come through, right, I can't reply
Speaker 1: to all of them because there's hundreds. I am going
Speaker 1: to reply to you right now, even if you don't
Speaker 1: want me knowing an air I need to know what's
Speaker 1: happened here, all right. We're going to take it right
Speaker 1: when we come back. Yes, it'll be the last name
Speaker 1: game as in of the year. But in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got an hour or so left on today's show
Speaker 1: and it's the last show of the year with us
Speaker 1: all tomorrow, so we've got about four hours left together.
Speaker 1: There's a phone in that I came up with yesterday
Speaker 1: that I really want to do before the end of
Speaker 1: the year. Yesterday, when we're doing one of the odds.
Speaker 1: I read an email from one of you who lives
Speaker 1: in Ballaract called Karen. She was saying how basically she
Speaker 1: found the love of her life. They've been married twenty
Speaker 1: five years, You've got two kids in a McDonald's. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know we've been talking last half an hour about
Speaker 1: the twists and turns of life. Life happens everywhere in
Speaker 1: life where there's a McDonald's drive through. She found love.
Speaker 1: She found love in a McDonald's drive through. Where did
Speaker 1: you find love? Love in an unusual place? I want
Speaker 1: the stories of where did you find the love of
Speaker 1: your life? It isn't how the movies do it. I've
Speaker 1: not seen there in so many great rantic movies in
Speaker 1: rom coms. You ever seen someone finding a husband at McDonald's. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what happened to Karen, so finding love in an
Speaker 1: unusual place. If you've got a story, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear it.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 1: Have you Found Love in an Unusual Place? Karen has?
Speaker 1: She shared our story yesterday during What Are the Odds?
Speaker 1: She's the manager of McDonald's, been married to the guy
Speaker 1: twenty five years, two kids. These stories are amazing. Christian
Speaker 1: and I found love on the fire ground. We are
Speaker 1: both Sea Fae volunteers. Good on you, thank you for
Speaker 1: doing that. I found my husband at fire He was
Speaker 1: the incident controller, Brackets the boss. Our first coffee dight
Speaker 1: was a Macus. Merry Christmas. That's from Marlene kl. Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas to you as well. Marlene met my fiance at
Speaker 1: the local pizza shop seven years ago. I would go
Speaker 1: down every week to get a pizza just to talk
Speaker 1: to her. Found out she had a boyfriend. I then
Speaker 1: moved to Queensland. They broke up. She came to visit
Speaker 1: me for a week. Two months later she moved up
Speaker 1: to Queensland to be with me. We're now back in
Speaker 1: Melbourne with our one year old daughter. We get married
Speaker 1: next year. Christian in March. Congratulations, that's amazing. Mark mark
Speaker 1: Stone met my wife playing World of Warcraft the mesa
Speaker 1: game ten years ago. We have two kids now. Could
Speaker 1: be happier, happier that's Mark in Point Cook second one
Speaker 1: met their wife at the local pizza shop. Hey listen,
Speaker 1: if you're struggling to find the puplit personnel, get down
Speaker 1: your local pizza hut. Dominos they're waiting for you. We're
Speaker 1: celebrating forty four years of marriage. They had pizza shops
Speaker 1: twenty four years ago. And Christian is the clarifying anonymous
Speaker 1: here you got to write, my best friend had an
Speaker 1: affair this year with my sister's husband. Steve's on the line, Steve,
Speaker 1: you found love in an unusual place and just ten
Speaker 1: minutes ago to talk about that amazing team.
Speaker 4: And the wheels are falling off.
Speaker 1: Forgot that you have to put the callers throat on radio.
Speaker 1: That's the way it's always worked, Steve. Yeah, I'm here, Steve,
Speaker 1: I'm here. You're there now, Steve, where did you find love? Mate?
Speaker 1: On the road? On the road, on the ride?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was a traffic control. I soa. I was
Speaker 9: the guy that's holding the stop and slowed back yep.
Speaker 9: And I had this lady decided to come her and
Speaker 9: I stopped her and as I had some guys to
Speaker 9: work in there. Anyway, next thing on, I let it go.
Speaker 9: Then she's come back again and again and again until
Speaker 9: she's decided to stop and hand me off her number
Speaker 9: and said, doll's cute. And twenty two years later, we're
Speaker 9: still together and married and have five children.
Speaker 1: Wow, so much? Stop and go, stop and go, stop
Speaker 1: and go too much? Going enough? Stop?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow wait what a story?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, real fields are quite determined. So if you
Speaker 9: got what you wanted in the.
Speaker 1: If you're a keeper, I can tell im just speaking,
Speaker 1: I just can just feel it. Steven, Steve, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, your story mate. You have a lovely Christmas. Okay,
Speaker 1: take care No, thank you you too, by much.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Have you found love in an unusual place? No swiping?
Speaker 1: Going to get pizza from too Cheese Pizza in Lilydale.
Speaker 1: That's happened to one of you thirty years ago. Found
Speaker 1: his wife there. You make it sound like she was
Speaker 1: just waiting. Hello. I'm your wife, Christian. I met my
Speaker 1: new love on stage in Gilbert and Sun production. That's great, Christian.
Speaker 1: My husband I met at a volunteer tourist railway. We've
Speaker 1: been married now for two and a half years of
Speaker 1: two children. Congratulations. Met my partner at the footy club
Speaker 1: during a function where I asked if I could have
Speaker 1: some of Hello Dorito's Hangy Supremesir. Six years later, we
Speaker 1: have an old boy. He's called Dorito's No I name
Speaker 1: my firstborn Dorito Bud. He's got her at the end.
Speaker 1: He's like an Australian name. Kerry. Good morning, Kerry, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 5: Good morning guys. I was watching local cricket one day,
Speaker 5: sitting in my car. The bowler who is back? He
Speaker 5: bowled the guy here to seek That went straight through
Speaker 5: my wing screen and Mark and I are now married
Speaker 5: forty years later with three kids.
Speaker 1: You're kidding. He literally knocks you for six Yep, how's that?
Speaker 1: That's an incredible story.
Speaker 5: So I'm making him pay through the wind screen, right.
Speaker 1: Kerry, I love that. Thank you so much for sharing, mate.
Speaker 1: Have a lovely Christmas.
Speaker 5: Okay you two.
Speaker 1: Kylie, welcome to the show. Hello hello Kylie. All right,
Speaker 1: so you found love in an unusual place? Where was that?
Speaker 11: Yes? I was set up by an ex on a
Speaker 11: blind date. I went out with him for a couple
Speaker 11: of months and then he found somebody, and then on
Speaker 11: our wedding day he ended up in hospital. And that
Speaker 11: the long story short. We're still married thirteen years later.
Speaker 1: So an X, your ex set you up on a
Speaker 1: blind date?
Speaker 11: Yeah, an X set me up on a blind date
Speaker 11: with a guy who goes I reckon he'd be perfect
Speaker 11: for her. After we split up, we still kept in
Speaker 11: contact as friends.
Speaker 1: Generous thing for him to do.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and then he set me up on a blind date,
Speaker 11: and then yeah, and then thirteen years later we're still married.
Speaker 1: Incredible, And there'll be a lot of people listening right now,
Speaker 1: younger kid who won't even know what blind date is?
Speaker 1: Crazy to explain actually what it was. Do they still
Speaker 1: happen now? Blind dates? People still do blind days. I
Speaker 1: guess appsolute placed it now now anyway, kindie, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, phone call mate and have a lovely Christmas.
Speaker 10: Must buy.
Speaker 6: What I must day?
Speaker 1: Kay? Then I knew that was you only to say
Speaker 1: that that's great. Look Rio's not here today. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of running around behind the scenes.
Speaker 7: It's a busy day.
Speaker 1: It's a busy day, isn't it. By the way, Kaylyn,
Speaker 1: you've had a big year on the show. What's your year?
Speaker 1: In six words?
Speaker 7: My year in six words would have to be I
Speaker 7: really know.
Speaker 1: Who I am? Oh my god, that's beautiful mate.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and this year has been a big year. It's
Speaker 7: a lot of change in the show. And here at
Speaker 7: the show we are like family, so this we see
Speaker 7: each other more than we see our own family. And
Speaker 7: there's been a big change. But I've also felt like
Speaker 7: I've really come into my own in what.
Speaker 1: I do on this show, and you definitely have, Youane,
Speaker 1: what do we doing on the show?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: You've been working with what three years?
Speaker 7: Three and a half nearly four?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we've been.
Speaker 1: But I really do feel like this year, you really yeah,
Speaker 1: you found out who you were more than what the
Speaker 1: role is or anything like that.
Speaker 7: It's more about who you are, Yeah, and how I
Speaker 7: fit into the show and what my skills.
Speaker 1: Oh, my friend, we fit in around you. Ye, we
Speaker 1: all around you. My friends. Don't cage yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah that's true, that's true.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I feel like that. And then at home,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm getting married next year to my beautiful partner.
Speaker 7: We've been together for ten years and we've had an
Speaker 7: up and down relationship because yeah, we've had some struggles,
Speaker 7: but yeah, we got engaged the year before, and this
Speaker 7: year has been about getting ready for next year, but
Speaker 7: really really feeling like, oh, we're in a comfortable space now,
Speaker 7: like this is the person that I'm going to live
Speaker 7: the rest of my life with. We want to have
Speaker 7: kids together, and just knowing that I'm really happy with
Speaker 7: where I am at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never seen it. It was always an eternally
Speaker 1: sort of happy person. But I really feel like it's
Speaker 1: a more grounded happiness this year.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 7: Grounded happiness is a really beautiful way to put it,
Speaker 7: because that's how it is. Without saying like I'm comfortable.
Speaker 7: I'm just really happy in my spot and being a
Speaker 7: bit boring. Grounded is where it's at. I've never felt
Speaker 7: more like myself and really understood and being happy with
Speaker 7: everything that's going on around and I'm broad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we never really understand. It takes time to learn
Speaker 1: how to be us. There's no help in that. There
Speaker 1: should be. You know, all those kids getting those exam
Speaker 1: results today, I feel sorry from the way because you
Speaker 1: think the game is you get this number, that number
Speaker 1: is going to determine the rest of the course of
Speaker 1: your life, and us old fart's going to know or
Speaker 1: don't work like that. No, it does get up with
Speaker 1: that whatever the atar is, and I hope you get
Speaker 1: what you deserved, and no doubt a lot of the
Speaker 1: kids have worked very, very hard, but it does not
Speaker 1: determine the rest of the course of your life.
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I got a terrible result for what I did,
Speaker 7: and look at me now.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're I don't think we're an example.
Speaker 1: I well school, and this is what happens. If you
Speaker 1: don't do very well, don't get the atar, you'll end
Speaker 1: up on the radio, forced to do breakfast radio for
Speaker 1: the rest of your lives. Down the salt mines of radio.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian, you talk about finally love and unusual places. So
Speaker 1: I met my wife and a crowded Frankston Line train.
Speaker 1: It feels like a line in a Paul Kelly song
Speaker 1: twenty eight years ago. That's amazing, Richard Christian. I also
Speaker 1: used to date a waitress at two Chi Pizza Lilydale.
Speaker 1: Three listeners have found partners at Lilydale Tucci Pizza. It's
Speaker 1: a hotbed. Christian. I used to date the waitress at
Speaker 1: Tucci Pizza before I met my wife. Imagine if I'd
Speaker 1: ask for home delivery. That sounds rude. Christian. I met
Speaker 1: my now wife of almost fifteen years on a Kentiki
Speaker 1: tour back in two thousand and six. Sean, I met
Speaker 1: my partner twenty five years ago. We were both happened
Speaker 1: to be working at a chicken farm, gutting chucks. We
Speaker 1: have three boys and still together. Christian I married the
Speaker 1: barista from the local cafe, went daily at work, flirted
Speaker 1: for months. She randomly asked me one day if I
Speaker 1: wanted to come and play with two dogs she was
Speaker 1: house sitting. That's not you for missing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what okay, madam, mind, I think I understand what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Christian I was supposed to be getting my first tattoo,
Speaker 1: booked in with my friend's brother, who is an apprentice
Speaker 1: at a local tattoo parlor. Yeah, that's something we don't
Speaker 1: want apprentice doing. Yeah, maybe an apprentice plumber coming around
Speaker 1: or something. But a tattoo anyway turned up, but he
Speaker 1: had to cancel. I'd already sighted myself up that today
Speaker 1: was that I was getting my first tattoo. So I
Speaker 1: walked over the road to a completely different tattooist, fell
Speaker 1: it in love with the lady that did the tattoo.
Speaker 1: We've been married years ten years.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 1: Podcast Friends, It is the penultimate time waster of the
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty five, not one, but two Best in show,
Speaker 1: briss Premium, free Range Christmas Ams down at the Freeing
Speaker 1: Butcher Club app today and to unlock Memoroni deals, the
Speaker 1: recipes and giveaways today because when we come back in January,
Speaker 1: we turned one city into five cities as this breakfast
Speaker 1: show goes national from January the nineteenth, when we're all
Speaker 1: back with you. So thet's do Melbourne movies. Yes, everything
Speaker 1: changes in January, but this is a gift to all
Speaker 1: the oc OG's Melbourne movies. Best in two, best in
Speaker 1: shows today. Then for your Melbourne movies you get Christmas
Speaker 1: Hams all right, Melbourne movies. You ever see the movie
Speaker 1: There Will Be Blood with Daniel day Lewis, violent movie.
Speaker 1: We'll see the worse wear a Bee blood.
Speaker 4: Oh no, come on bronze minus Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 1: I should put the guest market Todays from that neck
Speaker 1: of the woods.
Speaker 7: It's a beautiful wearribe.
Speaker 1: F It's gray loose. What about oh John Elston Wick?
Speaker 4: Oh good Gold.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Phobia, great movie? What about tak Noophobia? Very very
Speaker 1: very poss spiders chat shack Oh yeah gold. This is
Speaker 1: a sad story. It's called the Collingwood Identity. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know who he is, but he's got nineteen tattoos. Who
Speaker 1: am I? Gold and throw mama from a trugger Nina.
Speaker 1: I love the place. Trugger Nina. It's a pleasing name
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 7: It's a trugger Nina, Truggannina.
Speaker 1: It's Nina, Nina, trugger Nina. Yeah, yeah, I know you
Speaker 1: should know.
Speaker 4: That is a gold.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Kaitlyn. What have you got there? Melbourne Movies.
Speaker 7: All right, there's a pastor in this movie, Lady and
Speaker 7: the tram Oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I know what it was like at school
Speaker 1: when you got the supply. Teacher was of sick no silver.
Speaker 4: Silver, what about you?
Speaker 1: Me and the g Oh no, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's gold.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 7: This one's a great movie. The We're a B movie.
Speaker 1: This is a bit obvious. Come on, yeah, come on.
Speaker 1: It a couple of moments to get these all right silver.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, this movie is a movie from Frankston. The
Speaker 7: Devil Wears fake braa.
Speaker 1: Through shade on me. That's gold plus Christmas Ham slice
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Show penultimate time waste of the year. We
Speaker 1: go back to how it started right here in Melbourne
Speaker 1: before we go national in January when the show returns
Speaker 1: Melbourne Movies. Our guest marker the supply teacher producer Caitlyn
Speaker 1: good morning. All right, you're ready to mark so Katelyn,
Speaker 1: not one but two Christmas hams okay too, thanks to
Speaker 1: the brilliant Butcher Club. Thank you, Gang Dingley village people.
Speaker 1: I don't think the village people had their own mood
Speaker 1: for you not changed that right now?
Speaker 8: Great one.
Speaker 7: It would have been a silver, but it's a bronze
Speaker 7: because it's movies.
Speaker 1: You me and where a bee? Good Silver, Vince Elward
Speaker 1: scissor hands Silver. I love this one, very Melbourne. Captain
Speaker 1: hook turn.
Speaker 7: I was trying to get a hooked t me till
Speaker 7: I couldn't figure.
Speaker 1: It out, but Joyce did it. Gold Affulheimer. I mean
Speaker 1: barely a week goes by. It's not spilt on the Westgate.
Speaker 1: Afful Heimer, well done, market work, Gold Mornington Glory, Gold,
Speaker 1: is that Mitch well done? Jackie Crown, not Jackie Brown,
Speaker 1: Jackie Crown Gold, Cloudy with a chance of Melway's Flindarella
Speaker 1: Silver Fross Edmonds World to Saint Kilda mocking Bird. Yes,
Speaker 1: the blair Gowy Witch projects, Bromze, I am tram Brahms,
Speaker 1: Brote back Melton so very good enemy at the Westgate.
Speaker 7: Yes, I feel that on a on a yes, cloudy
Speaker 7: with the.
Speaker 1: Chance of Melbourne weather. Let's go John Brunswick, Oh good
Speaker 1: one who is winning the Christmas hands broke.
Speaker 7: Back Melton absolutely and I'll go with Oh, I forget
Speaker 7: the last one.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that's the end of the show. Supply Teacher.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast