Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, the glow Have you
Speaker 1: seen the glow come from pats I've noticed that I
Speaker 1: don't use I don't use the word halo very often,
Speaker 1: but I just called it as I say it. I
Speaker 1: can't even look at it because it's like twenty sons
Speaker 1: because someone here has arisen once more as a radio
Speaker 1: Acro winner, double awards, back to back. It was the
Speaker 1: big radio awards over the weekend in Sydney and Patsy
Speaker 1: won the same awards he won last year, second time running.
Speaker 2: Well done. You may now refer to me as Dame
Speaker 2: Patsy please today.
Speaker 1: To be honest, we we have been doing that for
Speaker 1: a while before I even't met you.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Look honestly, and I did say Friday, I
Speaker 2: really honestly didn't. I sort of my spidery senses generally,
Speaker 2: I know when I feel good about something, do you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? And I just had no hint
Speaker 2: at all Friday, Like, I honestly thought, like, what are
Speaker 2: the chances of back to back? I'm so overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Has any news presenter everyone back to back?
Speaker 2: Best news reader not sure, Jack, I don't think so. Sure,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. But it is incredibly overwhelming. And
Speaker 2: deb Knight read out the nominees, which was also a
Speaker 2: thrill for me because ila.
Speaker 1: Who I listen to this? Who is Deborah Knight?
Speaker 2: Oh, Debora Knight's a big.
Speaker 1: She's a dre Knight's mom.
Speaker 2: No, no, Deborah, Deborah Knight is a legendary news reader
Speaker 2: and journalist. She's on two GB at the moment. And
Speaker 2: I've always loved Deb's work and introduced myself to it
Speaker 2: The Australian opened a couple of years ago. You know,
Speaker 2: I was one of those annoying people. I thought, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm just going to go up to her
Speaker 2: and tell her how much I adore her. Anyway, when
Speaker 2: I walked into the room Saturday night, she actually remembered
Speaker 2: me and came up to me before the awards even
Speaker 2: got up underway. So that was a thrill. You must
Speaker 2: have left an impression at the tenth Jack, I must have.
Speaker 2: And Dicky was there as well, But it was, oh,
Speaker 2: it was. It felt different to last year. What are
Speaker 2: you laughing at? We didn't say who Dicky was either.
Speaker 1: We're going to get quite the story here.
Speaker 2: Great story at the end of the night. No, No,
Speaker 2: it did feel different to last year. Like last year
Speaker 2: felt I don't know, I can't explain it. This year
Speaker 2: I felt, I think I've grown a lot this year.
Speaker 2: If I can sort of sound a bit egotistical, I
Speaker 2: think I've grown a lot within myself and into my skin.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a lot to do with now
Speaker 2: I'm in my fifties and I'm probably more comfortable and confident, perhaps,
Speaker 2: But what I love most about, Yes, it's a news
Speaker 2: reading awed, but it's also about what I love most about.
Speaker 2: My job is obviously working on the show, but also
Speaker 2: the connection with the audience. And I love obviously informing people,
Speaker 2: but telling them stories. That's that's what I love. You
Speaker 2: live for stories. And yeah, I'm just I'm really overwhelmed, Hue.
Speaker 1: You so deserve all the recognition he're getting at the WAW.
Speaker 1: It's been it's been too long before you've had due
Speaker 1: recognition for just how great you are. So tell me
Speaker 1: what was your action from like, because chrisaw where We
Speaker 1: Love God was there and Audi was there as well.
Speaker 1: They must be so proud of you.
Speaker 2: Oh, they were so excited. So they were staying. It
Speaker 2: was held at Star City in Sydney, and they were
Speaker 2: staying in the hotel, so they were like six flights up.
Speaker 1: And you did fancy bringing them down so they could
Speaker 1: actually see you. Take the key with me. Don't get
Speaker 1: don't come out, don't come down.
Speaker 2: Embarrassment, it's mummy's snape, I said to them. They were
Speaker 2: very reluctant, but I said, I think you'll be allowed
Speaker 2: to come to the red carpet just to see, you know,
Speaker 2: what happens and helps. It was more about involving them
Speaker 2: because they're such a major. I couldn't do this if
Speaker 2: it wasn't for Chris is just phenomenal and lets me
Speaker 2: most of all, lets me be me and doesn't want
Speaker 2: to change me and just accept. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: hard life. You guys would know it's a hard life
Speaker 2: for your partners. It's almost like being a single parent
Speaker 2: a lot of the time. You know, they pick up
Speaker 2: so much of the slack, and then when you are
Speaker 2: home in the second part of the day, you can
Speaker 2: be so tired and grumpy, and they do have to
Speaker 2: pick up so much. Their husband and wife a lot
Speaker 2: of the time, and he is he is an absolute
Speaker 2: rock He's absolutely phenomenal as a dad and I love
Speaker 2: him to bits. And it's as much their award as
Speaker 2: it is mine and Caitlyn producer Caitlyn had Audy on
Speaker 2: FaceTime and so they did come down to the red carpet,
Speaker 2: or they they did come down to the red carpet
Speaker 2: and then retreat it because it was just you know,
Speaker 2: it's a squash, you know what it's like, it's just
Speaker 2: people everywhere. So he's everyone in their suits and they're
Speaker 2: in their tracky decks or did they know they did.
Speaker 1: Hotel address those little selfish again.
Speaker 2: He did have his boat shoes on and his denim shorts,
Speaker 2: but you know.
Speaker 1: That look. To be fair, he's probably slightly smarter than
Speaker 1: some of the troubladytes that work in radio. They come
Speaker 1: into Old Big Smoke once a year for a radio
Speaker 1: wards and a drink cup.
Speaker 2: But Alreadie, when I got back to the table, it
Speaker 2: was very early the award. It was like eight thirty
Speaker 2: this year. It's normally sort of they push news off
Speaker 2: to the back end of the of the night, so
Speaker 2: that kind of took us unawares. It's like, well, okay, well.
Speaker 1: Then they probably realized last year like she's been drinking.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do before she gets like a second win. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: don't letting go of that microphone. Make sure it's done
Speaker 1: before night chairs.
Speaker 2: Getting thrown across the room. So yeah, So Caitlin was
Speaker 2: facetiming Ords and and she sent me you know the
Speaker 2: party emoji and goes yay your number one again, mum,
Speaker 2: And and I just wrote back to her, you know
Speaker 2: everything I do, Ords, this is all for you and I.
Speaker 1: On the sixth floor that don't come down. I told
Speaker 1: you don't watch your face time. Have a look at
Speaker 1: the red carpet. It's actually then.
Speaker 2: And I just wanted it to know when we tell
Speaker 2: her all the time, never let anyone tell you that
Speaker 2: you can't do anything.
Speaker 1: Because she picked that up on the FaceTime WiFi. This
Speaker 1: kind of go I catch you up with you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go get a party, got a guy.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to know that because all through my
Speaker 2: career I've been told by people that know, not good
Speaker 2: enough or no, you're the news girl. You can't cut
Speaker 2: into being on the show with people you meant to
Speaker 2: do the news. And and that's you know, tribute to
Speaker 2: Christian the way that he does our show and the
Speaker 2: way he's always done his show. He's involved the whole team,
Speaker 2: and I'm so grateful for the opportunities that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a well done Patsy. You really deserve
Speaker 1: your double awards as well. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast