Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast The.
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Speaker 3: This weekend, I'm going to watch the Northman one Party.
Speaker 4: I really like to party, like are they Humans? Party?
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Speaker 4: I tell you what. Someone opposite me is looking a
Speaker 4: bit dusty today. Is it hay fever? Of you had
Speaker 4: a big weekend in Darwin.
Speaker 3: I have I took myself really seriously. I didn't get crazy.
Speaker 3: I have got crazy hay fever.
Speaker 5: But I know you got hay fever.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't think I did either that I've.
Speaker 4: Never known you, and I'm working with you now five
Speaker 4: years get hay fever.
Speaker 3: Yankee gets it every year, and every year I think,
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I don't have that. But I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is.
Speaker 6: Well, it's like pollen's extreme. So even people that don't
Speaker 6: normally getting it have it.
Speaker 4: Can you suddenly get it? Then?
Speaker 6: Well, I know it's sort of sudden for me too
Speaker 6: as well. Thunderstorre mesmer too overnight was fairly bad.
Speaker 4: So have you taken your to me?
Speaker 3: I've never taken an anti history.
Speaker 4: Oh you will need that it's awful, Jake, it's horrible.
Speaker 4: You feel like your nasal passes ryes are shutting down.
Speaker 3: So it just from being out in the park yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh yeah, see our say fever suffer as we
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 5: Hey, fever suffers.
Speaker 4: Love it when we recruit a new one. Yes, oh,
Speaker 4: you don't need your history and those suckers with drops
Speaker 4: and all kind of functions and potions. You'll be down
Speaker 4: at chemist whare House. Luckily they're sponsoring the show this week.
Speaker 4: Don't you worry about it. I'm sure there'd be a
Speaker 4: lot of hamper send over to you today from them. Patsy,
Speaker 4: how was how's the last couple days for you? Mate? Oh?
Speaker 6: There's nothing like a thirty five degree or day or
Speaker 6: whatever it was yesterday? And to go on the hunt
Speaker 6: for a winter jacket. So Audrey goes on camp is
Speaker 6: next week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4: What's been building up to flipping ground finals?
Speaker 2: The Royal winning?
Speaker 4: We started the.
Speaker 5: Finals a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: She's still not at the camp. I presume she'd be
Speaker 4: back there. You know what the thing is, it's like
Speaker 4: off to college or something. Now. They grow up so quick.
Speaker 4: But in perhaps's case. They grow young, so soon every day.
Speaker 2: She comes home with a new requirement.
Speaker 4: So this is a man of sounes. It's like a
Speaker 4: twenty four campusiness. It's two days, isn't it just two days?
Speaker 6: She's going for forty eight hours. But the teachers keep
Speaker 6: adding to the list. So there's like a spreadsheet of
Speaker 6: what she needs, which is very basic, maybe twenty things,
Speaker 6: you know, three T shirts, two pairs of sneakers.
Speaker 2: Yea da yah. But then the teachers are adding stuff.
Speaker 6: So now they need a rashie to swim in the surf,
Speaker 6: so we had to try to find one of those.
Speaker 2: At this time of year, it's impossible.
Speaker 5: Way she must be going in Victoria.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's why as I let the kids in that surf,
Speaker 4: he bloody freezing rush. He keet a big old overcoat,
Speaker 4: a heavy jumper to go swimming in.
Speaker 6: Well, I had to find a rain jacket. So she's
Speaker 6: got a million jackets, but it has to be like
Speaker 6: a proper, proper rain jacket for when they're out.
Speaker 4: On that list that I said, dread getting that Excel spreadsheet.
Speaker 4: It's alway stuff like rain jacket with her.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's all these little specific things, So we
Speaker 6: went did you not.
Speaker 4: Enjoy the sunshine to tool yourself holiday?
Speaker 6: You don't think I didn't hear the last of it
Speaker 6: from Chris. He's like under his breath. We had to
Speaker 6: go all the way to high Point because it was
Speaker 6: nothing at Wears.
Speaker 4: It was not the race that stops a you. It
Speaker 4: was not you.
Speaker 2: It was not happy.
Speaker 6: And he kept looking at his watch saying, okay, we
Speaker 6: now have two hours before the race is one. I
Speaker 6: want to be home in my armchair by three to.
Speaker 2: Watch the race.
Speaker 6: It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, we finally got a jacket,
Speaker 6: but it's ridiculous on a thirty five degree day looking
Speaker 6: for winter stock.
Speaker 2: It's like way out in the back of room.
Speaker 5: It was high Point busy and I was curious, like
Speaker 5: who's out and.
Speaker 6: About absolutely heaving. You should have seen the food court.
Speaker 6: There was people everywhere.
Speaker 4: Very much. It's very much the winner's enclosure.
Speaker 5: Isn't it a food court?
Speaker 3: It's pretty much the bird cage of the West.
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Speaker 4: So how was your boys trip to Darwin?
Speaker 3: No boys and girls alike. We went on the Hamish
Speaker 3: and Andy Christmas party up there. So eight of us
Speaker 3: work on that podcast, the Stuffed Podcast Australia.
Speaker 4: Eight of you are employed to put out a forty
Speaker 4: five minute episode a week.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: That is more than we have. And if you've been
Speaker 4: paying attention, this radio show is in the morning, as
Speaker 4: an hour in the evening and then for some unknown reasons,
Speaker 4: repeated at midnight.
Speaker 3: There's two audio guys like a senior one who cuts
Speaker 3: up the podcast teaching the junior one. But they've been
Speaker 3: that way senior and junior for five years now.
Speaker 4: That karate kidnine, he's still learning from mister Miaggi.
Speaker 3: But it was great fun. So we had something to
Speaker 3: record for the podcast up in darwe on a croc
Speaker 3: jumping to them and then we went for the Christmas party,
Speaker 3: went on jet skis in Darwen Harbor. I've never ridden
Speaker 3: the jet ski so it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Isn't there like crocs in Darwen Harber.
Speaker 3: Yes there are, but they say that there's never actually
Speaker 3: been a crock attack in the harbor, but they do
Speaker 3: take about three to four hundred out every year.
Speaker 4: Now I understand why he is only trying to get
Speaker 4: rid of a couple of people. It's a classic it's
Speaker 4: not a classic radio thing. Guys were going crocodile hunting
Speaker 4: and jet ski riding at the same time. If we
Speaker 4: lose half, it's okay, we need to reduce.
Speaker 2: For that company.
Speaker 3: The charter Croc's honestly a big business up there, like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, they're on signs everywhere the town. Everybody swim yes.
Speaker 3: So everyone was worried to get on the jet skis.
Speaker 3: But the jet ski operator said, even though they're no.
Speaker 4: More trustworthy person, you should run for officer. So wait,
Speaker 4: the guy who profits him, there's never been an actual attack.
Speaker 3: He said, there's never There's never been a shark attack
Speaker 3: or crocodile attack in Darwin Harbor and the and the guy.
Speaker 4: Told me that that harbor that there are about two
Speaker 4: hundred crocodiles in it, and every morning they use it
Speaker 4: like a highway.
Speaker 5: They're going to work.
Speaker 4: He literally described, as they go to where are they going?
Speaker 4: If there's two hundred, there's tailbacks, Well that means they're
Speaker 4: hanging around.
Speaker 3: The way the jet ski guy described it was the
Speaker 3: government goes in and takes out three hundred a year.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They go into the mainranglers, mangroves and
Speaker 3: they go like, all right, we'll just take you out
Speaker 3: to the open waters. Don't come back in the harbor.
Speaker 4: Those crocodiles like yeah, fair cop gov.
Speaker 5: Ye no sorry, yeah, I know you did say last time.
Speaker 4: And yeah you took my dad and brother away and
Speaker 4: yeah we missed them. But okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3: So even though Adje.
Speaker 4: And edge to the old jet skin, you don't want
Speaker 4: to find some boring old sea. You know that you
Speaker 4: might not make it out.
Speaker 3: I managed to say on my jet ski. But we
Speaker 3: did have a couple of people fall off.
Speaker 4: That's the end of them on the show that the
Speaker 4: Potage and the Master which one.
Speaker 3: Died, And then we went so and then on Sunday
Speaker 3: we went to these natural springs in inland in Northern Territory.
Speaker 5: Like Peninsula hot springs came Wow.
Speaker 3: Even like they're like riverways, so another chance again for
Speaker 3: crocs to get her. But they were so populated that
Speaker 3: we just assumed that there were no crocs in there.
Speaker 4: And did you do an actual croc tour? You know,
Speaker 4: you go out on the little boat and you go
Speaker 4: and see the river bank. It's unbelievable looking your body,
Speaker 4: some ancient part of your body, know, there's real proper
Speaker 4: apex predators.
Speaker 3: And when you see one for the first time, you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: don't want to see that in Darwin Harbor.
Speaker 1: Look Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Perhaps so you committed to this show and this team.
Speaker 2: Of course I am always thank you.
Speaker 4: Jaxa has casually been chatted to me. We talk about
Speaker 4: the block, trying to work out what happened on Sunday
Speaker 4: the house has been turned in and the wind of
Speaker 4: state agents and he was saying how him and his
Speaker 4: wife had talked about doing it and said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: you'd be great on that, and then he went as
Speaker 4: a casual thing when oh, and the only thing it
Speaker 4: is I'd have to leave the show for three months.
Speaker 4: The only thing is just a mind and it's the
Speaker 4: end of it. We barely work, but the time you're
Speaker 4: take in the breaks that you're afforded here in Australian
Speaker 4: radio a nine month year.
Speaker 3: I don't think of the extra exposure the show would get.
Speaker 3: I would talk about the radio show all the time to.
Speaker 4: Get out of it. You never would this lap podcast.
Speaker 4: We'd better get to mention Patsy wherever rushed out of
Speaker 4: this man's resume and any any opportunity.
Speaker 6: You'd have to wear some like merch. You could wear
Speaker 6: a T shirt and a cat. That'd be really good
Speaker 6: advertisement that.
Speaker 3: Actually, on that show, they make sure that every inner
Speaker 3: we have to we have to pay.
Speaker 4: No one rides for free on that big Jugger or
Speaker 4: of a show. Did you watch, by the way, Patsy
Speaker 4: the Big Finale on side?
Speaker 6: I did watch bits of it, even though we hadn't
Speaker 6: sort of been like committed to the series through this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife's been watching a whole run, right, I've
Speaker 4: never seen it before.
Speaker 5: I watched it Sunday night with her because.
Speaker 4: Her her friend Christine was their works in the shop
Speaker 4: in Hampton, Icos, which imagine is going to get super
Speaker 4: busy now because Christina friend was the stylist on The
Speaker 4: People That Want.
Speaker 3: It, Stephan with a ridiculous price their house of for
Speaker 3: five million dollars.
Speaker 5: So they make that everyone keeps their profit.
Speaker 3: Yes, everyone who gets any money you make over the
Speaker 3: reserve price set by the network, you keep and they
Speaker 3: keep one point six five million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've done. Is there a record for the show?
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 4: But then the other people the house got turned in.
Speaker 3: Yes, so they can still make but.
Speaker 4: They made nothing, so you've worked for three months of.
Speaker 3: Free Yes, but they can still sell that house and
Speaker 3: they will still make the profit. So they passed in
Speaker 3: the house and now they can go to like private
Speaker 3: buyers or somebody.
Speaker 4: So perhaps Sarah's ruined it for Jack and Bianca because
Speaker 4: you're away.
Speaker 3: So we were flying back. I was flying back from
Speaker 3: Darwin six o'clock Sunday night and I landed at midnight.
Speaker 5: So you made your wife not watch it.
Speaker 3: Yes, we agreed to not watch it and we catch
Speaker 3: up month first thing Monday morning, will catch up and
Speaker 3: so we're about to stay off social media. So we
Speaker 3: not ruined the result. And then guess what band he
Speaker 3: gets On Sunday night a message from Sarah O'Connell drop
Speaker 3: into a uh, popped up on her screen and said,
Speaker 3: oh my god, the result for stepping spoiler alert.
Speaker 4: So she manatually guess that their house must have gone
Speaker 4: for quite a lot.
Speaker 3: There's no surprise they had the They had the best
Speaker 3: house of the series. It was it was incredible. But honestly, guys,
Speaker 3: reconsider if I ever got selected for the block, I
Speaker 3: would not want to miss out on there.
Speaker 5: If you want to leave the show.
Speaker 4: That's how you go. But it'd be shame for you
Speaker 4: to depart from this radio show because you want to
Speaker 4: go and be a contestant on the block.
Speaker 3: But I'll be back.
Speaker 2: You can't three months, Jack, You're you're not.
Speaker 4: Also, Plus, have you studied radio over the years, you
Speaker 4: don't leave for that amount of time.
Speaker 5: Things change, things shift. It'll be the end of it. Jack,
Speaker 5: there's a crossroads coming.
Speaker 4: It's me or Scottie can I'll stay. Plus, there's no
Speaker 4: guarantee that you you do as well as the people
Speaker 4: that have sold a house to five million.
Speaker 3: Now, I actually think I've very much struggled on the
Speaker 3: block because they're sleep deprived all the time.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, forget it, bloody hell.
Speaker 5: It just be your wife doing all the work and
Speaker 5: you be sleep in one of the units there.
Speaker 4: All right, So knock on Wednesday. If you're already at
Speaker 4: work right now, give us a call on nine four
Speaker 4: one four one oh four three. This celebrate everyone who's
Speaker 4: already at work, maybe had a day off yesterday, or
Speaker 4: you're still working yesterday. If you're at work right now,
Speaker 4: lines are open just for you on nine four one
Speaker 4: four one four three. Knock on Wednesday, Jack much that
Speaker 4: the workers of Melbourne can choose from.
Speaker 3: There are great prizes to be one a Christian O'Connell
Speaker 3: show mug, a Christian O'Connell show pen or show fridge
Speaker 3: magnete just for calling the show. You get to choose
Speaker 3: from any of those or A special area of the
Speaker 3: prize covered today is are these.
Speaker 4: These are items of clothing that been brought in from
Speaker 4: some of the team.
Speaker 3: The producers have bought in old T shirts.
Speaker 4: One of the producers resigned Friday, so he just can't
Speaker 4: wait to get rid of the show. Shame on you, Tom.
Speaker 3: From various events that we've done and made purpose merch for,
Speaker 3: We've got a Backstreet Boys Boys nine out the size large.
Speaker 3: We've got two T shirts from the live show that
Speaker 3: we did a few months ago, a large and a medium.
Speaker 3: And last year when we did the Kitchen O'Connell Show
Speaker 3: live from somebody's house in Dignley Village, we've got an
Speaker 3: extra large T shirt.
Speaker 4: These are Team Wore collectors items and the building pass
Speaker 4: for that producer that resigned Friday as well. Well.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's show podcasts.
Speaker 4: Knock on Wednesday, So if you're already at work. Call
Speaker 4: us up this morning nine four on four one oh
Speaker 4: four to three. You can have your pick of the
Speaker 4: prize cupboard that merched that they can choose some this morning,
Speaker 4: please Jack.
Speaker 3: There are a Christian O'Connell show, mugs, pens, fridge magnets,
Speaker 3: and an array of T shirts from various events we've
Speaker 3: done over the years, from Backstreet Boys to the Live
Speaker 3: Show to the Kitchen O'Connell show. Team members have brought
Speaker 3: in their T shirts that they're not.
Speaker 4: Wearing any more. This is not a good sign. This
Speaker 4: team was falling apart. Patsy, can you pick up something
Speaker 4: in some vibes? I'm with you, actually it is disgusting.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only one once on the night of the event.
Speaker 4: Have they washed them though, that's what I are they washed.
Speaker 4: Tom would have washed his rio.
Speaker 3: No, it's a lucky I washed smeared in.
Speaker 4: His cheap after shave as well. All right, anyway, lovely
Speaker 4: prizes for you. Nine four one four one o four three,
Speaker 4: it's I can shop this morning this show. Come down
Speaker 4: to radio Salvo's all right, Stephanie, good morning, Hello, How
Speaker 4: are you good morning, step and are you working yesterday
Speaker 4: or do you have the day off?
Speaker 7: No, I had the day off, Thank god.
Speaker 5: Great? And what do you do?
Speaker 4: You're at work right now? And what do you do,
Speaker 4: steph I.
Speaker 7: Work in the fleet department for Super Melbourne and Melbourne
Speaker 7: and Fleet.
Speaker 4: Oh you might be I need a set of wiper
Speaker 4: blade for a Subaru x V.
Speaker 7: Oh, come and come around. I'll give your head.
Speaker 4: Is that something that I could install myself new wiper blades?
Speaker 7: Look, I'm not too sure. I haven't done them on
Speaker 7: the suberoos myself, but I can get the guys to
Speaker 7: give the hands.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3: Did Clayton Oliver go around your house?
Speaker 4: Excuse me? I didn't know that people were making jokes
Speaker 4: about what he's going through at the moment.
Speaker 3: What happened to your windscreen? Wiker?
Speaker 4: Move on from that, Stephanie, what would you like from
Speaker 4: the prize cupboard?
Speaker 7: I really have known no idea. Sorry, I'll let you choose.
Speaker 4: You can have a second hand T shirt.
Speaker 7: That sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: You'll cherish that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Stephanie, thank you very much. You called me.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Michelle Michael Michael. That's the one, Michael
Speaker 4: Michael Michael. How was your day yesterday?
Speaker 8: I was actually at a wedding yesterday.
Speaker 4: Who man's a wedding? Shot? Was the race that stops
Speaker 4: the nation?
Speaker 3: Apparently old gay couple that are in the failing and
Speaker 3: gardening don't care about the mother cup.
Speaker 4: Pretty sure the gay community generally speaking might enjoy horse
Speaker 4: racing as well. But so there was a wedding who
Speaker 4: had to go to yesterday? Did they stop the wedding
Speaker 4: and the procedures for the for the race? They just
Speaker 4: carry on?
Speaker 9: They didn't.
Speaker 10: Most people were eating lunch, so just just a few
Speaker 10: of us were sat around the phone.
Speaker 4: All right, and what can we give you for the
Speaker 4: price cupboard?
Speaker 8: Whatever shirt design had an next l on, it would
Speaker 8: be great.
Speaker 3: Ah, the Kitchen O'Connell show in Dingley Village.
Speaker 4: Enjoy all right, enjoy the rest of your week, Michael.
Speaker 4: All right, So if you're ready at work, knocked on,
Speaker 4: give us a car.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast Heavy Friday.
Speaker 4: On the show, we celebrate the idiots, the dumb things
Speaker 4: show that we all do during the course of a week,
Speaker 4: and we asked you to nominate yourself to own it
Speaker 4: by telling us why you're a genius of the week.
Speaker 4: We had this amazing call from Julie.
Speaker 11: I'm a genius of the week. I went to a
Speaker 11: horse show two hours do I. I packed my float,
Speaker 11: got in the car, off I went.
Speaker 12: I opened the towel gate.
Speaker 11: No horse.
Speaker 12: I left the horse at home.
Speaker 13: So I had to back check two hours to go
Speaker 13: get my horse.
Speaker 4: Now, sometimes we've all left, you know, have you had
Speaker 4: phone charge or something small and light like that left
Speaker 4: behind because you don't notice the weight disparacy or something
Speaker 4: in your bag is going. But a bloody great horse
Speaker 4: behind you and towing something you surely you'd know if
Speaker 4: a horse is in that little float or not. So anyway,
Speaker 4: today we wanted to go. I want to ask you
Speaker 4: what did you leave behind? What got left behind? On
Speaker 4: nine four one four, one oh four three.
Speaker 3: Not that they all have to be horse related, but
Speaker 3: I got left behind at Derby Day thirty years ago
Speaker 3: when I was five years old, mom and dad little
Speaker 3: Jackie boy. How So there's a big family group and
Speaker 3: I was off chasing seagull and my mom and dad
Speaker 3: thought that I had walked out with my auntie and uncle.
Speaker 3: And then so from Flemington Racecourse, if you're going back
Speaker 3: to the car park, it's a long walk. So it
Speaker 3: wasn't until everyone got back to the cars that they
Speaker 3: were packing everything into the boot and realized that I
Speaker 3: wasn't there. Meanwhile, I'd been found by some strangers and
Speaker 3: they'd asked me if I was lost, and the police
Speaker 3: at the racecourse had been called, and no, no, not
Speaker 3: to tell them off, just to look after a lost boy.
Speaker 3: So I went back to the little police station on site.
Speaker 5: So do you remember any of this?
Speaker 3: I do, Yeah, I remember the I remember the feeling
Speaker 3: of like chasing the seagulls and then looking around and
Speaker 3: not being able to find the picnic blankets anymore. I
Speaker 3: remember the police officers asking if I wanted an ice cream,
Speaker 3: and I really did, but I was too shy so
Speaker 3: I said no, I'm okay. I remember the moment of
Speaker 3: sitting in the little police station and Mom and Dad
Speaker 3: coming through the door, and the whole drive home. Mum's
Speaker 3: kept apologizing over and over and over it horrified for
Speaker 3: weeks after, not even actually just.
Speaker 4: Even now, right if you were telling us that still
Speaker 4: in New Mum, because she'd be in tears.
Speaker 3: She feels feel so bad. She actually feel bad. I'm
Speaker 3: saying it now.
Speaker 4: It's amazing you stim and you were five years away.
Speaker 4: That must be one of your earliest.
Speaker 3: Has to be one of my earliest memories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is incredible, Jim, and we did a phony
Speaker 4: years ago about your earliest memories after I said to
Speaker 4: my wife, had some friends around for a book club, right,
Speaker 4: and they're all just getting drunk. That book club is
Speaker 4: a fast but anyway, they're always getting drunk. And I
Speaker 4: came into and I overheard one of the cackling sort
Speaker 4: of witches that was around going yes, and the guy,
Speaker 4: I remember when I was a baby. And there's no way,
Speaker 4: there's no way you remember being a baby. Our brains,
Speaker 4: in fact, they don't even stop developing into the about
Speaker 4: mid twenties men and women, so there's no way you
Speaker 4: remember that. Do you remember that? One remarkable She actually
Speaker 4: reckons that she can remember breastfeeding from her mum and
Speaker 4: saw the moon landing.
Speaker 3: Looked at looked over at her mum's shoulder while she
Speaker 3: was feeding, saw them landing on TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Anyway, by the way, I took us on a
Speaker 4: sigdntrick that what we are asked you this morning then
Speaker 4: is why what did you leave behind? Nine four one
Speaker 4: four one oh four three? But maybe Tom on the show.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to earliest memories and Brainer.
Speaker 1: Now you're listening to the question you know Carl's Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Are you with opteras Patsy?
Speaker 2: You bet? I am.
Speaker 5: This is going to be a nightmare for a lot
Speaker 5: of people.
Speaker 2: This is just a mess.
Speaker 6: So I normally ring FEBEs in the newsroom on my
Speaker 6: way in, my phone wasn't work. I thought that's really weird,
Speaker 6: and then got in and heard that metro trains are out,
Speaker 6: so that if you're wanting to get on the train
Speaker 6: this morning for work, they're back up. But there's going
Speaker 6: to be a massive, massive backlog.
Speaker 4: Nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, vline as well, Like.
Speaker 4: It's just hospitals all rely so heavily, don't they on
Speaker 4: the mobile network? So hospital lines will.
Speaker 5: All be down?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, just I'm even.
Speaker 4: Just thinking now because obviously we we so rely on
Speaker 4: our instant connection. Now have people who any minute now
Speaker 4: wait for phone corn mess to say I'm going into labor,
Speaker 4: can you come and grab it? Now? That can't actually
Speaker 4: tell anyone that's it.
Speaker 12: That's it.
Speaker 6: I've got a mum at home with COVID, so I
Speaker 6: hope she's been okay through the night because I said, listen,
Speaker 6: you know last night if you if you need me,
Speaker 6: just ring me mum.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure she'd rank Chris if she was in striving.
Speaker 4: So it's just going to be all day or what
Speaker 4: they say on panty.
Speaker 6: Well Optus is yet to All they've said is that
Speaker 6: they've admitted there's an issue, but they haven't said the
Speaker 6: extent to it.
Speaker 3: I have to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, right, it's you need a bit more
Speaker 4: from them.
Speaker 6: But there is a problem today, but it doesn't appear
Speaker 6: to be like a hack or any sort of security issue,
Speaker 6: but they haven't exactly said what the nature of it
Speaker 6: is at this stage, but we're across it. Advice is,
Speaker 6: if you can work from home, do so, but do
Speaker 6: be patient with the network, with the trains, with the hospitals,
Speaker 6: because there are people out there, no doubt, doing the
Speaker 6: best they can to help people today. So just take
Speaker 6: a step back and it's going to be one of
Speaker 6: those days.
Speaker 2: I think it's.
Speaker 4: Amazing how because obviously the world did run before my
Speaker 4: bile phones. We've got no idea how that happened. Like
Speaker 4: you and I have an age Pats where life actually
Speaker 4: ran very smoothly without phones. One of our younger producers, Caitlin,
Speaker 4: actually just said to me, may it just must you
Speaker 4: just think what it must have been like in the
Speaker 4: old times. Old times. Ain't grabbing black and white all
Speaker 4: the times. Tell me one of your old funny stories
Speaker 4: in your rocking chair, old tamer.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: I was just saying to the team, maybe we should
Speaker 4: take some calls today. If you are seriously affected by
Speaker 4: the phone out. There's smoke signals from Dan, we try,
Speaker 4: what do we do? Fire up the fax machine right
Speaker 4: in and then Monday we'll read those out. We used
Speaker 4: to be okay, the entire world run very well before
Speaker 4: mobile phones. Now we're struggling to remember when. How though, how.
Speaker 2: Two cans in a bit of string was more alarmed?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, all right? So what do you leave behind? Christian?
Speaker 4: We went camping and our tent set up came in
Speaker 4: two bags, one for the tent, the other for the
Speaker 4: poles and ropes. Guess if I got to pack the
Speaker 4: bag of poles, I had to make a four hour
Speaker 4: round trip to rush home and collect them. Four hours
Speaker 4: is not a rush, Christian. When I was studying hairdressing,
Speaker 4: I left my model head on the train chilling Leon
Speaker 4: and I remember Christian and many years ago we were
Speaker 4: at the driving. The car next of us left before
Speaker 4: the movie ended. I always wonder how people get left
Speaker 4: the driving and they hated the movie? Did you have
Speaker 4: to get other cars to let you out? And good
Speaker 4: the idiot, I'm enjoying it. Back up, Back up, this
Speaker 4: couple hates it. The car next of us left before
Speaker 4: the movie ended, and two of the kids came back
Speaker 4: to the toilet to find their Paris and driven off
Speaker 4: for that. We ended up taking them home. This must
Speaker 4: have been in a very different time these days.
Speaker 5: That's not happening.
Speaker 4: We ended up taking them home, but the father had
Speaker 4: gone out to look for them, so it was chaos
Speaker 4: for a couple of hours. Have we got here, Kylie?
Speaker 4: Good morning, Kylie? Hello, Good morning now, Karlie. I understand
Speaker 4: you're a midwife, So before we hear a story of
Speaker 4: what got left behind, what's happening about work?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 14: Look, I think mostly internal phone lines are down this morning.
Speaker 14: It's one of the girls to sent a message on
Speaker 14: the group chat saying if we needed anything this morning,
Speaker 14: to contact her via the hospital group chat so we
Speaker 14: could communicate if we're going to be late or you
Speaker 14: know what was going on today? So yeah, good times. Yeah,
Speaker 14: it'll be fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be case you guys. All right, So we
Speaker 5: got left by.
Speaker 4: So you're a midwife, Kylie, Yeah, yeah I am.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So this isn't a baby being left somewhere.
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 14: Oh? God, no, no no. So we're driving home from
Speaker 14: Goldburn from a family trip to the Gold Coast and
Speaker 14: my three year old had left behind her her toy
Speaker 14: bunny at the Golbyn motorin and we're probably about two
Speaker 14: hours from home when my husband said, hey, where's your bunny?
Speaker 14: And she went, oh, I think you in the bed
Speaker 14: at the hotel. And so, after a seventeen hours trip
Speaker 14: from the Gold I didn't turn around and go back
Speaker 14: to gold and pick up her bunny from the roadhouse. Yeah, happy,
Speaker 14: was pretty happy.
Speaker 4: An amazing pilgrimage to go back and get to get
Speaker 4: that bunny. But you know it's otherwise, it's tearless tears
Speaker 4: for days.
Speaker 14: Her little face. She was, you know, she was pretty devastated.
Speaker 14: So we did go back and get it and he
Speaker 14: was just sitting in the laundry at the hotel. The
Speaker 14: guy just put him to the.
Speaker 4: Waiting for you guys.
Speaker 3: I understand. God, he's got this Winnie the Pooh toy
Speaker 3: that he goes to bed with every night, and I
Speaker 3: would have to do the round trip because he wouldn't
Speaker 3: go to slaves.
Speaker 4: Can I urge you now get a couple of backup ones.
Speaker 4: I foresaw this and actually had a couple of spares.
Speaker 4: Anything they got went, I'll get a couple of those.
Speaker 4: It's easier that he is the rub in some dirt
Speaker 4: when they were and found him. He's come home.
Speaker 5: He's come home to us.
Speaker 4: What a story that little fellow is going to have
Speaker 4: a bed to tonight. Kytie, thank you very much for
Speaker 4: your call and good luck to that work with the outage.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, thanks Christian.
Speaker 4: All right, Sandra, good morning, Good morning, And Sancho, what
Speaker 4: got left behind me?
Speaker 5: He's so angry about it.
Speaker 4: He's still there and us come and get you. Where
Speaker 4: are you, Sandy?
Speaker 11: This no, this was years ago. We went to a
Speaker 11: Melbourne Brisboe line football game at the old Marble Stadium
Speaker 11: there and my husband went had a few much to
Speaker 11: drink and he went down to the player's room to
Speaker 11: see them after the game, and when he came back
Speaker 11: the room was shut and I was not there, so
Speaker 11: he went home without me, so I had to walk
Speaker 11: across the Spencer Street to catch a taxi. Then when
Speaker 11: I got home, he had already gone to bed and
Speaker 11: I had to climb over the remote gate to get inside.
Speaker 4: The night if he had huh yeah.
Speaker 11: And the next time we went to the football the
Speaker 11: people gave him a photo of me and said, ned
Speaker 11: don't to get what to look for?
Speaker 4: Sandra, you must have been so angry.
Speaker 11: I was, I can tell you. As I took everything
Speaker 11: off to get into bed, I threw it at.
Speaker 4: Him quite some sort of stripping routine that.
Speaker 11: He wore everything I got. He had to buy me
Speaker 11: a nick lace the next week to make up for
Speaker 11: the story.
Speaker 4: Is one expensive night out that was Soandra. Thank you
Speaker 4: very much your story.
Speaker 1: That's okay well Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at your email address, by the way, Heather,
Speaker 4: Happy Heather. What a lovely, lovely, warm email address you've
Speaker 4: got their Happy Heather, And I'm guessing happy Heather you've
Speaker 4: had this email address from the early days, because I
Speaker 4: remember when we could suddenly as I buy an up
Speaker 4: real estate online, wasn't it the early investors in the
Speaker 4: gold Rush, when we could have email addresses with various
Speaker 4: accounts like us and Hotman. Of that you were put
Speaker 4: in a what you thought was funny at the time
Speaker 4: nickname and then maybe like the year you were born
Speaker 4: in I can always tell someone who's had that email
Speaker 4: just for a while. I'm guessing you've had this for
Speaker 4: a long time, had because there's a Hotman account still
Speaker 4: going strong. Christian Jack and Bats went to the Royal
Speaker 4: Melbourne Show and actually left bar behind our baby bag.
Speaker 4: It had a video camera that had footage on of
Speaker 4: our daughter being born. We were devastated. We never got
Speaker 4: it back. That's awful. Oh sorry to hear that, Happy Heather,
Speaker 4: all right, A couple of calls then before we get
Speaker 4: the latest news for Patsy?
Speaker 5: What did you leave behind?
Speaker 4: We got here, Christy.
Speaker 15: Coome morning, Good morning, Sunshine. How's it going?
Speaker 3: Oh happy christ Thank you?
Speaker 4: Sunshine's good. Thank you very much, Christy. And what got
Speaker 4: left behind me?
Speaker 15: I got left behind as a poor little bubba.
Speaker 4: Oh no, who left the baby behind?
Speaker 15: None other than my mother. So I'm actually the third child.
Speaker 15: So I've been forgotten a lot. But way way back
Speaker 15: when my mum was a very very proud marching girl,
Speaker 15: National champion all the rest of it.
Speaker 4: So what's a marching guild do you mean with like
Speaker 4: the twirling baton?
Speaker 15: No, she never had a twirling baton, but you know,
Speaker 15: like like the police but in the formation and fancy
Speaker 15: and now they call it drill dead.
Speaker 4: My mum did, yeah did she?
Speaker 16: What?
Speaker 4: What is it like a sort of foot race is it?
Speaker 4: They have like one hundred meters but they're not able
Speaker 4: to run. They have to march against other people at speed.
Speaker 15: No, so it's all competing about how tight your formations
Speaker 15: are and if you.
Speaker 4: Like you to the beach and sports. I seriously I
Speaker 4: watched this and now so you could probably bet on
Speaker 4: it as well. Marching in the lull the season and
Speaker 4: the open sport marching.
Speaker 5: Wow, So your mum was obviously very good.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, yeah she was.
Speaker 15: My mum is good at lots of things, but yeah,
Speaker 15: marching is.
Speaker 5: A real thing.
Speaker 4: She just comes alive when once she starts marching.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that and dancing. So anyway, so she back in
Speaker 15: the eighties, she used to teach marching at the local
Speaker 15: primary school. So she heads down one day and I'm
Speaker 15: just a little bubbs in the little car carrier thing, yep.
Speaker 15: And she walks in and she's got her handbag and
Speaker 15: she's got me in the carrier, and.
Speaker 4: She's got a bit of a march on, you know,
Speaker 4: she's starting to do a warm up or something exactly.
Speaker 15: Got the good old boom box because this is back
Speaker 15: in the eighties. And she goes into the office and
Speaker 15: signs in. When she goes out and she does the
Speaker 15: hour long marching lesson with all of the girls, because
Speaker 15: of course it was something that only the girls did.
Speaker 15: Goes back into the office, signs out, heads over to
Speaker 15: the car, and she's heading to the car. She's like,
Speaker 15: everything feels a bit lighter. I've got my handbag, I've
Speaker 15: got the bean box. Oh well, I'll work it out.
Speaker 15: Gets in the car, drives home, gets home, she's pulling
Speaker 15: everything out. She's going, no, there's still some holy.
Speaker 4: Crap, you're still listening.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I forgot Christie.
Speaker 4: Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 5: That's where we've gone.
Speaker 4: Oh I wonder where this was going?
Speaker 5: Are that we're marching away from the punchline?
Speaker 15: No, So she goes racing back to the school and
Speaker 15: there's little old me in the car seat, still in
Speaker 15: the front office with all of the office ladies doting over.
Speaker 8: Me because of course I was a beautiful lady and
Speaker 8: she has to with her face bright.
Speaker 15: Red, say can I take Christie home now after I
Speaker 15: forgot her?
Speaker 14: So yeah, I was forgotten, Hi pollicle.
Speaker 4: All right, Christy, thank you very much his story.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 4: Of the weekend. We moved on. Nineteen year old daughter
Speaker 4: have a campus at university where she's been living away
Speaker 4: for the first time this year. Back home little bit reluctant,
Speaker 4: did feel like bounty hunters bringing her back in apprehended.
Speaker 4: And Saturday we all had a family lunch together. Okay,
Speaker 4: and we're all getting on there. The sun's out, it's great,
Speaker 4: the family's back. I'm feeling happy. And then Ruby, my
Speaker 4: nineteen year old, goes, there's something I need to tell
Speaker 4: your mum.
Speaker 5: And I've been wired about this for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: And my wife immediately goes pregnant, and I went, maybe
Speaker 4: maybe it's okay, think that. She goes, do you think
Speaker 4: that went? Yeah, But I'm not blunting it out. Let's
Speaker 4: not go to that. Let's not escalate the situation. But
Speaker 4: inside I'm actually just tensing up, going bracing for impact.
Speaker 4: But I can see she's smiling, so we can't be
Speaker 4: drastic news. And then her younger sister goes, I know
Speaker 4: what it is, and she's wide, you going to kick
Speaker 4: her out? Went kick you out? I said, you know,
Speaker 4: whatever's happened. You're not being kicked out. What has happened?
Speaker 4: And then she rolls up a sleeve there's a new tattoo.
Speaker 4: Of course, I'm like, oh my, is it tattoo? Okay, Second,
Speaker 4: my wife just goes, oh, oh, thank god.
Speaker 5: I thought she's still pregnant.
Speaker 4: So it's when they were very very young, right, they
Speaker 4: had They were very very close. They still are now,
Speaker 4: but it changed everything when you know one's moved out
Speaker 4: now and it's it's changed their relationship, but they miss
Speaker 4: each other massively. But anyway, when they were really really young.
Speaker 4: They still love watching this movie. It's an animated movie.
Speaker 4: There's a whole studio called Studio Ghibli which made these
Speaker 4: beautiful movies like How's Moving Cast, So if you've got kids,
Speaker 4: get them to watch it.
Speaker 5: They're magical movies. They're like spellbinding.
Speaker 4: I used to have like trippy experiences sitting there watching them, going,
Speaker 4: don't fully understand why this is so moving. Anyway, there
Speaker 4: was one called Ponto and Pontio is this goldfish who's
Speaker 4: a princess that as soon as I saw the tattoo
Speaker 4: was like, Ponyo, I haven't seen Ponto. Well since you're
Speaker 4: about eight. You're nineteen and a half and Ponto has
Speaker 4: been tattooed permanently on your elbow. So yep, she got
Speaker 4: a Ponio tattoo, so sort of she wanted it was
Speaker 4: a message to her sister that you're still with me.
Speaker 4: So and obviously when she says that, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm getting tearful. I'm going, my god, that's sound having
Speaker 4: my wife is like looking at me like that's so
Speaker 4: we said no more tattoos until she was twenty five.
Speaker 4: It's Pontyo and it's okay to have any ink. Don
Speaker 4: Chris pregnant Ponyo? Is it? Is it a message?
Speaker 3: How long did you? How many weeks or months? If
Speaker 3: she has She had it for without telling mom and
Speaker 3: dad four weeks.
Speaker 4: And I was tracking back because I remember I saw
Speaker 4: her write and it's a very hot down.
Speaker 5: I kept saying, why take the jump off?
Speaker 4: She was going. It's just terrified. You kept saying, take
Speaker 4: the jump off and go, it's so hot. What is
Speaker 4: it student thing that you have a big old heavy
Speaker 4: jump on pono under there waiting to see you? So
Speaker 4: this morning on the show? Then Secrets you tried to
Speaker 4: keep from your parents?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Look if you're secrets you tried to hide from your
Speaker 4: parents nine four one four one O four three and
Speaker 4: the email Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 4: If you do the time waste for every morning as well,
Speaker 4: you can email in today as well. We will accept
Speaker 4: submissions in this extreme situation as Australia becomes like the
Speaker 4: last of us, how will we survive? All right? Luise?
Speaker 4: What was the secret you try to hide from Mum
Speaker 4: and Dad?
Speaker 9: Morning Team?
Speaker 8: Wasn't?
Speaker 9: That was my older sister. We found a mouse in
Speaker 9: the laund room and she decided she was going to
Speaker 9: keep it as a pit, so she went and hit
Speaker 9: it in one of Dad's big outdoor in the paddic
Speaker 9: gum boots and after about an hour and a half
Speaker 9: of begging and bargaining with me, I'll let you play
Speaker 9: with this toy. I'll let you play with that toy,
Speaker 9: or I'll give you this, I'll give you that. I
Speaker 9: caved and told mum that there was a gross little
Speaker 9: mouse in the gun boots.
Speaker 4: Oh, snitches, get stitches.
Speaker 9: Well of your new siblings, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: Wow. Do you remember all that bartering used to do
Speaker 4: when you had something or they had something over you? Wow?
Speaker 4: We so about the art of the deal, all that
Speaker 4: sort of trading that used.
Speaker 5: To go on.
Speaker 4: And you're right, you play with this, you can have
Speaker 4: my bike.
Speaker 9: Oh you never let me go, She remembers it to this.
Speaker 12: Stay.
Speaker 4: Of course, don't tell them, don't even say anything on
Speaker 4: the show. We should also talk about pets you try
Speaker 4: to keep secret as well, rats and rodents and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. Luise, thank you very much, your story mate.
Speaker 4: Have a good days you Tea. Felicity. Hi, Hi guys, Yeah,
Speaker 4: welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: For the Stisa.
Speaker 4: What was the secret you tried to hide from your parents?
Speaker 16: Okay, mine was kept for sixteen years. My brother and
Speaker 16: I we used to have a little table and cheese
Speaker 16: in our bedroom. We shared a bedroom, and we told
Speaker 16: my mom that I tripped over that and put a
Speaker 16: hole in my.
Speaker 14: Leg, actually cracked my leg, but we did it.
Speaker 16: We were jumping from our wardrobe onto our single bed,
Speaker 16: of course, at.
Speaker 13: A little bar underneath.
Speaker 4: Small and what you made a pat to never speak
Speaker 4: of what really happened. That's right.
Speaker 12: We were too scared.
Speaker 16: So on my twenty first my brother and I were
Speaker 16: talking about it and we were just laughing, we should
Speaker 16: tell mom the truth.
Speaker 12: And yes, Mum was shocked.
Speaker 4: She did not know you're kidding. She must have known
Speaker 4: you were jumping from the top of the warldrope down.
Speaker 16: You know, idea that that's well, she probably knew that
Speaker 16: we used to do that, but she had no idea
Speaker 16: that that's how I did my leg.
Speaker 12: So and so to this day, and.
Speaker 16: I'm now a fifty year old with an five cent
Speaker 16: hole in mychine.
Speaker 4: It's a momento from your childhood, isn't it. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like a little it's like a little souvenir. Also,
Speaker 4: as a kid, just out of time, you could just
Speaker 4: waste blissful time jumping from one thing to the other,
Speaker 4: just leaping in your mind. You're not Indiana Jones. That's great,
Speaker 4: Thank you for listening. Nine four one four one oh four.
Speaker 4: Three secrets you try to keep from your parents. Well.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 4: If you Love Your Job Every Wednesday, we want to
Speaker 4: hear all about that. So whatever it is you do,
Speaker 4: share it with everybody on nine four one one four
Speaker 4: three Annie, Good.
Speaker 12: Morning, Good morning, Christian. How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good, Ernie. Now you love your job?
Speaker 8: I absolutely love my job. I've I've in the past.
Speaker 8: I've had a couple of different career paths that I
Speaker 8: thought i'd loved at that time. One was working with
Speaker 8: the fancy, the other one was teaching, and they proved
Speaker 8: not to be exactly what I thought that would be
Speaker 8: for more reasons than one. But I'm now working in
Speaker 8: a job that combines both of them, and I can't
Speaker 8: actually even tell you what it is, but it's the
Speaker 8: actual work I adore, the people I can't speak highly
Speaker 8: enough of.
Speaker 15: Plus we have pizza.
Speaker 8: Fridays and threat and everything and a good coffee machine.
Speaker 8: But it's the people I work with that make it
Speaker 8: the ultimate job I've ever ever had in my life.
Speaker 4: So you really can't go into any more details about
Speaker 4: the nature of what you do.
Speaker 8: No, we get a free basket every day, but that's
Speaker 8: about it. So I can tell you no, but it
Speaker 8: combines my defense in teaching history.
Speaker 4: I've literally drawn two circles right. One of them is
Speaker 4: says teaching, one of the says defense. And I'm trying
Speaker 4: to work out what's in between. On that vent diagram.
Speaker 5: What it is you do.
Speaker 4: That's obviously so secret you can't share it with us.
Speaker 4: But you happen to say, you get pizza on Friday
Speaker 4: and you get a fruit basket. What are you working on?
Speaker 4: Not some sort of nefarious later to point to the
Speaker 4: mood or something.
Speaker 8: Are you no, I actually have Are.
Speaker 4: You working for the shadow government something like that?
Speaker 8: No, No, it's it's actually a really really good job.
Speaker 8: And at the end of the day, it's the people
Speaker 8: that make it. And if you work with people that
Speaker 8: are supportive and nice at the end of the day,
Speaker 8: nice saying it makes.
Speaker 4: Everything, it does, it makes everything no matter what you do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a big part of it. Fruit basket
Speaker 4: does help, though, three pizza.
Speaker 12: On Friday and they get over COVID.
Speaker 4: You could lure me into a completely different industry if
Speaker 4: you said.
Speaker 5: Every Friday, every where do I sign up?
Speaker 4: You could lure me into a car, actually a stranger's car,
Speaker 4: with the offer of a free pizza, hot pizza right now,
Speaker 4: it's getting this car, get in the van.
Speaker 8: I think that's what just makes the whole work environment nice.
Speaker 8: Is it's just it's very humanistic and they look after
Speaker 8: the people and that's yeah, that's key.
Speaker 4: Telling.
Speaker 5: Let me let me ask this.
Speaker 4: So do you go to the same building every day?
Speaker 14: I can't tell you, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Does it have a secret doorway?
Speaker 8: I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: A friend of mine work for the government in London,
Speaker 4: was m I five or m I six, And they
Speaker 4: have these secret doorways.
Speaker 5: They don't go into the front door, can't.
Speaker 4: These secret tunnels and passages all over London. And I
Speaker 4: remember sometimes it can meet him after work and I said,
Speaker 4: we're nowhere near where you work. He goes, We're near
Speaker 4: where I can leave work. I'm like, that is it?
Speaker 4: This man come on the back of a shot like
Speaker 4: Jason Bour. What is this secret life you've got? So
Speaker 4: I'm guessing it's a.
Speaker 5: Bit like you.
Speaker 8: Possibly that doesn't sound as secretive as that one, But no,
Speaker 8: we we just have a normal.
Speaker 12: Door, very door.
Speaker 4: But you work in defense, so security.
Speaker 8: No, I can't say almost.
Speaker 5: Corel.
Speaker 4: You better go get yourself in trouble. Annie but it
Speaker 4: sounds like you love it, so thank you very much
Speaker 4: to give us a call. Awesome, Thank you have a
Speaker 4: good debt work. What does she do defense and teaching?
Speaker 5: What is she teaching? How to shoot missiles or something?
Speaker 4: I don't know? Nine four one four one oh four three.
Speaker 4: If like Annie, you love your job, give us a
Speaker 4: call this morning. Every Wednesday, we don't recognize home day Wednesday.
Speaker 4: On The Christian o'connells Show, Carl Brighter, you're.
Speaker 1: Listening to the Christian o'conls show podcast.
Speaker 4: Do you love your job? If you do, tell us
Speaker 4: all about it on nine four one four one oh
Speaker 4: four three.
Speaker 5: Good morning Jim.
Speaker 10: Good morning team, and good morning Christian, Patsy and.
Speaker 4: Jack Jack say Jack.
Speaker 3: Jim, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: On Fever today it's all playing out for him, that
Speaker 4: is Jim. I can tell you've got some good energy
Speaker 4: about you and good vibes. So what do you do,
Speaker 4: dire Jim?
Speaker 10: Well, my I classify myself as live up pick a
Speaker 10: RUPPERA I pick up rubbish along one of the most
Speaker 10: iconic beaches in Melbourne, along Williamstown Beach. It's a beautiful job,
Speaker 10: adding the sunshine, talking to all the people start work
Speaker 10: at five am, jump out of bed at five am,
Speaker 10: the sun comes up. Everyone's friendly. It's the best job
Speaker 10: in the world. I keep saying that, the best job
Speaker 10: in the world.
Speaker 5: I could tell that.
Speaker 4: And I bet everyone that comes into contact with you
Speaker 4: day to day down there that they see you every day.
Speaker 4: I bet you cheer them up as well.
Speaker 5: But you like them up.
Speaker 10: I hope so. But it's just you cannot be happy.
Speaker 10: You cannot be happy doing this job. Management team is great,
Speaker 10: they look after you. The best job in the world.
Speaker 10: I keep saying that to people.
Speaker 5: And how long you've been doing it, Jim?
Speaker 10: Four years now? And I was a salesperson, and I
Speaker 10: was in management, and I was, you know, in officers,
Speaker 10: And now I'm mad in the bright blue sky, the
Speaker 10: beautiful water, to hus gorgeous.
Speaker 4: You're out there. You're running free, free records free.
Speaker 10: Will you that's it?
Speaker 3: So, Jim, do you do the same beach every day?
Speaker 3: Or can you go to other beaches?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 12: We do.
Speaker 10: I do william sew mostly, but sometimes I do Altona.
Speaker 10: Sometimes I do around the streets. But when I get
Speaker 10: to do Williamson Beach, it brightens my heart.
Speaker 4: Ah that's lovely Jim to tell me this, and what
Speaker 4: what what course of change? Were you just starting to
Speaker 4: get increasingly unhappy being stuck in an office?
Speaker 10: And exactly right. I wake up one morning and I said,
Speaker 10: you know what, I don't need the pressure anymore. I
Speaker 10: don't need the politics. I don't need the harassment. You're
Speaker 10: working by yourself. Listen to you, guys all morning. I
Speaker 10: got you in my ears, talk to my friends.
Speaker 5: Beautiful, oh Jim, lovely to hear from you, mate.
Speaker 4: It's such as a there's a lot going on, what
Speaker 4: you've done the last four years, and a change you've
Speaker 4: made in your life.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, it is.
Speaker 10: And you guys have got to do another show? Is
Speaker 10: that you're showing at the year of your club? Why
Speaker 10: are you doing another one?
Speaker 4: We will in the new year. We will. Thanks you.
Speaker 4: It was a thanks mate. It we really enjoyed it was.
Speaker 4: It was a really, really really good night.
Speaker 10: Fantastic.
Speaker 4: Oh bless you. Thanks for saying that, Jim, and thanks
Speaker 4: for listening to show, and just thanks for all your positivity.
Speaker 4: Now you show up for people, you will, You'll be
Speaker 4: a positive influence on everyone you're come into contact. You're
Speaker 4: one of those people, Jim. I can't imagine stuck in
Speaker 4: a miserabe old gray cubicle at work. It's not right
Speaker 4: here here free Jimmy. All right, Jim, we speak to
Speaker 4: you soon, see you soon, Jim. Have a good day
Speaker 4: today down the beach.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Uh that was amazing. Kendall, good morning. Hi, you are right, Kendall.
Speaker 12: How are you? I am the store manager at Brava
Speaker 12: at high Point. We are a decove and up bra
Speaker 12: fitting specialist that empower women, make women feel so much
Speaker 12: better about themselves and is the best job I've ever had.
Speaker 4: Awesome. How long you been doing that?
Speaker 12: I've been there three years and I'm at high Point
Speaker 12: and they have a few other stores. It was started
Speaker 12: seventeen years ago by a mother and daughter. They look
Speaker 12: after their team, They look after women come in. They've
Speaker 12: never had a bra fitting bra you know they're wearing
Speaker 12: the wrong size. They go out with a smile on
Speaker 12: their face. Close fit better, They're more confident. It is
Speaker 12: just the best place to work. And I've worked in
Speaker 12: a lot of other retail over my years and this
Speaker 12: has just been a dream job.
Speaker 4: What incredible thing to say. So what were you doing before?
Speaker 4: You are just working in various retail outlets.
Speaker 12: Yeah, basically I work for a bank for ten years
Speaker 12: because me in my fifties now, and then different retail outlets,
Speaker 12: some good, some not so good. But this is there's
Speaker 12: three stores in Melbourne and Brisbane and Sydney and they
Speaker 12: just look after their team so well. And then we
Speaker 12: pass that forward and we make people's day. People come
Speaker 12: out crying, mother's daughters bring in their daughters and it's
Speaker 12: crying with happiness because then they go shopping, their clothes
Speaker 12: hit better. They feel better than.
Speaker 4: We have a better sort of life, even just making
Speaker 4: a change that ime and I watch an episode of
Speaker 4: Queer and they took a woman there to have a
Speaker 4: bra fit, sing something that she'd never had before and
Speaker 4: it changed her life.
Speaker 12: Oh, it definitely does. And then they come back and
Speaker 12: we just it's just you feel so much job satisfaction
Speaker 12: and customers are just lovely and as I said, the
Speaker 12: whole company in itself is just an absolute pleasure to do.
Speaker 5: What a great story that you're part of.
Speaker 2: That you're my local bra shop.
Speaker 6: Actually I've bought from you guys, and you are amazing.
Speaker 6: You know your stuff and how do you know what
Speaker 6: percentage of women are going around wearing like not the
Speaker 6: right fitted bra.
Speaker 2: It's phenomenal. Do you know what they do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not the majority of you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you've got to go and get fitted regardless
Speaker 6: of how big your cup size is. But you guys
Speaker 6: at high Point you are brilliant. I always I was
Speaker 6: there just before the acres to get my bras. You
Speaker 6: do a great job. So thank you for what you do.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you great.
Speaker 3: There's someone in my life who needs this room. I
Speaker 3: told you that. I wake up one morning to bi
Speaker 3: anchor with a metal measuring tape. Try to put it
Speaker 3: around her chest and measure her bra sys.
Speaker 4: Sandra and long, So to Kendall, where you're at high Point?
Speaker 4: Where else in Melbourne, Hampton and Camberwell? Oh I know
Speaker 4: the other one you want? Yeah, this's one near me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: don't how to Camberwell, Hampton and also high Point?
Speaker 12: Yes, and then we have stores in Brisbane and Sydney
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 4: And what's the name of the stores again? You're called
Speaker 4: brother B R A V A. Oh my god, you're
Speaker 4: doing everyone such a big service this morning, Kendall. Thank
Speaker 4: you very much for sharing your love You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Great day guards The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Amanda, Hi, Amanda, would love to hear about what you
Speaker 4: love about your job.
Speaker 13: I love my job because I get to, I guess,
Speaker 13: hang out with all my animals all day and have
Speaker 13: at risk teens and children. We run a farm animal
Speaker 13: therapy at the Southeast.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, what a beautiful thing to do. A friend
Speaker 4: of mine, they're a teenager, was having a tough time
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. Did something called you all
Speaker 4: know about this equine therapy? I love to totally change
Speaker 4: their life.
Speaker 13: Yes, so we also the equine therapy that we have
Speaker 13: a farm cow, we have little curves, we have chickens,
Speaker 13: we have ducks, sheep, we have every animal actually, So how.
Speaker 4: Does it work?
Speaker 5: Then people less than they'd be curious about what you do.
Speaker 4: You obviously love it and you know you make a
Speaker 4: difference in young lives who are having a tough time.
Speaker 5: So how does it work?
Speaker 13: So what we do is the children, all the participants
Speaker 13: come out, we patch or hang out with the animals,
Speaker 13: sometimes sit down with a fishing rod in the dam
Speaker 13: and we just talk about what's going on in their
Speaker 13: lives and basically just help them, I guess, move through
Speaker 13: some trauma and yeah, just help I guess with a
Speaker 13: counseling service.
Speaker 4: What a beautiful way to do it, though, you know,
Speaker 4: because sometimes a kids sitting opposite somebody is so hard
Speaker 4: and it shuts a part of them down that has
Speaker 4: actually struggled into I guess, speak out and actually doing
Speaker 4: something that's sitting alongside. So I've been out of nature,
Speaker 4: being with animals that give you this kind of unconditional enough.
Speaker 4: What a magical way to help someone open up and share.
Speaker 13: It's really nice. And being out in I guess nature
Speaker 13: and outside of the clinical environment. They do really have
Speaker 13: love a bit different. It's I love it. So I've
Speaker 13: always said when I moved into this, if I can
Speaker 13: just change one light, I'll be happy.
Speaker 4: I bet you do more than that.
Speaker 16: I do.
Speaker 13: I do it. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 10: We're really really lucky.
Speaker 4: And how long you been doing that, Amanda, I've.
Speaker 13: Been doing it just over twelve months. We've been building
Speaker 13: up our business. We started out with just a couple
Speaker 13: of horses. We now have eleven cow, six sheep, twenty
Speaker 13: chickens that we rescued from a caged environment. So all
Speaker 13: of our animals has got a trauma background themselves.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, someone needs to make a documentary about what's
Speaker 4: going on with you guys. What's the name of it?
Speaker 4: And people want to find out more.
Speaker 13: We're Karina Farm, Victoria, right farm.
Speaker 4: As for twelve months. Were you doing something similar beforehand?
Speaker 4: This is obviously a new thing.
Speaker 13: Yeah. So I was actually an equine behaviorist and I
Speaker 13: used to work with just horses, and then I met
Speaker 13: my beautiful friend Beck who was in the therapeutic industry,
Speaker 13: and yeah, it just kind of organically grew. We were
Speaker 13: really lucky. And the animals that we've got it just
Speaker 13: they're just amazing animals. Just to see then react to
Speaker 13: how these the energy of the children or the participants
Speaker 13: that come out, So we have people with disabilities come out,
Speaker 13: behavioral issues, and the animals just they really just I
Speaker 13: don't know how to say, you know, are there for
Speaker 13: the kids?
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I bet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so simple as that, just being there for them.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful what you do, Amanda. It really is just magical.
Speaker 13: We do love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's really really really needed work as well,
Speaker 4: that the teens and kids these days that it's a
Speaker 4: tough time to be you know, and then going through
Speaker 4: trauma as well. It's a hard time at the moment
Speaker 4: for it to be a young person in the world.
Speaker 4: It's scary, it's.
Speaker 13: Really hard, and yeah, unfortunately, you know, it's the world
Speaker 13: that we live in. And giving them a place to
Speaker 13: just feel safe and secure and yeah at ease is
Speaker 13: something that I love doing and.
Speaker 4: Lets them just be a kid again as well, not
Speaker 4: a kid who's had something awful happened to them, because
Speaker 4: there's something that's innocent. Isn't about being with animals, being
Speaker 4: about out in nature and being about a fishing rod
Speaker 4: by damn, just sat there doing what kids.
Speaker 5: Should be doing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah it is. And look we even offered you
Speaker 13: so capacity building, so just learning how to cook and
Speaker 13: do just general day to day things that kids aren't learning.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, amazing what you unit team do. Please give
Speaker 4: it Give it a mention. You never know who might
Speaker 4: be listening right now. Give it a mention again, Amanda.
Speaker 13: So we're carring your farm in Pakenham, Victoria.
Speaker 4: And where can they find out more about you? You
Speaker 4: got You're on Facebook? You got website now we're on Facebook.
Speaker 13: We have a website. So www dot Corn your Farmbig
Speaker 13: dot Com and Facebook car in your Farm Big all right.
Speaker 4: We'll share those on our socials as well. Lovely to
Speaker 4: talk to you. Good luck with everything you're doing at
Speaker 4: the moment as well. Thank you to you and Becka
Speaker 4: what you're doing there. Thank you all right, thanks and Amanda.
Speaker 5: Joy talking to you.
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Speaker 4: Top five most neglected household chores in Australia, according to
Speaker 4: Home Maker magazine.
Speaker 5: What do we think it is?
Speaker 3: Team cleaning the oven?
Speaker 4: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Way number one?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was worst job.
Speaker 3: Did you shut the door and you're like a job
Speaker 3: for another day?
Speaker 4: Yes? Uh an, I'm a five. Polishing doorknobs.
Speaker 2: Polishes doorknops.
Speaker 4: No, I've never polish a doornob in my life. And
Speaker 4: number four he's ever scrubbed the skirting board?
Speaker 2: No, I do it with the mop.
Speaker 3: Well, put them up on the sign, skirtle on it.
Speaker 5: We've got someone come around this week.
Speaker 4: He's got to do the You know, we had the
Speaker 4: floors sanded now a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: We've got to have someone else come around to.
Speaker 4: The corking, is it?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, get the gaps.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, two days ago. Sorry, I'm under This guy comes
Speaker 4: out right, literally a huge man, right, maybe ten years
Speaker 4: older than me. Right, he looked like back in the
Speaker 4: day he would have been a five time Olympian Greco
Speaker 4: Roman wrestler. Huge, huge man. Anyway, my wife is like
Speaker 4: speaking very quickly, giving him instruction all this, and suddenly
Speaker 4: he goes, you're very serious. What I haven't stopped laughing?
Speaker 4: I won't God this morning the first night I thought
Speaker 4: he met her. When thirty seconds called it, he went,
Speaker 4: very serious. Take time to enjoy corking in life. Smell
Speaker 4: the roses, English rules.
Speaker 3: Very serious, lady, Happy birthday for the serious la y.
Speaker 4: Y yeah yeah, yeah, I'm paying for that. Corking has
Speaker 4: been done right now. Uh, don't tell her about scrubbing
Speaker 4: that skirt team more today, Sarah's your birthday at number three.
Speaker 4: De scaling the kettle? Is that stort of thing these days?
Speaker 4: Surely they de scale themselves, don't they? Number?
Speaker 5: Who cares anymore?
Speaker 4: There's going to be you're very serious, DJ, all right,
Speaker 4: So house hold chore movies? Wow? What about eat spray
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Speaker 4: that a tool?
Speaker 10: Really?
Speaker 2: What do you do with the wicker basket?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh, are you clean? Put those dirty clothes in? Where
Speaker 4: do they go in the interim that you take them
Speaker 4: off and then you put them so we don't put
Speaker 4: them straight in.
Speaker 3: You do know how the laundry basket works silver.
Speaker 4: The dirt locker silver plus, and the social knit work.
Speaker 17: Oh oh, the household someone's been scrubbing their scalp Glen
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Speaker 4: Household chore movies A Rumor with a view.
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