Speaker 1: Good Mornings a Christian o'connall show podcast at.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, six minutes past six Thursday morning, Welcome to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Jack Post, Good morning, Christian O'Connell.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Patrina Jones.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Christian O'Connell.
Speaker 4: In check right, So before we get into the show,
Speaker 4: this is exciting, this is exciting. We need to get
Speaker 4: into this because dammit, I was offering an exclusive yesterday
Speaker 4: evening and the TV breakfast show Sunrise. I try to
Speaker 4: muscle in there before my exclusive yesterday, even though I'm
Speaker 4: going through the emails as they come in, catching up
Speaker 4: with all the emails have been sent by our lovely listeners
Speaker 4: all over the world here in Australia and the podcast
Speaker 4: listeners all over the world. I'll see one come in
Speaker 4: some jet heading one hundred year old man.
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking this is about our producer.
Speaker 4: It literally did seriously, no Joe, I did thought it
Speaker 4: must be a cart out Brad and how he accidentally
Speaker 4: gave away a thousand dollars of other day because that's what
Speaker 4: a one hundred year old producer would do. Then I
Speaker 4: see it's about one of our listeners whose granddad was.
Speaker 4: You know sometimes how news supporters they count the streets
Speaker 4: and they just do vox pops.
Speaker 3: Just stop random pible on the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes they ask them like really important, you know,
Speaker 4: questions about geo political issues. And they just asked some
Speaker 4: guys wandering around outside a Baker's Delight at two in
Speaker 4: the afternoon who had nothing better to do.
Speaker 5: We don't need that guy's opinion.
Speaker 4: But anyway, they were doing some vox pops and the
Speaker 4: reporter in Wales gets chat to an old guy and
Speaker 4: the old guy drops in the fat that he's one
Speaker 4: hundred years old, and the reporter cannot believe that his luck,
Speaker 4: that he's talking to a one hundred year old man.
Speaker 4: And when you see the video clips going all over
Speaker 4: the world. Right now, when you see the video clip,
Speaker 4: this guy looks like your granddad, a very fit, very
Speaker 4: sharp mentally as well, granddad who's maybe in his mid
Speaker 4: or early eighties. He does not look like a hundred
Speaker 4: year old man. Now, the reason why this guy is
Speaker 4: email me it's our listener's granddad.
Speaker 5: Wow, the granddad.
Speaker 4: The one hundred year old man is called Owen Filler
Speaker 4: and his grandson Craig listened to our show. He's listened
Speaker 4: to me on already for years, and he's followed me
Speaker 4: over here as well. So he was letting us know, saying, look,
Speaker 4: this clip is going all over the world. It's my granddad.
Speaker 4: He was just out walking to his grocery shop on
Speaker 4: Monday spies. The TV crew starts chatting about his life,
Speaker 4: and it's now become a big start all over Apparently
Speaker 4: I've just read it's going to be on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 4: What messy anyway, I haven't listened to this listen to
Speaker 4: this guy. Then this is the first moment where the
Speaker 4: reporter is going it's probably saidly, come around, here's some
Speaker 4: old guy. He just wander around the street. That's going
Speaker 4: chat to this old.
Speaker 6: Dude, be all my life. I'm Andrew years old.
Speaker 4: I can yes, I what is the age? By the way,
Speaker 4: the old elderly people let.
Speaker 3: You need to tell you, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's once you get past eighty five.
Speaker 4: Maybe they've become like old age mentioners, don't they were
Speaker 4: They've got a mention in the age but if you're
Speaker 4: a hundred, rightly, so drop that.
Speaker 6: Oh I've been all my life, I'm man threw years old.
Speaker 6: I can, Yes, i am, I'm hundred years old. I
Speaker 6: can remember the trams running down Nella where there's rickslat
Speaker 6: the actually dred years old.
Speaker 7: Yes, I have.
Speaker 5: What's the time?
Speaker 4: Can we time it before the guy actually goes looks
Speaker 4: at and case he's hundred years old?
Speaker 6: I've been all my life. I'm and threw years old.
Speaker 6: I can, Yes, I am, I'm hundred years old. I
Speaker 6: can remember the trams running down Nella where there's rickslat
Speaker 6: the actually dred years old. Yes, I have right across
Speaker 6: the road.
Speaker 5: One hundred years old.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a it's a classic prank for not persons
Speaker 4: into one of the streets pretending to be one hundred.
Speaker 5: How many of us have been scammed by them?
Speaker 4: And this was because he's at one hundred years You
Speaker 4: think about what he's been through and what he's now
Speaker 4: experiencing with COVID nineteen coronas where it's literally great war.
Speaker 8: I can walk the river back and it's dead flat,
Speaker 8: or I can go on my scooter. I've got electric scooter.
Speaker 8: But it's like having a car and just jump on
Speaker 8: and it's better than walk. It's natural the legs of
Speaker 8: a walking, aren't they?
Speaker 5: What did like?
Speaker 4: And also ever listened to you, you appreciate these are
Speaker 4: one hundred when you hear this about his kids.
Speaker 7: And aren't my four kids are all pensioners?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 9: Sixty nine, seventy one, seventy three, seventy five, four kids pension?
Speaker 7: Do you all get them in the primary?
Speaker 4: So this morning we got to find out who is
Speaker 4: our oldest listener? Right, because bear in mind it is gold.
Speaker 4: I bet there'd be people listening.
Speaker 3: Going lines are full ten.
Speaker 4: And the old folk they like to get up early
Speaker 4: as well, don't they. So we've got to find our
Speaker 4: oldest listener. And also do we think we have any
Speaker 4: listeners that actually other than owen over in the UK
Speaker 4: and Wales he's got a hundred year old granddad. Do
Speaker 4: we think we have any listeners who have a relative
Speaker 4: who are older than one hundred? Do a quick during
Speaker 4: the song Jackie Boy, do a quick Google search. How
Speaker 4: many could we no matter how many over one hundred
Speaker 4: year olds are there even in Australia, because it can't
Speaker 4: be that many people who are over one hundred in
Speaker 4: the UK used to get a letter from the Queen
Speaker 4: on your birthday, which always thought was a lovely thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they still do that now, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do that here as well.
Speaker 5: Well she sends you a letter as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe so. Centurions get a letter from the Queen.
Speaker 5: That's great. Do you know what? And apparently now it's
Speaker 5: a record number of letters she sends out every day
Speaker 5: because more and more of us are living older and
Speaker 5: old analogy to medicine.
Speaker 3: That's what Google's saying, a sharp rise in Australians centenarians
Speaker 3: and twenty eight well in Australian Australians.
Speaker 10: Are you serious?
Speaker 5: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Christian Iconnoll the Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 4: She's just played a clip of a guy's going all
Speaker 4: over the world. I was wandering the streets and then
Speaker 4: one of those voxpops TV news crew to start chatting
Speaker 4: to them. They're talking to a one hundred year old man.
Speaker 4: I've just shown chat the photos and the video. Describe
Speaker 4: what he looks like.
Speaker 3: That doesn't look a day over, seventy five, brightly, yeap, happy,
Speaker 3: he looks youthful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know he does. He looks. He looks like
Speaker 5: he's got a zest for life as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you think you'll hit one hundred. I
Speaker 4: know I would put money I will not get to
Speaker 4: one hundred.
Speaker 3: I would love to think that I'm like this at
Speaker 3: one hundred. Yeah, brings me joy to think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like, he's just he's with it and he
Speaker 4: looks happy. Does he looks really really young? So this
Speaker 4: is one of our podcast listeners over in England. It's
Speaker 4: his granddad who just happened to be walking to his
Speaker 4: grocery shop spies a film crew starts having a chat
Speaker 4: to them. Now it's going all over the world because
Speaker 4: the fact he's a joyous man who's one hundred.
Speaker 5: He's got four kids who are all pensioners. Count the ages.
Speaker 4: This is amazing this bit where's talking about how old
Speaker 4: his kids are, just to put it into context.
Speaker 7: And my four kids a lot pensioners.
Speaker 9: Sixty nine, seventy one, seventy three, seventy five.
Speaker 5: That's amazing, is it? You think what he's been through.
Speaker 4: And at the end they asked him about what he
Speaker 4: thought of Corona because he's lived through the Great War?
Speaker 5: Is this one scary?
Speaker 7: Yeah, very scary. Yeah, this is Rufflin Warren.
Speaker 5: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: All right, So this morning we're looking for our oldest
Speaker 4: listener and also, do you have a relative who is
Speaker 4: over one hundred?
Speaker 5: Jack's found out there are just under what five thousand.
Speaker 3: Four thousand, eight hundred in Australia.
Speaker 5: Nine four one four one oh four three Steven, good morning,
Speaker 5: Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 11: Here you go mate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm good. So Steven, you got an elderly relative.
Speaker 12: Yeah, my guys got grandmother is the hunter and ten
Speaker 12: up in ten till still spokes and drinks like a trooper.
Speaker 11: Mate, wow.
Speaker 3: Ten.
Speaker 13: Oh, she's got the she's got the terror that comes
Speaker 13: around and texts on her and she still speaks out
Speaker 13: on her death and most and SPRINTO gombag.
Speaker 7: Apparently that is amazing.
Speaker 3: One hundred and ten what's the record? Somewhere in the
Speaker 3: one hundred and is like seventeen sixteen, but she must
Speaker 3: be getting up there.
Speaker 5: How old is the good? Look, Joe?
Speaker 4: How old is the world's oldest lady? I thought they
Speaker 4: run like hundred twelve hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 14: Yeah, she would definitely.
Speaker 11: I've never met her myself that I'm definitely.
Speaker 14: I think she's lost their mind a little bit that
Speaker 14: as you would at that age.
Speaker 11: But she's getting the.
Speaker 3: Oldest living person one hundred and seventeen one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty two days as of May twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have to do that daily counters. Well, it's
Speaker 5: not a title.
Speaker 4: They ever want that one as well, because it means
Speaker 4: for you to get it. It's not like you've beaten
Speaker 4: someone or you're the new title holder.
Speaker 3: Gness, don't even bother sitting out the.
Speaker 5: Pis if they're at your door.
Speaker 4: You don't even want to open the door to find
Speaker 4: the other new, current, very temporary holder of the world's
Speaker 4: oldest person.
Speaker 5: All right, Stephen, that's a great one. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You cool.
Speaker 1: We have a good day The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Time for some of your emails play.
Speaker 4: All right, you can email whenever you want about some
Speaker 4: of you've heard us talk about on the show. We
Speaker 4: called it late to the party today. Then off with
Speaker 4: this maps. We've talked about this two days ago about
Speaker 4: map reading and the ancient art of map reading. The
Speaker 4: young millennial Jackpost was stunted to know this, so we
Speaker 4: used to navigate our ways around using atlases and roadmaps
Speaker 4: and meilways Christian. Back in the early two thousands, my
Speaker 4: best friend and I were driving to a friend's eighteenth
Speaker 4: birthday party on a Saturday night. Neither of us have
Speaker 4: been to the house before, so we were using a
Speaker 4: map to get us there. We arrived at what we
Speaker 4: thought was his party, but it turned out to judler.
Speaker 4: Poor map reading skills led us to a lady's fiftieth.
Speaker 4: We shed a few lass with them on the doorstep,
Speaker 4: then set off again search for our friend Tim's house.
Speaker 4: When we finally arrived at the correct party, we'll be disappointed.
Speaker 4: See everyone was just sitting around watching a movie and
Speaker 4: having a really dull night. We left not long over.
Speaker 4: Using the map, we went back to the fiftieth asked
Speaker 4: if we could join the party. We had a great
Speaker 4: time to tasa hours and had a lot of birthday cake.
Speaker 4: We were only seventeen at the time. Cheers Jody, Jody,
Speaker 4: that's great. I love, that's fantastic. This comes from Matthew Couchman,
Speaker 4: Christian and my geography teacher and some of the kids' favorites.
Speaker 4: Lesson is a group task to measure distances using string
Speaker 4: on a big map. I even have os maps or
Speaker 4: various areas around the world.
Speaker 5: I lottle know.
Speaker 4: In fact, some map makers used to put fake roads
Speaker 4: on their maps so they can prove they've being copied
Speaker 4: by rival companies.
Speaker 3: I heard that. Isn't that so cool?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Matt the geography teacher dreading going back to work. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I bet you speak for all teachers there.
Speaker 5: Pajama time.
Speaker 4: This is Patsy telling us how she's in pajamas at
Speaker 4: five o'clock in the evening. Christians and Patsy talk about
Speaker 4: the pajamas at five. I'm a farmer out in rural
Speaker 4: Victoria this time of year. We're planting the crops, so
Speaker 4: crazy hour as an attractor and whatnot. I love that
Speaker 4: phrase and whatnot. There were certain phrases that I worry
Speaker 4: will die out. Whatnot is a great one, wasn't it?
Speaker 5: You know? And whatnot.
Speaker 4: In regards to where my pajamas go on, it is
Speaker 4: normally between the hours of one to three am, and
Speaker 4: they come off at seven am when I go back
Speaker 4: to work. We plant away from our home, so a
Speaker 4: lot of time I will finish at one to three am.
Speaker 5: That's true, hardow, I mean, that's a proper job.
Speaker 4: And have a shower in my cabin, then sleep and
Speaker 4: do you know what I've often thought about this? Then
Speaker 4: sleep fuddy clothed, ready for the next morning so I
Speaker 4: can sleep.
Speaker 3: What a great idea I would that overnight?
Speaker 4: Do you know what that's next? For ten or five minutes,
Speaker 4: isn't it? I'm wanting to try that tonight. The jeans, socks,
Speaker 4: jumper all go on. Not comfortable, the jeans, socks and
Speaker 4: jumper all it wants.
Speaker 3: Also in regards to these save a minute, Really it
Speaker 3: doesn't take that longer pulse.
Speaker 4: It's not a minute. If you was during the day,
Speaker 4: it'd be a minute. It's a slow kind of two minutes.
Speaker 4: It's stagging around at one leg trying to get the
Speaker 4: other leg into your underwear. And that This is from
Speaker 4: Jacob's twenty three The Farmer regards to when you say
Speaker 4: good morning and good afternoon, do you know what you
Speaker 4: crossed the line yesterday in the meeting that we had
Speaker 4: with the boss. You sided with the boss about that?
Speaker 3: No, I no, I didn't. It was really I did.
Speaker 4: Always side with you, even if I think you're on,
Speaker 4: because that's how we are.
Speaker 5: You broke the pack yesterday.
Speaker 4: You were on your own now, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: say something to you that only you and I will.
Speaker 5: Know what this is code for. Okay, go ahead, No,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to
Speaker 5: say it.
Speaker 3: Can I just bend myself quickly? She pointed out paths,
Speaker 3: which was fair. Christian said, we've had an overwhelming amount
Speaker 3: of calls that are saying good evening is five o'clock.
Speaker 3: She pointed out that we took three calls, two of
Speaker 3: them said good afternoon, and one of them said.
Speaker 4: And he went, he should have said, no, I don't
Speaker 4: think that's right, Sue. We move on, and he went, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right, Sue. Yet did you notice that throw me
Speaker 4: under the bus?
Speaker 5: She'd have to voicemail at seven o'clock yesterday evening saying
Speaker 5: good afternoon the boss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's what how much she now realizes that
Speaker 4: there's not a strong unit here.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm going to say the code word.
Speaker 3: Now, dividing Jack Darwin, Darwin.
Speaker 5: Do you know what that means? Yes?
Speaker 4: It does, Darwin. Bye Bye, Jack, Hello Darwin. Get for
Speaker 4: the Jack post of the morning show. Anyway, back to
Speaker 4: Jacob the Farmers and his jeans socks and Jumper.
Speaker 5: He just wants to.
Speaker 4: Say that when you say good morning and good afternoon,
Speaker 4: all of the opinion that the good afternoon stops when
Speaker 4: the sun goes down some Jacob I can fill him
Speaker 4: under my overwhelming majority. Christian, this is quick and easy
Speaker 4: method to calculate the nine Times Stable. Listen, don't go
Speaker 4: any more. Please know more about the Times tables. It's
Speaker 4: boring to begin with, and I do not want anymore.
Speaker 4: Please don't waste your precious time emailing me about Times
Speaker 4: table hacks.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: To the Sweets Mount Rushmore will be debate with you
Speaker 4: for trying to find the top four, the very definitive
Speaker 4: best four in a certain thing each weet what would
Speaker 4: it be?
Speaker 5: This week?
Speaker 4: With the sad basting of the great Jerry Stiller, Francus
Speaker 4: Stanza from Sein found one of the greatest sitcom dads ever,
Speaker 4: we thought we'd do TV dads in memory of the
Speaker 4: great Jerry Stinner. So we're going to go around the
Speaker 4: team that we'll ask you, who do you think is
Speaker 4: the greatest TV dad?
Speaker 5: And don't just call us and tell us a name.
Speaker 4: I want to know why you think that's the greatest
Speaker 4: TV Dad, Ever, would you want that TV dad as
Speaker 4: your dad?
Speaker 5: Per's he going to go with? First of all, I'm going.
Speaker 2: To go with Peter Griffin from Family Guy.
Speaker 15: He's the stereotypical blue collar dad. But then that's an
Speaker 15: insult to blue collar dads, isn't it. We're a big
Speaker 15: fan of this show in our house. My favorite episode
Speaker 15: would have to be I remember he was trying to
Speaker 15: christen one of the kids and didn't want to christen
Speaker 15: them a devout Catholic because he's Irish heritage and his.
Speaker 2: Dad was a devout Catholic.
Speaker 15: So he thought he'd set up his own religion, and
Speaker 15: he called it the United Church of the Fonds. I
Speaker 15: don't know if I have We've got audio of that.
Speaker 5: We have got audio of that nicely queued up as well.
Speaker 5: Please rise, now sit on it.
Speaker 1: The fines be with you and with you let us a.
Speaker 2: I just love this show.
Speaker 4: It's a really, really, really really smart show. It gets
Speaker 4: that family guys sometimes gets a bit sniffy, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: For some people think you know that it sort of
Speaker 4: came in the wake of The Simpsons and South Park,
Speaker 4: But I think it's a it stands on his own
Speaker 4: family guy, so many great characters in it.
Speaker 3: It definitely.
Speaker 15: Seth McFarlane across the creator and voiced a lot of
Speaker 15: a lot of the characters on it. He's such a
Speaker 15: clever man.
Speaker 2: But love it. And you know, the.
Speaker 15: Kids are so so awkward, Chris and Meg and and
Speaker 15: he's so awful to Meg. He constantly puts her down.
Speaker 15: And then there's Stewie and of course lowest to the wife,
Speaker 15: the redheaded Wife. But I love it. And there's a
Speaker 15: lot of the family. Yeah at our house correlate Chris
Speaker 15: and Presley my husband, and dog too, Peter and Brian,
Speaker 15: his best mate, Brian the dog who talks.
Speaker 2: If only your family dog could talk? Could you imagine that?
Speaker 15: But it's how many episodes? Now, there's a lot of episodes.
Speaker 15: Are they still making it? I think they're still making it,
Speaker 15: aren't they?
Speaker 4: Also feels like I've just tuned into a podcast about it. Actually,
Speaker 4: I just want to know the TV Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: who was a head writer for seasons one to five? Okay,
Speaker 4: great Caul for that one.
Speaker 3: Jack, I'm going to go to the original Peter Griffin.
Speaker 3: Then at the top of the mountain is Homer Simpson.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably.
Speaker 10: The legend is never try.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think you're right.
Speaker 4: He's automatically up there to the great Homer Simpsons.
Speaker 5: Would you want Homer as your dad? Though? Jack?
Speaker 3: He was my TV dad growing up. I watched that
Speaker 3: show six o'clock every night without fail. He was my
Speaker 3: dad and when I was growing up, even as recent
Speaker 3: as last night, having a discussion with my brother and
Speaker 3: sister about what the best series or what the best
Speaker 3: era of the Simpsons was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you argue about which the best seasons were?
Speaker 4: Which is what is your favorite episode?
Speaker 5: See?
Speaker 4: I love the Monorail episodes, which is one Conan O'Brien wrote,
Speaker 4: and also the I love the ongoing series I used
Speaker 4: to have with the tree House of Horrors one, two
Speaker 4: and three, really really really smart.
Speaker 3: We had tree House of Horrors on Taper is the
Speaker 3: only VADs we had of the Simpsons, and we wore
Speaker 3: it out in between the showings on chol Ten. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Monorail episode and the episode where Homer goes into space.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: We're talking about the best TV dads. If you had
Speaker 4: to pick us four, the greatest TV dads to go
Speaker 4: on Mount Roshmore. Who would be on there. We're definitely
Speaker 4: saying that this guy has to go on there.
Speaker 3: Kids.
Speaker 10: You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson
Speaker 10: is never try.
Speaker 4: Homes definitely up there. I'm worried about playing a family guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: clip again, Okay, said takes Patsy Don another five minute
Speaker 4: Memory Lane season two episode.
Speaker 5: Sell Annim was David.
Speaker 4: He's gone for episodes one to night see some one.
Speaker 4: I make a strong case for one of the best
Speaker 4: sitcom dads ever. We lost him this week, the great
Speaker 4: Jerry Stiller.
Speaker 5: This is a place of business.
Speaker 1: I told you'll never.
Speaker 3: Come in here.
Speaker 5: I watched that episode Serenity Now.
Speaker 4: Yesterday Stan grouped up all the best Frank Stan's episodes,
Speaker 4: which was a great idea into a top ten and
Speaker 4: you can work your way through them.
Speaker 5: There's so many great ones.
Speaker 1: The tradition of fest of Us begins with the airing
Speaker 1: of grievances. I got a lot of problems with your
Speaker 1: people too.
Speaker 5: You're going to hear about it.
Speaker 4: I reckon Frank's Kistan's has got to go up there
Speaker 4: with Homer. But for me, in terms of the greatest
Speaker 4: TV dad. I'm gonna go for this guy. If you've
Speaker 4: seen the Sopranos, a deeply complicated fine and psychopath. However,
Speaker 4: he loved that family. He loved that family. He's a
Speaker 4: role model dad. For me, he's a dysfunctional psychopath or
Speaker 4: the head of a dysfunctional family, which is this radio
Speaker 4: show sometimes, so I'd grow as greate as TV dad.
Speaker 4: For me, I'd go Tony Soprano. Let's go the lines, Christian.
Speaker 4: What about Phil Dumphy. Yeah, Phil Dumphy has to be
Speaker 4: up there for Modern Family, one of the greatest sitcoms ever,
Speaker 4: Such a funny show that I have tattooed on my arm.
Speaker 5: What would Phil Dumphy do?
Speaker 3: Amazing?
Speaker 4: We're trying to get hold of this guy. I need
Speaker 4: to see a photo of that. That's awesome. Coucy and
Speaker 4: what sonya Ed O'Neill, the great actor Ed O'Neil himself
Speaker 4: in Modern Family as al Bundy to me the real
Speaker 4: life Homer Simpson. Yeah, the originators and creators of Homer
Speaker 4: Simpsons said the Macroner said they based it all on
Speaker 4: Ed's performance as al Bunda. They said, if it hadn't
Speaker 4: been for married with children, there would be no Homer Simpson.
Speaker 4: They just literally stole a lot of it from him.
Speaker 5: He's great.
Speaker 4: Ed O'Neil was great in Modern Family as well. Paul's
Speaker 4: on the line. Good morning, Paul, Good morning guys.
Speaker 10: How are you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're good. I hope you're having a good week.
Speaker 5: Paul and TV dad. Who's the greatest one for you?
Speaker 11: It's got to be read formal from that SEMNII show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a good show.
Speaker 14: That crack up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, nice one. Yeah, I thought about that one. Paul.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. You cool. Have a good day.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Simon, good morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah good.
Speaker 13: I was Tim the toll Man Taylor from Home Improvement.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what a great show that was. I love watching. Yeah, funny, funny,
Speaker 5: funny show.
Speaker 4: Tim Allen was the kind of TV god for me
Speaker 4: at that certain age when that came on. It was
Speaker 4: a huge show all over the world. I used to
Speaker 4: love that show. Yeah, really really good. Who's the guy
Speaker 4: over the fence? You just saw the hat Wilson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was very very good. Simon, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You cool. We've got another one here. Uh shame Jamie
Speaker 5: coome oning, come on, God, Yeah, we're good. What's your
Speaker 5: favorite TV dad.
Speaker 16: Randy Marsh's Youth Park.
Speaker 4: Oh well okay, yeah, Randy Marsh is South Park. Yep,
Speaker 4: that's a good You were calling us on a c
Speaker 4: B radio. No, A right, that's what is Yeah, that
Speaker 4: is better, Jamie, have a great day. Thank you very
Speaker 4: much to call him. Christian O'Connell shoe podcast.
Speaker 5: Great news, Patsy about powder Finger.
Speaker 2: Oh isn't it huge?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 5: They always said they wouldn't.
Speaker 4: And I even remember on Who's calling Christian when stupidly
Speaker 4: and naively I asked her Darren when he called him
Speaker 4: Darren Middleton. I think he called him because his it
Speaker 4: was it his mum who listens to the show, or
Speaker 4: it's his mum's neighbour listened to the show.
Speaker 5: Byron.
Speaker 3: But you also asked Bernard himself or Bonnet Fanny. He said, yeah,
Speaker 3: will you ever reform? Powdered, and he went cold on
Speaker 3: you straight away, and then you had to him back over.
Speaker 4: The So you know, basically, Patsy, I'd like some credit
Speaker 4: for you know, I think he did start to think
Speaker 4: about it. Bonnet Fanny thought about it after that call,
Speaker 4: you know, and.
Speaker 3: He's he's let it run around their brain for a year, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it is great news.
Speaker 4: So May the twenty third, they're streaming alive come a
Speaker 4: home concert thing like music from the Home Front on.
Speaker 15: YouTube on their YouTube or yep from seven pm Saturday
Speaker 15: week one night, lonely concert.
Speaker 5: They're calling it awesome.
Speaker 4: That is really really great news. We should say we
Speaker 4: can stream that or something the rest which it will
Speaker 4: sound brilliant.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: Then Jack's got a conundrum.
Speaker 3: And now you don't need to know what times of
Speaker 3: the day I go to the toilet. But for this story,
Speaker 3: do you.
Speaker 4: Have like a set time I go when I need
Speaker 4: to go. I don't have a set time. Oh it's
Speaker 4: pool clock.
Speaker 3: I'm usually pretty regular, pretty regular. It's the first thing
Speaker 3: I do in the morning.
Speaker 2: Are we talking? Number two?
Speaker 3: Is Jack number two?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My wife is always She won't said to me, I
Speaker 4: envy that about you. It's just how within twenty minutes
Speaker 4: of waking up, it gets done, the system gets flushed.
Speaker 4: She actually said I'm that, but went, don't you us.
Speaker 5: Oh no, not every day like that? On clockwork, clockwork.
Speaker 3: So I'm usually clockwork like that as well. Yesterday I
Speaker 3: had a surprise afternoon.
Speaker 4: Pooh, stay with this story. When he told me I
Speaker 4: don't need to know, but then we got into the conundrum.
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, it's a brown conundrum.
Speaker 3: So I sit down and start, and then I hear
Speaker 3: a knock on the front door, and I can hear
Speaker 3: the muffled voices of Bianca going down the hall and
Speaker 3: opening the door. It sounds like her friend. I can
Speaker 3: hear their voices, and I can hear that her friends
Speaker 3: are over.
Speaker 5: It's just a planned visit.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know what's happening. So now I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's friends here, I better hurry up. Then I can
Speaker 3: hear through the muffled voices, so that the bathroom pretty
Speaker 3: much opens onto the living area, so they're on the
Speaker 3: on the other.
Speaker 5: Thing, it's because sometimes you can open it and go way,
Speaker 5: put the cat on. I'm going to be in there.
Speaker 4: A whifle opens the living room, person, so sometimes you
Speaker 4: can angle the door, watch the TV whatever.
Speaker 3: Dub honestly could figure that out if you trained your
Speaker 3: neck enough. You consider around the door. So anyway you're
Speaker 3: I'm on the toilet, I can hear the voices on
Speaker 3: the other side, and I can make out it sounds
Speaker 3: like they're coming. Her friend is with her boyfriend. It
Speaker 3: sounds like they're coming just to pick something up. So
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, this is good. I'll let them just
Speaker 3: grab what they need and I don't even have to
Speaker 3: announce myself. I can just stay in here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can't say hello from in there. It's
Speaker 5: really odd.
Speaker 3: So then then five minutes passes, and I'm starting to
Speaker 3: worry that maybe it's not just the picking something out.
Speaker 3: Maybe they are going to sit down and have a
Speaker 3: cup of tea.
Speaker 5: Suddenly you're going to merge after a really long fire.
Speaker 5: I didn't know you. How long have you been in there?
Speaker 5: And it's odd. So I've got to se you were
Speaker 5: waiting for them to leave as well.
Speaker 3: I've got really difficult decision to make. Do I come
Speaker 3: out now and announce myself? Obviously I've been doing a perose.
Speaker 3: I've been in there over five minutes.
Speaker 5: And also, if you are going to come out, you've
Speaker 5: got to come out really quickly.
Speaker 4: You don't want to get any back draft my smell
Speaker 4: going out into the living room.
Speaker 3: Area, or do I stay and wait it out. The
Speaker 3: worry with that is if they do sit down and
Speaker 3: have a coffee or a tea, they could be there
Speaker 3: half an hour, and then I'm then I'm stuck in
Speaker 3: the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Has he got like a window? You could have just
Speaker 4: got out and gone for a coffee or something I
Speaker 4: seriously would have done.
Speaker 3: Because then the other scare is say they sit down
Speaker 3: for a tea and then they just naturally.
Speaker 17: Every house coming up for an hour, guys, jacksonan.
Speaker 5: In is he okay with jack?
Speaker 15: See in that situation, I would get stage fright. I
Speaker 15: wouldn't be able to finish the business.
Speaker 3: No, I was already, So say I'm ray the opposite.
Speaker 4: You can do that rain or that is one thing
Speaker 4: performance anxiety doesn't worry about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So now I'm actually getting that weird thing where
Speaker 3: I'm sitting on the toilet without doing anything.
Speaker 5: Business, be clear what you're doing. You're hiding.
Speaker 3: So after about seven and a half minutes, I thought, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm going to pull the pin because if it's the
Speaker 3: half hour situation where they sit down, it's going to
Speaker 3: be too embarrassed. So I did exactly what you said,
Speaker 3: got up, do the door open, quick, door close, and
Speaker 3: then have to pretend like nothing wrong.
Speaker 5: Guys, And if your wife said anything.
Speaker 3: To you, like everyone politely didn't mention it great.
Speaker 1: Okay, Christian Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 5: What was the last time you're actually in this radio station?
Speaker 5: Was it March? End of March?
Speaker 2: It would have been March.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before we went into lockdown and you stayed out
Speaker 4: there in the world.
Speaker 5: You have missed? How many management meetings have you missed
Speaker 5: with Suth the boss? You have missed what ten? Twelve?
Speaker 3: You should have to make them all up when you
Speaker 3: finally come back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were with this team a lot of meetings
Speaker 4: because we're kind of it's normally when when the office
Speaker 4: is full, obviously there's hardly no one in the office
Speaker 4: now rightly so, like the sales team at the radio station,
Speaker 4: they're all working from home. It is mainly just the
Speaker 4: team on the show, and we're all social distance and
Speaker 4: as we should be.
Speaker 5: But it means that you can't as easily. Does it
Speaker 5: feel like you and I.
Speaker 4: Are having a lot more meetings? My New Year's resolution
Speaker 4: for last year was meet less, do more? Gone out
Speaker 4: the window? Gone out the window that you were anyway,
Speaker 4: we're having a catch up with the boss yesterday Patsy
Speaker 4: and she hits us with this idea. You know, we're
Speaker 4: just talking about how you know, a strange time we're
Speaker 4: in right now, and you know she was we were
Speaker 4: talking about how you know, people are being to see
Speaker 4: each other at the weekend, Like you're going to see
Speaker 4: your mom and dad this weekend today?
Speaker 5: Are you seeing them today, aren't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming up this morning. Yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 3: But you still have to practice social distancing and keep
Speaker 3: away from family members.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't hug them, Patsy, No, I know. No
Speaker 4: are you are you thinking about hugging them?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, just give them the high five
Speaker 2: in the air.
Speaker 5: Okay, by the way, what's going on with the caked about? Yes?
Speaker 5: So you're going to make them some dried older.
Speaker 2: Carrot cake, now stop it. I couldn't get carrot cake mix,
Speaker 2: so I got orange.
Speaker 5: So your mum and dad are high five in each
Speaker 5: other right now. And they bought it all off the shelf.
Speaker 5: They knew you were heading there. They're like, gut it quick,
Speaker 5: get in the car, headed off at the past.
Speaker 15: I went for a nap yesterday under strict instructions to
Speaker 15: the love God into odds, please don't touch the cake.
Speaker 15: It's for gg tomorrow. And then I get as Grandma, Grandad.
Speaker 15: We call them GG. And then I get up and
Speaker 15: open the fridge and someone, namely the eight year old
Speaker 15: in the house, is scraped off half.
Speaker 4: It's the best that they should just sell packets of icing.
Speaker 4: You should just be by blocks of icing. It's a
Speaker 4: great thing. So anyway, Sue says about all this, and
Speaker 4: she says, what was the line that she said at
Speaker 4: the beginning.
Speaker 3: When she said, I can't believe a company hasn't yet
Speaker 3: made a domestic hazmat suit that you can put on
Speaker 3: to hug your family members.
Speaker 4: You know, as in the kind of thing you know,
Speaker 4: like have you seen a hazmat suit they are it's
Speaker 4: like a diver's it's bigger than a divers.
Speaker 2: Out there a spacesuit.
Speaker 5: It's a spacesuit as well.
Speaker 4: You can't if the idea is so you can hug,
Speaker 4: that's even odder than just being two meters apart going
Speaker 4: hey how are you?
Speaker 5: I missed you.
Speaker 3: Actually even mind pulling on the gloves of the has
Speaker 3: met ye and then showed us how you would have
Speaker 3: your loved work.
Speaker 4: Inside any clear reactor with the isotopes, you know, and
Speaker 4: the big PLI.
Speaker 5: It was like, hey, mom, I love you Mama, it's
Speaker 5: been too long. Cush.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much for leaves texting me saying you
Speaker 4: can buy tubs of icing the Betty Crocker brand. What
Speaker 4: I need, ideally is a wooden spoon that I press
Speaker 4: a button and it just sort of shoots out that
Speaker 4: kind of icing on it is that it's off that
Speaker 4: wooden spoon. I like licking the icing off the wooden spoon.
Speaker 4: I need a constant supply from a spoon that just
Speaker 4: sort of poo palls it out the portmo said poo.
Speaker 5: On this morning, it's Jack's can untrum eard you on
Speaker 5: the show yesterday.
Speaker 4: We're talking about when suburbs just suddenly move and get renamed,
Speaker 4: And we had anonymous call from someone who works a
Speaker 4: council and her job is to rename streets.
Speaker 3: Renamed suburbs, renamed streets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got this email yesterday yesterday evening film Sharon
Speaker 4: Morgan Christian just as a follow up, heard you talk
Speaker 4: to lady yesterday Normouslady about renaming streets and suburbs. And
Speaker 4: also Jack was talking about Australia Post and the promise
Speaker 4: he had last week with his delivery the itch cream.
Speaker 5: How's it all worked out. By the way, cream onm
Speaker 5: hitch gone, it is gone. This is great news. What
Speaker 5: a day, What a time to be alive? All right?
Speaker 4: Anyway back to Sharon Morgan Christian yesterday had a phone
Speaker 4: call from a guy who had received my meal. He
Speaker 4: lives at a Rugby Crescent. I live at a Rupert Walk.
Speaker 4: Fortunately this was an Hones person who rang to let
Speaker 4: me know so I could collect it from him.
Speaker 5: How hard is this?
Speaker 4: Streets and next to each other, but in Google Mats
Speaker 4: it gives you directions pretty easy. However, haven't said that.
Speaker 4: I think Australia Posts overall is doing an outstanding job.
Speaker 4: That's some Sharon. Yeah, I mean you hear about this
Speaker 4: quite a lot, don't you wear People have like if
Speaker 4: they live in flats, whether it's flat one A, two A,
Speaker 4: three A and you're ordering a pizza and it must
Speaker 4: be a nightmare where anytime you go to order anything
Speaker 4: over the phone you have to do that one or
Speaker 4: two line explaining it. Oh and by the way, when
Speaker 4: you turn up, don't press the buzzer for flat one
Speaker 4: eight that is our address.
Speaker 3: It looks like one twenty three bits one twenty three A.
Speaker 3: You got to go round the back up the stairs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always thought it must be awful if your
Speaker 4: dress is a nightmare where you have to explain it
Speaker 4: to someone on the phone. I don't leave it there,
Speaker 4: or wear that buzzer or it says that, or you'll
Speaker 4: post go somewhere else around the corner, a couple of
Speaker 4: streets away, and you have to once a week go
Speaker 4: and get their posts.
Speaker 3: Well, often in a suburb, and I hate seeing this
Speaker 3: when they've got like a Barkley Crescent and a Barkly street,
Speaker 3: you know, two streets from each other. That must get
Speaker 3: confused all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also live at a number eight, the house that
Speaker 4: we have before we moved here. Lived there for ten
Speaker 4: years and it was sort of just opposite. This ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the town plans are doing, but
Speaker 4: it was just opposite. I lived on Dorking Avenue and
Speaker 4: there was a Dorking Road opposite my opposite R road down.
Speaker 5: Why would you do that? Anyway?
Speaker 4: One day I get a text on the garage that
Speaker 4: have been servicing my cargo and we've dropped your car
Speaker 4: off and I think a snow car outside, So I
Speaker 4: ring them and go. You can't dropped it off and
Speaker 4: they went, no, no, it's been dropped off. The young lad
Speaker 4: said he dropped off but the keys, so letterbox went
Speaker 4: there are no keys more bortanly no car And then
Speaker 4: for two hours they can't work out the guys that
Speaker 4: he dropped off at your house.
Speaker 5: And then on Twitter, get this.
Speaker 4: I just see a tweet from someone who follows me going,
Speaker 4: we've got your car. I tweeted about going DM me,
Speaker 4: I have actually lost my car. They say we live
Speaker 4: at number eight Dorking Avenue. I was at Dorking Crescent,
Speaker 4: number eight. They happened to be following me on social
Speaker 4: media and listened to the show. Someone has just dropped
Speaker 4: off a car and put the keys through the letterbox
Speaker 4: and bug it off.
Speaker 5: They had my car.
Speaker 4: The occasionally would get my post, but the car is
Speaker 4: a bit much so this morning.
Speaker 5: Is your address?
Speaker 4: Or have you ever lived at an address that was
Speaker 4: one of those nightmare addresses where you had to constantly
Speaker 4: go and get your posts them somewhere else, or stuff
Speaker 4: as being misdelivered, or whenever you ordered a pizza, you
Speaker 4: had to explain in a sentence or two where you lived.
Speaker 1: Christ O'Connell Show podcast we're.
Speaker 4: Talking about nightmare addresses. Did you ever have a nightmare address?
Speaker 4: One of those where you always have to explain it
Speaker 4: to people and how to find your house or your
Speaker 4: flat or your apartment. Christian, not for now, but can
Speaker 4: you do one day nightmare phone numbers? I used to
Speaker 4: get calls from a business. There was like a one
Speaker 4: digit difference and it was a It was a business
Speaker 4: for men called Bodacious Babes.
Speaker 5: And two or three.
Speaker 4: Times a day I'd get calls from men inquiring about
Speaker 4: Bodacious Babes. Yeah, we do nightmare and around phone numbers
Speaker 4: tomorrow on the show, Today's Nightmare Addresses.
Speaker 11: Mick, good morning, Good morning, Christian and Crow.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome to the show. Mick, tell us about your
Speaker 4: nightmare address.
Speaker 11: It is a nightmare. I have an address. It's a
Speaker 11: rural property in Paradise. Lovely place in Paradise. But my
Speaker 11: miles does not get to me. My last letter that
Speaker 11: I had sent to me took just over a month
Speaker 11: and it was returned through Australia Post three times. It
Speaker 11: also had three mile stamps to say that it had
Speaker 11: been returned. It had hexta crossing out the bar codes
Speaker 11: and saying send two address, and it still took over
Speaker 11: a month to get there.
Speaker 4: See, this is what I used to think when I
Speaker 4: should watch TV shows as a kid about Australia, like
Speaker 4: Flying Doctors. I'm just presume this was Australia.
Speaker 3: Sorry, mother, Dad, I'm going to three. You probably won't
Speaker 3: be able to contact me.
Speaker 5: So why is the address in Paradise? I'm so hard
Speaker 5: to find me?
Speaker 11: Look, I don't know. It's got something to do with
Speaker 11: the Australia Post system, but Australia postontents basically don't have
Speaker 11: Paradise on the list as a mailing area, so it
Speaker 11: sort of bounces around between a couple of post offices.
Speaker 4: That's what you're saying is make is Australian post does
Speaker 4: not recognize Paradise live.
Speaker 3: How many people live in Paradise?
Speaker 1: A few?
Speaker 11: Like one hundred?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's worthy enough. Surely have a post
Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, We've got to have postcode. But up there
Speaker 11: the postcode sort of covers about five different areas, so
Speaker 11: as long as it gets to the post office, you know,
Speaker 11: they sort it out there. But it doesn't even get
Speaker 11: to the post But.
Speaker 4: This must mean like Christmas, Birthday cards and like bills
Speaker 4: and stuff that must be a nightmare for you.
Speaker 11: By the time I get bills, they're overdue.
Speaker 3: That's right. When the day collectors come, hopefully they can't
Speaker 3: find your front door exactly.
Speaker 11: That's it. That's the way I look at it like
Speaker 11: if a letter can't get to me, like you know,
Speaker 11: no one else will be able to camp.
Speaker 5: Nick.
Speaker 4: Do you know what we're going to do. We're going
Speaker 4: to experiment. I'm going to send you one of our
Speaker 4: breakfast show mugs today. All right, all right, when you
Speaker 4: get it, when you get it, I don't know when
Speaker 4: this will be.
Speaker 5: When you get it, bring me.
Speaker 4: That day and we go, Mick the Mac Paradise, When
Speaker 4: did we chat to him. We're going to send it today.
Speaker 4: We're going to send it to you today. And there's
Speaker 4: this time how long it takes to get out to
Speaker 4: you in Paradise?
Speaker 5: Okay? All right, Mick, lovely to talk to you. Okay,
Speaker 5: a thanks mate.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4: We need to find one of our listeners who knows
Speaker 4: his way around air conditioning units because I like to
Speaker 4: have it chilly in this studio, okay, But we have
Speaker 4: this very very temperamental it's like strangely working with another
Speaker 4: team member, isn't it that we can never control fact?
Speaker 4: Similar to Jack, But this thing, we set it to
Speaker 4: a temperature and it ignores us. Sometimes there's other so
Speaker 4: hot in here, but it says eighteen degrees, but it's
Speaker 4: like a sauna. Other times when we try and get
Speaker 4: it cold, like it's I just went to tourn it
Speaker 4: come back and it is so cold.
Speaker 5: You've got a thick hoodie on. I'll just put a
Speaker 5: jacket on.
Speaker 3: It's like walking into a phraser room in the back
Speaker 3: of a ust.
Speaker 4: Yes, honestly, it's really cold, but just all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: it's like an arctics.
Speaker 3: There's only really two settings. Pretending it's doing something where
Speaker 3: it's making a sound, but that doesn't change any temperature
Speaker 3: or ice cold.
Speaker 4: The only sitting that thing has is it decides what
Speaker 4: it wants to do day to day. All right, So
Speaker 4: we're talking about nightmare addresses this morning. By the way,
Speaker 4: Dane has just texted in in block capitals, which means
Speaker 4: it's something urgent.
Speaker 5: Christian.
Speaker 4: Have you discussed powder Finger reuniting? Yeah, we have, Dane.
Speaker 4: I was excited. You are great news this morning. If
Speaker 4: you're a powder Finger fan. They said they would never reunite.
Speaker 5: They are.
Speaker 4: They're doing a special gig for Beyond Blue, which is
Speaker 4: a great clause. Course, week Saturday, seven o'clock on their
Speaker 4: official YouTube channel, they're doing a whole live show, which
Speaker 4: would be amazing. We're trying to dig out the audio
Speaker 4: of when Bernard Fanning was on the show last year
Speaker 4: ye August last year, Yes, last year for Who's calling Christian?
Speaker 4: And I asked about the reunion and he almost hung
Speaker 4: up on me, So we dig that before it. But yeah,
Speaker 4: great news, Dane. So a week Saturday, seven o'clock on
Speaker 4: their YouTube channel made the twenty third Meg.
Speaker 12: Hi Christian, how are you going?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Meg, So tell me about your nightmare address.
Speaker 12: So we live on a property that's subdivided into two,
Speaker 12: but with each one has a house number. We love arrowbeats,
Speaker 12: and we're definitely not vegetarian, but our poor neighbors are
Speaker 12: and they keep getting our deliveries.
Speaker 4: So what you're ordering burgers, but it's going to your
Speaker 4: vegetarian neighbors.
Speaker 12: Yeah much so they're they're opening their door to things
Speaker 12: like bacon, hamburgers, fried chicken.
Speaker 5: To think you're actually just trying to make a point.
Speaker 5: Are yeah exactly? Yeah? Are you getting there?
Speaker 4: Are you getting the vegetarian options coming your way? They're
Speaker 4: like mung bean salad.
Speaker 12: No, but they did send over a really lovely dull
Speaker 12: curry the other day.
Speaker 5: All right, meg, lovely cool. Thank you very much. We
Speaker 5: have a good day you two. Thanks Diane.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning Christian from where beest.
Speaker 5: Neighbors?
Speaker 18: Yes, next to the love God.
Speaker 3: God mine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dane.
Speaker 18: We had a nightmare address when we first moved into
Speaker 18: our state because they left a letter out of our
Speaker 18: street name in the mailways and maps, so no one
Speaker 18: could find us when they looked it up.
Speaker 4: How can you have a typo with the map book, mailways?
Speaker 4: That's shocking the n What was the street address or
Speaker 4: your address?
Speaker 18: It's actually Minstrel, but it was spelt mistrel on the maps.
Speaker 18: So when we would give out our address, especially when
Speaker 18: we had our housewarming, we had so many people ringing
Speaker 18: us up, saying where are you? We can't find I
Speaker 18: don't exist. It's terrible.
Speaker 5: You're an invisible house. How did they ever find where
Speaker 5: you lived?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 18: There used to have to ring us and I have
Speaker 18: to stay on the phone.
Speaker 5: And on the phone. It's like landing a plane.
Speaker 18: Of them through the streets to our house.
Speaker 5: Oh that's brilliant, Diane, Thank you very much. You cool,
Speaker 5: have a good day.
Speaker 18: Thank you bye.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about pem pals.
Speaker 4: I don't know we got this yesterday someone was talking
Speaker 4: about pen pals and parents aways.
Speaker 5: Tell us about how she used to.
Speaker 4: Have one when you were younger, a little fellow in
Speaker 4: Scotland and you bonded over the nineties boy man.
Speaker 2: Ross, who is a girl Rachel.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's hard a tell with the Scottish's very cold
Speaker 4: up there and its hard to tell.
Speaker 5: Uh, And so we want to talk about it. Did
Speaker 5: you have a pen pal? After eighty? This morning?
Speaker 4: Got this? This is such a great email. Listened to
Speaker 4: this from Lee pempals because I was listening to show
Speaker 4: this morning. This is in the past, of course yesterday
Speaker 4: you know I was listening to show this morning yesterday
Speaker 4: and you were talking about pempals. I will tell you
Speaker 4: about my mother in law. My mill short for mother
Speaker 4: in law. Gwen lives here in Australia started writing to
Speaker 4: Doreen from England when she was seven years of age.
Speaker 4: This was a school initiative during the war. Anyway, they've
Speaker 4: been writing, exchanging gifts, photos, and keeping up with each
Speaker 4: other's lives for over seventy years. Seventy years now, yeah,
Speaker 4: I normally they didn't last more than a couple of
Speaker 4: months stood there, maybe a year, but seventy years. Never
Speaker 4: met in person for Doreen. Okay, So Doreen is over
Speaker 4: in England. Okay, she's the English counterpart of this. We've
Speaker 4: got Gwen the mother in law here in Australia. Doreen's
Speaker 4: eightieth a granddaughter got in touch with Michael McIntyre. Now
Speaker 4: Michael's come over here on The Biggest Comedians. She's pro
Speaker 4: probably the biggest biggest comedian in a Britain's Michael. He's
Speaker 4: a brilliant stand up and told the story. It does
Speaker 4: a Saturday night TV show, really really good one told
Speaker 4: the story. Next thing is Gwen gets a phone call
Speaker 4: asking if her and her husband would like to be
Speaker 4: flowing over to England to be on his show as
Speaker 4: a surprise for Doreen, who was going to be in
Speaker 4: the audience. They paid them to come over and be
Speaker 4: part of his big show. Her granddaughter kept it a
Speaker 4: secret for everyone just said that they'd want some tickets
Speaker 4: to go and watch the show. Doreen was randomly picked
Speaker 4: out of the audience to play a game called Soap
Speaker 4: or Nope, write that one down Jack with Nickless. People
Speaker 4: were put on a covey belt and she had to
Speaker 4: say her part of a soap proper soap or nope
Speaker 4: pass us for TV entertainment in the UK came. When
Speaker 4: it got to Gwen, she said yes, but then hesitated.
Speaker 4: Michael walked her closer to the stage and then she
Speaker 4: recognized her panpal of seventeen years, saying there were tears
Speaker 4: from everyone in the audience that she got to stay
Speaker 4: for ten days and they hung out together. Had an
Speaker 4: amazing time actually hanging out together and get to know
Speaker 4: each other in person. They still write letters now as
Speaker 4: well as emails and of course lots on Facebook.
Speaker 5: Lee, thanks for sharing that story.
Speaker 2: Isn't that a yeah goose bunt yep.
Speaker 4: She sent us a clip as well too, were the
Speaker 4: TV bits, So I'll put that on our Facebook page
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 5: I saw it last night. You will shed t is
Speaker 5: so moving.
Speaker 4: You know when people they actually don't know what to
Speaker 4: say where they're taking it in, They're just trying to
Speaker 4: process it all like the apple little update pin will
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 5: But that's a lovely man.
Speaker 1: Christ You O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Past of all love this a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: and when my teenage sorts were a lot younger. They
Speaker 4: must have been like sort of ten and eight. Me
Speaker 4: and two other families we had a part share in
Speaker 4: this pony and they were pony mad. Every weekend I'd
Speaker 4: be the pony dad. I'd have to go to these
Speaker 4: really really really boring Jim Carner's like eight hours with
Speaker 4: all these parents. I did not fit in with turn
Speaker 4: up in range rovers and with horse boxes. Tough years
Speaker 4: they were. You know, they thanked me one day, right,
Speaker 4: I was a pony dad. Often I had actually have
Speaker 4: my own high vised jacket. I used to run the
Speaker 4: car parking with another dada at half six on Sunday
Speaker 4: morning with stinking hangovers directing the traveling. But anyway, they
Speaker 4: were pony mad with this pony. Now they started to
Speaker 4: get this pen pal and he was a little African
Speaker 4: lad and a very poor Africa village. And only was
Speaker 4: he there pen pal. I sponsored him as well, so
Speaker 4: he got money from us every month and he would
Speaker 4: write these lovely sweet letters about his life. And then
Speaker 4: his life compared to my two daughter's life with their pony,
Speaker 4: was very, very different.
Speaker 5: And so this went.
Speaker 4: On for about six months and then I got I
Speaker 4: got a great gig to be the voiceover guy for
Speaker 4: the TV adverts for Macas in the UK for three years. Right,
Speaker 4: it's a three year deal and it was a great contract.
Speaker 4: And so to celebrate, said the kids, So I'm going
Speaker 4: to get next to special treat. Dad said some really
Speaker 4: good news and they were like, we'd like a news
Speaker 4: taddle for that pony. Now the think about a pony
Speaker 4: is the pony only cost me a couple of hunchred bucks.
Speaker 4: Anything to do with that pony so much money. At
Speaker 4: one point I had to pay for a pony chiropractice
Speaker 4: to go and see it. And I think, come on,
Speaker 4: a pony a car approke, someone's wrong with I'll just
Speaker 4: take some tablets.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I got to buy this saddle. I don't
Speaker 5: want to tew much.
Speaker 4: It was right, of course, an absolute bomb because I
Speaker 4: said I'm getting it anyway. So it was this beautiful
Speaker 4: kind of cow hide, immaculate saddle. They put it on
Speaker 4: the pony and it's it's not good. You remember when
Speaker 4: you get leather shoes. They haven't got a lot of
Speaker 4: giving to beginning, not one in you imagine this is
Speaker 4: a brand new squeaking. It was a bit uncomfortable long
Speaker 4: time anyway, I said, wonder, what's happening.
Speaker 5: You haven't heard from Malawa? Where's the where's the letters
Speaker 5: on the benbell?
Speaker 14: Go?
Speaker 4: Oh, he hasn't written back for ages. I went, oh,
Speaker 4: you're just to write every month. What was the last
Speaker 4: time you wrote to him? And they said, oh, it's
Speaker 4: like two months ago. So what did you actually say
Speaker 4: in that one? They get this right, No, wonder that
Speaker 4: little lad in Africa hadn't written back.
Speaker 5: He must have tore that up.
Speaker 4: They wrote to him saying, hey, Malawa, things have been
Speaker 4: pretty tough here. Our dad bought us a brand new
Speaker 4: pony saddle and it's really uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: He must have read that and go on, guys, get
Speaker 5: load of this. Read this. Wow, that's that's what he
Speaker 5: called first world problems the pony. So we never wrote back,
Speaker 5: we never heard from never again ended.
Speaker 4: I think the ps was plus my dad run out
Speaker 4: of virgin olive or the other day as well.
Speaker 5: It's been quite tough quite off week.
Speaker 1: Hello Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 4: Podcast from our Facebook page. Thank you very much everyone
Speaker 4: who leaves comments for us on our Facebook page. You
Speaker 4: do check them out. Matt James, he had a French
Speaker 4: pen pal. His parents owned a Champagne vineyard. Hell that
Speaker 4: is great in Riem, which is a beautiful part of France,
Speaker 4: southern France.
Speaker 5: He didn't like football. We didn't get on. My parents
Speaker 5: were devastated when I broke up with him.
Speaker 4: You can imagine a mama down in the morga and
Speaker 4: keep it going week for the invite.
Speaker 5: Let's us get the invite.
Speaker 3: I'll write the letters.
Speaker 4: I bet mom and dad were a devastated Matt. That's
Speaker 4: very funny, right, let's go to the lines. Amy, Good morning,
Speaker 4: Hello Amy, Hello, hello mate, Welcome for the show.
Speaker 5: So tell us about your pen pal.
Speaker 14: I have one hundred and fifty pen pounds from America,
Speaker 14: UK and Ireland.
Speaker 5: What's that You're running a company one hundred and fifty employees.
Speaker 5: How did you correspond with them?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 14: I write letters to them. They come in like sparingly.
Speaker 14: Obviously no one writes at the exactly the same time.
Speaker 14: But Christmas is usually the most expensive time for me
Speaker 14: because Christmas cards to send overseas are really expensive, so
Speaker 14: it cost me about three hundred dollars plus to send Kricklin.
Speaker 4: That's amazing, Amy, So give us some of the highlights.
Speaker 4: Where are they dotted around the globe.
Speaker 14: So we've got some in Belfast, We've got some in London, Texas, California,
Speaker 14: I've got some in Las Vegas. I could pretty much
Speaker 14: stay in every single state in America with free of charge,
Speaker 14: and I've got accommodation everywhere.
Speaker 4: So do you know what's You obviously know what's going
Speaker 4: on in all their different lives as well.
Speaker 5: Must be really interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they're all kind of really stressed at the moment
Speaker 14: with the whole COVID nineteen thing, but we're kind of
Speaker 14: keeping each other teared up. And I actually share a
Speaker 14: birthday with one of them, so we call ourselves time twins, Maudie.
Speaker 14: They're all in their fifties and that, and I'm only thirty.
Speaker 3: So, Amy, do you feel like you have a personal
Speaker 3: connection with all of them or do you get a
Speaker 3: letter for them? Sometimes they go all.
Speaker 14: Right, Mary, connected to the more I know about their
Speaker 14: kids and their kids send me photos that they've drawn
Speaker 14: a kinder and and I get photos of their school photos.
Speaker 14: I've got to hit a whole book full of.
Speaker 5: A sort of extended family for you.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm kind of like the weird Australian aunt present.
Speaker 5: It's lovely, Amy, that's great.
Speaker 4: Hey, Listen, sometimes if you ever get some interesting stories
Speaker 4: or about that from them, send us some of the
Speaker 4: highlights who call us up and read some of them anonymously.
Speaker 14: Awesome.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I will surf all.
Speaker 5: Right, Amy, Thank you very much for cool Thanks, folks.
Speaker 4: I've just thought of another second one this week Adam
Speaker 4: Sander movie Time Twins. Him and Kevin James have to
Speaker 4: pretend to be time traveling twins. Oh far this week
Speaker 4: with Adam Sander Movies. Cheryl, Good morning, Cheryl, Good morning?
Speaker 4: All right, Cheryl, us about your pen pal.
Speaker 13: Pen pal's in primary school and then when he lost
Speaker 13: contact after a few years, met up again on Facebook
Speaker 13: fifty years later, and we're both going through breast cancer.
Speaker 5: Through you're in recovery, both of you. Yes, God, what
Speaker 5: a journey you've been on together.
Speaker 13: All through the same treatments and yet happy ending at
Speaker 13: the other end.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad that you're both in recovery. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: So remind me again. And so you became penpals in
Speaker 4: primary school?
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, we did. And then a couple of years later,
Speaker 13: of course, you know, being teenagers, you'd lose contact and
Speaker 13: when Facebook come around, I went, oh, my one, if
Speaker 13: I could track it down, and managed to and we've
Speaker 13: been friends at the tint.
Speaker 4: That's a lovely story. And tell me this then, Cheryl,
Speaker 4: where is she in the world? Where is your pen pal?
Speaker 13: She was in New York when we were children, and
Speaker 13: she now lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 4: I think that's an amazing story there, Cheryl, thank you
Speaker 4: very much for sharing it with us. I'm glad you
Speaker 4: recovery as well. Friends as well.
Speaker 5: Thank you all right, have a good day. Thank you
Speaker 5: for calling. Simon. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 7: There are you going?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're good, Simon, tell us yourate your pen pal?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, my.
Speaker 16: Best mate thought it'd be really funny put my name
Speaker 16: in smash Its magazine in the early eighties and I
Speaker 16: ended up with four and a half thousand replies.
Speaker 4: Now smash It had it was a weekly music magazine, brilliant,
Speaker 4: really smart, funny music magazine for teenagers and it got
Speaker 4: it had millions of buyers every week.
Speaker 5: It was huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was the pempal section, so they took out
Speaker 4: a little spot classified advert for you looking for lonely
Speaker 4: looking for pen pals.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 3: So did you ever ride back to the four thousand
Speaker 3: they came in?
Speaker 14: Not all of them.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 16: I did make some nice friends out of it, and
Speaker 16: I still keep in touch with one or two. The
Speaker 16: postman really hated me at the end of the two
Speaker 16: week period.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, logan all that up your driveway to give
Speaker 4: you those all right, simon, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Have a good day, mate.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, why don't you and I ask our lovely
Speaker 4: listeners would they like a pen pal from a pen
Speaker 4: pound relationship with Jack, with me and Patsy, each of
Speaker 4: us will be assigned a pen Poald have to write
Speaker 4: when was the last time we write a handwritten letter?
Speaker 4: It takes ages, actually physically.
Speaker 5: Hurts your hands. You just used using your thumbs these days.
Speaker 4: If you'd like to be if you're listening around the world,
Speaker 4: I know we have a lot of listeners all over
Speaker 4: the world listened to the show and the podcast now
Speaker 4: and you'd like to be a pen pal. We'll each
Speaker 4: get one of you, and we have to do it
Speaker 4: for twelve months. You've got to stick to it to
Speaker 4: at least twelve months. Once a month, you've got to
Speaker 4: write them letter.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right?
Speaker 4: Email me Christian at Christian o'connellshow dot com dot au, The.
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Speaker 5: It's the end of the show.
Speaker 4: There we go, Okay, tomorrow, it's Friday.
Speaker 5: I just wonder it's Friday so quick.
Speaker 4: It's a different kind of feeling about Friday. For the
Speaker 4: last sort of two months have been in lockdown.
Speaker 3: Men.
Speaker 4: Really it's meant another day, isn't It's Friday? He goes
Speaker 4: back to a kind of Friday tomorrow because we're all
Speaker 4: were doing something different this weekend that we haven't been
Speaker 4: able to do over the last couple of weeks. All right,
Speaker 4: So to be continued on tomorrow's show, We're going to
Speaker 4: send out our mug to Paradise today to make in Paradise.
Speaker 4: He might not get it for four or five weeks,
Speaker 4: but we are sending out from Richmond to Paradise today.
Speaker 4: I just love the fact there is actually a place
Speaker 4: called Paradise that is beautiful. Also, looking for your pen
Speaker 4: Pal stories and if you do want to be at
Speaker 4: pen Pal with me, Chack and Pats, email me Christian
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Speaker 5: You can email me.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much for listening. Title today's show is
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