Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Fun at the Funeral. We want your stories.
Speaker 3: Then, sometimes in life you can find laughter in the
Speaker 3: most unexpected places, like funerals. So sounded him into quite
Speaker 3: a few, and sometimes they can be giggling there and
Speaker 3: it's this relief and you're reminded that you are actually
Speaker 3: lucky to be alive with a joy And what a
Speaker 3: thing we take for granted is so today Fun at
Speaker 3: the Funeral, any stories, that's what we want to hear.
Speaker 3: We lost to Alzheimers early this year, been ill for
Speaker 3: a while and he always loved to laugh and when
Speaker 3: he was well, I'm sure he would appreciate what happened
Speaker 3: when we were lowering his coffin into the ground this year.
Speaker 3: The coffin was started to go in slanted and as
Speaker 3: the men lowering it, they couldn't get the rope length.
Speaker 2: Even as they were doing Dad was going to feet first,
Speaker 2: but then suddenly the rope at his head.
Speaker 3: End suddenly unstuck real quick aside unraveling a pace, the
Speaker 3: coffin's heading hit the bottom rapidly and that was just
Speaker 3: shifting and thud from the inside of the coffin. The
Speaker 3: vicar then announced he's in and everyone burst out laughing.
Speaker 3: Mild Man would have loved this Christian. He loved to
Speaker 3: laugh and he loved in the sense of attention. Perfect
Speaker 3: way for him to go out. Debbie, thank you very
Speaker 3: much for sharing that.
Speaker 2: That is. That's beautiful, Judy, good.
Speaker 4: Morning, good more in Christian.
Speaker 1: Here are you going?
Speaker 2: I'm good Judy, so fun at the funeral? What's your
Speaker 2: story for weet?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: You look, well we got it was it was COVID
Speaker 4: times and then look, you know dad was a big man,
Speaker 4: so he had the extra large coffin. And so we
Speaker 4: get to the grave side and there's only four handles
Speaker 4: on the coffin, and so the you know, the lady
Speaker 4: looks at me and goes how far is it to
Speaker 4: the grave? And I said, look, they're fifteen mates, and
Speaker 4: she said, we'll need some people on the end. So
Speaker 4: there's only four hands.
Speaker 3: What you want to And also, can I just say
Speaker 3: any when you see we need an extra large one?
Speaker 2: I didn't know that they came in like medium.
Speaker 4: They have them for fat people, Christian, they have them
Speaker 4: for fat people. Costs more as well, like seriously talking
Speaker 4: about a rip off. So we did it, so me
Speaker 4: and my partner on the end, we're shuffling along ride
Speaker 4: and we're all trying to walk and we get to
Speaker 4: the grave and pretty much got Deab's story. We start
Speaker 4: to lower him down and then you get over the
Speaker 4: first hump and then you actually have to lift to
Speaker 4: get up the second. Now we're all we've got no
Speaker 4: handles on the end, so.
Speaker 3: We've got It's really hard work, isn't it.
Speaker 4: So we've almost just shoved him in the whole school
Speaker 4: in the hole basically, and and but we're lucky we
Speaker 4: didn't lose my stepdad in the hole as well, but.
Speaker 2: Because we didn't see him tuesday, brother.
Speaker 4: The best thing was Christian Dad was seriously playing in
Speaker 4: the art as he lived, and I thought he would
Speaker 4: have loved it. He just went down. Everyone's fussing over him,
Speaker 4: you know, everyone's stressing, and it was just like it's
Speaker 4: getting a hole.
Speaker 5: You bugger.
Speaker 2: And those were the final words. Yes, well told Julie.
Speaker 2: That really made us laugh. Bless you.
Speaker 3: Thank you Judy for sharing that and sorry if you
Speaker 3: lost this year as well, and we send your prize.
Speaker 4: To No Worries.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Thanks Judy, Leanne good morning.
Speaker 5: Hi, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good, Leanne. Thanks for going the show so fun
Speaker 3: at the funeral. What's your story for us, Leanne?
Speaker 5: Well, my son died earlier this year, and oh, thank you.
Speaker 5: He was such a unique person. So the three songs
Speaker 5: that we had were as people were walking in, we
Speaker 5: had the same song to the Muppets, monomena phenomena.
Speaker 3: We love that song so much week do you know
Speaker 3: this now? We opened the show yesterday. The first song
Speaker 3: we played at six am Monday morning yesterday was two
Speaker 3: and a half minutes of this phenomena. So when your
Speaker 3: sons here us people go in to pay their respects this.
Speaker 2: And did he love the song?
Speaker 6: Lea?
Speaker 5: I did, he really did. And because it was only
Speaker 5: a couple of minutes and it was quite a large funeral,
Speaker 5: we added fraggle rock on the end of it.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's like a festival. Oh, it was an
Speaker 2: amazing So many people are, you know, playing airsps but
Speaker 2: you're tapping a foot to frog at right, throwing shapes.
Speaker 5: There were people in the pews bopping along.
Speaker 2: I can't see you at the back.
Speaker 5: And then as we're leaving the chapel, he desperately wanted monstermash,
Speaker 5: and I always said to him, well, I'm not going
Speaker 5: to be around, so I don't care what he had.
Speaker 5: And of course I had to put mon smashin, so
Speaker 5: we followed the coffin out with months smash.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: That that is a celebration of a life, Leanne. You're
Speaker 3: showing us all how it should be done. That's quite incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of thought when in the that one love,
Speaker 5: a lot of time. Yeah, that was good, this was
Speaker 5: his It was great.
Speaker 3: Ah, good on you, Leanne. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: trusting us with that and sharing that with us. I
Speaker 3: know it must have been a very sad time, but
Speaker 3: and I hope you well as well at the moment too.
Speaker 3: It's tough times. At moment the answer will be thinking
Speaker 3: of you. But thank you so much for making it
Speaker 3: bringing a smile to our face with that.
Speaker 5: Today my pleasure. I have a great day, guys, all.
Speaker 2: Right, and you take care of the am by bye.
Speaker 6: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 3: We're looking for your stories what happened at the funeral.
Speaker 3: Fun At the funeral, sometimes there is unexpected laughter in
Speaker 3: the sunders of places, and we've had some amazing stories
Speaker 3: this morning. If you got one for us. Firstly, thank
Speaker 3: you for trusting us with us, but we'd love to
Speaker 3: hear it. Coome on to Santo. Christian was actually a photographer.
Speaker 2: Over of this.
Speaker 3: Christian was actually a photographer and a family friends grandmother's funeral.
Speaker 3: They wanted me to take photos during the service in
Speaker 3: the funeral.
Speaker 2: It was so awkward. I heard, like, you know, the
Speaker 2: wedding photographer, all right, you know you don't care. I
Speaker 2: mean everyone everyone's around the coffin. You can't get quick
Speaker 2: selfie with me the coffin, please, it's very strange. Center Peter,
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 3: Good morning Peter. Welcome to the show. So fun at
Speaker 3: the funeral? What's your story?
Speaker 6: All right, We're at a funeral and there's an ex
Speaker 6: work colleague, and we're on the way to the burial
Speaker 6: and in the process, one of the funeral cars looked
Speaker 6: inside running there on the Hume Highway, ended up cleaning
Speaker 6: up a truck which was carrying cabbab meat. All the
Speaker 6: kabbab meat went all over the road. He then in
Speaker 6: turn come across hit the hearse, put the hearse into
Speaker 6: the wires on the median strip and it shut off
Speaker 6: to basically the Hume Highway. No I could get through
Speaker 6: the hearse couldn't move anywhere. They had to call another
Speaker 6: hearst up to transfer transfer the carfket into another herse
Speaker 6: in the meantime. In the mean time, we missed their
Speaker 6: burial plot because he had to be there by two o'clock.
Speaker 2: The whole how many squash at four, So you'll have
Speaker 2: to get yourself now we we missed.
Speaker 6: We missed our plot. We missed our burial time for
Speaker 6: the attendance and the priests and all that.
Speaker 5: So we waited the gun.
Speaker 3: So what did they do in the end Once them
Speaker 3: actually get the coffin obviously into the backup hearse, drive
Speaker 3: around all that kebbab meat that I've forgot about this
Speaker 3: all over the Humor Highway.
Speaker 6: And then what happened, Well, the kabbab meat was trying
Speaker 6: to there was trying to get thrown into the people
Speaker 6: with back of cars. So they said, oh, this is
Speaker 6: an opportunity. And then the coppers are saying, the coppers
Speaker 6: are going through people the boots, open your boot, Oh
Speaker 6: you've got combed meat, put it back on the.
Speaker 7: Other side of.
Speaker 6: A STRAYA yeah, And I said, and one of the people's.
Speaker 6: One of the people. One of the people's actually said
Speaker 6: to the girlfriend at the time, is he still on
Speaker 6: the clock? Is he getting paid overtime for all this?
Speaker 6: And that is I sitting in the car?
Speaker 3: Incredible scenes, Peter, that is an unbelievable story. Thank you
Speaker 3: very much for sharing, Peter. Take care mate, thanks for
Speaker 3: killing him.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, Sandy, come oning, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good Sandy. I hope you well as well. So
Speaker 3: fun at the funeral. What's your story for Sandy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: We to do with the ashes. My dad loved the apartment,
Speaker 7: he loved the river, and that's where he spent his
Speaker 7: final years. So when he eventually passed, we heard his
Speaker 7: ashes down the river. We had a chocolate it clearing
Speaker 7: our hands because that's what he used to do, and
Speaker 7: we used to go and visit him and half a
Speaker 7: bottle of stout that he left passed away through half
Speaker 7: a bottle of stout, and we were told that the
Speaker 7: ashes they don't blow, they're not as light as you think,
Speaker 7: but we did. We started eating the Claire through the ashes.
Speaker 7: Of course, augusta wind came up threw it back in
Speaker 7: our faces into the chocolatedy Claire. So we've got these
Speaker 7: pretty chocolate y Claires. No, we were just we were
Speaker 7: laughing so much. And the stout also was mixed in
Speaker 7: with that. It was a blowing up the bottle of
Speaker 7: stout that my nephew was pouring into the river as well.
Speaker 7: So we had Chocolady Claire. And then across the road
Speaker 7: a cow, because we're in the country, gave birth to
Speaker 7: a calf at the same time.
Speaker 2: Those two events might not necessarily be created. That's just nature.
Speaker 3: I mean, the cow didn't think I'm getting it out
Speaker 3: now so much. I knew their dad looking at cows
Speaker 3: given birth, was having a stout.
Speaker 1: And Claire, my poor nephew, was down there on the
Speaker 1: base of the rivers putting poor Poppy's ashes, kidding the
Speaker 1: get in there, sweeping them off the bank of the river.
Speaker 2: What a scene.
Speaker 7: He was determined to get him into the river so
Speaker 7: and he would have loved it.
Speaker 2: About to say, what a moment he gave you all.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, it was in view of the pub and
Speaker 7: on the.
Speaker 1: River that.
Speaker 2: Sandy, you are a you're a treat. You are very
Speaker 2: cheered us all up this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sandy, Thank you Christian take care Sandy will
Speaker 3: send your Brye.
Speaker 2: Look after yourself.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the Christian O'Connell show podcast