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Speaker 1: App Got anything good?

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So I'm aware that some of you might be tuning

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Speaker 2: in right now going who is this? Please tell me

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Speaker 2: the radios broke it. This is not an English guys.

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Speaker 2: That's the last thing we need this week is an

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Speaker 2: uninvited englishman suddenly on the radio. I'm Christian O'Connell and

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Speaker 2: we are the show that is going to be replacing

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Speaker 2: Jones inn Amanda. And the good news to you guys

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Speaker 2: is you're going to have two great shows come January

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Speaker 2: on this radio station. We're going to be waking you

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Speaker 2: up and then Jones Amanda is going to be taking

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Speaker 2: you home. This is going to be some radio station

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Speaker 2: for Australia. It's a radio station for grown ups. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: you love Jones Amanda, an incredible show for twenty odd

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Speaker 2: years together. It's in honor to take over their show.

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Speaker 2: So we're here this week to get to know you.

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Speaker 2: And obviously we flew in Sunday and then Sunday Night happens.

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Speaker 2: So I'm aware that you're dealing with a lot. Sydney

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Speaker 2: is going through a lot. And then obviously suddenly there's

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Speaker 2: a radio show. There's a brand new radio show that

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Speaker 2: you've not heard before. But I just want to say

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Speaker 2: the reaction we've had over the last two days I

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Speaker 2: was just saying to Rio during the song has been

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Speaker 2: nothing but humbling.

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Speaker 1: People have been so kind.

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Speaker 2: Someone has just dropped off a bakewell tart at reception

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Speaker 2: at six a m. Someone has made me a cake.

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Speaker 2: I'm just in awe of so thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Everyone has been sending a message and taking part of

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Speaker 2: the show. We've got a load of great stuff that

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Speaker 2: I lined up for you guys today as well. Thank

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Speaker 2: you Andrew for dropping off the cake. You god, it

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Speaker 2: does look really nice. And your lovely letter as well.

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Speaker 2: It was really moving Andrew, thank you very much. Christian,

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Speaker 2: don't eat it for another hour. It's just come out

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Speaker 2: the fridge. Welcome to Sydney, Christian. You assumed yesterday I

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Speaker 2: was an old woman.

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Speaker 1: I just thought I did.

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Speaker 2: I just couldn't help but think I didn't know. I'm sorry, however,

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Speaker 2: it does it lot. You've got the writing of a child.

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Speaker 1: Also, there's about eighteen f words. Well that together, the

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Speaker 1: cake and the f words. Granny's not writing this.

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Speaker 2: Some of the other messages that came in off the

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Speaker 2: show yesterday, Christian, will you be moving up to the

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Speaker 2: big smoking Sydney or staying there in Mexico?

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Speaker 1: Mexican? Yeah, there was a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of that during COVID, wasn't it referring to us

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Speaker 2: dirty Mexicans?

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Speaker 1: Not a nice slur on many counts the south of

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Speaker 1: the border.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Christian Edge here in Sydney, been listening to

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Speaker 2: your show on the catch up show in the evening,

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Speaker 2: Lovely to hear you guys live.

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Speaker 1: I think I heard you say that you're in Manly.

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Speaker 1: Be careful those mega seagirls.

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Speaker 2: One once I was having an extra large kebab and

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Speaker 2: a mega seagull.

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Speaker 1: Just a kebab is just enoughing It sounds who needs

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Speaker 1: an excel? I didn't know you could order it. I

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Speaker 2: Too much meat and onion down there on the beach

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Speaker 2: in the sun. I think the seagulls are trying to intervene.

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Speaker 2: It's an intervention there, the mega seagulls. They took the

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Speaker 2: Great things doing Manly hire a kayak and kayak out

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Speaker 2: to a secret beach called Store Beach. It's beautiful. I

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Speaker 2: tell you what the weather today Tomorrow Friday. I am

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Speaker 2: not kayaking out to a secret beach. Otherwise, Irb in

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Speaker 2: Patsy's News, I'll be stranded out there about become an incident.

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Speaker 2: One thing we're doing a part two off on today's

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Speaker 2: show is the Weird and Wonderful Guy to Sydney as

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Speaker 2: real Sydney and not the stuff that Chatchypete or Google

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Speaker 1: The things that you know.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, one of the big shock things that we found

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Speaker 2: out was about the panther. Sydney has a mythical, mystical

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Speaker 1: The size of a German shepherd, apparently very muscular buffead.

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Speaker 2: And Alex seems to think it's it's from the nineteen

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Speaker 1: And thank you Bob for valadading my claim too.

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Speaker 2: If Boby is you Valedictia Christian. In relation to the

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Speaker 2: panther story, there are several panthers of Sydney.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing with one. It's a whole gang of them.

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Speaker 2: Apparently one of them came to Sydney on an American

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Speaker 2: naval ship sailed into Sydney Harbor. But they weren't allowed

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Speaker 2: to take their mascot back, so they took it and

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Speaker 2: they just dropped it off at the Blue Mountains and

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Speaker 2: let it go.

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Speaker 1: Why did they have a panther? Maybe a mascot. The

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Speaker 1: other panther was set free from a private zoo. Well,

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Speaker 1: people is so confident about this? Yeah, the legend historical fact. Yep.

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Speaker 1: And Christian, I do win a billboard today? Yes we are.

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Speaker 2: We have access to these big billboards all over Sydney

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Speaker 2: and you can have your message whenever you want to

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Speaker 2: say to Sydney Live this morning, Christian, I'm jasmine. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: thousand of you to twelve students get their results, the

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Speaker 2: HRC results tomorrow. Could we do a billboard that says

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Speaker 2: proud of you HRC class of twenty twenty five. Your

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Speaker 2: mark doesn't define your worth or future. You've already achieved

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Speaker 2: so much from all your teachers, Jasmine. That is a

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Speaker 2: lovely idea.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell Show Gone Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I love getting your emails. If you ever want to

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Speaker 2: email the show about anythink my inbox is always wide open.

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Speaker 2: It's Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot au. Got a

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Speaker 2: lovely one that came in yesterday. I think you already

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Speaker 2: enjoy hearing so a man called Brad Stokes here in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: Christian enjoying the show and getting to know you and

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Speaker 2: your team this week.

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Speaker 1: Just I want to share this.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday my wife and I went to Paramatta to donate blood.

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Speaker 2: When we arrived, the queue was huge. It took us

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Speaker 2: an hour and a half just to get to reception.

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Speaker 2: We've been saying this, it's incredible. There are literally thousands

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Speaker 2: of people queuing up to give blood. In the queue

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Speaker 2: was almost every nationality and occupation represented, Arabic, Indian, Korean,

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Speaker 2: young Aussi, tradees, girls and active weear executives. Folks from

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Speaker 2: all walks of life were there together. There was a

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Speaker 2: short elderly couple when the husband was proudly wearing his

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Speaker 2: yamuka and had been unable to give blood at Bondai,

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Speaker 2: so driven all the way.

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Speaker 1: To wait in a queue again. Wow, this is incredible.

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Speaker 2: My wife had a young Chinese dad behind her, also waiting,

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Speaker 2: and as we slowly proceeded up the stair one by one,

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Speaker 2: it was a case of oneness and camaraderie developed amongst everybody.

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Speaker 2: The man in front of me had taken time off

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Speaker 2: work to donate and was wearing an indigenous printed sloppy

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Speaker 2: joe over his work clothes, which were clearly a police officer.

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Speaker 2: I asked him how he was traveling, particularly due to

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Speaker 2: his line of work this week. Yeah, we were talking

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Speaker 2: about checking in. If you see any police or first

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Speaker 2: responders this week, just ask how they are. And he

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Speaker 2: quietly said, the rabbi that died was our chaplain.

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Speaker 1: Ah oh oh, incredible. Queuing up to give blood.

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Speaker 2: It just it breaks your heart, it really doesn't, but

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Speaker 2: it also someone just this is almost the hiness around

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Speaker 2: the last couple of days. It's just really worth remembering

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Speaker 2: in these tough times. After waiting in the queue, the

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Speaker 1: Here applied, no problem to see then, just quietly walked off.

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Speaker 2: This to memize is just from so many different callings.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's benefected by this and how we all stand together

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Speaker 2: and how we all act is the most important thing Australia.

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Speaker 2: This is a lovely line, Brad.

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Speaker 1: What a lovely email.

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Speaker 2: This is Brad's last line is something so beautiful invites

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Speaker 2: saying Australia is a wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Country and I'm proud to be Australian. Brad. That is lovely.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for saying that your words will help so

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Speaker 2: many this morning. We'll read it out again later and

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Speaker 2: let's see if Brad's okay.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we should put up on our website as well.

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Speaker 1: That is a lovely letter.

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Speaker 3: Who are Christian O'Connell Show Podcast