May 27, 2024 • 10 mins
Today we asked for your stories relating to three things..
What's in your center console? Animals on Public Transport and "My Name.. (as in)"
for people who have to explain their name, after a text from a listener who introduced herself as Meryl (as in Meryl Streep)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Christian O'Connell shoe shoe show. You me ho this new
game I learned to play on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Pro professional Here. Animals on public Transport, Christian. When I
first got my cat, took him home on the train.
It was a three hour trip. That's a long type
of little cat. They wouldn't let here. They wouldn't let
me have him with me in the carriage, so we
had to ride up the front with the conductor.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's so cute.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I could hear a sad little meal the whole trail.
Great view up there, loove three hours.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right, lines are open right now? Nine four one
four one four three. Animals on public transport? What have
you dropped? And do you have a name where you
have to do the old my name as in and then.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Explain what it is. Let's go to Is it Waquina?
Have I pronounced that right?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes, so Jaquina? So how do you explain it to people?
What is your name as in?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay? I always say my name is as in Joaquin Phoenix.
But he added a on the H.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I think that makes it more complicated. If any of
us are honest, who knows how to be spelled jaquin?
No one does? Is A three as a q A
you and I. It's it's a lot going on and phoenixes. Yes,
what did he use?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So people don't know who he is and they're like, okay,
can you spell it? And then I say, okay, j
a q because.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Then you got he was the joke.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
After after.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's so complicated, just do what perhaps done and just
say my name is.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Pat Well in the end actually, because people will say, oh,
is there a shorter version to your name?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And then when I spell it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
When I moved here for a year, I heard that.
I was like, like, what's your name to go christianly
go Chris okay and yeah, okay, Now I just go
it's just easier you call what we want, yeah Chris, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
How I'll be here.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Then correct so when I spell it over the phone,
because I say waquina. When I spell it over the phone,
I go j A and I go, oh, I thought
it was w.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
A k I n A what joaquina? Wakanda? And tell
me this. I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now, have you got two ends at the end of
your name before the A no, just what gotcha?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
If I have a need to take down your name
or know now or meet someone else with your name,
or I'm chatting to Jaquin Phoenix, need to book him
into reception? All right, thank you very much, of call
with any one of our show Beanie hats okay, thank you, Marlin,
good morning, Marlin.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hi you going Christian?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now, Marlin? Your name as in Marlon Brando. Now it
depends who you're talking to.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So I understand him and Pat's word of a certain age.
But what about if you're dealing with like a twenty
year old, They're not going to know who Marlon Brando is? Now,
do you reckon?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
No? No, not really, Like a lot of the time
I get confused with the Fish or Nemo's dade.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I forgot he was called that as in Neo's dads.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah, and look that that spelt differently, but that's generally
what I get away with. And then my last name
is McLoud, so it's in McLeod's daughters, not as in
like mc cloud ye l e O d.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, you've got you've got a lot going on with
your name as well. You've got to do two as in, haven't.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You yeah, it's it's it's definitely a trouble in life.
I wouldn't say it's the first world problem, but.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, Martin, thank you very much. She called my I
have a good day thanks to killing the show. Cheers, counting,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So your name, as in, what do you say to people?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, our last name has two pronunciations, so if you
say it with the original Italian, you could pronounce it
like a facial pastor, which is more squetti.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
So who.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Otherwise, if you say it is Aussie Bergan, it's like
the big knife, Michelle.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's two wildly different words, aren't they though, Kerm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes exactly, and people constantly get it mistaken. Otherwise, if
you take my maiden name, which is German, it's keeeny.
I just say my grandfather, whose first name was Bert,
was the person who invented swim with be Keeni.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's very clever, theo way you broke it the down
actually I impressed.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thank you very much, A cool no worries, all right,
keep this coming. Then, if you've got a name where
you have to say us in and you've got some
handy go to way of explaining what your name is,
and We're so looking for your stories about what have
you dropped? And animals on public transport?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Christian no Connall's show podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Christian O'Connell's show. Do you have a name? We have
to every time you're explaining it to somebody, how to
spell it, how it sounds, you have to do, as
in you've got to go to Christian. My name is Loats.
When asked a spell it, I say, it's like boats,
but with an L, not a B. Also, when I
was three, my sister was carrying me at a caravan park.
(05:28):
She suddenly saw a frog, freaked out, dropped.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Me on the ground and ran away.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Wow that is quite she drops you, all right? So
on today's show, what have you dropped? Animals on public transport?
And do you have a name? As in what do
you say to people? Nine four one four one O
four three. Laura, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Laura, Good morning everybody. My name's Laura, and I'm Itallian.
But it's not spelled La. You are a it's spelled
l O R. And I have to explain to everybody
it's like Dora but with a L. And everyone looks
at me really strange. And then I even get asked,
(06:09):
how do I pronounce your name and how do you
spell it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So Laura.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I just presume there was only one way I was
spelling Laura. So there's a different Italian variation.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, apparently it's a German. It's the German spelling I
was told by if I work with children and family
told me. The grandmother goes, oh, are you German? And
I said no, I'm actually attaining. She said, We're all
spelling is spelled how the Germans would spell Laura. So
go figure.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I don't know what my parents are thinking, but I
think I've ever only had one person in my whole
entire lifetime when they've set me mail, have not asked
me how to spell my name, and they've actually spelled
to lra. And every time I get anything spelled that way,
I'm in shock. I work, as I said, with children
in the parents. When I get cards, like at Christmas
(07:03):
time or a thank you card or something, it's always
l A U R A spell l everywhere so they
can see it, but no one, no one even knows that.
And I actually worked somewhere with they called me for
six months Laura.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, that's nowhere near Laura, is it no?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And when I left, they said goodbye Laura. And in
the end, I just I was sick of telling them
that my name calls me Laura.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's it. I've done out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
All right, Laura as in Dora. Correct, We've gotcha, all right,
Thank you very much, Laura as in Dora.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's you cool, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Have a good day, babe.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I thought we're going to get a few more jobs.
Then I think it's Laura as in once I was
working with.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We got a full CV either. We went through that resume.
My friend Michael, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Good So you've got a story about animals on public transport,
I do.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
My parents had an outing of the city and they're
at a tram stop waiting to come home. So they
had been a good Samara and thought I'd give this
lady a hand lifting the pram into the tram and
they said that they got it up there, and Mom
had a look, and then she had to look again
and she starts laughing. It's like you've just given a
lady a hand with a cat inside the pram. That
(08:20):
my dad turned round. He's like just shook his head like.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
To do still help somebody out.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Yeah, great, he's a good Samaran. But then he's just
like now he's thinking twice when there's a pram when
he heads into the city again. So she's like, you've
never seen.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know, we call out for me once cat and
the prams. That's how arrogant cats are. If we're going
to town. You got ferry around and would take the tram.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
He was brought back by it. But we're still give
him bit of crap about it. So yeah, it's good fun.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The love it all right, Michael, thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Thank you. Have a good eight guys.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
All right, Rob, good morning, Wrath Animals and Public Transport.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, good morning, Christian, Good morning everyone. I was backpacking
around Africa and I had to take a taxi. They
called him a tattoo in Swahili. Twelve Nairobi up to
Mount Kenya. And on the journey, the taxi driver decided
to pull over and buy a chicken that I had
to buy. I had to hold the chicken for the
entire journey.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It is there's a many questions. So they were they
were just selling, like a truck stop or somebody. We're
just selling chickens at the side of the road.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
He must have had a regular pullover point where he
bought a chicken on a regular base.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
He was a chicken guy. He's around eleven on a Tuesday.
We managed to catch him.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, absolutely So how long did you have to hold
the chicken for?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Well, it's three hours from Mount Kenya.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What should he start hooping or sort of pecking around,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
I'm a farmer's son, Christian. I can cope with that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Sorry, stupid question, which I should have known Rob. All
right then, Rob, lovely, Thank you very much, You cool,
thank you. A bit testy there though, they're a good so.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Christian O'Connell shoe shoe show. You me ho this new
game I learned to play on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Pro professional Here. Animals on public Transport, Christian. When I
first got my cat, took him home on the train.
It was a three hour trip. That's a long type
of little cat. They wouldn't let here. They wouldn't let
me have him with me in the carriage, so we
had to ride up the front with the conductor.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's so cute.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I could hear a sad little meal the whole trail.
Great view up there, loove three hours.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right, lines are open right now? Nine four one
four one four three. Animals on public transport? What have
you dropped? And do you have a name where you
have to do the old my name as in and then.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Explain what it is. Let's go to Is it Waquina?
Have I pronounced that right?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes, so Jaquina? So how do you explain it to people?
What is your name as in?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Okay? I always say my name is as in Joaquin Phoenix.
But he added a on the H.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I think that makes it more complicated. If any of
us are honest, who knows how to be spelled jaquin?
No one does? Is A three as a q A
you and I. It's it's a lot going on and phoenixes. Yes,
what did he use?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So people don't know who he is and they're like, okay,
can you spell it? And then I say, okay, j
a q because.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Then you got he was the joke.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
After after.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's so complicated, just do what perhaps done and just
say my name is.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Pat Well in the end actually, because people will say, oh,
is there a shorter version to your name?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And then when I spell it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
When I moved here for a year, I heard that.
I was like, like, what's your name to go christianly
go Chris okay and yeah, okay, Now I just go
it's just easier you call what we want, yeah Chris, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
How I'll be here.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Then correct so when I spell it over the phone,
because I say waquina. When I spell it over the phone,
I go j A and I go, oh, I thought
it was w.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
A k I n A what joaquina? Wakanda? And tell
me this. I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now, have you got two ends at the end of
your name before the A no, just what gotcha?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
If I have a need to take down your name
or know now or meet someone else with your name,
or I'm chatting to Jaquin Phoenix, need to book him
into reception? All right, thank you very much, of call
with any one of our show Beanie hats okay, thank you, Marlin,
good morning, Marlin.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hi you going Christian?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now, Marlin? Your name as in Marlon Brando. Now it
depends who you're talking to.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So I understand him and Pat's word of a certain age.
But what about if you're dealing with like a twenty
year old, They're not going to know who Marlon Brando is? Now,
do you reckon?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
No? No, not really, Like a lot of the time
I get confused with the Fish or Nemo's dade.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I forgot he was called that as in Neo's dads.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah, and look that that spelt differently, but that's generally
what I get away with. And then my last name
is McLoud, so it's in McLeod's daughters, not as in
like mc cloud ye l e O d.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, you've got you've got a lot going on with
your name as well. You've got to do two as in, haven't.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You yeah, it's it's it's definitely a trouble in life.
I wouldn't say it's the first world problem, but.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, Martin, thank you very much. She called my I
have a good day thanks to killing the show. Cheers, counting,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So your name, as in, what do you say to people?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, our last name has two pronunciations, so if you
say it with the original Italian, you could pronounce it
like a facial pastor, which is more squetti.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
So who.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Otherwise, if you say it is Aussie Bergan, it's like
the big knife, Michelle.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's two wildly different words, aren't they though, Kerm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes exactly, and people constantly get it mistaken. Otherwise, if
you take my maiden name, which is German, it's keeeny.
I just say my grandfather, whose first name was Bert,
was the person who invented swim with be Keeni.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's very clever, theo way you broke it the down
actually I impressed.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thank you very much, A cool no worries, all right,
keep this coming. Then, if you've got a name where
you have to say us in and you've got some
handy go to way of explaining what your name is,
and We're so looking for your stories about what have
you dropped? And animals on public transport?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Christian no Connall's show podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Christian O'Connell's show. Do you have a name? We have
to every time you're explaining it to somebody, how to
spell it, how it sounds, you have to do, as
in you've got to go to Christian. My name is Loats.
When asked a spell it, I say, it's like boats,
but with an L, not a B. Also, when I
was three, my sister was carrying me at a caravan park.
(05:28):
She suddenly saw a frog, freaked out, dropped.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Me on the ground and ran away.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Wow that is quite she drops you, all right? So
on today's show, what have you dropped? Animals on public transport?
And do you have a name? As in what do
you say to people? Nine four one four one O
four three. Laura, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Laura, Good morning everybody. My name's Laura, and I'm Itallian.
But it's not spelled La. You are a it's spelled
l O R. And I have to explain to everybody
it's like Dora but with a L. And everyone looks
at me really strange. And then I even get asked,
(06:09):
how do I pronounce your name and how do you
spell it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So Laura.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I just presume there was only one way I was
spelling Laura. So there's a different Italian variation.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Well, apparently it's a German. It's the German spelling I
was told by if I work with children and family
told me. The grandmother goes, oh, are you German? And
I said no, I'm actually attaining. She said, We're all
spelling is spelled how the Germans would spell Laura. So
go figure.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I don't know what my parents are thinking, but I
think I've ever only had one person in my whole
entire lifetime when they've set me mail, have not asked
me how to spell my name, and they've actually spelled
to lra. And every time I get anything spelled that way,
I'm in shock. I work, as I said, with children
in the parents. When I get cards, like at Christmas
(07:03):
time or a thank you card or something, it's always
l A U R A spell l everywhere so they
can see it, but no one, no one even knows that.
And I actually worked somewhere with they called me for
six months Laura.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, that's nowhere near Laura, is it no?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And when I left, they said goodbye Laura. And in
the end, I just I was sick of telling them
that my name calls me Laura.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's it. I've done out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
All right, Laura as in Dora. Correct, We've gotcha, all right,
Thank you very much, Laura as in Dora.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's you cool, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Have a good day, babe.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I thought we're going to get a few more jobs.
Then I think it's Laura as in once I was
working with.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We got a full CV either. We went through that resume.
My friend Michael, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Good So you've got a story about animals on public transport,
I do.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
My parents had an outing of the city and they're
at a tram stop waiting to come home. So they
had been a good Samara and thought I'd give this
lady a hand lifting the pram into the tram and
they said that they got it up there, and Mom
had a look, and then she had to look again
and she starts laughing. It's like you've just given a
lady a hand with a cat inside the pram. That
(08:20):
my dad turned round. He's like just shook his head like.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
To do still help somebody out.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Yeah, great, he's a good Samaran. But then he's just
like now he's thinking twice when there's a pram when
he heads into the city again. So she's like, you've
never seen.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know, we call out for me once cat and
the prams. That's how arrogant cats are. If we're going
to town. You got ferry around and would take the tram.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
He was brought back by it. But we're still give
him bit of crap about it. So yeah, it's good fun.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The love it all right, Michael, thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Thank you. Have a good eight guys.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
All right, Rob, good morning, Wrath Animals and Public Transport.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, good morning, Christian, Good morning everyone. I was backpacking
around Africa and I had to take a taxi. They
called him a tattoo in Swahili. Twelve Nairobi up to
Mount Kenya. And on the journey, the taxi driver decided
to pull over and buy a chicken that I had
to buy. I had to hold the chicken for the
entire journey.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It is there's a many questions. So they were they
were just selling, like a truck stop or somebody. We're
just selling chickens at the side of the road.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
He must have had a regular pullover point where he
bought a chicken on a regular base.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
He was a chicken guy. He's around eleven on a Tuesday.
We managed to catch him.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, absolutely So how long did you have to hold
the chicken for?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Well, it's three hours from Mount Kenya.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What should he start hooping or sort of pecking around,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
I'm a farmer's son, Christian. I can cope with that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Sorry, stupid question, which I should have known Rob. All
right then, Rob, lovely, Thank you very much, You cool,
thank you. A bit testy there though, they're a good so.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
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