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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We had a great call from Mary who had a
famous neighbor.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
My house was on the news because I was an
neighbor of Chopper read. I just walked into my front
room and saw Chopper and Mark Jacko Jackson, who was
his best man, wearing kilts, having a smoke on my
front baranda. So there was footage of my house with
me looking confused in the window and Chopper and Jacob
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What loo can for.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Your weakest claim to neighbor eat fame? Jack You any
significant neighbors over the years.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, young singer songwriter from Australia, Angie mcmahton, Triple J
Lover her parents live.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh wow, okay, we're retaking a couple of steps back
from Triple J.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Her parents leave over the back fence and two doors
down from the.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Jack A chess Moove. Olympic gold medalist Steve Hooker moved
into my road about eight months ago and he had
a street party and all I knew was he was
a new neighbor. I didn't know who he was. And
he's wearing a baseball cat right, He's with his dog
and We're just chatting and he's talking about the radio
show and he's I think he knows the boys Hamish Nandy.
(01:12):
So we're just having a chat. And then I started
to say, what are you doing? He does something to
do with housing at the moment, and then he said,
you know, I used to be an athlete. I'm not
aware this is an Olympic medalist. Okay, so just give
me the benefit of the down here. I go, okay, right,
lot a decent level, like for the state, and he goes,
he must have been killing him, right, some idiotic pom
you've got. If I had a gold medal, I'd wear
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that around everywhere. Okay, I'd have it on permanent. It's
a necklace, just an a dormum. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
a little bit better on that. I went, oh, what
like national? I was like, well done, that's it wrong.
He goes, actually, no, I went to the Olympics and
I went, oh, did you win anything? He goes, yeah,
a gold actually yeah, I went ten minutes. I'm inflaming
around here. Why do you say who you are? He goes, well,
(01:56):
I just didn't want to do a big flex. So
now whenever I share a go, Hey, Steve god Medalist,
how are you neighbor? So? All right, so we're looking
for your weakest claim to neighbor leave fame. This is
the Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, we're doing the
weakest claim to fame. It's a special version of weakest
claim to fame of famous neighbors that you've lived near.
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I was about to saying, next all, we're indeed near
to like Jack? Which was was it across the back
fence and four down dark fencing?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Two down Joe down.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Singing songwriter Andrew McMahon's parents.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
All right, just quickly go to lines Lara, welcome to
the show. So famous neighbors, who have you lived near?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It was actually Greg Norman's caddy in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Brilliant, love it. This is great next door right next door?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And I was actually playing out the front in the
morning and he was coming to pick Greg Norman came
to pick him up.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Actually think it'd be the other way around.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, I thought that'd be the candies job.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
No, No, it was him.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Okay, how are you.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Who do you live next to?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Them?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Who's famous? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
My very right next door was Michael wend an Olympic champion.
He was nineteen sixty eight, seventy two Olympics. Yeah, he's
a swimmer, and he taught all my brothers to swim,
and they're brilliant swimmers. And got to me, the youngest
of the family, and he goes, nah, nah, just stick
the dog paddling. You're no good. Ah. He said, if
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there was an Olympic sport for dog paddling, you'd win.
But I just couldn't put my face under the water
and swim.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And can he swim? Now?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I no? Not really, not the best.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And was Michael Winner's job a swim teacher or are
you just asking for favors as a next door neighbor.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, definitely favors. Yeah, he had this nice he was
only renting there and he had this nice above ground
pools and yeah, he tried to teach us all to
swim and I failed.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Image of like everyone in suburbs, like coming around to
his house permanently just queuing up for swim. He never
wanted to be given.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, there was five of us.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We all queered up.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, doggie, thank you very much, you Cola, thank you Claire,
Welcome to the show, Claire, welcome, Thank you. Yes, back
in the late nineties, I used to live next door
to Jamie Jury. Nice.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, we were really good friends. We used to something together.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Those kind of friends with some oil on my back, Yeah,
something like that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And yeah, I used to look after his garden because
he was always a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, and yeah he came to our wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I used to look after his daughter tailor now.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And then, and yeah, they were the good old days.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Used to get free free back backstage passes to his comforts,
and yeah, had lots of fun living next door to him.
So was he excuse my ignorance for Jamie Jury? Before
he was a television presenter, he was a singer. What
worries concerts?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I do you what I know? Magic Mike, Magic Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I thought he was just a good looking TV he
is Vegas and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well, one day he wrapped up at my front door
and he wanted some sugar, and all he had around
him was a towel. That's the oldest one in the book.
He's having having a cup of tea. Which is it?
Jamie Jury on the doorsteps Christian O'Connell Show Podcast