May 4, 2025 • 5 mins
This week our country of the week is the USA.
Wait till you hear Patsy's story about being lost in America..
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Each week on the show we pick a country, then
we ask for your stories across the week anything to
do with that country. This week, our country of the
week is USA. America American. Anytime you're on this week,
(00:26):
you've got a story about America, and you give us
a call thirteen fifty five twenty two. If I'm not
here when you feel like calling, email me for sure,
Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au. But you Si,
Rio has got three facts about America. Three billion pieces
are sold annually in the USA. Three billion lollipops were
invented in the USA. And this is not a killer fact.
(00:49):
Mount Rushmore took fourteen years to calm, wouldn't it, Jackie boy?
What have you asked chat GPT? What great facts has
chat GPT got about America?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
GPT has got you this one, Rio, There's a town
that elected a dog as mayor multiple times. What the
US government has a one point four billion pound cheese stockpile.
Tell us more about the dog mayor of the dog
mayor Rabbit Hash Kentucky, that's the name of the town.
Has a canine mayor since nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You are the current mayor.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is French bulldog named Wilbabeast.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
What did he run on? How did he get in?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know, but he got thirteen thousand votes, which
was enough to secure him the position. Great facts the
cheese they keep in Missouri underground in underground caves in
Missouri as a dairy subsidy subsidy subsidy program. This is
not a good fact. And you can eagerly.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Own asmore car is going right, so the top in
their power ranking.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
This one is interesting. You can legally own a flamethrower
in forty eight of the American.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Country. No one has any business having a flamethrow at home.
What basinis of you're needing or ever acquiring a flamethrow.
My wife is a real hoarder, and yesterday I was like,
we need to throw some stuff out, right, you know what,
Sunday you felt like it's the day of life. We're going
to tie you and throw some stuff out. I found
that we had a brand new mink condition pair of crutches.
I went, I don't know how we own these. I said,
these have to go. She goes, no, no, we need them
(02:22):
just in case.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What what do you know is going to happen?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I slept one eye open, Peratsy, if you've got the
story about you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
As a Yeah, we went to America and went to
Universal Studios on the tour and then at the end,
you know, you get back on the bus and we
were staying in downtown LA. It's about an hour's drive.
It's quite a ways out Universal Studios. Anyway, this driver,
this dear lady we had, it was her first day
in the on the job, and very clearly was lost.
(02:52):
So it should have taken an hour. Three hours later
we are still driving round and round. Anyway, we had dinner,
a dinner booking at this restaurant we really really wanted
to go to. It was nighttime. We missed the dinner's
dinner booking, and we were clearly lost. And there's the
(03:12):
you know, welcome to Beverly Hills sign. We kept passing
it like every twenty minutes and it'd be on one side.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Of the bus. He's stuck for a day on that
round about, just like.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
A game of speed. It was ridiculous. Anyway, Chris just
lean over and he said, would you mind, you can
pull over I think I know how to get back
to where we're staying. And she goes, oh no, and
he goes, no, seriously, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He wanted to drive the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, so he said, I know where the hotel is. Like,
this is ridiculous. We're just going to keep driving around
and around and around. Anyway, So she pulled over and
he drove our little minibus.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It was so funny, and everyone was so.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She said, to you to make your way around either
of confusing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're like the back of our hand. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What happened to the step in between, which is just
tell her the way. If he knows where to go,
just tell her where to go.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
She wasn't listening. It was a bit of an intervention,
and he said, sperience, isn't it. We're going to be
here all night. It's okay, pull over and I'm going
to drive us there.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Son A is just a crazy, crazy pace. And then
we years ago, I took the radio show there and
we did three shows there. There's like in the early
two thousands, and whenever I'm in a new city, I
just like to go for a walk around it for
a couple of hours a great way to discover it
turns out you do not do that in La Suddenly
I'm somewhare a long way from where we were staying
on Sunset Strip. Next time, though, the police have pulled
(04:42):
over and they asked me what I'm up to, and
I said, I'm just you know, I've just arrived. I'm
just going for a walk. You don't wander around this neighborhood.
They put me in the back of the cart. They
churned back to my hotel for my own safety. They
said it is not safe. You just be wandering. And
they'd had a complaint where someone said there was a
suspicious man wandering around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
There should be any one walking on the foot past
checking out the houses.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Each week on the show we pick a country, then
we ask for your stories across the week anything to
do with that country. This week, our country of the
week is USA. America American. Anytime you're on this week,
(00:26):
you've got a story about America, and you give us
a call thirteen fifty five twenty two. If I'm not
here when you feel like calling, email me for sure,
Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au. But you Si,
Rio has got three facts about America. Three billion pieces
are sold annually in the USA. Three billion lollipops were
invented in the USA. And this is not a killer fact.
(00:49):
Mount Rushmore took fourteen years to calm, wouldn't it, Jackie boy?
What have you asked chat GPT? What great facts has
chat GPT got about America?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
GPT has got you this one, Rio, There's a town
that elected a dog as mayor multiple times. What the
US government has a one point four billion pound cheese stockpile.
Tell us more about the dog mayor of the dog
mayor Rabbit Hash Kentucky, that's the name of the town.
Has a canine mayor since nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You are the current mayor.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is French bulldog named Wilbabeast.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
What did he run on? How did he get in?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know, but he got thirteen thousand votes, which
was enough to secure him the position. Great facts the
cheese they keep in Missouri underground in underground caves in
Missouri as a dairy subsidy subsidy subsidy program. This is
not a good fact. And you can eagerly.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Own asmore car is going right, so the top in
their power ranking.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
This one is interesting. You can legally own a flamethrower
in forty eight of the American.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Country. No one has any business having a flamethrow at home.
What basinis of you're needing or ever acquiring a flamethrow.
My wife is a real hoarder, and yesterday I was like,
we need to throw some stuff out, right, you know what,
Sunday you felt like it's the day of life. We're going
to tie you and throw some stuff out. I found
that we had a brand new mink condition pair of crutches.
I went, I don't know how we own these. I said,
these have to go. She goes, no, no, we need them
(02:22):
just in case.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What what do you know is going to happen?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I slept one eye open, Peratsy, if you've got the
story about you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
As a Yeah, we went to America and went to
Universal Studios on the tour and then at the end,
you know, you get back on the bus and we
were staying in downtown LA. It's about an hour's drive.
It's quite a ways out Universal Studios. Anyway, this driver,
this dear lady we had, it was her first day
in the on the job, and very clearly was lost.
(02:52):
So it should have taken an hour. Three hours later
we are still driving round and round. Anyway, we had dinner,
a dinner booking at this restaurant we really really wanted
to go to. It was nighttime. We missed the dinner's
dinner booking, and we were clearly lost. And there's the
(03:12):
you know, welcome to Beverly Hills sign. We kept passing
it like every twenty minutes and it'd be on one side.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Of the bus. He's stuck for a day on that
round about, just like.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
A game of speed. It was ridiculous. Anyway, Chris just
lean over and he said, would you mind, you can
pull over I think I know how to get back
to where we're staying. And she goes, oh no, and
he goes, no, seriously, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He wanted to drive the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, so he said, I know where the hotel is. Like,
this is ridiculous. We're just going to keep driving around
and around and around. Anyway, So she pulled over and
he drove our little minibus.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It was so funny, and everyone was so.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She said, to you to make your way around either
of confusing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're like the back of our hand. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What happened to the step in between, which is just
tell her the way. If he knows where to go,
just tell her where to go.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
She wasn't listening. It was a bit of an intervention,
and he said, sperience, isn't it. We're going to be
here all night. It's okay, pull over and I'm going
to drive us there.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Son A is just a crazy, crazy pace. And then
we years ago, I took the radio show there and
we did three shows there. There's like in the early
two thousands, and whenever I'm in a new city, I
just like to go for a walk around it for
a couple of hours a great way to discover it
turns out you do not do that in La Suddenly
I'm somewhare a long way from where we were staying
on Sunset Strip. Next time, though, the police have pulled
(04:42):
over and they asked me what I'm up to, and
I said, I'm just you know, I've just arrived. I'm
just going for a walk. You don't wander around this neighborhood.
They put me in the back of the cart. They
churned back to my hotel for my own safety. They
said it is not safe. You just be wandering. And
they'd had a complaint where someone said there was a
suspicious man wandering around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
There should be any one walking on the foot past
checking out the houses.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
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