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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heart Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app. Got
anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
June the fourth, twenty twenty five. The show began seven
years ago twenty eighteen. Only pats and I remain Wow,
the founding father and mother. So much has changed as
I look around survey the kingdom around us now, Patsy,
so many corpses and you have killed all of them
(00:48):
are buried in It must the reign of terror.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Must You're the hardest one to kill off found So
you'll come for.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Me one day never and it will be my destiny.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I will bound down and say, finally, it will be
a pleasure to be destroyed by the one and only
radio killer, NonStop thriller Petrina Jones. Do you know actually
there are in the studio right now that is this
full of joy? It's like a Santa's grotto in here,
and it's full of these beautiful cards that so many
of our gorgeous listeners have taken the time to go in,
(01:19):
right out and send. And what's magical is I'm reading
all the messages and there's something really moving about handwriting
because you don't see it these days. It's Texas emojis.
It's easier, but it's also quite transactional. And actually, when
you see someone's handwriting, it's like their voice.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's so unique to them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
How they even spell my name or how they do
their teas. It's different for all of us. And so
there are so many beautiful cars we've got up around
the studio today. Some of the people that have actually
gone to the effort of sending these cars with these
some beautiful messages and sharing in that are going to
be called and receiving one of seven really big prizes.
We have over twelve thousand dollars worth of prizes thanks
(01:58):
to ians to give away today on our seventh birthday.
Ian S were one of the first sponsors to actually
believe that I would still be here more than a year.
Rob from That was the first person I met about
five weeks into the show. He took me up for
lunch and he's become a great friend and support of
the show ever since then. So it feels really great
(02:19):
on seven years to actually be doing something Robin's team
at Ianes. Some of these I must have said good
morning to Pam. She's just messaged me and I'm glad
she's clarified something. Christian, have a happy seventh birthday. Congratulations
on creating an enjoyable show to listen to. I sent
you the card, but I thought was a young Christian
dreaming of being on the radio. Now, Pam, I did
see that yesterday and he gotta be honest, it startled me.
(02:42):
It looked like Christian who's had a serious car accident.
So now I didn't save last night because I was
worried that there was going to bomb under the car
or something very From Pam. It was a threat like
stop radio or this will happen. So you have a choice, Zippy.
You've had almost seven good years.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's enough now. But Pam, I didn't realize that was
young Christian. I'm dreaming of being on the radio. Look
at him now, Yes, thank you very much. And I've
got one here from Emily Hughes. She she made this beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, it's like a well, it's a three dimensional card.
She's she's colored in and drawn the flag of Great
Britain and the flag of Australia and she's created a
podium with seven on it did Christian a team. Happy
seventh birthday. My name is Emily Hughes. Do you remember
in cars and that when you write to people you
put your name in up from full name. Yeah, like
a young rapper.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My name is Emie Hughes. Don't you forget it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then in a different ink, you know where they've
looked back at the work she's putting in a different
ink it eleven years old, bless there's two times. There's
two stages of life where you mention your age and
Emily's agent and very old people.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
When I'm seventy nine, I'm seventy nine. Old age mentioners.
I used to call them, I'm seventy nine, you know,
Emily Hughes eleven. Don't you forget about it?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
DJ coming at you so, Emily Hughes, thank you very much.
Congratulations on being on air for so it is twenty
seven years at the end of this year, you guys
are our favorite radio station. You also have the best
jokes in the world from Emily Hughes. Emily Hughes, that
is a beautiful thing you've made there as well. And
(04:22):
then one of the ones I've got so many questions
about someone has sent a carden but they've put your
face Patsy on a stamp. Oh like the Queen, Well
it actually looked like a dictator slash tyrant to me,
have a small aggressive country that's becoming the next rusher
of like a mad tyrant who's threatening the world with
(04:44):
a big laser.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
They are going to point at the moon and destroy
all of us Storia, we'll call it. I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
How do you get that's not legal though, is it?
You can't just put your own photo on a stamp.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You know you can go to oz post and get
I think you can. I think they read a great idea.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
For Australian icons. You know, can Freeman, Dawn, Patrina drones
first right? Just next?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, I would have to bring you in this stamp.
But thank you very much Chayn who sent them in.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Good morning to Shane in Sydney. Thank you very much
for joining the show in the last six months. In
the days leading up to beginning my first radio show
here in Australia, and you have to bear in mind
I'd had the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Craziest two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I literally eleven days before I started my radio career
here in Australia. I'd finished a radio show that i'd
done an Absolutely Love for twelve years in London, a
radio show we had two and a half million listeners,
and a lot of those listeners had come with me
from my previous breakfast show that I'd done for five years.
So for seventeen years I'd been someone's constant, and some
(05:52):
of those listeners had gone from being forced to listen
to me during the school run, to go into university,
to meeting partners, getting married and now forcing their kids.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So I've been through all these transitions in the life.
So what it meant was.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In the last couple of weeks of my show, I
was getting this mass, mass outpouring of love from people
that I've never met before, but you have met in
a way. And so I went from that to the
biggest pandulum swing you can ever have a knife to
actually been hated within two weeks. I went from hero
to zero within two chilling weeks. The other side of
(06:27):
the world, where people literally had this feeling of like
arms followed going no, no, now, God, he's English.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
As well, I don't know you, and what I do
know about if she's really English. Note in the.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Morning, No, not in the morning, maybe the afternoon maybe,
or real late at night when I'm half asleep and
I gonna even work out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh god, he's English. It's going back to me.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It was a really violent swing, and a remain of
that for an awful long time. But one by one
people were so kind they unfolded arms and they start
to give the show a go, and you welcome me
into your life. And still without that over the last
seven years, and increasingly the last couple of weeks, people
are still coming to the show, and that thank you
so much. We don't get to have this magical kind
of My wife and I now in our fifties. This
(07:10):
is an amazing second. I like to tell myself it's
a second act or is it second? Say, let's say
a second thund the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's funny how when I said the final.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Acts, I looked at Pats stop it that tyrant's face
and a stamp is all I see as she stamps me.
You know, like at the end of Inglorious guss a
face carver.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know who the carver will be, Betwena Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's amazing, though, what you've done Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And also I have to just say right, it's amazing
the transformation and you, Patsy, as you're now launching your
second season of this incredible podcast, as you're starting to
stand in your own powers now outside of what we've
done together on the show, is amazing. It brings me
so much joy seeing the rise in you, Patsy, from
where you were. I remember when I Chat was the
first person I hired, and I said, I need a
(07:59):
really good news reader. I've always worked with great news readers.
And the boss here said, hey, there's this woman between
a Jones and I think she could do so much more.
And I remember to speak to Patsy and at the time,
you're wearing these very big missus mangle glasses and I
was like, she was actually incredibly intimidating.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
She just sat there. I was like, you having to
be a big part of the shop.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I got a good intentions already, don't make it in Australia,
no'arning to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
She sat there and she looked through me like I've
heard it all before from people like you, and they're
walking away going She's awesome but also genuine.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm actually a bit frightened her. No, no, I did
feel that, and I think I think that's actually a thing,
and I still am.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That is the relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're awesome, Pats, and I'm slightly scared by you, like
when you bowed in here a couple of weeks ago
and pointed at me and went, if you got any
feedback for me? Now intonation in life? Is there anything
you can say? Soone, Hey, have you got any feedback
for me?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's that's an invitation? Yes, you any feedback from me?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, I I never will.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I remember our first interaction very very differently, and it
was so refreshing. And I've never had this in radio
where I didn't know what your expectations of me were
other than obviously read the news and do it well.
And I said to you, you know, I think I
might have said, you know, what do you need from
me or something? And you said something very simple, and
I will never forget what you said. You said to me,
(09:33):
I just need you to be yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I mean it, And actually your journey of the
last seven years, you'll be.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
More and more yourself on air.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I actually remember you're saying, please if you don't
find something funny I say, don't laugh, And but to
be fair, you've stayed aggressively true to that. Maybe just
ease up just occasional once a month. But I remember
saying to you, please don't because it's so hard for
women in radio to forge a career. It's a lot
(10:00):
easier for a guy. It just is stacked in our favor.
So the fact that you'd even got to you know
where you are past this says a lot just about
how great you are. But I remember saying to you,
please don't ever tell me what you think I need
to hear yea.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then you went, well, what if it's awful, it's rude, And.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I said, well, let me worry about that bit that
we have a lot and those are some of my
favorite bits. So the most shocking bits of the show
don't come from me. They come from old mate and
there retirerant on the stamp.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it is refreshing because as a woman, you are
typecast on a lot of in radio, a lot in
the past where it's like you need to be a
laughing track or you need to be this, and I
know that is the last thing you would want from me.
So I want to thank you for helping me become
find my voice really and also I've learned more about
myself personally than I have I think is a brasiler
in the last seven years. So thank you and celebrating
(10:53):
you today because what you've managed to achieve in that
time no one in the world has done. And I'm
so proud of you as the whole team is, so
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, perhaps that's a lovely thing to say, and thank
you for saying that, But we don't get to have
the show if it isn't for the amazing the team
that I've made over the seven years, the team right now,
but also the people that have come over gone over
the last seven years. But also Patsy, you are a
massive part of whatever this show is.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You're a huge part of that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So team, let's also now turn to Patsy and go
well done as well. You had to put up with
an awful lot for me sometimes, so thank you very much.
All Right, we're going to take a break when we
come back. That's enough sugary stuff. Christian, get on with
the goddamn show. I Get what you want is coming
up next.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
I Heart Podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app. Got
anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
June the fourth, twenty twenty five. The show began seven
years ago twenty eighteen. Only pats and I remain Wow,
the founding father and mother. So much has changed as
I look around survey the kingdom around us now, Patsy,
so many corpses and you have killed all of them
(00:48):
are buried in It must the reign of terror.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Must You're the hardest one to kill off found So
you'll come for.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Me one day never and it will be my destiny.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I will bound down and say, finally, it will be
a pleasure to be destroyed by the one and only
radio killer, NonStop thriller Petrina Jones. Do you know actually
there are in the studio right now that is this
full of joy? It's like a Santa's grotto in here,
and it's full of these beautiful cards that so many
of our gorgeous listeners have taken the time to go in,
(01:19):
right out and send. And what's magical is I'm reading
all the messages and there's something really moving about handwriting
because you don't see it these days. It's Texas emojis.
It's easier, but it's also quite transactional. And actually, when
you see someone's handwriting, it's like their voice.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's so unique to them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
How they even spell my name or how they do
their teas. It's different for all of us. And so
there are so many beautiful cars we've got up around
the studio today. Some of the people that have actually
gone to the effort of sending these cars with these
some beautiful messages and sharing in that are going to
be called and receiving one of seven really big prizes.
We have over twelve thousand dollars worth of prizes thanks
(01:58):
to ians to give away today on our seventh birthday.
Ian S were one of the first sponsors to actually
believe that I would still be here more than a year.
Rob from That was the first person I met about
five weeks into the show. He took me up for
lunch and he's become a great friend and support of
the show ever since then. So it feels really great
(02:19):
on seven years to actually be doing something Robin's team
at Ianes. Some of these I must have said good
morning to Pam. She's just messaged me and I'm glad
she's clarified something. Christian, have a happy seventh birthday. Congratulations
on creating an enjoyable show to listen to. I sent
you the card, but I thought was a young Christian
dreaming of being on the radio. Now, Pam, I did
see that yesterday and he gotta be honest, it startled me.
(02:42):
It looked like Christian who's had a serious car accident.
So now I didn't save last night because I was
worried that there was going to bomb under the car
or something very From Pam. It was a threat like
stop radio or this will happen. So you have a choice, Zippy.
You've had almost seven good years.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's enough now. But Pam, I didn't realize that was
young Christian. I'm dreaming of being on the radio. Look
at him now, Yes, thank you very much. And I've
got one here from Emily Hughes. She she made this beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, it's like a well, it's a three dimensional card.
She's she's colored in and drawn the flag of Great
Britain and the flag of Australia and she's created a
podium with seven on it did Christian a team. Happy
seventh birthday. My name is Emily Hughes. Do you remember
in cars and that when you write to people you
put your name in up from full name. Yeah, like
a young rapper.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My name is Emie Hughes. Don't you forget it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then in a different ink, you know where they've
looked back at the work she's putting in a different
ink it eleven years old, bless there's two times. There's
two stages of life where you mention your age and
Emily's agent and very old people.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
When I'm seventy nine, I'm seventy nine. Old age mentioners.
I used to call them, I'm seventy nine, you know,
Emily Hughes eleven. Don't you forget about it?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
DJ coming at you so, Emily Hughes, thank you very much.
Congratulations on being on air for so it is twenty
seven years at the end of this year, you guys
are our favorite radio station. You also have the best
jokes in the world from Emily Hughes. Emily Hughes, that
is a beautiful thing you've made there as well. And
(04:22):
then one of the ones I've got so many questions
about someone has sent a carden but they've put your
face Patsy on a stamp. Oh like the Queen, Well
it actually looked like a dictator slash tyrant to me,
have a small aggressive country that's becoming the next rusher
of like a mad tyrant who's threatening the world with
(04:44):
a big laser.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
They are going to point at the moon and destroy
all of us Storia, we'll call it. I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
How do you get that's not legal though, is it?
You can't just put your own photo on a stamp.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You know you can go to oz post and get
I think you can. I think they read a great idea.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
For Australian icons. You know, can Freeman, Dawn, Patrina drones
first right? Just next?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, I would have to bring you in this stamp.
But thank you very much Chayn who sent them in.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Good morning to Shane in Sydney. Thank you very much
for joining the show in the last six months. In
the days leading up to beginning my first radio show
here in Australia, and you have to bear in mind
I'd had the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Craziest two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I literally eleven days before I started my radio career
here in Australia. I'd finished a radio show that i'd
done an Absolutely Love for twelve years in London, a
radio show we had two and a half million listeners,
and a lot of those listeners had come with me
from my previous breakfast show that I'd done for five years.
So for seventeen years I'd been someone's constant, and some
(05:52):
of those listeners had gone from being forced to listen
to me during the school run, to go into university,
to meeting partners, getting married and now forcing their kids.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So I've been through all these transitions in the life.
So what it meant was.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In the last couple of weeks of my show, I
was getting this mass, mass outpouring of love from people
that I've never met before, but you have met in
a way. And so I went from that to the
biggest pandulum swing you can ever have a knife to
actually been hated within two weeks. I went from hero
to zero within two chilling weeks. The other side of
(06:27):
the world, where people literally had this feeling of like
arms followed going no, no, now, God, he's English.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
As well, I don't know you, and what I do
know about if she's really English. Note in the.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Morning, No, not in the morning, maybe the afternoon maybe,
or real late at night when I'm half asleep and
I gonna even work out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh god, he's English. It's going back to me.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It was a really violent swing, and a remain of
that for an awful long time. But one by one
people were so kind they unfolded arms and they start
to give the show a go, and you welcome me
into your life. And still without that over the last
seven years, and increasingly the last couple of weeks, people
are still coming to the show, and that thank you
so much. We don't get to have this magical kind
of My wife and I now in our fifties. This
(07:10):
is an amazing second. I like to tell myself it's
a second act or is it second? Say, let's say
a second thund the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's funny how when I said the final.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Acts, I looked at Pats stop it that tyrant's face
and a stamp is all I see as she stamps me.
You know, like at the end of Inglorious guss a
face carver.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know who the carver will be, Betwena Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's amazing, though, what you've done Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And also I have to just say right, it's amazing
the transformation and you, Patsy, as you're now launching your
second season of this incredible podcast, as you're starting to
stand in your own powers now outside of what we've
done together on the show, is amazing. It brings me
so much joy seeing the rise in you, Patsy, from
where you were. I remember when I Chat was the
first person I hired, and I said, I need a
(07:59):
really good news reader. I've always worked with great news readers.
And the boss here said, hey, there's this woman between
a Jones and I think she could do so much more.
And I remember to speak to Patsy and at the time,
you're wearing these very big missus mangle glasses and I
was like, she was actually incredibly intimidating.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
She just sat there. I was like, you having to
be a big part of the shop.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I got a good intentions already, don't make it in Australia,
no'arning to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
She sat there and she looked through me like I've
heard it all before from people like you, and they're
walking away going She's awesome but also genuine.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm actually a bit frightened her. No, no, I did
feel that, and I think I think that's actually a thing,
and I still am.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That is the relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're awesome, Pats, and I'm slightly scared by you, like
when you bowed in here a couple of weeks ago
and pointed at me and went, if you got any
feedback for me? Now intonation in life? Is there anything
you can say? Soone, Hey, have you got any feedback
for me?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's that's an invitation? Yes, you any feedback from me?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, I I never will.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I remember our first interaction very very differently, and it
was so refreshing. And I've never had this in radio
where I didn't know what your expectations of me were
other than obviously read the news and do it well.
And I said to you, you know, I think I
might have said, you know, what do you need from
me or something? And you said something very simple, and
I will never forget what you said. You said to me,
(09:33):
I just need you to be yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I mean it, And actually your journey of the
last seven years, you'll be.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
More and more yourself on air.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I actually remember you're saying, please if you don't
find something funny I say, don't laugh, And but to
be fair, you've stayed aggressively true to that. Maybe just
ease up just occasional once a month. But I remember
saying to you, please don't because it's so hard for
women in radio to forge a career. It's a lot
(10:00):
easier for a guy. It just is stacked in our favor.
So the fact that you'd even got to you know
where you are past this says a lot just about
how great you are. But I remember saying to you,
please don't ever tell me what you think I need
to hear yea.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then you went, well, what if it's awful, it's rude, And.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I said, well, let me worry about that bit that
we have a lot and those are some of my
favorite bits. So the most shocking bits of the show
don't come from me. They come from old mate and
there retirerant on the stamp.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it is refreshing because as a woman, you are
typecast on a lot of in radio, a lot in
the past where it's like you need to be a
laughing track or you need to be this, and I
know that is the last thing you would want from me.
So I want to thank you for helping me become
find my voice really and also I've learned more about
myself personally than I have I think is a brasiler
in the last seven years. So thank you and celebrating
(10:53):
you today because what you've managed to achieve in that
time no one in the world has done. And I'm
so proud of you as the whole team is, so
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, perhaps that's a lovely thing to say, and thank
you for saying that, But we don't get to have
the show if it isn't for the amazing the team
that I've made over the seven years, the team right now,
but also the people that have come over gone over
the last seven years. But also Patsy, you are a
massive part of whatever this show is.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You're a huge part of that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So team, let's also now turn to Patsy and go
well done as well. You had to put up with
an awful lot for me sometimes, so thank you very much.
All Right, we're going to take a break when we
come back. That's enough sugary stuff. Christian, get on with
the goddamn show. I Get what you want is coming
up next.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
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