August 26, 2025 • 8 mins
Tell us the story of your life so far in just six words
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart 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? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
All right, during the next half an hour. I think
(00:31):
you'd enjoy this if I take a bit of time.
But if you're at work or you're driving at the moment,
you've got a bit long drive during the next hour
or so, you might enjoy this challenge. In six words,
no more than six words, no less than six words,
in exactly six words, tell me the story of your
life so far in just six words. So before the
(00:54):
show I was playing with mine, right, so there's a
couple of different drafts.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I've got here.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Six word life so far was over there. Now over
here I can go into a bit more detail on
that midlife crisis. Move down under. That's the headline read.
And then if you really had to sum me up,
married with daughters, love, being Dad's love, that's that's me.
That's me. Ultimately, I would say that's it. Married with daughters,
(01:19):
love being dad. That's my life so far in six words.
Let's go to the Chuckle Sisters, which is producers Caitlin
and Tina. They are literally like the chuckle are coming
this morning. They already laugh their heads off. They're literally
just the chairs were shaking with laughter. They're like stat
and Waldorf for the show out there. Let's go to
the chuckle sisters. See what there are? Six words? Life
(01:40):
so far now, Tina, I know that actually you did
work in the in the Tina. Good morning, Tina morning,
and what is yours? Because you actually have done time
in UK radio, which is why you so good?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Thank you so much. So my NIE's was here, went there?
Back here?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Shade on mine?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's upgraded yours.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She has upgraded. Actually see he goes again. It's brilliant, Tina.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So was here, went there?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Back here?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Do you have a nice time over there?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Great time? It's two years?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Nicely back here though, love being back here because it
sounded like we were a runner up to what you
did in the UK.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
No, both great moments both love have loved life all three?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh lovely sit that Tina.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
All right, let's see how old mate is today. Bounced
up and down the chair. You had your popcorn yet, Caitlin?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Not yet? That's normally like an a.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have you seen this team?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
This is a new thing now where every morning about
eight o'clock Cainaan thinks she's at Hoyts and will suddenly
start watching me do the breaks and chomping on a
massive family bag of popcorne.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What is it not a family bag? It is only
seventy six calories. I am on a calorie deficit diet
at the moment for my wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Do you need to do that yourself? Hell no, no, you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Eat so much. You just don't eat bad stuff like
you don't eat corner am a to us is midday guys.
I get up at three fifty am. It's late in
the day for me. And it's a great show that
I get to watch from the popcorn.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh she's good? Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is that these six word life so far? Great show
watched with popcorn? What's yours? Mac myne Is.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Didn't think I could.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's really nice. Alice Color, what's shes mate? Your life's
so far?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In six words?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Country city Sydney Melbourne, husband dad? Can you go again?
Country City, Sydney, Melbourne, husband dad?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Beautiful soldier spy Yes, yes he's a spy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I had another one. Bumpkin come city slicker family love.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's my favorite. There's something about that word bumpkin. I
just love. It's an old timey word.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But I love the country bumpkins. Patsy, what's shes mate?
You've had an extraordinary life.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
This is really hard. I don't know if I can
do it in six words, but I've initially written not
sure but comfortable as me. So you know in your
twenties where you never feel your enough and you've got
all these hopes and dreams, what am I going to do?
And then you go through the next decade of For me,
(04:26):
it was not being able to have a baby, and
you know, finding my way in my career, and then
forties was having my baby and getting this awesome job.
It's like this big journey all the way through that
I can encapsulate in decades to this point. And really
there are no six words that can describe all that
(04:48):
I have been through. It doesn't seem to be well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Thanks for going for the feature today. Hopefully the listeners
can actually take the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Texting Yours four seventy five three one oh four three.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Right now, an invitation to tell me your life story
so far in six words words you can text me
oh four seven five three one oh four three, Jill
the news. I've had another think here's mine born in England,
found myself here. That's how would sum up my life
(05:24):
at fifty two, actually born in England, but found myself
here Ria.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
What's yours? Mate? You've had an interesting life so far.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I've got a couple. First one two degrees never used
now radio.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You are the most intelligent and overqualified man in Australian radio.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And the most in texted.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Paying that off for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The other one, First girls, now guys, much simpler.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Wow, read that again. People might have missed it. Rio.
That's very good. There's a lot going on there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
First girls, now guys, much simpler.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I thought you were gonna end with what next? I
was like, Wow, who knows where the w's are going? Sex?
All right? Some of the ones that are coming in from
everyone this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So it's your life so far in six words? Text
me four seventy five three one o four three. All
of the ones that I'm about to read out right
now are all six words.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, they're really good.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All of a sudden middle aged Yeah, I mean I'm
fifty two. I come sure, because for me and Pats,
it doesn't feel like you wake up one morning and
you wait, what but you look in the mirror and
you meet yourself as a middle aged person. You're like,
bloody hell, how do we get here so quickly?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What happened to you?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Christian? Suddenly you're an eye doctors. Thank you for that.
A little bit of everything Blessed. That's from Amanda Armstrong.
Matthew's got a lot going on his life so far,
met married, Kobe Renovation, renovation, Renovation. That sounds like a
new TV Showress ten Nights on Renovation, Renovation, Renovation. This
(07:09):
is Megan's from Little Things, Big Things Grow. I love
this from Gay Chatterton. My life's journey has made me.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean sometimes when you look back and you remember
the bits where it felt like actually the life's journey
was breaking you, I guess that's all part of the
remaking at times as well. Heather Struggle, pain, sorrow, grandchildren, happy, proud.
I start the circle of life right there, and those
they're from Heather ben Ben. This is amazing, Glad I survived,
life got better Ben. We're glad he survived as well.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Mate. Congratulations. This is Luke crazy beginning. What when you
at zero?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What a story?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Suddenly you get evicted from there, so cozy in there
for nine months?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So well, hell are you We'll be back. Yes, it's
so bright, so sleeping in there.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Crazy beginning now settled, fulfilled heart Luke, lovely stuff, Keep
this going, text me your life so far and six
words O four seven five, O three one, O four three.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The Christian O'Connell show go On podcast
I Heeart 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? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
All right, during the next half an hour. I think
(00:31):
you'd enjoy this if I take a bit of time.
But if you're at work or you're driving at the moment,
you've got a bit long drive during the next hour
or so, you might enjoy this challenge. In six words,
no more than six words, no less than six words,
in exactly six words, tell me the story of your
life so far in just six words. So before the
(00:54):
show I was playing with mine, right, so there's a
couple of different drafts.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I've got here.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Six word life so far was over there. Now over
here I can go into a bit more detail on
that midlife crisis. Move down under. That's the headline read.
And then if you really had to sum me up,
married with daughters, love, being Dad's love, that's that's me.
That's me. Ultimately, I would say that's it. Married with daughters,
(01:19):
love being dad. That's my life so far in six words.
Let's go to the Chuckle Sisters, which is producers Caitlin
and Tina. They are literally like the chuckle are coming
this morning. They already laugh their heads off. They're literally
just the chairs were shaking with laughter. They're like stat
and Waldorf for the show out there. Let's go to
the chuckle sisters. See what there are? Six words? Life
(01:40):
so far now, Tina, I know that actually you did
work in the in the Tina. Good morning, Tina morning,
and what is yours? Because you actually have done time
in UK radio, which is why you so good?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Thank you so much. So my NIE's was here, went there?
Back here?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Shade on mine?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's upgraded yours.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She has upgraded. Actually see he goes again. It's brilliant, Tina.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So was here, went there?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Back here?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Do you have a nice time over there?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Great time? It's two years?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Nicely back here though, love being back here because it
sounded like we were a runner up to what you
did in the UK.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
No, both great moments both love have loved life all three?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh lovely sit that Tina.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
All right, let's see how old mate is today. Bounced
up and down the chair. You had your popcorn yet, Caitlin?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Not yet? That's normally like an a.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have you seen this team?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
This is a new thing now where every morning about
eight o'clock Cainaan thinks she's at Hoyts and will suddenly
start watching me do the breaks and chomping on a
massive family bag of popcorne.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What is it not a family bag? It is only
seventy six calories. I am on a calorie deficit diet
at the moment for my wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Do you need to do that yourself? Hell no, no, you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Eat so much. You just don't eat bad stuff like
you don't eat corner am a to us is midday guys.
I get up at three fifty am. It's late in
the day for me. And it's a great show that
I get to watch from the popcorn.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh she's good? Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is that these six word life so far? Great show
watched with popcorn? What's yours? Mac myne Is.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Didn't think I could.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's really nice. Alice Color, what's shes mate? Your life's
so far?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In six words?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Country city Sydney Melbourne, husband dad? Can you go again?
Country City, Sydney, Melbourne, husband dad?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Beautiful soldier spy Yes, yes he's a spy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I had another one. Bumpkin come city slicker family love.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's my favorite. There's something about that word bumpkin. I
just love. It's an old timey word.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But I love the country bumpkins. Patsy, what's shes mate?
You've had an extraordinary life.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
This is really hard. I don't know if I can
do it in six words, but I've initially written not
sure but comfortable as me. So you know in your
twenties where you never feel your enough and you've got
all these hopes and dreams, what am I going to do?
And then you go through the next decade of For me,
(04:26):
it was not being able to have a baby, and
you know, finding my way in my career, and then
forties was having my baby and getting this awesome job.
It's like this big journey all the way through that
I can encapsulate in decades to this point. And really
there are no six words that can describe all that
(04:48):
I have been through. It doesn't seem to be well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Thanks for going for the feature today. Hopefully the listeners
can actually take the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Texting Yours four seventy five three one oh four three.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Right now, an invitation to tell me your life story
so far in six words words you can text me
oh four seven five three one oh four three, Jill
the news. I've had another think here's mine born in England,
found myself here. That's how would sum up my life
(05:24):
at fifty two, actually born in England, but found myself
here Ria.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
What's yours? Mate? You've had an interesting life so far.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I've got a couple. First one two degrees never used
now radio.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You are the most intelligent and overqualified man in Australian radio.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And the most in texted.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Paying that off for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The other one, First girls, now guys, much simpler.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Wow, read that again. People might have missed it. Rio.
That's very good. There's a lot going on there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
First girls, now guys, much simpler.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I thought you were gonna end with what next? I
was like, Wow, who knows where the w's are going? Sex?
All right? Some of the ones that are coming in from
everyone this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So it's your life so far in six words? Text
me four seventy five three one o four three. All
of the ones that I'm about to read out right
now are all six words.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, they're really good.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All of a sudden middle aged Yeah, I mean I'm
fifty two. I come sure, because for me and Pats,
it doesn't feel like you wake up one morning and
you wait, what but you look in the mirror and
you meet yourself as a middle aged person. You're like,
bloody hell, how do we get here so quickly?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What happened to you?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Christian? Suddenly you're an eye doctors. Thank you for that.
A little bit of everything Blessed. That's from Amanda Armstrong.
Matthew's got a lot going on his life so far,
met married, Kobe Renovation, renovation, Renovation. That sounds like a
new TV Showress ten Nights on Renovation, Renovation, Renovation. This
(07:09):
is Megan's from Little Things, Big Things Grow. I love
this from Gay Chatterton. My life's journey has made me.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean sometimes when you look back and you remember
the bits where it felt like actually the life's journey
was breaking you, I guess that's all part of the
remaking at times as well. Heather Struggle, pain, sorrow, grandchildren, happy, proud.
I start the circle of life right there, and those
they're from Heather ben Ben. This is amazing, Glad I survived,
life got better Ben. We're glad he survived as well.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Mate. Congratulations. This is Luke crazy beginning. What when you
at zero?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What a story?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Suddenly you get evicted from there, so cozy in there
for nine months?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So well, hell are you We'll be back. Yes, it's
so bright, so sleeping in there.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Crazy beginning now settled, fulfilled heart Luke, lovely stuff, Keep
this going, text me your life so far and six
words O four seven five, O three one, O four three.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The Christian O'Connell show go On podcast
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