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App Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yesterday on the show, we were sharing in the good
news that Rio has a house. Yes, welcome to adult team,
welcome to a mortgage.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Thank you so much, happy to be here.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And it's got a pond.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, it comes with a fish pond. Yep, there are
fish in it at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, and we're wondering about what happens. Is that classed
as a permanent fixture and so they leave that behind?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I think it is yours.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
The point that you reckon they have to leave the
fish behind? Yes, well, I hope so, because they're beautiful
little right. Anyway, Ena left us after the show yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Great name.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
By the way, Hi Christian, it's Ena here. I'm just
ringing about what you do with your fish when you
buy a house or you stell a house. I had
a house with a pond. I had about sixty goldfish
and comets in it, and the new owners were going
to fill the pond in so I had to rescue
my fish. So I got into the mud up to
my knees with a fish net, caught all the fish,
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took them home in a bucket. And then when people
came for coffee, I would send them home with a
couple of fish in a plastic bag. And that was
how I saved all my fish.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't say your fish, you gave them away?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
What did you do with that party favor?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You got to go and bill buy a pond? Such
a pain in the sad night, there isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I just wanted to come for just a high chance,
just around the corner for me in this place, fish
were lobbed out into a nature strip. Good day for
the seagulls. So today we want to have your pet stories.
The lines are open now thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Any pet stories you've got. Corally sent me this on Christian.
My daughter a pet goldfish in the outside pond in
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the word that, by the way, as opposed to what
indoor one that is great listening out that floor right
by the nest of occasionals. That's the ultimate Bogan move
wow concept. The pond is indoors. My dad had a
pet goldfish in the outside pond, but it died. I
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threw it over the fence. Some of our listeners are
rough around the I love them, but louzzing a deceased goldfish.
I thought this story is it's a good defense. But
the damn thing got stuck in the branches of a tree.
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I had to avoid the area until it finally went
to God. A horrible just some just that one eye
just judging you out there for eternity, so you see
forever your crime. There's something almost biblical about that fish
in the tree. By the way, it was like a parable.
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All right, So we're looking for your pet stories. About
ten years ago I caved in. The girls wanted some
guinea pigs. When I will be looking after these guinea pigs,
And they were like, they've actually came up with a
contract and put it under my office door that they
both co signed that they were going to look after him. Anyway,
after two days, I'm looking after these three guinea pigs.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Amazing pets. They do this thing called popcorning.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh, go on Instagram and do guinea pig popcorning. They
it's like they called it popcorning. They jump up and
down when they're happy. Oh, I don't execute things anyway,
so they named these three guinea pigs.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
One of them had a strange ginger hair.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That looked like a wig, so they called that one
obviously Trump Trump sadly just one day had just died. Okay,
they die, and so I had to beat it to
the girls. It was their first time of experiencing a loss,
and so my wife was away for the week, and
so it was a two two. Also at the age
where the younger one lois, I could spend any yarn
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all right, she still believed that big one about December.
Ruby now was realizing parents are habitual lives. So I
was They were like, well what happens now? And ag
she goes to heaven? Okay, and lowises, Oh my god,
that's beautiful. Where is that that's above us? Thus we're
all dead people and animals and they all go. Then
they're all they're.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
All playing, and it's constant rainbows. Something else sounds.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The older one's going, where exactly showing me on this
map is heaven above our How do we get up there?
And then she was like, how is all the dead
people suspended in the sky? And I was like, mumber.
Three more days of this press conference now on behalf
of heaven. Anyway, I go, hey, listen, you know what,
this doesn't need to be a sabocation. Let's celebrate the
life of Trump the guinea pig. And why don't we
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go and get some ice cream and soda and we'll
have a funeral in the garden. But we'll turn into
a celebration. So anyway, I put on a hell of
a celebration for them. Up, we got picnic and we've
got meats, bread, and we had a picnic blanket. Then
we then we buried Trump and all the way back
in that was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Can we dig her up and bury?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Or?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You can't keep doing it one time? It's your one
time that every week, let's go and dig up? Wait
was sick? All right? Lines are open now for your
pet stories. What's yours? Christian O'Connell show podcast? Are you
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already go back to your chicken trauma?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh my goodness. This is a sow point within the family.
Even to this day. My mom listens to the podcast
and I know I'm going to get angry messages as
soon as she hears this. In about year ten, we
had chickens. We've had them for about three years beautiful,
the cute little bantam one's flog things on their head.
Mum and Dad went away for an Italian holiday. They
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went to Tuscany. They came back just pining for a
Tuscan guard and they're like, oh, I would love to
turn the backyard into this beautiful Tuscan garden. But the
bloody chicken coop and the chicken are there tearing.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Up the who wins.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I go away for school camp a week.
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I come back.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Paved patios, there's a fig tree, a gold there's all
this stuff they've put in.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
The chicken coop's gone concrete. Where are the where the chickens?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Where do you put the chickens? Are They round by
the pool? Fox got them the worst kind And to
this day she will not admit. Here's the cover up
going on. Too convenient. It's why there's no way that
the fox just.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Me's with your mom. Wow, they're sleeping under the concrete.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Under the fig tree with the chicken dinners, the next
couple of chickens tonight every night, just that stranger like
feathers just always floating in the air that Tuscan garden.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Feathers always in this garden, like that Alex. She myself
something great grown up on a farm man. Yeah, so
many pet stories.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I had a dog, a Maca, the most beautiful, wonderful companion.
I grew up with him, basically Adam, since I was
about three years old. He went everywhere with me, protected me,
sat outside the tenth when we went camping, just on
the lookout, the most.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Incredible, the best. Aren't they talk? Blue Hla was.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, And if you believe in ghosts, keep listening here, folks.
So he passed away, poor old Maca, and he was
about nine. He had terrible arthritis. And anyway, I reckon
the night after he died. I can't tell how much
I love this dog, like you know when you're your
first pet, your best friend. He was my best friend.
We went everywhere together, and I mean that we went
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to every corner of that farm together. Anyway, I went
to bed the night after I to this day don't
know whether I was dreaming or I woke up. I
walked out into the dining room, which is just off
the veranda where I slept, and there was Maca, this
golden shining Maca, like he was like kind of glowing,
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and I remember him coming to me, and I'm hugging
him and I'm having this moment with him, and then
we kind of broke off and he walked out the
veranda door, and I never saw him again, and I
to this day am convinced that that was him, that
was his wanting to say goodbye. And I'll never forget
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him walking out that door. And I never saw him again.
That was it, and I was and I'd go to
bed the next few weeks hoping that I would have
that experience again.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
One of the most moving stories I've ever heard on
the show. Yeah, it was. It was so surreal, and
you must to close your eyes. If I just scrated
my eyes come back because.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I want to see him again. I was just so
desperate to see him again. I'll never forget hugging him,
and I honestly think it was him. I don't know
it's this, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I don't think the dogs got such beautiful souls they have.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
He was such a smart, wonderful He used to hate
this machinery salesman that he used to come to the farm,
and he knew that Mum hated this guy, so he
would not let him out of the car.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Interference he went over and haunted him for the rest
of his life.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
He pa, that's where he got the polter dog.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
All right, we got some Let's take some calls here,
Let's get David on. Good morning, David, Sorry David, there
we go. Hey David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Yeah, first time caller, long time listener, welcome.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
All right, what's your story for us? David? Thanks for calling.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well, it's kind of sad but funny. We were moving
from New gil On to Australia about twelve years ago,
and of course we couldn't leave our beloved Hunter a
Cross behind, so we put her in the care of
Pits Service Cup and she was on a domestic flight
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from New Plymouth to Auckland before getting international transfer. And
when the plane landed in Auckland, they were unloading the
crate and she somehow the crate wasn't shut properly and
so she bolted across a runway and unfortunately, unfortunately, the
protocol is to get the urn have tranquilizers, because they
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can't guarantee that the tranquilizer is going to work. You
can't have a dog running around the airport going nuts,
so they unfortunately had to put her put her to
doggie heaven on the tarmac. It was two days before Christmas,
and I had to I had to tell my six
an eight year old that their beloved Bella had gone
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to sleep permanently. And the pet the pet company said, oh, look,
we'll we'll, we'll bear it for you. I said, no,
you won't, you'll you'll send you'll send that that poosh
back to us in one one, one shape or another. Uh.
And so they sent us dollar back frozen. And it
was two days before Christmas, a couple of days before
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we're all jumping on the plane to move to Australia.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
And the kids were out of the back lawn. They
dug her a nice little hole and then as she
was thawing out, they were giving her her last cuddles.
So my kids were were cuddling her, thawing out poach
for for a couple of hours and they got they
all mast got off.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm sorry, I don't want to laugh, like I don't
care about this. I was still heartbroken after my dog
died last year. But the most darkly comic thing is
it okay to laugh? Du don't feel really bad?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah, one hundred percent. It's a long time ago that
the kids have recovered they went through.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Some calcomewing dog New Zealand airports. I don't ever get
lost to start running around the.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Airport and she won't thought me out, very frozen.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
In the garage.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Another part of the story as well, that we we
we had a cat that we brought back from Australia
when we moved back to that didn't she got when
she passed away. She got buried next to Beller up
in the up in the up in the backyard. But
she was best friends with our new dog, the Kelpie,
And when she passed away, we buried her up next
to Bella and the Kelpie sat next to the grave
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for nearly a week. Wouldn't come?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, the wasn't stuck in the coffin? Was it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Someone I don't want to get off.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
I can keep going.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
But no, there can't be anymore. There can't be anymore.
We can't squeeze the juice out of you anymore.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Dog taken out airport, frozen and sent to you, and
then the thawing out.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It's about five. I'll never forget this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
This just like a sort of Adam Sandler movie. Cuddling
with the thawing out.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
You know, they was teens, but they needed to, you know,
say the goodbyes. And they were in Facebook cuddling the
frozen out, frozen in trauma.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Get some gloves on the oven gloves.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
I'll tell you what we planned, an avocado tree on
top of them. And the producers amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Happy ending to this it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh well, there was me getting a bit sad. But
about those avocados. Send us some going to.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
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Speaker 1 (13:52):
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