July 9, 2024 • 21 mins
Christian, Caitlin and Rio's post show meeting is a bit different this week as they head off on their holidays. Christian has an unmissable tale about when he stayed at a listener's house as well as an insane incident involving the Kaiser Chiefs and NERF guns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
All right, welcome to episode three after the show. I'm
Christian O'Connell and I am joined by to my left
producer Rio, to my north producer Caitlin. Hello, is everybody,
We're good.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We are two days away from our holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, so is that why you're good?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No? No, no, no, no, you can be honest.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're midway through the year and so we have a
two week break coming up. You can be honest. They're
you know, doing breakfast shows five days a week, three
hours a day. There's a lot of wear and tear,
you can be honest.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yes, So for us, it's not three hours a day.
It's all day.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Listen, I've seen what you do. Let's not bullshit each other. Okay,
it ain't a ten hour day, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So we've had a huge start to our year. Yeah,
one of the biggest that we've ever had for this show. Yeah.
And so you know, by this time of the year
and as we're heading into winter, we all do get
a bit tired.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I think I'm just at that point.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
As much as I absolutely love getting up every morning
and I genuinely do even though that alarm goes off
at three fifty and you go, oh, it's a joy
to come in every day and it's always fun, and
especially today's show it was an absolute joy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But it is it can be tiring. Sometimes you do
just need to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Relax and real are you looking forward to your break?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I am exhausted, honestly, like it has been a crazy
start to the year. We never I've been because your
lifestyle though, yes, that hasn't helped as well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Say this guy, this guy tears up at the weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, he's still young at heart even though you are
thirty one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's actually just warning you. It's an intervention. I thought
it's always been building this. We said three third maca
and I said third one intervention.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I try to make you comfortable, just so we good.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
This is the hardest time of the year every year
because in Melbourne winter it is freezing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Get out of it. If you listening to in Order,
proper country that has a proper winter, they start crying
over here. It's so called harries mate, when it's wait
for its seven degrees. I can't believe my first year here,
the first winter there was a headline the big chill
for Melbourne's Wait, seven degrees that's not cold.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Can I ask a question? Yeah, okay, it is cold,
but what is your cold?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How do you explain? Because I say this one is
like it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Goes through you zero negative one, zero, negative, well minus.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The winter's russ around that low temperatures two three every
day and then zero and then in the real cold
bits you'd have minus one, two or three.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But what does that feel like feeling too?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
This in your bones?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, okay, that's ours is in our skin at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, your surface levels. Yeah, so it's so moisturize it.
But yes, So what is the break? How do you recharge?
What do you love about? Because I'm ready for the break.
Lot's been going on and over the last couple of
months for me. The thing that's been taking up a
lot of my time outside the show is getting ready
(03:08):
for this first ever mentorship business. Then I'm actually going
to be launching in the next couple of days, which
I'm super excited about. But because I've always worked for
big radio stations where other people do all the ground
work like yourselves, and I've been a one man band
and it is tough. It's like even writing all the
copy for a website. Right, They were just like, who
(03:31):
will you do this? I went, oh, I sort of
looked around. I guess I'll have to do it all,
all of that. And so it's been website copy checking that,
and then who will do the invoicing, who's going to
run zoom all of this? So everything right, everything, so
I can launch this this mentorship thing which I'm really
excited about, which I talk about in a minute. So
(03:51):
there's been a lot going on with that, a lot
of the kind of I guess it's like when you
launch a rocket ship. There's this tremendous amount of energy
you have to have, and then when it's launches, something
else propels it and moves it. But for that first show,
I'm ready for the break. Yes, we've got two weeks off,
all next week. All next week I'm working on this.
(04:13):
That is going to be hours and hours every day
getting already so it. I know that people at the
end of the four classes are going to have for me,
theyve I know they can get something out of it,
how it shift them. So I'm really conforwarded to that.
I'm looking forward to that. But the break for me,
I don't like just lying and then we are going
away for a week roth of feeding. I'm very lucky
to have, thanks man. But I love reading, recharging, and
(04:38):
I find a whole load of new ideas come to me.
I don't sit there with a notepad looking for ideas.
They just start to come to me because suddenly I'm
not looking at a blank piece of paper or haven't
got the daily demand of the radio show. I find
that always, never, not during a break, loads of new
ideas come to me.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That would be the same for me, because like during
the show, you are looking for those things, and I've
constantly got things as.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah it's next tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, there's a lot, and there's a lot of different aspects,
like I deal with sales and promotions and the show
and the team and the it's constant, so there's lots
and lots of different things happening. Whereas when I'm on break,
I really love to I would call it escapism, where
I just kind of read a book that I wanted
to read for a really long time, watched a movie.
We're going to Vietnam for the holidays, so I like
(05:26):
that you.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Two having an affair.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is huge, just imagine the first lesbian and gay affair.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's a whole other podcast. What are the an amazing one?
A show affair? You know, my my Richie I did
the show with in the Yukuba with ten years. You
know he met a listener, married her.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Still where did they meet?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
What were you doing? This is amazing? So he had
been dating Semi's unsuccessory for a while and then there
was one person who kept calling the show who he'd ghosted,
and it was starting to become an issue for the show.
And then we were going to do this thing. We've
done it a couple of times called DJs and pj's
(06:15):
always in the last week of the year, rich and
I were going stay at a listener's house. We stayed
to night. I don't mean in a hotel like other
shows do when they go we're going to do the
show from yours. We stayed the night there and invariably
on Thursday night we'd do what if you want to
do on Thursday night? So I remember one family we
stayed with. This woman. She was in her sixties, her
husband had passed away a couple of years ago, and
(06:36):
they both listened to the show a lot. So she
I took her whole family out for a curry and
then went to karaoke. We didn't get a bed about
three in the morning. We were it was amazing, though
I accidentally broke a window there in the spare room.
So anyway, we're doing this DJs and pjs. We did
it every year and then on one year someone called
in and they said, come and stay at mine. And
(06:56):
I was chatting to her like, you got kids, her
husband and boyfriend. She goes, now I live by my
and I said, on here, we can't do this. It's
not it's not actually appropriate two guys to stay there, right.
So anyway, she sent me an emails saying it's very patronizing.
It's not like I'm just going to throw throw itself
at you and Richie. So I said, look, why don't
you if you're fine, just coming on the show and
wats the show? So I'm invited on the show. A
couple of months later, Richie said I need to we
(07:17):
need to go and have a chat. And straightway, I'm like,
oh god, I said, you haven't been, you haven't been,
you haven't been with the listeners again, he went, I
kind of wont God, damn it. Man, there's fifty three
million people in the country. Leave our listeners alone. We're
losing listeners. We're losing listeners. What happened? I said, who
is it? Anyone I know? Goes, yeah, you've met I
(07:39):
went not the one where I said we can't come
round because it'd been appropriate. What happened? He goes, well,
when you went to the toilet, we swat phone. Umbers went,
oh my god. In the studio you're yeah anyway, they felt.
He said, this is serious. I think this is the
one and they are lovely couple. They got married and
(07:59):
they a beautiful kid, now Rocco, who's like five, And yeah,
what a story.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I love the idea of like how did you meet
your partner?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Like I can first question to ask a couple if
you were out for them or anyone people love. I'd
love to do some like DJs and pjs again. However,
oh jack, old mate, it's not because we were and
sometimes I remember we did it with one. They won't
be listened anymore. But we went around to one family
house and it was a it was a nightmare. What
do you mean, well, I said, we're Rachie worked out
(08:31):
in the evening. It was like half seven, and Richie went,
I can't handle this anymore, and I went knocking, I
this is just a nightmare, and they were just they
were just she didn't know much about the show. His
wife didn't listen to the show, and we didn't know this,
so it obviously been an argument. So straight away it
was just an awful situation, right, and they were starting
to bicker. So rich and I live We said, we look,
(08:53):
we're really tired. You know, we take the show really seriously.
I know sometimes we act like we don't, but we're
doing so we need to be in bed by like
eight half a So all right, okay, we go back
to theirs and they were upstairs and we were down stairs.
We snuck out and went to a pub three hours
down the road. Had a great night's rich and I. Oh,
so anyway, because two and a half million people used
to listen to that show. Next morning, we're going a
(09:15):
great night. Someone called the show. So I saw the snitches.
They were like naming the pub, and the couple were
like that it's down the road, We're not there, don't know.
You were definitely there. That ended. That ended, DJ I'd
love to do it again because actually for most and
(09:37):
then we do the show live from there the next day,
and I just love being in their homes and part
of their lives. It was such It was always like
towards the end of the year, you know, when you've
done the show for the year, the last one is
just so fun. And doing it for someone that really
likes the show, it's a great prize. And I liked
actually generally going out with them the night before just
finding out about Yeah, but I don't I don't know
(09:58):
if I could drag Jack along to that.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So my suggestion is then maybe we just do the
one and then we could really ramp him up just
to do the one, and Patsy would help, like bring
her along because she would lift the spirits, and then
we just do it with the one night instead of
five because he.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Definitely we didn't do it over a week, Oh right,
you'd be exhausted because she went out the night before.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
A lot of the after show chats sometimes are figuring
out how it can trick Jack into doing something.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sight but we did.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We went to Dingley Village for Monica's place, and we
redid We had Pseudo Echo come in, come in, and
then smashed.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Up their kitchen and had it renovated.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
They did a live performance.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
We had them in the room in the backyard, We
had all their friends and family. It was an amazing
vibe and just something obviously it's so different to being
in a radio studio. To be actually in their homes
where a lot of them are listening is awesome. I'd
love to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, well we did it with the Binstickers like it's
not as big, but when we're in the like I
went around with Pat to help give out the Binstickers
in weerribe and being in listeners homes is actually a
really beautiful, like grounding experience because you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Know, when we share our lives with them, and so
I like sort of peering through the other lens and
seeing what their lives are about, and that helps me
put the show in context. It does where it really belongs.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, and they would just point out these things left
right and center about you know, the wear it we
love God, Oh he does this, I do my husband
does that. And it was just really beautiful because you
see how you affect them like and and what every
show every morning has done for them, and the smile
on their face and they're so welcomings.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It is like they're our family.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yes, women, they really are. Yeah, that's pencil picture to
Jackie boy. Okay. The other thing I enjoyed doing once
one day is we did an entire show from six
to nine in the back of a taxi and along
the way we said, this is where we're going to
go where if you're at work while he was singing
in the morning in London, let us know, we're going
to do some stop office and weld say hello and
(12:04):
have a chat with you live on air. And oh
my god, I love that show. It was so nice
just going to where people work. There were so many
different jobs. There was like hospitals, there were people working
on market stalls. It was just there's so much going
on at any given time in a busy morning in
a busy city. Same here in Melbourne as that we've
be in London. That was awesome. We were in the
taxi and people would be running up to the taxi
(12:26):
and coming to have a channel, so jumping in the taxi.
Sometimes we were picking up people, giving them lifts from
dropping them off. It was it was chaos, but I
like just it unfolding. There was no plan other than
this is where we are. Now, where do you want
us to go next? So we were just called in going,
oh you're not far from me, come and say hi,
and went stuff at like a coffee shop and buy
some on a coffee a coffee van. Right, we should
(12:46):
definitely do that, yes, yeah, yeah. Then we picked up
a musician who I don't know if you remember. It
was a one hit wonder. He was called Passenger.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh yeah, yes, let it go saying that in there
and it was amazing, and then we dropped him off.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That's goodyear. I just picked up on that passing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
With a wizard of radio. Passenger, you're a passenger now? Hello?
That was that equal Champagne radio take a set, it's bubbly.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now question and I know it might be minute, but
was this a London cap the big ones with the
big backs in it?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Because ours are not that big.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But you think about then an uber uber exl oh.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, yes, you have the whole gang in there. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We need to find a musician, one that's got some relationships.
Paul Kelly got song to music or will come to you,
she's fixed. That is awesome to her door well done
at the monor in the tuned in.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He was amazing. That was a moment. And in radio
we are lucky. We get okay, we get a lot
of experiences like that, and sometimes you're used to it
like it is a job. So some celebrities coming it
just feels like a job.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You get. I mean heaps, give me three.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I've met Goldie Horn, which was a real moment. That
was over the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So you haven't met them, doesn't matter, all right, I've
also met are you having any names coming at you?
Maybe the microphone?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Sebastian great singer outside of Australia, Australian Idol Season one winner.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
This was the best one. Sam Smith. I met Sam
Smith and they were amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I think the last famous person that I have is Crawl.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh that's.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
All those that's a that's a proper damn style.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I have met genuine and no Jack.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I took him.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I took him the guy that wrote correct I took
Everyone listens to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This right now is googling who that is.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You're working at a pop music station at the time,
so it makes sense. Paul Kelly. For me, it was
a real moment, like I really took it in and
we're really, really lucky.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So I'm now worried that if we ever if anyone
actually globally famous come in, what you would be like?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The only person I would ever freak Jagger.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Or Paul McCartney or No, you wouldn't be fine. I
would know.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Cait and get out the back famously doesn't know any musicians.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The Beatles name one of their songs, Garden, not for
me with their work. If Mick Jag, now that's the
why don't you do that? Lie? Nick Jack? Have you
been doing this long? One of your songs? I might
know it. I might know, but I worked on a
pop station. Are you familiar with the work of Guy
(16:20):
Stadium Dodger.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The only person that I would ever freak out and
probably be a real fan is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Have a guess back Obama, Sandra Bullet.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
If I met her, you have to appause there did
not worry about like we're all going to go and
listen to and go ah. A global person is global.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, anyway, One thing I didn't want to talk about. Yeah,
we've only got to we're recording. It's on Wednesday. We've
only got two shows till the break. One thing we're
cautious of as produce is bringing up ideas too early
that we don't think we're going to do because they
tend to cool so very quickly. There's like a ticking
clock from when you mentioned an idea to how long
(17:11):
we have to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, because right if you talk to a lot of
creative people, it's like if you don't do something of
that idea, it just goes It can go to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And it took me a while to when I first
came on the showt like this is really weird, like
we have this great idea, but then like you know,
maybe it's been two weeks and Christian doesn't want to
do it, Like that's really strange. But then kind of
the more you're involved in the process and you see
like your first and Jack's reactions to an idea are
always best like in their very first fanta.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You feel, you feel an idea, and whether it lightship
or not in the moment, you don't know how you're
going to be in five weeks time, something else might
come have come along that actually excites you more, or
is a better idea. Yeah, that's why most of the
ideas are you're better off trying to do them either
today during the show or tomorrow, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And we have a post that we have a there's about.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Fifteen posting with random They're not random. They're all just
like thumbnails of what we might talk about on the show,
like Bridgeton.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Good Melbourne's largest hands fall.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Shot Friday that was the largest hands shouldn't be up
there injured by child? We did today, Favorite teachers I
really want to do I do love. I want to
hear stories about NERF guns as well. Yes, all right,
I tell you, I'll tell you if we do nerf guns.
I'll share this tomorrow. But I remember years ago there
was this band called the Kaiser Chiefs. They sold million
(18:34):
Yeah that's it, Ruby, Big big man. They're bigger than
the Beatles, and they were doing a big thing for
the show were the show was on the road and
they were going to be doing a show in the evening.
So I went to interviewing them. I've done a couple
of things with them and they're always a good fun
hang right. So I was interviewing them for their play
out on the show the next day, and it was
now about six o'clock and the show wasn't till seven
o'clock and they were like, what are you doing now?
(18:54):
And this venue was quite a bit out of town.
I said, well, I was just going to sort of
hang around, get out your way. I went, no, no, no, no,
you will love this. Right. They then open up I
don't know, eight flight cases of the biggest nerf guns, right,
you've ever seen? And I was like, oh, oh my god.
These were all like my age, right, this was about
ten years all, and I thought, it is like, what's
(19:15):
that goes before a show? Before we let the audience in.
We we just nerve out on the venue. So this
was a fifteen hundred seater room that they were playing in, right,
and so week for half an hour alone, we were
just nerving each other. It was you know, we talk
about experiences like pinch me out. I can't believe this
is my job. It wasn't about the interview was all right,
(19:37):
the best high up. The whole thing was nurfing and
you're just a kid against Ricky Wilson, the man. We're
all running around like kids, hiding from each other.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And that it was brilliant when you do that, when
you do play games that you played as a child.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The feeling that you have.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't know what it is, but you go back
to that feeling as a kid, like that excitement.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I remember introducing them about an hour and a half later,
and as I was stood on the stage about to
bring them on, it was just about one nerf you
know those under my phone and a reminder natural damage
friendly fire.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's also reminded me we never got to because we
we're normally on a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Why don't we do something like a golden shot, some
kind of nerf gun mechanic.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I don't know what it is, but there's something in
nerfing for prizes, yeah, like hitting a target.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes, something more exciting about targeting targets. Good.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Nothing in the name.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Of targeting, target and target.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In England is washed. People feel it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I'm going to Oh no, that's what Bogan's in Australia
call it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It really is. My mum calls it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, listen, I'm going to call time now. And
there's not too any more ideas because otherwise two week
break it could turn gold into ice.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I think gold into cold.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Passenger, because we were
in a taxi. Just in case you forget you know,
and you did a pod listener as well. Well. Listen, guys,
enjoy a break, refresh, recharge. Do not feel like you
have to come up with new ideas for the show.
There's there's always an endless surply of ideas that will
(21:23):
come to you and through. Okay, enjoy your well earned breaks.
Bye bye everybody, and you, dear listener, enjoy well and
break from us. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
All right, welcome to episode three after the show. I'm
Christian O'Connell and I am joined by to my left
producer Rio, to my north producer Caitlin. Hello, is everybody,
We're good.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We are two days away from our holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Well, so is that why you're good?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No? No, no, no, no, you can be honest.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're midway through the year and so we have a
two week break coming up. You can be honest. They're
you know, doing breakfast shows five days a week, three
hours a day. There's a lot of wear and tear,
you can be honest.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yes, So for us, it's not three hours a day.
It's all day.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Listen, I've seen what you do. Let's not bullshit each other. Okay,
it ain't a ten hour day, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So we've had a huge start to our year. Yeah,
one of the biggest that we've ever had for this show. Yeah.
And so you know, by this time of the year
and as we're heading into winter, we all do get
a bit tired.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I think I'm just at that point.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
As much as I absolutely love getting up every morning
and I genuinely do even though that alarm goes off
at three fifty and you go, oh, it's a joy
to come in every day and it's always fun, and
especially today's show it was an absolute joy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But it is it can be tiring. Sometimes you do
just need to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Relax and real are you looking forward to your break?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I am exhausted, honestly, like it has been a crazy
start to the year. We never I've been because your
lifestyle though, yes, that hasn't helped as well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Say this guy, this guy tears up at the weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, he's still young at heart even though you are
thirty one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That's actually just warning you. It's an intervention. I thought
it's always been building this. We said three third maca
and I said third one intervention.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, I try to make you comfortable, just so we good.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
This is the hardest time of the year every year
because in Melbourne winter it is freezing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Get out of it. If you listening to in Order,
proper country that has a proper winter, they start crying
over here. It's so called harries mate, when it's wait
for its seven degrees. I can't believe my first year here,
the first winter there was a headline the big chill
for Melbourne's Wait, seven degrees that's not cold.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Can I ask a question? Yeah, okay, it is cold,
but what is your cold?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How do you explain? Because I say this one is
like it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Goes through you zero negative one, zero, negative, well minus.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The winter's russ around that low temperatures two three every
day and then zero and then in the real cold
bits you'd have minus one, two or three.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But what does that feel like feeling too?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
This in your bones?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, okay, that's ours is in our skin at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, your surface levels. Yeah, so it's so moisturize it.
But yes, So what is the break? How do you recharge?
What do you love about? Because I'm ready for the break.
Lot's been going on and over the last couple of
months for me. The thing that's been taking up a
lot of my time outside the show is getting ready
(03:08):
for this first ever mentorship business. Then I'm actually going
to be launching in the next couple of days, which
I'm super excited about. But because I've always worked for
big radio stations where other people do all the ground
work like yourselves, and I've been a one man band
and it is tough. It's like even writing all the
copy for a website. Right, They were just like, who
(03:31):
will you do this? I went, oh, I sort of
looked around. I guess I'll have to do it all,
all of that. And so it's been website copy checking that,
and then who will do the invoicing, who's going to
run zoom all of this? So everything right, everything, so
I can launch this this mentorship thing which I'm really
excited about, which I talk about in a minute. So
(03:51):
there's been a lot going on with that, a lot
of the kind of I guess it's like when you
launch a rocket ship. There's this tremendous amount of energy
you have to have, and then when it's launches, something
else propels it and moves it. But for that first show,
I'm ready for the break. Yes, we've got two weeks off,
all next week. All next week I'm working on this.
(04:13):
That is going to be hours and hours every day
getting already so it. I know that people at the
end of the four classes are going to have for me,
theyve I know they can get something out of it,
how it shift them. So I'm really conforwarded to that.
I'm looking forward to that. But the break for me,
I don't like just lying and then we are going
away for a week roth of feeding. I'm very lucky
to have, thanks man. But I love reading, recharging, and
(04:38):
I find a whole load of new ideas come to me.
I don't sit there with a notepad looking for ideas.
They just start to come to me because suddenly I'm
not looking at a blank piece of paper or haven't
got the daily demand of the radio show. I find
that always, never, not during a break, loads of new
ideas come to me.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That would be the same for me, because like during
the show, you are looking for those things, and I've
constantly got things as.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah it's next tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, there's a lot, and there's a lot of different aspects,
like I deal with sales and promotions and the show
and the team and the it's constant, so there's lots
and lots of different things happening. Whereas when I'm on break,
I really love to I would call it escapism, where
I just kind of read a book that I wanted
to read for a really long time, watched a movie.
We're going to Vietnam for the holidays, so I like
(05:26):
that you.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Two having an affair.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
This is huge, just imagine the first lesbian and gay affair.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's a whole other podcast. What are the an amazing one?
A show affair? You know, my my Richie I did
the show with in the Yukuba with ten years. You
know he met a listener, married her.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Still where did they meet?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
What were you doing? This is amazing? So he had
been dating Semi's unsuccessory for a while and then there
was one person who kept calling the show who he'd ghosted,
and it was starting to become an issue for the show.
And then we were going to do this thing. We've
done it a couple of times called DJs and pj's
(06:15):
always in the last week of the year, rich and
I were going stay at a listener's house. We stayed
to night. I don't mean in a hotel like other
shows do when they go we're going to do the
show from yours. We stayed the night there and invariably
on Thursday night we'd do what if you want to
do on Thursday night? So I remember one family we
stayed with. This woman. She was in her sixties, her
husband had passed away a couple of years ago, and
(06:36):
they both listened to the show a lot. So she
I took her whole family out for a curry and
then went to karaoke. We didn't get a bed about
three in the morning. We were it was amazing, though
I accidentally broke a window there in the spare room.
So anyway, we're doing this DJs and pjs. We did
it every year and then on one year someone called
in and they said, come and stay at mine. And
(06:56):
I was chatting to her like, you got kids, her
husband and boyfriend. She goes, now I live by my
and I said, on here, we can't do this. It's
not it's not actually appropriate two guys to stay there, right.
So anyway, she sent me an emails saying it's very patronizing.
It's not like I'm just going to throw throw itself
at you and Richie. So I said, look, why don't
you if you're fine, just coming on the show and
wats the show? So I'm invited on the show. A
couple of months later, Richie said I need to we
(07:17):
need to go and have a chat. And straightway, I'm like,
oh god, I said, you haven't been, you haven't been,
you haven't been with the listeners again, he went, I
kind of wont God, damn it. Man, there's fifty three
million people in the country. Leave our listeners alone. We're
losing listeners. We're losing listeners. What happened? I said, who
is it? Anyone I know? Goes, yeah, you've met I
(07:39):
went not the one where I said we can't come
round because it'd been appropriate. What happened? He goes, well,
when you went to the toilet, we swat phone. Umbers went,
oh my god. In the studio you're yeah anyway, they felt.
He said, this is serious. I think this is the
one and they are lovely couple. They got married and
(07:59):
they a beautiful kid, now Rocco, who's like five, And yeah,
what a story.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I love the idea of like how did you meet
your partner?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Like I can first question to ask a couple if
you were out for them or anyone people love. I'd
love to do some like DJs and pjs again. However,
oh jack, old mate, it's not because we were and
sometimes I remember we did it with one. They won't
be listened anymore. But we went around to one family
house and it was a it was a nightmare. What
do you mean, well, I said, we're Rachie worked out
(08:31):
in the evening. It was like half seven, and Richie went,
I can't handle this anymore, and I went knocking, I
this is just a nightmare, and they were just they
were just she didn't know much about the show. His
wife didn't listen to the show, and we didn't know this,
so it obviously been an argument. So straight away it
was just an awful situation, right, and they were starting
to bicker. So rich and I live We said, we look,
(08:53):
we're really tired. You know, we take the show really seriously.
I know sometimes we act like we don't, but we're
doing so we need to be in bed by like
eight half a So all right, okay, we go back
to theirs and they were upstairs and we were down stairs.
We snuck out and went to a pub three hours
down the road. Had a great night's rich and I. Oh,
so anyway, because two and a half million people used
to listen to that show. Next morning, we're going a
(09:15):
great night. Someone called the show. So I saw the snitches.
They were like naming the pub, and the couple were
like that it's down the road, We're not there, don't know.
You were definitely there. That ended. That ended, DJ I'd
love to do it again because actually for most and
(09:37):
then we do the show live from there the next day,
and I just love being in their homes and part
of their lives. It was such It was always like
towards the end of the year, you know, when you've
done the show for the year, the last one is
just so fun. And doing it for someone that really
likes the show, it's a great prize. And I liked
actually generally going out with them the night before just
finding out about Yeah, but I don't I don't know
(09:58):
if I could drag Jack along to that.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So my suggestion is then maybe we just do the
one and then we could really ramp him up just
to do the one, and Patsy would help, like bring
her along because she would lift the spirits, and then
we just do it with the one night instead of
five because he.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Definitely we didn't do it over a week, Oh right,
you'd be exhausted because she went out the night before.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
A lot of the after show chats sometimes are figuring
out how it can trick Jack into doing something.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sight but we did.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We went to Dingley Village for Monica's place, and we
redid We had Pseudo Echo come in, come in, and
then smashed.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Up their kitchen and had it renovated.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
They did a live performance.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
We had them in the room in the backyard, We
had all their friends and family. It was an amazing
vibe and just something obviously it's so different to being
in a radio studio. To be actually in their homes
where a lot of them are listening is awesome. I'd
love to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, well we did it with the Binstickers like it's
not as big, but when we're in the like I
went around with Pat to help give out the Binstickers
in weerribe and being in listeners homes is actually a
really beautiful, like grounding experience because you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Know, when we share our lives with them, and so
I like sort of peering through the other lens and
seeing what their lives are about, and that helps me
put the show in context. It does where it really belongs.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, and they would just point out these things left
right and center about you know, the wear it we
love God, Oh he does this, I do my husband
does that. And it was just really beautiful because you
see how you affect them like and and what every
show every morning has done for them, and the smile
on their face and they're so welcomings.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It is like they're our family.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yes, women, they really are. Yeah, that's pencil picture to
Jackie boy. Okay. The other thing I enjoyed doing once
one day is we did an entire show from six
to nine in the back of a taxi and along
the way we said, this is where we're going to
go where if you're at work while he was singing
in the morning in London, let us know, we're going
to do some stop office and weld say hello and
(12:04):
have a chat with you live on air. And oh
my god, I love that show. It was so nice
just going to where people work. There were so many
different jobs. There was like hospitals, there were people working
on market stalls. It was just there's so much going
on at any given time in a busy morning in
a busy city. Same here in Melbourne as that we've
be in London. That was awesome. We were in the
taxi and people would be running up to the taxi
(12:26):
and coming to have a channel, so jumping in the taxi.
Sometimes we were picking up people, giving them lifts from
dropping them off. It was it was chaos, but I
like just it unfolding. There was no plan other than
this is where we are. Now, where do you want
us to go next? So we were just called in going,
oh you're not far from me, come and say hi,
and went stuff at like a coffee shop and buy
some on a coffee a coffee van. Right, we should
(12:46):
definitely do that, yes, yeah, yeah. Then we picked up
a musician who I don't know if you remember. It
was a one hit wonder. He was called Passenger.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh yeah, yes, let it go saying that in there
and it was amazing, and then we dropped him off.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That's goodyear. I just picked up on that passing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
With a wizard of radio. Passenger, you're a passenger now? Hello?
That was that equal Champagne radio take a set, it's bubbly.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Now question and I know it might be minute, but
was this a London cap the big ones with the
big backs in it?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Because ours are not that big.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But you think about then an uber uber exl oh.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, yes, you have the whole gang in there. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We need to find a musician, one that's got some relationships.
Paul Kelly got song to music or will come to you,
she's fixed. That is awesome to her door well done
at the monor in the tuned in.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
He was amazing. That was a moment. And in radio
we are lucky. We get okay, we get a lot
of experiences like that, and sometimes you're used to it
like it is a job. So some celebrities coming it
just feels like a job.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You get. I mean heaps, give me three.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I've met Goldie Horn, which was a real moment. That
was over the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So you haven't met them, doesn't matter, all right, I've
also met are you having any names coming at you?
Maybe the microphone?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Sebastian great singer outside of Australia, Australian Idol Season one winner.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
This was the best one. Sam Smith. I met Sam
Smith and they were amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I think the last famous person that I have is Crawl.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh that's.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
All those that's a that's a proper damn style.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I have met genuine and no Jack.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I took him.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I took him the guy that wrote correct I took
Everyone listens to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This right now is googling who that is.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You're working at a pop music station at the time,
so it makes sense. Paul Kelly. For me, it was
a real moment, like I really took it in and
we're really, really lucky.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So I'm now worried that if we ever if anyone
actually globally famous come in, what you would be like?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The only person I would ever freak Jagger.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Or Paul McCartney or No, you wouldn't be fine. I
would know.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Cait and get out the back famously doesn't know any musicians.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
The Beatles name one of their songs, Garden, not for
me with their work. If Mick Jag, now that's the
why don't you do that? Lie? Nick Jack? Have you
been doing this long? One of your songs? I might
know it. I might know, but I worked on a
pop station. Are you familiar with the work of Guy
(16:20):
Stadium Dodger.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The only person that I would ever freak out and
probably be a real fan is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Have a guess back Obama, Sandra Bullet.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
If I met her, you have to appause there did
not worry about like we're all going to go and
listen to and go ah. A global person is global.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, anyway, One thing I didn't want to talk about. Yeah,
we've only got to we're recording. It's on Wednesday. We've
only got two shows till the break. One thing we're
cautious of as produce is bringing up ideas too early
that we don't think we're going to do because they
tend to cool so very quickly. There's like a ticking
clock from when you mentioned an idea to how long
(17:11):
we have to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, because right if you talk to a lot of
creative people, it's like if you don't do something of
that idea, it just goes It can go to somebody else.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And it took me a while to when I first
came on the showt like this is really weird, like
we have this great idea, but then like you know,
maybe it's been two weeks and Christian doesn't want to
do it, Like that's really strange. But then kind of
the more you're involved in the process and you see
like your first and Jack's reactions to an idea are
always best like in their very first fanta.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You feel, you feel an idea, and whether it lightship
or not in the moment, you don't know how you're
going to be in five weeks time, something else might
come have come along that actually excites you more, or
is a better idea. Yeah, that's why most of the
ideas are you're better off trying to do them either
today during the show or tomorrow, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And we have a post that we have a there's about.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Fifteen posting with random They're not random. They're all just
like thumbnails of what we might talk about on the show,
like Bridgeton.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Good Melbourne's largest hands fall.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Shot Friday that was the largest hands shouldn't be up
there injured by child? We did today, Favorite teachers I
really want to do I do love. I want to
hear stories about NERF guns as well. Yes, all right,
I tell you, I'll tell you if we do nerf guns.
I'll share this tomorrow. But I remember years ago there
was this band called the Kaiser Chiefs. They sold million
(18:34):
Yeah that's it, Ruby, Big big man. They're bigger than
the Beatles, and they were doing a big thing for
the show were the show was on the road and
they were going to be doing a show in the evening.
So I went to interviewing them. I've done a couple
of things with them and they're always a good fun
hang right. So I was interviewing them for their play
out on the show the next day, and it was
now about six o'clock and the show wasn't till seven
o'clock and they were like, what are you doing now?
(18:54):
And this venue was quite a bit out of town.
I said, well, I was just going to sort of
hang around, get out your way. I went, no, no, no, no,
you will love this. Right. They then open up I
don't know, eight flight cases of the biggest nerf guns, right,
you've ever seen? And I was like, oh, oh my god.
These were all like my age, right, this was about
ten years all, and I thought, it is like, what's
(19:15):
that goes before a show? Before we let the audience in.
We we just nerve out on the venue. So this
was a fifteen hundred seater room that they were playing in, right,
and so week for half an hour alone, we were
just nerving each other. It was you know, we talk
about experiences like pinch me out. I can't believe this
is my job. It wasn't about the interview was all right,
(19:37):
the best high up. The whole thing was nurfing and
you're just a kid against Ricky Wilson, the man. We're
all running around like kids, hiding from each other.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And that it was brilliant when you do that, when
you do play games that you played as a child.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The feeling that you have.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't know what it is, but you go back
to that feeling as a kid, like that excitement.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I remember introducing them about an hour and a half later,
and as I was stood on the stage about to
bring them on, it was just about one nerf you
know those under my phone and a reminder natural damage
friendly fire.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's also reminded me we never got to because we
we're normally on a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Why don't we do something like a golden shot, some
kind of nerf gun mechanic.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I don't know what it is, but there's something in
nerfing for prizes, yeah, like hitting a target.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yes, something more exciting about targeting targets. Good.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Nothing in the name.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Of targeting, target and target.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In England is washed. People feel it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I'm going to Oh no, that's what Bogan's in Australia
call it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It really is. My mum calls it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, listen, I'm going to call time now. And
there's not too any more ideas because otherwise two week
break it could turn gold into ice.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I think gold into cold.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Passenger, because we were
in a taxi. Just in case you forget you know,
and you did a pod listener as well. Well. Listen, guys,
enjoy a break, refresh, recharge. Do not feel like you
have to come up with new ideas for the show.
There's there's always an endless surply of ideas that will
(21:23):
come to you and through. Okay, enjoy your well earned breaks.
Bye bye everybody, and you, dear listener, enjoy well and
break from us. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
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