May 27, 2026 • 43 mins
While Christian is away we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits!
From the absurdity of a man's shower giving way, to the ridiculousness of a clown shortage, and career profiling.
Plus Small Thing, Big Joy!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right this morning, the uber driver bringing me today
was a lovely guy called Kevin, and we got starting
and talking and he wants to know where I was going.
What did I do for a living? What's my job?
So I started talking about what we do and he said,
oh my god, how do you know what to talk about?
Do you have a run out of things to talk about?
I said no, not really, because in any life, so
much happens to people. My job is to simply pay
(00:47):
attention right and collect stories mine and other people's. So
I said so excited, So what do you do? He goes, well,
I used to work in property insurance and now work
in marine insurance. I said, you must have watched you
do with claims. He was like, yeah, you must have
had some crazy calls. What just happens in people's homes
that they have to call you and claim for? And
he goes, oh, yeah, Actually there was a couple of
years ago this lady was having a shower and there
(01:10):
must have been a leak going on for quite a while.
The shower basin just gave way. And it was a
two story building. She went from the first floor to
the ground floor into her own kitchen. The shower gave way,
and I went what, I went, excuse me, I've got
to get my phone out. I just typed in it
gave way, and he goes, yeah. Then there was the
(01:33):
old lady on the toilet, And what about the older
lady on the toilet? Some seven year old lady was
on the toilet on the first floor again, and the
toilet just gave way. Her sitting on it, crashes to
the floor. Believe she was not injured, and miracles, but
she was calling to explain why she needs to make
an insurance.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You think it's a prank caller?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, a lady flying through Yeah, okay, okay,
ease up on the meds. So I want I don't
know if we're going to get any more stories or
we've heard the stories we're ever going to get for
it gave way. But if anyone's got a story that
involves something giving way, I want to hear about this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Christian O'Connell show Gone podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's just had some really exciting news on the producers.
They said, listen, we've got a couple of stories lined up.
A couple of callers with it. Gave way, no one
died in them. They're not. Caitlin, the producer, who can
be quite direct with her language. She's spoken I'm not
saying that's good about I'm just saying she is, and
she just goes they're not killer stories. I didn't know
(02:40):
there was a phrase. I just thought it was well
understood that we don't want any think any deaths on
the radio. All right, gave Way, no ed gain stories,
bianchor welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm good? Can I just confirm that you are alive
in the story?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yes, I am alive in this story. Thank you, my
whole mom.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Good news.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And then we had an old school nineties metal bunk
bed and I was laying on the bottom double bit
with Mum and all of a sudden, the top bunk
gave way came down onto us. Mom caught the bunk bed,
so wow, Mum's strength as I was able to get out,
and I'm pretty sure Mom just lifted it off to
(03:29):
the side. But the oh yeah, the old school metal
bunk bed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Fand those Yeah what Me and my sister had those
when we were younger. Yeah. Wow, we amazing, like you said,
the mum's strength to do that.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
So yeah, neither of us got hurt, luckily, but yeah
they're not.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
They weren't light either.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They're not. No anchor. Thank you very much the story.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Thanks guys, have a good morning.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Thank you one from one, No one dead. Let's see
if we can keep this going. David, Welcome to the show.
It gave way.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
It did give way. It was a scaffle on a
job when I was in Young Apprentice and they don't
use those scaffolds anymore because it had been raining, and
we pegged it all up. We're up on the second
about the second story, doing the eaves as you do,
(04:24):
and the boss was on the one end of the
scaffold and I was on the other, and the pigs
gave way that were bracing up the scaffold, and we
both came sliding down the wall, looking at each other
wondering how it was going to land, and bashed different
(04:47):
feats of arm and leg as we came down and
landed on the ground and looked at each other, seeing
we were both still reasonally good, and just started laughing,
thinking it was the funniest thing that had happened.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Court David, what a great story. Only in Australia would
you hear someone to a story about sliding down a
building and go We were down looking at each other.
The funniest the times really had to be.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
There was funny at the time, but we picked up
and decided it was time to go home.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, you're right, Yeah, you're kind of like you're done
for the day with.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
That one for the day.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow, we what a moment in your lives something to
have a cartoon? Isn't the road a cartoon?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Yes, yeah, but my wife says I've got more than
nine lives because I've been involved in all sorts of
things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
More careful day.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, maybe time to retire. Actually, since we're common to
nominate indoors David's stay indoors, wrap myself in cotton. Yes, exactly,
for the rest of your years, David David. Brilliant, brilliant story,
very well told. Thank you, good.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Guys, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There's a record shortage of new clowns. Yes, lost them
to TikTok. They're clowning around online, that's what they're doing now.
They don't want to get clown around in the big top.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It's tragic really to see that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You think it's just going to die out.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I do know. You know ten twenty years now, they
just won't be big tops.
Speaker 10 (06:27):
Yeah, there'll be no circuses, no little carnivals, those bloody
gen Z I know.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I get this email towards the show end of the
show yesday from Kate Christian. My gen Z daughter just
did a career profile and test at school. She was
hoping to get a scientist, a lawyer, but instead of entertainer,
and it said examples a clown, a juggler, or a puppeteer.
She was not rest.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
Actually not suited to be a lawyer. You're more suited
to juggling.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, go and pick up that feul animal and put
your hand on his backside. Welcome to your next life
as a puppeteer. Here's a cream pie. Yes. Yeah. Whenever
I see a puppeteer in there or juggling and think
they just in their heart they just want to be
a lawyer. They're not living the life they wanted. So anyway,
it just reminds me of career profiling. This was our
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in the eighties we did at my school. This is
when school computers. There was this one school computer, right,
and it was massive. I think there were like two
scientists that lived in the back end of this big
ass school computer. There's only one we're teaching who you
had to use it like the pe teachers were too
thick to work out was there's this beat it with sticks.
So we're terrified of the future that was coming. So
we had this I don't know whatever it was, the
(07:40):
Commodore Spectrum. Anyway, you had this rubbish software that took
like a data load up called Cascade, where this teacher
would ask you, what kind of things are you interested in?
What are you doing? What subjects do you do the best?
At school? When anything and the couter the computer would
spit out what it thought you should be doing. So
I said, look, I really want I was sixteen, nineteen
(08:01):
eighty nine, so they really want to work in entertainment
like TV or radio. The teacher went, are you getting
on a mass I'm terrible amount. I'm probably going to
faind that okay, English good right, puts it all in,
spits out quarry manager or funeral director. And he was like, listen,
if you don't, if you don't work harder at mass,
you're never going to make it into entertainment and show biz.
I'm like, these people aren't geniuses. It's manly, quite low
(08:23):
level like you. But I don't speak about myself that
do this work. If you're good at maths, you don't
end up doing these jobs. You don't need to. And
trust me, for a lot of my career, the maths
don't add up mean maths for jazz hands right, So
did you? Did you do some of that? At school
career profile.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Weds in year ten? I remember we went into a
big assembly hall. We all took the test. It was
quite extensive, and then I went in the room with
mister Dobbs, who was our careers counselor, and he told
me that I should be a car salesman.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is what they were careers advice.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Mister. He was so confident about it, and I didn't.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
I have no interest in cass whatsoever, so I don't
know why it'd be a very good car salesman.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I remember pissed offing? Is this my future now?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So? What did you say you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think back then.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
I either wanted to be a marine biologist or an astronomer.
I don't even know what what baddie with.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Your eyesight, I've seen you squinching at that laptop with glasses.
You ain't seen anything up in spec in the sea.
You'd have to have those prescription goggles and snorkel. I mean,
can you get those your divaries alongside of the I
(09:41):
can't even see that. It's a sharks too. Must keep
my eyes tested on the water, parasy. What did you
have at school?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What thing?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
They wouldn't have cared what we did.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I could have joined the circus, the mafia, or whatever
else you did, both.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The radio circus and them. He filmed you, O Matthea
story yours.
Speaker 12 (10:00):
Mister Beer was out, mister Beer, and it sounds like
a Sax children's entertainer.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Listen, mister Beer, this is not an aspirational kids character
of you drinking all day long, mister Beer.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
No, Tony Beer was his name, and yes, and his
wife was one of the pe teachers.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
She was lovely.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
But mister Beer had no faith whatsoever in me. And
when I said to him I wanted to get into
radio and maybe journalism, radio journalism, he basically said, good
luck with that, but you need to do an arts degree.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
So no faith whatsoever, no test, nothing can how.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Many people would have been talked out maybe pursuing something
that they really would have been happy doing. Yeah, what
did you have, Alex on that farm? Nothing of the sore?
Was you raised by sheeps and ghasts.
Speaker 13 (10:42):
And wolves wolves, which was what my school was like,
so you know it was it was like a jail
other than a school.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
My body school in Sydney.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
We had a careers person but she didn't really do
much at all, and you might have gone in there
to chat to her about what you wanted to do
in life, but there was never any tests, never any
nice really.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, they always tried to lower your expectations. Yes, Like
I went in, why do I think? And I'd learned
to sit her try and meet in TV already was
like that ain't going to happen. Listen to this idiot.
They want to make it, so would I, But I'm
not Christian. So sit down. There's a factory over there
with your name on it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It was really about lowering ambition.
Speaker 11 (11:21):
Yes, instead of like empowering school.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We now kids are like you could do anything, become
a billionaire online ten x this optimize your life crypto CURRENCYE.
Speaker 13 (11:31):
I was lucky that I wanted to do this anyway
from aged at twelve or thirteen, So I was I
was quite lucky and that I knew what I wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I'd love to speak to other people than what was
your experience doing career profiling at school? And is anyone
actually doing what they want to do? We just got
talked out of our dreams and beaten out of us.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Talking about career profiling on the show right now, did
you ever done? Jules? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Hi Christian, how are you?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm good? Jewels? You were you did career profiling at school?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
My son had to do career profiling five years ago
at a public school and they did a test and
they had to see the career's counselor and the results
came back and told him that he needed to be
a brewister. So he told us that at the dinner table,
and we were happy for him, tried to pump him
up about it, and then about a week later I said, hey, mate,
can I have a look at those results to be
(12:22):
really keen to understand you know, how you got to
that result? And anyway I had to look at it. It
was barrister.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
How many barristers have made that wrong mix up? There
were a lot of criminals who've got way too big
a sentences. He did make a good confident.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
He had no idea what a barrister was at all.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Jill's great story. Thank
you very much for sharing.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
You mate, No worries.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Bye, Sarah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (12:56):
Hey Christian, Hey Gang, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, we're good, Sarah, thanks for calling in. So career profiling, Yes, so.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
It was very serious business at the school that I
went to, and we did it in year tenth and
my results were that I was going to be a
teacher and early childcare teacher, and I thought that was
rubbish because I wanted to be an engineer. So I
went off and I did engineering. I just ignored everything
they told me, and then fifteen years later, guess what
I'm doing now? I am a teacher.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The circuit of life you yea, they knew.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
Yes, yes, my teachers were always convinced that that's what
I would end up doing.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
What are you teaching engineering?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No?
Speaker 14 (13:36):
Oh no, but I teach physics and stem subject subjects.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So yeah, and do you enjoy it?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I do.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
It was I kind of feel like it was what
I was meant to be doing. It's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, well, there are no straight rivers that are there
in life. There's sunny twists and turns. Sometimes you're right
where you need to where you meant to be anyway.
Speaker 14 (13:55):
Yes, oh yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Awesome, Sarah, thank you very much your story. Thanks you
giving us a call. No worries by Let's go to
uh Kate, Good morning, Kate.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Good morning everyone. Hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We are having a good is having a good day?
Speaker 11 (14:10):
Excellent?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
An interesting story. So it was a while ago now,
my career council they came back and I was really
keen on doing computer science and going into technology, and
they said it was far too niche and it will
never take off.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And yeah, there's on these boxes and all that knowledge
in there, there's nothing in these for you.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
There's definitely nothing in technology, not a good.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Career, just going nowhere, No way.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I say, fortunately I completely ignored them and yeah, twenty
five years later in it and run my own IT company.
So love technology.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, you should go to schools and talk to
them about following actually callings in life, because no one
knows anything, really, no one knows that much.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
There are no experts, no, no, And you know, I think,
follow your passion and because you're going to be doing
it a long time, so you've got to be enjoying
what you're doing. So if you get a choice, do
something you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I just looked at a couple of team members, all
looking down their feet. I was working with me, was
not in that mood board when they were a teenage
One of them was round there was shovling popcorn into
their face. Yeah, I'm talking to are we at the cinema?
Sorry about this, Kate, Kate, thank you very much for
giving us a call.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So y Christian O'Connell show Gone podcast, Small thing, Big Joy?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Now, what small thing gives you big joy? Rio? What's
it for you?
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I was living large last weekend and was staying in
this lovely hotel and I dared for the first time
ever to take something from the mini.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Bar forbidden and fruit. This is what God, Adam and
Eve kicked out of the garden.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It feels like that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What do you go for chocolate?
Speaker 13 (15:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I went for the thirteen dollar pringles?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Wow, sum mug up there inside. But had you had
a couple of drinks? Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, we bought our own wine, so we're drinking that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Did you smuggle your wine in? Yes, yeah, right in
the middle of it. You do it right in the
middle of you of the bag, like they've got a
scanner there. Yes, they must know, so you don't won't
make enough on the pringles, buddy, Yeah, we make it back.
How as much booze as you come in, you'll have
more than mini bar.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And drinking them in those little like plastic cups.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
They get very classy, but you feel like a rock star.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Just might not do it again ever in my life,
but I recommend just one time, reach into the mini bar,
grab those pringles, grab the mars.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Oh my god, how honors are we? When you're checking out,
they go, do you have anything from the mini bar?
He goes, I think so, and they look at you, girl,
what says you about four bees chocolate unless what you're
saying some broken what we're saying, yes, sir, Well, my
(17:02):
butter actually suggested.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
Will said, oh, we should just get some at the
convenience store and switch you do that.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I run to the seven eleven, do you and you
hopefully get back in time before housekeeping.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Thing once you get to the hotel and you're in
that sort of bubble, I don't want to leave it.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Yeah, well that's how they get you with the sound
like a dad.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
This is how they get you.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Alex. What's the small thing, big joy for you?
Speaker 13 (17:32):
So my son's doing this at the moment, Max, right,
And you know when you're lying there and it's a
little bit warm, it's a bit hot, not at the
moment obviously, but your pillow and you turn the pillow
over and the other side is cold and your head
can rest on the cold side of the pillow.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But troubles though, sometimes the head heats it up real quick,
doesn't it.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Yeah, turn it back again, and that's what Max is
doing at the So he'll turn it back over, and
then I'll turn it back over.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, there's nothing worse when you can't sleep and you're
constantly flipping it like a burger, just trying to find it,
and it's it cools. It warms up so quickly. Because
you can have heated bed blankets, why can't we have
cooling pillows? Cold question?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I have seen answer those? Have you been very tempted?
Tempted together, especially here in Australia?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yes? When do we know to have a coolant in
the pillow, something like a cold water bottle instead of
a hot yes? Yes, So what happened is as it's
starting to cool down, you know, and you're fundling in
the dark, you tap it the side of the pillow,
tap that pillow and you give a little tap and
then it starts to cool down. Two taps warm it up.
(18:42):
I don't have a cold head. When I get out
of bed in the morning for work and it's start
warming up, the brain signapses. Our tap it, tap it
twice suddenly warms my head up.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It doesn't seem such.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It seems like a very Japanese invent. They think, they
think of those things. Perhapsy, what's the small thing big
joy for you?
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Did it?
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Sunday night?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It's my new ritual on a Sunday is put a
couple of drops and I can do this.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
My doctor said, it's legit, whiskey.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
No hydrogen hydrogen peroxide in my ear, And it's like
popping candy for your ear.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Do you have a blocked ear?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
You constantly have trouble with my ears, And so you
just put a couple of drops and it gets rid
of all the debris and it's it's like popping candy debris.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
What if you got in there like twigs and like
birds nest It's fantastic.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
It just gets rid of all the old wax.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And is that safe though, because it's very sensitive? Fine
micro yare aren't they?
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Iron Are hospital said and say, okay, look at your website.
There the word.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Hydrogen hydrogen bomb peroxide. Things you shouldn't put in your ear?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Me and Nanny used to say anything nothing bigger than
the width of your elbow.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh I never got that. Director out of doubt.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
That is a thing.
Speaker 15 (19:56):
And I think the whole point of it is just
don't put anything in your.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Ears, especially not anything that could go inside a bomb.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Ingredients or a science speaker an era through.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
A crapy Jan O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sick Joy Now the last couple days haven't been feeling
that well. My family have been trying to I don't.
I'm not been good with too much fuss. Okay, they
have to tread very carefully around me, right, so I'm fine.
I don't not too much fuss. So they've been gently
giving me things that show me care without being a
(20:33):
big deal. That's nice. So in the last forty hours,
I've received two things. Whittaker's coconut blocked chocolate O love.
I love that. My wife came back yesterday from doing
the shop and she just placed it down on my
desk and walked away, like sealing with an ape. Basically,
I just go into his cage, leaving his baniana, Do
not make eye contact, do you not start him? Just
(20:55):
leave it, treat backwards a few I think it's okay.
And then my daughter, she's gone back to college. She
went to office works yesterday and she came back with
a brand new pack of Sharpie pens fine point. She
knows what Papa likes, because sometimes you need to make
(21:16):
a fine point, but with a bold pen, a bold
fine point. A pack of those and again put them
on my desk.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Water that's very generous for a University studio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh no, she also put my credit card back, but
I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's a beautiful gesture.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Hey the piper. That's what I always say. All right,
what have you got here? Small thing, big joy, Christian?
The first sip of coffee in the morning. You're right,
so the first sip of your drink at the weekend
and a Friday, isn't it? First drink Christian? Small thing,
big joy for me walking out of the office Friday afternoon.
That's the spirit, Andrew. That's our employee of the week there,
(21:56):
early afternoon, small thing, big joy. Putting a wheat pack
on my feet when I go to bed so they're
nice and toasty at onment during winter. What a great idea.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I love the smell of the wheat pack.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, it comes out of the microwae yes, yes, Tracy.
That soft feeling. Only in Australia would someone say this, Tracy,
So I'm saying, small thing, big joy, Okay, that soft
feeling of a bran new pair of tracky.
Speaker 16 (22:24):
Pats, traggyacks, power of now and the barrel of traggy decks.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It is a very specific feeling.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It is. Well, we remember the first time went to Bunnings,
and I realized, Oh, I'm far too smart to be
here because everyone is in trackydacks and shorts and bins
and sloppy jacks. Yes, oh, I need to go in
the car. You're in your tax seed sitping a cocktail.
(23:00):
Christian A small thing, big joy. When my son randomly
gets off his computer and comes and gives me a
kind of couch. That's some eno musks, Mum, small thing,
thank you, small thing, big joy. Watching my fifteen year
old dog trying to still do the zoomies.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The zoomies, if you don't know, is a perfect word
for when you know your dog is so happy you
come back. Maybe I've only been gone five minutes or
five hours. Same thing to a dog and they're so
happy they try and chase their own towel and they
go run around around. Then they just fall over. But
my big old dog German shepherd dog we used to
have used to do that random round around round trying
to catch her own towel, would get it, fall over,
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but stilled with the tail in its mouth and then
jump back up. That's the zoomies. By the way, I
don't know why it's called the zoomies zooming round the zoomies.
Is this a pleasing word to think of, isn't it? Christian?
Small thing, big joy When you flash someone to change
the lanes or you get them on a narrow street,
this sounds equal small thing, big rage. If you don't
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get thanks back, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yesterday on the show, we were talking about have your
kids injured you? And Tracy called in and one of
her kids injured her foot top of her foot with
a chair so badly so that there was basically an
arterial bleed and she got triple zero. And then she
went and got changed to dress what fit she would
feel because she was just in her pjs and I
(24:28):
was stunned that someone would do this. She said, I
can't go in like this. Yes, So the titler that
she gave us today's phone in right now, which is
I can't go in like this. I need to hear
from people who called triple zero, or maybe someone else
next to you called triple zero. And then you got
changed into what you felt was an appropriate outfit to
be cartered away on the stretcher or in the chair
(24:51):
you know, or someone drove you into hospital if you
were going into labels. So I want to hear stories
about people getting changed to go into hospital, whether it's
triple zero or someone rushing you in and say this
happened to you, Patsy.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Or happened to my brother Carl. When my sister in
law went into labor with their daughter. He said her
waters had broken and everything. It was their first baby.
You know, you're very panicky when it's your first baby.
It's like you just want to.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Get and if you've had that bag ready for about
two weeks by so much prep.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Isn't there with the first such a build up anyway?
He goes, hang on, I'll just go.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
To the loop.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Anyway, he was there for like ten minutes, fifteen minutes,
and her contractions were getting rude.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, he was dropping off triplets. Tough for b too.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
She's gone up to the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
He's sitting there doing a number two, and she's like,
can you please hurry up these contractions?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But that is a typical man, isn't it just like
read the room. He's got one job, get them there
and be quiet.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
He couldn't go in like that or three.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Minutes between these contractions.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Can you please hurry up, and she's got the keys
in her hand, and she said, I'm going to go
out to the car. Just come out when you finish. Anyway,
another fifteen minutes goes past. She's what on earth is
going on?
Speaker 11 (26:03):
She's gone up there. He's having a shower.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh my gosh, thing a shave unless he's in midwife
and timely contractions and knows we're a long way off yet,
No Braxton, heck's on the here. I've got a bit
of a stubble here. I'd have a shave. Actually, she's
like I did, manaos as well. They need to look
clip as well to make first impression. My shirtings and
(26:30):
an eye like that.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And happy to say they got to the hospital on time,
and about twenty minutes later, Tigan was born.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So he was in the canteen just having to quick
sit down. Three. I've never been allowed to forget this.
Bonnie went into labor.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
This was in the hospital though, and like I thought
it would be a good chance to duck off for
a sleep.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What because like Bonnie.
Speaker 13 (26:58):
Was, I was like you, like, you're having the contractions right? No? No, no,
because I thought I'll just have a little nap, like
five minutes because the contraction gonna last a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
They came, I've been to this the two girls. Yeah,
it's not coming out quickly something exactly.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
So I'm just going to like, can I just go
in the corner and have a little little nap.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You're not hurting anyone. We are by standings. No you're not.
You were a bystander in. You've done your bit nine
months ago, exactly right. And it is just a bit Alex,
you know.
Speaker 13 (27:27):
And she's like, I can't believe you were going to
go and have a sleep while I'm lying there in pain.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And they never forget those stories, right Sarah then figuess
when she went in to go and have ruby on
first daughter, and I'd made all this food for her
obviously keep the energy up because it can go on
for hours, and it had been going on for a
couple of hours, and nothing was cut happening in that,
and I thought, and I said, hey, do you want
those sandwiches? She was like, not now, Chris, not now,
So what I might as well eat them? So I
(27:54):
hate them all right, two rounds of sandwiches, right, I
was like, God, goddamn good sandwiches. Though shame did we
didn't get away anyway acro. Half an hour later, she goes,
you want bloody starving, you know, when you know I'm
in a world of pain right now, She goes, can
have those sandwiches? Went, I mean they even for you,
They want it even for you, And no point, it's
(28:17):
all the books you read. Go and make sure, dear man,
you are adequately resourced for snacks. You've got a long
day interview, buddy, because you find yourself with that much
to do. It's so much to do, you know.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, you said of like you striking the arm,
being there for them and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I'd gone on a one day acute point sort of
pressure point thing to relieve pain. He helps Sarah, right,
And so this woman taught me how to help Sarah's
throat all with natural pain release. And I'm using the
ancient tenogy of acupuncture, but using pressure points to do
what the needers would do with myself. Anyway, end, I've
been practicing with sarahing it out during the build up
when she was in pain. I was not. There's a
(28:56):
point on the anchor and some of that. Anyway, come
the big moment when she's going to I start to
hang on a minute. Surname is you breathe them for three,
hole for two and then really broke out swear words,
get away from me one day? Course, is there anyone
else on this some instant ancient pain relief? These hands
(29:19):
can heal? Mister Miaggie is on the ward ladies. It's
a wild ride for the blakes, all right, So I'm
not going in like that. You needed to go into hospital,
but you changed your outfit. My ideal call here is
someone who actually did call triple zero and in the
minutes Whella waiting for the ambulance actually goes to get changed.
Speaker 16 (29:39):
Get the stretcher ready, Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Right now that you call triple zero, you need to
go in the hospital. But wait, I need to get changed.
I cannot go in like this, Christian. My mother was
being taken to hospital. Right before they took her out
the house on stretcher. She screamed at me, grabbed my
lipstick and helped mirror. I'm going to be seeing lots
of people today, Lattie. What I rip her? Mum? You've
got I can imagine the sit right now. We got
(30:09):
Sanya on the line. Now, good morning, welcome to the show.
Go on, Christian, So what happened? What's your story?
Speaker 16 (30:16):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Three years ago, I was in the bathroom getting ready
and I'll let you kid it by my hair dye.
Oh my god, and s hit me in the chest
and threw me backwards out cold. I wake up. My
daughter's there, she's already called the ambos, and I look
down and there's all this hair all over my legs
and I'm like, quick, give me this shave and shave
(30:39):
on the.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Floor in the You've just been elect You are kidding
shavy legs.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
And I'm so grateful because when I got to the hospital,
I had about sevent different doctors coming in and checking
on me, checking a legs. But my legs are all
nice and smooth.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Listen, there's no nerve damage. But do somewhere, lady, do
you sound about these legs? Because you really let yourself go.
There's about six weeks worth of undergrowth here.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
May I not have given me, you know, really good cares?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
They thought I.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Didn't take care of.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
God. What a fantastic story right out the gates. Have
a great day, Thank you, and good morning. Hello and
welcome to the show. What's your story for us?
Speaker 15 (31:26):
Today, Thank you. I think it's the same sort of
theme as your first caller here.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
I was.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
It's a bit embarrassing. Actually, I was in labor and
my waters broke and they're saying, oh my god, you've
got to be induced straight away because I had a
very complicated pregnancy the first time, and I thought, no,
no way, I've got to get my bikini line done
(31:55):
before they induced me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You've got to be kidding out everything you're going to
go through.
Speaker 15 (32:01):
I rang Happy up and I said, you've got to
bring the wax kick down. Because I was already at
the hospital and he's going off the hell. I said, yep,
you've got to bring it down. So the nurses going hurry,
you know, come on, we've got to get you in.
This is you know, important.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Obviously, whatever whatever you need.
Speaker 15 (32:21):
How do you write this down? Get me the near
I don't know if you know me? Yeah, got it.
And I was sitting in the bathroom trying to, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Do the procedure. Yeah, the proceed Jim's gardening this.
Speaker 15 (32:38):
Yeah, well yeah, that was quite embarrassing.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
But put it that way, I can just imagine Kevin
McLeod go look at the the front yardage.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Here is Immacia, you know exactly, Come on, Grand Designs.
Incredible stuff and very funny story. Thank you very much
for sharing that with us today, and thank you bye bye.
How we got here, Dannen Diane, Diane.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, Diane, yes, good morning.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm going to Diane, welcome to the show. Die off
you go.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Thank you already. So some years ago my husband and
I were in a very compromising position.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It sounds that you are now You're not back at it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No, not quite.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Oh so we reached I'm trying to be really careful
what I say.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, you reached the end of the movie.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Absolutely and there were fireworks.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Oh wow, the case well for both parties anyway, Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Well mainly for me.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
That's what I was concerned with.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Anyhow.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So we get there and we get this all mighty
pain there ahead, like like an explosion. Now I'm kind
of spreading or still, and Ye're still quite happy. There's
call an abulance. I think I'm dying.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
What you have to call an a because you have
what's it's so good? Yeah, you want to share it
with them.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
It's called a thunderclap migraine.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You get a thunderclap from somebody, no.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
More than clap anyway. Uh, you go the hospital. I
think the hospital they do the lumber puncher.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Strike.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
So what was it? Agony?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
You terrible?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So you went from ecstasy to agony.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Well that's married.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You should learn him out the weekend. You can make
a fortune. You can train other men. I don't need
any help.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
The training doctors will come in.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
This happened.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I wonder it must be so so unusual.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Apparently not.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Be careful that there were more careful today.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, well I did not think we get this story today.
We learned something new every day. Diane's welcome. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Diane, thank you very much. Where do we go?
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Myself here?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So you know, Monday came in and I was raging
about NBN. We'd moved our daughter Ruby into a new
place and we had a nightmare with NBN. It just
hadn't worked. So she had to yesterday at half seventh morning,
and if you're a student, seven thirty am is like
being woken up at one am to where their body
(36:06):
clock is. So she had to get up and this
engineer arrived and she was like, you know, my dad
tried to do this, and he took one look at
where the NBM was plugged into the war and he goes,
it's not suppecially plugged in there. That's for the TV
and it is meant to be over there, and he
pointed the other side of the room. He picked up
a lead, put it over the other side of the
room and he goes there he goes working now thirty
(36:29):
seconds and you were very upset at the raging. That's
apologize to the NBN corporation and for the marvelous service
that is now working at full speed. And she said
to this guy was like in his late twenties, and
he looked at her and knew she was a student
and saw the books out and stuff like that essays
being done and as she felt with embossed, and then
(36:50):
she just went, yeah, my dad was setting that up.
And he went he went your dad, yeah right, and
walked off. Whoever you were, thank you for stopping her
dad being so carelessly thrown under the bus. But there's
nothing worse though, when you called somebody out and essentially
wasting their time, it is it's humiliating. This happens you
(37:12):
didn't it rio, Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Well, what's happened to me?
Speaker 10 (37:14):
I called out, I've had my dishwasher having its bloody
F seventy eight issue, And so this keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Sounds like, can you work out program? I just got
into the F seventy eight And so I.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
Call this guy out at great expense, and then he comes.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
He goes, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Mean you shouldn't earn a living from repairing the washing.
She should do it for free for radio hosts. The
horror of it.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
If someone is willing to do that, I can do.
I caught him up and he has a look at
the machine. He goes, look, that doesn't seem to be
anything wrong with it. And no, no, no, it has
the F seventy eight issue. Just just put it through
a cycle. It'll do it. Puts it through the cycle,
he does, It's working perfectly fine. He's like, it's work,
there's nothing wrong with that, and no, I do it again,
do it again, do again. I made him try this
(37:58):
cycle five times. It wouldn't do the error. The one
time I actually need it to do the error, I
wasn't doing it.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
And then he bugers off.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
That's two hundred and fifty dollars for him to look
at a perfectly good dishwasher and then it's not working again.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You well listen. If he's listing now, you can pick
up another easy two hundred and fifty bucks. He's obviously
got some midas touch well, he just his physical presence
meant it? Do you reckon? He's got some special sort
of Zappa or remote control in his pockets. What a
great scam, having to do no work or bending over
or twisting or anything. All right, are you wasted other
(38:37):
people's time?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
NBM Engineer came out yesterday. I put that little lead
into the wrong hole in the wall. Is the one
where the TV comes through the there's another holy the
side of the remote scene. Hey listen, you know I'm
not an MBN technician. Mate, Okay, look at me with
those judgy eyes. Diane's on the line. Good morning Diane,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 17 (39:03):
Good morning scene Diane.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So he wasted someone's time, Hi.
Speaker 17 (39:08):
Indeed, And I felt like such a goose afterwards.
Speaker 15 (39:10):
I can tell you.
Speaker 17 (39:13):
I went out to the car to try and start
it one morning.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Was in the garage.
Speaker 9 (39:17):
Turn the key.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Lights are on.
Speaker 17 (39:19):
Nothing happened, not even to kick nothing.
Speaker 15 (39:21):
So that a man.
Speaker 17 (39:22):
So I rang the ra ACV. You know they give
you this little tracking app thing. So yes him make
his way to me. Took him about twenty minutes. I
Reckon comes in, hops in the car, moves it from
drive to park, starts at the Saysney, you.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Go no, no, no, no, come on, Diane, no no.
I felt like I think I might have fixed this.
Tricky said, I'm trained for this.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I think he even seen some look. I think he
just gave me this really disparaging look.
Speaker 15 (39:58):
Croomies were like shifting it.
Speaker 17 (40:00):
From parks and staking the part of the shop.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Lashed my head, Diane, great story, very funny. Thank you
for sharing me.
Speaker 15 (40:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Tie for the tie Waster. Today, we're looking for your
cafe songs. Radiohead love going to their local cafe. That's right,
they love to sing. Fate plastic teas gold, Larte in red,
(40:37):
not Lady in red, Larte in red silver, It's Scotty
over Troubled Water, all class. Nice bit of Italian biscuit.
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Sandwich. To go, please to
go and no, that's terrible that one? All right, Rio,
what what you got?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Billy Bean is not my lover?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Billy past both for all of.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Us with her.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
At the kuppa cuppa cabana Gold just a mucha mucha para.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Oh, that's very good. The performances gold as well.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
And I like big coupsoneck and great, well done.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Okay, what have you got? We're looking for your cafe songs.
That's the time wasted They.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Time for this morning's time waster. I for grabs today
at the time waster five dollar Holy Modly golf club
gift cards. Rio you ready to mark? Let's go? All right?
Cafe songs Chai Chai Chai and sing Alexander Mooney, well done,
(41:51):
She's about to be home soon. Silver pass Very good?
Is that? Lee Collins? Espresso yourself? Film? What on? Donna
mock a number five? Check? I'm Brendan waging me up
before you Coco Bohemi Cups of TEA great name for
(42:11):
a cafe. That's very good. Chris ACDC is a A
long way to the top, The long way to the top.
Run Sorry for mister Bojangles instead of mister bow Jangles
genius Julie Walker, very good, drip it like it's up Silver,
let's hear it for the soy ron and I need
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chi tonight silver minus. All right, who's winning rio?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
It's going to be Bamian cups of tea.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Well done. Okay, that's the Christian o'connells show for today.
We are back tomorrow. Don't forget tell us about your
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App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right this morning, the uber driver bringing me today
was a lovely guy called Kevin, and we got starting
and talking and he wants to know where I was going.
What did I do for a living? What's my job?
So I started talking about what we do and he said,
oh my god, how do you know what to talk about?
Do you have a run out of things to talk about?
I said no, not really, because in any life, so
much happens to people. My job is to simply pay
(00:47):
attention right and collect stories mine and other people's. So
I said so excited, So what do you do? He goes, well,
I used to work in property insurance and now work
in marine insurance. I said, you must have watched you
do with claims. He was like, yeah, you must have
had some crazy calls. What just happens in people's homes
that they have to call you and claim for? And
he goes, oh, yeah, Actually there was a couple of
years ago this lady was having a shower and there
(01:10):
must have been a leak going on for quite a while.
The shower basin just gave way. And it was a
two story building. She went from the first floor to
the ground floor into her own kitchen. The shower gave way,
and I went what, I went, excuse me, I've got
to get my phone out. I just typed in it
gave way, and he goes, yeah. Then there was the
(01:33):
old lady on the toilet, And what about the older
lady on the toilet? Some seven year old lady was
on the toilet on the first floor again, and the
toilet just gave way. Her sitting on it, crashes to
the floor. Believe she was not injured, and miracles, but
she was calling to explain why she needs to make
an insurance.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You think it's a prank caller?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, a lady flying through Yeah, okay, okay,
ease up on the meds. So I want I don't
know if we're going to get any more stories or
we've heard the stories we're ever going to get for
it gave way. But if anyone's got a story that
involves something giving way, I want to hear about this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Christian O'Connell show Gone podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's just had some really exciting news on the producers.
They said, listen, we've got a couple of stories lined up.
A couple of callers with it. Gave way, no one
died in them. They're not. Caitlin, the producer, who can
be quite direct with her language. She's spoken I'm not
saying that's good about I'm just saying she is, and
she just goes they're not killer stories. I didn't know
(02:40):
there was a phrase. I just thought it was well
understood that we don't want any think any deaths on
the radio. All right, gave Way, no ed gain stories,
bianchor welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm good? Can I just confirm that you are alive
in the story?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yes, I am alive in this story. Thank you, my
whole mom.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Good news.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And then we had an old school nineties metal bunk
bed and I was laying on the bottom double bit
with Mum and all of a sudden, the top bunk
gave way came down onto us. Mom caught the bunk bed,
so wow, Mum's strength as I was able to get out,
and I'm pretty sure Mom just lifted it off to
(03:29):
the side. But the oh yeah, the old school metal
bunk bed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Fand those Yeah what Me and my sister had those
when we were younger. Yeah. Wow, we amazing, like you said,
the mum's strength to do that.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
So yeah, neither of us got hurt, luckily, but yeah
they're not.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
They weren't light either.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They're not. No anchor. Thank you very much the story.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Thanks guys, have a good morning.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Thank you one from one, No one dead. Let's see
if we can keep this going. David, Welcome to the show.
It gave way.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
It did give way. It was a scaffle on a
job when I was in Young Apprentice and they don't
use those scaffolds anymore because it had been raining, and
we pegged it all up. We're up on the second
about the second story, doing the eaves as you do,
(04:24):
and the boss was on the one end of the
scaffold and I was on the other, and the pigs
gave way that were bracing up the scaffold, and we
both came sliding down the wall, looking at each other
wondering how it was going to land, and bashed different
(04:47):
feats of arm and leg as we came down and
landed on the ground and looked at each other, seeing
we were both still reasonally good, and just started laughing,
thinking it was the funniest thing that had happened.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Court David, what a great story. Only in Australia would
you hear someone to a story about sliding down a
building and go We were down looking at each other.
The funniest the times really had to be.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
There was funny at the time, but we picked up
and decided it was time to go home.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, you're right, Yeah, you're kind of like you're done
for the day with.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
That one for the day.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow, we what a moment in your lives something to
have a cartoon? Isn't the road a cartoon?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Yes, yeah, but my wife says I've got more than
nine lives because I've been involved in all sorts of
things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
More careful day.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, maybe time to retire. Actually, since we're common to
nominate indoors David's stay indoors, wrap myself in cotton. Yes, exactly,
for the rest of your years, David David. Brilliant, brilliant story,
very well told. Thank you, good.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Guys, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There's a record shortage of new clowns. Yes, lost them
to TikTok. They're clowning around online, that's what they're doing now.
They don't want to get clown around in the big top.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It's tragic really to see that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You think it's just going to die out.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I do know. You know ten twenty years now, they
just won't be big tops.
Speaker 10 (06:27):
Yeah, there'll be no circuses, no little carnivals, those bloody
gen Z I know.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I get this email towards the show end of the
show yesday from Kate Christian. My gen Z daughter just
did a career profile and test at school. She was
hoping to get a scientist, a lawyer, but instead of entertainer,
and it said examples a clown, a juggler, or a puppeteer.
She was not rest.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
Actually not suited to be a lawyer. You're more suited
to juggling.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, go and pick up that feul animal and put
your hand on his backside. Welcome to your next life
as a puppeteer. Here's a cream pie. Yes. Yeah. Whenever
I see a puppeteer in there or juggling and think
they just in their heart they just want to be
a lawyer. They're not living the life they wanted. So anyway,
it just reminds me of career profiling. This was our
(07:18):
in the eighties we did at my school. This is
when school computers. There was this one school computer, right,
and it was massive. I think there were like two
scientists that lived in the back end of this big
ass school computer. There's only one we're teaching who you
had to use it like the pe teachers were too
thick to work out was there's this beat it with sticks.
So we're terrified of the future that was coming. So
we had this I don't know whatever it was, the
(07:40):
Commodore Spectrum. Anyway, you had this rubbish software that took
like a data load up called Cascade, where this teacher
would ask you, what kind of things are you interested in?
What are you doing? What subjects do you do the best?
At school? When anything and the couter the computer would
spit out what it thought you should be doing. So
I said, look, I really want I was sixteen, nineteen
(08:01):
eighty nine, so they really want to work in entertainment
like TV or radio. The teacher went, are you getting
on a mass I'm terrible amount. I'm probably going to
faind that okay, English good right, puts it all in,
spits out quarry manager or funeral director. And he was like, listen,
if you don't, if you don't work harder at mass,
you're never going to make it into entertainment and show biz.
I'm like, these people aren't geniuses. It's manly, quite low
(08:23):
level like you. But I don't speak about myself that
do this work. If you're good at maths, you don't
end up doing these jobs. You don't need to. And
trust me, for a lot of my career, the maths
don't add up mean maths for jazz hands right, So
did you? Did you do some of that? At school
career profile.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Weds in year ten? I remember we went into a
big assembly hall. We all took the test. It was
quite extensive, and then I went in the room with
mister Dobbs, who was our careers counselor, and he told
me that I should be a car salesman.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is what they were careers advice.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Mister. He was so confident about it, and I didn't.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
I have no interest in cass whatsoever, so I don't
know why it'd be a very good car salesman.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I remember pissed offing? Is this my future now?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So? What did you say you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think back then.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
I either wanted to be a marine biologist or an astronomer.
I don't even know what what baddie with.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Your eyesight, I've seen you squinching at that laptop with glasses.
You ain't seen anything up in spec in the sea.
You'd have to have those prescription goggles and snorkel. I mean,
can you get those your divaries alongside of the I
(09:41):
can't even see that. It's a sharks too. Must keep
my eyes tested on the water, parasy. What did you
have at school?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What thing?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
They wouldn't have cared what we did.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I could have joined the circus, the mafia, or whatever
else you did, both.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The radio circus and them. He filmed you, O Matthea
story yours.
Speaker 12 (10:00):
Mister Beer was out, mister Beer, and it sounds like
a Sax children's entertainer.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Listen, mister Beer, this is not an aspirational kids character
of you drinking all day long, mister Beer.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
No, Tony Beer was his name, and yes, and his
wife was one of the pe teachers.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
She was lovely.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
But mister Beer had no faith whatsoever in me. And
when I said to him I wanted to get into
radio and maybe journalism, radio journalism, he basically said, good
luck with that, but you need to do an arts degree.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
So no faith whatsoever, no test, nothing can how.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Many people would have been talked out maybe pursuing something
that they really would have been happy doing. Yeah, what
did you have, Alex on that farm? Nothing of the sore?
Was you raised by sheeps and ghasts.
Speaker 13 (10:42):
And wolves wolves, which was what my school was like,
so you know it was it was like a jail
other than a school.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
My body school in Sydney.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
We had a careers person but she didn't really do
much at all, and you might have gone in there
to chat to her about what you wanted to do
in life, but there was never any tests, never any
nice really.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, they always tried to lower your expectations. Yes, Like
I went in, why do I think? And I'd learned
to sit her try and meet in TV already was
like that ain't going to happen. Listen to this idiot.
They want to make it, so would I, But I'm
not Christian. So sit down. There's a factory over there
with your name on it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It was really about lowering ambition.
Speaker 11 (11:21):
Yes, instead of like empowering school.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We now kids are like you could do anything, become
a billionaire online ten x this optimize your life crypto CURRENCYE.
Speaker 13 (11:31):
I was lucky that I wanted to do this anyway
from aged at twelve or thirteen, So I was I
was quite lucky and that I knew what I wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I'd love to speak to other people than what was
your experience doing career profiling at school? And is anyone
actually doing what they want to do? We just got
talked out of our dreams and beaten out of us.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Talking about career profiling on the show right now, did
you ever done? Jules? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Hi Christian, how are you?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm good? Jewels? You were you did career profiling at school?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
My son had to do career profiling five years ago
at a public school and they did a test and
they had to see the career's counselor and the results
came back and told him that he needed to be
a brewister. So he told us that at the dinner table,
and we were happy for him, tried to pump him
up about it, and then about a week later I said, hey, mate,
can I have a look at those results to be
(12:22):
really keen to understand you know, how you got to
that result? And anyway I had to look at it. It
was barrister.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
How many barristers have made that wrong mix up? There
were a lot of criminals who've got way too big
a sentences. He did make a good confident.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
He had no idea what a barrister was at all.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Jill's great story. Thank
you very much for sharing.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
You mate, No worries.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Bye, Sarah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (12:56):
Hey Christian, Hey Gang, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, we're good, Sarah, thanks for calling in. So career profiling, Yes, so.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
It was very serious business at the school that I
went to, and we did it in year tenth and
my results were that I was going to be a
teacher and early childcare teacher, and I thought that was
rubbish because I wanted to be an engineer. So I
went off and I did engineering. I just ignored everything
they told me, and then fifteen years later, guess what
I'm doing now? I am a teacher.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The circuit of life you yea, they knew.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
Yes, yes, my teachers were always convinced that that's what
I would end up doing.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
What are you teaching engineering?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No?
Speaker 14 (13:36):
Oh no, but I teach physics and stem subject subjects.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So yeah, and do you enjoy it?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I do.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
It was I kind of feel like it was what
I was meant to be doing. It's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, well, there are no straight rivers that are there
in life. There's sunny twists and turns. Sometimes you're right
where you need to where you meant to be anyway.
Speaker 14 (13:55):
Yes, oh yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Awesome, Sarah, thank you very much your story. Thanks you
giving us a call. No worries by Let's go to
uh Kate, Good morning, Kate.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Good morning everyone. Hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We are having a good is having a good day?
Speaker 11 (14:10):
Excellent?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
An interesting story. So it was a while ago now,
my career council they came back and I was really
keen on doing computer science and going into technology, and
they said it was far too niche and it will
never take off.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And yeah, there's on these boxes and all that knowledge
in there, there's nothing in these for you.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
There's definitely nothing in technology, not a good.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Career, just going nowhere, No way.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I say, fortunately I completely ignored them and yeah, twenty
five years later in it and run my own IT company.
So love technology.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, you should go to schools and talk to
them about following actually callings in life, because no one
knows anything, really, no one knows that much.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
There are no experts, no, no, And you know, I think,
follow your passion and because you're going to be doing
it a long time, so you've got to be enjoying
what you're doing. So if you get a choice, do
something you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I just looked at a couple of team members, all
looking down their feet. I was working with me, was
not in that mood board when they were a teenage
One of them was round there was shovling popcorn into
their face. Yeah, I'm talking to are we at the cinema?
Sorry about this, Kate, Kate, thank you very much for
giving us a call.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So y Christian O'Connell show Gone podcast, Small thing, Big Joy?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Now, what small thing gives you big joy? Rio? What's
it for you?
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I was living large last weekend and was staying in
this lovely hotel and I dared for the first time
ever to take something from the mini.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Bar forbidden and fruit. This is what God, Adam and
Eve kicked out of the garden.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It feels like that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What do you go for chocolate?
Speaker 13 (15:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I went for the thirteen dollar pringles?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Wow, sum mug up there inside. But had you had
a couple of drinks? Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, we bought our own wine, so we're drinking that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Did you smuggle your wine in? Yes, yeah, right in
the middle of it. You do it right in the
middle of you of the bag, like they've got a
scanner there. Yes, they must know, so you don't won't
make enough on the pringles, buddy, Yeah, we make it back.
How as much booze as you come in, you'll have
more than mini bar.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And drinking them in those little like plastic cups.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
They get very classy, but you feel like a rock star.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Just might not do it again ever in my life,
but I recommend just one time, reach into the mini bar,
grab those pringles, grab the mars.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Oh my god, how honors are we? When you're checking out,
they go, do you have anything from the mini bar?
He goes, I think so, and they look at you, girl,
what says you about four bees chocolate unless what you're
saying some broken what we're saying, yes, sir, Well, my
(17:02):
butter actually suggested.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
Will said, oh, we should just get some at the
convenience store and switch you do that.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I run to the seven eleven, do you and you
hopefully get back in time before housekeeping.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Thing once you get to the hotel and you're in
that sort of bubble, I don't want to leave it.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Yeah, well that's how they get you with the sound
like a dad.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
This is how they get you.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Alex. What's the small thing, big joy for you?
Speaker 13 (17:32):
So my son's doing this at the moment, Max, right,
And you know when you're lying there and it's a
little bit warm, it's a bit hot, not at the
moment obviously, but your pillow and you turn the pillow
over and the other side is cold and your head
can rest on the cold side of the pillow.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But troubles though, sometimes the head heats it up real quick,
doesn't it.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Yeah, turn it back again, and that's what Max is
doing at the So he'll turn it back over, and
then I'll turn it back over.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, there's nothing worse when you can't sleep and you're
constantly flipping it like a burger, just trying to find it,
and it's it cools. It warms up so quickly. Because
you can have heated bed blankets, why can't we have
cooling pillows? Cold question?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I have seen answer those? Have you been very tempted?
Tempted together, especially here in Australia?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yes? When do we know to have a coolant in
the pillow, something like a cold water bottle instead of
a hot yes? Yes, So what happened is as it's
starting to cool down, you know, and you're fundling in
the dark, you tap it the side of the pillow,
tap that pillow and you give a little tap and
then it starts to cool down. Two taps warm it up.
(18:42):
I don't have a cold head. When I get out
of bed in the morning for work and it's start
warming up, the brain signapses. Our tap it, tap it
twice suddenly warms my head up.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It doesn't seem such.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It seems like a very Japanese invent. They think, they
think of those things. Perhapsy, what's the small thing big
joy for you?
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Did it?
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Sunday night?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It's my new ritual on a Sunday is put a
couple of drops and I can do this.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
My doctor said, it's legit, whiskey.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
No hydrogen hydrogen peroxide in my ear, And it's like
popping candy for your ear.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Do you have a blocked ear?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
You constantly have trouble with my ears, And so you
just put a couple of drops and it gets rid
of all the debris and it's it's like popping candy debris.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
What if you got in there like twigs and like
birds nest It's fantastic.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
It just gets rid of all the old wax.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And is that safe though, because it's very sensitive? Fine
micro yare aren't they?
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Iron Are hospital said and say, okay, look at your website.
There the word.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Hydrogen hydrogen bomb peroxide. Things you shouldn't put in your ear?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Me and Nanny used to say anything nothing bigger than
the width of your elbow.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh I never got that. Director out of doubt.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
That is a thing.
Speaker 15 (19:56):
And I think the whole point of it is just
don't put anything in your.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Ears, especially not anything that could go inside a bomb.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
Ingredients or a science speaker an era through.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
A crapy Jan O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sick Joy Now the last couple days haven't been feeling
that well. My family have been trying to I don't.
I'm not been good with too much fuss. Okay, they
have to tread very carefully around me, right, so I'm fine.
I don't not too much fuss. So they've been gently
giving me things that show me care without being a
(20:33):
big deal. That's nice. So in the last forty hours,
I've received two things. Whittaker's coconut blocked chocolate O love.
I love that. My wife came back yesterday from doing
the shop and she just placed it down on my
desk and walked away, like sealing with an ape. Basically,
I just go into his cage, leaving his baniana, Do
not make eye contact, do you not start him? Just
(20:55):
leave it, treat backwards a few I think it's okay.
And then my daughter, she's gone back to college. She
went to office works yesterday and she came back with
a brand new pack of Sharpie pens fine point. She
knows what Papa likes, because sometimes you need to make
(21:16):
a fine point, but with a bold pen, a bold
fine point. A pack of those and again put them
on my desk.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Water that's very generous for a University studio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh no, she also put my credit card back, but
I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's a beautiful gesture.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Hey the piper. That's what I always say. All right,
what have you got here? Small thing, big joy, Christian?
The first sip of coffee in the morning. You're right,
so the first sip of your drink at the weekend
and a Friday, isn't it? First drink Christian? Small thing,
big joy for me walking out of the office Friday afternoon.
That's the spirit, Andrew. That's our employee of the week there,
(21:56):
early afternoon, small thing, big joy. Putting a wheat pack
on my feet when I go to bed so they're
nice and toasty at onment during winter. What a great idea.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I love the smell of the wheat pack.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, it comes out of the microwae yes, yes, Tracy.
That soft feeling. Only in Australia would someone say this, Tracy,
So I'm saying, small thing, big joy, Okay, that soft
feeling of a bran new pair of tracky.
Speaker 16 (22:24):
Pats, traggyacks, power of now and the barrel of traggy decks.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It is a very specific feeling.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It is. Well, we remember the first time went to Bunnings,
and I realized, Oh, I'm far too smart to be
here because everyone is in trackydacks and shorts and bins
and sloppy jacks. Yes, oh, I need to go in
the car. You're in your tax seed sitping a cocktail.
(23:00):
Christian A small thing, big joy. When my son randomly
gets off his computer and comes and gives me a
kind of couch. That's some eno musks, Mum, small thing,
thank you, small thing, big joy. Watching my fifteen year
old dog trying to still do the zoomies.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The zoomies, if you don't know, is a perfect word
for when you know your dog is so happy you
come back. Maybe I've only been gone five minutes or
five hours. Same thing to a dog and they're so
happy they try and chase their own towel and they
go run around around. Then they just fall over. But
my big old dog German shepherd dog we used to
have used to do that random round around round trying
to catch her own towel, would get it, fall over,
(23:42):
but stilled with the tail in its mouth and then
jump back up. That's the zoomies. By the way, I
don't know why it's called the zoomies zooming round the zoomies.
Is this a pleasing word to think of, isn't it? Christian?
Small thing, big joy When you flash someone to change
the lanes or you get them on a narrow street,
this sounds equal small thing, big rage. If you don't
(24:02):
get thanks back, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yesterday on the show, we were talking about have your
kids injured you? And Tracy called in and one of
her kids injured her foot top of her foot with
a chair so badly so that there was basically an
arterial bleed and she got triple zero. And then she
went and got changed to dress what fit she would
feel because she was just in her pjs and I
(24:28):
was stunned that someone would do this. She said, I
can't go in like this. Yes, So the titler that
she gave us today's phone in right now, which is
I can't go in like this. I need to hear
from people who called triple zero, or maybe someone else
next to you called triple zero. And then you got
changed into what you felt was an appropriate outfit to
be cartered away on the stretcher or in the chair
(24:51):
you know, or someone drove you into hospital if you
were going into labels. So I want to hear stories
about people getting changed to go into hospital, whether it's
triple zero or someone rushing you in and say this
happened to you, Patsy.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Or happened to my brother Carl. When my sister in
law went into labor with their daughter. He said her
waters had broken and everything. It was their first baby.
You know, you're very panicky when it's your first baby.
It's like you just want to.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Get and if you've had that bag ready for about
two weeks by so much prep.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Isn't there with the first such a build up anyway?
He goes, hang on, I'll just go.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
To the loop.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Anyway, he was there for like ten minutes, fifteen minutes,
and her contractions were getting rude.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, he was dropping off triplets. Tough for b too.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
She's gone up to the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
He's sitting there doing a number two, and she's like,
can you please hurry up these contractions?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But that is a typical man, isn't it just like
read the room. He's got one job, get them there
and be quiet.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
He couldn't go in like that or three.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Minutes between these contractions.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Can you please hurry up, and she's got the keys
in her hand, and she said, I'm going to go
out to the car. Just come out when you finish. Anyway,
another fifteen minutes goes past. She's what on earth is
going on?
Speaker 11 (26:03):
She's gone up there. He's having a shower.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh my gosh, thing a shave unless he's in midwife
and timely contractions and knows we're a long way off yet,
No Braxton, heck's on the here. I've got a bit
of a stubble here. I'd have a shave. Actually, she's
like I did, manaos as well. They need to look
clip as well to make first impression. My shirtings and
(26:30):
an eye like that.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And happy to say they got to the hospital on time,
and about twenty minutes later, Tigan was born.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So he was in the canteen just having to quick
sit down. Three. I've never been allowed to forget this.
Bonnie went into labor.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
This was in the hospital though, and like I thought
it would be a good chance to duck off for
a sleep.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
What because like Bonnie.
Speaker 13 (26:58):
Was, I was like you, like, you're having the contractions right? No? No, no,
because I thought I'll just have a little nap, like
five minutes because the contraction gonna last a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
They came, I've been to this the two girls. Yeah,
it's not coming out quickly something exactly.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
So I'm just going to like, can I just go
in the corner and have a little little nap.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You're not hurting anyone. We are by standings. No you're not.
You were a bystander in. You've done your bit nine
months ago, exactly right. And it is just a bit Alex,
you know.
Speaker 13 (27:27):
And she's like, I can't believe you were going to
go and have a sleep while I'm lying there in pain.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And they never forget those stories, right Sarah then figuess
when she went in to go and have ruby on
first daughter, and I'd made all this food for her
obviously keep the energy up because it can go on
for hours, and it had been going on for a
couple of hours, and nothing was cut happening in that,
and I thought, and I said, hey, do you want
those sandwiches? She was like, not now, Chris, not now,
So what I might as well eat them? So I
(27:54):
hate them all right, two rounds of sandwiches, right, I
was like, God, goddamn good sandwiches. Though shame did we
didn't get away anyway acro. Half an hour later, she goes,
you want bloody starving, you know, when you know I'm
in a world of pain right now, She goes, can
have those sandwiches? Went, I mean they even for you,
They want it even for you, And no point, it's
(28:17):
all the books you read. Go and make sure, dear man,
you are adequately resourced for snacks. You've got a long
day interview, buddy, because you find yourself with that much
to do. It's so much to do, you know.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, you said of like you striking the arm,
being there for them and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I'd gone on a one day acute point sort of
pressure point thing to relieve pain. He helps Sarah, right,
And so this woman taught me how to help Sarah's
throat all with natural pain release. And I'm using the
ancient tenogy of acupuncture, but using pressure points to do
what the needers would do with myself. Anyway, end, I've
been practicing with sarahing it out during the build up
when she was in pain. I was not. There's a
(28:56):
point on the anchor and some of that. Anyway, come
the big moment when she's going to I start to
hang on a minute. Surname is you breathe them for three,
hole for two and then really broke out swear words,
get away from me one day? Course, is there anyone
else on this some instant ancient pain relief? These hands
(29:19):
can heal? Mister Miaggie is on the ward ladies. It's
a wild ride for the blakes, all right, So I'm
not going in like that. You needed to go into hospital,
but you changed your outfit. My ideal call here is
someone who actually did call triple zero and in the
minutes Whella waiting for the ambulance actually goes to get changed.
Speaker 16 (29:39):
Get the stretcher ready, Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Right now that you call triple zero, you need to
go in the hospital. But wait, I need to get changed.
I cannot go in like this, Christian. My mother was
being taken to hospital. Right before they took her out
the house on stretcher. She screamed at me, grabbed my
lipstick and helped mirror. I'm going to be seeing lots
of people today, Lattie. What I rip her? Mum? You've
got I can imagine the sit right now. We got
(30:09):
Sanya on the line. Now, good morning, welcome to the show.
Go on, Christian, So what happened? What's your story?
Speaker 16 (30:16):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Three years ago, I was in the bathroom getting ready
and I'll let you kid it by my hair dye.
Oh my god, and s hit me in the chest
and threw me backwards out cold. I wake up. My
daughter's there, she's already called the ambos, and I look
down and there's all this hair all over my legs
and I'm like, quick, give me this shave and shave
(30:39):
on the.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Floor in the You've just been elect You are kidding
shavy legs.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
And I'm so grateful because when I got to the hospital,
I had about sevent different doctors coming in and checking
on me, checking a legs. But my legs are all
nice and smooth.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Listen, there's no nerve damage. But do somewhere, lady, do
you sound about these legs? Because you really let yourself go.
There's about six weeks worth of undergrowth here.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
May I not have given me, you know, really good cares?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
They thought I.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Didn't take care of.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
God. What a fantastic story right out the gates. Have
a great day, Thank you, and good morning. Hello and
welcome to the show. What's your story for us?
Speaker 15 (31:26):
Today, Thank you. I think it's the same sort of
theme as your first caller here.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
I was.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
It's a bit embarrassing. Actually, I was in labor and
my waters broke and they're saying, oh my god, you've
got to be induced straight away because I had a
very complicated pregnancy the first time, and I thought, no,
no way, I've got to get my bikini line done
(31:55):
before they induced me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You've got to be kidding out everything you're going to
go through.
Speaker 15 (32:01):
I rang Happy up and I said, you've got to
bring the wax kick down. Because I was already at
the hospital and he's going off the hell. I said, yep,
you've got to bring it down. So the nurses going hurry,
you know, come on, we've got to get you in.
This is you know, important.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Obviously, whatever whatever you need.
Speaker 15 (32:21):
How do you write this down? Get me the near
I don't know if you know me? Yeah, got it.
And I was sitting in the bathroom trying to, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Do the procedure. Yeah, the proceed Jim's gardening this.
Speaker 15 (32:38):
Yeah, well yeah, that was quite embarrassing.
Speaker 12 (32:42):
But put it that way, I can just imagine Kevin
McLeod go look at the the front yardage.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Here is Immacia, you know exactly, Come on, Grand Designs.
Incredible stuff and very funny story. Thank you very much
for sharing that with us today, and thank you bye bye.
How we got here, Dannen Diane, Diane.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, Diane, yes, good morning.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm going to Diane, welcome to the show. Die off
you go.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Thank you already. So some years ago my husband and
I were in a very compromising position.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It sounds that you are now You're not back at it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No, not quite.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Oh so we reached I'm trying to be really careful
what I say.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, you reached the end of the movie.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Absolutely and there were fireworks.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Oh wow, the case well for both parties anyway, Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Well mainly for me.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
That's what I was concerned with.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Anyhow.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
So we get there and we get this all mighty
pain there ahead, like like an explosion. Now I'm kind
of spreading or still, and Ye're still quite happy. There's
call an abulance. I think I'm dying.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
What you have to call an a because you have
what's it's so good? Yeah, you want to share it
with them.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
It's called a thunderclap migraine.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You get a thunderclap from somebody, no.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
More than clap anyway. Uh, you go the hospital. I
think the hospital they do the lumber puncher.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Strike.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
So what was it? Agony?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
You terrible?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So you went from ecstasy to agony.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Well that's married.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You should learn him out the weekend. You can make
a fortune. You can train other men. I don't need
any help.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
The training doctors will come in.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
This happened.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I wonder it must be so so unusual.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Apparently not.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Be careful that there were more careful today.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, well I did not think we get this story today.
We learned something new every day. Diane's welcome. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Diane, thank you very much. Where do we go?
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Myself here?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So you know, Monday came in and I was raging
about NBN. We'd moved our daughter Ruby into a new
place and we had a nightmare with NBN. It just
hadn't worked. So she had to yesterday at half seventh morning,
and if you're a student, seven thirty am is like
being woken up at one am to where their body
(36:06):
clock is. So she had to get up and this
engineer arrived and she was like, you know, my dad
tried to do this, and he took one look at
where the NBM was plugged into the war and he goes,
it's not suppecially plugged in there. That's for the TV
and it is meant to be over there, and he
pointed the other side of the room. He picked up
a lead, put it over the other side of the
room and he goes there he goes working now thirty
(36:29):
seconds and you were very upset at the raging. That's
apologize to the NBN corporation and for the marvelous service
that is now working at full speed. And she said
to this guy was like in his late twenties, and
he looked at her and knew she was a student
and saw the books out and stuff like that essays
being done and as she felt with embossed, and then
(36:50):
she just went, yeah, my dad was setting that up.
And he went he went your dad, yeah right, and
walked off. Whoever you were, thank you for stopping her
dad being so carelessly thrown under the bus. But there's
nothing worse though, when you called somebody out and essentially
wasting their time, it is it's humiliating. This happens you
(37:12):
didn't it rio, Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Well, what's happened to me?
Speaker 10 (37:14):
I called out, I've had my dishwasher having its bloody
F seventy eight issue, And so this keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Sounds like, can you work out program? I just got
into the F seventy eight And so I.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
Call this guy out at great expense, and then he comes.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
He goes, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Mean you shouldn't earn a living from repairing the washing.
She should do it for free for radio hosts. The
horror of it.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
If someone is willing to do that, I can do.
I caught him up and he has a look at
the machine. He goes, look, that doesn't seem to be
anything wrong with it. And no, no, no, it has
the F seventy eight issue. Just just put it through
a cycle. It'll do it. Puts it through the cycle,
he does, It's working perfectly fine. He's like, it's work,
there's nothing wrong with that, and no, I do it again,
do it again, do again. I made him try this
(37:58):
cycle five times. It wouldn't do the error. The one
time I actually need it to do the error, I
wasn't doing it.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
And then he bugers off.
Speaker 10 (38:06):
That's two hundred and fifty dollars for him to look
at a perfectly good dishwasher and then it's not working again.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You well listen. If he's listing now, you can pick
up another easy two hundred and fifty bucks. He's obviously
got some midas touch well, he just his physical presence
meant it? Do you reckon? He's got some special sort
of Zappa or remote control in his pockets. What a
great scam, having to do no work or bending over
or twisting or anything. All right, are you wasted other
(38:37):
people's time?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
NBM Engineer came out yesterday. I put that little lead
into the wrong hole in the wall. Is the one
where the TV comes through the there's another holy the
side of the remote scene. Hey listen, you know I'm
not an MBN technician. Mate, Okay, look at me with
those judgy eyes. Diane's on the line. Good morning Diane,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 17 (39:03):
Good morning scene Diane.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So he wasted someone's time, Hi.
Speaker 17 (39:08):
Indeed, And I felt like such a goose afterwards.
Speaker 15 (39:10):
I can tell you.
Speaker 17 (39:13):
I went out to the car to try and start
it one morning.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Was in the garage.
Speaker 9 (39:17):
Turn the key.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Lights are on.
Speaker 17 (39:19):
Nothing happened, not even to kick nothing.
Speaker 15 (39:21):
So that a man.
Speaker 17 (39:22):
So I rang the ra ACV. You know they give
you this little tracking app thing. So yes him make
his way to me. Took him about twenty minutes. I
Reckon comes in, hops in the car, moves it from
drive to park, starts at the Saysney, you.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Go no, no, no, no, come on, Diane, no no.
I felt like I think I might have fixed this.
Tricky said, I'm trained for this.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I think he even seen some look. I think he
just gave me this really disparaging look.
Speaker 15 (39:58):
Croomies were like shifting it.
Speaker 17 (40:00):
From parks and staking the part of the shop.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Lashed my head, Diane, great story, very funny. Thank you
for sharing me.
Speaker 15 (40:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Tie for the tie Waster. Today, we're looking for your
cafe songs. Radiohead love going to their local cafe. That's right,
they love to sing. Fate plastic teas gold, Larte in red,
(40:37):
not Lady in red, Larte in red silver, It's Scotty
over Troubled Water, all class. Nice bit of Italian biscuit.
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Sandwich. To go, please to
go and no, that's terrible that one? All right, Rio,
what what you got?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Billy Bean is not my lover?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Billy past both for all of.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Us with her.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
At the kuppa cuppa cabana Gold just a mucha mucha para.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Oh, that's very good. The performances gold as well.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
And I like big coupsoneck and great, well done.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Okay, what have you got? We're looking for your cafe songs.
That's the time wasted They.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Time for this morning's time waster. I for grabs today
at the time waster five dollar Holy Modly golf club
gift cards. Rio you ready to mark? Let's go? All right?
Cafe songs Chai Chai Chai and sing Alexander Mooney, well done,
(41:51):
She's about to be home soon. Silver pass Very good?
Is that? Lee Collins? Espresso yourself? Film? What on? Donna
mock a number five? Check? I'm Brendan waging me up
before you Coco Bohemi Cups of TEA great name for
(42:11):
a cafe. That's very good. Chris ACDC is a A
long way to the top, The long way to the top.
Run Sorry for mister Bojangles instead of mister bow Jangles
genius Julie Walker, very good, drip it like it's up Silver,
let's hear it for the soy ron and I need
(42:33):
chi tonight silver minus. All right, who's winning rio?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
It's going to be Bamian cups of tea.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Well done. Okay, that's the Christian o'connells show for today.
We are back tomorrow. Don't forget tell us about your
local pub. It needs saving. It's worth fighting for. We
want to try and save your pub. Nominate yours at
the Goold website dot com dot au. We are giving
five local pubs. Five pubs you tell us about that
(42:59):
really need help. It's called save our pub five pubs.
Next week Pubba Day are going to get five thousand dollars.
Well thanks to four x. The pub's calling some between
the first sip and the last laugh. It's always for
it's You can also email it about your local Christian
at christiano'connell dot com. Tod are you thanks for joining us?
We're back tomorrow. Kick starting your weekend. Head to Chemists
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