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March 3, 2026 57 mins

A chaotic mid‑week show! Christian catches Rio eating cereal in an all staff meeting, 3 Word Week delivers everything from school ransom notes to the Wi‑Fi collapsing and there's a debate over whether sneakers are acceptable wedding attire.

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Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good morning, Patsy, Good morning, Alex Mone, Good morning, Rio,
Good morning. So what a strange moment I found myself
in yesterday. I didn't realize that there was going to
be some kind of all company meeting. So I was
in a hidden that hidden meet at that hidden room
I have here that no one knows about. Even people
of well worked in this company for years, suddenly will

(02:05):
come and see me in there.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Go.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I didn't even know this was a meeting on the
It was a storage room.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I always have the lights off in there as well,
so no one can find me in there.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
My colleagues, bosses, out.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Of fact, my family under the stairs. Anyway, I'm in
there yesterday, and I'm on a zoom meeting. Okay, about
my book that's coming out this year. Suddenly I hear
a PA system come on one two one two?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Is this on?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Then suddenly I hear the unmistakeable screech of producer Gating,
and I'm trapped in it, like, wait, what's going.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
On out there?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
The other side of the secret room is this kind
of very large kitchen meeting room.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
We are like a common room. A common room, that's it.
And so I'm like, what do I stay in here? Do?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I had to apologizeal person when I think it's just
a small thing that must be doing for a couple
of moments. Then now I hear a very senior member
of management who's flowing from Sydney introducing a new senior
member of management we have, and I'm like, oh, I'm
trapped in here. How long is this going to go
on for? And I should I go out there? And
I thought, no, no, no, I just carry on the meeting,

(03:07):
and when I'm really sorry, I have to should actually
go out there now? Now the new guys just saying
alone and I just emerge behind him.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
From a door. It was weird. It was like a
strange comedy bit.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
It's like he lives inside the walls.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I thought I just best not to acknowledge it.
I don't want to distract it. But I'm still emerging
from a mysterious like trap door.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
You're very sheepish asay it's me.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, he's doing his well, it's lovely to be here,
and all stuff like that. Then I go and hide,
you know, discreetly at the back, and that I'm now
behind you Pats and Rio, and I see a horrific sign.
So this is your this is our new boss. Okay,
he's been a rival boss a whole time. We've been
here for eight years, but twelve years ago he tried

(03:53):
to hire me. Anyway, I'm watching him do this beautiful
speech about how excited it is to be here. You
continue to take all this in. He's talking about this
show and the future, and you think the best thing
you can do to show that I'm your guy Yukon
Army is to eat a bowl of cereals like a
giant child. I was burning holes back head and put

(04:15):
I was trying to speak to you telepathetically.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Put the bowl down.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
There was nutri grain provided for the company, but it's
something a student does.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't know when I'm going to get another free breakfast.

Speaker 7 (04:27):
I was starving.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It looks shoddy.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
No, I think it makes you look whoa This guy
works so much during the show, have time.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Isn't doing that jobs? He wouldn't have done that.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
You ate it like a dog.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
You didn't know it was.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I was about to say, I was about to say,
labrador eating a bowl of pasta.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
I was about to hit you in the know that you.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Did a horrible move where he tipped it up to
get that last week.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Actually very polite because when I got to just the
milk part, I didn't want to clang the spoon against
the ball while I new boss was speaking, So I
very delicate.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I saw look over us. Okay, he saw me, and
then he saw you.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
That noise, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, there was, it was and you know the Christian
O'Connell show, watching it today, just seeing what a bunch
of adults they are, and you know what a show
that is because seem's looking at you.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
No, he was, he was thinking, well, that guy works hard,
he's so focus.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
That's a long term watch. Now, cereal boy over there
is he twelve? How old is he? Someone told me thirteen?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
Now I think he was looking at me with a
degree of I thought, almost pride, where he's like, Wow,
this guy, he's the only.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
He's not thinking, he's not the new Carl Sandalans too soon?
Why were you so hungry?

Speaker 7 (05:45):
I was starving during the show. I didn't get a
chance to eat.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I didn't need so the best time to do it
is the new boss.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
He picked a bad time. At ten am.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
That's peak breakfast show eating time. That's normally when we all.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Go and hash.

Speaker 7 (06:00):
And so I was starving.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
I didn't I wanted to give him the all my
full attention and not be angry with him.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
So I hate the series.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
What would he done if you're angry and start heckling it?
I don't know. I want to know what that's like.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I need to do with another meeting day, don't eat
between now and them.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I want to see that Rio.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Christian sounds like Rio was crunching those neutri grains. He was.
It was a gad. You could pick it up from
the story. It was granular.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
It's nothing like that.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
You could barely hear it. It was a very delicate.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
The word that springs to mine here is only one word. Nonchalance.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yes, I saw and I didn't like it. Last time
I saw it, it was the guy that you stand.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
At least I up to the chalance stumbles in exclamation mark. Nonchalance.
What does that word actually mean?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You mean you don't have any schalanceles one at a time, guys,
one at a time.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
You don't really care, You don't really give a damn
to you? Nonchalant?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Chalant though, chalancess not having breakfast at that precise seven
minutes that we spoke for seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Just have that, not just that, Patsy.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Then afterwards, you know, we had a little tea and
cake to say goodbye to beuicated.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Getting married this weekend.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
And then as I was packing up to say good
battle team, it was time for you guys to have
yet another food break. I'm not even making it up
because normally I'm long gone by then it was like, wait,
is picnic time now?

Speaker 8 (07:37):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
So?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
By my reckoning, the show ended and no work has
been done in two hours since they're like, oh, it's
time for lunch now, lunch boxes stark been unclicked and stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
They're sat down in a.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Pre arranged way about who sits where at the Teddy
Bear's picnic, And I'm like, wow, that's.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Why I'm eating during meetings because I'm trying to save
that time for later so I can actually do some
work around because everyone's just munching around.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
And what the what the sort of the Italian was?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
After our show meeting we have it's mainly cereal, then
sit down cereals, just him his boosh.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
The chef has prepared a little tasting thing for you guys.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
They take the producer Kalin and producer Tina take their
lunches very seriously.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Don't chit chat, irritated that I was chatting to them.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Tina had some sort of leftover Greek food and then
part again and had some really revolting where it just
looked like baby food, like a punkin pure because she's
on this thing where she can't have food that's going
to stain her veniers.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, no, no, that.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Really it wasn't having it through a straw though, was she.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, she wasn't.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
But I would have thought that the pumpkin and orange
pulpy thing like that that could easily get stuck between
molders and suddenly you do in your speech and there's
that little This man stuck that little worm, you know,
thinking right at the back of your teeth. He keeps
any people. Can you see it?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I can't see it. It's probably more of a problem
for you than me. All right, So it's the middle
of the week. Let's do what we always doing. On Wednesday,
we get our three word week so far? Patty, how's
your three word weeks so far?

Speaker 9 (09:05):
Well, another week, just the same as the last week's
school ransom note. I'm being shaken down by a fourteen
year old. I got yet another email from my fourteen
year old daughter's school account yesterday to please top up
her card. They have this system at school. It's quite good.
Their bus pass. They can swipe it like a flexi
card at the school canteen to get a snack. Anyway,

(09:26):
it was low on funds. Apparently it had about two
dollars fifteen in there, and she said, can you please
put five dollars on? But put a time frame on it,
said lunch end's at one pm, you know, like chop chop. Mum, Lucky,
I saw it.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's good management.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Why didn't she got that from no, no, no, you're
raising her right. I think that's good. So what the
lunch box is over now? No more that high end
lunch used to pay for her.

Speaker 9 (09:49):
You know, I pack her lunch. She wanted a nice drink,
she said, So I don't know what they're serving there, just.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Got souvign bloc. I wan't drink.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
At the mid of the day, Gray Green wasn't cutting
the musty yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Week at the moment. With a global conflict.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
On a Tuesday, it's not exactly an emergency, said I've
got no lunch.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Please send me some.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
She fancied a nice chephers just opened up a delicious capra.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Sung Christian Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Good morning, it's a Christian o'connall's show for chemists, Our House, Patsy,
watch your chemist's Our House Products of the week.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
I have stocked up on these ahead of Caitlin's wedding
on Saturday, and they are the shoal party feet gel cushions.
They're these little tiny gel pads that you pop in
the fridge so they're nice and cold, and you put
them in your shoes so you can dance all that
long year.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
We've always got some on the go because obviously, you
know I share my life with three women, my two
daughters and my wife, and so they live in that.
You know, you've got the air tights or mini cheese
draw what it is. There's cheese in there, and then
there's those hill gel things.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
They're great, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, because they're always breaking in a new pair off
like Michael footballers. I'm like, why don't you just buy
shoes that actually are nice to wear.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Well, I've got lady shoes on Saturday. They've got a heel.
I'm not used to it. You know, I usually wear
like a sneaker work.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Or often most times we'll see you in DM boots,
won't we You're the big old sixteen eye ones.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know, those are all big punk ones, punk news.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
So I've got lady's shoes, so I have to walk
like a lady.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
So I need that. They're brilliant. They're life savers. Seriously,
they mean you can wear your shoes all now now
on this patch.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
You might be to help me out here.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
So my daughter Ruby is coming along to the wedding
reception Saturday night, and so I took it with shopping
in the day and she got like this beautiful long
dress and I said, oh, I'm going to need to
get some shoes to go with this, and I went, look,
you're still getting over back, surgeon out. Just wear sneakers.
Just get some nice, cool sneakers with you. And then
they said no. Shemates went oh my god, Dad, I

(11:59):
need to wear heels and went, hey, you're part of
the Young Sisterhood.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
You don't have to do this. Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
If I start saying to you stick some heels on, lady,
you be going Dad, it's not right. Okay, you can't
win anymore that you should be on kiss And so
apparently I said it's cool to wear sneakers now.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I sometimes I'll wear a suit and then sneakers. Yeah.
I'm like, hey, you know, I'm up top his business
down there.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
It's not that's like what weather men don Phil.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
What about you Alex on the camera? Do you sneaking
a sneaker occasionally.

Speaker 8 (12:36):
Or you wear like no, I'm very strict with it.
Some do it, but I refuse to know. I'm going on,
it's not a lady.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
Sneakers to a wedding.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Of course you can. You can they look cool.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
You can bring sneakers to a wedding for the dance,
But I don't think you can be walking around early
on in the wedding in like your Nike tns.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
My wife turned on me, Am, I you guys can't win.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
If I said make sure that at least six inches,
they would have turned on me. I say, just sneak
it up, go sensible, Let's get you some nice, laceless skeeches.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
No, you do walk nicer in a heel when you're
all dressed up?

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Are you already reversing all those I know you're already
happen now?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Germaine Greer is back on the radio.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
Slouch along you just a female unit RIEA.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
What's your products of the week? You're still roading?

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Well, yeah, sort of. I'm on my muscle nation.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Protein water is that what you were drinking yesterday? And
with you.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
It's hard to get enough.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Protein these days, so I'm trying to, like, instead of
using a big thick, heavy milky ones, which you can
only sort of do one a day, the protein water.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
Is very fruity.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
It it's very light, sort of fizzes a little bit,
and you don't feel like you're having like a big, heavy,
thick shake every time you're having your protein shake so
I love it. Muscle Nation protein water mango flavor is
my favorite.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
All right, coming up next, we've got the news sport.
When we come back, then, tell us about your week
so far. It is Wednesday, it's the middle of the week.
Telling three words? How is this week going for you?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
It is back.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
What are the odds? Right now? In the middle of
the week. It's Wednesday? Your three word weeks so far?
Good morning to Shelley Brown, bad back, bedridden. Sorry to
hear that, Shelley a nightmare? Christiana, how's my week going?

Speaker 8 (14:32):
In three words?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's what I'm asking, Sir, got a hemorrhoid?

Speaker 7 (14:36):
Oh, that's unfortunate.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
You need to go to chemists warehouse, get some ointment.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Patsy knows ointment don't. What do you recommend? Patsy?

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Oh, I can't think of the one?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
You use? Droid rage.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Use it on your eyes as well for wrinkles preparation.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
H isn't it?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (14:52):
I think so?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Too much of those serials latoes?

Speaker 6 (15:01):
How they make jokes about it in Austin Powers. I
think that's my point of reference. That's where you get
all your intel from Medical Knowledge.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Gold member.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I love the way that the guy who said have
got a hemorrhoid he signs off a noom from a nom.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Maybe there's a new weekly feature, a noom from a nom.
Christian may week so far. I'm a courier deliving nuclear medicine.
Oh wow, to about ten hospitals most mornings. My three
words bloody idiot drivers. You should have a special flashing
light on there if you're driving around with that, you know,
want someone.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Rear ending you.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
We don't need nuclear explosions in this country right now,
this week of all weeks as well.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
John, good morning, thanks to your message. Christian. I wore trainers
to my own wedding. It looks great. Good on you.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, now, I'm telling you I think it's a good
look for people.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
All right, So Ria, what's your three words so far?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Three terrifying words? Actually, yesterday the WiFi is down. Ah No,
we got an email at eleven am that the WiFi
would be down for six hours because there was some
sort of problem in the system.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know, of course, your generation. What are you
going to do?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
You want to talk to somebody's Oh, you have to
pick up a burke or go for a.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
Walk, and it's terrifying how quickly if.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You can streams your oxygen level.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
It was like the sky was falling in.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I was like walking around the chicken little what can.

Speaker 7 (16:29):
I possibly do? Like what activities are there?

Speaker 6 (16:32):
So I did something real old timy and I actually
watched not through the apps or anything.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
You're going to say.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Then you went to a servant and got one of
those magazines on the shop shell. You went retro manual style, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Analogue, No, I did, Uh, you've right on me.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
I watched Free to Wear TV, like through the actual cable,
like old watching it.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You probably friend Alex Color.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
I'm still here after all our viewers or three of them,
the TV.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
To watching me to air the way you spout those
words out Free to air TV.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's still going strong, Well, it's still going.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
It's still going somehow.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's actually awesome if you can see if you can
see me, not us. They must just call back news
at two in the afternoon, non news and no news,
nursing homes and to bad people are doing bad things.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
And now non are recipes.

Speaker 8 (17:32):
Brought to you on a gym's You can't hear it
you can see it.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
That's true.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
That's true in the airport.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
So what did you watch?

Speaker 7 (17:38):
I watched a lot of British game shows.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
That is now our main export industry. All right.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We used to explore all kinds of things around the world.
Now it's game show.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, watch.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
I watched some lingo, which I love. It is essentially wordle.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
It's just wordle, but on TV.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
So it's three teams that play against each other, solving wordles.

Speaker 7 (18:07):
As quickly as they can.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Awesome.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
I get home and watch it again.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
And who is the host?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
I don't know, some uppity British.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
It could be a cousin of mine.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
In what world it's a main news story today radio
bust up, and then you go to the latest in Iran.
I've just seen it on a certain national news TV
network in no world. In no world it's radio bust
up ahead of and finally just a quick throw to
what's going on in Iran and the bombing in the

(18:50):
modern Middle East? Is that radio bust up is the
news story above that. I had a lot of people
who were teching last night obviously about what's gone on
and we can't say too much and nor should we.
But the one big question is is Patsy going to
be reporting.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
On this right?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Because it's like it's lead news everywhere, it's newsworthy.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
How is it ahead of Iran?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I guess you got two supreme leaders being taken out
and always.

Speaker 7 (19:19):
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ever bright Sider's meetups in Melbourne, in Sydney first of all,
and then coming over to Perth and also Adelaide, ambersbend
All to the next couple of months. You will find
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Speaker 1 (20:54):
This is free. We're not charging you for this, Okay.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
You also get every Friday, I send you a message
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Speaker 1 (21:10):
We're bringing back membership cards and loyalty cards. Stick it
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Speaker 10 (21:17):
No?

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Not me?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
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It's full of other people who will their shopping trolleys back.
We're the heroes of that supermarket car park. All right,
So millennials, if you just emigrated in the last six
months to this show. There there's no way what God
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(22:51):
somewhere in the Bible, who return their shopping Troy. It's
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didn't quite make the cut, you know, the deep cuts.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
On the back of the stone.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, most he said something about shopping.

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The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Kylie Christian. I am not a millennial.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I have not affected from another station, but I do
return my trolley just like you. Come on in, Come
on in. The drinks are free, the water's warm. Welcome
to the right side of the doll. This is the
Christian O'Connell Show for Chemists Warehouse on Gold Now, Yeston.
On the show, I was talking about my search this
week for incredible stories. You couldn't make it up, and

(23:44):
we got this story from.

Speaker 10 (23:46):
Donner, my late father.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
He ran over himself in his own car while my
mother was sitting in the passenger seat. He got out
to ask somebody to move so he could park it.
He realized after he got out that the car was
still in gear and tried to stop it himself. Ran
over his foot fall to the ground. People were yelling

(24:11):
out to my mum to pull on the handbrake.

Speaker 10 (24:13):
She was screaming back, I don't know where it is.

Speaker 11 (24:16):
My sisters took him to the doctor. They x rayed him.
Not one broken bone, not a mark, not a scratch.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Nothing, A few things on that lucky our audio producer
Rare that you hear a replay that somehow feels longer
than on It was a third of.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
The speed slowed it down. He's really running down.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
The clock today on the show There Lockyer audience, or
so the wife there she knew the hand's actually on
the handbrake.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Wait, the hand was this is the handbrake?

Speaker 12 (24:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
I thought was I put my handbag on? I thought
it was a handbag break. It's a handbrake. Oh, I
can stop rolling over.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Him now, Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
So we heard the story and we were all like, wow, weird.
Who's heard such a story of accidentally running over yourself?
And then I started to get these messages other people
have done this. It's not a freak occurrence in this country.
And then you rio the smartest man on this show
and the smartest man.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
In radio with two degrees, you've done this.

Speaker 7 (25:17):
My mom has done this. My mom has done it.
She was backing out of the garage when I was
maybe about ten years old.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
I was in the lounge room. She's backing out to
go to the shops. She forgets that she hasn't put
the alarm on, so she jumps out of the car,
turn the alarm on. The car is still very much
on and reversing, so the car's rolling back over her,
kind of moving quickly towards her. Instead of getting out
of the way, Mom jumped back into the car and

(25:43):
then tried.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
To slam I tell you what, quick thinking yes.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Yeah, well, well don't get don't praise her too quickly.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
Instead of slamming on the brakes, she's slammed on the accelerator.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
It's one of these two door.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
And then rams the car into the back of the house.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Kangaroos bounces into the house, half the.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Cars like through the door, smashes the ping pong table.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
She was completely.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Fine, Marty Supreme, very upset.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
So we didn't have a back of the house for
you know, a few weeks.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
What a story, and we.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
Didn't have a ping pong table.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
Tragedy of it all.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
This is a double blow, isn't it. You know?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
All right then, so I cannot believe I'm actually asking
this on the show. Have you accidentally run over yourself?
I didn't realize quite a few If.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
You have Christian Color Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Imagine right now you go into a classic Ossie country pub.
It's unique to that location, but somehow it's universal to
any country pub you've ever been to in Australia. There
are certain things that are just universal in all of
those pubs, and they need protect them because actually they're

(27:07):
dying out. But anyway, this week big news in after
nr L in Vegas of the weekend is they're talking
about doing a Ossie themed pub in Vegas on the Strip.
So we're helping them build it brick by brick. What
has to be there.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
The gangs aren't going to know, really aren't going to know.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
They haven't been to the middle of nowhere, I know,
beyond the middle of nowhere, beyond the middle of nowhere
where there's just a post office and the pub. That's
all there is, the general store and the pub. So
what is in a classic Aussie pub? Uneven tables that
someone's put a Sigi pack on to make even dark
board uncomforty next to the Paul tables, so they clashed

(27:47):
when the two people are playing footy tipping leaderboard be
a guarden Palman, night posters everywhere, condom slash tamp on
dispens of the Ladies only accepts coins, photos of random
celebrities who visitors over the years.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Is that Steve Gutenberg? Hell is here doing here? Mahony?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Obviously Mahony was here loose on missing toilet seats And
of course the pie warmer with what just one pine
that You're not sure how long's that thing been in
there since the eighties?

Speaker 1 (28:19):
A jar of water with a slice.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Of lemon in it, a jukebox and a stubby holder
shelf ones that have come in since the show Yesterday
also needs a collection of drink coasters from all over
Australia even overseas, on the ceiling of the public bar,
because you remember there's a public bar, yes, Leon, Christian
and grand step Oh my god, this is so true, Leon,

(28:43):
this is great. Let me just dip the music a bit, Leon,
A grand staircase that leads nowhere because the top two
levels can never be used.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
You're right, there's some crouncles of Narnia up there. What's
up there?

Speaker 6 (28:56):
It's almost like, you know, have you ever stayed at
the hotel, like the accommodation at a part?

Speaker 7 (29:01):
Yes, I've done that, but I wonder if that's where.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
They lead, always wondered shared bathroom?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yes, yes, yes, Christian.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
The old Rundown Woods store and shut out the back
with the rusty looking roof that it's about to collapse.
For the old open fireplace inside the pub that may
or may not still be in use. Richard some guy
on acoustic guitar butchering a cover cover of Tom Petty's
free Falling? So what are we missing? What else are
we not covered as we're building it? Brick by brick

(29:31):
the classic Australium pub. What else do you think needs
to be there?

Speaker 12 (29:34):
Real.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
I think there has to be a live band, not
just some guy on an acoustic guitar. There's got to
be a four or five piece live covers band.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yes only covers.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Mondo, rock covers, horses, funky town, Yes with the key
or just a little bit out of Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
And they look they look rough as guts, but they
are the tightest band you'll ever see.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Because they're hard rocking hard livings.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
They've done those same fifteen songs for probably thirty years.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
They do available for weddings as well, yes, exactly, and
then do announcement beween the songs like someone's double parks.
There's a holding commodo out the front by the fires
g yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Or they do like five songs and there's time for
them to take a break where they just.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Add please come back Thursday night it's pub trivia night.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
The metal Shait request.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yes, they say, clan come on ourry up Christian, one
of our old fashioned tin signs mentioning alcohol products and
cigarette vending machines, meet Trey Rainfall, Paul Table and a
weekly social competition roast.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Of the day on the menu as well. What else
are we missing? Give us a call?

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two or if it's easier this
morning textas show four seven five three one oh four
three I remember, put your name on it and where
you're listening.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Good morning, it's a Christian O'Connell's show for Chemis Squarehouse.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Welcome to the bright side of the dial. Right now
on the.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Show, we're trying to build Brick Bye Brick, the classic
Australian pub. What is in every single one? They're talking
about building one on the Vegas Strip. The Yanks won't
know about what's Quintessentially, it wouldn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
We need to build it for them and then we're
just exported out there with some Aussie trades.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Fression. Behind the bar you need a stand of Nobby's nuts.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yes, we've been focused about in front of the bar.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
What's behind the mark? You're right.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
The old selection of Nobby's Nuts looks that they've been
up there for at least thirty.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Years and they're insanely expensive.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Expensive.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
It's expensive apartment chips Nobby's nuts.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yes, Christian.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
When you walk into the lounge or the main entry
with the staircase. It needs to smell of the nineteen fifties,
locked in creaky floorboards covered by thick red Ish Ish
carpets with a waitress with a husky voice that calls
your love and has been there since the nineteen fifties.

(32:09):
Upstairs as the residents old share them with the pink
and green sinks. I remember the green avocados scenes for
nanad those and don't forget the mirror in the dining
room that has a scene etched onto it. Oh my god, nearest,
with things etched glass.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
We need one of those of the studio. I want
to show.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
One etched glass. Let's bring it back. These are incredible.
Let me go through someone once. We're getting at the moment.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Christian photos of local horses.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Race meeting and greyhounds is and greyhounds, you're right, Pats,
and news cuttings of a local footy team winning a
Grand final in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Still up there. Country has always had a huge stuffed
deer head with antlers on the wall.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
What you're missing is a nautie pop with a full
length mirror with an advertisement for Carlton Draft on it.
Gotta have a resonant blue cattle dog out the front
with a gigantic Christian.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oversized bowl of water.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Lisa, Good morning Christian, and the team is Mary here
from Gullagong. Our little town has a population of two
thousand people. But you're right, Christian, there's always so many pubs.
So we got three pubs.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
That has got to be a record.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Let's try and work that out by nine in my hometown.
What's got the highest number of pubs per capital?

Speaker 8 (33:28):
Two and a half thousand in my hometown seven no.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Sorry, eight pups alright in the town what is an.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
Amble New South Wales and glory.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
So two and a half thousand with eight pubs.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
No clothing story has.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Got a better ratio than that.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
And in those pubs, one side of the bars for
the locals, the others for the rest.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yes, right, And if you ever go in the wrong draw,
they let you know.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
They would stare at you from around these parts.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
No, no, don't ask for the wine list.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
The whole thing stops. Look, the jukebox stops.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Christian.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Gotta have a basket of dry, very dry bread rolls
with that little butter folded up.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
In the foil. I love that one, Christian, giant fish
on the wall. What was that chraze bity the mass.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
The one that sung yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
File that along with what's up? What was that? Buy
the fish? Christian?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
A random wagon wheel in the beer garden. Absolutely, thank you,
mick uh jukebox.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
With those tiny dyes labels that.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
You need glasses to read some sharpie topless bar maids, Brad,
I've never been in that. You might be getting mistake
with the Hooters old man at the end of the
bar with the gray beard with nicotine stains in his beard.
That's from Ross and get this one. Seven sets of
entry doors, but only one that opens. It goes do

(34:59):
not enter use main door? Which one's the main door?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's a test.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yes, seven sets of entry doors, but only one that opens.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
It's a game show. It's a bar.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Always short of stills as well, there's never enough stills.

Speaker 8 (35:13):
You can't have enough stills in this pub.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Lipstick residue on apparently washed glasses. Christian and the men's
toilet for a good time, call one of those old
school adverts. That's what we should do the next month,
next marketing campaign.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
It should be for a good time called Christian.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I only work mornings.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
Morning Crowder.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Phats what's in every Australian bar.

Speaker 9 (35:43):
You still see some signs ladies lounge painted. You know
that's where you took the wife for a drink in
the sixties and seventies. And you know, women were so
outraged by this that there was actually like a siege
at the Regatta Hotel in nineteen sixty five. Women women
changed themselves to the bar for the right to be able.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
To drink in with the men, and the laws were changed.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I did not know history.

Speaker 9 (36:08):
Yeah, you couldn't take a woman and she couldn't drink
in the public bar until late sixties.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
We've got to get that. What's that video clip from
that documentary? Brilliant fact, Luckie's just load up.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
This is it?

Speaker 8 (36:22):
How do you feel about women being allowed into the spa?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
I don't like it.

Speaker 12 (36:26):
I do not think women should be allowed to drink
in that.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
It's an elbow.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Make up make up news clips. You heard, like a
real old news clip. That's how people used to speak.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
How voices change.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Oh, it can't have their ladies in here getting drunk
and carrying on.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
He recalled that, and to say, if we'd have added
that in it, people wouldn't thought. I think that's Christian
just mucking around what they're carrying on loud and drinking
and whatnot. One sherry and homri and that's enough. It's
man talk here. Politics would make your head spin.

Speaker 8 (37:04):
How do you feel about women being allowed into the spa?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
I don't like it that I change women should be
allowed to Sorry. This is from yesterday's talk back radio
actually on two.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
GB Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
What does every single Australian country pub have? Christian where
even buy that end destructure a pub carpet from?

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Then there's you never go.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Into a pub, and not too wine bar, but a
pub that's got a new carpet. Those carpets are built
to last. In fact, this monkey old thing you wouldn't
even call it. This is the thing you put under
and then the carpet goes on top. I keep waiting
for eight years, when will they actually get rid of
the front of the carpet down? Well, hopefully soon they
might come into money. Mate. We need to get whoever sells,

(37:51):
whoever sells carpets to pubs. We want one of those
reddish carpets.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Stuck in there.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, pre stuck, Yes, pre stuck, and then some knobby's
nuts behind me.

Speaker 9 (38:03):
The first station I worked at was walled to or
actually roof to roof red carpet, so all of the
walls in the floor were like red.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
That's because those those studios were properties sound.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
It was like a brothel.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
This terrible doing the news in the brothel. Don't not
sat here, Do not say it here? Email me your answer.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Christian, or what every classic country pub, a country pub
must have.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
A piano in the corner. You're right, it's always in
the corner.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
You must have a signed in the far corner of
the bar with the words Bob's corner.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
No one goes in the bomb, Christian.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
What about the cutlery handed to you wrapped within one
inch of its life? It's like no baby's ever been
swaddled tighter, Michelle, Great spot the cutlery hand to you
wrap within one inch of its life, stuck down on
what appears to be a spot of spit.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Wow, that is blowing my mind.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Michelle Winnoughby cents us that one about the cultlery wraps
within one inch of its live? Beautifully put Richard Christian.
Every Aussie bar garlic bread as an entree on the menu.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's the law. It's the housy law, Brad Bishop.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
What about the council workers in uniform having a very
long lunch, right, they've always got the pharaohon. They're not
even shy about it, name of the council. Everything parked
out the front there about four hours. There's no roadworks
being done this afternoon. So we're also trying to find
then where you're from, Alex. You reckon it's eight pubs

(39:44):
to the population of two and a half thousand.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
Well, the RSL clubs closed recently, so back to seven
seven seven.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Then we need to all to our ratio because if
it was eight to two and a half thousand residents,
that's one pub per three hundred.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
There's a lot to celebrate and love to kimiseright, so real.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
You've recrunched the numbers. Now it's seven with the closing
of the local RSL. Seven to two and a half
thousand gives you a pub ratio.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
Of one to twenty eight two hundred and eighty.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Sorry, this guy's got two degrees. One to twenty eight.
I moved there, that is, let's move there now. One
to twenty eight? Where is this heaven on earth?

Speaker 8 (40:23):
Excapia nirvana?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Let's go wow, one to twenty it's nothing markable pubs.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Pub land so it's one to two hundred and eighty. Yes,
there there we go.

Speaker 8 (40:37):
Is it pretty good?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
I don't know, it's good. It's good good. So is
there anywhere that's got a better ratio than is it?
Cann Amble you're from? Yes?

Speaker 8 (40:43):
Originally said well seven hours northwest.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Of Sydney, so seven pubs to two and a half
thousand people? Can anyone top that ratio? Can anyone offer
us one bar?

Speaker 1 (40:53):
From twenty eight?

Speaker 8 (40:55):
They've got great names to like the Tattersals you know that,
the old names Terminus Hotel.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, all right, we got the new support and then
coming after eight this morning every Wednesday on the show.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
It's what are the odds? Your stories of coincidence and chance?
You called us? Now? What are the odds? Thirteen fifty
five twenty.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Two Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Every Wednesday, this time will it for your stories of
coincidence and chance?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
What are dem odds?

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 7 (41:25):
What are the odds?

Speaker 1 (41:27):
You gotta beshing me.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Like?

Speaker 7 (41:31):
Were you a Cheryl who married a Hunt who was.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
With the Cheryl.

Speaker 7 (41:39):
Who married a Hunt as well.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
What are the radio odds? H I don't say no
more so much to say, so many songs to play?
What are the odds? My friends?

Speaker 10 (41:56):
We're gonna barbers a few weeks ago to me.

Speaker 13 (41:58):
He goes, oh, what's your name?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
And I said, Oh, it's Paul.

Speaker 13 (42:00):
There's four other people in there, and the guy next
to me goes, oh, my name's Paul. The barber says,
my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh, my
name's Paul, and we're all called Paul.

Speaker 12 (42:08):
Had an iPad stolen from my home and months later
I get a phone call the police have identified my iPad.
One of the police officers recognized photos from my brother's wedding.
He'd been to primary school with him, knew the family
and contacted my mind.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
She paid my breakfast. Just the other day.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
I cracked open the egg and had two yolks inside
the one egg.

Speaker 12 (42:31):
And then I went on to have a banana and
peeled the banana and there were two bananas inside the
one peel.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
And that there is why you make the big switch
to us Champagne Radio. Every single day Hill Christian for
a good time. I only wanted all right, so what
are the odds?

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Now?

Speaker 2 (42:49):
First of all, we've got Kim. What can I tell
you about this person? Kim is that Tina and our
very giggly producer could barely speak to me about the
hilarity we're about to get.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
She went, so silly, Christian, the.

Speaker 13 (43:06):
Rest him, Christian, tie off you go.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
So it's a large tour.

Speaker 13 (43:15):
Yeah, back in the nineties, mate, we'd hired a minibus
for a footy trip away to Sydney, and as we
got through Aubrey, a couple of the boys that had
a few too many and there was a bit of
shenanigans and we got pulled up by the local police
just outside of Aubrey. Ah. He comes to the bus door.

(43:35):
He says to the driver, you've got a bit of
trouble mate. What's your name? He goes Aubrey. He goes, Okay,
we've got some smart asses here. And his mate goes,
mate and nice, here is his name is Aubrey. What's
going on? He goes, what's your name? His name was
Sidy goes Sydney. He goes, righty, a boys, we'll sort
this out of the station and Aubrey come now, check

(43:57):
me license. He goes, get in the car. He took
him to the police station. So we're on the side
of the road. Half an hour later, the policeman comes
back and even he said, what are the odds? Then
I'll pull a butt up in Aubrey. The driver's named
Aubrey and his mate's named Sidney. He goes, I will
never live this day. And at the police what.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Are the police odds?

Speaker 7 (44:22):
Never live that down?

Speaker 1 (44:23):
You can't, couldn't really show Shenanigan's had happened. Rio, That
is a crazy story.

Speaker 13 (44:29):
Kim, Oh, we had a good laugh.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, you couldn't make it up.

Speaker 13 (44:33):
You couldn't make that up.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
You couldn't. You couldn't if you try. Kim, great story.
Thank you very much for sharing.

Speaker 13 (44:39):
Have a great show, guys, thank you very.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Much for trying.

Speaker 10 (44:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Carry, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Carry, good morning. How are you, Christian?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
I'm good. Carry. So what's your story for us on
what are the odds?

Speaker 8 (44:51):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Well, my mom was traveling to Scotland to look after
my great grandmother because she was unwell, and my mom
didn't realize she was pregnant. She didn't discover that till
she got to Scotland. Anyway, my great grandmother passes away.
Mom's about seven months pregnant and she decides to fly home.
So she flies home. When she sits down on the
plane and at the plane she discovers that the lady

(45:11):
next to her is a midwife. So part way through
the flight, as you would expect, the water breaks the midwife.
Still it is the baby and it ends up being twinned.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
No way.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Mom didn't even know she was having twins, getting.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Random chance or not. But next to a midwife, sitting.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Next to a midwife, go.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Figure, Oh my god, it's meant to be. That's plame.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Super cool, super cool.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
Oh my really super cool.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
I'm sat next to a fly let me gets midwife.
Get ready to get reassured?

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Are you you know?

Speaker 1 (45:50):
That is incredible, Kerry, beautiful story.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
I'm going to give you two hundred and fifty dollars
suspended chemist Warehouse.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Love that story. Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Sure, really generous.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
No, thanks you for sharing your story. Incredible story, Carrie,
Thank you very much. Thanks for calling the show all right,
Kidnam Coming thirteen fifty five, twenty two. V.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Nanigan's nob These Nuts.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Christian Color show podcast right now.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Every Wednesday, the show we celebrate we look for your
stories of coincidence and chance.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
We call it what are the Odds? Stephanie, Hi, how
are you guys? We're good, Stephanie, thanks to you on the show.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
That's all right. So my story. So my fiance James
and I we were on our way up to New
South Wales, driving through regional Victoria and we stopped in
this very remote town for lunch. I'm talking like there's
a petrol station, a bakery in a pub and the
only other handful of shops were all boarded up and

(46:50):
it was this tiny, creepy town and James and I
were like, oh, you know, this would make such like
a great setting for a Scooby Doo mystery, like tumbleweeds everywhere,
like these creepy old black people whatever. And we were
walking back to the car. Parked next to the car

(47:11):
was a mystery machine.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
What some dodgy caretaker.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
It was always a dodgy caretaker, always in meddling.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Kids would have gone away with it.

Speaker 10 (47:28):
Exactly. We could not stop laughing.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
It was what are the Scooby odds?

Speaker 7 (47:34):
What was the what's the deal with the van?

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Though?

Speaker 7 (47:35):
What was Did you get to the bottom of that mystery?

Speaker 10 (47:39):
No, we didn't, but it was just the funniest thing ever.
We just could not stop laughing. It was so funny. Yeah,
place for a mystery.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Absolutely, Thanks Stephanie, great story, Thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (47:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (47:57):
It's just like, what's going on with that would inspect
to lodge it there? What actually happened? I'd like to
actually know the facts of the story, because that's always
the most interesting thing.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
What else is well, what we like is the miss street,
the injury? Well we ever know.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
What we didn't have at the end of Scubay was listen, guys,
actually just let's just break down the beach their kids
of what happened?

Speaker 7 (48:19):
You know, don't you.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
Want to know why there was a mysterious mystery?

Speaker 1 (48:23):
It's a mysterious van.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Tomorrow on the show, Rea is running his own feature
in our Stories of logic that can be easily explained
and categorized.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Who he got here? Kim?

Speaker 14 (48:36):
Good morning, Christian, Hi guys, how are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
We're good? Kim.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Now, Kim, you're the person as a story about the
patron Saint Anthony.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
I do great so love a Patron Saints story.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Normally we take Patron Saints on a Thursday, but I'm
happy to take a confession now.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
For the Christians here.

Speaker 14 (48:55):
So this was back in the eighties and I was
playing competition netball and as I went on to the court,
I gave my friend a cross in chain that was
really special to me because you're not allowed to wear
jewelry when you play. So he put it in his
pocket and you know, played the game. Later that night,
I asked him for the crossback and he couldn't find it,
and I was devastated because it was really special to me.

(49:18):
So I said, we have to go back to that field.
And it was like two soccer fields, five network courts,
and a whole load of grass everywhere that we've been
all over.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (49:28):
So we decided to go back. The gates of the
oval were shut, but he and I got down on
our bellies and climbed underneath the gate, went with torches
looking all over the oval for this tiny little cross
that anybody could have picked up. And anyway, after I
don't know, an hour or an hour and a half
or so, we decided to give up and we were

(49:49):
just going back to the car, and as I was
going back to the car, having learned about Saint Anthony
in my schooling, I just said, asked, Saint Anthony Patriot
have lost things? How would you let me know if
I was looking in the wrong spot? And I shone
the torch down on the ground once more and it
was right at the top of my big toe.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Love the story. That's incredible. You found it, you got
it well.

Speaker 14 (50:13):
That I could not believe it. Christian. Honestly, I just
was about to give up and thought this could have
been picked up by anybody all throughout the day.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
When are there for us?

Speaker 14 (50:26):
Yeah, it was pretty amazing. I thought you were pretty
pretty against me anyway.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Kem, I love your story. Thank you very much for
calling up and sharing it with us this morning.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Have a good day, thanks Christian.

Speaker 14 (50:37):
Thanks guys, could.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
You google who the patron Saint of our ratings is?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Christian, I think you'll find the patron Saint of radio
ratings is Saint Nielsen. Very clever, very clever, if you know,
you know, And of course we always pray.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
For k.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Deep cuts today, deep cuts, guys, Scooby Doo is all right, Okay,
this is in separate thing for what are the Nerd Odds?

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Scooby is a van higher company.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
No nightmares for you tonight, No nightmares for you, Young
Leo touch up in his little bed. They have hundreds
of those vans. That's the mystery there, sadly debunked.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
I'm on the show. What is God? All right? Right now? Though?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Hobby Movies. Today's National Hobby Day. Get your hobby on.
I will for the best in show for your Hobby movies.
Gold Class group past for you and three mates. What
do we think of a big top five hobbies at
the moment?

Speaker 7 (51:45):
Knitting is in big time at the moment. What is knitting?
Everyone's doing it?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
It's not in the top four. No, no, no, no,
I thought it would be. I would guess. Scrapbooking.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yes, my wife is into this collage loves Oh it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
What about stamp collecting? Do people still do that?

Speaker 1 (52:05):
They do? They still? Do you still run that club? Don't?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Is that because I know want to choose to do
it's the Dungeons and Dragons one and then flatterally Fridays
and then when it's the Scooby Do one. Is it
Scooby Sunday. Is it mystery Mondays? It's so hard to
keep up with your calendar of nerd and hobbies at
the moment, Blacksmithy, come on, there's.

Speaker 6 (52:32):
Actually I'm getting ads in my Instagram for anvils.

Speaker 7 (52:35):
Yes, no, to forge my own kitchen knife.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Oh yeah, I'd love to do that.

Speaker 6 (52:40):
Yeah, you can do classes birding well, you like bird watching?

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Oh yeah, always always available. I got my own buyinos
at home as well.

Speaker 7 (52:49):
There's a group of NRL players. Actually they started burning.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Burning with them show. It's the birding that I know.
It's in ornithology, it's it's not a different thing late
at night in the car park, is in a mystery machine? Pan,
don't come a knock in if Scooby is rocking wine
tasting and.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
That's that's hobby.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Now our hobby is it's actually a hobby. So maybe
update those twelve units a week and the number one swordsmanship?

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Where do you just make this nice swordsmanship?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Sometimes you see me come in with a bruise or something,
you know, and outsording again over the weekends.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Yeah it is l chaps do it all right.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Hobby movie hobby movies, Lady in the stamp. Oh, my
w it's a rare one from Chili gold plass the
Wool of Wall Street getting into knitting. You can't knit
without the wall knit one drop one parl one.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Interview with a stampire.

Speaker 7 (53:52):
You know what? I love that we all?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
I mean he won an oscar for it, really moving movie.
Nick came to an oscar for leaving Las Vegas. Beautiful story.
He's now got a hobby basket weave silver pla, my word, lovely.
David Beckham has got into restoration, doing up old things.
That's right, that's right. You go ahead, take it to

(54:18):
him and here mend it like Beckham.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
Silver plus.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Woody howson, Josh Brody them have got into doing jigsaws.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
That's right. No last piece for old men. It's always
the last piece. I like the idea in Old Folks
Home of.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Josh Broden House and haav about them doing a big
two thousand and one, the real big one.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Oh, let's do a big one, reya. What have you got?

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Hobby movies knitting hill knitting hill silver, that's very good.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Don't mess with the zumba silver you me and oraga me?

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Oh, that's very good.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
Gold and Wayne's word, Oh, very good.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Gold Plus a Christian O'Connell show, podcast.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Time Waste Today. We're looking for your hobby movies. All right,
are we ready to mark hobby movies?

Speaker 7 (55:19):
I'm ready?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
All right, let's do it. Astrology in the House Gold.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Yeah, got to be careful about talking about astrology on
breakfast Shot.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yeah, very well done.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Shut up Drones the Great Detectives into droning right now,
Michael Rodwell, very good.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Bonzai Another Day.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
Silver Plass Patsy.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
He's trying this kind of woman that could get into Bonzig.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
No, no, no, I kill plants.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
It's good to have a Hoby the ten pin Bowling Commandments,
Silver Throw Mama from the miniature railway Train.

Speaker 7 (55:57):
Silver Plus.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
That's from Augustus J.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Pickleton, the Third Sure, that's yeah, that's on his passport.
Jurassic parkor that's good fla, it has very good skills.
Jurassic Park war very good, op and Winer Gold what
I Kerry painting Private Ryan, Someone's going to maybe oil
paintings or watercolors. Elliott Dean, well done. Fart and the Furious.

(56:25):
I don't know how that's not flatters.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Isn't a hobby.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Bronze taxidermos driver silver. When Harry broke out a needle
to patch up Sally's coat, at least he's consisting morning Paul.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Edward knitting needle hands, Silver, Gardeners of the Galaxy. They're
they're on their knees.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Good Will jousting, Joe Siggers, very good, Plates of the
Caribbean Gold. That's Kenny Thompson World and John wicker Weaver
genius mark. That's very good.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Harry Pottery at the wheelm Hogwarts, Scuba diving, Miss Daisy
bron and finally it's not bronze. Scuba diving is a
good one. Crochet Tiger hidden track.

Speaker 7 (57:24):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Kerry Charles there last one? All right, who's still winning today?
Some great ones for hobby movies.

Speaker 7 (57:30):
They were, But I love Jurassic Parkour.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Very very good.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
You didn't put your name on it, but oh seven
five is the last three digits of your phone number.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Pretty good, just made it up.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Sounds good though, right impressed every one with that magic
trick is pretty good.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
All right.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Okay, we are back tomorrow. Thank you hoy much for
joining us.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
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