January 27, 2026 • 52 mins
Christian O'Connell's show is back, and today's topic is all about the power of names and their influence on our careers. Christian shares a fascinating theory called nominative determinism, where our names can actually shape our job choices. He's got a load of emails from listeners who've noticed this phenomenon in their own lives. Also joining the show is Ben Crowe, a mindset coach who's worked with top athletes like Ash Barty, and they dive into the importance of perspective and play in achieving success.
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store every day. Good morning, Pats, good morning, Good morning, Alex,
Good morning, Rio, good morning. I've just made a note
during that song of like, what do I think are
the hot topics right now for this show? Okay, Rio,
(00:50):
do you agree with this order? At three? When do
the kids go back to school?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah? Come on, kids, get back.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the classrooms, hit the books, leave mom and dad
alone now, yes?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
When do they go back?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Summer back today, summer back tomorrow, New South Wales next week.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's all over. The shop is already back today.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No, No, she's going back Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And they're doing like this, doing a little cheeky half
day I know.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And they're doing this outdoor ed thing which she is
not excited about, windsurfing and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Winsote seven eight week break straight back.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
What is this team building sort of being for all
the new Charles.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Zvi x Man Institute is a Swiss boarding school whereas lives.
The only Swiss there is Toburran chocolate at the seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, but I know one of my nieces is a
school teacher and she is back to school today. She's
a state school teacher, so I think most of the
state schools are back today. So don't forget the forty k.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Zones, all right. And then the other two things are
the heat in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, I mean we don't work outside in it, so
people who are working outdoors yesterday, I don't know how
you did that, speak of someone who genetically is from
a different country where you just wouldn't ever it's never
been that kind of temperature. I actually didn't know what
to do myself. I kept going out in it, just
(02:21):
to experience see what such like, what it's like, morbid curiosity.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It was in We had to drag our mattress from
the bedroom into the lounge room because it's our only
room with air.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Cons and you're thirteen. You were having a sleepover. Sleepover.
We four.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You step brothers, Dad Doug can wettrag the mattress for interactivities.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And did that work? It worked?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Better than the bedroom, but it was still the heat
was still coming through the walls. You could feel it radiating.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was insane. Sot. Yeah, Patsy, what was it like?
Your way? You could have to like forty three forty four,
We got.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
To forty six out west. Yeah, it was shocking. And
I woke up, had a little nana nap in the afternoon,
woke up in the dog, to his benefit, was nestled
right up against me. But he was stuck to my
leg when I.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Went because your ice cold.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Perhaps has got the blood system of an iguana.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
And a dog that's the size of a pony.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So it's a hell of a combination.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So he wanted the cooling system of an iguanadon.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
My goodness, it's like must you of all days? So
I gave him an icy pole. We always give a
dog an icy Oh no, I bet he loved that.
It was just precious. It's on my Instagram if you
want to look.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If you don't like, wow, we are very mister beast.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So cute though, but any way to cool them down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And the other big thing that's trending right now is
producer Caitlin's new glasses now, and only bringing this up
because she insisted on sending the core team an email saying,
check out my glasses.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Have a look at them.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And I thought the next line would be let me
know what you think, but it simply was.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Their call full stop. So I tell you what they are.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They're like the glasses of a professor. So from now on,
when you wear them, you're the prop. They're actually very academic.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
To explain them, they have no frames. They've just got
these really theme.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, like the old sort of you know, like a
head teacher might go their color.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Are you running in a rush somewhere? Are you? You
know when they dip it down and have the bridge
of the nose, are you there? Yes? What that sucks up?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I just wanted to try something new. I always have
a big frame. I usually have clear frames, and I thought, well,
I just like not get rid of them fully, and
I think I look pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well would you say, would you say Rio is one
of your best friends? Yeah, well they's best friend you
know when you left the studio went they're like academic glasses,
Rio goes, and she's no intellectual.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh my god, you are friends.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We because when they're my I actually said to him, well,
we friends like these and she's no intellectual.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Wow, guys. Topics Hot Topics.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
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Speaker 1 (05:23):
Good morning, Christian, I'm Pats.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Finally after eight weeks, my kids go back Friday for
some reason for half a day. The only thing they're
going in for is school photos.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh that's early.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's ridiculous. Incredible that schools are still doing that, isn't it. Photos.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I love getting the photos.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Do you. Yeah, we've still got all of ours, and
they dread them coming out because they're real mumbley photos,
aren't they. I reckon, even like any big Hollywood star.
Now you dig out the school photos, you look at mumbley,
there's something about the hair. It's been overcombed or wet
down for young boys, just really sort of smeared down
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plasters to the top of your head. You know, they're
normally some sort of spot has come up just the
universe the day or two before the photos as well,
and also past us so expensive.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
They are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I reckon.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They're higher per photo than the wedding photos, which you're
always really expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Mine a double every time because I've got twins.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, I don't know it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
God, surely maybe you could just put those together and
do all their instead of individual photoshot.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, no, we had to pay for the siblings, so
both the girls together as well and as the separates
as well.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, when you go to Disneyland you can do this,
but this is the package price for that. Oh you
could add that on, but it'll cost you. It's like, yeah,
just adds up.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
When we were in Queenstown in the in the New Year,
we obviously did the luge, okay, and it's so much
fun and you know they have the cameras everywhere, and
so dad, even in the nineteen twenty one, can we
get the photo of it?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And I did that old cheap dad move. You know
when you do the sneak you're just taking a photo of.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The screen, No, sir, And there was a huge queue
behind me, sir, So you really can't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
What are you going to do now?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is this checking? Uh for the frames? Late's on for
the grams, you know, look.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
For the tops are awful, just ugly, just and that's shuffy.
I was going to get it anyway. Chuck in the
mousemat as well. So what year are you from them?
We don't do mousemats anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What he needs to be. The mousemap was a really
cool thing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah yeah, I'll get a couple of give them way
till the ready's at Christmas. They love that, Oh, they
love that. Yesterday I went to see a shoulder specialist.
My shoulder has them arrived from out eighteen months and
it turns out I know. The lady was waited a while.
The waity was like, and so has this been a
couple of weeks? I went year and a half. She's like,
why are you she was, and then she goes, oh, yeah,
(07:56):
because you're a man.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Anyway, I've got to go and have an MRI. Oh
my god, to be on some terrified I've never been
in one of those. Aren't you finally getting that tube?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They might zap you, certainly the kid.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Both my daughters have had MRIs, so you've got to
go and get in the MRI. Lois my daughter had
one a couple of months ago and her appointment was
at eight am, and she was nervous and said, Dad,
I listened to your radio shows and put your show
on and hearing your voice find it quite soothing. And
I went, oh my god, I don't want to hear
the radio station too depressing.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I went, how would it be depressing? How would it
be depressing to him? I work, why is it depressing
the front side of the dime depressing? But if any
of you had an MRI, yeah I have.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Have you need to get in there and perhaps meditate,
go within.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well I don't think they can. You cannot hang in there,
start up in an hour's time.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
To do something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They've got loads of other people that need really far
more upon MRIs than me.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Just worried about my middle age.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
By the way, the lady said to me one point,
she goes, look, if you were fifteen, I wouldn't worry
that much about this injury. It's just going to heal back.
And then she sort of broadened up. She went, you're
in the in uh brack? What bracket is this with
your hands? Where am I bracket?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Forty two?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wait, okay, she goes.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So she goes, if it gets worse or you have
another incident, that's how she referred to it, you'll never
get over it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh you won't heal right? Yeah, that's pretty scary.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, So I'm trying to find Apparently there's somewhere in
Melbourne that has the biggest MRI.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, it's just like because something we've done't want to
fill clostophobic and someone were quite the older ones are
like some sort of tube of deaths.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
They need to go to the zoo because they would
have them for like a.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Line of a man. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
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Speaker 2 (09:54):
Coming up to the next hour on the show, we've
got a great chat with an amazing Guy's got a
book out today which I cannot recommend enough. I read
it twice. The man is called ben Crow. Some of
you might recognize his name Ash Party. He had a
lot of work with her Ash Parties and Mindset performance coach.
He's I know what were very sports teams all over
Australia and also Ash Barty as well. He's on the
(10:16):
show after seven o'clock this morning, and we've got tickets
to go to the finals this weekend of the Australian Open,
so our Caraz goes through the semis. Yes, I didn't
realize the commentary, Yester. We're telling me Alex, I know
more about this than this is Al Karaz's first Australian
Open semi final.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, hang on, No, he's been there before, is he?
Calz That's what I was surprised, because he's so good.
I thought he's been there before in the final.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
No, No, you're right, sorry, yeah, no, No, Alex Demono,
I'm going to give you he's lost his seventh quarter
final last night, which I'm still very very upset about
in a major tournament.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, but Algaaz March, have you got the hot so
much for demon or not al Kaz? Because I love
Alex Demano? Yeah? Do you we share a name? We
come from Sydney, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I mean you need in sport, you need some skin
of the game, don't you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, And I'm on the cast last I come on, Alex,
turn the wrist over on that return shot. Come on, Alex.
I'm so upset for him. I'm running up. I'm really
down a bit, are you? Yeah? Yeahs As a sports journalist,
you're supposed to be neutral. I can't be suck. Yeah.
(11:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So now this is our second week on our new
expanded Christian O'Connell show that is live right now across Australia.
Good morning, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, wherever you listen to
the show. Now, those of you've been listening to showing for
a couple of years here in Melbourne, we'll know that
I'm obsessed with a thing called nominative determinism. This is
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a psychological theory. There's been proven time and time again.
Whenever I talk about it on the show, it always
gets proven by your stories. It's a theory that your
name will influence it's your choice of job. The only
reason I'm talking about it today is I got a
load of emails from people who obviously must have seen
the same news report and they took a screenshot and
(12:19):
sent it to me.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love the mat. We haven't talked. We haven't spoken
about this on the show for about a year or so.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It was a BBC news report and they were interviewing
a guy who's a rock climbing instructor. His name, and
I even googled this, thinking maybe some people have just
deep faked this cliff hanger.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Incredible, incredible hanger. It's too good to be true.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It's like there's no way and this rugged outdoor type
he looks up the kind of guy who is a
rock climbing instructor.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I googled it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Sure enough, Cliffhanger is a rock climbing instructor. So today
it is back for the first time in twenty twenty six.
People's whose names are their jobs. Last year when we
did this, listen to these.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
My uncle was one William Toombs and he was an undertaker.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
My son name is path thea double R.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
He's a mechanic.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
We had a general surgeon by the name of John
Hack Michael, dentist by the name of Barry Cutmore, and
a lovely GP by the name of doctor d spelled
dee a t hat you know.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
It was a blacksmith and his name was Dietmar Fleck.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Emma, that's my favorite name exactly Game of Thrones character.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes, all right, So is your name related to your job?
It might be someone you've worked with before. We get
a lot of doctors and nurses and dentists have this,
I think more than in the other industry. One of
my hall of famous as well when we first did
this many years ago on the show was Bob Chopp.
Bob Chopp is a butcher from a whole family of
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chops who were all I love the way if you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If your surname is Chopp, you've got to go and
become a butcher. It should be the law.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Is your name related to your job?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If it is, it's something called nominative determinism. This is
a theory where your name actually direct the influencers your
job choice. I love testing this out, Christian, this is true.
I never thought about this. My name is Craig surname Beams,
b EAMs.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He works in the beam industry, still joints. That's it,
right out the gate.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You've got Craig Beams who works in the beam industry.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Christian. My cousin's surname is O Tall and he really
is a tool? Is this what you're talking about? Not really,
that's a different thing. Maybe tomorrow we'll do that. Do
you know at all?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Name them the tool directory of Australia.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And you want to call a.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Man Christian Michelle here morntiy Michelle. My high school was
full of teachers who had names that described their jobs.
There was Miss Ball sex education, No not really, she
was pe mister Burns science teacher, and my favorite one,
Christian Miss Brain English.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
That's a great one. Christian.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
My brother, first name John, surname Color. He is a painter,
John Color. Yeah, yeah, Dr Wang, Christian. I worked at
a hospital with a urologist called Dr Wang. Now forgive me,
dear correspondent, you didn't put your name on there. I
did have to google that separately because I thought, come on,
(15:37):
come on. But there's several Yeah, there are several Dr Wang's.
It's great branding. Yeah, let's go to Christian here, calling
him from Sydney. Good morning, welcome to the show, Morning Christian.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
I it's not my name, but my music teacher.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
In high school was the surname mister Music.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, this is my.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
New favorite, mister music. Seems like a children's entertainer. That's
a brilliant one. Thank you very much for giving us
a call today. Mate, have a good day, Jessica, Welcome
to the show, mate, Jessica.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Hello Jessica, you live on air. Jessica.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
What is your Is it your name related to your job?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sorry?
Speaker 11 (16:27):
It's my grmologist who created my reading ring. Her surname
is Gemstone.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh meant to be.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yes, he is Jamestone. That's incredible and also what a
great flex my gemologist.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Yes, I have one isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Not Many of us can say that we have our
own gemologist and it to my to do list for
twenty twenty six a quie gemologist, Jessica, Thanks your mate.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Have a good day.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Let's go to Ian now morning Ian.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
Good morning, Grish, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I'm good, Welcome to show. Ian And for us.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Many years ago I worked with a visual arts teacher.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Called miss Smart, Miss Smart, miss Brain, and she was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's the hell of a name to live up to. Ian.
Thank you very much, you cormote, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Coming out to your next hour, the show What Are
the Odds will be here just after eight. Before that,
your chance to win yourself to this weekend's finals now
the one and only the Great Australian Open. Right now, though,
is your name related to your job? If it is,
it's called something called nominative determinism, where it's a theory
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that's been proven time and time again, and we're proving
it already today on the show, that your name influences
your job choice, like Jack Draine Plumber right right, Christian,
My local GP growing up dotr Cyst spelt the same.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Way as well. It's unfortunate Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I worked in the car industry and the engineer we
have and responsible for corrosion testing Aaron surname rust a Rust,
Aaron Rust. What a name, Christian? Strange topic for you guys. Oh,
by the way, there's no strange topics on the show.
It's all strange. Has anyone noticed the new petrol stations
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that aren't manned tapp and GHO style?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
No, Yeah, we've got one out now suburb. It looks
quite weird. It's almost dystopian. There's no one there, eerie.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, I've never seen have all the dystopian movies and
TV shows like The Walking Dead evidence of the dystopian
being here now? Isn't tap and gofos.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I've never used it yet. I might today, Kaylin.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yes, I've actually used it. I use it a lot
because it's about twenty cents cheaper.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is Yeah, it's oh that's a shaving with not employing
a human beings. We are saving smithers twenty cents of
these pesky humanoids.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Do they still have like can you get a kit kat?
Can you get chewing gum? Or anything?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like that now, and what are you doing? A paper
round or somethinking you need some of that needs a
kick cat and chewing gum.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can you get a little treat everything? Does it have
a toilet?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
No, it doesn't. It just has electrical charging and the
petrol pump.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You just have to go behind the back of the servo.
No toilet, behind that ice machine.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Servos with their toilets, nothing annoys me more. But they're
the worst toilets.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The worst ones are the truck stop ones. Yeah, I
don't know what it is about. I guess those poor
long distance lorry drivers and truck drivers. You've been you've
been driving maybe for hours where there hasn't been a toilet.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
A lot of caffeine as well a.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Caffeine, and there's been a lot of stacked up strange
topic anyway, what are you.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Doing around truck stops?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Anyway, That's why it's a hobby of.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
My teacher at school had the surname Painter, Jeff Painter.
What about this guy's golf club, the local professional golf
instructor green of course, Johnny Woods, our local woodwork teacher.
My friend John Holmes is an architect who we got
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here and we've got Paul calling in from Canberra morning.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Paul, welcome to the show.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Hey Christian, how are you going.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'm good mate, Thank you very much for calling in.
What's yours for us?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
I got a couple for you and I swear you
can't make the stuff up. I as a kid used
to go the dentist, which was always pretty traumatic anyway.
And and the dentist name was doctor Savage.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh sorry, how's that guy earning in? It's pronounced I'm
friends dentista.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
And the other one I've got and again you know
you can you can check this one out to your
fact fact checking. But there was a surgeon at from
the local hospitals here whose name was doctor kat Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Name Paul. Thank you very much for both of those.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Marris, every good day.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Another thing, just if.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You need to The show fact Checking and this show
are enemies, sworn enemies.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Christian O'Connell's show.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
My special guest this morning is the world's most in
demand mindset coach.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It is Ben Crow. Ben. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (21:28):
Thank you, Christian, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you're someone I've got to know. The last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
If a lot of people don't recognize the name, how
would you describe what you do?
Speaker 14 (21:38):
I guess I try and help people with their mindset
on the field in a professional sense, to find confidence
in their skills, with belief in a personal sense, to
believe in their potential, and try and find the freedom
to compete, have fun and play and as human beings.
I guess that's what we should all be doing, whether
an athlete or or a student.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It takes a I've just finished writing my book. It
takes a lot to write a book. It feels like
a conversation with you, Ben. It's a great book. Every story,
every perspective shift that you're helping us with throughout the
book has got real world.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's crammed with stories.
Speaker 14 (22:11):
Yeah, and that's deliberate because I think stories is how
we learn as humans. Stories, which taps into our imagination,
moves it from an intellectual understanding to an emotional understanding.
You know, we are the stories we tell ourselves about others.
But when we can hear stories from others, especially in
perfect stories of how people overcame adversity and so forth.
But getting back to the book, I realized a long
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time ago that these principles are two thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And what's going is the whole book really is you
walking us through how to shift perspectives. And I guess
most of everything in our life is perspectives. And when
you think about it and you challenge your perspectives and assumptions,
invariably they're wrong. The perspective shifts. Is that what you
think most of us need. That's where we're struggling when
we talking about being stuck in our lives or at
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work or at home.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is that what you think it is?
Speaker 14 (22:58):
I do very much. So Yeah, perspective by definition means
the way you see something or your attitude towards something. Right,
So am I stuck at home? Am I safe at home?
Do I get to do this? Or I have to
got to do this? So our perspective literally guides our
entire life, so choosing it wisely is pretty important.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One of the most impactful chapters in your book for
me is the one going from fair to Play. What
could you tell people listening right now about how you
reframe fair and pressure?
Speaker 14 (23:25):
As humans, we're designed by nature to play, but we've
just lost that up on We think play is table tennis.
So I say in the book that play needs a rebrand.
It does because it's fundamental to human existence. You think
about this radio show. Everything you're doing is play based, right,
And the simplest way to get into play is to
smile and be curious. But there are different forms of play.
(23:48):
Curiosity play is the simplest one. We can simply ask yourself,
what if? Just start a question with what if we
did this right? What if you've put a kamana around Australia?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Right?
Speaker 14 (23:59):
What if we you know, like when Nike signed Michael Jordan,
all basketball shoes had to be white, right, and if
they had any color then he'd be banned and they'd
find five thousand dollars a game. Young designer in the
meeting said what if we did it anyway? And what
if we paid the fines? And what if we made
an ad about it?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Right?
Speaker 14 (24:15):
And within three months became the number one shoe in
the world. So simply asking what if is a really
powerful way to get into the playstate.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, and letting that curiosity be the engine that drives
everything in your life. It's a better way to be
in the world.
Speaker 14 (24:26):
Yeah, knowing you've got the power to get yourself back
into the playstate. Whether you're playing a Grand Slam tennis
final or you know, a radio show going national. It's
really really powerful if you understand how to harness that
as well.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Tell me about your work with Ash Barty. What did
that look like? What were the big shifts you could
help her with?
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Yeah, so the first part and Ash was probably the
most curious outlet I've ever worked with and also the
most stubborn. The first date was Ash just getting to
understand who she was, the human being that was. She
was so defined by a ranking right unranked one hundred
in the world or two hundred in the world and
so forth. And you know that's a bit of a
mind screw when you just your whole identity is linked
(25:05):
to a number and a grading and so forth. So
separating the per from the persona was really important for
Ash and identifying the beliefs that are holding her back.
I say to a lot of people, for Ashbarty, winning
Wimbledon wasn't success. Believing she was worthy to win Wimbledon.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That was her.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Definition of success and that happened six months earlier at
a cafe in Brisbane called Momos.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Right.
Speaker 14 (25:26):
So establishing the.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Beliefs where epiphanies happened.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
Over a few beers and a few tears, right. So,
and for Ash then it was very much about treating
this life as a career, as an adventure, right and
then playing with it. And everywhere she went she was
trying to play and have fun. And she had practical
jokes with her team. You know, there's very famous. At
Wimbledon she answered every question in a press conference with
(25:50):
a Disney quote and see if the journalists would get
you know, and we gave her the quote before she
walked into the room. So, the older we get, we
think we have to take life seriously. But there is
this thing called neotny. When niotny means the older you get,
the younger you become. I think you've got, you know,
the niotny gene in you, Christian. It's a superpower if
you don't take your life and yourself too seriously.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, we all know older relatives that actually grow. My
mother law was someon of this. She grew younger as
she got older, the zestful life just got greater and greater.
It was incredible to see and be around that energy source.
She's running on a clean fuel.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
We talk in the book about the Blue Zones. Yes,
these five areas around the world where people live. That's
the largest amount of centurions where people live over one
hundred years old. And then we trace the reason they're
living over one hundred years old and being in the
play state and laughing and hanging out with friends and
you know, relationships, experiences and memories and you know, farming
(26:47):
your own food and making your own None.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Of that is about a resume or a job title
or the corner office.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
Correct, correct, Yeah, you realize at the end of the day,
when you readefine success less from achievement and more to fulfillment,
you realize the importance of these intrinsic motivations. That is
such for me. That's probably the second most favorite chapter
in the book.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's a great book. It's out today. I cannot recommend
it enough. I generally mean I've read it twice. Ben Crow,
Where the Light Gets In is a fantastic book.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ben, thanks for chatting to us today.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Pleasure all the very best The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
If you're listening to the show today on the iHeart app,
there are problems and if you can hear me.
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Now you go, what I mate, You're aware of it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
In Sydney and in Melbourne on the iHeart Pat we
are apparently looping. I know it's because people keep saying
you're looping. No one's ever said that before. Apparently when
I loop, it means they just keep something keeps repeating itself,
repeating itself, repeating itself.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We are aware of it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Between us, the company haven't paid the internet feel you
pay hard and Jackie O that kind of money you
haven't got.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know what it's like. January is a tough month,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But Sue the Boss has emailed us all saying there's
a network why made issue?
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Major incidents.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Incident And Sue the Boss has raised this with the
company and trusts me that iron fist, she actually has
an operation to have two iron hands. Once that starts
banging a desk, desks be broken. So mark my words,
in the next twenty minutes that thing will be mended
or she'll start hurling engineers of the transmitter. This in
(28:32):
the middle of Australia. That's what's in the middle. By
the way, people often wonder what's in the middle of Australia.
It sues transmitter for the Gold Mega Network. Anyway, little
bit of house clear and there. I hope that's all right. Everybody,
please stay with us. We are looping.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We are looping.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
If you're listening on the iHeart platform, apparently we are looping.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
No, they don't need that today, all right, So let's
go to the Australian Open. What's under the seats today?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I'll tell you what tickets to go to the women's
final this weekend. And also, even if you don't get
that amazing prize, no one goes home empty handred five
hundred dollars Uber Eats voucher at the al.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
There's a mission to complete at It's time to dick
your battle seat. Amazing prizes to be found.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All around.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, the Queen of battle Seats is our producer AKA
with her new glasses, the Professor.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Prof my cool glasses.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Okay, where are the winning seats and sections today? That's
help our lovely listeners. We're looping, by the way, alrighty.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
We've got section forty today and our rows are d
for dingo and m.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The Professor.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Is this the the ossie kind of phanatic alphabet?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Do you know what him?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
On the show Let's make our own Ossie phanatic alphabet
for listeners to use.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Let's not use that. Tryal Charlie, Delta, Fox Trott, it's boring.
Let's have it deep for Dingo, absolutely for a Kubra.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Say for Billabong. It rights itself. Let's do this tomorrow,
team all right. So the winning sections are professor what
you got.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Prof alrighty, D for Dingo you've got one to fourteen
to choose from, and M for Murray.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Like the Murray River.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, got it all right?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Call in now. Lines are open. Thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We're looping the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Every single day this week was sending you to the
Australian Open and the finals.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Enjoy Barmie Summer Nights.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Oh at the moment it is Barmie Barmy indeed and
gets yourself down on the Summer Barmy Nights to the
Australian Open Nights ground passes.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
This is incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
From just nineteen dollars, you go down there in the
evening and the atmosphere I can only describe it as
like a music festival. You got these pop up bars,
the pop up shops there as well. Go in there
and high five of the crew. It came this warehouse,
I think, thank you for sponsoring the Christian O'Connell show.
They keep the lights on otherwise, actually, if they didn't
(31:15):
keep the lights on, there'd be no show. Sadly, the
company goal they pay for the internet and that's why
it's on the blink at the moment. But I thank
god we've got Chemis's warehouse, you know, chipping some money
into this show. Anyway, Tickets are on sale now. We've
got finals tickets every single show this week. As we
play battle seats under the winning seats are your prizes.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
There's a mission to complete as it's time to dig
your battle seats.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Amazing prizes to.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Be found and.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Final tickets all around.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wherever you are in Australia, we will fly you to Melbourne,
stick you up in our hotel, you have a great
night on us and then you're off to the finals.
Now the Professor with her new glasses producer Kaitlyn now
known as the Professor.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Professor.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
You've crunched the numbers, You've looked at the seat in plan.
With those special glasses. Now you can see the future
can't you you're seeing Are you vibe coding right now?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It's vibe Cody there.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All the programmers are raving about it. I'm vibe coding.
I'm vibing right now and coding.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I am vibing.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I'm looking very cool today. My new glasses that have
no frames.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yps frameless, frame less.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
The future glass is right on your face, Peznez the prof.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Where are the winning seats?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Alrighty, we're over at section forty today. My favorite our
roads are D and M.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
On Roe.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
D you've got between one and fourteen to choose from,
and on M you've got one to eighty.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Good morning, yeah whatever, Good morning, Good morning, Brownie, Good morning, Brownie,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I'm good, Brownie. Thank you very much to give us
a call. You're in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
I'm in Sydney, Yes, I have at Saint Andrews.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
All right, well listen, thank you very much for given
the show ago. Let's try and win you a prize. Brownie.
What do you think the winning seat is this morning?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Good luck as well, mate, the good eygy seat mate
for M eight.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We gotta do the Ossie phonetic alphabets. My you're right,
m that's a lockdown. It's mate, Brownie and Sydney. You
want a five hundred dollars Uber Eats voucher?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yes, not on this show.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
Oh there's some sausages for the barbie.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yes, there's a whole load of them coming your way. Brownie,
thank you very much. Congratulations, well played.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
Oh thanks guys, great so, thank.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Let's now go to Trisha here in Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Trisha, good morning.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
Mate, Good morning Christian. How are you.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I'm good, Trisha. You're doing well.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
I'm doing well and I would like to say I
love your show.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It's a crazy oh bless you. Thank you very much
for listening to the show. Now, Trisha, let's try and
payback that loyalty.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Those is yours? Can we talk about yours for a moment.
Where is the winning seat? Trish?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
I'm going with the the Jingo and I'm going with
the people.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
So pick me one.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I was a little bit true happy there. Flattery it
ruins me. Stay mean to me, I stay frosty. Yes,
you want a pair of tickets to the women's finals.
Speaker 12 (34:28):
Thank you so much, guys, Christian, amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
What an amazing, what an amazing time you're going to have.
You're off to the women's final on Saturday, and I
know you're here in Melbourne, but we're still going to
give you a night in the hotel as well.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
You are amazing, all of you amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, have an amazing weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
What a great weekend you're going to have now you're
off today and who you're going to take with you?
Speaker 11 (34:53):
My amazing partner Wayne.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, well listen to pair of you. Have a great time.
Give us a call Monday, let us know what it
was like. We all do.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Christian, Oh right, so much again.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It's amazing, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
All right, more chances to win tomorrow on the show.
You can find a clue online at the Christian o'connellshow
dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Right now, the lines are open for your stories of
coincidence and chants?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Who did this? Every Wednesday on.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The show we get so many incredible stories all to
do with coincidence and chants.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We call it. What are the odds?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Believe it or not?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
What are the odds?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You gotta be justhing me, like, were you with Cheryl
who married a hun who worked with the Cheryl.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Who married a hunt as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
All right, call in now the lines are open thirteen
fifty five twenty two your stories of coincidence and chance.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You can text yourself. It's easier.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Oh four five three one oh four three. Karen kicks
us off today. Karen, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Hi Christian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I love Karen. So you've got a story for us
I do.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
This is back in the late nineties when I was
driving to work park trying to park my car in
a multi level story car park, and I hit a
car and I freaked out. So I took off and
drove up a couple of levels and parked into the office.
My I was young and inexperienced, and my mate looked
(36:36):
at me and saw her I was upstairs, and he's like,
you okay. I was like, oh, I hit a car
in the car park. I don't know what to do.
And he goes, oh, did anyone see you? I said no.
He goes sorry about it? Dan to sorry about it?
I said, oh, okay, no worries. Anyway, went on with
my day. Next day, rock up to work, my mate
walks up to me and goes, hey, you know that
(36:58):
car you hit yesterday? Yeah? What color was that? I
said like, I still read dark gray. He goes, that
was my car.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
With his car.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh my what that's incredible.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
I just laughed. I'd never ever picked a lot for
a leader.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Car.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
It is lesson learn. Wow. Wait, of all the cars
in the car park.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Car little story car park in Liverpool with his car.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And he told you drive off, drive off.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, you've both got someone to learn there, Karen, very
very funny story, great one, Thank you very much for sharing.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
No worries.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let's go to Emma now, Emma, welcome to the show.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Hi, how you go?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm good? Emma? What's your What are the odds for
us today?
Speaker 11 (37:47):
What are the odds?
Speaker 15 (37:49):
So in October I went to honost trip to Switzerland
with my family and they were going up all these
ski gumblers and on one of them, my dad goes,
I wonder when you know this one opened? I wonder
how old it is? So him being a bit of
a boom and he's like, oh, let's google it. So
we google it and it opened on the twenty second
of July nineteen sixty four, which happened to be his
exact birthday.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh Gondola related birthday. They're terrifying going up on those,
because sometimes they just stop.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And you're hanging up a very big mountains.
Speaker 15 (38:27):
These ones are really high.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
They're not like Mount baul are they No, No, they're
proper mountains.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, here, you're really really high up. They're terrifying. Emma,
thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
When I say, all right, what have you got for us?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Then? Thirteen fifty five, twenty two, What are the odds?
Your stories of coincidence and chance? We'll take some more
calls next.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Right now, some great calls lined up. Your stories of
coincidence and chance?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What are the odds? All right, let's go to Diane.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Diane. Hello, Hello Diane, welcome to the show. What's your
story for us?
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Where I worked? I lost my glasses and then I
went to work the next day. I told her lady
I worked with, and she said, to China in the
hospital might get him a bit cheaper. So I ran
the hospital and I was talking to the lady about
getting a new purpose bass, and she go, where did
you lose them? And I told her where in the area,
and she said, my husband found a pair of glasses
(39:31):
there and they were mine.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
What a cracker and what are the odds?
Speaker 9 (39:42):
That's what I saw. I couldn't It was only around
the corner. And he just moved in that area and
I got a job, and i'd been there a week.
I just needed them too for like reading. So I
put in my pocket and walked home. And then I
didn't have them. I just bought them and that's when
the Laddy.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We're looping again. Thank you very much. Story.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Hey, Rey, I just just weren't I Something that's been
really goo right about the show this year is that
we've we've done a week and a half of shows.
We haven't had a pat store about losing the classes.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Right, I've got about ten pairs now.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
We mustn't go back because last year at least once
or twice a month. Yet another story about them, did
you met them?
Speaker 11 (40:29):
On?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
That really stuck in my mind was five minutes the
dressing gown, do you remember the one? Then the pocket,
the dressing gown.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Then they were you wouldn't leave that. He really didn't
have to be there anyway.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Let's go to we got here now, James, Christian James,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You're in Sydney. Thank you very much for give them
the show a go.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Thanks having me, You've got we in great so far.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Thank you days.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
So yes, know he's right, he doesn't know what suddenly
March ap or in June July.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
It could be distinct, could be coming there. All we
have is the last show in this show.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It keeps us honest, James, James, what's your story for us?
Speaker 8 (41:08):
About thirty five years ago, before mobile phones, I had
to get in touch with my sister. She was living
out of home at the time, so I dialed her
what I thought was her landline number, ended up getting
a wrong number. I called a Chinese restaurant by mistake,
but my sister just happened to be dining.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Come on, come on, this is a Hall of Famer.
Oh well, a brilliant This is incredible. I just one
of the best we've ever heard so far. James, what
a story.
Speaker 12 (41:47):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
So I didn't know who answered, but I just I
just asked her friend. And then a couple months later, Yeah,
he's a fan.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
She must be like, how do you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I didn't, James, that is a Hall of Famer. I'm
going to give you the two hundred and fifty dollars
voucher to spend at Chemists Warehouse.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Brilliant story, really well told. Thank you, thanks you guys.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
You job.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Thank you Daniel. Daniel.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
That's it, Daniel, me too. All right, Daniel, what are
the odds you're there?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I'm here.
Speaker 7 (42:23):
So two thousand and nine, my wife and I were
backpacking around Europe. We were in a small bar in
Munich watching the AFL Grand Final. We're talking to another
another Gussie pair watching the same game, and my wife
was having drinks with another with one of the people
having shots. She was due to start a new job
the next week. She rocked up to her new job
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on the Monday in the person she was taking shots.
We ended up being a new boss and what.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
A great way to bond with the boss shots.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
To this day we still go out on holidays together now.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
That's fantastic, Daniel, Thank you very much, your story mate.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Have a good day. Thanks. These are great. Let's say
we can keep it going.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Jason, good Christian, how are you? I'm good Jason, and
thanks for giving us a call. Right, what are the odds?
What's your story?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Jason?
Speaker 12 (43:14):
Just oh, a year ago. So now I was listening
to King of the Mountain Midnight oil on CD. Yep,
you've got a bit of background anyway, looping around about
three times and then that's thought I had enough of this.
So the halfway through the song, I just had the
(43:35):
CD out and put the radio on and half was
halfway through King of the Mountain Midnight.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It was coming back around like a bur Lorraine.
Speaker 12 (43:46):
I'd have been looping on the CD. And then as
I was listening, what the.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hell, what are the CD radio odds? Anyway, thank you
very much, so far, so far, Jason, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
If you've got a story for us, we're moving on now.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We've got the time Waste after News a sport which
is coming up next with pants and Alex. Email me
Christian aconnell dot com dot au. Those are great stories.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Christian O'Connell. Show go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Time for Today's time waster, Today's time waster on thank
and Office worker Day. We're looking for your office songs
for the best in the show.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Today.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
You and three mates of two of the Cinema to
the movies at gold Class.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
And we are going tomorrownight. The family are going What
did you decide on? Song? Sung Blue?
Speaker 7 (44:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
How did the daughters feel about that? I said, we're
going down? No, well I didn't do that. You know,
there's no foot down. There's no foot down. I sweeten
the deal and by that you mean Gold class. Okay,
we recline. The family that reclined stays together.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
That anyway, get this, because obviously my daughter's recovering from surgery,
spinal surgery.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
She's got stitches in her back.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Every hour we have to reapply ice packs at the moment.
It literally is Joe during the night when I said
good night to her, I've come up with an eski
is on the bed to get her through. There's like
eight ice packs there, so every hour she can open
up the ski. They've got so many uses skis. You
are storing medical supplies and I put a new car
pack on. I've got to take some kind of medeski
(45:35):
into Gold Class.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
They're gonna think I'm bringing in my own tinnies. Hey,
it's medicinal doors has a spinal surgery. They're not gonna
buy any of that. Is he selling stuff in there?
Speaker 6 (45:47):
All?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Right? Today's time waster office songs?
Speaker 2 (45:50):
What are they listening to in the office. They love
Bruce Springsteen out there on the sales team. That's right,
born to be filed. Oh, don't even get finding cabinet
thing or do that's an a thing?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Is it? Fighting? Cabinet is like an old fashioned thing
we actually still have.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Well, like I said, old fashioned, Welcome to gold FM.
Old fashioned is now lay down salary, not laydown.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Sally oh boar.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Sue is constantly saying her catchphrase is r O I
return on investment. Yes, her favorite song is R O
I of the Tiger silber Blas.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We took the scenic route, didn't we stuck in the
middle management with you silver? What does the fact say?
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Yes, that was What do we think that was for
a year? Twelve thirteen?
Speaker 6 (46:44):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:44):
I think a little bit later, I say, fourteen.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Let's just check with the prof. Professor, what year was that?
Speaker 6 (46:51):
Sorry, slow on the internet this morning, give me momento.
I'm thinking twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
But what is the you know what thirteen?
Speaker 4 (47:03):
It?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Now it the prof does it? She shoots, she scores,
All right, Rea, what.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Have you got? Dragons?
Speaker 5 (47:10):
In the office, they're singing April Son in cubicle.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
No, they're not the worst one of the year from you,
young man. You're all over the place today. By the way,
I think it's dragony. Mattress into the front room is
the work of a child a man.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Boy. It doesn't help your performance today. Well now I'm
very nervous going into these otherways.
Speaker 5 (47:30):
Crowded house. Are working from home? Yeah, they're saying better
be working from home soon.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
You know that call earlier was right, great, great show
so far. Now we hit the skits. The Venger Boys
have called a meeting.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
Oh they're singing zoom zoom zoom zoom.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I want you in my zoom all.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Right, okay, I'll give you a silver for that one.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
And Valerie wants a pay rise.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
She's singing salary salary.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Valerie is the name of the song, not the artist
I know, but she wants to pay all right, okay, right,
she's singing sant Maori. Yeah that's good. Okay, silver plus
singing too, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
It was actually the.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
The Time Wasted Today, get ready for a gold rum,
very very very good today we're looking for your office
songs on the Time Waster Besting Show.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
You're off the cinema God class for you and three mates.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
The number you need every day when we do a
different time waster between eight thirty and nine is oh
four seventy five O three one oh four three Rio
to start stinking it up today?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Are you ready to mark from stinker to market breach?
Speaker 5 (48:50):
I am ready?
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Ari has reply all the small things very good.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Ari, that's great.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Today's office songs you're the invoice silver. That's so Mitch,
mister mister Christian, you just played them. Take these broken wing.
Speaker 5 (49:09):
It's very good. Gold, great font.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
The professor projuiccated and speaks in comic sands, doesn't she?
Speaker 1 (49:18):
If she had a fun.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Comic sense, putish people talking times.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
In romand my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Actually, where's Australian in itself? What's that cartoon one? Charles
handwriting ed Shearon used to have an office job when
he was writing his hits.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
That's right. The staple of you bronze toilet break number five.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
You know, when you're really dragging the arse out of
the day, you're seeing that as you go to this
is toilet break number five. Brad Sanders, I don't know,
I just like saying his name out. Man Tina Turner.
Is that enough snapped? We don't need another meeting?
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
This could have been an email teams are Turner. It
could be teams a Turner. You know we don't need
another zero. Gold.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I'm Matthew mcdo James Brown get up like a fax machine,
like a fax machine. That's so good. That's Matthew. I
will check five hundred files. Okay, boardroom Blitz, Glen Webber,
(50:30):
well done, Aretha Franklin, r E s chat Ept that
is on the nose, Gold plus Sarah well done, Bonye
m still working in office when they're right in the
hits Rah rah ras not in today, Rah rah.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Today, Mate, you take his gold Rah rah ra.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
David, I loved it. Am I ever going to see
your briefcase again?
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Gold? Who is still rocking the classic briefcase?
Speaker 14 (51:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (51:04):
Wonder you don't see them anymore?
Speaker 1 (51:07):
No lawyers?
Speaker 5 (51:08):
Maybe do they have files in there?
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Memo number five Silver, Baby got facts Gold, paper clip
writer Silver, Nothing compares to glue, Silver, Daddy water cooler
Silver plus facts on the run, Gold, what on Sonya
shredder be home soon?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
Gold? This is great the finals.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
When I think about you, I touch my shelves.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh my files are there, Nathan. That's very good.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Rollerdexing in the deep, Silver, sweet biscuit of mine, don't
touch it, Bronze Gangster's Paralegals, Silver Flas, What done you?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Shwredder? You shredder?
Speaker 2 (51:54):
You bet yea and smoke Homo?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Who's that? Phil?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Tough one to pick one for Best and Show today?
But who is today's winner?
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Sarah with Arius chat GPT what.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
I'm sorry You're today's win are well deserved? Thank you
very much your time wasters. We are back tomorrow. There's
only one thing you need to know about tomorrow's show.
I cannot wait for this Partusa Klin and when we
were doing came up accidentally came up with a great idea.
When we were doing battle Seats today to win big
prizes to the Australian Open to the finals, more of
those tomorrow and Friday on the show, and she was
(52:32):
doing the phonetic alphabet. She just said, deefi dingo and
it's give me an idea. Forget the normal phonetic alphabet.
You know a alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, echo, Farstaurant boring.
What is the Australian The classic Ossie what should it be?
The Ossie phonetic alphabet. We've got DEEFI dingo M for
May and you get us c A for a coubra.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
That's it. The rest of Letters Field tomorrow from six
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Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
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HiT's a chemist warehouse and save more money every year
on your regular medication with discount of prescriptions in every
store every day. Good morning, Pats, good morning, Good morning, Alex,
Good morning, Rio, good morning. I've just made a note
during that song of like, what do I think are
the hot topics right now for this show? Okay, Rio,
(00:50):
do you agree with this order? At three? When do
the kids go back to school?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah? Come on, kids, get back.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the classrooms, hit the books, leave mom and dad
alone now, yes?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
When do they go back?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Summer back today, summer back tomorrow, New South Wales next week.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's all over. The shop is already back today.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No, No, she's going back Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And they're doing like this, doing a little cheeky half
day I know.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And they're doing this outdoor ed thing which she is
not excited about, windsurfing and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Winsote seven eight week break straight back.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
What is this team building sort of being for all
the new Charles.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Zvi x Man Institute is a Swiss boarding school whereas lives.
The only Swiss there is Toburran chocolate at the seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, but I know one of my nieces is a
school teacher and she is back to school today. She's
a state school teacher, so I think most of the
state schools are back today. So don't forget the forty k.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Zones, all right. And then the other two things are
the heat in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, I mean we don't work outside in it, so
people who are working outdoors yesterday, I don't know how
you did that, speak of someone who genetically is from
a different country where you just wouldn't ever it's never
been that kind of temperature. I actually didn't know what
to do myself. I kept going out in it, just
(02:21):
to experience see what such like, what it's like, morbid curiosity.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It was in We had to drag our mattress from
the bedroom into the lounge room because it's our only
room with air.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Cons and you're thirteen. You were having a sleepover. Sleepover.
We four.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You step brothers, Dad Doug can wettrag the mattress for interactivities.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And did that work? It worked?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Better than the bedroom, but it was still the heat
was still coming through the walls. You could feel it radiating.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was insane. Sot. Yeah, Patsy, what was it like?
Your way? You could have to like forty three forty four,
We got.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
To forty six out west. Yeah, it was shocking. And
I woke up, had a little nana nap in the afternoon,
woke up in the dog, to his benefit, was nestled
right up against me. But he was stuck to my
leg when I.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Went because your ice cold.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Perhaps has got the blood system of an iguana.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
And a dog that's the size of a pony.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So it's a hell of a combination.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So he wanted the cooling system of an iguanadon.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
My goodness, it's like must you of all days? So
I gave him an icy pole. We always give a
dog an icy Oh no, I bet he loved that.
It was just precious. It's on my Instagram if you
want to look.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If you don't like, wow, we are very mister beast.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So cute though, but any way to cool them down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And the other big thing that's trending right now is
producer Caitlin's new glasses now, and only bringing this up
because she insisted on sending the core team an email saying,
check out my glasses.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Have a look at them.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And I thought the next line would be let me
know what you think, but it simply was.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Their call full stop. So I tell you what they are.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They're like the glasses of a professor. So from now on,
when you wear them, you're the prop. They're actually very academic.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
To explain them, they have no frames. They've just got
these really theme.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, like the old sort of you know, like a
head teacher might go their color.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Are you running in a rush somewhere? Are you? You
know when they dip it down and have the bridge
of the nose, are you there? Yes? What that sucks up?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I just wanted to try something new. I always have
a big frame. I usually have clear frames, and I thought, well,
I just like not get rid of them fully, and
I think I look pretty good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well would you say, would you say Rio is one
of your best friends? Yeah, well they's best friend you
know when you left the studio went they're like academic glasses,
Rio goes, and she's no intellectual.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh my god, you are friends.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We because when they're my I actually said to him, well,
we friends like these and she's no intellectual.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Wow, guys. Topics Hot Topics.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Good morning, Christian, I'm Pats.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Finally after eight weeks, my kids go back Friday for
some reason for half a day. The only thing they're
going in for is school photos.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh that's early.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's ridiculous. Incredible that schools are still doing that, isn't it. Photos.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I love getting the photos.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Do you. Yeah, we've still got all of ours, and
they dread them coming out because they're real mumbley photos,
aren't they. I reckon, even like any big Hollywood star.
Now you dig out the school photos, you look at mumbley,
there's something about the hair. It's been overcombed or wet
down for young boys, just really sort of smeared down
(06:01):
plasters to the top of your head. You know, they're
normally some sort of spot has come up just the
universe the day or two before the photos as well,
and also past us so expensive.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
They are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I reckon.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They're higher per photo than the wedding photos, which you're
always really expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Mine a double every time because I've got twins.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, I don't know it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
God, surely maybe you could just put those together and
do all their instead of individual photoshot.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, no, we had to pay for the siblings, so
both the girls together as well and as the separates
as well.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, when you go to Disneyland you can do this,
but this is the package price for that. Oh you
could add that on, but it'll cost you. It's like, yeah,
just adds up.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
When we were in Queenstown in the in the New Year,
we obviously did the luge, okay, and it's so much
fun and you know they have the cameras everywhere, and
so dad, even in the nineteen twenty one, can we
get the photo of it?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And I did that old cheap dad move. You know
when you do the sneak you're just taking a photo of.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The screen, No, sir, And there was a huge queue
behind me, sir, So you really can't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
What are you going to do now?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is this checking? Uh for the frames? Late's on for
the grams, you know, look.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
For the tops are awful, just ugly, just and that's shuffy.
I was going to get it anyway. Chuck in the
mousemat as well. So what year are you from them?
We don't do mousemats anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What he needs to be. The mousemap was a really
cool thing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah yeah, I'll get a couple of give them way
till the ready's at Christmas. They love that, Oh, they
love that. Yesterday I went to see a shoulder specialist.
My shoulder has them arrived from out eighteen months and
it turns out I know. The lady was waited a while.
The waity was like, and so has this been a
couple of weeks? I went year and a half. She's like,
why are you she was, and then she goes, oh, yeah,
(07:56):
because you're a man.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Anyway, I've got to go and have an MRI. Oh
my god, to be on some terrified I've never been
in one of those. Aren't you finally getting that tube?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They might zap you, certainly the kid.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Both my daughters have had MRIs, so you've got to
go and get in the MRI. Lois my daughter had
one a couple of months ago and her appointment was
at eight am, and she was nervous and said, Dad,
I listened to your radio shows and put your show
on and hearing your voice find it quite soothing. And
I went, oh my god, I don't want to hear
the radio station too depressing.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I went, how would it be depressing? How would it
be depressing to him? I work, why is it depressing
the front side of the dime depressing? But if any
of you had an MRI, yeah I have.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Have you need to get in there and perhaps meditate,
go within.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well I don't think they can. You cannot hang in there,
start up in an hour's time.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
To do something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They've got loads of other people that need really far
more upon MRIs than me.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Just worried about my middle age.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
By the way, the lady said to me one point,
she goes, look, if you were fifteen, I wouldn't worry
that much about this injury. It's just going to heal back.
And then she sort of broadened up. She went, you're
in the in uh brack? What bracket is this with
your hands? Where am I bracket?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Forty two?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wait, okay, she goes.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So she goes, if it gets worse or you have
another incident, that's how she referred to it, you'll never
get over it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh you won't heal right? Yeah, that's pretty scary.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, So I'm trying to find Apparently there's somewhere in
Melbourne that has the biggest MRI.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, it's just like because something we've done't want to
fill clostophobic and someone were quite the older ones are
like some sort of tube of deaths.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
They need to go to the zoo because they would
have them for like a.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Line of a man. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Coming up to the next hour on the show, we've
got a great chat with an amazing Guy's got a
book out today which I cannot recommend enough. I read
it twice. The man is called ben Crow. Some of
you might recognize his name Ash Party. He had a
lot of work with her Ash Parties and Mindset performance coach.
He's I know what were very sports teams all over
Australia and also Ash Barty as well. He's on the
(10:16):
show after seven o'clock this morning, and we've got tickets
to go to the finals this weekend of the Australian Open,
so our Caraz goes through the semis. Yes, I didn't
realize the commentary, Yester. We're telling me Alex, I know
more about this than this is Al Karaz's first Australian
Open semi final.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, hang on, No, he's been there before, is he?
Calz That's what I was surprised, because he's so good.
I thought he's been there before in the final.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
No, No, you're right, sorry, yeah, no, No, Alex Demono,
I'm going to give you he's lost his seventh quarter
final last night, which I'm still very very upset about
in a major tournament.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, but Algaaz March, have you got the hot so
much for demon or not al Kaz? Because I love
Alex Demano? Yeah? Do you we share a name? We
come from Sydney, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I mean you need in sport, you need some skin
of the game, don't you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, And I'm on the cast last I come on, Alex,
turn the wrist over on that return shot. Come on, Alex.
I'm so upset for him. I'm running up. I'm really
down a bit, are you? Yeah? Yeahs As a sports journalist,
you're supposed to be neutral. I can't be suck. Yeah.
(11:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So now this is our second week on our new
expanded Christian O'Connell show that is live right now across Australia.
Good morning, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, wherever you listen to
the show. Now, those of you've been listening to showing for
a couple of years here in Melbourne, we'll know that
I'm obsessed with a thing called nominative determinism. This is
(11:57):
a psychological theory. There's been proven time and time again.
Whenever I talk about it on the show, it always
gets proven by your stories. It's a theory that your
name will influence it's your choice of job. The only
reason I'm talking about it today is I got a
load of emails from people who obviously must have seen
the same news report and they took a screenshot and
(12:19):
sent it to me.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love the mat. We haven't talked. We haven't spoken
about this on the show for about a year or so.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It was a BBC news report and they were interviewing
a guy who's a rock climbing instructor. His name, and
I even googled this, thinking maybe some people have just
deep faked this cliff hanger.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Incredible, incredible hanger. It's too good to be true.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It's like there's no way and this rugged outdoor type
he looks up the kind of guy who is a
rock climbing instructor.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I googled it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Sure enough, Cliffhanger is a rock climbing instructor. So today
it is back for the first time in twenty twenty six.
People's whose names are their jobs. Last year when we
did this, listen to these.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
My uncle was one William Toombs and he was an undertaker.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
My son name is path thea double R.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
He's a mechanic.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
We had a general surgeon by the name of John
Hack Michael, dentist by the name of Barry Cutmore, and
a lovely GP by the name of doctor d spelled
dee a t hat you know.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
It was a blacksmith and his name was Dietmar Fleck.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Emma, that's my favorite name exactly Game of Thrones character.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes, all right, So is your name related to your job?
It might be someone you've worked with before. We get
a lot of doctors and nurses and dentists have this,
I think more than in the other industry. One of
my hall of famous as well when we first did
this many years ago on the show was Bob Chopp.
Bob Chopp is a butcher from a whole family of
(13:53):
chops who were all I love the way if you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If your surname is Chopp, you've got to go and
become a butcher. It should be the law.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Is your name related to your job?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If it is, it's something called nominative determinism. This is
a theory where your name actually direct the influencers your
job choice. I love testing this out, Christian, this is true.
I never thought about this. My name is Craig surname Beams,
b EAMs.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He works in the beam industry, still joints. That's it,
right out the gate.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You've got Craig Beams who works in the beam industry.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Christian. My cousin's surname is O Tall and he really
is a tool? Is this what you're talking about? Not really,
that's a different thing. Maybe tomorrow we'll do that. Do
you know at all?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Name them the tool directory of Australia.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And you want to call a.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Man Christian Michelle here morntiy Michelle. My high school was
full of teachers who had names that described their jobs.
There was Miss Ball sex education, No not really, she
was pe mister Burns science teacher, and my favorite one,
Christian Miss Brain English.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
That's a great one. Christian.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
My brother, first name John, surname Color. He is a painter,
John Color. Yeah, yeah, Dr Wang, Christian. I worked at
a hospital with a urologist called Dr Wang. Now forgive me,
dear correspondent, you didn't put your name on there. I
did have to google that separately because I thought, come on,
(15:37):
come on. But there's several Yeah, there are several Dr Wang's.
It's great branding. Yeah, let's go to Christian here, calling
him from Sydney. Good morning, welcome to the show, Morning Christian.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
I it's not my name, but my music teacher.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
In high school was the surname mister Music.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, this is my.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
New favorite, mister music. Seems like a children's entertainer. That's
a brilliant one. Thank you very much for giving us
a call today. Mate, have a good day, Jessica, Welcome
to the show, mate, Jessica.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Hello Jessica, you live on air. Jessica.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
What is your Is it your name related to your job?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sorry?
Speaker 11 (16:27):
It's my grmologist who created my reading ring. Her surname
is Gemstone.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh meant to be.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yes, he is Jamestone. That's incredible and also what a
great flex my gemologist.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Yes, I have one isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Not Many of us can say that we have our
own gemologist and it to my to do list for
twenty twenty six a quie gemologist, Jessica, Thanks your mate.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Have a good day.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Let's go to Ian now morning Ian.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
Good morning, Grish, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I'm good, Welcome to show. Ian And for us.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Many years ago I worked with a visual arts teacher.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Called miss Smart, Miss Smart, miss Brain, and she was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's the hell of a name to live up to. Ian.
Thank you very much, you cormote, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Coming out to your next hour, the show What Are
the Odds will be here just after eight. Before that,
your chance to win yourself to this weekend's finals now
the one and only the Great Australian Open. Right now, though,
is your name related to your job? If it is,
it's called something called nominative determinism, where it's a theory
(17:46):
that's been proven time and time again, and we're proving
it already today on the show, that your name influences
your job choice, like Jack Draine Plumber right right, Christian,
My local GP growing up dotr Cyst spelt the same.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Way as well. It's unfortunate Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I worked in the car industry and the engineer we
have and responsible for corrosion testing Aaron surname rust a Rust,
Aaron Rust. What a name, Christian? Strange topic for you guys. Oh,
by the way, there's no strange topics on the show.
It's all strange. Has anyone noticed the new petrol stations
(18:26):
that aren't manned tapp and GHO style?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
No, Yeah, we've got one out now suburb. It looks
quite weird. It's almost dystopian. There's no one there, eerie.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, I've never seen have all the dystopian movies and
TV shows like The Walking Dead evidence of the dystopian
being here now? Isn't tap and gofos.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I've never used it yet. I might today, Kaylin.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yes, I've actually used it. I use it a lot
because it's about twenty cents cheaper.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is Yeah, it's oh that's a shaving with not employing
a human beings. We are saving smithers twenty cents of
these pesky humanoids.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Do they still have like can you get a kit kat?
Can you get chewing gum? Or anything?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like that now, and what are you doing? A paper
round or somethinking you need some of that needs a
kick cat and chewing gum.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can you get a little treat everything? Does it have
a toilet?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
No, it doesn't. It just has electrical charging and the
petrol pump.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You just have to go behind the back of the servo.
No toilet, behind that ice machine.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Servos with their toilets, nothing annoys me more. But they're
the worst toilets.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The worst ones are the truck stop ones. Yeah, I
don't know what it is about. I guess those poor
long distance lorry drivers and truck drivers. You've been you've
been driving maybe for hours where there hasn't been a toilet.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
A lot of caffeine as well a.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Caffeine, and there's been a lot of stacked up strange
topic anyway, what are you.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Doing around truck stops?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Anyway, That's why it's a hobby of.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
My teacher at school had the surname Painter, Jeff Painter.
What about this guy's golf club, the local professional golf
instructor green of course, Johnny Woods, our local woodwork teacher.
My friend John Holmes is an architect who we got
(20:21):
here and we've got Paul calling in from Canberra morning.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Paul, welcome to the show.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Hey Christian, how are you going.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'm good mate, Thank you very much for calling in.
What's yours for us?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
I got a couple for you and I swear you
can't make the stuff up. I as a kid used
to go the dentist, which was always pretty traumatic anyway.
And and the dentist name was doctor Savage.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh sorry, how's that guy earning in? It's pronounced I'm
friends dentista.
Speaker 13 (20:51):
And the other one I've got and again you know
you can you can check this one out to your
fact fact checking. But there was a surgeon at from
the local hospitals here whose name was doctor kat Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Name Paul. Thank you very much for both of those.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Marris, every good day.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Another thing, just if.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You need to The show fact Checking and this show
are enemies, sworn enemies.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Christian O'Connell's show.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
My special guest this morning is the world's most in
demand mindset coach.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It is Ben Crow. Ben. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (21:28):
Thank you, Christian, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you're someone I've got to know. The last couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
If a lot of people don't recognize the name, how
would you describe what you do?
Speaker 14 (21:38):
I guess I try and help people with their mindset
on the field in a professional sense, to find confidence
in their skills, with belief in a personal sense, to
believe in their potential, and try and find the freedom
to compete, have fun and play and as human beings.
I guess that's what we should all be doing, whether
an athlete or or a student.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It takes a I've just finished writing my book. It
takes a lot to write a book. It feels like
a conversation with you, Ben. It's a great book. Every story,
every perspective shift that you're helping us with throughout the
book has got real world.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's crammed with stories.
Speaker 14 (22:11):
Yeah, and that's deliberate because I think stories is how
we learn as humans. Stories, which taps into our imagination,
moves it from an intellectual understanding to an emotional understanding.
You know, we are the stories we tell ourselves about others.
But when we can hear stories from others, especially in
perfect stories of how people overcame adversity and so forth.
But getting back to the book, I realized a long
(22:31):
time ago that these principles are two thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And what's going is the whole book really is you
walking us through how to shift perspectives. And I guess
most of everything in our life is perspectives. And when
you think about it and you challenge your perspectives and assumptions,
invariably they're wrong. The perspective shifts. Is that what you
think most of us need. That's where we're struggling when
we talking about being stuck in our lives or at
(22:56):
work or at home.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is that what you think it is?
Speaker 14 (22:58):
I do very much. So Yeah, perspective by definition means
the way you see something or your attitude towards something. Right,
So am I stuck at home? Am I safe at home?
Do I get to do this? Or I have to
got to do this? So our perspective literally guides our
entire life, so choosing it wisely is pretty important.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One of the most impactful chapters in your book for
me is the one going from fair to Play. What
could you tell people listening right now about how you
reframe fair and pressure?
Speaker 14 (23:25):
As humans, we're designed by nature to play, but we've
just lost that up on We think play is table tennis.
So I say in the book that play needs a rebrand.
It does because it's fundamental to human existence. You think
about this radio show. Everything you're doing is play based, right,
And the simplest way to get into play is to
smile and be curious. But there are different forms of play.
(23:48):
Curiosity play is the simplest one. We can simply ask yourself,
what if? Just start a question with what if we
did this right? What if you've put a kamana around Australia?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Right?
Speaker 14 (23:59):
What if we you know, like when Nike signed Michael Jordan,
all basketball shoes had to be white, right, and if
they had any color then he'd be banned and they'd
find five thousand dollars a game. Young designer in the
meeting said what if we did it anyway? And what
if we paid the fines? And what if we made
an ad about it?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Right?
Speaker 14 (24:15):
And within three months became the number one shoe in
the world. So simply asking what if is a really
powerful way to get into the playstate.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, and letting that curiosity be the engine that drives
everything in your life. It's a better way to be
in the world.
Speaker 14 (24:26):
Yeah, knowing you've got the power to get yourself back
into the playstate. Whether you're playing a Grand Slam tennis
final or you know, a radio show going national. It's
really really powerful if you understand how to harness that
as well.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Tell me about your work with Ash Barty. What did
that look like? What were the big shifts you could
help her with?
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Yeah, so the first part and Ash was probably the
most curious outlet I've ever worked with and also the
most stubborn. The first date was Ash just getting to
understand who she was, the human being that was. She
was so defined by a ranking right unranked one hundred
in the world or two hundred in the world and
so forth. And you know that's a bit of a
mind screw when you just your whole identity is linked
(25:05):
to a number and a grading and so forth. So
separating the per from the persona was really important for
Ash and identifying the beliefs that are holding her back.
I say to a lot of people, for Ashbarty, winning
Wimbledon wasn't success. Believing she was worthy to win Wimbledon.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That was her.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Definition of success and that happened six months earlier at
a cafe in Brisbane called Momos.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Right.
Speaker 14 (25:26):
So establishing the.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Beliefs where epiphanies happened.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
Over a few beers and a few tears, right. So,
and for Ash then it was very much about treating
this life as a career, as an adventure, right and
then playing with it. And everywhere she went she was
trying to play and have fun. And she had practical
jokes with her team. You know, there's very famous. At
Wimbledon she answered every question in a press conference with
(25:50):
a Disney quote and see if the journalists would get
you know, and we gave her the quote before she
walked into the room. So, the older we get, we
think we have to take life seriously. But there is
this thing called neotny. When niotny means the older you get,
the younger you become. I think you've got, you know,
the niotny gene in you, Christian. It's a superpower if
you don't take your life and yourself too seriously.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, we all know older relatives that actually grow. My
mother law was someon of this. She grew younger as
she got older, the zestful life just got greater and greater.
It was incredible to see and be around that energy source.
She's running on a clean fuel.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
We talk in the book about the Blue Zones. Yes,
these five areas around the world where people live. That's
the largest amount of centurions where people live over one
hundred years old. And then we trace the reason they're
living over one hundred years old and being in the
play state and laughing and hanging out with friends and
you know, relationships, experiences and memories and you know, farming
(26:47):
your own food and making your own None.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Of that is about a resume or a job title
or the corner office.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
Correct, correct, Yeah, you realize at the end of the day,
when you readefine success less from achievement and more to fulfillment,
you realize the importance of these intrinsic motivations. That is
such for me. That's probably the second most favorite chapter
in the book.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's a great book. It's out today. I cannot recommend
it enough. I generally mean I've read it twice. Ben Crow,
Where the Light Gets In is a fantastic book.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Ben, thanks for chatting to us today.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Pleasure all the very best The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
If you're listening to the show today on the iHeart app,
there are problems and if you can hear me.
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Now you go, what I mate, You're aware of it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
In Sydney and in Melbourne on the iHeart Pat we
are apparently looping. I know it's because people keep saying
you're looping. No one's ever said that before. Apparently when
I loop, it means they just keep something keeps repeating itself,
repeating itself, repeating itself.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We are aware of it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Between us, the company haven't paid the internet feel you
pay hard and Jackie O that kind of money you
haven't got.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You know what it's like. January is a tough month,
you know.
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But Sue the Boss has emailed us all saying there's
a network why made issue?
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Major incidents.
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Incident And Sue the Boss has raised this with the
company and trusts me that iron fist, she actually has
an operation to have two iron hands. Once that starts
banging a desk, desks be broken. So mark my words,
in the next twenty minutes that thing will be mended
or she'll start hurling engineers of the transmitter. This in
(28:32):
the middle of Australia. That's what's in the middle. By
the way, people often wonder what's in the middle of Australia.
It sues transmitter for the Gold Mega Network. Anyway, little
bit of house clear and there. I hope that's all right. Everybody,
please stay with us. We are looping.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We are looping.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
If you're listening on the iHeart platform, apparently we are looping.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
No, they don't need that today, all right, So let's
go to the Australian Open. What's under the seats today?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I'll tell you what tickets to go to the women's
final this weekend. And also, even if you don't get
that amazing prize, no one goes home empty handred five
hundred dollars Uber Eats voucher at the al.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
There's a mission to complete at It's time to dick
your battle seat. Amazing prizes to be found.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All around.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, the Queen of battle Seats is our producer AKA
with her new glasses, the Professor.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Prof my cool glasses.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Okay, where are the winning seats and sections today? That's
help our lovely listeners. We're looping, by the way, alrighty.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
We've got section forty today and our rows are d
for dingo and m.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The Professor.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Is this the the ossie kind of phanatic alphabet?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Do you know what him?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
On the show Let's make our own Ossie phanatic alphabet
for listeners to use.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Let's not use that. Tryal Charlie, Delta, Fox Trott, it's boring.
Let's have it deep for Dingo, absolutely for a Kubra.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Say for Billabong. It rights itself. Let's do this tomorrow,
team all right. So the winning sections are professor what
you got.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Prof alrighty, D for Dingo you've got one to fourteen
to choose from, and M for Murray.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Like the Murray River.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, got it all right?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Call in now. Lines are open. Thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We're looping the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Every single day this week was sending you to the
Australian Open and the finals.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Enjoy Barmie Summer Nights.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Oh at the moment it is Barmie Barmy indeed and
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Australian Open Nights ground passes.
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This is incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
From just nineteen dollars, you go down there in the
evening and the atmosphere I can only describe it as
like a music festival. You got these pop up bars,
the pop up shops there as well. Go in there
and high five of the crew. It came this warehouse,
I think, thank you for sponsoring the Christian O'Connell show.
They keep the lights on otherwise, actually, if they didn't
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keep the lights on, there'd be no show. Sadly, the
company goal they pay for the internet and that's why
it's on the blink at the moment. But I thank
god we've got Chemis's warehouse, you know, chipping some money
into this show. Anyway, Tickets are on sale now. We've
got finals tickets every single show this week. As we
play battle seats under the winning seats are your prizes.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
There's a mission to complete as it's time to dig
your battle seats.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Amazing prizes to.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Be found and.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Final tickets all around.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wherever you are in Australia, we will fly you to Melbourne,
stick you up in our hotel, you have a great
night on us and then you're off to the finals.
Now the Professor with her new glasses producer Kaitlyn now
known as the Professor.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Professor.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
You've crunched the numbers, You've looked at the seat in plan.
With those special glasses. Now you can see the future
can't you you're seeing Are you vibe coding right now?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
It's vibe Cody there.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All the programmers are raving about it. I'm vibe coding.
I'm vibing right now and coding.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I am vibing.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I'm looking very cool today. My new glasses that have
no frames.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yps frameless, frame less.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
The future glass is right on your face, Peznez the prof.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Where are the winning seats?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Alrighty, we're over at section forty today. My favorite our
roads are D and M.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
On Roe.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
D you've got between one and fourteen to choose from,
and on M you've got one to eighty.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Good morning, yeah whatever, Good morning, Good morning, Brownie, Good morning, Brownie,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I'm good, Brownie. Thank you very much to give us
a call. You're in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
I'm in Sydney, Yes, I have at Saint Andrews.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
All right, well listen, thank you very much for given
the show ago. Let's try and win you a prize. Brownie.
What do you think the winning seat is this morning?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Good luck as well, mate, the good eygy seat mate
for M eight.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We gotta do the Ossie phonetic alphabets. My you're right,
m that's a lockdown. It's mate, Brownie and Sydney. You
want a five hundred dollars Uber Eats voucher?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yes, not on this show.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
Oh there's some sausages for the barbie.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yes, there's a whole load of them coming your way. Brownie,
thank you very much. Congratulations, well played.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
Oh thanks guys, great so, thank.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Let's now go to Trisha here in Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Trisha, good morning.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
Mate, Good morning Christian. How are you.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I'm good, Trisha. You're doing well.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
I'm doing well and I would like to say I
love your show.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It's a crazy oh bless you. Thank you very much
for listening to the show. Now, Trisha, let's try and
payback that loyalty.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Those is yours? Can we talk about yours for a moment.
Where is the winning seat? Trish?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
I'm going with the the Jingo and I'm going with
the people.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
So pick me one.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I was a little bit true happy there. Flattery it
ruins me. Stay mean to me, I stay frosty. Yes,
you want a pair of tickets to the women's finals.
Speaker 12 (34:28):
Thank you so much, guys, Christian, amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
What an amazing, what an amazing time you're going to have.
You're off to the women's final on Saturday, and I
know you're here in Melbourne, but we're still going to
give you a night in the hotel as well.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
You are amazing, all of you amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Well, have an amazing weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
What a great weekend you're going to have now you're
off today and who you're going to take with you?
Speaker 11 (34:53):
My amazing partner Wayne.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, well listen to pair of you. Have a great time.
Give us a call Monday, let us know what it
was like. We all do.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Christian, Oh right, so much again.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It's amazing, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
All right, more chances to win tomorrow on the show.
You can find a clue online at the Christian o'connellshow
dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Right now, the lines are open for your stories of
coincidence and chants?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Who did this? Every Wednesday on.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The show we get so many incredible stories all to
do with coincidence and chants.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We call it. What are the odds?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Believe it or not?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
What are the odds?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You gotta be justhing me, like, were you with Cheryl
who married a hun who worked with the Cheryl.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Who married a hunt as well.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
All right, call in now the lines are open thirteen
fifty five twenty two your stories of coincidence and chance.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You can text yourself. It's easier.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Oh four five three one oh four three. Karen kicks
us off today. Karen, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Hi Christian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I love Karen. So you've got a story for us
I do.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
This is back in the late nineties when I was
driving to work park trying to park my car in
a multi level story car park, and I hit a
car and I freaked out. So I took off and
drove up a couple of levels and parked into the office.
My I was young and inexperienced, and my mate looked
(36:36):
at me and saw her I was upstairs, and he's like,
you okay. I was like, oh, I hit a car
in the car park. I don't know what to do.
And he goes, oh, did anyone see you? I said no.
He goes sorry about it? Dan to sorry about it?
I said, oh, okay, no worries. Anyway, went on with
my day. Next day, rock up to work, my mate
walks up to me and goes, hey, you know that
(36:58):
car you hit yesterday? Yeah? What color was that? I
said like, I still read dark gray. He goes, that
was my car.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
With his car.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh my what that's incredible.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
I just laughed. I'd never ever picked a lot for
a leader.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Car.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
It is lesson learn. Wow. Wait, of all the cars
in the car park.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Car little story car park in Liverpool with his car.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And he told you drive off, drive off.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, you've both got someone to learn there, Karen, very
very funny story, great one, Thank you very much for sharing.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
No worries.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let's go to Emma now, Emma, welcome to the show.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Hi, how you go?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm good? Emma? What's your What are the odds for
us today?
Speaker 11 (37:47):
What are the odds?
Speaker 15 (37:49):
So in October I went to honost trip to Switzerland
with my family and they were going up all these
ski gumblers and on one of them, my dad goes,
I wonder when you know this one opened? I wonder
how old it is? So him being a bit of
a boom and he's like, oh, let's google it. So
we google it and it opened on the twenty second
of July nineteen sixty four, which happened to be his
exact birthday.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh Gondola related birthday. They're terrifying going up on those,
because sometimes they just stop.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And you're hanging up a very big mountains.
Speaker 15 (38:27):
These ones are really high.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
They're not like Mount baul are they No, No, they're
proper mountains.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, here, you're really really high up. They're terrifying. Emma,
thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
When I say, all right, what have you got for us?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Then? Thirteen fifty five, twenty two, What are the odds?
Your stories of coincidence and chance? We'll take some more
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The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Right now, some great calls lined up. Your stories of
coincidence and chance?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What are the odds? All right, let's go to Diane.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Diane. Hello, Hello Diane, welcome to the show. What's your
story for us?
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Where I worked? I lost my glasses and then I
went to work the next day. I told her lady
I worked with, and she said, to China in the
hospital might get him a bit cheaper. So I ran
the hospital and I was talking to the lady about
getting a new purpose bass, and she go, where did
you lose them? And I told her where in the area,
and she said, my husband found a pair of glasses
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there and they were mine.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
What a cracker and what are the odds?
Speaker 9 (39:42):
That's what I saw. I couldn't It was only around
the corner. And he just moved in that area and
I got a job, and i'd been there a week.
I just needed them too for like reading. So I
put in my pocket and walked home. And then I
didn't have them. I just bought them and that's when
the Laddy.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We're looping again. Thank you very much. Story.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Hey, Rey, I just just weren't I Something that's been
really goo right about the show this year is that
we've we've done a week and a half of shows.
We haven't had a pat store about losing the classes.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Right, I've got about ten pairs now.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
We mustn't go back because last year at least once
or twice a month. Yet another story about them, did
you met them?
Speaker 11 (40:29):
On?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
That really stuck in my mind was five minutes the
dressing gown, do you remember the one? Then the pocket,
the dressing gown.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Then they were you wouldn't leave that. He really didn't
have to be there anyway.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Let's go to we got here now, James, Christian James,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You're in Sydney. Thank you very much for give them
the show a go.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Thanks having me, You've got we in great so far.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Thank you days.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
So yes, know he's right, he doesn't know what suddenly
March ap or in June July.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
It could be distinct, could be coming there. All we
have is the last show in this show.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It keeps us honest, James, James, what's your story for us?
Speaker 8 (41:08):
About thirty five years ago, before mobile phones, I had
to get in touch with my sister. She was living
out of home at the time, so I dialed her
what I thought was her landline number, ended up getting
a wrong number. I called a Chinese restaurant by mistake,
but my sister just happened to be dining.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Come on, come on, this is a Hall of Famer.
Oh well, a brilliant This is incredible. I just one
of the best we've ever heard so far. James, what
a story.
Speaker 12 (41:47):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
So I didn't know who answered, but I just I
just asked her friend. And then a couple months later, Yeah,
he's a fan.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
She must be like, how do you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I didn't, James, that is a Hall of Famer. I'm
going to give you the two hundred and fifty dollars
voucher to spend at Chemists Warehouse.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Brilliant story, really well told. Thank you, thanks you guys.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
You job.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Thank you Daniel. Daniel.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
That's it, Daniel, me too. All right, Daniel, what are
the odds you're there?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I'm here.
Speaker 7 (42:23):
So two thousand and nine, my wife and I were
backpacking around Europe. We were in a small bar in
Munich watching the AFL Grand Final. We're talking to another
another Gussie pair watching the same game, and my wife
was having drinks with another with one of the people
having shots. She was due to start a new job
the next week. She rocked up to her new job
(42:45):
on the Monday in the person she was taking shots.
We ended up being a new boss and what.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
A great way to bond with the boss shots.
Speaker 7 (42:54):
To this day we still go out on holidays together now.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
That's fantastic, Daniel, Thank you very much, your story mate.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Have a good day. Thanks. These are great. Let's say
we can keep it going.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Jason, good Christian, how are you? I'm good Jason, and
thanks for giving us a call. Right, what are the odds?
What's your story?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Jason?
Speaker 12 (43:14):
Just oh, a year ago. So now I was listening
to King of the Mountain Midnight oil on CD. Yep,
you've got a bit of background anyway, looping around about
three times and then that's thought I had enough of this.
So the halfway through the song, I just had the
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CD out and put the radio on and half was
halfway through King of the Mountain Midnight.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It was coming back around like a bur Lorraine.
Speaker 12 (43:46):
I'd have been looping on the CD. And then as
I was listening, what the.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hell, what are the CD radio odds? Anyway, thank you
very much, so far, so far, Jason, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
If you've got a story for us, we're moving on now.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We've got the time Waste after News a sport which
is coming up next with pants and Alex. Email me
Christian aconnell dot com dot au. Those are great stories.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Christian O'Connell. Show go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Time for Today's time waster, Today's time waster on thank
and Office worker Day. We're looking for your office songs
for the best in the show.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Today.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
You and three mates of two of the Cinema to
the movies at gold Class.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
And we are going tomorrownight. The family are going What
did you decide on? Song? Sung Blue?
Speaker 7 (44:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
How did the daughters feel about that? I said, we're
going down? No, well I didn't do that. You know,
there's no foot down. There's no foot down. I sweeten
the deal and by that you mean Gold class. Okay,
we recline. The family that reclined stays together.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
That anyway, get this, because obviously my daughter's recovering from surgery,
spinal surgery.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
She's got stitches in her back.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Every hour we have to reapply ice packs at the moment.
It literally is Joe during the night when I said
good night to her, I've come up with an eski
is on the bed to get her through. There's like
eight ice packs there, so every hour she can open
up the ski. They've got so many uses skis. You
are storing medical supplies and I put a new car
pack on. I've got to take some kind of medeski
(45:35):
into Gold Class.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
They're gonna think I'm bringing in my own tinnies. Hey,
it's medicinal doors has a spinal surgery. They're not gonna
buy any of that. Is he selling stuff in there?
Speaker 6 (45:47):
All?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Right? Today's time waster office songs?
Speaker 2 (45:50):
What are they listening to in the office. They love
Bruce Springsteen out there on the sales team. That's right,
born to be filed. Oh, don't even get finding cabinet
thing or do that's an a thing?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Is it? Fighting? Cabinet is like an old fashioned thing
we actually still have.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Well, like I said, old fashioned, Welcome to gold FM.
Old fashioned is now lay down salary, not laydown.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Sally oh boar.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Sue is constantly saying her catchphrase is r O I
return on investment. Yes, her favorite song is R O
I of the Tiger silber Blas.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We took the scenic route, didn't we stuck in the
middle management with you silver? What does the fact say?
Do you remember that?
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Yes, that was What do we think that was for
a year? Twelve thirteen?
Speaker 6 (46:44):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:44):
I think a little bit later, I say, fourteen.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Let's just check with the prof. Professor, what year was that?
Speaker 6 (46:51):
Sorry, slow on the internet this morning, give me momento.
I'm thinking twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
But what is the you know what thirteen?
Speaker 4 (47:03):
It?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Now it the prof does it? She shoots, she scores,
All right, Rea, what.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Have you got? Dragons?
Speaker 5 (47:10):
In the office, they're singing April Son in cubicle.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
No, they're not the worst one of the year from you,
young man. You're all over the place today. By the way,
I think it's dragony. Mattress into the front room is
the work of a child a man.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Boy. It doesn't help your performance today. Well now I'm
very nervous going into these otherways.
Speaker 5 (47:30):
Crowded house. Are working from home? Yeah, they're saying better
be working from home soon.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
You know that call earlier was right, great, great show
so far. Now we hit the skits. The Venger Boys
have called a meeting.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
Oh they're singing zoom zoom zoom zoom.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I want you in my zoom all.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Right, okay, I'll give you a silver for that one.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
And Valerie wants a pay rise.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
She's singing salary salary.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Valerie is the name of the song, not the artist
I know, but she wants to pay all right, okay, right,
she's singing sant Maori. Yeah that's good. Okay, silver plus
singing too, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
It was actually the.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
The Time Wasted Today, get ready for a gold rum,
very very very good today we're looking for your office
songs on the Time Waster Besting Show.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
You're off the cinema God class for you and three mates.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
The number you need every day when we do a
different time waster between eight thirty and nine is oh
four seventy five O three one oh four three Rio
to start stinking it up today?
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Are you ready to mark from stinker to market breach?
Speaker 5 (48:50):
I am ready?
Speaker 2 (48:53):
Ari has reply all the small things very good.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Ari, that's great.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Today's office songs you're the invoice silver. That's so Mitch,
mister mister Christian, you just played them. Take these broken wing.
Speaker 5 (49:09):
It's very good. Gold, great font.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
The professor projuiccated and speaks in comic sands, doesn't she?
Speaker 1 (49:18):
If she had a fun.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Comic sense, putish people talking times.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
In romand my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Actually, where's Australian in itself? What's that cartoon one? Charles
handwriting ed Shearon used to have an office job when
he was writing his hits.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
That's right. The staple of you bronze toilet break number five.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
You know, when you're really dragging the arse out of
the day, you're seeing that as you go to this
is toilet break number five. Brad Sanders, I don't know,
I just like saying his name out. Man Tina Turner.
Is that enough snapped? We don't need another meeting?
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
This could have been an email teams are Turner. It
could be teams a Turner. You know we don't need
another zero. Gold.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I'm Matthew mcdo James Brown get up like a fax machine,
like a fax machine. That's so good. That's Matthew. I
will check five hundred files. Okay, boardroom Blitz, Glen Webber,
(50:30):
well done, Aretha Franklin, r E s chat Ept that
is on the nose, Gold plus Sarah well done, Bonye
m still working in office when they're right in the
hits Rah rah ras not in today, Rah rah.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Today, Mate, you take his gold Rah rah ra.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
David, I loved it. Am I ever going to see
your briefcase again?
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Gold? Who is still rocking the classic briefcase?
Speaker 14 (51:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (51:04):
Wonder you don't see them anymore?
Speaker 1 (51:07):
No lawyers?
Speaker 5 (51:08):
Maybe do they have files in there?
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Memo number five Silver, Baby got facts Gold, paper clip
writer Silver, Nothing compares to glue, Silver, Daddy water cooler
Silver plus facts on the run, Gold, what on Sonya
shredder be home soon?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
Gold? This is great the finals.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
When I think about you, I touch my shelves.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh my files are there, Nathan. That's very good.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Rollerdexing in the deep, Silver, sweet biscuit of mine, don't
touch it, Bronze Gangster's Paralegals, Silver Flas, What done you?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Shwredder? You shredder?
Speaker 2 (51:54):
You bet yea and smoke Homo?
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Who's that? Phil?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Tough one to pick one for Best and Show today?
But who is today's winner?
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Sarah with Arius chat GPT what.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
I'm sorry You're today's win are well deserved? Thank you
very much your time wasters. We are back tomorrow. There's
only one thing you need to know about tomorrow's show.
I cannot wait for this Partusa Klin and when we
were doing came up accidentally came up with a great idea.
When we were doing battle Seats today to win big
prizes to the Australian Open to the finals, more of
those tomorrow and Friday on the show, and she was
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doing the phonetic alphabet. She just said, deefi dingo and
it's give me an idea. Forget the normal phonetic alphabet.
You know a alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, echo, Farstaurant boring.
What is the Australian The classic Ossie what should it be?
The Ossie phonetic alphabet. We've got DEEFI dingo M for
May and you get us c A for a coubra.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
That's it. The rest of Letters Field tomorrow from six
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