FULL: Double Dinking

Christian and the team reflect on a week shaped by resilience, community, and unexpected kindness. From heartfelt moments with first responders to stories that remind us how small gestures can mean everything, this episode captures a city pulling together. Along the way, Christian shares personal highlights, surprising encounters, and a few classic cultural oddities, from hidden historic pubs to panthers that may or may not exist. There’s humour, humanity, and a genuine sense of connection as the team gets to know Sydney beyond the postcard version.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good morning, Pats, Good morning everyone, goome on in, Good
morning and goodbarding. The man who spreads lies and misinformation
about the England cricket team and calls it sports news
Alex All true. Actually normal cheating ways in the cricket
yesterday now using technology snick home more like cheeto. There
wasn't a nick It wasn't a cheeto.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
That was just a bit of a woopsie. You know,
we all, we all make mistakes.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Australians love to chuck a lazy oh on the end
of words and that and it's snicko in the UK.
It's a snickometer here snick But even when the Indian
team were moaning about it, they're having a go at snicko. Yes,
oh my goodness, going to be hot for the whole
the player today, isn't it? Yes? Yes, say forty forty

(01:12):
degrees oh though all day Yeah, wow, that is intense. Hey,
good morning Sydney. So this is day four for us.
We came Sunday and we are the show replacing the
great Jonesy and Amanda. And the great news is that
Jones and Amanda, I just also want to say this.
Yesterday my wife was having a massage and the lady
doing it, you know, they have the little chit chat

(01:33):
stuff and then she gets my wife, Oh you got
an accent? What are you doing here? And my wife
loves to tell everyone what I do for a living.
It is it's scruciat. No. Yeah, happened yes day dinner
and it had no impact nor shit it. People don't care.
It's not like, oh my God, Jesus is here the
miracle world. They literally don't care. Why why would they?

(01:53):
So she starts, she starts saying about, oh, my husband's here,
and oh the lady the masses goes, oh is he
the man who's kicked out Jones and Amanda's wife goes, oh,
that is not what's happened, and it isn't it isn't
you know? Jones. Amanda had me on their show Friday. Amanda,
I adore She's been a guest on my podcast. She
was the best guest on my podcast, Stuff of Legends,

(02:16):
and I had great guests like Ricky Gervais and Hamish Blake,
but Amanda's episode was the most popular one. They are,
trust me, after sol on doing breakfast radio. If you
spoke to them right now, they'd be smiling. You know.
They are looking forward to doing an afternoon show and
getting more sleep. So they've left it to us suckers
to do the breakfast show for the next few years.
So you get one great radio station come January. We're

(02:37):
going to be waking up in the morning. In the afternoon,
you get the brilliant double acts of Jonesy and Amanda.
But yeah, everywhere my wife gone this week, she's trying
to spread the good words. They don't want to hear
it right now.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
It would have been a rough massage as she really
got those knots out.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So my point in saying is that is that we
are we are very aware of what you're going through
at the moment. It is a lot, it's so much,
it's so much. One of our team, Josh, went down
to Bondi yesterday to pay us suspects and we said
in a lot of the local first responders to drop
off some gifts, and even as he was telling me
about it, we were both getting emotional because it comes

(03:16):
in waves. I found that and I'm not from this city.
I've been spending a lot of time here next year
and I really have and owly extraordinary. My wife and
I've really fallen in love with Sydney, like really, like,
oh my god. We didn't expect this. It's such a
beautiful city, really super friendly people, and to find to
find connection in the city this week in such an
extreme week as he's even extra special but on our

(03:38):
I really hope that what we are doing on the show,
whilst he whis he's trying to make your mind up,
are we allowed into your mornings, which I totally get.
We've got to earn your trust. I do hope that
we are providing some form of comfort and support in
a really hard week. And so what we've been doing
at the start of every show is amongst all the
horror of Sunday Night and the last few days, there
are stories of hope that we really need to hear

(03:59):
and celebrate. There's obviously Ahmed, you know, and thank just
what he did is just giving people something to hang
on to. It's such a senseless act on so Say Night,
and it's not just armored. Armored did something incredible. But
there's the poor elderly couple Boris and Sofia lost their
lives wrestling with the gunman as soon as they got
out the car for a couple of minutes. Incredible, incredible

(04:20):
acts of heroism. So we start the show the right
way with stories of hope PASSI what have you got mate? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:25):
So go fundme for Ahmed is just growing by the hour.
So the funds are now at two million, four hundred
and ninety seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty five dollars.
Just incredible and a half milliadible and beautiful comments.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
From by the way on Armored. I was watching the
local news yesterday and they had a couple of local
characters that obviously as local customers. Yeah, and as much
as there was something, he is a lovely guy's lovely guy.
They seems to also be concerned about when was when's
he coming back to work? Well? I meant to like
go another couple of blocks to get my darts. Christmas
coming up, We've got to deal with my family.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Isn't it beautiful? Though the local community embraces he means
obviously shy, very loved.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's a shrine tobacco shop.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
And also come on back.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
To Sonya Miller's written You're a ray of light to
the worldmed thank you for giving us all hope in humanity.
The word hero has never been more true. You and
your family deserve never to work again when you wish
to spend time together. This is the way of the universe.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Thank you, beautiful stuff. Rio's what's your story of hope?
This morning?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
For us, I haven't been able to stop staring at
that photo of Jacko, who I just realized is from
Bondai Rescue. Actually the lifeguard run down from Tamarama to
Bondi his barefoot, He's in his blue lifeguard out use photo.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It is stunny. He's got his.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Defibrillator slung a on his shoulder and he's sprinting towards
the danger. And I saw the interview with the woman
who took the photo and she said, there are people
just streaming up, like coming up Bondi Road, and he
is like pedal to.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
The metal, sprinting down towards the danger.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
And it just it gives me chills every time I
look at it, because every part of your body must
just be crying out.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
You're saying, don't don't run.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Towards so scared towards them, you know, really scared, like
we can't even imagine what it's like to have that fear.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yes, no, no way, I love it.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
And you can just see he's moving at speed. Yes,
he's sprinting down there to be of service. He's got
that defair prackle about that his bare feet as well
on the on the heart time maker that as he's
running down. It's one of the along there with armored
as well. It's one of the defining images of what's happened. Yeah. Yeah,
I'd love to speech to him today or tomorrow, if
you'd be happy to talk to us, if anyone knows

(06:40):
him or his family. Just I don't want to. I
don't want to upset the guy I just saw. He
can hear our Thanks. Yes, yeah, he's given people hope.
You know these people do. And this is why we
love these stories. Alex, what's your story hope? This morning?
A couple of.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Sporting events yesterday and last night, I thought, did it perfectly?
We had, of course the Ashes test in Adelaide, and
we had John Williamson the True Blue Rendition that it
gave me chills. My goodness, gracious, it was just amazing
minute silence as well, and the Black armbands.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's really powerful that you're doing your live. We played
it yesterday morning and it moved us all to tears
and I know we did a lot of people listening,
but I was crying again watching it was beautifully done.
What a great way to mark all.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Yeah, and then last night the big Bash game at
the SCG between the Sixers and the Adelaide Strikers, they
have them minute silence, but then after that they had
a round of applause for those first responders, for those
people things to do, and there were there were smiles
on faces, which I thought was really touching, you know,
to honor those people, to say hey, thank you and

(07:41):
we're going to clap for you right now because you
did something extraordinary arriving on that scene and caring for
those poor people. So I thought it was really well
done yesterday.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right, if you know any stories of hope that
we're not talking about and we need to, please let
me know, you can message me O four seven five
three one O four three.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
But Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
We're staying in many this week in quind of Dark
actually is Smulley Airbnb. The wife is really happy about.
So she went to have a massage yesterday and I
went for a little wonder and I suddenly saw a
really beautiful, old looking pub right Hotel Stained. People know

(08:23):
this pub in that area, and I went in because
of the they had me on. Two great slogans outside
it simply said rooftop and I knew obviously from living
him in seven years. Australians don't you like to use
too many letters and words where they don't have to.
I think it's the heat. You got to preserve your energy.
So I pres went they mean rooftop bar, because Australians
love a rooftop bar. So excited and didn't say, now

(08:46):
in England we do have rooftop bars, not that many.
Why would you want to go and have your drink
in the rain. You know it's gray, low clouds, snow
hanging out or snow hanging over your heads, but we
would say rooftop bar. Here another fact that we just
know you know what I'm talking. I don't need you
to say. I just seem to say rooftop. And then
the other one was round bar. Ah she used to

(09:07):
love that horse, that big kind of community round bar.
So I was like, look, okay, I'm not going up
on the roof, not on this boiling weather. Okay, but
the round bar take my money. I go in and
is a beautiful horseshoe bar. And obviously there's there's people
are all watching the cricket. Okay. And the guy serves
me and he recordiz my accent. He's like a brave

(09:29):
man coming in here. I said, are there any other goes? No,
you're the only one I've seen. I said, do I
need to go and hide on the roof? Is he
just lying? So I just sort of started whispering any
conversations with people. So anyway, while I'm in there. When
I was it was from eight This pub is from
eighteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
What's before federation?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, that's a very old pub. I'd love to find
out what is Sydney's oldest pub? To be hard to be,
that's got to be one of them, Shorty.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, the rock isn't it? Isn't it the great Fortune
of war or something?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, that's exactly right. How do you tune up?
Patsy is a seasoned pub fighter and drinker, and she's
been spending money this week going round bars and fighting.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
People for cash fights.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
I honestly, Sydney has some of the most sensational pubs.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It really does, yeh. Story.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
They have not torn them down. Melbourne tends to tear
stuff down and rebuild, but they cherish their pubs and
they are just a thing of beauty.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Look you, you've been out in Melbourne, the city you're
born and prayed your mum and dad live, and you've
been out of it four days and now you're throwing
shade on them now, dare you? But yesterday some of
our listeners have found us and they are crying right now.
They're week bits and the way do we never Patsy
Pub an old pub? You know why? She meets some
of her old friends in them, that one in eighteen
seventy nine. Pats is twin sister.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you turn around the corner and there's another beautiful
pub and everyone's sitting outside and drinking in the sun
and just socializing.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
The difference between a pub and a bar very big.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Bar is your shiny new one is yea, and they
are They're nice, but they're not the pub. Pub is
what you, you know, generationally you grew up in there, a
center of a community. Are kind of like a church,
but with alcohol. Actually churches do have alcoholics live. You
notice that too. The wine is a little bit earthy, though,
I find sometimes.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, the wineless isn't as long as anyway.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Then my wife has finished her massage right, and we
go for a restaurant in this Italian place that came
and we could only get the tabletop dining. It's fully
booked out, or so they said. My wife obviously wasn't
happy that we were being delegated to tabletop, you know.
And the lady went to me, she tried to sell
it to me. She went, hey, you know what you get.
You get a great dinner and you get a free show.
I don't like seeing them chopping the food up dinner

(11:40):
and a show. I don't want to see people walking
in the kitchen making money. Know it's not show, is it?
People working really hard in the heat, stressed. So anyway,
they and suddenly we realized why we're facing away from
the restaurant. It's where all the beautiful people go in
manly every time the door's open, it's a procession of more.

(12:03):
They look like runway models. Yeah, young, vibrant, perfect skin.
And then and we are facing the kitchen. Ugly table
we're on. I didn't want to say it, but that's
a good feeling I got was like, turn around, get
those old faces facing the kitchen. Maybe some steam can
steam out some of those wrinkles. Free botox. And my

(12:24):
wife keep going every five minutes. Excuse me, excuse me.
I can't help but notice some of these tables are
still empty, earthfully booked. The whole time we're in, those
tables in the shop window were empty. I'm now going
to say to the marketing I don't think you can
put me on a poster. Maybe just the back of
my head. That's how you sell that shut to Sydney
in the new year.

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Speaker 1 (12:48):
I can tell you this fact about the two Scottish
brothers with the very heavy glasses. They should be nown
for spanks savers. I was at the festival fifteen years
ago and I love Proclaimers. They're a great man. They're
brilliant live as well. And I was waiting in the
wings to bring them on stage right and I suddenly
see also stood near me is unmistakably Hollywood star Paul Rudd. Right,

(13:11):
So I go, are you fan? And he goes, yeah,
I love them. I love them. I said, I'm just
about it introducing Do you want to come out with me?
He goes, would that be okay? I'd love that? And
so I met Paul Rudd and then we both went
on I've never met before my life. We both got
on stage together to introduce the Proclaimers. I've never seen
anyone enjoy them anything more. Whenever I see ant Man

(13:32):
now Paul Rudd, I always think I bet hestall. Listen
he smashed out those hits hit Spotify wrapped. It would
have had the Top five and there would have been
the Proclaimers. I'm sure. Good morning to you, Julie Christian
omg listen to this morning talking about the Hotel Stain
that very old pub in Manley. I've got the I've
got a Hotel Stain key ring tag from nineteen eighty

(13:54):
six when I was there as a backpacker. Wow, they
used to have a jackpot on Friday night. The tag
and a number on it which he put into the drawer.
I never one, but I did wake up Dusty most
Saturday mornings. Christian took about oldest pubs in Sydney. The
Lord Nelson in the Rocks. That is the oldest pub
in Sydney. It's been open since eighteen forty three, which
is pretty incressive. Impressive, but nothing compared to a lot

(14:15):
of the old pubs that you have yet. I've drunken
one that is from nine four seven.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
A d nine four seven.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, what it's like over a thousand years? Yeah, pubs
that whole thousand years. It's like, how did it work?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
What did they kind of store? The drink must have
tasted revolted, would have been warm? Your thing that we
like that warm beer? Anyway, it's a crawl line while
we'd won that, but I know they the first time
I came to Australia Sydney twenty four years ago, my
wife and the first thing we did when we got
to Sydney was go to that Lord Nelson pub walks
up to Rocks because it's a real iconic area for tourists.

(14:55):
Come to Rocks and it's got some great pubs in
and I a mider Lord Nelson because he's on the
corner there. And also they have I hope they still
have them. I love it when the proper pubs have
the frosted glass. Ah, yes, my old school Yes, the
big heavy impauled pint glass. Yes. And also those the
taps as well. You know when they're all frosted. I'm
sure it's an effect.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's all ice logos. Yes, I crusted over.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yes, I love that.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Good morning to Dandrey in Wonda. I'm doing an early
morning bread deliveries right now, Thank you so much. A
few beautiful emails shared that with the team. Thank you
very much for them. All right, Day four on this
and I'm trying to make my Weird and Wonderful Guide
to Sydney. As I get to know this great city,
I want to fast track that process. I'm not going

(15:42):
to go on Google. I'm not going to ask AI.
I need the information, the real useless guide to Sydney
so fast, So much has been discovered, and actually a
lot of people are from Sydney. Don't know some of
these half truths. Doesn't matter if any of them are true.
Don't buy the fact checking it. We're not interested. All right,
weird and wonderful guy into Sydney. What have we got

(16:04):
so far? Rio? You had the first one.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yes, first off we've got the town whole step which
was an intergenerational spot for teen loitering.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Perhapsy what if we as have we discovered?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Well, Alex brought up that there's a lone panther that
lives in the Blue Mountains and listener Bob is seen
not only not only once, but twice in the fact
that lives in the sewer system.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
In fact, now it appears there's several. They're a roaming gang,
the panthers, roaming gang using the underground system to move
underneath us undetected up to under there. Well, yeah, I
think they've been. I think it's an underground system they
have all over Australia and they're probably helping the Australian
team cheat yesterday done moving that snick Oche they were

(16:43):
they were. I'm sure if we look at the image again,
there's a panther pore there, Alex, our shoud we discover.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Guard dogs at the Sydney Opera house to ward off
those pesky seagulls?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Are you trying to eat your chips? Now? This is true?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
It sounds like a lie.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Mad dogs an Englishmen and its border colleagues. We found
out there is a company doing this. They do have
dogs that ward off. And we found out yesterday that
the pesky seagulls, there's a boss seagull and unless you
deter that one, it won't work.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yes, you got to take this take the post.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
The alpha goal, the alpha goal. All right, some brand
new ones. You've got a brand new one. So something
from our weird and wonderful going to Sydney.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yes, I've got to tell you about the failure that
was the Sydney monorail built in nineteen.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yes, the Simpsons moment. It was literally literally.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Like the Simpsons episode nineteen eighty eight. A private company
came in and pitched to Sydney, hey have this amazing future.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Of travel above the ground.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Around Darling Harbor, but only this very small loop around
Darling Harbor.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
And exactly like the Simpsons episode, it was incredibly unreliable.
It broke down all the time. It was very ugly.
You could actually walk faster than.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's if you wanted to get eight to point B,
you could just.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Walk past it get anywhere you want to go. Later.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
One architect I'm just reading here called it the most
tragic thing that happened to the urban fabric of Sydney
and the most offensive structure I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
So how long did it last? For?

Speaker 4 (18:16):
It went nineteen eighty eight to twenty thirteen. It was
pulled down because no one would use it. Also, no one, Well,
there's no possible use for any Sydney side to go
from one interdeing harbor to the other.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I'm afraid to say I have been on it.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You've been on that?

Speaker 1 (18:29):
No I remember now, of course why not? Tourists came
here in two thousand and one monoail the future of travel,
and I just remember it was actually quite underwhelming. Yes
it's not anything, and also it was only tourists using
it as well, because obviously you locals knew. Yes, yes
it's nothing. No what this is not the vibe. It's
just not the place to be.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
There's a better way to get from A to B.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's Alex. Whatever you've got for my weird and wonderful
guide to Sydney today.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
And just one more thing about the monael it's great
for people from the country.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
People from the country love the monorail.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Which is like but anyway, I guess.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
So wide eyed those farmers you know. Oh my word,
I mentioned this on the farm basically impressed mover in
the barracks of hay in that Oh wow. And the
Clavelli Groba is pretty fast you it's animals. I thought
it was a headline you're going to touch.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Well, we don't.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
I don't want like local sex press. You really got
to be you need to know about the old parameter.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Don't.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Actually we don't. It's not what it sounds, okay, not
like what it sounds. It's actually a fish.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
It's this great, big blue groper and you'd be swimming
at Clavelly Beach and all of a sudden you'd feel
a presence, you'd feel something, but they're staring at you
with this gigantic groperes.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's incredible.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes, I've seen it at Gordon's Bay, have you. Yeah,
beautiful old thing. But there's rumors that it's been that
it's passed away.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh come on, keep it. Lights check again. You just
found out you just ending up there. It's a light.
Well are you trying to focus? Yesterday's newspaper? Son of
I think the son of Blaye.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, absolutely, yes, that's what I meant to say there's
the new.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Gen Yeah, all right, what have you got then for
my weird and wonderful guy to Sydney? What do I
need to know? You can give us a call thirteen
fifty five twenty two, and you can also send me
a text message if it's easier four seven five three
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The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
All right, I'm trying to make my weird and wonderful
guy to Sydney. What useless piece of information or half
truth are or made up story have you got? Farra
completely weird and wonderful guy to Sydney. Yet again, we're
back to graveyards. Yesterday, Rio is trying to flex the
largest graveyard in the Southern Hemisphere Rookwood. Yeah, Rookwood. So
the rivals are what Antarctica, I don't know, actually in

(20:49):
Southern America.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah yeah, take that.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, that's that's our graveyard. This is a graveyard, Christian
where the Sydney Town Hall is. That's the graveyard. That's
from Shane Second Day with Graveyard Chap. There's a cafe
in Kutimber with a tree inside it that's run by
a car. Oh okay, it's that true. Type spreading lice.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
But they make a damn good flat white.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, what have you got from our weird and
wonderful guy to Sydney. You can give us a called
thirteen fifty five twenty two and you can send me
a text message with yours O four seven five three
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Speaker 3 (21:26):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
We're a wonderful guy into Sydney. What have you got
for me? Second mention of the cafe with a tree
inside it in cutimber Tyler first of all recommended that
one to us, and then someone asked, going, hey, question
that tree cult cafe is and the varies in capitals.
It is very good. What elevates a cafe for me?
And that's a good cafe? Two? Very good?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, chili, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
The quality of their coffee is like major.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Why is there such a variety? You're right patch, Why
does it vary so much?

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Is this different beans?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I guess why don't If you if you're arrival place
and you had they had more customers, you go and
try their coffee and then you maybe get a spy
in there and go whether they get the beans from.
We should do that. Surely you would just hone in
on where the rivals more popular bass getting the beans from.
She was stinking with mankey ass beans.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Your solution is to set up an elaborate y firing,
essentially go deep undercover.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'd go on current affair, Christian. Did you know that
the Sydney Opera House is a nightmare to park? They
designed it without enough car parks because the architect who
designed it didn't drive. Now this is why we're doing
the Weird and Wonderful Guy to Sydney, that Danish guy. Yes,

(22:47):
that is fantastic. Thank you very much. As your contacts
on the show this week, please put your names on
your messages so we can say hello properly. But that
is a great one, as is this. When I first
moved to Australia seven years ago, obviously I had to
learn new language. Yes you know it's many English, but
there's so many varieties. I used to have a thing
in my in my phone just to help me out

(23:09):
as I was putting the pieces together and taking them apart,
and used to we just the note was labeled it's
not called that here. The first one was in the UK,
as you're a kid and you're out your bike and
you've got a friend behind you. In the UK, that's
a backie there on the back. It is simply called
a backie. Please don't google that. It might be called
something else. Now that's up to you. If you google

(23:31):
it and you see images, aren't aren't too young? That's
together on the bike and sweated. It's not called that here.
Now in Melbourne it's known as a dink.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Someone on you.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yes, yes, that sounds rude as well.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
You keep.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yourself sir, But it's not called that here.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Double a double, yes, yes, now I get that. That
seems to make more sense than a dink double because
there's two of you. Double the fun exactly. I wonder
around the world what words they have for getting some
on the back of the bicycle. Yeah, it's such an
innocent thing. From growing up, Why was that so much fun?

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, every kid had to do. It's like way to
get around.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
But the most fun I always think was was riding
the bike. Being up front. Yeah, it was terrifying, but
behind got no control because also it was a personal
response because they had control and power to start doing
those works. Yeah, yeah, your passenger pothole. Yeah. Another thing though,
we've had a lot of messages about the great potholes
of Sydney. It is like driving around the moon. Why

(24:39):
are there's so many nipping potholes.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's almost like we've put them there. There's so many.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
There's a tourist attraction. Yeah, come see the great potholes
of Sydney. All right, keep this coming our GUYE to
Weird and Wonderful Sydney four seven five three one O
four three.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Thank you very much for everyone who's been sending us
emails and notes. Is an extraordinary week in Sydney, and
the fact that you're taking any times as you struggle
to process everything that's happened and happening as well to
send us us notes as well saying hello and welcome
to Sydney. I've got a really really important email actually
Yester evening that I just wanted to share now from

(25:17):
Melody Palmer. Christian. Welcome first of all to Sydney Radio.
Thank you Melody. We'd like to just talk about the
completely unsung heroes of our police officers. It's very easy
for people to say they're just doing their job, but
I'm here to say is much more than that. My wife,
a nearly thirty year veteran, could benny contain the need
to act. She sat at the dinner table with her
phone blowing up Sunday night. Her face was set like

(25:40):
stone about not being there to help. I can only
imagine how many other officers all over New South Wales
that grip their phone in horror. You can't pay someone
for that when people are running away, Our policemen and
women are running toward danger. In mostly all the eyewitness
footage I saw this tablet instant. I saw police officers crouched,
guns drawn down, ready to act. Every single one of
these people wanted to go home to the loved ones

(26:01):
that night. Not all of them did, and many will
carry yet another scar of a job they put their
hand up to do. Melody, really really important reminder. And
I think over the next couple of days, whenever you
see a first responder out about, thank them, Just ask
how they are and thank them for their service. Now
on this the last couple of days, we've been talking
about the first responders and what can we do to

(26:23):
help them. A couple of weeks ago, I came with
the idea that I wanted to come and do the
show here this week to get to know you guys.
So we arrived Sunday afternoon and we all know what
unfolded Saturday night. We had all these ideas and plans
I'm sure many of you did for what this week
was going to be like. And one of the things
I do know about your Australians is you love a
Christmas ham. And we had twenty five these Christmas hams

(26:45):
and suddenly not right to start just giving Christmas hands
away for obvious reasons, but I thought, we've got someone
why don't we go and give them to some of
the local first responders as a small thank you if
they want them. And so Joshama Show went down to
Bondai yesterday and to see some of the first responders
and you can hear how he got on next. He's
got some beautiful stories before that. This is the song

(27:06):
really that he speaks to what Melody and all the
first responders do for us.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
So, like I was saying, we had these Christmas hams
and last week it seemed like this would be a
nice way to say hello. It feels like, you know,
I'm moving into a new neighborhood and going around all
the local neighbors saying hello, introducing myself and I've got
a gift for you before Christmas, okay, And so now
we had it this week, everything changed and it is
we're all where we can't be doing that, it's not right.

(27:34):
But look, we've got these Christmas hams. Why do we
give them some the first responders if they'd like them.
So yesterday a lovely man on the show called Josh
You went down to Bondi You went to the first
responders to see if they wanted these just very small
gifts to say we see you and thank you for
your service. So what was that like?

Speaker 7 (27:53):
It was a really special moment and one that I
didn't know was going to be as special as it was.
But as I went down to Tema Emma Surf Life
Saving Club, which is now their sort of main meeting
point to sort of connect to do debriefs, and so
I knew I was kind of going to a main
point for them, and I didn't even know how to

(28:14):
enter him. Was it the front door, was it the
back door? How do you enter a stiff life saving club,
and do you want.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
To get in the way. They're also an act of
life saving club. You don't want to be an inconvenienced.
But we wanted to go down and say thank you.
I'm laugh not just us on the team here, but
everyone in Sydney absolutely.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
And I met a gentleman by the name of Ben
there and he was sort of working out already, you know,
shirt off, ready to go and jump in the water,
and he met me with so much warmth and straight
away he was just taken by the gesture and nothing
more than just a big thank you. And he told
me straight away that I needed to speak with a

(28:52):
couple of other people, and one was a man named
Rory who actually on Sunday was there when it was
all happening and all the chaos. His first instinct was
to actually run towards the water and to save people.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
And truly, and this is because obviously people were trying
to find a safe refuge in the water.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
Yeah, people freaking out, not knowing what to do. And
it just really makes it very very real in that
moment to hear firsthand just how brave, how incredibly.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Brave, and the young kids, yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yeah, and to not think of yourself and it's just
a lovely thing to be able to give them something.
And yeah, I think even now it's it's just to
your point there just being able to say a hello
to people and really almost just that human element that
people are there and people are being brave. It's quite

(29:48):
a special thing to actually hear it firsthand.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
What was it like to go down a Bondi's.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's very silent.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
It's almost like the air and like time is like
standing still, like everything's slower down.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
There, boys sacred ground now, isn't it? Yeah? Unwittingly it has,
you know, when you sent me a photo of it yesterday,
I really felt just from the photo the silence of it,
because actually going to Bond that is not a place
of silence. Normally it's a place of noise, chaos, laughter,
people meeting up, you know, life happening there vividly and
and all the stuff I've seen. It's very very quiet, obviously,

(30:20):
it's just so strikingly different.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Absolutely, and you know, nobody speaking, but then there is
sort of communication with the prayers and the loves and
the thought.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Is an act of silent respect, isn't it that Actually
they don't need the words. The silence is are the words?
And so you went also to other first responders. You
went to the police.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Yeah, went to Bondo Police station and I was wondering
if they can accept it, like is it in their
company policy?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Again, been told by the ambulance staff couldn't accept them.
They're not allowed to accept gifts, which I find extraordinary.
I think that's a real shame. So anyway, you went
to the police station and how are they Yeah, they
grabbed those hands off.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Here the.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Fish were the hams.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
They had to get clear and they asked.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
I spoke with a gentleman named Andrew and he goes,
I've just got to check check with my sergeant. And
he went away and came back and came back with
the biggest smile on his face.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
What else is that sergeant going to say? Staying in
at ten seconds and we get at the chip, how
many as you reckon it's gone, follow him, see where
he goes, come back to his face, get more Christmas hands.
Who doesn't love a Christmas hand? Right? So they took
the hams. They did great, they did.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
And then as I was leaving it, really it's stopped
me because I was leaving and there was a whole
group of girls walking in all holding flowers and they
were just going to go the desk after me and
give flowers to the police. Yeah, it's just so lovely
because it's like those are the kindness and cares that
you maybe don't see, and to see it in person

(31:58):
it was.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
It was very special, brilliant, lovely. If there's anyone else
you think we need to hear about or we should
be talking to, please let me know.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Good Morning to shon a beautiful message here from Shona.
Thank you for sharing this, Christians. Shout out to both
the staff at Lifeblood and the people manning the phones
that beyond Blue Lifeline and all the other support services.
They are having to manage their own emotions and similar tenancy,
help process other people's all while their workloads have ramped
up multifod They are heroes every single day. Shona, thank

(32:33):
you very much for reminding us of those people can
only imagine what the cause must be like. But also
I know want amazing service there be to people who
really really need help right now. So yesterday on the show,
I was just talking about old school radios, and whether
it was in a car or at home, and there
would actually be a physical dial. Now you think about radio,

(32:54):
it's just it's a digital one, isn't it. You're punching
the numbers. Now you've got your pre sets, and then
you've got people in management who sit in big offices
and they go, you got to get O'Connell. You've got
to get the P ones. You've got to get the
P two s to P ones. Why are you only
P three? Oh, you got to be P one in
this game, or Cindy's gonna wrench you out by easter.
My mission next one is P one. We go to

(33:16):
go P one pre set one? Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Is that what that means?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Say it all?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I never really knew what ignore all of it. They
just make up this want us to be that the.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
People, And I'm like, how do you does it mean anything? Oh?
I tell them what all matters? Are they listening? Are
they enjoying the show? I don't care what I'm P five.
In fact, I'm going to stop that in the new year.
I'm going to demand you, if you listen to the show,
make me P five P five. I feel more comfortable
as a P five sometimes you're gonna know, look in
the mirror and go you're P five. You got a
P one. Also, by the way, in.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
This it's so squeaky, it's so he's.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Inching captive chairs from well, oh, I need to constell
me whereabouts in North Siffy Can I go and get
some w D forty? Why would a chair be this
squeaking in a radio studio where there must be silence? Again,
I think this is another spoiling technique from Jonesy, not Amanda.
I actually it's a Manda smiling assassin under the hook.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
I always saw every day coming in here and put
like a you know, I'm crawling around chicken for traps.
What have they done today? You know this? This was
me yesterday. They're using it pass again in here overnight
and on you Tube. Jones So, yes, I was talking
about the old old school radio dials and you would
actually dial in, you'd have to actually actively tune into
the radio show. Kids these days have no idea about

(34:34):
that that that phone, the smartphone, is the remote control
of their life. It's all there, every movie that's ever
been made, every TV show that's ever been made, all
knowledge that's ever existed. It's all on their on their phones,
and so I want to do today John, the next
half and out. What would kids today have no idea about?
It drives me mad right now? No one is on time. Okay,

(34:55):
years ago, if you didn't arrive to meet your friends
at midday on the town hall steps, you didn't have
a day out with your mates doing shenanigans. You were
always there. There was no just message again, just around
the corner trying to part park into nightmare today five
minutes away, when we know no one's ever five minutes. No,
they're at least fifteen to twenty minutes away. Everyone's always
late these days. No one gets it because they don't

(35:17):
have to, but you do.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
There's no stakes anymore.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
No, no, no, you got there early to meet your friends.
Otherwise people must have thought little Tommy must be very
ill done if he's not here right now at midday.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, he got no, it just.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Got missed out and you never waited because you were.
Everyone knew what he's not coming.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
He's one minute late. He must be gravely ill.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Real What would kids these days have no idea about?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Kids these days would never know that.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
In the mid two thousands, ring tones were the most
important currency you even existed, and you had to spend
painstaking hours going on a website and manually typing in
ring tones into your phone so you could have say
the crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Frog, give me the old ring ing ing.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Ing ing?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
What up?

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Does anyone still have a ring tone that's not like
the stock ring tone?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I would love to know.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yes, yesterday I was in a shop and a guy
who was like a middle aged dad my age, his
phone went off and he had an old school Nokia
with new Order Blue Monday as the ring tone. Wow,
And he was doing that thing because it was really
loud and it was an unusual ringtone, and everyone was
looking around in this very quiet shop, and I looked
at him, away, it's that blue Order New Monday, went yes, yes, yes,

(36:29):
he was trying to like fumbling. You know, you're always
fumbled when you're trying to turn it off. So yeah,
I didn't know people still had bespoke ringtime amazing. Do
you like eight bit versions? Weren't they? Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
There was like poly monophonic ring times, then there was polyphoni.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Phonic was like the cutting edge. It's a polyphonic gold
FM in polyphonic radio, technology, Alex, what's yours? Kids today
would have no idea about.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
There are kids listening to us in the car right
now and they're pressing a button to wind down the window.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yes, we'd in press buns as kids. We wound the
window down. That's why my daughter was in a car
that goes down. I was in this ancient car. What
do you mean just it was one as you had
to wind a handle to get the air conon. I said, yeah,
that's just outside. That's not the air condon that's like
whatever that temages is coming in.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
That's that's why gen z have such weak four.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Right that crank in that hand or if you take
age as well. It was slick and quick and sometimes
just get stuck and you have to grab the window
and like push it down, yes, or pull it up,
pull it up as you were if you wound Patsy.
What's it for you?

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Kids today would have no idea with the windows, remember
the little tiny the triangular one had one.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Of those see those anymore?

Speaker 5 (37:44):
So you had like two openings. You didn't just have
the mat.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
It was like a cellah just to the front.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
For me, it was having to wait to use the
landline at home.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
That created that creates so much tension.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Yes, and if you ever had to call STD, you
always had.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
To do between It was for sexually transmit.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
That if you had to call into state from Victoria,
you'd have to between seven and eight because you've got
like a half price call RAID at the time.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
So would call it into state as a kid. I
my friend Mark in Adelaide. Now one back in your
day had interstate friends.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
It was like for beellies and stuff like if we
had to call an art to thank her for a
birthday card that she'd sent with five bucks, you'd have
to do it between seven and eight before that because
it's more expensive.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
And just also when we did start to get the
phrase home computer, nonsense that anymore. The phrase a heartways
they've got home computer and it would always sit somewhere
with a special desk a media unit for the home computer.
And that also created because if you were like chatting
on AOL and someone picked up the phone, I'm online

(38:54):
on the super Highway Information super Highway when it was
always about and the website is www forwards. Do you
remember forward slash, backslash? What's the thing all right? So
what would care today have no idea about give us
a called thirteen fifty five twenty two, and you can
also use polyphonic technology and SMS. The show four seventy

(39:18):
five three one O four three. I'm going to go
and find out whether this Rerati station as a fax
machine as well to get some ancient technology into.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
This The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
On our Friday, On The Christian O'Connell Show, we always
try and give people a big Friday energy. Tomorrow a
different kind of Friday show. We do someone called the
People's Playlist, where I give you a theme and then
you pick songs. We play your songs. You're in control
of the music every Friday on our show and it's
called the People's Playlist. I give you a theme, you
pick all the songs about that theme. Tomorrow is just

(39:50):
simply going to be songs for Sydney like Al John,
I'm still stirning where you want to hear David Bowie heroes,
any songs that really speak to what we've gone through
this week and what's needed tomorrow morning. However it is
you going to feel it might be a song where
you want to add a message to it as well
to first responders or anybody or anything you want to say.
So tomorrow morning from seven thirty till nine, that whole

(40:12):
hour and a half is your songs for Sydney. And
if you want to pick one today and email me
and help me to say a few words on your
behalf or please call in use the microphone, share the microphone.
You can say it yourself to whoever you want to
say it to. Email me Christian at Christian o'connorll dot
com today you right now, though, what would kids today
have no idea about? These are great? Thank you very

(40:35):
much for sharing them, Christian, good morning. I believe that
if you told a kid today about four on the floor,
they would have no idea what you were talking about.
I also remember learning to drive with the column shift.
Me too, that kids will be baffled by.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
What's on the floor. I don't know what there's the
kids today?

Speaker 1 (40:53):
One of them three on the tree? Y.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, say.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Oh wow, it's Awkwards. There was three on the tree. Yeah.
If we were doing that now you'd be standing. You
will want having fun and shenanigans. You're too busy on
your apps.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
As if a manual wasn't difficult enough. Yeah, you had
to change gears sort of on the left side.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Steering active thing to drive like.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
All all your limbs were moving when you were driving it.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Well, I don't know you drive limbs.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
It was just like everything.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm not sure. We didn't have power steering, No, it was.
Tony was a big deal as well. Crank and that
right this ship right straight Christian. I customized my ring
tones for contacts based on the song that reminds me
of them. I love that. I want to go through
your phone with you. What would we be under? Not sure? Still,

(41:54):
don't I change Christians something? Kids today would have no
idea about lining up overnight to be the first in
line for concert tickets. Yes, now it's worse. Yeah, but
then that's easier. Yeah, now it's absolutely worse. All right,
let's take some calls here. Let's go to Lisa. First
of all, Good morning, Lisa, welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (42:12):
Sames Christian, good morning and welcome to Sydney.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Thank you very much, Lisa. Thank you for saying that, Lisa,
what were kids today have no idea about?

Speaker 8 (42:20):
So I used to have to actually get up off
the couch to turn the t beyond know what she did?

Speaker 9 (42:26):
If I wanted to chase channel.

Speaker 8 (42:27):
I had to get up again.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Chase. Yeah, and it was always the young kids job.
Your dad, Sonny didn't do that, your mom. It was like,
you know, my dad would just sort of throw his
slipper at me and out was a queue to the
human remote control to get up. That's what it was. Only
like one or two channels anyway. It was like now
and there's like a thousand channels. It's just like And
also TV used to shut down at night. Someone you

(42:53):
to bed, You need to go to bed. You're gotta
get up and go work in a factory tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
They just had no show, no get someone would say
good night lazy.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Didn't they didn't know. Yeah, that's right. They didn't have
enough shows. Is color bar? This is no twenty four
hour TV. No. Some guy in a dicky bow tie
in the UK woulgo good night England and play the
national app not that banger of a song. You know
me too, Lisa, have a lovely Christmas. Thank you for

(43:24):
giving the show Ago and thanks your story.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
You're welcome.

Speaker 10 (43:28):
Good day.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
See yet we've got not second Lisa's Yes, it looks
like it go back to make Lisa's Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (43:36):
Goodbye, guys, welcome to Sydney.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Thank you very much, Lisa. And they're all kids today
have no idea.

Speaker 10 (43:41):
About picking up a phone receiver and getting tangled up
in the chord between and then slamming it down at
the end of an angry phone call.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Yeah, so satisfying.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
God, I miss those. You can't do that with a smartphone,
you know, your smudgy fingers and you're trying to hang
up on someone. They're doing Hello Hello, and you got
hang away. I'm trying to hang up on you, just
keep missing it with my angry fingers. How many movies
have got that iconic scene, you know, get in in
right now and need you badging gun? Donbe you know?
And it cop shows all that phone simon that and

(44:13):
it's not the same. Now, that's great those big old
rotary phones as well. He's talking about no power steering.
What a workout. It was dialing a number tape forever.
I didn't even know what it was doing. Why did
you change, Geen? It would that look darling? Winding it
all the way around and if it was a nine
in the zero Lisa, great stuff? Have a lovely Christmas.

Speaker 10 (44:35):
You say, you guys, all right, we're.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Going to take the break. We'll take some more of
your calls next. These are brilliant, Thank you very much.
What would kids these days have no idea about? You
can call us with yours thirteen fifty five twenty two,
and you can also message the show four seven five three,
one oh four three will take your calls next here
on the Christian O'Connell Show.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Christian O'Connell Show. What would kids? Excuse me? The bits
of nice squelchy eighties keyboard out. This is eighties kids
that he says, have no idea about? Morning, Jenny Christian
enjoying the show, Welcome to Sydney. Thank you, Jenny's joy
being here. What kids would know about today? Getting threatened
with the slipper you mentioned it earlier. I'm not sure

(45:20):
they're something too proud of Christian you did that these
days you get suited, Christian. I remember going to the
pictures in Sydney years ago. Before the film started, everyone
would have to stand as they played God Save the Queen.
You're winding me up shape. That's not true? Is it
that cannot be true.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Did they?

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Apparently? What back in the day, way back in the day,
Morning Guys, kids today would not know about the high
Beama dimmer switch on the floor of the car. Yes,
that's a great one, Dave. Kids have no idea but
rewinded the video tanks before returning it to the store.
Assume of that, Please be kind rewind cars without parasteering. Yes,

(46:03):
kids would have no idea today using a pencil to
wind a cassette tape that had just uns all everywhere,
hugely unreliable technology the cassette. Let's take some more of
your calls. You've got Jane on the line now, morning Jane,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
And welcome to the Morning Show in Sydney.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Oh, thank you very much, Jane, thanks for giving us
a go. So, Jane, what would kids today have no
idea about?

Speaker 8 (46:25):
They would have no idea of the UbD for you
had to actually find the street, find the number, and
then you had to go ten pages in to actually
get to the next part.

Speaker 10 (46:34):
Of the road G four.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
Or if you were going on a.

Speaker 8 (46:37):
Big road trip, you had to get the big map
out and like picture where you're going to go on
which highway? You're going to do use and you.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Had to planet I'm not joking right, the night before
a trip, and then all you'd have to write outta
and it would be on the passenger seat, as if
you're Marco Polo going on around the world trip just
to go and see your nan down the road.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
If you and if you accidentally put the map the
wrong way, you'd be going the wrong direction and then
you'd be getting yelled at because you can't.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
And also because everyone these days has got like, you know,
the instant map, you know, Google Maps, Apple Maps on
your phones. There's no reason to be lost. You don't
ever see someone with the hazard lights on leaning through
the pass your window. Excuse us? You know where? Do
you know what the red iron Bob is.

Speaker 8 (47:22):
For having the book on their steering while they're driving
with you?

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yes, yes, that's right. Yes, it was quite an audial
navigating around and then the jaw you got when you
arrived somewhere. You're my god, that's a big old trip there.
We've got to do it in reverse. That's a great one. Jane,
thanks go on the show and giving us a go
and have a lovely Christmas.

Speaker 8 (47:44):
You two, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Thanks. Let's go to Jeff the poster. You sent me
some lovely emails a while ago and when you heard
that we were coming to Sydney Morning Radio. Lovely to
speak to you. Jeff. Good morning, good morning, Welcome, Thank
you very much, Jeff. What would kids these days have
no idea about?

Speaker 9 (48:01):
Oh, he's your favorite show, you'd have to wait a
week for the next episode like Binefeld.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
I remember, you can't fans and you didn't have to
wade away. Now you just stop everything and have it
all at once.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah, my kids on Saturday night they wanted to watch
a Christmas movie and they were like flicking through every
Christmas movie ever made. I mean, you know how lucky
you are. You just would watch whatever Christmas movie the
TV bosses decided you would watch.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
That year, you got what you got and what you
got was home alone.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Again. That's a grow on Jeff to post. You have
a lovely Christmas mate, You're true. Thank you have you
got here? Tony, Good morning, Tony, Welcome to the show.
Good morning guys.

Speaker 9 (48:42):
How are you doing. Welcome to city.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Thank you very much, Tony. Thanks forgiving the show ago, Tony.
Will we kids today have no idea about mate.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Mate saving you twenty cent pieces and then heading down
to this spacey arcade.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yes, and you felt like a tycoon that pocket full
of change and oh my god, the game's adventures you
were going to have. That's it, whining the pinnies, the
pitbull machine. Yes, you're right there. You look about now.
It's a very simple joys, but it was everything. You'd
be hours down there, and even when you run out money,

(49:15):
you would just watch strangers playing games and people just
crowd around as he's putting his name in. It's carving
it up on the leaderboard. That's a great one, Tony,
have a lovely Christmas thanks to calling the show.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Right now, we're taking your stories and he calls, Uh,
this is brilliant. What would kids these days have no
idea about? Christian Kids these days wouldn't know about fine
tuning the knob on the TV. Uh, that's what you
had when you got that new TV. You had to
tune in to find all the chat the channels. Now
you just turn it on. You got download apps. You've

(49:56):
got every TV showing movie you ever made.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
It's just as annoying every app.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
No you're right, You're right, it's it's the passwords. Oh
was this the one of the date of birth? In
my age?

Speaker 2 (50:08):
You ar code?

Speaker 4 (50:09):
After four months on the streaming service drives me insane.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
And then your kids starts sharing the passwords to their
friends and I'm like, yes, no, I can't watch TV. Yeah, no,
friends watching my my account algorithms. I love it though.
Sometimes when you check into an Airbnb and some guy

(50:34):
has left as a counter open, I start watching. Yes,
so let's missus what I might go? Why are you
watching fifty shaded gray? Just a great confusion? Oh, what
fun Teresa question. Back in the day, working in an office,
we had an old Sylvester switchboard where you had to
plug the call into the correct line. It was a

(50:57):
huge switchboard. Yeah, isn't that phrase, Oh you're gonna have
to call now, speak to the switchboard operator and they
will connect my call. They're actual cables.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
And he's just didn't you do you? Mister?

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Yes? I remember years ago intoviewing Bob Geldoff, and I
was still what was it like to actually put live
aid together? Because it was in the eighties and obviously
they're phoning like megastars all over the world. And he's
said at one point he was arranged the day that
he could speak to the Pope. He needed to get
the Pope's endorsement, and so Bob Geldof needs to speak
as an irishman himself. It was a big moment. I said,

(51:30):
what is that? Like? What did you have? Is like
direct line? Has he got like a gold phone in
his Vatican crib? So is someone in the front office go, hey,
you there, take the hat off. You're gotta put the
big old school phone to your ears. It's that crazy
irishman Bob Girloff. Anyways, No, no, you got the vatic

(51:50):
And he said you had the nuns run the switchboard.
Of course they do. That's whose man sweat. He goes,
and they were stern. They don't just put any winning
indie person going to get poping. That's Bob Gildoff. Yeah, okay,
try and get hang out another prank call for island.
These are great Christian will were kids today have no
idea about going down to your local milk bar, looking

(52:12):
in the cabinet, seeing all those lollies. He's going to
even just picked them out. Yeah, you're right, milk bars.
And now it's scratchies. Yes, you're right, Yes, those.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Are grown up lollies, scratches and tintams.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
That's what it is. Let's take some calls now, who
have you got here, Kathy, Good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (52:28):
Oh, thank you, Welcome to Sydney, Thank you very much.
Kids wouldn't know that shops aren't open all the time,
that you had to get in by five o'clock, and
the half day on the Saturday.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, Sunday's everything close.

Speaker 9 (52:42):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, Sundays was a day of rest, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
You know?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Basically Clint meant our dance, just went to the local
pub and did even less, which was the bare minimum.
Old school dad seventies and eighties is about one calorie
a year as a dad, and that was to pick
up the slipper to throw it at you ask your mother.
The other one was like when my dad came home
from what he worked in the car factory, so he

(53:07):
had a really tough job. Answer. But the rule was
you don't disturb your dad for the first two hours
that he was home. Now, with dad myself, you constantly disturbed.
I was out of dinner last night. My kids are
ringing up, were going have you changed the password. That's
a lovely call. Have a lovely Christmas. Thank you for

(53:27):
giving our show ago, Kathy, Thank you bye, Belinda, welcome
to the show. We know you're there. Blinda.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Ah, Hi, Christian, how are you.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
I'm good with Blinda. Thank you very much, Blinda. Thanks
you for on the show. Yep, so they don't know
about encyclopedias. You had to go down to the library,
or go and find a friend who had the world
books and do your assignments at the airplace. I'll find
in the relevant one at said you remember, they're all
broken up, won't they.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
We had that at their house. We were the Encyclopedia house.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Oh sorry, the nerd We also had, oh well, a
place of learning and knowledge.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
The only computer game we were allowed was Encyclopedia, and.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
That was a holy grail for nerds. I was intimidated
by those kids. You're always destined for great things, But
look at.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Us in the same studio.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Levels out and that message goes to everyone waiting for
the results today. It all levels out. Oh that's so
funny about the encyclopedias. Yes, it was a joy of
learning as well and finding something out. He has to
turn so many pages, and yes, periodicals and alously you
would have to do research in the library.

Speaker 5 (54:40):
Yes course you never said at home unless you were
rich like yes.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Yes, oh he had Carter Belinda, great stuff, Have a
lovely Christmas. Take care you do. Thank you all right,
this is coming up for what is the time. It's
eighteen minutes past eight here on Golden Sydney. It's the
Christian O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Show, The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Thank you very much for all your contributions to what
would kids these days have no idea about? Somebody who
called in earlier was talking about wind up watches and
a producer, Katy, was telling me about this. She went,
oh my god, wind up watches, and I went, I
only have wind up watches. Still, yeah, this watch I'm
wearing now, I only used wind up watches. And I
saw that she had an Apple Watch. I brought an

(55:26):
Apple Watch and sold it back after three days. Gharsly things,
garsy fake things. No, what did you you know? What?
I didn't like? The thing was constantly shaking with alertz
and these one alerts. This is my wife, gang, can
you get milk and lou roll? So I don't need
that on my hand. I don't want it on my phone.
I really don't want that's not an alert, and my

(55:49):
wrist was nagging me. Christian, kids today would understand using
an old phone book pages as toilet paper. Well lucky there,
I say. It's not like a Heyday of lou Role.
Remember no, no, I don't know, but Charlie doesn't. Picked then, Christian,
I have memories of I think we've got a fellow
nerd like you. I have memories of playing mind Maids

(56:10):
on Microsoft in Carta. Wow, look at you guys. The
old math Club's re uniting.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Have a breakout podcast.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Athletics and our copies. Christian, I have two copies of
Caen Carton ninety five, as I can still play it.
Oh wow, wow, Well Ri, I'll be round in the
new year.

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Colin the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
I got a horrible feeling. This is going to be
an unpleasant next twenty minutes. It's today's time waster. We
do this every day on the show. We give a
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(57:19):
right time Wednesday is cricket movie.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Let's do it?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Snicko brother? Where are that? Well? Come on cheating? I
was easy. Moving on from sampaper, you're now using spy
technology to defeat us. Run whoa, what a surprise? Am
I going to get any golds?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Definitely not, Travis head knobs and brimsticks. What about about
old Forest Stumpy? That's silver plus War of the World, Steve,
War of the World. Someone needs to get back on
in Carter It a bit dusty over there. You give

(58:01):
me silver because you were too slow on it. I
do think you said it from what about the Nathan
Lyon King. That's gold coal. Have you got cricket movies?

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Twelve angry palms especially?

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Just be nice?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
It should have been.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Quicker, unmarkable. Actually it's really unfunny.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
This wale's got a prediction five Nilli, Yeah, Bronze Lane,
the warn identity.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Yeah, that's good gold and you me and Crawley, Oh
very good? All right, what have you got them your
cricket movie? Send them in four seven five three one
O four three were mark the next on The Christian O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Show, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Today's time Waster, I better take cover. It's cricket movies.
So we're looking for your cricket movies to down the
time wastter. Have you got a gold, silver, bronze rie?
Are you ready to mark?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
I'm ready?

Speaker 1 (58:54):
No ball for old men. Gold, Well done, Chris, the
talented mister Viv Richard. That's what a legend, Nathan, very
very good. What accident was that? That's that went on?
That master pass? The action he was I just called that.

(59:16):
I just called that. I can't control it, you know, Yeah,
well we need to we're on the radio and it's
got canceled. Second time this year TV sps Just around
the Corner, Pop and Carry in Present Danger, Silver, Shane
warn in the World's Silver Plus The Stark Night Rises,

(59:37):
Gold Marking Newcastle, Dennis Lily the Menace. That is so Rachel.
That's on Rachel Dean Jones's diary. Silver plus Ghost Bouncers. Oh,
Kerry Poppins.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
God as well?

Speaker 1 (59:53):
What a name on this guy who sent carry poppers in?
Frederick Kyler Up the umpire always rings twice? Silver Open,
how's that gall Fielder on the roof? Silver plus Weekend
at Boonie's. Imagine that two men in a wicket sounds rude?
Silver White men can't stump Batsman and Robin Silver snicko

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