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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 4 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
The show began seven years ago twenty eighteen. Only pats
and I remain Wow, the founding father and mother. So
much has changed as I look around survey the kingdom
around us now, Patsy, so many corpses and you have
killed all of them, are buried in the reign of terror.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Musto, You're the hardest one to kill off found So
you'll come.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
For me one day never and it will be my destiny.
I will bound down and say, finally, it will be
a pleasure to be destroyed by the one and only
radio killer, NonStop thriller betweena giants. Do you know actually
there are I'm in a studio right now that is
this full of joy. It's like a Santa's grotto in here,
and it's full of these beautiful cards that so many

(01:13):
of our gorgeous listeners have taken the time to go in,
right out and send. And what's magical is I'm reading
all the messages and there's something really moving about handwriting
because you don't see it these days. It's Texas emojisus easier,
but it's also quite transactional. And actually, when you see
someone's handwriting, it's like their voice. It's so unique to them.

(01:33):
How they even spell my name or how they do
their teas. It's different for all of us. And so
there are so many beautiful cars we've got up around
the studio today. Some of the people that have actually
gone to the effort of sending these cars with these
some beautiful messages and sharing in that are going to
be called and receiving one of seven really big prizes.
We have over twelve thousand dollars worth of prizes thanks

(01:54):
to Ians to give away today on our seventh birthday.
Ian S were one of the first sponsors to actually
believe that I would still be here more than a year.
A Rob from that was the first person I met
about five weeks into the show, took me out for
lunch and he's become a great friend and support of
the show ever since then. So it was really great

(02:15):
on seven years to actually be doing something Robin's team
at ian S. Some of these I must have said
good morning to Pam, She's just messaged me, and I'm
glad she's clarified something. Christian, have a happy seventh birthday.
Congratulations on creating an enjoyable show to listen to. I
sent you the card, but I thought was a young
Christian dreaming of being on the radio. Now, Pam, I
did see that yesterday and he got to be honest,

(02:36):
it's startled me. It looked like Christian who's had a
serious car accident. So now I didn't save last night
because I was worried that there was going to bomb
under the car or something very From Pam. It was
a threat like stop radio or this will happen. So
you have a choice, Zippy. You've had almost seven good years.
That's enough now. But Pam, I didn't realize that was

(02:57):
young Christian. I'm dreaming of being on the radio. Look
at him now, Yes, thank you very much. And I've
got one here from Emily Hughes. This beautiful. Yeah, it's
like a well, it's a three dimensional card. She's she's
colored in and drawn the flag of Great Britain and
the flag of Australia and she's created a podium with

(03:19):
seven on it. Did Christian a team? Happy seventh birthday.
My name is Emily Hughes. Do you remember in cars
and that when you write to people you put your
name in up from full name. Yeah, like a young rapper.
My name is Emie Hughes. Don't you forget it? And
then in a different ink, you know where they've looked
back at the work she's putting in a different inkit
eleven years old.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Bless.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
There's two times. There's two stages of life where you
mention your age and Emily's aging. Then very old people
when I'm seventy ninety, I'm seventy nine. Old age mentioners.
I used to call them, I'm seventy nine, you know,
Emily Hughes eleven. Don't you forget about it? DJ coming
at you so Emily Hughes, thank you very much. Congratulations

(04:01):
on being on air for so long. It is twenty
seven years. At the end of the year, you guys
are our favorite radio station. You also have the best
jokes in the world from Emily Hughes. Emily Hughes, that
is a beautiful thing you've made there as well. And
then one of the ones I've got so many questions about.

(04:22):
Someone has sent a carden but they've put your face
Patsy on a stamp. Oh like the Queen. Well, it
actually looked like a dictator slash tyrant. To me, I
have a small, aggressive country that's becoming the next Russier
of like a mad tyrant who's threatening the world with
a big laser. They are going to point at the

(04:43):
moon and destroy all of Ustoria.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
We'll call it.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know where you get that's not legal though,
is it. You can't just put your own photo on
a stamp.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
You know you can go to oz post and get
I think you can. I think they read a great idea.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
For Australian icons, you know, cav Freeman, Dawn Drones.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I would have to bring you in this stamp. But
thank you very much. I show them who sent them in.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Christian O'Connell show, go On podcast.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Good morning to Shane in Sydney. Thank you very much
for joining the show. In the last six months. In
the days leading up to beginning my first radio show
here in Australia, and you have to bear in mind
I'd had the craziest two weeks. I literally eleven days
before I started my radio career here in Australia, I'd
finished a radio show that i'd done an absolutely love

(05:35):
for twelve years in London, a radio show we had
two and a half million listeners, and a lot of
those listeners had come with me from my previous breakfast
show that I'd done for five years. So for seventeen
years I'd been someone's constant, and some of those listeners
had gone from being forced to listen to me during
the school run, to go into university, to meeting partners,

(05:55):
getting married and now forcing their kids. So I've been
through all these transitions in the life. So what it
meant was, in the last couple of weeks of my show,
I was getting this mass, mass, outpouring of love from
people that I've met before, but you have met in
a way, And so I went from that to the
biggest pandulum swing you can ever have a knife to

(06:16):
actually been hated within two weeks. I went from hero
to zero within two chilling weeks. The other side of
the world where people literally had this feeling of like
arms followed going no, no, now, God, he's English as well,
I don't know you, and what I do know about if.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
He's really English nine in.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
The morning, not in the morning, maybe the afternoon maybe
or real late at night when I'm half asleep and
I can't even work out Godey's English, it's going back
to me. It was a really violent swing and a
remain not that for an awful long time. But one
by one people were so kind. They unfolded arms and
they start to give the show a go, and you
welcome me into your life. And so without that, over

(06:56):
the last seven years and increasingly the last couple of weeks,
people still coming to the show, and that thank you
so much. We don't get to have this magical kind
of from my wife and I now in our fifties.
This is an amazing A second, I like to tell
myself it's a second act or is it second? Let's
say a second the corner. It's funny how when I

(07:17):
said the final acts, I looked at Pats stop it
that tyrant's face and a stamp is all I see
as she stamps me. You know, like at the end
of Inglorious gust Face Carver, you know who the carve
will be, Betrina Jones.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's amazing, though, what you've done, Christian.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And also I have to just say, right, it's amazing
the transformation and you Patsy, as you're now launching your
second season of this incredible podcast, as you're starting to
stand in your own powers now outside of what we've
done together on the show, it's amazing. It brings me
so much joy seeing the rise in new Patsy from
where you were. I remember when I chat was the
first person I hired, and I said, I need a

(07:55):
really good news reader. I've always worked with great news readers.
And the boss here said, hey, there's this woman betweena
Jones and I think she could do so much more.
And I remember I went to speak to Patsy and
at the time, you're wearing these very big missus mangle
glasses another one, and I was like, she was actually
incredibly intimidating, Like she just sat there. I was like,

(08:16):
you having to be a big I got good intentions
already make it in Australia. They learning to be part
of it. She sat there and she looked through me
like I've heard it all before from people like you,
and they're walking away going she's awesome, also genuine. I'm
actually a bit frightened. No, I did feel that, and

(08:39):
I think I think that's actually a thing I still am.
That is the relationship. You're awesome, Pats, and I'm slightly
scared by you when you bowled in here a couple
of weeks ago and pointed at me and went, if
you got feedback for me? Now? Intonation in life? Is
there anything you can say soon? Hey, have you got
any feedback for me? That's that's an invitation? Yes, you

(09:00):
feedback from me? No, I never will.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
I remember our first interaction very very differently, and it
was so refreshing. And I've never had this in radio
where I didn't know what your expectations of me were
other than obviously read the news and do it well.
And I said to you, you know, I think I
might have said, you know, what do you need from
me or something? And you said something very simple, And
I will never forget what you said. You said to me,

(09:29):
I just need you to be yourself.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, I mean, and actually your journey of the last
seven years, you're being more and more yourself on air.
And I actually remember you're saying, please, if you don't
find something funny, I say, don't laugh. And but to
be fair, you've stayed aggressively truth to that. Maybe just
ease up just occasional once a month but I remember
saying to you, please don't because it's so hard for

(09:53):
women in radio to forge a career. It's a lot
easier for a guy. It just is stacked in our favor.
So the fact that you'd even got to you know
where you are past this says a lot just about
how great you are. But I remember saying to you,
please don't ever tell me what you think I need
to hear. Yeah, and then you went, well, what if
it's awful, it's rude, and I said, well, let me
worry about that. Bit that we have a lot and

(10:17):
those are some of my favorite bits. Some most shocking
bits the show don't come from me. They've come from
old mate. And there the tyrant on the stamp.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
But it is refreshing because as a woman, you are
typecast on a lot of in radio, a lot in
the past where it's like you need to be a
laughing track or you need to be this, and I
know that is the last thing you would want from me.
So I want to thank you for helping me become
find my voice really, and also I've learned more about
myself personally than I have I think is a brasil
In the last seven years, so thank you and celebrating

(10:48):
you today because what you've managed to achieve in that
time no one in the world has done. And I'm
so proud of you as the whole team is, so
thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well, perhaps that's a lovely thing to say, and thank
you for saying that. But we don't get to have
the show if it isn't for the amazing the team
that have've made it over the seven years, the team
right now, but also the people that have come over
gone over the last seven years. But Patsy, you are
a massive part of whatever this show is. You're a
huge part of that. So team that's also now turn
to Patsy and go well done as well. You had

(11:18):
to put up with an awful lot for me sometimes,
so thank you very much. All Right, we're going to
take a break when we come back. That's enough sugary stuff. Christian,
get on with the goddamn show. I Get what you
want is coming up next.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Please don't stop swaying and dancing on my account. Rio
it's just having swaying, don't speak sort of thing you
do in the bathroom when isn't that so happy that
I love doing that. There's no one around and you
find yourself dancing and don't you kid yourself looking mirror like?
But he could have been a professional dancer. What could

(11:55):
have been? Oh my god, Parallel lives, Michael Flatley, Christian O'Connell.
I met him years ago and I'm sure he was
looking at me thinking I would have been a great
breakfast show. So I'm looking at me going I had
feet of flames as well doors Me and Flatley, guys
strap in. We're about to start changing lives with gifts.

(12:18):
Seven of these big gifts to give away thanks to
Ian S and Bosh. Now at quarter to eight, we're
giving away a big price. It is this. I've never
heard of such a thing of majesty. If God could
make fridges, I'm pretty confident that he would make a
quad door fridge, and he would gather a team from
the engineers and eggheads at Bosh. He's what that level

(12:42):
of attention to detail and engineering.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
Yes, Jesus, you get the left door, Holy Spirit.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes, and then Mother Mary or so she gets you
on the quad. So it's not Trinity, but it's it's
the quad. It's a sign different way of him working.
Actually anyway, this thing has been given away to quarter
to eight. All right, we'll tell you how you're going
to win it. But everyone listening, you win a big
price this morning at quarter to eight. This quad door
amazing megafridge. Yeah, mega fridge. I mean you have to

(13:09):
actually take units out to fit this in or ask
family members that aren't really pulling their way to get
out and make way for the quad door fridge. We've
got a fridge room now. Yes, angels sing, and there's
also six of the prices. And the way I'm doing
this then the people have been kind enough to go
to oz post fill out a card and these days

(13:30):
when you fill out a card or write a letter
on that, it actually hurts your hands. Yes, that's such
a good point. A couple of weeks ago and I
was like I was getting cramp right, and I was
a third of the way through, like should I type this?
Should have typed this? But then it's impersonal typing it,
and it's and it's so hard because actually our spelling
isn't very good and also I didn't get a pen license.

(13:53):
If you've ever seen anything written by me, it's wonky donkey.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
It shows there's no pen license.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
But some of the people that have gone to the
effort of sending me these birthday cards on today's the
seventh birth of the show, seeing their handwriting is just
so lovely. But I appreciate the effort, right It's it's
effort just to listen to the show and be part
of the show that way, but to go and get
into the post office paint fore stamp, and ninety percent
of you have actually done recorded delivery and it's about

(14:19):
ten bucks. That's the bit I'm astonished by that you
would care enough to spend ten bucks to send me
a birthday card. So I'm actually gonna throughout the show,
we're going to call some of you. You haven't asked
for the gifts, but we're going to give it to
the gifts of people that actually haven't asked for them.
And we're going to surprise some people right now. So
the people about to speak to have all been told
that there are about one thousand people on the lines
right now, and it might be one of them. That

(14:41):
isn't strictly true. It's just them. But anyway, let's start
the giving now.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
Saven years off Christian show.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's a sollarbration.

Speaker 8 (14:54):
Peez, God saven.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
This for you all right. First of all, good morning too, Noony,
Michelle Noonan, happy birthday, Thank you so much. And Michelle Noonan,
thank you very much for your beautiful sharing card and
you express posted it as well. It was my heart,

(15:17):
I replied to you straight away, Michelle, my heart really
goes out to you and your family. And I don't
understand if you don't want to go into everything that
has happened to you of the last five years an
your beautiful husband. But I was just so moved by
what you how strong you are, being a strong center
like so many women have to be in tough times.
It really moved me with all of that that you
took the time to go to the post office and
send me such a big letter. So thank you so much, Michelle.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Noonan, thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
And do you know replying to me was the best
thing because I said to my husband what I was
going to do, and he just shook, he said at me.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
So I was like, that's the kind of support you
need in the long term marriage. That's what you know.
You've got a keeper. I goes, don't bother, don't aim high.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
He won't care.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I won't even get to him. But no, I loved
it and it really touched my heart, Michelle, which is
why I wanted to send you the reply. Now, Michelle,
we're going to give you the dryer.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Really you got it, my friend. It's a Bosh eight
Keno heat pump dryer is come at you, noony y,
we begin the winning with the mighty Michelle Noonan a goddess.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Thank you so much, and congratulations on creating such a
wonderful show.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Bless you and enjoy that heat heat dryer. Okay, I
will all right, Thanks Michelle, Noonann, we go bless you,
Ludy go to Now we go to beautiful words, great
writing as well. We should have here Greg. Good morning, Greg.

Speaker 10 (16:44):
Morning Christian, Happy birthday to you and all, and hello
to Petsy and Rio later show.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Listen, Greg, what a beautiful card you Now tell me this.
Did you use a ruler or can you write that straight?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Now?

Speaker 10 (16:58):
I must admit I didn't use a ruler. I mean
it's not my writing, suddenly said, it's your writings like
a snail calling across the No.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
I loved it now, I read I read it twice.
It really moved me. I must thank Stella as well.
You're part of a double out there, Greg and Stellar.
It's like sixty singer you know, on tour on RSL
somewhere this weekend. Greg and Stella. I love but no,
you said so many lovely things. We're going to give
you the Bosh induction cook top.

Speaker 10 (17:30):
Oh jeez, we wrapped. Thank you. That's let's that's fantastic, Christian,
thanks very much.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Now, Greg, what this means for you and the mysterious
Stellar is you get faster cooking, reduced energy consumption because
I haven't met Stella, but she strikes me someone that
uses up a lot of energy.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
So it reduces Stellar's energy consumption. And there are seventeen
power levels for each cooking. Wow, Greg and Stellar do? Wow,
Greg go, Thank you very much, your car man, thanks
for listening.

Speaker 10 (18:06):
To love the show. And it's just a great started.
I thank you, Kristener. It's fantastic, great lessure.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's very kind of you to say a LOWD. Let's try.

Speaker 11 (18:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
This was an incredible card. It really leapt out of
me yesterday when I opened it. Made by you Amy.
Good morning, Amy, Hello guys, Happy birthday Amy, Amy. How
long did it take to make this incredible card for me.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
It was a bit of a rush.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It was an afternoon, but it looks like you spent
all day on this thing. It's a me that pops out.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
Yeah, well at work, I made a well, I helped
make I paid the city a few weeks ago, so
I had a bit.

Speaker 12 (18:45):
Of a practice.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's so good. And also I love the fact toy
you've made an old school transistor radio but in the
shape of a heart.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, yeah, everybody loves gold.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
No, I love this. It's really good, so Amy, thank
you very much. It really lit me up yesterday. Would
open this up after the show. It's a beautiful thing
you made. Thank you very much for doing that. Amy
and Amy, we are giving you a prize.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
You are in Wow.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Are you kidding me? No, I'm not. You're getting a
bosh unlimited. You'll never stop vacuum me. You can't. You
can't turn off. It's an eternal cleaner.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Child.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Welcome to a life of endless, infinite cleaning.

Speaker 12 (19:27):
It sounds brilliant.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you so very much.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Guys pleasure, Amy, enjoy that infinite, unlimited rechargeable vacuum cleaner. Amy,
thank you very much. Your lovely words and you can't
take care.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Good morning, Christian, thank you very much to Kirsty Isles.
Trying to hand deliver a beautiful birthday car to me
this morning at six, but in the dark. It is
dark this morning. I couldn't find the actual part of
the Palaco building or a postbox. You're right, it's a
really strange, mysterious Gotham city building. We're in amongst these

(20:02):
sort of municipals, sort of healthcare provider level crossings, and
then there's a race your station on the second flour.
I'm so sorry went out your way. We would love
to have you coming. You could have come into the
students said hello, Kirsty. I feel really really bad about that,
but I get it yet it is impossible, but thank you.
Hopefully you didn't come out of your way for that. Patsy,
how was your big lunch yesterday? You were doing You

(20:24):
looked amazing in your dress.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
It was lovely. We had a Laura Ashley.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Ashley, yes, a UK designer. Beautiful.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
No, not in any way, shape or form British. But no,
I went along. I did pack so I had a
beautiful dress.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
I was very happy with the dress.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Something very expensive designer from Masachi or Gormou.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Oh no, yeah, just an online purchase, very very ingenive.
Not sheen, no, no, not.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Keep guessing. No.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
But I did bring a lovely pair of boots to
wear with it. Lovely pair of beige Swede boots. But
you know, when you turn fifty.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Huge jab fifty three. So let's be honest, shall we.
You know, let's let's let's own it.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
I do own it, not fifty three.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's not what you're saying when you when you just
had a birthday today.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
I just, you know, wearing heels. Some days you really
got to be in the mood anyway. So to come
to work in the early hours of the morning, I
had just worn my trusty old white Sketches, which I
will say had just as friend, No, not the old
person's friend.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I went in there about three months ago, and I
thought because I just walked by and they looked so comfortable,
and had a quick look on Google and there were
five thousand and five star reviews. Right, wow, five thousand
men saying so much comfortable. Yeah, just forget what you
think about the preconceived of this. So I go do
you know what. I'm at the age maybe I won't comfort.
I go in. The guy goes to get me a pair.
I had a moment of kind of essential acts and

(22:01):
I got up and went, you're going and I went,
what times you shut? You put the box here? I
went five o'clo. We were going to do this. Yeah,
my wife needs you to look at some They walked out.
I'm not there yet, Pats there soon.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
I love the choice.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
It's a lifestyle choice.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
It is over style choice. No, but it's a confidence choice.
You're saying now that comfort matters more than things. I
don't care how you look something.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
I love these sketches so much. These are my third
pair of worn out. The other two I've got the
exact same model of shoe. But what I'm wondering is
is it socially.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
People like you're listening right now, which ones you well?
What are they? The sketches what?

Speaker 5 (22:50):
I don't know what the model is, lady's own five
or I don't know what they are. But they've got
like tiny.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Little tongue five lady feet five with like a.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Silver tab on the back of them.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Got them at my love them, love theming. Itn't blinging
it no crusty for nice?

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Is it okay to wear them to a social It's
I'm finding that more and more people.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, it's a person on a cruise.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yes, if you're a nurse and you're in the hospital, perfectly.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Nurse of news is Florence Patsing Girl.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
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Speaker 1 (23:29):
What's the story? Morning Glory, Good morning.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
It's the Christian O'Connell's show Gold one oh four point
three last year when the unthinkable was announced but the
Gallagher brothers Lim and no were actually going to do
the unthinkable, and having interviewed them both separately so many
times over the years, Liam had always been up for
a reunion. Noel was very much never up for him,

(23:53):
and a lot of people like, what's brought the mat
together again?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Is it the millions and millions and millions. I'm sure
that's factored into it. I don't think it's all about
that they've been offered so much money to do Glastonbury
just as a one off show. You can you two
just be on the same massive stage one hundred feet
apart at gaston The pyramid stage is huge. You don't
have to talk to each other. You stand there, you
stand on the other side of the wing. You weren't
like twenty million each. They still said no to that.

(24:17):
I think it's about them getting into their middle of
their life. And I think it's their mum who's not
been very well, Peggy, who's had too many Christmases where
her sons can't be at the table with her. I
think it's all of that. And I saw an interview
last year where one of their I think it was
Liam's son, said that obviously Liam and No have children now,
and they're in their twenties, so they're not kids. Don't

(24:38):
fully understand why their two uncles don't speak to each other.
And obviously they've gone online, they've listened to the music.
They know this family story, and this happens to families
all over the world, from like the Raw family now
fractioned and two brothers that that can't be together in
their fifties and so, and they said it started to
become really awkward. Why they they were worried about going
to talk to each other because obviously they have so

(24:58):
much to talk about. The dads were in one of
the biggest, most important bands in the world, you don't
even get to talk to, you know, a family relative
like that. Crazy, And so I think that it became
a bigger, bigger thing. Whereas that really going to be
the legacy of Oasises. They were just two brothers that
couldn't get back together. So it's an amazing story and
rock and roll has these stories. And when it was
announced last year, what was incredible. I never thought I'd

(25:19):
ever see Oasis back together, and it's just like they
both were like it was just I couldn't see how
it could ever happen. And then when it was announced,
it became this incredible global news event. And over the
last couple of years, the biggest demand tickets have been
Taylor Swift. And I was with my daughters last year
at the MCG the Eras tour, and it was incredible.
I saw what it did to all the wide eyed

(25:39):
fans that her music really really speaks to them, It
connects them. They're drawn to Taylor Swift. This was me
an Oasis when I was in my twenties one. I
had no money. There were two working class boys like
me from very poor backgrounds. They just lit so many
people up. They're about dreaming big. They actually dreamt big,
they made their dream happen and living it large, and
that's what you want from your rock stars. Now rock

(26:01):
stars don't speak and behavior like that for very good reasons. Okay,
back in the nineties they were that energy where you
could dream big and actually make it happen. There was
something very magnetic about Oasis and the way they were.
I haven't seen them live over the over the years.
You know, the live show isn't really about the quality
of the music. It's about the connection with the fans.
I saw it Tyler Swift, completely different acts, but the

(26:23):
same that wide eyed what it's like to have your
favorite band that really just connects you in ways you
don't really fully understand. So what I'm saying is this
news that is now only that last year was next year.
They're coming to London, They're coming to Australia, They're coming
to Melbourne, getting tickets, trying to get tickets. That now
is now next month. They've been rehearsing over the last

(26:44):
couple of weeks. I can tell you I've got friends
who've been to the rehearsals. Lim isn't even there yet,
No wants have grown ups in the room, for a while.
First of all, before we've beat the old Luce cannon
in I reckon E's going to do it like two
days before they go on stage. You know, all right,
we've done the hard work. Brother, You turn up and
do your bit, okay, just wander on stage and stare

(27:06):
at the crowd menacingly. So this is that's an amazing prize.
I am so jealous to be there in London at
Wembley Stadium, which is an amazing venue. Ninety thousand people.
How many sold out nights are Wassis doing in Wembley.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
Seven and seventeen in the UK. That's sold out in
record record time.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's the biggest demand for a live concert ever in
the UK, Bigger than Beyonce, bigger than Taylor Swift and
fat for men and women of a certain age. This
is our eras tour, This says actually my era. So
I've finally worked out what it is and I know
it is for a lot of people, but just a
huge demand here in Australia for the shows in Melbourne
Marvel as well, just selling out so quickly. So we're

(27:42):
going to fly two of you to London July the
twenty fifth and that's the first night in London. Andre
and I were just saying, I'm actually jealous because to
be there when those two boys walk on stage together
and then start up whatever the first song is, I
wouldn't be surprised if it is, what's the story Morning Glory?
Like they pick it up like the sixteen years of animosity.

(28:05):
It doesn't matter anymore. It all just dissolves the back.
Who cares why they're back. We get to have it
one more time, to re experience that joint. You're not
just reconnecting with a band into left fifties. I think
actually you'll reconnect him with that twenty or teenage version
of yourself. There's always that band where at some time
in your life they come to you at the right time.
They're like they're everything too. And that was the otis

(28:27):
from you in many people all over the world. So
this is an amazing price. We're going to fly two
of you to London. We can put you up in
a great hotel right in the middle of London. So
even in London in the summertime, well theory in the summertime.
So don't we put that in the tea's and c's.
He did say it should be summertime, but I haven't
been through so many of those UK summers it can
be a bit sketchy. Hopefully it'd be summertime. It should
have been through it summertime. You'll have a great week in

(28:48):
London and on that Friday night on behalf of the show,
you'll be reviewing it. On the Monday back, you'll be
there to see history, basically rock and roll history in London.
So the way you do this, I want you to
I want us to go to a fan. Obviously, I
am aware that this is a great prize, but I really,
my heart really does want to be giving it to
someone that is an Oasis fan that isn't just doing
this to get a trip to London. And I'd understand,

(29:08):
and if you want to do that, please don't take
part of this. I want it to go to a
fan that is really going to be one of those
whoever is you're taking out there, whether you're looking at
each other, will always remember this. I can't. It's even
better in a way seeing them when they're at the
peak of their powers in the nineties. There's something more
magical about something which didn't look like it was ever
going to happen. You'll be part of rock and roll
history to say, oh I was there, I was actually

(29:30):
there the opening night in London with all of that
energy and excitement and joy again. So the way you
do this, I'm asking you to pick an away song,
anyways of song. There are so many to pick from.
Write your own lyrics about why we should pick you
and send it to me. The number one thing to
remember with this competition, we've done this company us before,
wildly entertaining. You know what I'm about to say, Rio,

(29:51):
this is not a singing competition. You do sing, but
this is not idle. It's not X factor. It's more
about energy and passion and haven't seen the boys lives
so many times not great life. Sometimes not great life,
too much drink and the rest of it doesn't look
up vocal course, lads, not great life. It was never
about that, you know. It's more about the energy and

(30:14):
the passion and the enthusiasm. That's what's going to win
this sweet So it's sing it and win it. To
go and see Oasis live in London. You can email
your entries. You've got a couple of days and weeks.
You write your own lyrics to any Oasis song about
why it should be you winning your way there? Email
your entry. You can record it on your phone, video
audio the Little Voice memo. We give all these details

(30:35):
up online as well. But the most important thing you
need to know right now is you need to start
thinking about an Oasis song and start thinking about your
own lyrics. Are you going to sing it with who
might be coming with you or is it just going
to be you? Email me your entries when they're ready.
Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au, good luck,
let's do this.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Did you know Kevin Sheedy as a connection in Oasis
through at Uniting? What don't drop something like that? A grenade?
Do that in the Fishponds? Scottmanfirs. That's all they said.
Maybe try and get him on or Dave Matthews the
g WS Giants who is there and tells the story.
It's a great story, you love it. I know nothing
about this. We have to find out. Is it a

(31:17):
good story?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Rings a Belle?

Speaker 6 (31:18):
I can't remember what it is, but there is a connection.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yes, yes, yes, we've had Kevin Sheedy on them before. Actually,
who's conning Christian. He was brilliant, very very funny. All right, Scott,
well pick up the case on that one. Now today
is seventy years of the Christian O'Connell Show and thanks
to one of our first sponsors to jump on board.
In fact, he was Rob from n S got together

(31:40):
with Bosh. They're helping us celebrate our seventh birthday. Bosh
end of financial yearsl ends Monday only Ean s. We
have some big prizes to give away and the way
we're doing this was surprising people who sent me a
birthday card.

Speaker 7 (31:52):
Seven years of Christian show.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's a lobration.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
Peez god seven.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yes, all right, let's go to sending me a beautiful
spark golden, golden card. It's you, Deborah, Deborah, thank you
so much for the birthday card. It's beautiful. Hello, Hello Debrah,
Hi chust.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Seven.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well, thank you very much, so thank you so much
to take the time to make such a beautiful handmade
card as gorgeous.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 8 (32:28):
I did that with my neighbor.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh my god, oh kind And you wrote a poem as.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, yes, well, very quickly we did.

Speaker 14 (32:36):
Come up with a little one.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, you got a new one. No, no, this one, Yes,
that one. It's your birthday today, but a cake we
cannot bake. Our cook is long time broken, so we
hope pity can be take It's a haiku, right, okay, Yes,
we'd love to win the oven forever grateful, we would
be all right, Yoda Gold is a champion rest radio station.

(33:03):
Enjoying our special day. We hope you have a blast
just like we have had listening for the seven plus
year is past. That is beautiful, Yes, Debrah, Yes you
can help the oven well.

Speaker 12 (33:17):
Thank you, Christian.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
A Bosh Serie two electric built in oven with pop
out controls for an easy to clean front. I wish
I had an easy to clean with pop out controls.

Speaker 12 (33:30):
Thank you, thank.

Speaker 9 (33:31):
You, thank you, thank you girl.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Thank you, thank you. Me actually maybe takes down at
the end the zebra. Listenbra, and hopefully for the opening
and the first Millia bake and the of and invite
that neighbor round. Huh.

Speaker 14 (33:44):
I will be, I will be.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
I'll be baking up my muppin.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Woh okay, lovely, all the boys come running in the
yard when those muffins are around, all right, Deebra, thank you
very much, Thanks Christian, thank you now let's get to
Tony with an Eye. Tony with an eye, good morning.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Oh, happy birthday Christian.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey listen, Tony, open up your card. It's leanam Niesel
on the front there as well, which really made me laugh.
And then confettis and glitter spilled all over my hands.
I was marked yesterday glitter. My mother was up. You've
been to a strip club, I said. Card from Tony
with an Eye with an eye, thank you very much

(34:22):
for this beautiful cake. And I've got to give for you.
I'm giving you a beautiful washing.

Speaker 12 (34:26):
Machine, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
It's a front loader as well, proper great washing machine
by Bosh. You've got eleven watch programs, Catton Easy Care
delicates so you can tackle any load. It got me
right in the fields, all right, Jeles, you enjoyed that
washing machine, not Jews Tony doing the wrong thing. Tony,

(34:50):
Tony all the emotion, no one, are you're going to
be quiet? Was like someone flipping as to what it is.
What's happening to Tony with that? I the glitter and Tony,
I no, I'm taking that oven off you. You're getting it.

(35:10):
You're getting a dishwasher.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Brilliant yet Yes, she did.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
She did. These people you give them, give them a
treat like that, Tony. Tony get dishwasher, stainless, stale freestanding dishwasher.
It's yours.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Awesome. That is awesome.

Speaker 12 (35:32):
New that much.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
But yeah, thank you, Tony. Glad we clear that up. Jeels,
guess what you're getting, Joels, Jewels, You're getting the washing machine.
Thank you very much. Thank you birthday. That's why it's
your birthday today, isn't it, Jewels, Well.

Speaker 12 (35:50):
It is because I just want to wash the machine.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yes you have, yeah, I mean, oh, grabby hands. Tony
tried to get it, but I was like, you got
Tony with an eye, Tony tools, you get the washing machine.
I knew that was all meant to happen like this.
It's all going for a while today. And also thank you.
This is obviously a moon Pig card. It is so funny.
It's really really clever. It really made me laugh yesterday

(36:15):
when I opened it up. Thank you.

Speaker 12 (36:17):
Oh I hope you get the Christine spelt on the front.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
I got the Christine. There's a lot of good jokes
in there. And also now on the inside there's a
couple of photos obviously taking the effort to go and find.
Now there's one I think we did a couple of
years ago. Are you the woman in the photo?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yes, well that's that's our billboard.

Speaker 12 (36:39):
And my husband nearly died he was in You called him.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
To get the message on there on the billboard.

Speaker 12 (36:44):
Yeah, and you are so kind you gave them all
the billboards and he was so wrapped up.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
And how is Marc.

Speaker 12 (36:52):
He's amazing, He's absolutely amazing Christian. He's done such a
great recovery. It was a really long hard struggle for bypass.
But no, he's doing great.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Well send him all our best as well today as well.
But a big day for you guys. Marco, thank you
very much for the message as well. But there's a
photo above that with me, Pats and a woman. I
don't think it's you.

Speaker 14 (37:14):
No, No, that's not me.

Speaker 12 (37:15):
I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I was thinking, Oh, that's a lady. That's that's jewels.
No random woman who's gotten this moon pink car from you?
Just like to look at her?

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Is she younger than good?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I don't even know where she is out there?

Speaker 8 (37:37):
Now?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I have we need to put this woman up. Who
are you? Mister lady? In my birthday cards, and I know.

Speaker 12 (37:45):
You asked for handwriting, so I actually will. It's stinger written.
I had to upload the whole alphabet and it's very
wonky writing too, but that is my writing.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Oh wow, is that what you did? God? That must
have taken a lot of effort.

Speaker 12 (37:58):
Did take a lot of effort?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Well stop it? Anytime someone uploads their finger writing, is
it really touches me? Jules said, no, the best to
Mark as well. I'm going to try and find in
this mysterious woman is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
I'd love to know she'll go back to you.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
All right, So everyone got it?

Speaker 11 (38:19):
Now?

Speaker 1 (38:19):
You want to the washing machine, didn't you? Jeels? I'm
just checking.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
I did want to watch machine.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 12 (38:24):
Thank you for all the love of laugh over the year.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
My pleasure. Likewise, thank you very much. Everyone happy. Yeah,
Tony want that discu didn't she? She made that very clear.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast, Christian O'Connell show, Your
chance to call in and win right now an amazing prize.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
So many prizes today, seven big prizes thanks.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
To I and S.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
This is a big one open to you right now
on the phones. Most born phone thirteen fifty five twenty two.
It is a Bosh stainless still six hundred and five
liter quad door fridge. Now we're up to speed with
the try door fridge. The big ones and then the
draw the freeze often laid in there, small shallow drawer

(39:11):
for chock ices, magnums and such. Maybe some peas you
want to put in there as well, bigger drawer down
a moment, your chips and stuff like that. Anyway, I
don't need to get into how you audio fridge, but
just in case any of you who are in confused
about the tri door system, how do you go from
three to four?

Speaker 6 (39:26):
You couldn't, you'd be a madman.

Speaker 8 (39:28):
You can.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
So sometimes I don't want to open that big old
freezer drawer up and go like god, all this other
stuff in here, because I'd rather have two doors for
the freezer down the bottom. Why can't down below have
the life that the two big doors upstairs have? What's
this call this whole kind of you know upstairs downstairs
draw We're not down to an abbe.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
But it couldn't be done Christian engineering mirror.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
That's the egg EDGs that work out. Bosh, you've got
double doors and down the bottom to be like Mummy
and Daddy upstairs with the big double doors. Everyone gets
double doors. You get a quad door fridge. How do
you get this?

Speaker 8 (40:04):
A mad.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
So sad fine.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
To call their team Christian pigx up so can.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Oh washing? This is obviously saying when Jack was on
the show and you never thought you'd get that check.
I bet if I asked you to sing it now,
Oh yeah, you'd sing like an angel. Win your.

Speaker 14 (40:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:34):
No, Jackson could be on the show for g who rio, I'm.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
Matter payfune try it anyway.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
The first person to call me on thirteen fifty five
twenty two from a payphone wins the quad door fridge. Wow, payphone, payphone, payphone.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Christian Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Hey Christian here today Then June fourth, twenty twenty five,
seven years of the Breakfast Show, We've been given away
six of the seven big prizes so far. The last
and final one, thanks to Bosh and Es, is this megafridge.
It's a quad door fridge. We asked you to be
the first person a pull over and find a good
old fashioned payphone and give me a call on thirteen
fifty five, twenty two. You're ready.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
Seven years Christian show.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's a so lobration.

Speaker 8 (41:29):
Heeez god seven?

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Yes, yo.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
On the line now from a payphone? How don't believe
in East Gippsland? Is that you, John?

Speaker 14 (41:40):
Yes it is so we can hear you.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
It's like you're on the moon.

Speaker 14 (41:43):
Where are you, buddy in a payphone in the too?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Yes it is, yes, so East Gibson, isn't it? Oh?
South Gipsland? Okay? And how did it take you long
to find the payphone?

Speaker 14 (41:56):
Oh no, I just I just live near it, so
out of the.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Door, so a very short trip forew to win.

Speaker 14 (42:04):
Yes, yes, I couldn't believe it. I was thought, Oh
I got to the payphone. I oh man, I forgot
the number and then we had to run back in
and get it again.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
I'll tell you what those delivery drivers ines have got
a bit of a drive out from the Bridge City
out of Gibson with a mega fridge. Fridge lugged that
out there. I love it, John. So do you need
any fridge buddy?

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (42:28):
Yeah, that good. Yeah, I'm always in for the who
is it you're wired to fridge?

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Twenty four to seven? You can wake me up at
two am and say you've got a new fridge, and John,
I understand. Did you also send us a birthday card?

Speaker 14 (42:42):
Yeah, I posted off on Monday.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I won't get it till next year from next thing.

Speaker 14 (42:48):
No, it's not that bad. I put priority post on it.
You'll probably get it today.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
All right, Well listen, I'm so glad and that you're
the winner from the payphone there and John, enjoyed the fridge,
and thanks for sending me the card. I look forward to.

Speaker 14 (42:59):
Reading to get fantastic. Thanks very much. I love your
show listen since day one.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Oh thank you John.

Speaker 14 (43:06):
You guys I just laugh every every day.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Oh blessure. Such a lovely thing to say. It's a
joy to do the show with people like you. John.
That would enjoy being part of the show as well.
Thanks to walking to the bottom of your road to
get that pay phone.

Speaker 14 (43:20):
All right, joyout fifteen twenty steps.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
They're the hardest steps in life, those first fifty. And John,
you made a get a nice drink for those removal
guys are coming out of that fridge in your place.

Speaker 14 (43:35):
I'll try and look after it.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, okay, thank you, John, take care, well done.

Speaker 14 (43:38):
Thanks very ruts.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Christian Christian O'Connell show go on.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Podcast, Christian, you sound, by the way like Jeremy Irons
in Die Hard when you were talking about you must
call me now from a payphone, simple simon, met up, hymen,
great spot? All right, coming up next?

Speaker 8 (43:57):
Believe it or not? What you gotta be?

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Justhing me.

Speaker 8 (44:04):
Like we are you with Cheryl who married?

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Who was with?

Speaker 8 (44:10):
A Sheryl.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
Who married?

Speaker 8 (44:13):
A Hunt has what?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Every Wednesday on the show, we look for your stories
of coincidence and chance Call me thirteen fifty five twenty two.

Speaker 14 (44:22):
When I was.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
Born, it was either a debate that I was called
Jennifer or Stephanie. My middle name's Catherine, start with a C.
And we got neighbors a few years ago with three
girls in The names were Jennifer, Catherine, and Stephanie, and
Katherine's felt the same way.

Speaker 10 (44:38):
I had a new guy start at work. We're chatting
away whatnot, and he goes, hey, did you ever go
out to this bar a bit half an hour away?

Speaker 1 (44:47):
I go, yeah, yeah, I did. What are the odds
of this?

Speaker 10 (44:50):
I had invited him back around to my house in
the group of our party. Wouldn't know this guy from
a bar of soap? Look back at my snapchat and
I'll find a video of this guy.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Makes you want to do a quiz? Now, would you
know this person from a bar of soap? I've never,
ever and on we has heard that from. Added to
my ever increasing list infinitist of Ossie's sayings a live
what are the odds? Has happened? Twenty minutes ago we
gave Tony with an Eye a brand new tishwasher. She's
just gone to use her sixteen year old one. It's

(45:22):
just packed your She just emailed me, Yes, what are
the Tony with an Eye? All right over to you now.
Your story is thirteen fifty five twenty two. It is
eight o'clock Wednesday morning. So far this is the midpoint
of the show. In any week. We haven't given away
one thousand dollars for our instant Calder of the week.
It could go with your story of coincidence and chance.

(45:45):
By the way, just tune in for the first time,
you think. All right, so these stories of coincidence and chance,
are they about consumer goods breaking down? They're not. But
I won't be mad if you have got any order today.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Okay, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Our first today. Then we have Doug Welcome to the show,
Doug Christian Doug, what are the odds?

Speaker 15 (46:09):
Well, my story is that when I was at nineteen,
my friend and a few others decided to move the
teacher's car and twisted twisted his and they went into hospital.
So I said, I'll come and see you Wednesday, Steve.
And then on Wednesday I turned out to be quite
a sunny day, so for the climb, I go, is
it not going to go to Steve, I'll go for
a bike ride instead. And I went for a bike
ride and got hit by a car and they ended

(46:32):
up taking me into the same hospital and the same room,
straight across from Steve.

Speaker 10 (46:38):
While his family was.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
So you were going you were destined to go meet
him that day.

Speaker 10 (46:43):
I should have just done what I said I was
going to do.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
In my mind, was it that car you tried to
move that actually knocked you off on that bike?

Speaker 15 (46:53):
And even the next day they're going, come on, people
need this bed, you know, like I'd set this whole
thing up and got plaster on my lead from hip
to tell what.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
That's a nice jo wrong? Doug, thank you very much
his story. Yes, Hello, hello, Bob, Welcome to the show.
What are the ards.

Speaker 11 (47:16):
Bobby Boy, Okay, I had a bait. He's down deceased.
He's been going for about ten fifteen years now. He
was a Vietnam veteran.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (47:29):
And when he was coming home on HbA or Sydney
in the late sixties early seventies, he must have had
a really bad time over there, because when he was
out in the Gulf of Vietnam or where we're on
the way home back to Sydney, he threw his dog
tags overboard when he came home. He came home and

(47:55):
then he died of cancer.

Speaker 16 (47:58):
A fisherman from Vietnam obviously pulled him up in his
debt or on his line, found the dog tags and
did some research and sent them back to his family
here in Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Wow, what a beautiful story. And they've got them.

Speaker 11 (48:17):
Yeah, they got the dog tags and he threw overboard
on HBO Sydney on the way back home after twelve
months in Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
What incredible story.

Speaker 11 (48:27):
So what are the odds of that?

Speaker 1 (48:29):
You're right, Yeah, that's pretty That's a big one. I've
got to be honest, Rob, that is a bob That
is a big one. What a beautiful thing for the
Vitnamese fisherman to do as well. He got a time
and effort to send them back.

Speaker 11 (48:40):
Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, if he picked them up in
his dead or on his own or however they fish
over there, obviously did some research to the name and
number and everything and sent them back to his family,
and his wife has still got Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
You're right, thank you you call. I've actually pulled it
myself in the phrase fish over there. You're right. You're right,
those Vietnamese and the same in my homeland. You don't.
Don't even get me started about how in people fish.
You're right, it's Vietnamese fish, went out fish. They use
their pinkies to catch fish. That's how they do it

(49:16):
over there.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
You know the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Christian Happy seven years on the show. Today, you and
the team have given me laughter, smiles and tons of
useless information. Perfect. Thank you very much. I know you
wanted to handring cards, but at the moment I'm holidaying
in Cairns, but I want to tune in today to
say happy birthday to you and the team. Lorraine. Thank
you so much. That's very connor you do on your

(49:42):
holidays up there. I love the way Lorraine, Lorraine gets it.
She signs off here Lorraine bear rackets as in grizzly
very good. Yes, yeah, that's back tomorrow, this time tomorrow.
Actually the name game, as in all right, what are
the yours? Before Patsy's news in five minutes, let's go

(50:02):
to great Name Ruby. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Hi Christian, have your birthday, Thanks Ruy.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Now what is your story for? What are the odds?
What have you got for us?

Speaker 2 (50:12):
So, basically, my dad was born in nineteen sixty eight
and he was adopted when he was a baby. He
grew up in Sydney with his adoptive family, and then
when he was in his forties, he found his birth
mother and reached out with her and learned that she'd
had kids not long after him, and they had all

(50:33):
gone to the same high school together and had been
in the same like sporting settings and group parties and
all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Wow, Wow, that is so that is so spooky for
him to do work through.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
There's photos of them like at the same house parties.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
You're treating route.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
They had no idea of the incredible.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Collect idea, not at all. Now. One of his sisters
looked a lot like him too, So yeah, it is spooky.

Speaker 6 (51:03):
My older sister, Kimberly, she's adopted from South Korea, and
we went in April to go, you know, on, to
just start the journey to try and find her birth
mother or father and see what.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
We can find.

Speaker 6 (51:15):
And haven't found anything yet, but it's a beautiful to
go on. It is very emotional and I'm just it
makes me so happy that he was able to find
them and reunite. It would mean the world.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Really.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yeah, and they're still in contact now.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh yeah, for sure. She's a part of our lives.
So it's like I have an extra grandmother now.

Speaker 11 (51:35):
Well.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I love these stories where suddenly you've got an extra,
extra part view, isn't there there's an extra the family expands. Yes,
what a beautiful story. Ruby, Thank you so much for
trusting us and sharing that as well. So very health
felt story.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Thanks a good day, Thank you so much, thank you.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Bye, have we got here, Lorii, Good morning, Lorie.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Good morning, Christian, Happy birthday team.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Thank you very much. Laurie Pleasure. You've been listening for long?
Have you come over recently?

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Know this the whole seven years very rarely missed the show.

Speaker 10 (52:04):
Love.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Thank you so much, Laurie. Thanks for being part of
our lives as well. Now, Laurie's story for was mate.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
When I was a child, now I'm in my sixties,
I was. My mum used to read me a book
that was donated to my aunt. My aunt, so she's
now she's passed, but she's about one hundred and one.
She was donated. She was gifted a book as a
reader when she was in grade one for good reading.
The book was called Budge and Betty and we lost it,
never found it. And years later, when my twins were

(52:33):
growing up, they were teenagers, they had a friend whose
mum worked at a regional library and that was closing down,
and she gave us a box of books and she said,
go through these books, you might like them. And in
there was the book that was donated to my mind. Yeah,
and in it is inscribed gifted to Audrey Brown for
great reading in grade one. Now we worked out the

(52:56):
book is at least ninety years old, and I've taken
a photo and sent her to her daughter, who has
confirmed it is the actual book.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Want to cry?

Speaker 3 (53:06):
What for a wrong? Yeah? So all these years later
I now have in my possession, the book that belonged
to my aunt that I got read when I was
a child, so I was probably three or four years old.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
And it's so much more than a book, isn't There
all these more generations. So do you say ninety.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Years it's at least ninety years old this book so
much has happened showing that time, and we don't know
where it went and where it got to or it. Yeah,
all the.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Young kids that would have read it and read it
and enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Yeah, and looks it's very tattered and torn and everything.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
And you consumer, I think a bit ted fi.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
I've been read in loved and obviously knew, but like,
it's just such a key mistake. And now my daughter
is in early childhood and I'm giving it to her
as the next generation to take it on and give
it and she'll have it for her children to read
to them.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
So, you know what, not that long and it will
go into one hundred years and beyond.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Yes, absolutely, that's incredible.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
There's something about the magic of children's books. I have
virtually you know, you can't keep every keepsake from your
children book. Virtually all the books I have kept and
when you touch them. I bet it's saying with this
book that special books, especially children's books, right, because their
joyous things, children's books, they have this incredible energy to them.

(54:32):
And about when you touched it again, you felt that
almost like a magnetic energy to it when you touch them.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Well, it's the wonderment of how I learned to explore
as a child about what reading was all about. And
I've tried to instill in my children that reading is
an exploration of life and all the dreams that you
can have. And now my daughter's doing that with her
generation of children she's teaching, and it just warms your heart.

(54:57):
It's just really warms your heart.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Yeah, Wonderment is a beautiful word. I love that word.
A couple of years ago, I was going to do
a podcast called Wonderment. I just I didn't have any
idea what it was. I just loved the phrase and
so I but I absolutely love the phrase wonderment. You're right,
that is the power reading it is.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
It's the power of passing on and like for me,
you know, my mum would be so thrilled to know
that reading through that will be the fifth generation going
through that book. It's gone through five generations, and then
when my daughter has her child, it'll be the sixth generation.
We'll have that book and keeping it going. And she

(55:33):
said it'll pass through history again. And that's where it
excites me that reading is still such a universal thing
that we can all be part of, because like these days,
you know, we've all got iPhones and iPads and all that,
and we've lost that wanting to learn and read and enjoy.
You know, there's nothing better than sitting in a corner

(55:55):
and picking up a book and sitting in the sunshine
and reading.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Oh my god, it's the best thing. Well, just losing
yourself in the book. And the important thing is that
kids are listening right now. There's so many great powerful
distractions your phones and your game stations and playboys now.
But what reading does and why it's really important to
because it gives you empathy. Because if you can't read
a book and not empathize about a character you don't
even know, whether that's Harry Potter. You have to enter
into somebody else's world and imagine what it's like to

(56:20):
be them, and right now, they're One of the things
that we're losing is empathy for each other. It's a
very angry time to.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Be alive to where their thinking is, where they're going
on their journey. It's the transportation of you going into
their mind and where they're taking you on a journey
of what you're reading. And yeah, I just loved That's
what reading is to me.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Yeah, Lauria, it's the same to me. Literally, my life
was changed with my dad. We didn't have a lot
of money for new books or books and meals growing up.
That dad took me to the local library where it's free,
and reading changed my entire life. I still read three
or four books a month. My dad in that moment,
introduced them at the age of nine. Of the joy
of books changed everything for me. I learned more from
books i did at school. I wasn't gring to school.
The books change my life still do now anything. If

(57:04):
I'm ever any good at this is because of reading.
That's it for me. Every single week of reading something,
I love it. Laurie. This has been like it's like
listening to a Ted talk and no, no, a better
Ted talk actually, because it's spontaneous and the way you
have a like a word magician that comes from someone
who has a deep love of learning and reading.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I think that's just old age.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
I think no, no, that's mastery. That's mastery. That's not
old age. That is mastery, Laurie, that's what it is.
You should know that now listen. A very small gift,
but I'd love to say thank you, because you never
know who's listening when you when you have conversations like
this on the radio. We're doing the show and it
bubbles along and it's all froth and it's lovely. And
then sometimes it's lovely about the show we have and
people like you, Laurie's when sometimes you can dip a

(57:48):
bit deeper into a conversation and I love that what
you said about the joy of reading and that powerful story.
You never know who won't we be listening right now,
a kid who's having a tough time, or actually just
Fanci's reading because somebody outside of Mum and Dad said
you should read. It's good for you. It really really is.
It did transform my life and still does and you
know what it's done for your family's love as well.
So as a small thank you, I'd love to give

(58:09):
you one thousand dollars for our Call of the week.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Christian Oh no, honestly, your your story and just what
you said is so powerful reminder to all of us
about the joy of learning and understanding what it is
to be us and be alive.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
Oh, thank you, Christian. That really makes my day.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
How many books can you get with that? Can I
come down bookshopping with you? Maybe one or two for me?

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Well? The surprising thing is most of my books come
from Vinnie's or something.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
That's a great place to get them. Though.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I volunteer, and so does my daughter. We do.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
That's what you do. Yeah, you are those people, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Volunteer we do. What a lovely we get it. Thank you, Christian,
and thank you for the show. I love it. I
listen to it every day.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Thank you, Worry Lurie. Really beautiful chat. It's a real
joys chat to have with you today on a very
special day for us. Laurie, You're awesome. Thank you very
much for your story as well. So mad and enjoy
spending that one thousand dollars you can actually buy a finish.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
I donate some money to them too.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
All right, good on you, all right, thank you a
deep joy for all of us, and we'll have everyone
listening right now. Thank you very much, Lorrie. That's lor there.
What a beautiful mind of the joy of books. She's
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