December 14, 2025 • 51 mins
Broadcasting live from Sydney for the very first time, today we opened the phones to hear from listeners about what Sydney means to them.
We also shared messages of support and solidarity, acknowledging how moments like this can shake a city while also bringing people together. Sydney, we’re thinking of you. We love you.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So I'm Christian O'Connell and this week we were hoping
to come on air to get to know you guys.
I am the guy and this is the show, and
this is my team. There's gonna be taken over from
Jones in Amanda in January, and I didn't want to
wait until January for us to get to know each other.
And I'm really really sorry that we have to get
to know each other this way.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This morning is a I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
About you, guys, but this morning when I woke up,
it felt like it was a hangover.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I didn't sleep very well. I kept looking at the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I looked at scenes Sandy that you do see too
much coming from America. It didn't feel like it was
here in Sydney, or certainly not here in Australia. It
was like a hangover. Did that awful thing really happen
last night? And so I hope that today show is
a place of hope and support. I probably like a
lot of us spent too much time doom scrolling. You
keep looking at the update, keep wanting to look at
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more and more footage, and I don't think after a
while it helps. And so today on the show, I
really want this place, this show, to be placed of
support and hope and actually where we can talk about it,
because I don't think staring at our phones is what's
needed in the world right now and in Sydney this morning.
So the phone number is thirteen fifty five twenty two.
If you want to give us a call this morning,
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you might know someone who is there has been affected
by it. If we're struggling to try and make sense
of something which is senseless, there's no way to make
sense of it. My real heart goes out to all
the people who are waking up this morning who have
lost loved ones or have them in hospitals around Sydney.
Let's check in with Patty. Now, Patsy, what do we
know this morning? What is the latest? And obviously across
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the show today we'll have regular bulletins as things unfold
and changed.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But what do we know right now?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Well, sadly, Christian the deft toll has just risen from
twelve to sixteen that's just been confirmed, which is just
absolutely shocking. We've got twenty nine injured. We don't know
the extent of any of those injuries. Among the death
toll includes one of the gunmen, and there's a second
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gunman under police guard currently in hospital injured. But amongst
all of the horror of last night is emerging all
these amazing stories of heroism, and that amazing footage of
the man that disarmed one of the shooters just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I've never seen anything like that in my life.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Absolutely, it was like he was a Special Forces guy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He just was utterly fainness. He was going to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He took down an active shooter and then didn't use
the gun on him. To have that courage and levelheadedness
and big hardness to not turn himself into a murderer.
That is Australia. That's the image that people are seeing
around the world. That's what we should have in our
hearts this morning, is that gay guy Hmed, a dad
of two, selflessly thinking of other people and in his acts,
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that's Australian of the year. He would have saved so
many more lives.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
As well, and clearly in that situation, not even consciously
thought about. It just sprung. That's just natural reaction, isn't
it to do something like that. So our terror level
is still the same. Is it probable they haven't heidened it?
It is officially an act of terror. And there is
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also one of the gunmen's homes in Sydney's West has
been raided, so there's a lot of streets closed off there.
But yeah, I myself feel still in shock this morning,
and I've covered a lot of a lot of things
nine to eleven and you know the Linked Cafe siege,
but this is just it's shocking.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
We had a beautiful team dinner last night in Manly.
It was a beautiful night. We've come from Melbourne where
it's been so cold, so to sit out and just
enjoy a beautiful meal with some of you know, our
work family. And then which is exactly what would have
happened at Bondi. You know, there were families.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
There, it was a religious festival, there was a children's just.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
The most beautiful night and enjoying Sydney as you should,
all the beautiful sights and the beaches, and then for
this to happen, it's just utterly devastating.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, it is all right, Let's play a song.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
If you want to give us a call this morning
thirteen fifty five twenty two. You can also message us
as well. Four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Good morning, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You're from Sydney, how are you feeling this morning? I
bet your mom and dad checked in where you were yesterday.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yet the family chat, you know, I can't remember the
time that's ever happened before when checking to see if
we're safe, and I'm just I'm in complete disbelief at
the moment, Like it's I don't recognize my own city
for the for the first time in my life life,
Like you see those images and the Bondai that we
know for all of us growing up in Sydney, no
matter where you're from, you spent a lot of time
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in Bondai.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
That's where you go for school holidays.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
As iconic is probably the most Australian thing that we're
fed around the world. Yes, exactly, Harbor Bridge, the Upper
House and Bondai Beach.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's where all the tourists want to go and get.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A photo taken from It's quintessentially Australian and to have
that happen anywhere in Australia, but there it's just this,
it's a real like so I think the word everyone
is like they're struggling to talk about it. You know,
what do you actually say? It's unbearable, the tragedy that happened.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
It's so hard to process the image of Bondai that
we all know. It's so formative for us as well,
Like no matter where you're from in Sydney, it's not
just like a cliche or a trope.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We do all bond Is to spend our school holidays.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I had lived in engandein which is like right in
the deep South. I'd make him on the train. I'd
meet my other mate Nathan from the West, my other
mate Miles from Epping in the.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
North, would all come. We'd all go to Bondai.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
We'd go to the aportos there, burn our feet on
the sand running across to get to the park.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And those were the these core.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Memories you have as a kid and growing up in
school holidays, and to think that there would be so
many kids and people they're doing that same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Sunday Sunday innocently, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That horror to put those to try and put those
two things together, it didn't make sense. Like you're looking
at your those images and you're like this, this isn't
the Sydney.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I know this. It's it's barely believable. Mate, it was.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I'm still I'm still looking at those photos, going this
can't be real.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, what I'm also been aware of this morning. So
my daughter's called me yesterday because obviously, like all of
us now, we got our news on our phones and
they were like, where about something you and Sydney?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I say, I know you were down at the beach,
and I'm thinking this morning, my heart goes down to
all the mums and dads. How do you speak about
what's happened to your kids?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What do you say? You know?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And the death told is what's sixteen? Is it gone
up to sixteen? People have lost their life?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Well, I've got my teenage daughter, as you guys know,
up with me at the moment. She's fourteen, Audrey, and
I just had to reassure last night you're safe.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You don't need to be afraid. It's an awful thing
that's happened, but you'll be okay, you're safe. It's hard,
it's really hard. What do you do with younger kids
because their thought process is so different. But I think
that's what all you can do. It was just assure
them that Australia is still a really safe country in
which to live. We're very, very lucky and sadly these
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things do happen, but you're safe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's incredibly rare, it is, you know, and people are
talking about, you know, the worst terrorist attack in this
country in thirty years. It's quite a thing. It's a
sad thing to say this, that's quite the thing to
be able to say, you know, when I moved it
from London seven years ago, sadly my twenty years on
London radio, there'd been too many big attacks and one
thing I never thought i'd ever experienced in this country
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or something like that happened last night. It really doesn't
make any sense. You can't believe has happened right here
in Australia. In Sydney as well. I just want to
reassure people as well. Obviously we arguing doing regular bulletins
and the situation is sadly going to unfold and we'll
get more details decision. But this is a safe space
where you can listen to today's show with the kids.
We will only be giving you the news. This isn't
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gonna be speculation. It's not a place for gossip. There's
going to be no caturitou's clips played out or anything
like that of what happened. That will been the right
thing to do, and I want people to be reassured.
Is it safe to listen to the show today? It
absolutely is. Let's take a break. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Sorry. If you want to give us a call today.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two, there's anything you want to say,
you can also send us a text message. Oh four
seventy five three, one oh four three, just coming up
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Speaker 4 (08:51):
Good morning, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
With the awful terrorist attacks in Bondai, I think it's
too much for us to be with alone. You need
to talk to people about it, and so that's what
I really hope today's show is for you. It's a
place of hope and support. If you want to give
a cool and share how are you feeling this morning?
I think it would really help. Thirteen fifty five twenty
two is the number. You can also text me as well.
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Four seven five O three one O four three. We've
got the headlines coming up in two minutes time. Everything
that's been going on. Joe's on the line right now.
Good morning, Joe, Welcome.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
To the show.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good naughtie.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
I just first to want to say about dollars to
show the family and friends who lost their loved ones.
It's just so sad. But also I just want to
give a big shout out to the paramedics and the
police officers. My daughter's a paramedics and it's terrific what
has happened, And just to show that we love the more.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, it's unimaginable what they must have seen those scenes
yesterday on such a big scale like that, all those people,
the bystanders there who are trying to help, all the
eye witnesses so traumatized by it, and you know, first
responders there every day is dealing with chaos and things
that no human is able to process. It's so much
So Yeah, I bet it was a moment for you,
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you and her to chat yesterday and check in on
each other.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
She was working during the night, so she was just
whitching good. She was just checking. So I'm a little
breaks to say that. You know, she's okay, but yeah,
there's gonna be a lot of chatting, which you gets tired.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And how are you feeling, Joe this morning? It sounds
like you're on your way to work. How are you
feeling this morning?
Speaker 9 (10:32):
God?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Sad, I'm going to my dad to go to afphoon
or actually so it is terrific. But just to know
that we're with everyone and we're thinking of it at
the third time, it's just really horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Joe, lovely, lovely words. I hope today isn't too
bad for you as well. You've got a lot going
on there today, and I'm glad that your daughter's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, thanks for calling. Have a lovely Christmas as well.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Yeah, have a great day, by Darling.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
She's just gonna be Donnie.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't mind that Christian O'Connell show podcast The.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Morning Christian my name is Christine likes to offer my
condonnces to all the Jewish people of Radia and also
the poor first responders that were affected by yesterday's mass
shooting at BONDI. I was sitting on my lounge with
my husband and our four year old grandson as everything
just unfolded and we were in a state of shock
and terror. I am in all though this morning of
what that brave man did, Yes Ahmed, to tackle the
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active shooter. It's his act of heroism that's brought me
to tears. That he saved so many extra lives as well,
and that the death toll could be even higher today.
I would like to thank him. It's also he's been
shot twice as well. He's doing very well. But what
an incredible image that is. That's the one that we
should also be hanging on to today. That is Australia.
Those are the values that we all want to think
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that actually, if something like that happened, we would look
out for other people. It's an incredible, incredible act of courage. Christine,
thank you very much for your message. We're going to
go live now to Bondi where our journalists, our gold
journalist Sean Fraser is Sean.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Good morning, good morning, how are we?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh good? Sean?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Tell us what's the light down? And obviously a very
somber mood.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
I'm guessing yeah, it is very somber, a lot of
sad people. People are rocked up to pay their respects
after yesterday. There's a lot of tear filled eyes, a
lot of people hugging. I'm about one hundred meters from
where the bridge is where the shootings began, I suppose yesterday.
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And as you said at the top, there about that
boat that just took the gun from that guy, there's
that active bravery. That's a guy that's just come to
the beach just to have a day out and he's
been met with this decision that it's just all inspiring. Really,
it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, it is, and it's a lovely thing to hang
on to this morning because when you look at the paty,
what's the latest the death hold?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is it sixteen sixteen?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yeah, four further and we've just also got note Christian
that we have a further two people listed is injured.
So that's now forty and of those five are critical,
sixteen confirmed dead, forty injured in hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I still can't believe that it happened, and this is
the news that people are waking up with in Sydney
this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So Sean taming this, do you think that people are
coming there to pay respects that they want to go
down there and show some sort of unity and support.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Absolutely, Like I've spoked to a few people, they just
feel like they just want to be here, you know,
there's just there's something inside them that's you know, maybe
they didn't hear it or they went close to it yesterday,
but they just need to come down and pay their
respects to those members of the communities that have lost.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And how are you feeling yourself down there as well?
I can hear in your voice it must be a
lot to take in the thought of, you know what
twelve hours ago, you know what was going on.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Yeah, it's look, I'm okay, but yeah, as you said,
twelve hours ago, the city was a different place. And
being down here and seeing everyone, I mean, it's nice
to see the community together. It's hard to go past
the fact that so many city signers have just been
killed just at the day of the beach.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And have you been talking to some of the eyewitnesses
that were there.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Yes, I spoke to one man, Ryan. He said he
was down at the bowling club. Actually they heard the
shots ringing out at the bowling clubs, so a lot
of them were under the tables. They didn't know what
was going on. He also told me that he was
worried that something like this was going to happen in
his neighborhood. That the acts of Andy Semitism had been
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on the rise over the last year or so, so
he was worried something like this was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, Sean, for now, we'll leave you down there with
all the community as well. I'm sure we've been a
great support. Sean, thank you very much. A chance us
this morning. Take care, cheers guys.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast as a situation in false
we keeps you abreast with all the latest news from
the Towist attack and Bondai yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I really hope that we are being of some comfort
this morning. We're all trying to get through it together.
It's too much. It's actually just unbearable to be able
to process. I think it's going to take people a
really long time to understand.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I don't think you can understand. It's like a horror show.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
When you look back at the footage, because these days
we see so much more footage than any other time
in history.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's overwhelming. The horror of it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I start watching a never ending twenty four hour horror show,
and so I really want to make sure on the
show today we are obviously being with you in what happened,
but also reminding everyone that this is a horror show,
because that's not Australia. You know, that isn't Australia. That
hero Ahmed, that's Australia. A man running towards danger, tackling
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an active shooter, taking the gun off him and not
using it on him, A dad himself, he's a dad
in his forties. I cannot stop. I can't get the
image out of my mind. And that is the one
I encourage all of us to hang on to today.
That is Australia. That's what the world is seeing as well.
That's the image that we should remember today and keep
in our hearts. So today I want the show to
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be a place for support and hope that as much
as we really feel the terror of what happened yesterday,
is also to remind ourselves that is not normal.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It is a freak show.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's an aberration what happened yesterday, which is why it
is so shocking to us today waking up to it
feeling like some kind of hangover that my God, did
that really happens. It's almost like a physical pain you
feel trying to understand it. And so today I want
us to reminder that this is also an amazing city.
This is an incredible city and BONDI will hill. It's
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going to take time, but there are people down there
right now on Monday morning. You've chosen to go to
work late, to go and stand together and just to
be there. And there's something beautiful about that and touching,
just to be there, not even to say any words
of comfort, just to show up. And it's an act
of defiance that actually, those idiots yesterday they took nothing.
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You don't win, you don't take that from us. To
let's remind ourselves. I think we all need to know
this what makes Sydney great, because this is a hell
of a city. It is it really is a fantastic city.
What if you're a Sydney Sider real what is it
that makes Sydney so special to you?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And this is something I've noticed.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I've lived in Melbourne for the past seven years and
I miss it more than anything in the world. And
it's what makes yesterday, you know, even more heartbreaking. It
is the the beautiful beaches in Sydney. There is something
that it does almost on to your soul when you're
near the beach, when you're near the water, and Sydney
has the best beaches in the world. I've never been
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to any other country that's come close to have it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I know you've been to England. We have some of
the ugliest beaches in the world. There's no sand.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And they're so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I actually think that's what affects the cricket team.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I think their spines are out of alignment from lying
on pebbly, rocky, flinty war fields of beaches.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I was there in summer and there were people in
full body wetsuits because it's so cold just to swim in.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
The pretty features.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What is that terrible? But Sydney and to have it
like we're looking out on the harbor now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
To have it's a striking looking city.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Beautiful and to be able to go from the beach
to the city in twenty minutes is insane.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, Alex sure is Sydney cider as well. How are
you feeling this sawning as well? But you've been chating
to family and friends here and.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
I'm really struggling, Christian. I'll be honest, mate, I'm really
struggling with it. And the reason I am struggling with
it is because that is such a special place to
me and my family and so many of my friends.
Bondi Beach. I was only there a few months ago
with my kids. My six year old twins Audrey and
Evy and Max who's four, were I'm going to be
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emotional here because it cuts to your soul. I knew
i'd be struggling this morning, and I am. And I
look out the window here at this wonderful city. It's
the best city in the world, it really is, and
it's hurting badly. I'm hurting badly. My wife rang me,
Bonnie last night, you said indoors, just don't go anywhere tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
She was so worried. We now live in Melbourne and my.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Kids were born at the Prince of Wales Hospital, just
up the road from where this terrible, terrible tragedy happened.
My brother in law goes to the beach all the time.
My sister in law live nearby. I love this city
so much, and like Rio just said, I miss it too,
you know. And those beaches they're a safe space, especially
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in Apace.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It's a family and people to hang out safely.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Yeah, the kids laughing, there's umbrellas, there's kabanas, there's ice cream.
We go there, we meet people there. And for this
to happen so close to Christmas, when everyone it's just
a joyous, wonderful time to be celebrating. And as Harneker is,
that celebration has lightness to the darkness. But the darkness
is back again and that is really really hard for
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me to take.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, So today that's just reminds ourselves what makes
this city so special? I think it's nat to defiance
today that nothing really changed. We've lost too many people
and there are more and more people who are in
serious conditions this morning. We'll get the latest in two
minutes time. But this is also an amazing city and
we are lucky to be alive in this city. So
texting or calling what makes this city so special?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So great?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You can call me thirteen fifty five twenty two, and
you can also send me a message with your reason
what makes Sydney so special?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
On the line now from Bondai is Aidan Good morning, Aidan,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
Yeah, hi Christian, thanks for having me Aidan.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
How are you.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Yeah, I didn't get too much sleep last night, likewise
with most of the Bondai and Jewish community. But yeah,
we're pulling through and holding strong.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so you are. You're lucky to be alive.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You live in Bondai and you were going to be
going down there yesterday but then changed plans, Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
So it's the first night of Kronic Coaches an aide festival.
So we had one event on Bono Bitch, which was
the one that was shot at, and then we had
another one in Dover Heights, which was the one luckily
I went to just up the road.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So this must have really shaken you up massively.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Yeah, yes, no, so there was must have been a
few thousand people. Of the one I was out, we
saw fifty or stove start running, so I said to
my mom, let's run and get out of here. We
went to a friend's house and went into lockdown for
a few hours.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, and so you must be checking in with family
and friends and everyone in the Jewish community.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
How are you all doing it? How are you only scared?
You worried? About more repercussions.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Yes, I think off the bat, everyone is petrified at
the moment, but what has come out. One of the
men who was actually shot and killed was a rabbi,
had a six week old baby, and what he would
have wanted was for people not to be scared, for
people to be Jewish, be proud, and if you're not Jewish,
God do a good deal, donate mine, etc.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Aidan, I am so sorry. That's an awful thing to hear.
It's just so much. All everybody is with the Jewish
community today. All our hopes and prayers are with your community.
It is unbelievable, unbearable what happened yesterday, and I am
so sorry for you for your lost Aidan.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Thanks. Yeah, And I'll just put it in the fact
that it was only just over a year ago we
had the Bonde junction. We're still stabbing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, So the.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Bondi community has been through a lot of Jewish on
on Jewish so.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, yeahs Aidan, thank you very much for talking us today.
I hope that you're safe and well and your family
and friends are as well. But thanks to Kate taking
a couple of moments and sharing how you feel. This morning,
look after yourself, Aiden.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Perfect, Thank you so much, Keep well.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Thanks the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Thank you very much to Aidan for talking to us
this morning. If there's anything you want to share today,
give us a call. Thirteen fifty five twenty two is
the phone number and the text number is four seventy five.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Three one four three. Now, the reason why we're here.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
This week, by the way, just quickly, is we are
the show that's going to be replacing the awesome Jones
and Amanda and obviously a big, big farewell on Friday show.
And there's such big hearted, generous people that were kind
enough to invite me on their show Friday, which is
a lot about who they are. But we didn't want
to wait until January to come and meet you guys.
We wanted to show up this week and so that
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you could get to know us. And I'm really sorry
that this is how you get to meet us, but
I do hope that the show is providing some hope
and support today.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So here's what we want to do, is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
In amongst all the terror and horror that we're still
being with and will be for a very long time
of what happened, in Bondai. This is still worth Remember
this is a very very safe country and this is
an abarition. This is not a normal thing to happen,
which is what makes it so ugly and so visceral,
the terror of what happened yesterday. And so I want
to remind everybody you live in a great city. It
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is a privilege to be alive in Sydney. It's a striking, stunning, friendly,
relentlessly upbeat and positive city.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
How could it not be?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know, heroes live here like Ahmed, the man who
ran into danger yesterday and tackled an active shooter. There
needs to be I'm serious, There needs to be a statue, Yeah,
smite armored, needs a statue that we all want to
go and pay our respects to. So today I want
us to remind ourselves. Let's say these out loud on
the show today. What makes Sidney so great? And there
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are many reason, many many reasons that Sydney is such
a great city. So if you want to share yours
reasons to make Sidney great, the Stewards is an act
of solidarity and come together today four seventy five three
one oh four three tell me your reasons. What makes
Sidney so great. Real you're proud Sidney Sider. What's it
for you?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yes, I'm very proud.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
In fact, I've got thirteen reasons.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I do I do for today's the day. We need
to hear this, so you go through it.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
They range from the very important to the very small,
but they're all important in their own way.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
The first one shorts in winter? Where else can you
wear shorts in winter? We've been cooped up in Melbourne
and freezing cold. I come back to Sydney in July,
everyone's in shorts, maybe a hoodie. Heaven Number two the
jack Arandas. Are you familiar with the jack randas? Yes,
beautiful purple trees, stunning and we're in Jacaranda season at
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the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
We are everywhere you go, stunning purple trees.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You've now morphed into gardening Australia.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yes, this is You're gonna spend a few minutes. We're
going to get Costa on. It's going to tell you
how to maintain your jack Aranda.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It's the time you hear from Mariah Carey and Costa.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Then we have El Janna chocoal chicken in the Western
suburbs of Sydney.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Best chicken you will eat ever. We've got the best school.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Excursions when you're a kid, because you get to go
to Taronga Zoo.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
We've got the best bun meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Say hand on heart.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
The worst school exertions are in England. We spent a
miserable day in the in the in the rain and
wind analyzing a beach. And remember the teachers didn't even
get off the coach. They sort of just kicked us
up the backside and off the coach.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And your beaches suck, no offense.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Come on show, It's the day of coming together.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Going to please people. Walk fast in Sydney. People believe
he's getting these from cities. Do not work faster than
no way people do.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You're out there with a do.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
You know how frustrated is you go to Melbourne or
Brisbane and Perth everyone.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You're a city of dowdlers. Walk faster in Sydney. Everyone's
got urgency. Everyone's going a.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Bit of a pace and wiggle.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yes, it's so frustrated. I've got plenty more.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Maybe we need to have a five city walking challenge
to the test.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I promise you that Sydney siders will kill me.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes, what are you reckon about? Perth?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, Perth.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I actually haven't been to Perth, but I imagine a
city of doodlers if I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
A bit worried about how to move quickly.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean out there. They're so far out west,
they're basically another country.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I don't even know how. I don't know what they do.
I lived there for three years.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's low let me tell you, is it?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, so be careful that the people already talk about
the walking Alex.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Yeah, and people in Melbourne, like, people are led across
the road in Sydney. No, no, you know across the
road in Sydney. Yeah, you're getting You're getting run over
if you tried.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
See I did that yesterday, right, and people looked on horrified.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I just walked out.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And the drivers will not stop for you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's it's that mad Max here. No one is letting
you out all right. Reasons? What makes Sydney so special?
Send me yours? Text me now four seven four sorry
oh four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Christian O'Connell show on podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
So, like I said earlier, this is the show, This
is me and my team. We wanted to be here
this week to say hello, for you to get to
know the show that are replacing Jonesy and Amanda, And
obviously we had stuff planned. I feel like I've moved
into a new neighborhood here in Sydney and I've brought gifts,
and those gifts I don't know if we're going to
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be getting them out this week.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
They might be.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
One of the teams said, do you think we're going
to give away the meat tray to them? When today
is not? Maybe tomorrow we give away. We generally have
got Australia's big as meat tray by the way, cause
you're like, has.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He got meat tray?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Is he teasing us?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Is that has he win ju?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Your man? Who ever gives you a meat train, is
it a meat tray for twenty people? That's what we've got.
I told her one of my daughters over the weekend, right,
I've got two daughters. They're nineteen and twenty one. They
are very hard to please at that age. I said
to nineteen year old, She's like, what are you going
to do to try and you know, get to know Sydney.
I've found I've created as largest meat trait I said
(28:46):
a strange love meat trays. True, and that is honestly,
it's like the pie pipe. I wouldn't be surprised if
by the end of this week we've replaced Carl Jackie O.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
How do you do that? He turned up to town
with a meat tray? It was that simple, am I
talking about it? We do need to give it away
this week.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The meat tray, however, something we are going to do
today and I think it's just what we all need.
We've this week, We've got billboards to give away. Now,
what what do I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You see these big billboards are everywhere you drive bast
them every single day and they're these digital billboards. I
found out that you can change the message on their
day to day real time. So we have access to
a very large billboard and at ten o'clock this morning,
whatever message you want on there is going to go
live and hundreds of thousands of Sydney siders will see
(29:36):
your message, whatever it is. So participating whereabouts is today's billboard?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Hello?
Speaker 13 (29:44):
There we go? Hello?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
So we actually have three billboards and they're scattered around Sydney.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
The first location, well, they're not scattered around, it's not chaotic.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
They're very well organized. No, I just mean they're scattered around.
Means that there's just throwing shopping shopping trolley.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
That's essentially what we've done.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
We've just popped them in a couple of different suburbs.
We didn't want it all to be in the one area.
We wanted to reach as many people as possible with
whatever message they.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
Wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yep, west today.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So well we've got three everything. Sorry, yes, so we've
got three all across the wad.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Do you find this out like me for the first time?
I actually no one told me. They said you've got one.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Yeah, so I actually found that out this morning as well.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, but no one told me.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Sorry, I've just been Why are you keeping this from me?
Speaker 13 (30:29):
No, I've been busy and by the time I got.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Doing now, what I've seen you doing is eating out
buffet that they've got out there. I haven't had any
you down there at the old Teddy Bear's picnic scoffing
your partyhole.
Speaker 13 (30:40):
It's because they have champagne breakfast week.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Oh ella, yeah exactly, but she gets it, and I
love a champagne breakfast. It's Nick's Deli's and they've dropped
us off some meats, which is really really nice.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh, thank you very much, Nix Dady. That's lovely. So meanwhile,
so three billboards.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're going to go live this morning at ten o'clock
with a message that you're going to call in now.
What would you love to say to Sydney today? It
can be anything you want, you might think you know what,
today we need a message of hope, of solidarity, of support.
What is it you want to say to Sydney today.
We're going to be doing this a couple of times
this week. Today's one goes live at ten o'clock with
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a message we get from one of you that you
call in with d on the next twenty minutes. So
it's at ten o'clock s morning. Where are the three sites?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
So the three sites, the first one is Old Windsor
Road overpass, so that is near Balkham.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
Hills Castle Hill.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, we were there a couple of weeks ago. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Yes, and then we've got the.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
High up as well Bulkham Hills, so it'd be on
the Hollywood side.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It's me exactly, like I don't know what we're replacing
as well. Who's coming down is it Nike, shoe Dog's
going to hear about this, and who's stopping my advertising
a week before Christmas? Wait the guy that's got us
to his biggest meat trop fair enough.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Bow down.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
The second one is on the end.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You might be shoe dog on meat dog. That's the message.
I wont up there, meat meat dog.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
The second one we have is on the M four
Paramountic junction, so in Paramounta Stance yep. And then the
last one is the Hume high Way. I've got some
andrews Now. I'm not super familiar with Sydney, but it
just says an Andrew.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You're like southwest near Campbelltown. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13 (32:16):
Good coverage, coverage, good scattering.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So what does this mean?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
These three sites with the three billboards means hundreds of thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
People going to see your message day. It's going to
be up there all day and long.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
What do you want to say to Sydney You've got
access to through these mega billboards that so many people
are going to see today. Might cheer somebody up, It
might make them film something. What do you want it
to say? Thirteen fifty five twenty two Give us a call.
Thirteen fifty five twenty two, would take your calls.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Next Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
So I have access to three billboards in Sydney and
from ten o'clock this morning. That is big electronic ones.
If you're driving around city, you see them every single day.
Ten o'clock this morning, three really big ones. The hundreds
of thousands of people will be driving past today are
going to have one message that we get from one
of you during the next twenty minutes. We're gonna be
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doing this a couple of times week and today one
amazing opportunity to put up something that's gonna cheer people
up and make them feel something after the horror of
what happened yesterday. We're looking for a message of hope
in solidarity. I think of reassurance and I don't know
what that is. But if you've got a message you'd
love to share with Sydney today of all days, call
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me now. We're taking your course. Thirteen fifty five twenty two.
My favorite one that has come in so far is
from a man called Shame. He simply wants to say
good on yarmed. How is he now? If you're waking
up to news and there's just too much to process
on this unbearable morning. Armed is the biggest hero in
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the world. Seriously, He's Australian of the Year. Ye Albow
should have announced it this morning at seven fifteen in
that press conference. It's call it now, you know why
isn't it the hospital bed of Armed trying to high
five the guy you know, giving him a meat trail something.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
At least a meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Armed is never going to pay for a drink or
anything in this country ever again. But I love the
good on your Armed. He is an everyday, unbelievable hero
of Australia. He's a thing right now that the world needs.
He's ran at that guy like this is no big deal.
This is what Armed does on a Sunday. He ran
towards danger. He could have been killed himself. He saved
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people's lives and none of us know if we're ever
in that situation some of that how you you'd like
to think you'd do that?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
He don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
He's a dad himself, He's got two kids.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Runs a grocery store in Sutherland.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
What a legend. But I love Shane's good on Yarmed.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's so auzy good on you just saved everyone's last good.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
On plasted all over the billboards today, Shane, thank you
very much for that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's a lovely message. Let's now go to Let's get
a Karen. Now we've got Karen on the line.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Good morning, Karen, Good morning, Welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Thank you very much, Karen. He feels like you're the
unofficial mayor of Sydney welcoming me. Thank you very much, Karen.
And how are you this morning?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Karen?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
I'm really good. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now, what do you want to say on the spillboards?
Speaker 9 (35:11):
I think the message simply should be be kind to
each other.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, it's a lovely simple message, isn't it. Sentiment? Its
need more of that.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
It takes less effort to be kind to than to
not be kind. So if everyone was kind, we wouldn't
have days like yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
No, Karen, that's lovely. Have a lovely Christmas. Okay, thank
you so much, you too, Take care.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two will have all the latures
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Twenty minutes ago, I went to go for a little
walk around the station and I suddenly realized that it
was it was the first time I'd laughed in thirteen hours,
and I felt this tiny bit of guilt.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I felt, my god, it's okay to laugh.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Because the horror of what has happened is unbearable and
it's going to take so much time for this city
to heal and understand it. And you're waking up when
this kind of strange hangover. You look at the scenes
on your phone and it doesn't feel like, well, that
can't be BONDI. This isn't Australia, Ahmed.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
It's the hero.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
That's Australia, the Australia that we love here, that's the
lucky country, this kind country that Australia is.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
The other stuff is just it's horrific.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
And so today I really think it's important that actually
we do laugh, and we're not laughing because we don't
feel the horror of what happened. We're not with all
those people that have lost somebody and are worried about
somebody ten days for Christmas in hospital right now. An
it's a privilege to laugh because it means that you're alive,
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and that's what our lives are today. It's a privilege.
There's something about what has happened like that. The horror
of it that it brings life into a sharper contrast.
We are lucky to be alive in this lucky country,
in this amazing city. It is important to have a
laugh today as well as feel and fill with the
tears as well. So during the next five minutes. I
say that now because actually we've got a feature where
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you may resist laughter.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Let it if it's there, Let's just let it out.
Don't resist the laughter. He might be thinking, what are
you handling here? What have you got for us?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Okay, it's gonna have a lot of pression and okay,
funny guy, what have you got I've got some prank calls.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
We're gonna call Carl and Jackie and fare them.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
It's a feature that we're going to do every single
Monday with you guys. Is called mishard lyrics. And here's
how it works. You know, sometimes you hear a song
and suddenly you're like, wait, I didn't know he was
saying that. I thought he was saying something about a
meat tray he's took about meeting a lady.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
That's the misheard lyrics. We do them every Monday you're
gonna love them. It's just another misshard day Christian O'Connell's
miss hurd lyrics. All right, so every Monday rather than
another score run or wherever you are right now, you're
going to hear this when we play them back, and
we agree with what you think you're miss hearing when
we do not hear it all favor.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But for the really great ones, come on in. No,
that's not the right thing. Someone has labeled he's up incorrectly.
I know who this is. It's Brendan.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
He's filthy about me taking over just when I thought
it was playing nice by inviting me on the show Friday.
It does this radio classic. Shame on you, Brendan. Or
is it Amanda the Smiling Assassin. Anyway, one of these
gets played if we don't hear it. If it's a
Hall of Famer, so recent hall of famous, remember this
(38:37):
great song, Sandy Tom.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I wish I was a punk rocker. I wish I
was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
A puk walker.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Or is it it's a corner carry. I wish I
was a prong cracker with flowers in my hair. Oh,
prok walker.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's a Hall of Famous.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Lisa Baker had this the classic song by Poison nothing
but a good time. Spend my money on women and wine,
Long Women, or is it a very different vibe?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Spend my money on women and Wayne. If you've loved one,
you know.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Long women.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And Brian you too.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I have
kissed honey lips. Or it's a very very big flex
on bono. He's kissed Annie Lennox, lead singer of the Rhythmics.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Alright, so now you get them.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Here are some brand new ones Nicole Rhianna, lift me up,
hold me, hold me? Or is it the saddest traveling
fans in the world right now?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
The Barbie Army. I want one of these billboards this
week on Wednesday. Say come on England play or is
it Rhianna shout out to the Barbie Army, Barmie Army.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I never knew she was a cricket fan.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, who knew.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Trevor has been listening to Michael Bolton his cover version
of sitting on the dock of the Bay, sitting here
resting my bones or is it sitting here resting my balls?
That is the kind of quality gear you're going to
(40:42):
come to love, come ja let it out?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
What is.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
No sir sitting here resting my you get it? Mark
Saddy has been listening to Sea I don't know what
that is, said Dion. That's a tribute out they've got
at Sea World. Now a sea lion, Dion. It's hard
(41:08):
hold a microphone with a flipper. What they can train
these animals out there and Florida is incredible. Sit Indian,
my heart will go on. I believe that the heart
does go on. Hoach, According to markets a very different
things he's hearing. I believe that the hot dogs go on?
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Hoach.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
What I like about it? She's caressing those hot dogs.
She loves it when the hot dogs go on. Surely
that barbecue is hot enough, now, Hoach. That's a hall
of famer right there. Hall of fame.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Christy Scott, this TII whatever you like? I want your
body needs your body.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Or is it? The former is the potus of America.
Joe Biden. I want Joe Biden. I need Joe Biden.
He really is the for him. And finally, and Christian.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
When my children were in primary school, they had a
teacher called Missus Connors who used to scare the pants
off them. They both swear they can hear her name
in Instant Karma by John Lennon. Well, the original line,
instant Karma is going to get you.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I think you know what this one is.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Missus Connor's gonna get you. Yes, yes, all of famer alright,
So that is the that's how they work. That that's
our misheard lyrics. So when you miss here one over
the next couple of weeks over Christmas, email me straight away.
Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au. That is
(42:57):
my email. My inbox is always word open. Christian at
Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
We're back after the.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Now I've got access.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'm gonna be doing a couple of times this week
to billboards of Sydney and we can change what the
billboard says real time. It's incredible actually that they let
us do this. Too much power Now I'm thinking about it.
Why are we abusing some minus swearing just to wake
people up today of something.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
We shouldn't have the key to that part way, no way.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
We should have to take a breath of lizer bell
forward our s do.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
That, you know, the power is too much radiots.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Anyway, We've got three billboards in Sydney and at ten
o'clock in the morning, they're going to go live with
a message. We're going to pick from one of you.
We're going to do this again on Wednesday and Friday.
Today though when we were thinking about this, now it
feels like this is an opportunity for the right message
for Sydney today. So some of the ones that are
(43:56):
still coming in, what do you want to say on
a billboard that literally hundreds of thousands of people driving
around Sydney today are going to see you all day long.
This is from Lorraine in Blacktown. Thank you, Lorraine, give
piece of chance people. Christian sending strength and courage. That's
from Bernadette, a very different tack here. And then a
lot of you going Christian and you're not going to
(44:17):
get a better message than Shane.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Shane is the one we're going to go for.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
So Shane was the first person that called the show
about half an hour ago and said, I just want
the message to say good on your Ahmed, and that
is a great Aussie phrase, is good on you and
Ahmed is the world's biggest hero right now. He's doing well,
recovering in hospital. And he also not just an incredible
(44:43):
I've never seen anything like it in all my years,
a real act of courage like you've never seen before.
This is the clip that's going around the world right
now when people talk about Australia and the terrorist attack
of Bondi. That is the clip, the only that clip
is the one that we should be seeing. It reminds
us that actually, that's what we aspire to be. Armed
(45:04):
is the best of us. What a selfless act. He's
a dad himself. He runs his own fruit shop. He's
going to be coming to in hospital, coming around this morning.
No idea that the world is talking about.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I can't wait. I hope we can get him on
the show.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
I would that love to speak him.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We'll go and chat to him. But anyway, Shane thinks
it should say up there on these three.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
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on your armed.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I think that's the one we go with.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
It's perfect, isn't there just three words? But it sums
it up perfectly?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, sums aren't what we want to all be remembering
today is the bravery and that he chose love and
even when he disarmed a live shooter, he didn't he
didn't turn that weapon on him. Yeah, that's also so incredible.
But he got shot himself twice. He's doing very well.
He's going to make a full recovery. And yeah, so
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to say, good on your armed. Do we put a
little kiss at the end of that, aren't we on?
Behalf of everyone? And then maybe hashtag Sydney Together.
Speaker 7 (46:09):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Yeah, it's lovely because that's what we need to come together.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
You know when you think all the people turning up
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their presence, just showing that they remember and they feel it.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
So that's what's happening today. I mean, do we need
to warn armed or his family? I see it?
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Yeah, driving back.
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Kids. He's a dad, all right, So it's going to
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
So I'm Christian O'Connell and this week we were hoping
to come on air to get to know you guys.
I am the guy and this is the show, and
this is my team. There's gonna be taken over from
Jones in Amanda in January, and I didn't want to
wait until January for us to get to know each other.
And I'm really really sorry that we have to get
to know each other this way.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This morning is a I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
About you, guys, but this morning when I woke up,
it felt like it was a hangover.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I didn't sleep very well. I kept looking at the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I looked at scenes Sandy that you do see too
much coming from America. It didn't feel like it was
here in Sydney, or certainly not here in Australia. It
was like a hangover. Did that awful thing really happen
last night? And so I hope that today show is
a place of hope and support. I probably like a
lot of us spent too much time doom scrolling. You
keep looking at the update, keep wanting to look at
(01:16):
more and more footage, and I don't think after a
while it helps. And so today on the show, I
really want this place, this show, to be placed of
support and hope and actually where we can talk about it,
because I don't think staring at our phones is what's
needed in the world right now and in Sydney this morning.
So the phone number is thirteen fifty five twenty two.
If you want to give us a call this morning,
(01:36):
you might know someone who is there has been affected
by it. If we're struggling to try and make sense
of something which is senseless, there's no way to make
sense of it. My real heart goes out to all
the people who are waking up this morning who have
lost loved ones or have them in hospitals around Sydney.
Let's check in with Patty. Now, Patsy, what do we
know this morning? What is the latest? And obviously across
(01:58):
the show today we'll have regular bulletins as things unfold
and changed.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But what do we know right now?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Well, sadly, Christian the deft toll has just risen from
twelve to sixteen that's just been confirmed, which is just
absolutely shocking. We've got twenty nine injured. We don't know
the extent of any of those injuries. Among the death
toll includes one of the gunmen, and there's a second
(02:25):
gunman under police guard currently in hospital injured. But amongst
all of the horror of last night is emerging all
these amazing stories of heroism, and that amazing footage of
the man that disarmed one of the shooters just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I've never seen anything like that in my life.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Absolutely, it was like he was a Special Forces guy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He just was utterly fainness. He was going to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He took down an active shooter and then didn't use
the gun on him. To have that courage and levelheadedness
and big hardness to not turn himself into a murderer.
That is Australia. That's the image that people are seeing
around the world. That's what we should have in our
hearts this morning, is that gay guy Hmed, a dad
of two, selflessly thinking of other people and in his acts,
(03:15):
that's Australian of the year. He would have saved so
many more lives.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
As well, and clearly in that situation, not even consciously
thought about. It just sprung. That's just natural reaction, isn't
it to do something like that. So our terror level
is still the same. Is it probable they haven't heidened it?
It is officially an act of terror. And there is
(03:41):
also one of the gunmen's homes in Sydney's West has
been raided, so there's a lot of streets closed off there.
But yeah, I myself feel still in shock this morning,
and I've covered a lot of a lot of things
nine to eleven and you know the Linked Cafe siege,
but this is just it's shocking.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
We had a beautiful team dinner last night in Manly.
It was a beautiful night. We've come from Melbourne where
it's been so cold, so to sit out and just
enjoy a beautiful meal with some of you know, our
work family. And then which is exactly what would have
happened at Bondi. You know, there were families.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
There, it was a religious festival, there was a children's just.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
The most beautiful night and enjoying Sydney as you should,
all the beautiful sights and the beaches, and then for
this to happen, it's just utterly devastating.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, it is all right, Let's play a song.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
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Speaker 4 (04:45):
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Speaker 2 (04:49):
You're from Sydney, how are you feeling this morning? I
bet your mom and dad checked in where you were yesterday.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Yet the family chat, you know, I can't remember the
time that's ever happened before when checking to see if
we're safe, and I'm just I'm in complete disbelief at
the moment, Like it's I don't recognize my own city
for the for the first time in my life life,
Like you see those images and the Bondai that we
know for all of us growing up in Sydney, no
matter where you're from, you spent a lot of time
(05:16):
in Bondai.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
That's where you go for school holidays.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
As iconic is probably the most Australian thing that we're
fed around the world. Yes, exactly, Harbor Bridge, the Upper
House and Bondai Beach.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's where all the tourists want to go and get.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A photo taken from It's quintessentially Australian and to have
that happen anywhere in Australia, but there it's just this,
it's a real like so I think the word everyone
is like they're struggling to talk about it. You know,
what do you actually say? It's unbearable, the tragedy that happened.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
It's so hard to process the image of Bondai that
we all know. It's so formative for us as well,
Like no matter where you're from in Sydney, it's not
just like a cliche or a trope.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We do all bond Is to spend our school holidays.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I had lived in engandein which is like right in
the deep South. I'd make him on the train. I'd
meet my other mate Nathan from the West, my other
mate Miles from Epping in the.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
North, would all come. We'd all go to Bondai.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
We'd go to the aportos there, burn our feet on
the sand running across to get to the park.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And those were the these core.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Memories you have as a kid and growing up in
school holidays, and to think that there would be so
many kids and people they're doing that same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Sunday Sunday innocently, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That horror to put those to try and put those
two things together, it didn't make sense. Like you're looking
at your those images and you're like this, this isn't
the Sydney.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I know this. It's it's barely believable. Mate, it was.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I'm still I'm still looking at those photos, going this
can't be real.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, what I'm also been aware of this morning. So
my daughter's called me yesterday because obviously, like all of
us now, we got our news on our phones and
they were like, where about something you and Sydney?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I say, I know you were down at the beach,
and I'm thinking this morning, my heart goes down to
all the mums and dads. How do you speak about
what's happened to your kids?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What do you say? You know?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And the death told is what's sixteen? Is it gone
up to sixteen? People have lost their life?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Well, I've got my teenage daughter, as you guys know,
up with me at the moment. She's fourteen, Audrey, and
I just had to reassure last night you're safe.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You don't need to be afraid. It's an awful thing
that's happened, but you'll be okay, you're safe. It's hard,
it's really hard. What do you do with younger kids
because their thought process is so different. But I think
that's what all you can do. It was just assure
them that Australia is still a really safe country in
which to live. We're very, very lucky and sadly these
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things do happen, but you're safe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's incredibly rare, it is, you know, and people are
talking about, you know, the worst terrorist attack in this
country in thirty years. It's quite a thing. It's a
sad thing to say this, that's quite the thing to
be able to say, you know, when I moved it
from London seven years ago, sadly my twenty years on
London radio, there'd been too many big attacks and one
thing I never thought i'd ever experienced in this country
(08:05):
or something like that happened last night. It really doesn't
make any sense. You can't believe has happened right here
in Australia. In Sydney as well. I just want to
reassure people as well. Obviously we arguing doing regular bulletins
and the situation is sadly going to unfold and we'll
get more details decision. But this is a safe space
where you can listen to today's show with the kids.
We will only be giving you the news. This isn't
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gonna be speculation. It's not a place for gossip. There's
going to be no caturitou's clips played out or anything
like that of what happened. That will been the right
thing to do, and I want people to be reassured.
Is it safe to listen to the show today? It
absolutely is. Let's take a break. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
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Speaker 4 (08:51):
Good morning, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
With the awful terrorist attacks in Bondai, I think it's
too much for us to be with alone. You need
to talk to people about it, and so that's what
I really hope today's show is for you. It's a
place of hope and support. If you want to give
a cool and share how are you feeling this morning?
I think it would really help. Thirteen fifty five twenty
two is the number. You can also text me as well.
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Four seven five O three one O four three. We've
got the headlines coming up in two minutes time. Everything
that's been going on. Joe's on the line right now.
Good morning, Joe, Welcome.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
To the show.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good naughtie.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
I just first to want to say about dollars to
show the family and friends who lost their loved ones.
It's just so sad. But also I just want to
give a big shout out to the paramedics and the
police officers. My daughter's a paramedics and it's terrific what
has happened, And just to show that we love the more.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, it's unimaginable what they must have seen those scenes
yesterday on such a big scale like that, all those people,
the bystanders there who are trying to help, all the
eye witnesses so traumatized by it, and you know, first
responders there every day is dealing with chaos and things
that no human is able to process. It's so much
So Yeah, I bet it was a moment for you,
(10:08):
you and her to chat yesterday and check in on
each other.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
She was working during the night, so she was just
whitching good. She was just checking. So I'm a little
breaks to say that. You know, she's okay, but yeah,
there's gonna be a lot of chatting, which you gets tired.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And how are you feeling, Joe this morning? It sounds
like you're on your way to work. How are you
feeling this morning?
Speaker 9 (10:32):
God?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Sad, I'm going to my dad to go to afphoon
or actually so it is terrific. But just to know
that we're with everyone and we're thinking of it at
the third time, it's just really horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Joe, lovely, lovely words. I hope today isn't too
bad for you as well. You've got a lot going
on there today, and I'm glad that your daughter's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, thanks for calling. Have a lovely Christmas as well.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Yeah, have a great day, by Darling.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
She's just gonna be Donnie.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
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Speaker 2 (11:04):
Morning Christian my name is Christine likes to offer my
condonnces to all the Jewish people of Radia and also
the poor first responders that were affected by yesterday's mass
shooting at BONDI. I was sitting on my lounge with
my husband and our four year old grandson as everything
just unfolded and we were in a state of shock
and terror. I am in all though this morning of
what that brave man did, Yes Ahmed, to tackle the
(11:27):
active shooter. It's his act of heroism that's brought me
to tears. That he saved so many extra lives as well,
and that the death toll could be even higher today.
I would like to thank him. It's also he's been
shot twice as well. He's doing very well. But what
an incredible image that is. That's the one that we
should also be hanging on to today. That is Australia.
Those are the values that we all want to think
(11:49):
that actually, if something like that happened, we would look
out for other people. It's an incredible, incredible act of courage. Christine,
thank you very much for your message. We're going to
go live now to Bondi where our journalists, our gold
journalist Sean Fraser is Sean.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Good morning, good morning, how are we?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh good? Sean?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Tell us what's the light down? And obviously a very
somber mood.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
I'm guessing yeah, it is very somber, a lot of
sad people. People are rocked up to pay their respects
after yesterday. There's a lot of tear filled eyes, a
lot of people hugging. I'm about one hundred meters from
where the bridge is where the shootings began, I suppose yesterday.
(12:31):
And as you said at the top, there about that
boat that just took the gun from that guy, there's
that active bravery. That's a guy that's just come to
the beach just to have a day out and he's
been met with this decision that it's just all inspiring. Really,
it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, it is, and it's a lovely thing to hang
on to this morning because when you look at the paty,
what's the latest the death hold?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is it sixteen sixteen?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yeah, four further and we've just also got note Christian
that we have a further two people listed is injured.
So that's now forty and of those five are critical,
sixteen confirmed dead, forty injured in hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I still can't believe that it happened, and this is
the news that people are waking up with in Sydney
this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So Sean taming this, do you think that people are
coming there to pay respects that they want to go
down there and show some sort of unity and support.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Absolutely, Like I've spoked to a few people, they just
feel like they just want to be here, you know,
there's just there's something inside them that's you know, maybe
they didn't hear it or they went close to it yesterday,
but they just need to come down and pay their
respects to those members of the communities that have lost.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And how are you feeling yourself down there as well?
I can hear in your voice it must be a
lot to take in the thought of, you know what
twelve hours ago, you know what was going on.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Yeah, it's look, I'm okay, but yeah, as you said,
twelve hours ago, the city was a different place. And
being down here and seeing everyone, I mean, it's nice
to see the community together. It's hard to go past
the fact that so many city signers have just been
killed just at the day of the beach.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And have you been talking to some of the eyewitnesses
that were there.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Yes, I spoke to one man, Ryan. He said he
was down at the bowling club. Actually they heard the
shots ringing out at the bowling clubs, so a lot
of them were under the tables. They didn't know what
was going on. He also told me that he was
worried that something like this was going to happen in
his neighborhood. That the acts of Andy Semitism had been
(14:41):
on the rise over the last year or so, so
he was worried something like this was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, Sean, for now, we'll leave you down there with
all the community as well. I'm sure we've been a
great support. Sean, thank you very much. A chance us
this morning. Take care, cheers guys.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast as a situation in false
we keeps you abreast with all the latest news from
the Towist attack and Bondai yesterday.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I really hope that we are being of some comfort
this morning. We're all trying to get through it together.
It's too much. It's actually just unbearable to be able
to process. I think it's going to take people a
really long time to understand.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I don't think you can understand. It's like a horror show.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
When you look back at the footage, because these days
we see so much more footage than any other time
in history.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's overwhelming. The horror of it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I start watching a never ending twenty four hour horror show,
and so I really want to make sure on the
show today we are obviously being with you in what happened,
but also reminding everyone that this is a horror show,
because that's not Australia. You know, that isn't Australia. That
hero Ahmed, that's Australia. A man running towards danger, tackling
(15:52):
an active shooter, taking the gun off him and not
using it on him, A dad himself, he's a dad
in his forties. I cannot stop. I can't get the
image out of my mind. And that is the one
I encourage all of us to hang on to today.
That is Australia. That's what the world is seeing as well.
That's the image that we should remember today and keep
in our hearts. So today I want the show to
(16:13):
be a place for support and hope that as much
as we really feel the terror of what happened yesterday,
is also to remind ourselves that is not normal.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It is a freak show.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's an aberration what happened yesterday, which is why it
is so shocking to us today waking up to it
feeling like some kind of hangover that my God, did
that really happens. It's almost like a physical pain you
feel trying to understand it. And so today I want
us to reminder that this is also an amazing city.
This is an incredible city and BONDI will hill. It's
(16:45):
going to take time, but there are people down there
right now on Monday morning. You've chosen to go to
work late, to go and stand together and just to
be there. And there's something beautiful about that and touching,
just to be there, not even to say any words
of comfort, just to show up. And it's an act
of defiance that actually, those idiots yesterday they took nothing.
(17:05):
You don't win, you don't take that from us. To
let's remind ourselves. I think we all need to know
this what makes Sydney great, because this is a hell
of a city. It is it really is a fantastic city.
What if you're a Sydney Sider real what is it
that makes Sydney so special to you?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And this is something I've noticed.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I've lived in Melbourne for the past seven years and
I miss it more than anything in the world. And
it's what makes yesterday, you know, even more heartbreaking. It
is the the beautiful beaches in Sydney. There is something
that it does almost on to your soul when you're
near the beach, when you're near the water, and Sydney
has the best beaches in the world. I've never been
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to any other country that's come close to have it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I know you've been to England. We have some of
the ugliest beaches in the world. There's no sand.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And they're so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I actually think that's what affects the cricket team.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I think their spines are out of alignment from lying
on pebbly, rocky, flinty war fields of beaches.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I was there in summer and there were people in
full body wetsuits because it's so cold just to swim in.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
The pretty features.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What is that terrible? But Sydney and to have it
like we're looking out on the harbor now.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
To have it's a striking looking city.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Beautiful and to be able to go from the beach
to the city in twenty minutes is insane.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, Alex sure is Sydney cider as well. How are
you feeling this sawning as well? But you've been chating
to family and friends here and.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
I'm really struggling, Christian. I'll be honest, mate, I'm really
struggling with it. And the reason I am struggling with
it is because that is such a special place to
me and my family and so many of my friends.
Bondi Beach. I was only there a few months ago
with my kids. My six year old twins Audrey and
Evy and Max who's four, were I'm going to be
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emotional here because it cuts to your soul. I knew
i'd be struggling this morning, and I am. And I
look out the window here at this wonderful city. It's
the best city in the world, it really is, and
it's hurting badly. I'm hurting badly. My wife rang me,
Bonnie last night, you said indoors, just don't go anywhere tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
She was so worried. We now live in Melbourne and my.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Kids were born at the Prince of Wales Hospital, just
up the road from where this terrible, terrible tragedy happened.
My brother in law goes to the beach all the time.
My sister in law live nearby. I love this city
so much, and like Rio just said, I miss it too,
you know. And those beaches they're a safe space, especially
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in Apace.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It's a family and people to hang out safely.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Yeah, the kids laughing, there's umbrellas, there's kabanas, there's ice cream.
We go there, we meet people there. And for this
to happen so close to Christmas, when everyone it's just
a joyous, wonderful time to be celebrating. And as Harneker is,
that celebration has lightness to the darkness. But the darkness
is back again and that is really really hard for
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me to take.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, So today that's just reminds ourselves what makes
this city so special? I think it's nat to defiance
today that nothing really changed. We've lost too many people
and there are more and more people who are in
serious conditions this morning. We'll get the latest in two
minutes time. But this is also an amazing city and
we are lucky to be alive in this city. So
texting or calling what makes this city so special?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So great?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You can call me thirteen fifty five twenty two, and
you can also send me a message with your reason
what makes Sydney so special?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
On the line now from Bondai is Aidan Good morning, Aidan,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
Yeah, hi Christian, thanks for having me Aidan.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
How are you.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Yeah, I didn't get too much sleep last night, likewise
with most of the Bondai and Jewish community. But yeah,
we're pulling through and holding strong.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so you are. You're lucky to be alive.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You live in Bondai and you were going to be
going down there yesterday but then changed plans, Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
So it's the first night of Kronic Coaches an aide festival.
So we had one event on Bono Bitch, which was
the one that was shot at, and then we had
another one in Dover Heights, which was the one luckily
I went to just up the road.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So this must have really shaken you up massively.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Yeah, yes, no, so there was must have been a
few thousand people. Of the one I was out, we
saw fifty or stove start running, so I said to
my mom, let's run and get out of here. We
went to a friend's house and went into lockdown for
a few hours.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, and so you must be checking in with family
and friends and everyone in the Jewish community.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
How are you all doing it? How are you only scared?
You worried? About more repercussions.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Yes, I think off the bat, everyone is petrified at
the moment, but what has come out. One of the
men who was actually shot and killed was a rabbi,
had a six week old baby, and what he would
have wanted was for people not to be scared, for
people to be Jewish, be proud, and if you're not Jewish,
God do a good deal, donate mine, etc.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Aidan, I am so sorry. That's an awful thing to hear.
It's just so much. All everybody is with the Jewish
community today. All our hopes and prayers are with your community.
It is unbelievable, unbearable what happened yesterday, and I am
so sorry for you for your lost Aidan.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Thanks. Yeah, And I'll just put it in the fact
that it was only just over a year ago we
had the Bonde junction. We're still stabbing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, So the.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Bondi community has been through a lot of Jewish on
on Jewish so.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, yeahs Aidan, thank you very much for talking us today.
I hope that you're safe and well and your family
and friends are as well. But thanks to Kate taking
a couple of moments and sharing how you feel. This morning,
look after yourself, Aiden.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Perfect, Thank you so much, Keep well.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Thanks the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Thank you very much to Aidan for talking to us
this morning. If there's anything you want to share today,
give us a call. Thirteen fifty five twenty two is
the phone number and the text number is four seventy five.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Three one four three. Now, the reason why we're here.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
This week, by the way, just quickly, is we are
the show that's going to be replacing the awesome Jones
and Amanda and obviously a big, big farewell on Friday show.
And there's such big hearted, generous people that were kind
enough to invite me on their show Friday, which is
a lot about who they are. But we didn't want
to wait until January to come and meet you guys.
We wanted to show up this week and so that
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you could get to know us. And I'm really sorry
that this is how you get to meet us, but
I do hope that the show is providing some hope
and support today.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So here's what we want to do, is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
In amongst all the terror and horror that we're still
being with and will be for a very long time
of what happened, in Bondai. This is still worth Remember
this is a very very safe country and this is
an abarition. This is not a normal thing to happen,
which is what makes it so ugly and so visceral,
the terror of what happened yesterday. And so I want
to remind everybody you live in a great city. It
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is a privilege to be alive in Sydney. It's a striking, stunning, friendly,
relentlessly upbeat and positive city.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
How could it not be?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know, heroes live here like Ahmed, the man who
ran into danger yesterday and tackled an active shooter. There
needs to be I'm serious, There needs to be a statue, Yeah,
smite armored, needs a statue that we all want to
go and pay our respects to. So today I want
us to remind ourselves. Let's say these out loud on
the show today. What makes Sidney so great? And there
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are many reason, many many reasons that Sydney is such
a great city. So if you want to share yours
reasons to make Sidney great, the Stewards is an act
of solidarity and come together today four seventy five three
one oh four three tell me your reasons. What makes
Sidney so great. Real you're proud Sidney Sider. What's it
for you?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yes, I'm very proud.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
In fact, I've got thirteen reasons.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I do I do for today's the day. We need
to hear this, so you go through it.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
They range from the very important to the very small,
but they're all important in their own way.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
The first one shorts in winter? Where else can you
wear shorts in winter? We've been cooped up in Melbourne
and freezing cold. I come back to Sydney in July,
everyone's in shorts, maybe a hoodie. Heaven Number two the
jack Arandas. Are you familiar with the jack randas? Yes,
beautiful purple trees, stunning and we're in Jacaranda season at
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the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
We are everywhere you go, stunning purple trees.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You've now morphed into gardening Australia.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yes, this is You're gonna spend a few minutes. We're
going to get Costa on. It's going to tell you
how to maintain your jack Aranda.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It's the time you hear from Mariah Carey and Costa.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Then we have El Janna chocoal chicken in the Western
suburbs of Sydney.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Best chicken you will eat ever. We've got the best school.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Excursions when you're a kid, because you get to go
to Taronga Zoo.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
We've got the best bun meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Say hand on heart.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
The worst school exertions are in England. We spent a
miserable day in the in the in the rain and
wind analyzing a beach. And remember the teachers didn't even
get off the coach. They sort of just kicked us
up the backside and off the coach.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And your beaches suck, no offense.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Come on show, It's the day of coming together.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Going to please people. Walk fast in Sydney. People believe
he's getting these from cities. Do not work faster than
no way people do.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You're out there with a do.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
You know how frustrated is you go to Melbourne or
Brisbane and Perth everyone.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You're a city of dowdlers. Walk faster in Sydney. Everyone's
got urgency. Everyone's going a.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Bit of a pace and wiggle.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yes, it's so frustrated. I've got plenty more.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Maybe we need to have a five city walking challenge
to the test.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I promise you that Sydney siders will kill me.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes, what are you reckon about? Perth?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, Perth.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I actually haven't been to Perth, but I imagine a
city of doodlers if I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
A bit worried about how to move quickly.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean out there. They're so far out west,
they're basically another country.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I don't even know how. I don't know what they do.
I lived there for three years.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's low let me tell you, is it?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, so be careful that the people already talk about
the walking Alex.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Yeah, and people in Melbourne, like, people are led across
the road in Sydney. No, no, you know across the
road in Sydney. Yeah, you're getting You're getting run over
if you tried.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
See I did that yesterday, right, and people looked on horrified.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I just walked out.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
And the drivers will not stop for you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's it's that mad Max here. No one is letting
you out all right. Reasons? What makes Sydney so special?
Send me yours? Text me now four seven four sorry
oh four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Christian O'Connell show on podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
So, like I said earlier, this is the show, This
is me and my team. We wanted to be here
this week to say hello, for you to get to
know the show that are replacing Jonesy and Amanda, And
obviously we had stuff planned. I feel like I've moved
into a new neighborhood here in Sydney and I've brought gifts,
and those gifts I don't know if we're going to
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be getting them out this week.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
They might be.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
One of the teams said, do you think we're going
to give away the meat tray to them? When today
is not? Maybe tomorrow we give away. We generally have
got Australia's big as meat tray by the way, cause
you're like, has.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He got meat tray?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Is he teasing us?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Is that has he win ju?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Your man? Who ever gives you a meat train, is
it a meat tray for twenty people? That's what we've got.
I told her one of my daughters over the weekend, right,
I've got two daughters. They're nineteen and twenty one. They
are very hard to please at that age. I said
to nineteen year old, She's like, what are you going
to do to try and you know, get to know Sydney.
I've found I've created as largest meat trait I said
(28:46):
a strange love meat trays. True, and that is honestly,
it's like the pie pipe. I wouldn't be surprised if
by the end of this week we've replaced Carl Jackie O.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
How do you do that? He turned up to town
with a meat tray? It was that simple, am I
talking about it? We do need to give it away
this week.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The meat tray, however, something we are going to do
today and I think it's just what we all need.
We've this week, We've got billboards to give away. Now,
what what do I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You see these big billboards are everywhere you drive bast
them every single day and they're these digital billboards. I
found out that you can change the message on their
day to day real time. So we have access to
a very large billboard and at ten o'clock this morning,
whatever message you want on there is going to go
live and hundreds of thousands of Sydney siders will see
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your message, whatever it is. So participating whereabouts is today's billboard?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Hello?
Speaker 13 (29:44):
There we go? Hello?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
So we actually have three billboards and they're scattered around Sydney.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
The first location, well, they're not scattered around, it's not chaotic.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
They're very well organized. No, I just mean they're scattered around.
Means that there's just throwing shopping shopping trolley.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
That's essentially what we've done.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
We've just popped them in a couple of different suburbs.
We didn't want it all to be in the one area.
We wanted to reach as many people as possible with
whatever message they.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
Wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yep, west today.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So well we've got three everything. Sorry, yes, so we've
got three all across the wad.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Do you find this out like me for the first time?
I actually no one told me. They said you've got one.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Yeah, so I actually found that out this morning as well.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, but no one told me.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Sorry, I've just been Why are you keeping this from me?
Speaker 13 (30:29):
No, I've been busy and by the time I got.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Doing now, what I've seen you doing is eating out
buffet that they've got out there. I haven't had any
you down there at the old Teddy Bear's picnic scoffing
your partyhole.
Speaker 13 (30:40):
It's because they have champagne breakfast week.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Oh ella, yeah exactly, but she gets it, and I
love a champagne breakfast. It's Nick's Deli's and they've dropped
us off some meats, which is really really nice.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh, thank you very much, Nix Dady. That's lovely. So meanwhile,
so three billboards.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're going to go live this morning at ten o'clock
with a message that you're going to call in now.
What would you love to say to Sydney today? It
can be anything you want, you might think you know what,
today we need a message of hope, of solidarity, of support.
What is it you want to say to Sydney today.
We're going to be doing this a couple of times
this week. Today's one goes live at ten o'clock with
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a message we get from one of you that you
call in with d on the next twenty minutes. So
it's at ten o'clock s morning. Where are the three sites?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
So the three sites, the first one is Old Windsor
Road overpass, so that is near Balkham.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
Hills Castle Hill.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, we were there a couple of weeks ago. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Yes, and then we've got the.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
High up as well Bulkham Hills, so it'd be on
the Hollywood side.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It's me exactly, like I don't know what we're replacing
as well. Who's coming down is it Nike, shoe Dog's
going to hear about this, and who's stopping my advertising
a week before Christmas? Wait the guy that's got us
to his biggest meat trop fair enough.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Bow down.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
The second one is on the end.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You might be shoe dog on meat dog. That's the message.
I wont up there, meat meat dog.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
The second one we have is on the M four
Paramountic junction, so in Paramounta Stance yep. And then the
last one is the Hume high Way. I've got some
andrews Now. I'm not super familiar with Sydney, but it
just says an Andrew.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You're like southwest near Campbelltown. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13 (32:16):
Good coverage, coverage, good scattering.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So what does this mean?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
These three sites with the three billboards means hundreds of thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
People going to see your message day. It's going to
be up there all day and long.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
What do you want to say to Sydney You've got
access to through these mega billboards that so many people
are going to see today. Might cheer somebody up, It
might make them film something. What do you want it
to say? Thirteen fifty five twenty two Give us a call.
Thirteen fifty five twenty two, would take your calls.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Next Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
So I have access to three billboards in Sydney and
from ten o'clock this morning. That is big electronic ones.
If you're driving around city, you see them every single day.
Ten o'clock this morning, three really big ones. The hundreds
of thousands of people will be driving past today are
going to have one message that we get from one
of you during the next twenty minutes. We're gonna be
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doing this a couple of times week and today one
amazing opportunity to put up something that's gonna cheer people
up and make them feel something after the horror of
what happened yesterday. We're looking for a message of hope
in solidarity. I think of reassurance and I don't know
what that is. But if you've got a message you'd
love to share with Sydney today of all days, call
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me now. We're taking your course. Thirteen fifty five twenty two.
My favorite one that has come in so far is
from a man called Shame. He simply wants to say
good on yarmed. How is he now? If you're waking
up to news and there's just too much to process
on this unbearable morning. Armed is the biggest hero in
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the world. Seriously, He's Australian of the Year. Ye Albow
should have announced it this morning at seven fifteen in
that press conference. It's call it now, you know why
isn't it the hospital bed of Armed trying to high
five the guy you know, giving him a meat trail something.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
At least a meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Armed is never going to pay for a drink or
anything in this country ever again. But I love the
good on your Armed. He is an everyday, unbelievable hero
of Australia. He's a thing right now that the world needs.
He's ran at that guy like this is no big deal.
This is what Armed does on a Sunday. He ran
towards danger. He could have been killed himself. He saved
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people's lives and none of us know if we're ever
in that situation some of that how you you'd like
to think you'd do that?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
He don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
He's a dad himself, He's got two kids.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Runs a grocery store in Sutherland.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
What a legend. But I love Shane's good on Yarmed.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's so auzy good on you just saved everyone's last good.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
On plasted all over the billboards today, Shane, thank you
very much for that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's a lovely message. Let's now go to Let's get
a Karen. Now we've got Karen on the line.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Good morning, Karen, Good morning, Welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Thank you very much, Karen. He feels like you're the
unofficial mayor of Sydney welcoming me. Thank you very much, Karen.
And how are you this morning?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Karen?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
I'm really good. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now, what do you want to say on the spillboards?
Speaker 9 (35:11):
I think the message simply should be be kind to
each other.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, it's a lovely simple message, isn't it. Sentiment? Its
need more of that.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
It takes less effort to be kind to than to
not be kind. So if everyone was kind, we wouldn't
have days like yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
No, Karen, that's lovely. Have a lovely Christmas. Okay, thank
you so much, you too, Take care.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two will have all the latures
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Twenty minutes ago, I went to go for a little
walk around the station and I suddenly realized that it
was it was the first time I'd laughed in thirteen hours,
and I felt this tiny bit of guilt.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I felt, my god, it's okay to laugh.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Because the horror of what has happened is unbearable and
it's going to take so much time for this city
to heal and understand it. And you're waking up when
this kind of strange hangover. You look at the scenes
on your phone and it doesn't feel like, well, that
can't be BONDI. This isn't Australia, Ahmed.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
It's the hero.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
That's Australia, the Australia that we love here, that's the
lucky country, this kind country that Australia is.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
The other stuff is just it's horrific.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
And so today I really think it's important that actually
we do laugh, and we're not laughing because we don't
feel the horror of what happened. We're not with all
those people that have lost somebody and are worried about
somebody ten days for Christmas in hospital right now. An
it's a privilege to laugh because it means that you're alive,
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and that's what our lives are today. It's a privilege.
There's something about what has happened like that. The horror
of it that it brings life into a sharper contrast.
We are lucky to be alive in this lucky country,
in this amazing city. It is important to have a
laugh today as well as feel and fill with the
tears as well. So during the next five minutes. I
say that now because actually we've got a feature where
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you may resist laughter.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Let it if it's there, Let's just let it out.
Don't resist the laughter. He might be thinking, what are
you handling here? What have you got for us?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Okay, it's gonna have a lot of pression and okay,
funny guy, what have you got I've got some prank calls.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
We're gonna call Carl and Jackie and fare them.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
It's a feature that we're going to do every single
Monday with you guys. Is called mishard lyrics. And here's
how it works. You know, sometimes you hear a song
and suddenly you're like, wait, I didn't know he was
saying that. I thought he was saying something about a
meat tray he's took about meeting a lady.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
That's the misheard lyrics. We do them every Monday you're
gonna love them. It's just another misshard day Christian O'Connell's
miss hurd lyrics. All right, so every Monday rather than
another score run or wherever you are right now, you're
going to hear this when we play them back, and
we agree with what you think you're miss hearing when
we do not hear it all favor.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But for the really great ones, come on in. No,
that's not the right thing. Someone has labeled he's up incorrectly.
I know who this is. It's Brendan.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
He's filthy about me taking over just when I thought
it was playing nice by inviting me on the show Friday.
It does this radio classic. Shame on you, Brendan. Or
is it Amanda the Smiling Assassin. Anyway, one of these
gets played if we don't hear it. If it's a
Hall of Famer, so recent hall of famous, remember this
(38:37):
great song, Sandy Tom.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I wish I was a punk rocker. I wish I
was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
A puk walker.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Or is it it's a corner carry. I wish I
was a prong cracker with flowers in my hair. Oh,
prok walker.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's a Hall of Famous.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Lisa Baker had this the classic song by Poison nothing
but a good time. Spend my money on women and wine,
Long Women, or is it a very different vibe?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Spend my money on women and Wayne. If you've loved one,
you know.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Long women.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And Brian you too.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I have
kissed honey lips. Or it's a very very big flex
on bono. He's kissed Annie Lennox, lead singer of the Rhythmics.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Alright, so now you get them.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Here are some brand new ones Nicole Rhianna, lift me up,
hold me, hold me? Or is it the saddest traveling
fans in the world right now?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
The Barbie Army. I want one of these billboards this
week on Wednesday. Say come on England play or is
it Rhianna shout out to the Barbie Army, Barmie Army.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I never knew she was a cricket fan.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, who knew.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Trevor has been listening to Michael Bolton his cover version
of sitting on the dock of the Bay, sitting here
resting my bones or is it sitting here resting my balls?
That is the kind of quality gear you're going to
(40:42):
come to love, come ja let it out?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
What is.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
No sir sitting here resting my you get it? Mark
Saddy has been listening to Sea I don't know what
that is, said Dion. That's a tribute out they've got
at Sea World. Now a sea lion, Dion. It's hard
(41:08):
hold a microphone with a flipper. What they can train
these animals out there and Florida is incredible. Sit Indian,
my heart will go on. I believe that the heart
does go on. Hoach, According to markets a very different
things he's hearing. I believe that the hot dogs go on?
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Hoach.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
What I like about it? She's caressing those hot dogs.
She loves it when the hot dogs go on. Surely
that barbecue is hot enough, now, Hoach. That's a hall
of famer right there. Hall of fame.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Christy Scott, this TII whatever you like? I want your
body needs your body.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Or is it? The former is the potus of America.
Joe Biden. I want Joe Biden. I need Joe Biden.
He really is the for him. And finally, and Christian.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
When my children were in primary school, they had a
teacher called Missus Connors who used to scare the pants
off them. They both swear they can hear her name
in Instant Karma by John Lennon. Well, the original line,
instant Karma is going to get you.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I think you know what this one is.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Missus Connor's gonna get you. Yes, yes, all of famer alright,
So that is the that's how they work. That that's
our misheard lyrics. So when you miss here one over
the next couple of weeks over Christmas, email me straight away.
Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au. That is
(42:57):
my email. My inbox is always word open. Christian at
Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
We're back after the.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Now I've got access.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'm gonna be doing a couple of times this week
to billboards of Sydney and we can change what the
billboard says real time. It's incredible actually that they let
us do this. Too much power Now I'm thinking about it.
Why are we abusing some minus swearing just to wake
people up today of something.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
We shouldn't have the key to that part way, no way.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
We should have to take a breath of lizer bell
forward our s do.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
That, you know, the power is too much radiots.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Anyway, We've got three billboards in Sydney and at ten
o'clock in the morning, they're going to go live with
a message. We're going to pick from one of you.
We're going to do this again on Wednesday and Friday.
Today though when we were thinking about this, now it
feels like this is an opportunity for the right message
for Sydney today. So some of the ones that are
(43:56):
still coming in, what do you want to say on
a billboard that literally hundreds of thousands of people driving
around Sydney today are going to see you all day long.
This is from Lorraine in Blacktown. Thank you, Lorraine, give
piece of chance people. Christian sending strength and courage. That's
from Bernadette, a very different tack here. And then a
lot of you going Christian and you're not going to
(44:17):
get a better message than Shane.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Shane is the one we're going to go for.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
So Shane was the first person that called the show
about half an hour ago and said, I just want
the message to say good on your Ahmed, and that
is a great Aussie phrase, is good on you and
Ahmed is the world's biggest hero right now. He's doing well,
recovering in hospital. And he also not just an incredible
(44:43):
I've never seen anything like it in all my years,
a real act of courage like you've never seen before.
This is the clip that's going around the world right
now when people talk about Australia and the terrorist attack
of Bondi. That is the clip, the only that clip
is the one that we should be seeing. It reminds
us that actually, that's what we aspire to be. Armed
(45:04):
is the best of us. What a selfless act. He's
a dad himself. He runs his own fruit shop. He's
going to be coming to in hospital, coming around this morning.
No idea that the world is talking about.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
I can't wait. I hope we can get him on
the show.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
I would that love to speak him.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We'll go and chat to him. But anyway, Shane thinks
it should say up there on these three.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Billboards we've got today from ten o'clock this morning, God
on your armed.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I think that's the one we go with.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
It's perfect, isn't there just three words? But it sums
it up perfectly?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, sums aren't what we want to all be remembering
today is the bravery and that he chose love and
even when he disarmed a live shooter, he didn't he
didn't turn that weapon on him. Yeah, that's also so incredible.
But he got shot himself twice. He's doing very well.
He's going to make a full recovery. And yeah, so
(45:54):
Ahmed is going to go on the billboards. It's going
to say, good on your armed. Do we put a
little kiss at the end of that, aren't we on?
Behalf of everyone? And then maybe hashtag Sydney Together.
Speaker 7 (46:09):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Yeah, it's lovely because that's what we need to come together.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
You know when you think all the people turning up
a bond Eye this morning, silently just being there by
their presence, just showing that they remember and they feel it.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
So that's what's happening today. I mean, do we need
to warn armed or his family? I see it?
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, driving back.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Kids. He's a dad, all right, So it's going to
say look out for it this morning.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Ten o'clock this morning, good on your armed, hashtag Sydney Together.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Your Chance Now to win The chance for you and
three people to go with you. Thanks to Village cinemas
off to gold class. We're looking for your Bogan movies.
This is something that we do at this point on
the show every single day. We call it the atwork
time waster. Your way to win some really really big prizes.
All the bed's not working. Sorry, abound it about it.
Speaker 8 (47:05):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
The beds work in the host is work, all right.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
So we looking for your Bogan movies before we get
into Bogan movies. And the nabort number you need to
send your Bogan movies is. This is the new text
number for the show. Oh four seven five O three
one O four three. Brendan Jones took the old number
with him.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
He can be spiteful like that.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
So perhaps to bring my own one, I had to
log in and get paid for one and new number yesterday.
Oh four seventy five O three one O four three.
That's my home number. Top five things Bogans like, according
to Things Bogan Like, My favorite website dot com.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
This actually is a really good site. Is this movie here?
Seven years ago? I'm fascinated by Bogans. I envy them.
The happiest people in the world are Bogans. Hey they're happy.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
But you've got a bit of Bogain in you.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
You.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I know, a me happy, I channel my inner Bogan.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
You've got a camping chair. That's your main sitting chair
is yes?
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Now the top five things Bogans like, according to things
bogan dot Com at five Buying sporting memorabilia.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I've got some at four backyards? So can I add
it at the backyard, gym bench breass. Three holiday cruises.
I bet you've been on many cruises.
Speaker 5 (48:24):
Pans no excuse me, no, thank you very much. You
know what else they like on a cruise is a
drink card.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
You know, you get the the casino. Yeah, yeah, and
watching a current affair. All right, So Boga movies?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
What have you got Texters Sydney Oh four seven four
seven five three one o four three Boga movies.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
I've got three men whose baby too soon? My relationship
with this brilliant one.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
We'll find out three men whose baby.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Listen, we're looking for Boga movies. Let's break the seal,
let's get into it real, real dog and talk. Is
that a podcast about called Bogan?
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I might start one nights at the kmart, not the museum.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Bowling trophy, Harry in
the front of that, Let the right one in, Let
the right one in, and forget about full metal jacket.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
No, no, no, they've got full denim jacket.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Very good, waiful look and the girl with the Southern
Cross tattoo. All right, Boga movies, Rio, what have you got?
Speaker 1 (49:50):
All right?
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I've got you me and shoey Oh no, very good. Yes,
the chewy gold crocodile, Bundy.
Speaker 7 (49:58):
And co silver burnouts after reading yes, very good gold
and finally bally in me.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
All right, that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
We're looking for your today's time than is Bogan movies.
Text me yours O four seventy five three one oh
four three, will mark them next and pick a winner.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show, So look out for
the billboards today at ten o'clock. Shane's message that speaks
for all of us today. Good on your armed hashtags
signey together is going to go live right now.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
We're gonna mark your time, whistters.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
We're looking for your Bogan movies, the best in show
even three mates off to Villa Cinema's Gold class. All right,
Bogan movies you ready to Mark rio Let's do it
mullets In the MIDSTD goal Fairest Buela's sicky describe, I
didn't even know what the movie references, but just simply says,
(50:54):
where's my dad?
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Is that just a guy? Actually just a cry for
help right now? I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I wish I could be more help. I mean, I'm
free to that. I'll have a wonder round dirty dancing.
Christian becomes pissed at the RSL.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
How do you go to.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Instead of four weddings and a four x and a
durry gold? My Saving Private Bin Tank gold gold, the
Shatter Redemption silver plus.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
He is a great world and thank you Sidney.
Speaker 4 (51:26):
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