FULL: Hello, Doritos!

Christian opens the phones to hear where listeners found love, and the stories are wild: traffic controllers flagged down by future wives, cricket balls smashing windscreens into marriage proposals, and an argument over Doritos somehow becoming romance. The team also spirals into talk of hidden Christmas presents, bone jacks, and the art of escaping your own house. Plus the penultimate Timewaster for the year.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:23):
Love, Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
A stunning looking morning. It's gonna be warm today, Pats.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it's going to be beautiful and sunny today. We're
going for a top of beer with me while I
go through. I know it's thirty one tomorrow and I
think today is twenty five, but let me double check that.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Listen ready for the show as head of news, have
all the news ready.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's actually is.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's buried under in a handbag somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
And my lipstick under my bits of paper.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
He's on a different tap to the team won.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Mostly Sunday twenty two, the same tomorrow, but thirty one tomorrow.
Oh so summer finally here now, finally here about time.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yesterday we finally closed the door on our family home
since we moved to Australia. Big moment for my wife
and I when you're suddenly confronted with just a shell.
It's just a shell, and suddenly your voices already echo
as well because there's no furniture. There's literally nothing there.
By the way, my wife said, must have said twenty times,
you don't need to go and check in all the

(02:33):
drawers and stuff like that. I've been through this house
a million times. I found a drawer with all of
our passports. Oh no, so they buy the house and
our identities, Sarah, what about this lower draw It's the
same in every hotel we ever stay in. Christ You
don't need to check all the drawers. It's always that
lower one. Phone charges in here. Yeah, all of our passports,

(02:55):
medicaire cards. It was like we were spies. We were
burning it, all your identities with the new house.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh lucky that you were there, Christian.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So as we were closed the door and sticking about
this family home, you know, that's been our home since
we moved here seven years ago. So much, you know,
might not sound like a lot for a family home
to be their seven years, but when you think about
when we moved here, my daughters were just about to
become teenagers. They're now nineteen and twenty one. They don't
live at home with us anymore, they're at university. And
then there's the two years that everybody lost in Melbourne

(03:24):
with lockdown as well. A lot has happened in this house.
And so anyway, as we're saying goodbye to our wife,
wasn't really really emotional, so I thought, she needs a
cheering up, she needs a premium steak dinner.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh beautiful.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I treat my lady right, which is why I've booked
as a table at Squire's Loft.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh my god, that's steak and what they also do. Alex,
I don't know if you've ever had the honor yet
since you moved here to go, you've got to get
that change. You've got to go to Squire's Loft. There's
something old school about it. Put it this way, right,
They had a side of a jack of potato. I've
not seen that on a menu in many, many years,
right since the nineties. I had a ribby steak and

(04:09):
side instead of a salad of a jacket potato. Yes, drown,
but oh my god, this incredible old school mushroom sauce
in one of those silver school canteen boaty things. Oh yeah,
oh my god.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
It was so good in chips on the side.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, the jack of potato was a proper jacket potato.
Pat You can't double up with cabs? What's up with
this guy? What do you want to do? Blow up
for Christmas? And chips? Two jack of potatoes.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
When the state came. Did have all those beautiful criss
crosses on it.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, looked from the grill.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, the lattice affects you has quite an art. Oh
my god, it was so good. Also, by the way,
proper old school places this. When I was booking it online,
you had to agree sort of check the terms conditions.
We do not allow split tips and good someone has
kicked off there. They've had too many bogans fighting there

(05:04):
over the over a split menu of the split bill
with it to have that in the tees and seas
says that this is a thing. Also, everybody else that
was there last night Wednesday night Christmas parties, of course
it was full of like long tables and some dull
guy getting up obviously the boss doing these speeches that
no one was listening to. Oh my god, it was

(05:27):
so good. Now, one thing in the move at the
moment this week I'm worried about is obviously our life
is this couple boxes and counsel. At the moment, I
have forgotten where I'm worried that I've actually lost in
the move. The Christmas presents. You know, I think most
of us have a go to place. Don't we are
hiding place. Yes, I don't know that we've only you

(05:48):
know it's only our third night in the new place.
Last night, I don't know the new hiding place. I
don't even know where the presents are. They're so well hidden.
I don't know where they are. Where do you hide
the bets?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I do it all the time.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
At the moment, I have got them in the car
boot because I'll tell you why, Because Chris and Audrey
always sniffed them out, and so I thought they'll never
look in the car boot. And I am notorious for
doing that as well. Where I will hide a present,
where I will you know no one will find it.
I'll know exactly where it is, only I forget where

(06:19):
it is. I found an old rocking horse that we'd
got for Audrey when she was about eighteen months old,
I'm not kidding you, in a car boot up in
the roof space and that's creasey. She was like eight
or nine at the time. And I thought, oh, that's right,
we got her a rocking horse that Christmas. She never
got it because you.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Forgot about a misplaced and in time, those rocky horses
are huge.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Totally forgot about it, this beautiful handmade rocking horse that
we got at this sort of bespoke market when she
was little.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I thought, oh, I sure love that. Totally forgot we
had it, found it up in the roof space.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Did you give it to her now?

Speaker 5 (06:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:53):
No, I got it.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Teenagers do not want They would probably still light the
rocking horse, but they won't be want to be seen
to asking for a rocking horse.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, but I do it all the time.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think I'm going to put in a really safe
space so I don't lose it, but inevitably I totally forget.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Where are Yeah, I'm still waying from a Christmas present
that my wife has had hidden for three years. And
as we were leaving the house last night, I went,
at some point, when they move in, they're going to
find that shirt you got me three years ago that
I've never ever had.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Christian, where do I hide the Christmas presents? I have
a fake hamper with dirty clothes. I bury the presence
under the dirty clothes. Safe. Bet the kids will never
go anywhere near it. Then that's genius. They're never gonna
hampty that wash them Christian. My mate hid all the
presents in his car boots like Patsy did his car
got stolen.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Don't tell me that.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I kissed a guy who started good a Christmas bonus, Christian.
My dad used to hide the Christmas presents at the
top of his cupboard. Once we figured out, he said, well,
if you want to ruin the surprise, go for it.
I'm not finding another place. That's a proper old school dad,
isn't it where they just worked out what's the least
amount of effort I could put into being a dad.

(08:07):
I chat to my dad now and I can see
him judging me, like, oh, you know, I'm worried about this,
and I'm doing this for the girls and I'm worried
about that. I can see him just thinking, you're doing
it all right. So, Dad, I think you were a
dad like in the eighties when it was the easiest
time to be a dad. Yes, literally the bare minimum minimum.
It was constantly go and talk to you mum about that.
I don't know, go and ask your mum about that.

(08:27):
I don't think I ever even asked my dad to
help with homework or any school projects, because it would
have been odd.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know Dad's now, it's so beautiful, how how involved
dads are.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
And it's not because you want to be involved. That's
why you have kids is to enjoy. You know, there's
so much pressure on parents that to be the perfect parent.
The most important thing is to enjoy having kids.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
That's why you bought in books and then through the
rest of Christmas Day you just sit there reading books
all afternoon.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yes, do something. Now, what have you done about Hardy
because you got three young kids? Yes, Christian, So what
are you doing about the presents? Have you got them yet?
You've got you all the present sorted.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'm getting touchy, I'm getting stressed, I'm getting nervous.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I went in yesterday.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
I said, Bonnie, We've got to buy some of these
presents for these kids. He's like, no, no, no, why
aren't we just waiting to we get up to newcast
It all just north of Sydney, which is where we're
going to be spending Christmas, and we'll buy the presents there.
And I'm thinking, hang on, we're going to be spending
a day or two just before Christmas fighting the stress
and all the people.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's a recipe for recipe for disaster those shops are
just heaving as well. Most of the stuff is gone.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
I know we're getting up there on like the twenty
the twenty first of December, so.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'm getting anxious now anxiety.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
It was this Alfred Hitchcock moment, you know, when the
camera sort of out. You know, it's like, no, are
we really doing this because we can't take all the
presents in the car.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
If we do buy them now, you go get one
of those U haul things maybe attached them to a
roof with a tiny bit of rope.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
We have one of those pod things, but that's back
in Sydney. We're all over the shop, so we're going
to have to wait till we get up there to
buy the bulk of the presence. So just good luck
to me all it is.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Also it's queuing for all the by the way, what
a great thing is of the last couple years where
they go do you want me to give for up?

Speaker 7 (10:05):
That?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
It's always yes, isn't it? Yeah? Who says no?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, They do it so beautifully done.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
A lot of them too.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's great because our local plaza they've got the Salvos
that do it each year.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
So you feel like you're.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Also supporting a good courses.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, it's like gold coin donation and they do it
beautifully for you.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
What I love about when they do the gift upright,
so they wrap it perfectly and they do this thing
with the ribbon. I don't know how they do it
where they get something and they they can make it
curl up.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh yeah, you get the scissors, and how do people
do that?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Who teaches someone to do that? Oh?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
It's easy.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
You just like run it like you get It's the
way you hold your hand and you just like to
do something.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
With one of the blades of the scissors where they
and it then coils up beautifully. There were certain skills
in life where I'm always like, who told you to
do that? It's like when I first met my wife
and suddenly she would come out of the shower and
she would do this thing with a towel on her
head where it was like a couple of twelves and
so that that instant kind of thing on top of
a lady's head, and I'm like, how, what where do

(11:04):
you learn how to do that?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
This magic?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
I've tried that with my girls and that's it's impossible.
I don't know how you do it.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, no, we don't know. We don't have the right DNA.
It's like a secret lady, a gami thing. All right,
coming there, let me know where DoD you hide your
Christmas presents?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
The Christian o'connall show podcast.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Go on into Judy Christian. I remember nearly fifty years ago,
rummaging through my mum and Dann's room searching for what
I might be going for Christmas. I was tough to
find a set of jacks, yes, and give my age away.
Maybe you don't know what they are now. I used
to play with Jack's Jackson, the rubber ball, those metallic
things worsens are standing on a up some piece of

(11:46):
lego was standing on some jacks. Do kids even play
Jackson anymore?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
My grandmother used to keep wasn't the bone, like the
real bone, proper bone out of the chicken to play Jackson.
She'd wash it and put it on a window seal
to dry it. That's how we had Jack's for the
sheep's knuckle him something in the chook as well.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Someone might know.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
And yeah, so we didn't.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Have bought jacks with boats, Yeah, I know, like real.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Off the farm.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah yeah, And you'd go around there and she'd have,
you know, she'd done two or three roast chooks or something,
and you'd think, oh, yes, the more jacks, and they'd
be on the windows.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Bone jacks.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, I'm sure it was out of the chuck.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm not going to have to google. Can you still
buy jacks? Are they still those metallic ones? It used
to come like a set of like a load of them,
didn't they with the with the rubber ball? I bet
kids aren't playing Jackson? Can you ever look online? Are
jacks still available? The metallic ones? I don't want any
plastic rubbish.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
I've got the plastic ones which I'm used to. They
are available at Big w for nine ninety five.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
They're still being sold. She says, there's still a demand
for good old school jacks. Used to play all these
games with them. I'm pretty sure one was called the
Pig and the Pen.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh remember that Jack's from the.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Rooftop made all that happen, Christian. I have my presence
in the kids linen cub day. Never go in there,
Alex shop online, click and collect when you get to newcast.
That's a idea. There you go, Michelle, Thank you very much,
for that, Christian, I would say no to wrapping if
it was Roan Atkinson doing it like in love. Actually see, actually,

(13:23):
well he's clearly never done it, Christian. The beauty being
a trade in the toolbox, we have our own hidden
compartments and sections that you can put deliveries to protect
the gifts in. Christian. Speaking of Christmas, did you know
today is the most common day of the year for
couples to split up?

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Really, I didn't know that. It's known as breakup days?

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, yeah, wow?

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Why now because it's Christmas?

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Pressures?

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it's a stresses I could.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Understand if it was like the twentieth twenty first twenty second,
you know, when you're really up against it and suddenly go,
you did get that full of gifts. That's the main problem.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, All.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Right, let's do some of your emails. We call this
a late to the party hype lames the parts of
your home for your emails. Christian at Christian O'Connell dot
com dot au. Marie's got a story about half in
and half out that we're talking about this week. Christian,
I remember the time I got stuck half in half out.

(14:24):
I was hanging some washing out and immediately locked myself
out keys inside. I figured i'd climb through through a window.
Whilst attemptingness, I stood on an ail sticking out the board.
When I checked my foot, I managed to step straight
into dog oo. I'm now angry, swearing I'd try to
pry open the kitchen window. I got it open, but

(14:45):
apparently shoes with dog peel on them are incredibly slippery
on the kitchen sink. I ended up half doing the
splits before giving up and climbing back out. Still stuck
outside plan B, I found a long pole and managed
to gel breakstyle reach across the kitchen to hook my

(15:06):
car keys. By the way, there was a whole sp
in London of crimes where people would put a long
pole with a hook at the end of it through
your letterbox, because you know, you'll just dump your keys
on the sideboard by the door and then hike them
on like it's like a fairground game, and then retract
back across front door and out through the letterbox. Only
about this once when the police were at my door

(15:26):
and they were going around our neighborhood right door to
door telling people not to leave their keys out the
side because these hooking game gangs and shook gans sing
out of Charles Sticker's movie Wondering the Streets were a
long six rup pole with the nail at the end
of it. So anyway, I said, I don't, I don't
think that's a thing, and they were like, no, no, no,
So we'd like to demonstrate to you right now, close

(15:47):
your door where do you normally leave your keys? So
now I'm in this strange scenario. There are two police
officers constables right at the met police peering through my
letterbox talking to me. I'm positioning where I normally used
to dump my keys. They then get a pole and
reenact what this crime would be. They managed to steal
my car keys to police officers while we react to
what might happen. Anyway, back to plan and Marie found

(16:10):
a long pole mass to jawl brak star reach goss
the kitchen to hit my car keys. Thankfully had the
house kid hatch success and made it back in with
dog poo still on my shoes, dog poo on the sink,
a hole in my foot, and a strained groin from
almost two in the splits. Marie great, I know that
smell you never ever, But do you get rid of
the did and those shoes? You can clean them all

(16:32):
you want, You clean them all they want. You still
smell that rancid smell. These shoes has gotta go. I
love these shoes. They've been tainted forever with dog poo.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
You wash your hands about five times, scrubs and nails
with that nail brush.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
You talk about old school things, do they still exist?
The ancient game of jacks? And also nail brushes? Should
we go around it? And Grandad's always had that nail
brush next to a bar of soap. I come in
the last way I saw a neil brush. Christian. Two
years into our marriage, I changed up my routine and
left the house at four am for the gym every morning.
For one week, I noticed that the front door was
always unlocked. I finally asked my husband why he was

(17:08):
the door never locked. He looked at me and said, oh,
my dad does that what I said, confused because we
never ever lived with his tad and my husband hadn't
lived at home for five years before we met. All
of a sudden, the light bulb went off at my
husband's head and realized that it has now become his responsibility,
and he'd not been locking the door since we got
married for five years.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Oh there's something really sweet about that.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, he wasn't locking the door. Its the guy's job
to cure the perimeters like he's dead, always did it
is a grown man relaxt that's from Marie and Steve
is over the last color week has been writing a
poem about the previous week's shows. Here's his last one
of the year from Steve. Steve, thank you very much

(17:49):
for doing this. If you dig Patsy's car and he
don't leave a note, be very concerned because she can
be cut throat. What you have stepped on is the
name of the game. There were lower leg injury to
Granny Smith or was to blame in partner patrol. You
can remain incognito about habits that annoy more than any mosquito.
The second ashes t at the gabbarism must with added

(18:10):
ear war with added earworm and other pom bites of dust.
It seems both Gary and Barry live at North Pole.
Perhaps Santa needs to exercise more self control. Or by
the way, Reo is off sick today, so get ready
for a new clause member Shazzar clause.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, no thing.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
You got to know that Barry has a sister, a
Bogan sister, So shaz A clause is going to be
on the show in five minutes time. Seven years, Christian
have flown by so many stories to tell with an
exceptional team led by Christian O'Connell. Next year the show
will be heard all across our nation. Gold of Fame
will become the most beloved station. Steve, as always, you

(18:51):
got an email or story for the show. Yes, we
are on the last two shows of the year, but
us my inbox will still be wide open over the
next couple of weeks. Always Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Today you the Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Welcome to ten days of ian esmus every single day.
We have a big prize thanks to Ian s and
higher upgrading to your kitchen, bathroom and laundry before the
festive season. Now some of you might not know this,
but Santa has a Bogan brother called Barry Claus.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Far reclauses come in at down Fair reclauses come.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
In a test.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
He's making a list You's truckers.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
With gifts like washers and dries and a bloody beef
fridge fair re Clauses come in at down stopping at
the Pub of the Crown.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Barry Colaus is coming to town. Well this morning, Barry
Clauses not coming to town. It was the Christmas do
last night at the Grotto and Sandy Barry hit the
shots and the taquita shots too hard. He's a little unwell.
He's nursing a barocca right now. But there's another family

(20:03):
member who is available who's more hardcore, and that is
the bogan's sister that Santa has. Yeah, he might have
heard about her, Shasar Clause. Who is on the line now, Shaza.

Speaker 8 (20:14):
Hy Chrissa Elia.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's great to speak to Shazzar Clause. So nice.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
I've got the call up this morning, a bloody stoke.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah. And were you at the works do last night
at the Grotto? What were you drinking?

Speaker 5 (20:28):
No?

Speaker 8 (20:29):
I went, I went early and I had a couple
of lemmies.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, the lumbriscos, lovely classy.

Speaker 8 (20:36):
They were a delight. And then I saw Barry getting
a bit up and about, so I thought I'll leave,
I'll go home. I had to do my beauty routine,
and so I did that, and then I went to
bed nice and early because I thought maybe I might
be needed today.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, and did you watch a movie last night?

Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah? As I got home because I had a few lemmies,
I was like, oh, am, I getting to the Christmas spirit.
But you wouldn't guess what I watched because you wouldn't
think of it as a classic Christmas movie. It's but
it's Christmas themed. I watched my favorite girl, Sandra Bullock
in while you were sleeping.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh wow, Oh you're right. I wouldn't really think that
is a classid Christmas movie whatsoever, shaz.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
No, Well, it's a rom com and I love my
rom com and it's said a Christmas time. So Sandy
b she falls in love with this bloke, he ends up.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
You know, isn't that every movie she's in, apart from
that one in Space.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
No no, no, no no.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
But he has a coma and then she falls in
love with the brother while he's in a coma. Anyway,
it's all a Christmas time and they have Christmas dinners
and anyway.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I thought, well, that's about a Christmas coma.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
Correct Christmas time.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Okay, God, Jason, now listen, shassy clause, as we try
and get you back on track. Shazick Obrio's back tomorrow.
Shazow clause. What's the price? What's the prize today?

Speaker 8 (21:57):
It is a cracker. It's a higher five hundred.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
And by the way, you got some run with your
sinuses because you sound like participating. It's going to bang
that sinuses at the moment you got fat.

Speaker 8 (22:10):
No, no, that's just a natural voice. And I've just
done a bit, you know up here up there.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
In North Pole. Yeah, some foss up the old cyprusis. Yes,
it's very might just sell like a real nazy sort
of young brat or something.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, no, but that's just it all year round.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
What a joy?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah. Anyway, that price, what is it anyway?

Speaker 8 (22:30):
Yes, so it's a quadant door fridge. It's valued over
two thousand dollars and the best thing about it is
it can actually stuck up to four hundred bottles of Lambrushco.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, no, no, we told these responsibly. You actually counted
out find it hundred bottles of Lambrisco or stacked in there,
rip out the salad draws.

Speaker 9 (22:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
Before I left the Christmas party last night was like,
oh go and check it out. So I popped all
the bottles that were ready for all the other lady
four hundreds fit.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
It in there.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh wow. And I know you loved wine from a box,
don't you. Yes, absolutely, card Bordeu as you call it
card Bordeaux.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
Yeah. And then at the end of the night, I
just blow it up and I use it as a pillow.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
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Speaker 2 (23:38):
The Christian o'connall show podcast.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Good Morning Christian, Good morning Martin. The original jacks game Christian,
also known as knucklebones or five stones, was made from
natural materials, most commonly the ankle bone of a sheep
or goat. That's why you're might have been using the bones.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, they're on a farm, they had sheep.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
Yeah, knuckles, you know, Yeah, knuckles you used to get
and you'll have a sheep knuckle. And I was like,
that's weird, but no, it's normal.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
His these days would never have any idea about what
basic games we would play actually for hours. I still
love playing jacks for hours. All right, So guys, we
can't meet his chatting. We got shazy clause on the
line at the North Pole. Reclauses come in, he's sick.
Reclauses come in, all right, Shaza clause. Santa's bogan sister

(24:38):
is on the line giving you a brand new fridge
thanks to higher and ian es. Shazo, you're still there?

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Get a yes, Christian, I'm still here. I've just had
my big bricky and I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
In a roll. Yeah. How many week bigs do you have? Shaza?

Speaker 9 (24:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Easy?

Speaker 10 (24:53):
Four to five a day.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I reckon wow w and you out on the jet
ski later today I will be.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Absolutely I think the North Pole is cold. That you
are incorrect. We get out whether it's rain, hale.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Or short lovely stuff. Okay, so today start probably shaz
it is.

Speaker 8 (25:12):
Higher five hundred and eight liters black quad door three
just valued over two k Christian, which is a rip
up bit more than my jetekee.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay, let's get ash on now.

Speaker 10 (25:21):
Good morning ash, Good morning, Good morning Shazar, Good morning Christian.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Morning.

Speaker 10 (25:28):
Now I'm desperate for a new fridge.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
What's the situation, what's happening, what's going on at home?

Speaker 10 (25:35):
Not only to store my lambusko, I need a nice
place for that. However, yesterday, my poor kids, I've been
blaming them. I have a very old, old, hand me
down fridge. Turns out the seal was broken and it
was starting to break than yesterday I got. Yeah, I
got home from work and the place was like the

(25:57):
bio hazards. So the fridge was given up. It's gone
for holidays. Now I don't have a fridge, and I'm hosting.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
Christmas here in two weeks.

Speaker 10 (26:07):
So I have people that live with me. I have
I look after my elderly grandparents. And we're Italian, so
I've got the Italian Christmas.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh wow, there's Christmas and then there's Christmas plus that's right.

Speaker 10 (26:21):
So currently have an eski and.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I'm happy one. Then they walk it up at Christmas.
It's on, it's big, it's she really is, yes, and
I have no fridge, So what are using at the
moment and yes, oh you poor thing. I mean kets
have you got as well?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Two?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, hey listen, that's it we're putting all together. You
are today's winner.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You've got the brand new mega fridge, fod or so
much Italian Christmas in there, but the old folks in
it chill them out on Christmas Day they get the overheat.

Speaker 10 (27:03):
Thank you so much. And also pass on my love
to Darry as well.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, yeah, he's nicely very King's ice hangover at the moment,
just went big at the grotto works to last night.
You hate to see it on a young lad like that.
I really do you do? You're still on the line.
I thought we'd faded you down. Ash. Have a lovely
Christmas to you and your family.

Speaker 10 (27:22):
Okay, thank you so much, you too.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
I really hope berries back Tomorrow We'll start with Shazza
clause bon Jovi Now last big prize to be one
tomorrow on the show.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Do we know Have they cleaned up the offel on
the West skate? That was the first thought I had
this morning. Did they clean up all the offul on
the West skate? Those are my waking thoughts today. All right,
So we're going to do this the next half an hour.
And it's I think something you'll enjoy doing this. I'm
asking you to tell me about the story of your
year in six words. Now. The reason why it's six

(27:59):
years six words is it actually Hemingway, so that you
can tell a great story. You don't need to write
a great, big novel. You can tell a story in
just six words. So this year, when you think about
what's happened in your life, in our lives, in any year,
there's so much change that goes on. There's so much joy,
there's so much happiness, there's so much regret, there so
much loss, all of it. What it is to be alive,

(28:20):
us human, gloriously messily human. So I have a think
about your year, and how would you tell me the
story of it in six words? So to give you
an example for me, I was thinking about this last night.
How would I sum up this year another year of
extraordinary just change in my life at home and at work?
And I was thinking yesterday evening my wife and I

(28:41):
closed the door, literally closed the door, and it felt
like the closing of a not a chapter in our lives,
but an entire book of our lives on our family
home that we've had since we moved to Australia seven
years ago. And obviously when we moved here, both of
our daughters were on the cast. We're becoming teenagers. They're
now nineteen and twenty one. They don't live at home anymore.
We've sold the family home. We've downside. We moved out.
Last night was the last night I closed the door.

(29:03):
My wife was getting emotional. She said, Chris, I can't
better close the loor. Can you close the door? And
gon to go and wait in the car. I looked
into that house and it was like at a museum.
It wasn't a home anymore. It was like, this isn't
a home anymore. Now this is somebody else's home. I
felt like I needed to get out of here. And
actually the new people they move in to that at
midday and they've got young kids, they've already picked out
the bedrooms and it feels like it's already moving on.

(29:25):
So how would I describe this year for me? This
year it'll be the leaving year and the growing year.
Both of those things are in our lives, aren't they?
So for me, it's like Jack at work leaving the show.
Not the year I thought we were going to get
this year on the show, nowhere near it. But Jack
suddenly left the show and with all my love as well,
and I wish him all the best. But Jack suddenly
left in the middle of this year. But with that,

(29:47):
leaving our youngest daughter and leaving home as well, tremendous
growth as well. The show has changed Jack I hired.
You know, when I start the show seven years ago,
it's me Jack and Bats. Him leaving suddenly this year
was a really big thing. I wanted, how were we're
going to how were we going to get through it?
How were we going to grow through it?

Speaker 9 (30:03):
But we did.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
I'm very, very proud of the show this year, and
Real came along and Alex Kmberlong. So my WHI has
been the leaving year at home, a youngest daughter moving out,
and then Jackie Boy, which feels like another sort of
kid I had as well, moving out the family radio
show home. That's how would suone up in six words?
For me, it's the leaving year, but also the growing year.
It's been an amazing year. I've loved this year. There's

(30:25):
been leaving and there's been growing. So yeah, that's it
for me, perhatsy, what's it for you?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I love that this for me, I think it's this
version of us even richer, and it's kind of a
little parallel to yours in a way in that Chris
and I coming up to Christmas, have really been lamenting
about you know, there's no Christmas Elf anymore. There's no
going to visit Santa. There won't be making the reindeer
food to leave out on Christmas Eve because Audrey is

(30:52):
going on, you know, very close to fifteen now, and
it's like where have those years gone? The years are
going so fast, but what has replaced it is this
beautiful you know, we're pivoting into this beautiful, rich sort
of experience with her as she grows into her herself.
So you know, she's really into a theater this year.
We've been to two live performances with Odds and just

(31:14):
seeing her shine and in her element. She's sung in
front of the school a couple of times, and she's
just got into this amazing peer program at school for
next year. She's charting her course as she should, and
to see that as a parent is just beautiful and
so Chris and I, Chris and I have got to
catch up to that. So we feel like we're doing
this massive, big pivot and it is it feels like

(31:38):
a really big year in that we're setting the course
for twenty twenty six. We're all, you know, doing our
own thing and rocking with that. But the major thing
for us is our home life and just axling into
her new orbit and moving along with it. You'd know
what obviously what that's like with the girls, but.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's a big thing. People don't talk about this from
mums and dads, right They talk about what happens with
the kids and the teenage and stuff that You're right,
that age to al is out now that fifteen sixteen
seventeen girls were going through that, they really start to
see their character being revealed. You know. It's like it's
like a flowers in unfolds bit by bit and you're like,
oh wow, okay, and it's a marvel. But also then

(32:22):
what you actually also need to put your attention on
is night is finding meaning in this second part of
our lives and what that is for you. That's been
the big thing for Sarah and I this year is
like working out all right. It suddenly like they give
you the gift of time, they give it back to
you and then you have to go, oh, yeah, what
are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:39):
What next?

Speaker 3 (32:40):
And that's the thing we're finding, you know, as she's
going out to parties and sort of socializing more. It
is just more of Chris and I, which is beautiful,
and rediscovering each other and knowing that that friendship from
you know, because we've been together over thirty years now
that it's still there, which is really beautiful, and it's like, well,
what would we like to do tonight?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just it
feels yeah, why not.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's a big ear for you, Chris and Andrea at
the language.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
There's three in this real liflationship.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
But yeah, so that's where no, that's where we're at.
Is just trying to, you know, keep up. It feels
like a marathon.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
It's like, okay, we're here now, this is a really
nice pace.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
But do not think my time. Since I've known you
in seventy years, I think this year that you've also
grown Patsy as well. Yeah, i'd like to think so
already has as well. You're constantly teaching your kids a lesson,
and I don't mean the ones that you say in
bore them with. I mean how you actually handle and
live your life. That's the biggest. The kids are always
watching us, who're always teaching your kids a lesson, And
most of the lessons don't involve words. They watch how

(33:38):
you handle your life, your joy, your pain, your anger.
They're always watching you.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, that's right. It's like a mirror, isn't it when
you have kids, it's like a mirror.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Of I think it's more like a hall of mirrors.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, that's right, at a sideshow more to the point.
But yeah, it's actually quite beautiful. And to see her
forming her own opinions, and you know, we can have
discussions about world affairs and or simple as just sitting
and watching our shows together.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
That's just the best.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
You're an awesome mmy. You and Chris the great parents,
as are you.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Thanks man.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
All right, So tell us what is this story? What's
this year for you? Twenty twenty five? What has happened?
Tell us the story of your year in six words
four seven, five, three, one oh four three will go
through yours next.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
Thank you very much for everyone who's telling me the
story of their year twenty twenty five in six words,
Christian met the love of my life. That's from Max,
Congratulations Max. Julie's is menopause, insomnia, laughter, love, loss, gratefulness,
six red if our Natalie toxic family cuts off, never

(34:44):
happier Natalie, congratulations, Luke never building a house again. Yeah,
it looks quite easy and approachect. I mean, sorry on
the block, doesn't it. Marny reunited with first love after
twenty seven years. Marny, Congratulations, that's incredible. Christian My six

(35:06):
word year, unimaginable, heartbreak and unstoppable, motherly strength as nothing
as fist as a mother's strength, and love keeps coming.
They're great. Tell me the story of your year in
six words and text me oh four seven five three
one oh four three News and Sport on the way next.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
What's this year?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
What is your year?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
In six words? Uh, tell me all about it? Oh
four seven five three one o four three. Fiona, Big
year for our Fiona, move to Paradise, Ballana, love it beautiful,
par say Christian my year hard work. Employee of the year.
I love this one National champion shot put ruptured ACL

(35:52):
sorry to hear that. That is a rough way to
end the year. Karen her year in six words, life
changes are doable with friends. That's lovely, Karen Janelle Morning
Janelle six word year, heavy year, friendships formed, book born.
That is a lot good on there. Congratulations on the
book birth thing as well. Someone's said there a lot

(36:14):
good on the shit chaos, Gremlins, Gremlins. You got gremlins,
Christmas chaos, Gremlin's growth, Family understanding evolving, Alex, what's for you?
Big year for you and your family? You now live
in Melbourne? Oh my goodness.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
I've been shaking just getting ready to talk about this
because it's been such a massive, massive year for myself
and my family.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Wild is a good word for it. Christian.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
You know, I've sort of reflected on it, and it's funny.
Bunnie and I look at each other often and say,
can you believe we're living in Melbourne now? We just
have those moments and it's just been an incredible year
because my six word year is ending much better than
it started. It started pretty badly with my departure from

(36:58):
the Today Show, and I was in a real funk.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I didn't know what I was doing was going so
much as wall. You're a guy who's had a really
successful career as a journalist, right, You've got to do
some stuff. You must have had so much shame around
that as well. An unfair and unfair way to be
let go of a job as well.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Oh definitely, and so small, so sudden as well, and
so unexpected. And yeah, it just left me and my
family in serious limbo and we're like, what do we
do now?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Where do we go?

Speaker 6 (37:26):
And so so started a few months of looking inwards
and reflecting on what comes next and where I go
with my career.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
There must have been a scary time you were a
dad with three young kids as well, terrifying terrified it was.
We thought, this is it, this is the end of
my career that you've built up. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
I was getting offers from mates to go and work
on their nurseries, which was nice.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
You know, I had to do something, and luckily I had.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Some other things going on with particular sporting clubs like
the Penwrith Panthers, who are fantastic to me.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
And then and you became their actual mascot for a
couple of most tie we don't talk about those moments
you're in the outfit.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Yeah, the things I had to do Christian the cart wheels.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hey, dads have got to earn a coin, exactly right.
But then again, your good self came along.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
I'll never forget that phone call, that our long phone
call out of the blue, really and we got on
like a house on fire. And here I am in
Melbourne to so thank you to you and this wonderful team.
What a team this is we got to We're blessed.
We have a lovely team here as well. I hope
it comes across all that.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
If you ever enjoy the show, that is one hundred
percent because of the team environment we have here.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It all comes out of that.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
It's all embracing and there's an enormous amount of support,
which I haven't always had in my past jobs, let
me tell you that much. So it's just a really
lovely place to be and so exciting for next year.
I'm so blessed, so thankful and just cannot wait for
what comes next.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right, Keithy's coming. They're lovely by the way, and
it might take you a bit of time to think
about it as well, because when you look back over
you so there's so much you actually forgets what's upen
because actually we don't. We're rarely in the present. We're
always looking ahead or trying to strategize and manage today,
next week, Christmas, in a couple of weeks, time, new year,
the job and work. You're constantly you never hear, You're

(39:10):
always somewhere else. And actually, when you take a moment
to reflect, which we never do, we're always constantly somewhere else.
And even before the show, we're all talking about next year,
because we are. I've spent seven years of my life
all building for next year. I can't wait. But I've
had to remind myself that actually, right here and now
is that is magical. Was wondering it's not going to
get better because I've got a national radio show. It's

(39:32):
allowing yourself to receive just all the blessings we've had
everything this year. Sometimes we're always like, oh, when I
get to that place, life will be better, And it's
the wrong way to live your life. It's all about now,
and you look back at your year and like what
you've been through that have been so much laughter in
your lives. This year, to me tears so much unbearableness
of it all, so much joy, so much excitement, all

(39:53):
of that wonder as well. So take your time think
about your year and it might be something you want
to sit down tonight with a pen and paper and
actually write out a few goes of it. That's what
I did yesterday too, about half an hour to really
fine tune to what this year has been for me,
the leaving year and the growing year, and then send
it to me to right if you want. Christian at
Christian O'Connell dot com dot au, the.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I reckon we could publish a book with all these sharings,
each one a page of somebody's life of the year.
So much happens, doesn't it in a year. There's no
such thing as an average year of any of our lives.
So we're asking you we always do it. At the
end of the year, reflect on your year and then
tell me the story of your year in six words.

(40:35):
And for those who are thinking about it, maybe you're busy,
you're trying to get the kids to school, and you
know you wait for your exam results today as well.
Good luck to everyone is actually you have a think
about it today. And the thing that actually, when you
do this and you think about the story of your
year in six words, we are story machines. As human beings,
we're constantly making stories about our lives. Who we are,

(40:56):
who we don't think we are, how much joy we're allowed,
how much anger we're allowed to be, and all these
family stories. When you start to write the story of
this year in six words, it reminds us that we
can edit at any time the story of we think
we are or what the year was. And you might
find that you start out with one version of a
story of this year, and then when you spend a
bit more time of it and you go under the
surface of it, or maybe take a bigger perspective of

(41:19):
all of your year and what you've been through, the
story can change, and you can edit no matter what's
happened to you this year, no matter what hardships you
might have been through, frustrations, the things that you didn't
get you thought you deserved. You can tell your own
story about what that is. And knowing that and editing
it and crossing out and retelling that story is an

(41:39):
incredibly powerful thing to do. We can always edit the
story of what's happened to us in our lives at
any time. Alex Christian, I six words, failed foster dog
and now have four dogs? Is that a feul? When
is a foul not a fail? Alex? Congratulations to Steve,
one of our very lawal listeners and ocog Christian of

(42:01):
six Words. I turned sixty and I'm in perfect health.
Congratulations Steve. That's saying someone because I know you're a
Carton fan, so that the stress of being a can't
found to still how perfect health is amazing? Melissa tough?
You for Melissa breast cancer tough. More positives are though.
Now I hope you're doing well, sending you lots of love.
This person hasn't put their name on it. That's a

(42:24):
lot going on here. I've been trying to understand this
for the last couple of minutes. I just read it out.
Best friend affair with sister's husband. Oh, steps back in amazement. Yeah, wow,
best friend affair with sister's husband. So are you reading
this guy? So her best friend had an affair with

(42:47):
her sister's husband. No, Now, women are smarter than men.
Tina's going no, No, no, no, no, no, what am
I missing? Tina? What do you think that is? I
think you're right.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I'm agreeing with you.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
I'm just shocked. So her best friend has had an
affair with her sister's husband.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
That's what I'm reading.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
And that's shocking, I think. So on Caitlin's a bit
more wise and you see it all. What's up?

Speaker 7 (43:13):
What I think the sister's best friend had an affair
with her husband?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, Sometimes during the show I replied to some of
the text messages that come through, right, I can't reply
to all of them because there's hundreds. I am going
to reply to you right now, even if you don't
want me knowing an air I need to know what's
happened here, all right. We're going to take it right
when we come back. Yes, it'll be the last name
game as in of the year. But in the Yeah,

(43:42):
we've got an hour or so left on today's show
and it's the last show of the year with us
all tomorrow, so we've got about four hours left together.
There's a phone in that I came up with yesterday
that I really want to do before the end of
the year. Yesterday, when we're doing one of the odds.
I read an email from one of you who lives
in Ballaract called Karen. She was saying how basically she
found the love of her life. They've been married twenty
five years, You've got two kids in a McDonald's. Okay,

(44:04):
you know we've been talking last half an hour about
the twists and turns of life. Life happens everywhere in
life where there's a McDonald's drive through. She found love.
She found love in a McDonald's drive through. Where did
you find love? Love in an unusual place? I want
the stories of where did you find the love of
your life? It isn't how the movies do it. I've

(44:24):
not seen there in so many great rantic movies in
rom coms. You ever seen someone finding a husband at McDonald's. Well,
that's what happened to Karen, so finding love in an
unusual place. If you've got a story, I'd love to
hear it.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
The Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Have you Found Love in an Unusual Place? Karen has?
She shared our story yesterday during What Are the Odds?
She's the manager of McDonald's, been married to the guy
twenty five years, two kids. These stories are amazing. Christian
and I found love on the fire ground. We are
both Sea Fae volunteers. Good on you, thank you for
doing that. I found my husband at fire He was

(45:00):
the incident controller, Brackets the boss. Our first coffee dight
was a Macus. Merry Christmas. That's from Marlene kl. Merry
Christmas to you as well. Marlene met my fiance at
the local pizza shop seven years ago. I would go
down every week to get a pizza just to talk
to her. Found out she had a boyfriend. I then
moved to Queensland. They broke up. She came to visit

(45:22):
me for a week. Two months later she moved up
to Queensland to be with me. We're now back in
Melbourne with our one year old daughter. We get married
next year. Christian in March. Congratulations, that's amazing. Mark mark
Stone met my wife playing World of Warcraft the mesa
game ten years ago. We have two kids now. Could
be happier, happier that's Mark in Point Cook second one

(45:47):
met their wife at the local pizza shop. Hey listen,
if you're struggling to find the puplit personnel, get down
your local pizza hut. Dominos they're waiting for you. We're
celebrating forty four years of marriage. They had pizza shops
twenty four years ago. And Christian is the clarifying anonymous
here you got to write, my best friend had an
affair this year with my sister's husband. Steve's on the line, Steve,

(46:10):
you found love in an unusual place and just ten
minutes ago to talk about that amazing team.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
And the wheels are falling off.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Forgot that you have to put the callers throat on radio.
That's the way it's always worked, Steve. Yeah, I'm here, Steve,
I'm here. You're there now, Steve, where did you find love? Mate?
On the road? On the road, on the ride?

Speaker 9 (46:32):
Yeah, I was a traffic control. I soa. I was
the guy that's holding the stop and slowed back yep.
And I had this lady decided to come her and
I stopped her and as I had some guys to
work in there. Anyway, next thing on, I let it go.
Then she's come back again and again and again until
she's decided to stop and hand me off her number
and said, doll's cute. And twenty two years later, we're
still together and married and have five children.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Wow, so much? Stop and go, stop and go, stop
and go too much? Going enough? Stop?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Wow wait what a story?

Speaker 9 (47:07):
Yes, yes, real fields are quite determined. So if you
got what you wanted in the.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
If you're a keeper, I can tell im just speaking,
I just can just feel it. Steven, Steve, thank you
very much, your story mate. You have a lovely Christmas. Okay,
take care No, thank you you too, by much.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
The Christian O'Connell show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Have you found love in an unusual place? No swiping?
Going to get pizza from too Cheese Pizza in Lilydale.
That's happened to one of you thirty years ago. Found
his wife there. You make it sound like she was
just waiting. Hello. I'm your wife, Christian. I met my

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new love on stage in Gilbert and Sun production. That's great, Christian.
My husband I met at a volunteer tourist railway. We've
been married now for two and a half years of
two children. Congratulations. Met my partner at the footy club
during a function where I asked if I could have
some of Hello Dorito's Hangy Supremesir. Six years later, we

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have an old boy. He's called Dorito's No I name
my firstborn Dorito Bud. He's got her at the end.
He's like an Australian name. Kerry. Good morning, Kerry, Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Good morning guys. I was watching local cricket one day,
sitting in my car. The bowler who is back? He
bowled the guy here to seek That went straight through
my wing screen and Mark and I are now married
forty years later with three kids.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
You're kidding. He literally knocks you for six Yep, how's that?
That's an incredible story.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
So I'm making him pay through the wind screen, right.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Kerry, I love that. Thank you so much for sharing, mate.
Have a lovely Christmas.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Okay you two.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Kylie, welcome to the show. Hello hello Kylie. All right,
so you found love in an unusual place? Where was that?

Speaker 11 (49:12):
Yes? I was set up by an ex on a
blind date. I went out with him for a couple
of months and then he found somebody, and then on
our wedding day he ended up in hospital. And that
the long story short. We're still married thirteen years later.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
So an X, your ex set you up on a
blind date?

Speaker 11 (49:37):
Yeah, an X set me up on a blind date
with a guy who goes I reckon he'd be perfect
for her. After we split up, we still kept in
contact as friends.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Generous thing for him to do.

Speaker 11 (49:46):
Yeah, and then he set me up on a blind date,
and then yeah, and then thirteen years later we're still married.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Incredible, And there'll be a lot of people listening right now,
younger kid who won't even know what blind date is?
Crazy to explain actually what it was. Do they still
happen now? Blind dates? People still do blind days. I
guess appsolute placed it now now anyway, kindie, thank you
very much, phone call mate and have a lovely Christmas.

Speaker 10 (50:14):
Must buy.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
What I must day?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Kay? Then I knew that was you only to say
that that's great. Look Rio's not here today. There's a
lot of running around behind the scenes.

Speaker 7 (50:27):
It's a busy day.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
It's a busy day, isn't it. By the way, Kaylyn,
you've had a big year on the show. What's your year?
In six words?

Speaker 7 (50:33):
My year in six words would have to be I
really know.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Who I am? Oh my god, that's beautiful mate.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
Yeah, and this year has been a big year. It's
a lot of change in the show. And here at
the show we are like family, so this we see
each other more than we see our own family. And
there's been a big change. But I've also felt like
I've really come into my own in what.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I do on this show, and you definitely have, Youane,
what do we doing on the show?

Speaker 5 (50:58):
Now?

Speaker 1 (50:58):
You've been working with what three years?

Speaker 7 (50:59):
Three and a half nearly four?

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Yeah, yeah, we've been.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
But I really do feel like this year, you really yeah,
you found out who you were more than what the
role is or anything like that.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
It's more about who you are, Yeah, and how I
fit into the show and what my skills.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Oh, my friend, we fit in around you. Ye, we
all around you. My friends. Don't cage yourself.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah that's true, that's true.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
But yeah, I feel like that. And then at home,
you know, I'm getting married next year to my beautiful partner.
We've been together for ten years and we've had an
up and down relationship because yeah, we've had some struggles,
but yeah, we got engaged the year before, and this
year has been about getting ready for next year, but
really really feeling like, oh, we're in a comfortable space now,

(51:44):
like this is the person that I'm going to live
the rest of my life with. We want to have
kids together, and just knowing that I'm really happy with
where I am at the moment.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Yeah, I've never seen it. It was always an eternally
sort of happy person. But I really feel like it's
a more grounded happiness this year.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
Grounded happiness is a really beautiful way to put it,
because that's how it is. Without saying like I'm comfortable.
I'm just really happy in my spot and being a
bit boring. Grounded is where it's at. I've never felt
more like myself and really understood and being happy with
everything that's going on around and I'm broad.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Yeah, we never really understand. It takes time to learn
how to be us. There's no help in that. There
should be. You know, all those kids getting those exam
results today, I feel sorry from the way because you
think the game is you get this number, that number
is going to determine the rest of the course of
your life, and us old fart's going to know or
don't work like that. No, it does get up with
that whatever the atar is, and I hope you get

(52:33):
what you deserved, and no doubt a lot of the
kids have worked very, very hard, but it does not
determine the rest of the course of your life.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
Absolutely not. I got a terrible result for what I did,
and look at me now.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I don't think we're I don't think we're an example.
I well school, and this is what happens. If you
don't do very well, don't get the atar, you'll end
up on the radio, forced to do breakfast radio for
the rest of your lives. Down the salt mines of radio.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Christian, you talk about finally love and unusual places. So
I met my wife and a crowded Frankston Line train.
It feels like a line in a Paul Kelly song
twenty eight years ago. That's amazing, Richard Christian. I also
used to date a waitress at two Chi Pizza Lilydale.
Three listeners have found partners at Lilydale Tucci Pizza. It's

(53:28):
a hotbed. Christian. I used to date the waitress at
Tucci Pizza before I met my wife. Imagine if I'd
ask for home delivery. That sounds rude. Christian. I met
my now wife of almost fifteen years on a Kentiki
tour back in two thousand and six. Sean, I met
my partner twenty five years ago. We were both happened
to be working at a chicken farm, gutting chucks. We

(53:54):
have three boys and still together. Christian I married the
barista from the local cafe, went daily at work, flirted
for months. She randomly asked me one day if I
wanted to come and play with two dogs she was
house sitting. That's not you for missing. I don't know
what okay, madam, mind, I think I understand what's happening here.
Christian I was supposed to be getting my first tattoo,

(54:15):
booked in with my friend's brother, who is an apprentice
at a local tattoo parlor. Yeah, that's something we don't
want apprentice doing. Yeah, maybe an apprentice plumber coming around
or something. But a tattoo anyway turned up, but he
had to cancel. I'd already sighted myself up that today
was that I was getting my first tattoo. So I
walked over the road to a completely different tattooist, fell

(54:35):
it in love with the lady that did the tattoo.
We've been married years ten years.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
The Christian O'Connell show.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Podcast Friends, It is the penultimate time waster of the
year twenty twenty five, not one, but two Best in show,
briss Premium, free Range Christmas Ams down at the Freeing
Butcher Club app today and to unlock Memoroni deals, the
recipes and giveaways today because when we come back in January,

(55:09):
we turned one city into five cities as this breakfast
show goes national from January the nineteenth, when we're all
back with you. So thet's do Melbourne movies. Yes, everything
changes in January, but this is a gift to all
the oc OG's Melbourne movies. Best in two, best in
shows today. Then for your Melbourne movies you get Christmas

(55:29):
Hams all right, Melbourne movies. You ever see the movie
There Will Be Blood with Daniel day Lewis, violent movie.
We'll see the worse wear a Bee blood.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Oh no, come on bronze minus Yeah, I forgot.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
I should put the guest market Todays from that neck
of the woods.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
It's a beautiful wearribe.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
F It's gray loose. What about oh John Elston Wick?

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Oh good Gold.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yesterday Phobia, great movie? What about tak Noophobia? Very very
very poss spiders chat shack Oh yeah gold. This is
a sad story. It's called the Collingwood Identity. He doesn't

(56:15):
know who he is, but he's got nineteen tattoos. Who
am I? Gold and throw mama from a trugger Nina.
I love the place. Trugger Nina. It's a pleasing name
to say.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
It's a trugger Nina, Truggannina.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
It's Nina, Nina, trugger Nina. Yeah, yeah, I know you
should know.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
That is a gold.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Okay, thank you, Kaitlyn. What have you got there? Melbourne Movies.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
All right, there's a pastor in this movie, Lady and
the tram Oh.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Okay, okay, I know what it was like at school
when you got the supply. Teacher was of sick no silver.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Silver, what about you?

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Me and the g Oh no, that's good, that's good.
That's gold.

Speaker 9 (57:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (57:03):
This one's a great movie. The We're a B movie.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
This is a bit obvious. Come on, yeah, come on.
It a couple of moments to get these all right silver.

Speaker 7 (57:17):
Okay, Well, this movie is a movie from Frankston. The
Devil Wears fake braa.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Through shade on me. That's gold plus Christmas Ham slice
for you.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Thank you so much. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Christian O'Connell Show penultimate time waste of the year. We
go back to how it started right here in Melbourne
before we go national in January when the show returns
Melbourne Movies. Our guest marker the supply teacher producer Caitlyn

(57:56):
good morning. All right, you're ready to mark so Katelyn,
not one but two Christmas hams okay too, thanks to
the brilliant Butcher Club. Thank you, Gang Dingley village people.
I don't think the village people had their own mood
for you not changed that right now?

Speaker 8 (58:10):
Great one.

Speaker 7 (58:11):
It would have been a silver, but it's a bronze
because it's movies.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
You me and where a bee? Good Silver, Vince Elward
scissor hands Silver. I love this one, very Melbourne. Captain
hook turn.

Speaker 7 (58:25):
I was trying to get a hooked t me till
I couldn't figure.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
It out, but Joyce did it. Gold Affulheimer. I mean
barely a week goes by. It's not spilt on the Westgate.
Afful Heimer, well done, market work, Gold Mornington Glory, Gold,
is that Mitch well done? Jackie Crown, not Jackie Brown,
Jackie Crown Gold, Cloudy with a chance of Melway's Flindarella

(58:56):
Silver Fross Edmonds World to Saint Kilda mocking Bird. Yes,
the blair Gowy Witch projects, Bromze, I am tram Brahms,
Brote back Melton so very good enemy at the Westgate.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
Yes, I feel that on a on a yes, cloudy
with the.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Chance of Melbourne weather. Let's go John Brunswick, Oh good
one who is winning the Christmas hands broke.

Speaker 7 (59:27):
Back Melton absolutely and I'll go with Oh, I forget
the last one.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Sorry, that's the end of the show. Supply Teacher.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast