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Today on the Christian O'Connell Show, Christian shares a heartwarming story about a 13-year-old boy named Austin Appleby who swam four kilometers and ran two kilometers to save his family after they were swept out to sea. This incredible tale of bravery and selflessness is a reminder of the good in the world and the importance of staying positive. Christian also talks about the show's new Platinum Club, where listeners can join and become part of a community that spreads positivity and good vibes. Plus, the hosts share some hilarious stories and jokes, including a segment on bakery songs.

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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good morning, Patsy, Yeah, goody, good morning. I don't know
what that was. You're in a fakerustrening bar or something.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm just happy it's Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, I know, but miss Ray, someone actually does stay
in this country. Gooday, unless there's a tourist there serving
someone in a cafe. Morning day morning, Good morning, Rio,
good morning. No, we need three goodays now. Sorry, goodame, Paty.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
How was your day yesterday? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Not great.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
If we were doing a segment Wednesday Loser or Tuesday luser,
that would be me. Because I got a very unwanted
marketing email in my inbox yesterday. I was highly offended.
I thought, how dare you? It was for Pinsioners Insurance.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
The algorithm that knows us better than we know us.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Yeah, I mean marketers these days, they do so much research.
They don't make mistakes everything is so tight, just that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Suddenly you're googling and then it's all listening to it.
So you've obviously been googling that stuff. Well, I haven't
been saying to a friend, I need to get some
special like OAP insurance, golden oldie stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
You know, I might have been talking about a hip
replacement the other day, but no, I just I.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Was highly offended. I thought, hang on a minute, don't
you dare.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm not there yet. It's like when I was driving
down the road the other day there was this sort
of like a retirement village but also sort of semi retirement,
and had had like a sign fifty and over and
I almost slammed the brakes on it.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hang on a minute, and I.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Do, like this sound a semi retirement.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
So does that mean I could get like a Friday
Breakfast show on semi retirement. I don't want to retire ever,
but semi retirement? What's that?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I know?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
But I reckonend. You know, there wiz bang, all these
new villagers. It's actually looking quite inviting. I bet they've
got like a podcast studio. You know, they've got a
pool the wow, could you imagine?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
How I know everyone these days is a content creator. Yeah,
I mean, look, I mean ultimately, I hope when I
am you know, twenty thirty years whatever, that's my life.
I'd be very happy to have a small radio show
going to the people in the community.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah, there's like.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Thirty people there. I don't forget guys.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
At one o'clock today, bing goes back Bingo in the
pool with Beth.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
He's the Proclaimers. I'd be very happy.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
The lives a good life in there. I'm quite jealous.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
Like you water around, go into the garden, yeah, chess,
play bridge, just that.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know what appeals to me as a parent. The
worst thing is the constant getting that the food ready.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's lunch, Jenny, you here away, and then it's suddenly
like Wenn, I just empty.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
The dish washing on the last sitting here at this restaurant.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
So the idea that you get three solid meals a day,
oh my god, why can't we. You know what I
think they should do is I think they should actually
let not none old people go and just have a
night there.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh that's having a weekend with old people.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
A little bit of chack, some tea, Yeah, a bit
of bingo, like light exercise in the pool and stuff like.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I think that would be a nice weekend get away, like.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
A middle aged old folks home.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
Actually, maybe that's why you're getting the emails because don't
you do the the aqua aerobics.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Oh I used to, haven't done it for a while.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Didn't you get thrown out?

Speaker 5 (03:53):
What did you do?

Speaker 7 (03:57):
Alex?

Speaker 5 (03:58):
It's all wise?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Alex thought she did that.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
They got that whistle that like, we told you no
bombing and no heavy.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
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Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yesterday my life became a real life version of like
the movie Speed. So bit of background you need to know.
Yesterday was a big day. My eldest daughter, Ruby's twenty one.
She had a stitches out. She's had a spine operation
two weeks ago. Stitches came out yesterday. She was very
very brave and she's had to move back home and
it has been like having.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
A baby again.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's been like around the twenty four hours a day
for my wife and I are looking after and caring
for her. And so last week I it's sposed to
been non stop doing the radio show and then taking
over from my wife. She goes out does hers bits
and so were like a relay team. And last week
I jumped in my car. I just wouldn't start. I
was like, I don't have time to wait for recovering

(04:55):
all that. I'll get to list another day.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yesterday, it's still there outside someone's house, all right, but
someone's written on the back in the dirt.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Move Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now, it's my job to pay attention in life and
read the signs. So I then get round to eight
days later making the call. Anyway, the guy comes out
and he's there within ten minutes. Actually right, he comes out.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
It was a baking hot day, right, and he's there
and the flora all this, and he gets it going
straight away. It's just a flat battery. And he goes,
you need to go for a drive right now or
there's gonna be problems. You've got to pay for a
new battery a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
And I went, okay, like five or ten minutes, he goes,
you need to you need to drive and if.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Possible, keep going for an hour.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm like, what he goes, try and keep it moving,
I went, but I must observe the laws of the road,
the police. I I go, oh god, God, so speed
three in a mini sub You know there's going to
be like the I'll give me on the news pats.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
He'd be reporting on me.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
A middle aged father of two is a sleeper suit
at the moment, I keep moving.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right hour, The guy said an hour, So I'm like,
what are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
An Hour's a lot of time. Right now, I have
to ring my georgy card. I've got to I've got
to drive for an hour. And she's like, what the guys?
So I got to drive for an hour.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
That's a big country.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I just took off.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Right, where did you go?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I just drove around and I've thought I can do
some errands and I was like, no, I can't stop
the car. I can't stop the car.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
And I did that thing.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
You guys will relate as when your kids were younger
and that, and they used to fall to sleep in
the car, and you used to try and just edge
it forward even at lights, just moan it because once
they they got like a kind of tilt device in them.
Once they know you stopped, they just wake up. Oh god, damn,
it's light.

Speaker 8 (06:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sometimes when we just I couldn't get the girls to sleep,
I would drive around at night for an hour or
two in the early colors to give my wife a
break because they would sleep in the car. I would
just drive around at like one or two in the morning,
just driving, and then you dread seeing a travelight turned red, like,
come on, there's no one on the road, how but
dad out, please let me go.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
It was like that yesterday, just driving for an hour.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh my god, it has And then my wife was like,
where are you what are you doing? Want I'm only
half an hour into this continuous try.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
I think you are allowed to stop at traffic lights.
I think you can't just can't maybe turn your car
fully off?

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh did you not realize that?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
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Speaker 1 (11:20):
Looking for your stories right now?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
What have you been hitting the head by and your
stories are being stuck.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
On this morning show?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I really would love to hear and people have been
stuck in to me. I think it's the modern day quicksand.
You know, and me you were a kid, I thought
a large part of being a grown up would be
avoiding getting stuck in quicksand. Based on the TV shows
I watched Lassie and The Lookless Hobo Skippy.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
There was a lot of adults basically.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Falling down dis used mine shafts, being stuck down there
or stuck in quicksand. And it's been a real surprise
to me that not a lot of adult life is
about those two things. But every time I go through
a revolving dorn I went through one last week.

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I always speed up. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't know what that's going to do to the
fear of being trapped in that that bit, that sweet
spot where you go from there being air air and
then you go zero dark thirty for a bit, don't
you between like eight and twelve, eight and twelve on
the clock face.

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So you're trying to provide enough momentum. Yes, stuck in
there in their evolving door that moves automatic.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
So what I do is I'll probably give myself four
or five hundred meters around the corner.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
And then go and come and come and come and
come and then I get hit terminal.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Velocity right through it, so the doors don't even know
the bloody and what do you go?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
We were going to trap him.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
To anyone who've been stuck, because yesterday we had a
call from someone who was stuck in a turnstile.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yes, yeah, trying to get out out, which is an
incredible non advert for the club.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
So yesterday we're taking stories and we had so many
great ones. We're going to do a party this morning.
What have you been hitting the head by and your
stories are being stuck?

Speaker 10 (12:56):
I was working in the city in Chatwood to night.
I was walking on the main road and my nice
dapper suit, thinking I was a moon dollars and I
don't know where I just felt this stud in my head.
It would startled me. I looked and I saw some
trades laughing, carrying on, and they threw a donate and
bab at my head.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I looked at it.

Speaker 10 (13:13):
Yeah, I thought, is that chili beef or is it
just playing.

Speaker 11 (13:16):
I was at the SCG back in the day.

Speaker 10 (13:18):
I was ten years old and they used to have
can for it.

Speaker 12 (13:21):
Empty cans just break up for no reason, and I'm
standing in the middle of the crowd and suddenly I'll
get hit in the head with half a chicken.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Now, which is a little bit of detail there. It
was a half cooked one. And also he said you
could still taste a bit of the seasoning as well,
some of that chicken sol and as well. The reason
why we're talking about what if you're in a hit
in the air by incredible footage over the weekend. Thank god,
everyone's got to the filming everything on their phone. You
happen to be outside a gentleman's club. I don't know
why people a lot of the news going jays outside

(13:49):
of a gentleman's club. Everyone knows we're grown ups. It's
a strip club. And it's also that no one's confused
the people that want to get in there, they aren't
cove you as going hang. I thought it was gentlemen
gentlemen's entertame club, but it's a book club.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
It's one of the least gentlemanly places you could ever
go to, actually.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
And the entertainment only one party, only one side of
the relationship has really been entertained.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
A strip club in Melbourne King Street.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Two middle aged guys get thrown out, one of them
to try and I don't know protest restore dignity thinks
the best singers pick up some furniture, try and hurl
it at the establishment, only it knocks his friend. Perfect shot,
an incredible shot, hits his mate in the back of
the head, pollaxing him, dropping him like a kind of

(14:35):
Tom and Jerry road runner Canton.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know when the you know when the piano and
the anvil.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
And then they just hit the deck the biggest face
plant you've ever seen, like a locked redwood. Yes, better
than any you have sea fight, but in any boxing ring,
he pollaxes his best mate. I want to know, how
are these two buddies now? Could you still maintain a
friendship from someone who's made you a viral sensation? There's

(15:03):
over forty million people around the word. I've seen the
clips since Saturday nights. Everyone knows you are four right,
that you got thrown out with Strip Club, and that
you best make through a chat at the back of
your head. Are those two still going to be tight?
Does it come between you?

Speaker 5 (15:17):
It's a lot of water to get under them.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Just really want to interview those guys. Why has there
been no big you know, eventually media someone always that's
what I want sixteen minutes with them.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
I want to know what happened the next day.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yes, a big say, they look married, they look middle
aged guys. Someone had to explain to partners about their
Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
And then going, now that was it when you met
with Dave. Yeah, you know, Davies. We just had a
few quiet beers and out a long time, a really
bad hangover. And then suddenly, like I just having to
look on my Instagram reels, is that you nine face down?
Someone knows those guys for.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Sure, for sure they actually look like work mates.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Did you notice I we dressed the same. I wondered
if that was a uniform.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, spot actually and jo yesterday you know obviously I'm
was saysed by this footage. New and new ankle was found,
the big one that loves the chair, pif the chair.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
He pleads to get let back into the strip club.
All that to me is the most damning footage.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
You're pleading and lead.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
He actually is up. Please let me back in the strippers.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
Your mates knocked out.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
We're not that close mates, We're just work mates.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
And you now about the new Inner Circle, you can
listen to the show. But you're one in in the
bright sider is Platinum Club and it is back your
stories of coincidence and chance in what are the odds
which I believe you have not one but two Rio,
I have one holding aces.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
I just have a single story. But it will make
you believe in true love again.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Wow. Don't we always need a reminder? Can you ever
not be reminded enough?

Speaker 9 (17:08):
Now?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Mightn't sure have been stuck in anything?

Speaker 13 (17:10):
I have been stuck on something and it was my
previous life as a Today Show presenter.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
He's had always keeps a bright side of life.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
It gets better, I promise, story.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
And we were doing it.

Speaker 13 (17:24):
You get stuck in a lambo. No, that came much later.
But thought it'd be a good idea to do a
cross from an umpire's chair. And so I'm going up
the umpire's chair. They go pretty slowly and they get
very very high, and at the end of the cross,
I'm pressing the down button. The umpire chair got stuck.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
I didn't know that they were sort of remote powered.
I think just climbed their way up Lada into the chair.

Speaker 13 (17:52):
There is a green button and a red button. The
green button goes up, red button goes down. I'm pressing
the red button. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Well, they should be doing that through a game.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
If it's a dull game, just start to maybe laves
going up and that way.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
This is classic breakfast TV fodder as well. Dressing up
as a ball boy man.

Speaker 13 (18:16):
He probably was, and I did it like threes in
a row, and at this time it actually wow.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean, yeah, I don't seen ja tong TV pats.
They don't bother. It works once. Yeah, the boat as well,
remember it a year ago.

Speaker 13 (18:32):
Anyway, this thing hadn't been regassed that some technician came
out from off site somewhere and he's like, looks out
of that hasn't been around gas.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
I'm like, okay, what can we regass it?

Speaker 5 (18:42):
And they ended up having to get a ladder for
me because.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I had no undignified.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Stretch and lift him and carry him down Cherry picker.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
In my mind it's the ball boys and ball girls,
all right, mate, you know a good step down, you're
two feet up?

Speaker 5 (19:01):
How long were you stuck up there for about an
hour to do your sport and stuff in the chair?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yea become this running gag.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thought it wasn't like a serious like sports day, you know,
if someone had passed away a legend, like it's very disrespectful.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Why is he an umpire's.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Chad news to Australian.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
He was at home. Oh my god, it's working. He
dropped out.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Maybe today we take calls about actually being rescued, because
there's something when it's a minor rescue. I don't mean
a big rescue, but those minor rescue something that where
you're like, really, we really got to do this.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's broken. They've got to get you down the ladder.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
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Speaker 2 (19:51):
All right, before we get into the rest of today's show,
this is the only story, the only thing that we
should be talking about today. And trust me, the moment
you hear this story about a young Australian called Austin
appleby an incredible name and an incredible young man, this
is heroic story, the lights of which I've never heard

(20:13):
before from someone who's thirteen. If this was a grown up,
it would still be extraordinary. But the fact it's a
young kid who's thirteen. I'll just play the new story
and then we can talk about this. But I earge you, right, now,
whatever you're doing, and I know you're busy right now,
stop what you are doing actually and just turn this

(20:33):
story up. It is incredible and no matter what you've
got going on in your life right now, this just
does it retunes you to the awe and wonder of
what people can do.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
But this is a young kid. He's a thirteen year
old Australian. I've listened to this.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
A brave thirteen year old boy is being praised for
saving his family from an ocean ordeal. He swam for hours,
then ran for kilometers to raise the alarm after they
were swept out to sea.

Speaker 14 (21:01):
Barely visible against the fury of the sea. This is
where a thirteen year old boy made a near impossible
decision to leave his family in order to save them.

Speaker 15 (21:12):
I was really scared. I was just thinking in my head,
thinking I was going to make it.

Speaker 14 (21:16):
Through stranded four kilometers off the coast in Wa Southwest
for more than eight hours after rough seas swept them
out while kayaking on Friday, Austin app will be braved
fading light and dangerous waves for four hours to get
back to shore. His mum, twelve year old brother, and
eight year old's sister could only wait.

Speaker 15 (21:37):
I just said, all right, not today, not today, not today.
I had to keep on going.

Speaker 14 (21:42):
As the sun began to disappear, so did his mum's hope.

Speaker 16 (21:46):
If it was that also little Nicky at seven, everything
goes through your head as one.

Speaker 14 (21:54):
But incredibly the team did, running another two kilometers to
call for help.

Speaker 15 (21:59):
I thought they were dead. I had a lot of
guilt in my heart because you know, I thought, oh man,
I wasn't fast enough.

Speaker 14 (22:04):
Two hours later they were spotted clinging to a paddle boar.
The whole family brought home safe.

Speaker 16 (22:11):
And speechless efforts at the see time I knew he
could do.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Anyone else has got goosebumps. Yes, it's like.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
A Spielberg movie, but this is real life and it's
a thirteen year old kid. There's so many moments to
actually just pause and reflect on, really, because the story's
got about five incredible moments in it. First of all,
the mum making a decision. I can't even imagine as
a parent what that would be like to send one
of your kids out into well, you've got no you

(22:40):
don't know whether they're going to make it the open seas,
so you don't know if you're ever going to see
them again, or if they're going to survive. You know,
you're already worrying that actually they're probably not going to
make it, and what that means. Then you've got your
other children there, You've got so much going on, your
own survival, their survival, his survival. But she makes an
incredible decision to actually, ultimately that actually saved the entire

(23:02):
family's life. But then this young, tiny, little thirteen year
old lad swims for hours. I speak of someone who
is who's winded doing a lap of a Paul. I
can't imagine swimming for hours in the ocean. And then
he has the presence of mine. He tries to tow
his family himself back towards the shore. He really knows
he can't do that, and he has to carry on

(23:23):
without them and let them go and still carry on swimming.
Then he realizes and has the incredible presence of mine
and self leadership. He takes off his life jacket because
it's obviously impeding his swimming process. Then he swims into
a void for four k and off two and a
half miles, and then there's a clear weather interviewing him

(23:44):
and it's Paul adds, no one crutches obviously because of
the exhaustion physically and mentally that he must be going through.
Because it happened Friday. He said that what actually kept
him going was they're a family of faith. Was that
he was he was praying and thinking, he would only
let himself think happy thoughts.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Happy thoughts, which is just it almost brings tears. She writes.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I think that he knew that that's what he needed
to do to keep going in and then he has
to run, so can I too. Kate to ring for
help and them very calmly, apparently the same that he
asked for helicopters and boats to try and find his family,
And this is his mum talking as well.

Speaker 17 (24:24):
The decision was either if I can roll back to
shore to get help quickly, or I couldn't leave to
kids at tea. So him being the oldest and the strongest,
we said, we said, and he was quite happy going,
which was a very hard decision because you don't want
to see any your kids have to do that.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
That is I never heard a story like it, guys.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
It's remarkable. And they said it's the equivalent of running
two marathons and when you think about how far four
kilometers is, it's eighty laps of a fifty meter pool. Now,
I can't do more than you know, five ten laps
of a fifty meter pool without stopping multiple times. He
did this without a life jacket in the rough seas.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
So you're also terrified that you are going to die
and that you're never going to see your bro as
the sisters any moum Ever again, he has.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
To be with all of those thoughts.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
And if you've ever just gone for a little swim
in the ocean, you should. It takes a long time
to make any progress. It does, you don't appreciate. You
watch it on TV. You see the Olympians doing it
very quickly, you do it yourself. I mean, in this
for a minute, I'm barely moving.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
And also that part of Australia, those are not safe waters. No, No,
there's a couple of times where he said he swore,
he swore he saw things sticking out where he still
just had to go. That is I don't know if
it goes beyond heroism. I don't even know what to say.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
That story is, yeah, you can you can barely believe
it's true, and yet it's so it's one of the
most inspiring things I've ever heard, Like it just changes
your whole perspective.

Speaker 13 (25:56):
A lot of shark signings there too, a lot of sharks,
especially between Dunsborough and Bustleton where this happened. Beautiful part
of the world, but very sharky. So to be able
to swim through that four ks knowing that there's a
lot of sharks about, wow wee.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah. His name is Austin Appleby.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I urged you to take the time today to go
and watch the interview as well. It's an amazing story.
They should do Young Australians of the Year if they
don't already, because that kid is a true Australian of
the Year.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
The Christian O'Connell Show.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Podcast Thirteen year old Austin Appleby swam for four k
and then had to run for two k.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
He's in year nine, he's thirteen. I can't read up
enough on this story.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think it's given us all something just in awe
of his is incredible courage and bravery in spite of
extraordinary fear, leaving his mum and his brother and sister
behind in the ocean, and it took him quite a
while to get to his mum's bag and then use
her phone to call the emergency services, and then he

(27:02):
passed out. Was because of the extreme exhaustion from doing
it for hours and hours and hours. He was then
taken to hospital himself, not knowing if they were alive.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
What incredible. It's an amazing story. Can also saying thank
you very much. Quite a few of you.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I said, oh, well, you know, if there is an
Australian of the Year, we should all nominate him. There
is a young Australian of the Year and anyone can
nominate and back it. The whole country should just get behind.
Austin Appleby is his name. Look it up today. The
story will just give you something right now and it
reminds me, actually leads us into what we're going to
be doing here now. You know, we call the show

(27:39):
the bright Side of the Dial, and those stories of
everyday heroism and why they mean so much for us
right now in a very it's a rough old time
around the world. It's a very simple way of saying
what we all see and hear in the news. Now
you turn your phone on. Now it's constantly been bombarded
of the very scary things that are happening around the world.

(28:01):
And so when a story like that reminds us that
there are more good people and great young people the
world as well, it reminds us to be on the
bright side of life.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
And that's what the show is about.

Speaker 12 (28:13):
Always look on the bright side of the dial. The
Christian o'connal Show will make you smile. If your day's
just begun with clouds ands, then of sun, your socks

(28:33):
don't match, no battery on your phone. If the news
is pretty grim, dread and go on to the gym,
just remember, silly bugger, you're not alone and all.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Right, so we called it the bright side of the dial.
That's us. And if you change the bright silor doll,
you are a Brightsider. And now there's a way for
you to join our bright Siders Platinum Club. You get
an actual card, an actual card with your name and
your unique right Siders pattern Club founding member number.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's your life flood.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
For you to join us.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
You also get access to a private group with fellow
bright Siders and us in there as well. We give
you first heads up about things we're going to be
doing on the show. You can find out the time
wasters the day before. When Rio and I find then
we do have twenty four hours notice. It doesn't make
a difference. You've got to be honest. You wouldn't believe it. No,
you'd be stunned. I think maybe they like to low
ball it to make it easy for us. No, that's

(29:31):
us high balling it. That's good as a guest, as
good as it gets. We wait for it twenty four
hours notice, and it's actually our job. We're doing it
for years. That still us up peak performance within a
couple of minutes. People around Australia on their way to
work whatever can just do it at their desks.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
So you go heads about everything.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
And that's a private Facebook group that we're launching as well,
and a new Friday. I call it from the Lighthouse.
It's a message from me to you guys. It's a
private message as well. So if you want in to
the bright Side Platinum Club, all you have to do
is tell me what number you want to be. You
get to pick your own found member number. But I
just want to know why do you want that number?

(30:12):
Some of the stories we've been getting this one is incredible.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yes, you can have the number ninety five. That's your
founding member Na number Christian, thank you for making me
smile every morning. I need it right now. Can't listen
live currently. I'm sitting with my nad in hospital in
the morning. She's not space to make the end of
the week. She's a Polish orphan, taken by the Nazis
as an eleven year old girl to work on the

(30:36):
farms in Germany. She's had a remarkable life and at
ninety five, her body is tied. I listen to a
podcast and drive home every day and it's my happy
place at the moment. I listened in the Hunter Valley
and was one of the first people on your first
National Show two and a half weeks ago. The mark
is the guy text about dirt and the fuel tank
when we talk about the first ever cars on show

(30:58):
number one of the new National Show on the nineteenth
of January. I'd love to do part of the bright
Siders Club. Please let me join. I want to be
number ninety five as a tribute to Nan. Yes, I
think your Nan has to go in as well. She
should be ninety five and then you can have whatever number.
Maybe you both for this one. You both have the
number ninety five. If you like that, Mark, thank you

(31:19):
very much for your lovely story as well, and send
our love to Nan this week as well. Jules, this
is incredible reason why she wants the number twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Christian.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I listened to the show. I have a functional neurological
disorder and I get these terrible seizures at the moment
the clinic whod been fantastic are trying to get me
to divert the pain, pretending I'm at a heavy metal
concert in the moshpit. That would actually give me, that
would actually give me a headache. But if that's what's
helping you, Jules, go for it. Christian. I always see

(31:50):
the bright side of life. And the last siegeon I
had was on the twenty seventh of December last year.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I want the number twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Jewles, it's yours. You are the number twenty seven. Christ
Christian won the number fifty three. So a number of
times I listened to your show on replay in the
evenings in Queensland before googling you and realizing it was
a radio show in Melbourne. And now you're live up
here on the Goldie Welcome. I can hear you real
time Paul. Yes, you are number founding member number fifty three.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Welcome the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Come join us in the bright Side Platinum Club.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Welcome to the Platinum Club of Britain.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Funnel Show. It's an exclusive title.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
This sounds like someone who's had too much caffeine and
also smashed a lot the Monster Energy drinks with a
chaser of red Bull.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
I can smell the red Bull on your breath. Three oh, Welcome.

Speaker 12 (32:49):
To the Platinum Club of Original o'connall Show.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
It's an exclusive title.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
You're a bright Sider now a member.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Of the club.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
You don't need no money.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Honey, just bring your light and love.

Speaker 12 (33:04):
It's the Platinum Welcome to the Platinum.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Make it stop, I will, I will late in love.
I love that all right. So welcome to the bright
Side of this Platinum Club. What do you get?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
You get you a unique founding member, tell us what
number you want and what and then you're into our
private group as well. You get us, and you get
more importantly, fellow bright Side as well around Australia.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Hopefully we're going to build something here. Come join us.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
You can text me if you want, if it's easier
today oh four seven five three one oh four three.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Now, obviously this.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Is mid point week three of our new national show,
one show going live around Australia. Now, of course you
think Australia, the big.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Old country with strange time zones.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
You guys say, strange people.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Do you want to say that?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's for you guys to say. I'm merely David Atbray
here observing you all. But anyway you've got You've got
the half an hour with our friends in Adelaide and
then Perth. I'm trying to breakfast shut at Perth. But
we have Rebecca who listens from three am. No wow, yep,
she's a Perth Christian. I want to be a bright Sider.
Anyone else getting up as early as me to join

(34:21):
the show from six am at right now three a m.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
As you geezers go to air Rebecca in Birth.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Today is going to be a tough day for us.
The vet comes to dispatch my cat Arthur. Oh, language
can help it, dispatches.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I've been through that.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
That was as with our dog. I'll be able to
get the vet to Carmen to them. But the word
dispatch to be cold.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's cold.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
It's cold, you know, Arthur's going to be cold today,
so let's not too.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Soon, Christian O'Connell.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
He's sixteen and not doing well. He's obviously not a bit.
The vet's coming down and he's going to know. I'm
going to cuddle him and then flee my house and
my husband can entertain dr death.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
This is how they do things in wa after. See
you soon. Your family loves your sold bloody much.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
That's Rebecca in Perth, sending the Christian I've been there's
some listener, Chris. Been waking up with you guys for
many years now, many many time wasters, gold, silver, bronze,
and many unmarked ones. The story about Zolta being stuck
in a box on stage. I do remember that. Can
I have seventy two for the vintage year of my
birth teacher, Chris, Yes, of course you can.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
James Dennis wants the number.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Eighty two in the Platin carb It was the age
of my father and father in law when they both
passed away. Maybe it's meant to be. Yes, you can
have the number eighty two. Great Christian, I can't call in.
I'll be honest, a sound dreadful. I've got a terrible
flu cold. I feel like a bit of hit my truck.
Can I be a founding member?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yes you can? Great, if some I'd like to be
number one hundred and sixty three.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
This is the number of the steam train locomotive K
one sixty three that I'm qualified as a fireman on
the railway, a volunteer.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Love Cray, I love that, absolutely love that.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Oh let's take some calls now and induct some bright stidies.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Mason, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 18 (36:15):
How are we?

Speaker 1 (36:16):
I'm good Mason, and you're joining us from Sydney.

Speaker 9 (36:19):
From Bungonia down right?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay? And you want to be a bright cider?

Speaker 9 (36:25):
Not today, thank you?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Now what number do you want? And why?

Speaker 19 (36:29):
Number three?

Speaker 10 (36:29):
If I can. That's my birth so I'm born in March.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It sounds like you're driving a tractor there. What actually
is that noise in the background?

Speaker 10 (36:37):
Mason, Oh yeah, it's my truck.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
I'm just the idling was big. It's like a big
thing there. Yeah, how big is the truck?

Speaker 11 (36:49):
It's a quad Excel semi trailer, That's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
So we'll be talking there about an eight wheeler.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
No, oh god, I shouldn't know how many wheels.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Twenty twenty six wheels. Wheels, just a.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Few double, aren't I Well.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
He's not on a unicycle back double. Yeah, there's a
there's another one of these the other side, I know, go.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Back to back some of the wheels not that. Can
you give us a honk of the horn?

Speaker 18 (37:25):
Yeah, I'm going to rest areas.

Speaker 20 (37:28):
I don't want to wake people up.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
All the other truckies you can't wake them, So you
wake up some of the victims that were in the
back of the trucks as well.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh, I know, Mason, Mason, you're number three. Welcome, Thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
All right, let's go do all hang on, I forgot
the fanfare. Huge um, we got here, Crystal. Good morning, Crystal,
Welcome to the show. Good morning morning Crystal. Where about
your calling.

Speaker 20 (38:02):
From mate Hens, New South Wales?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
So now tell me this, Crystal. Are you a new union?
Can you listener? Are you just trying this out recently?

Speaker 20 (38:11):
No, I made the change over. I listen to you
guys when you're on the afternoons last year and now
in at your morning during my morning drive to school.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Brilliant. Okay, And are you a teacher?

Speaker 6 (38:21):
I am?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
And what year are you teaching? You've got young kids,
you got the teenagers.

Speaker 20 (38:26):
Oh this year, I've got year four and five, so
ten eleven, twelve year olds.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, yeah, keeping you busy, big long year ahead of you.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
And how does it feel to you back teaching again?
Do you miss it or do you really need the break?
It's an amazing job, but tough job as well.

Speaker 20 (38:41):
I kind of forgot how to teach on Monday. I
walked in and went, okay, guys, irink what I'm doing today?

Speaker 8 (38:46):
And after that I.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Was, Okay, that's like me every radio shelter twenty eight years.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, that's the first hour I get.

Speaker 20 (38:53):
That after six weeks off. You kind of forgot your job.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, Crystal, what we'd love to have you in the
bright side? And what number would you like?

Speaker 20 (39:01):
I would like the number thirteen for two reasons. The
first one is it's my thirteenth year of teaching, and
the second and being I'm just a generally unlucky person
and no one else seems to want thirteen, so I'll
take it right.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
You have it, your number thirteen.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
And also, congratulations on thirteen years of teaching.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Thanks for everything you any colleagues do.

Speaker 20 (39:21):
Thanks a lot for that.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
And also you're welcome Crystal. Crystal, welcome to The bright Siders.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Every Wednesday, on the show, we do a thing called
what are the Odds? Your stories of coincidence and chants.
The lines are open now thirteen fifty five twenty two,
and you can also text in your stories stories within
prices oh four seven five O three one oh four three.
Let's do it believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (39:55):
No, what are the odds?

Speaker 6 (39:58):
You gotta be jashing me, like, were you with.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
Cheryl who married a Hun?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Who works weird? The Cheryl.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
We're married a Hunt?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
As well as they say TV Previously on What are
the Odds?

Speaker 11 (40:18):
About thirty five years ago, before mobile phones, I had
to get in touch with my sister. She was living
out of home at the time, so I dialed her
what I thought was her landline number, ended up getting
a wrong number. I called a Chinese restaurant by mistake,
but my sister just happened to be dining at that
Chinese restaurant. I just asked her Fran and then a
couple minutes later, Yeah, how's his friend?

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Incredible story? I love that.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
All right, lines open now, what are your stories, coincidence
and chance. We're here for them every Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. Now, Rio, you've got one
to set us up today.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yes, Christian, I promised a story that will make you
believe in.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
True love once more.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Make me believe.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
Well, now, my partner Will and I we've recently taken
on a mortgage, great idea already.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
This is one of the greatest love stories I've ever heard.
There's no greater love than the one I have for
my mortgage.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
Repaper, and no greater love them my love for the
RBA recently so much at the start of the year.
Have more of my money base, please please, So we've
recently had to switch credit cards. We're all now with
the same same bank. On the weekend, I had to
go and get some cashat because with the markets. I

(41:37):
take Will's card, I say, hey, what's your pin code
so I can get this money out. We have chosen
the same pin code for our separate debit cards. If
that is not a sign that we're supposed to be
together forever, I.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Don't know what is.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Oh my god, Oh my god, that you thought that
needed to come to the Red When you get stories
like that, you roll your eyes.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
And you don't put them on air.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
That is beautiful. Pink story is not a love story. Sorry,
it's not the universe. It's not Romeo and Juliet pink code.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
He's got one for one night. So I just get married.

Speaker 13 (42:20):
Bonnie and I had the same incredible story.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Are you still together?

Speaker 10 (42:26):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Wow? What if when you do get married to you
and well, what a story you're gonna have?

Speaker 5 (42:32):
Oh my god, we're gonna lead with it.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
It's Richard Curtis here to tight this out for Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
I've got goosebumps just hearing it.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Tell you what I've got yawns.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
It's not thank you, that is all You're going.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Pin code of love? You do you remember? I don't
know if they still doing.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
You know, my mom used to love these magazines, you know,
those weekly women's magazines where they used to have real
life love stories and it would always involve there was
always over two pages, and and it was always involved
like a wedding photo have been.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Was always torn in half. Always those love it that's it.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, and the wedding photo will be split down the
fold in the magazine. Your pin code nonsense would be
a womp, not even a double pager, not even that.

Speaker 6 (43:22):
Well, it's never going to happen to us, because, like
I've said, signed from the universe.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
All right, who we got here? Vicky will have a story.
I just can feel it. Vicky, welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (43:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (43:37):
How are you going?

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I'm good? Vicky? Have you even a good week so far?
All right? Wats your story?

Speaker 9 (43:42):
I was coming home from Eden with my hobby and
I said, can we stop in at Malekula. I've never
been there and I've got an uncle that lives there. Anyway,
we drove in haul the way in and I need
to go to the loo. So I was going up
to the toilet block and I went to go to
the ladies and she said, oh no, there's a cleaner there,
and she said, you can't go in there. They're in

(44:03):
the toilet. You'll have to use the disabled no worries.
So as I was in the loo, he yelled out
to the person in the other toilet are you right
in their case? And I was like, that's my uncle's name.
Surely that's not my uncle in there. And anyway, when
I come out of the toilet, there was my uncle
standing there and I haven't seen.

Speaker 8 (44:20):
For forty years?

Speaker 1 (44:22):
What you haven't seen in forty years?

Speaker 9 (44:24):
Forty years?

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Wow, surprise, surprise, the lieu of love.

Speaker 9 (44:31):
Oh, I know it's my uncles.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, that is that is an incredible story.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
You've seen him forty years and he's emerging out of
a disabled toilets.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
That's correct?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
And was it kind of like did he recognize you
straight away?

Speaker 9 (44:47):
He did? He's if jaw hit the floor. He was like,
and I just said hello, stranger and we had a
massive hug.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
That was lovely, Allison.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Big and I give that ten maybe actually twenty minutes.
Actually go and get one of those plunges from the
front desk as.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Well, Vicky, that is an incredible story.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Suddenly the pink coach story is in the rearview mirror
of the show. Thankfully, cold sweats around him. Ah, give
us a call, please, actually, seriously do call.

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Speaker 2 (45:21):
Good morning to Alexis Christian. I love Rio and think
his love is forever. But can I just say that
my dad and I found out we have chosen exactly
the same pinko too.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
That means there's different types of love in this world.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Right, You're right, but we can all call it lave.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
It's true, we can agree on that, and it's lovely
just having that moment. You and I with our dear
listeners while Nickelback place us out Nothing Loves, Oh My
God soundtrack to Our Lives Christian I'd loved the number
fifty two as a prize sider, Platinum Club member, founding member.
When I was nine in the eighties, I went to
my grandfather's fishing club Raffle one night, hold on to

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Your hats Hell of a story.

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This prizes were one of the night I think was
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I'd given up hope, but then I won the last
raffle of the night, the door prize. It was a
bottle of non alcoholic sparkling wine.

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I still remember the joy of winning something for the
first time of my tender life. My winning ticket number
fifty two. What number do I want from you? Fifty two? Divina,
it's your.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Please believe it. Okay, last couple of stories, we go
to the News and Sport. Kylie in Sydney.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Good morning, Good morning, how are you.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I'm good Kinlie. Welcome to the show, and thanks for
sharing your story.

Speaker 19 (46:44):
If you go, thank you.

Speaker 8 (46:46):
Ah Well, I used to do modeling and I was
living in New York City and I met this guy
through a mutual friend and we started to hang out.
We started to date and things were going well. And
I only show my portfolio to people that I feel
comfortable with, and so eventually I showed him my modeling

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portfolio and he was looking through it and then suddenly
he landed on this picture and he just gave me
this most incredulous look, and I said, what is it?
And he said, he said, well, one day I was waiting.
I was waiting in Trump's office for a meeting because
he was in commercial real estate, and he said, and
I saw this magazine on the table and I looked

(47:29):
at it and I saw this girl on this magazine cover.
And I thought to myself, why can't I meet a
nice girl like that? Why can't I meet someone like that?
And it was me on the cover. And we ended
up dating for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
What an incredible story.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
Bizarre because man, happens pretty big.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
You also dodged a bullet there anywhere near Trump his office?

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Your photos aio.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Wow, we very nervous going to was that?

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Wow, we trump? Where is this going? Incredible story, kindie.
Thank you very much for sharing it with us.

Speaker 8 (48:10):
No worry, thank you, well.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
We I really was.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Never in my reader career ever hit the dumb button.
But I was very close there. I thought we were close,
closer to the island.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
There's lots of.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Violence, I know, that's what I mean, island. I mean
that's of course I meant. So was there any confusion?

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Thank you reading you? All right, let's get one more
in Wayne.

Speaker 19 (48:37):
Day Christian, how are you.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Close to the wire today? All right? Wayne, what's your
story for us? Mate?

Speaker 19 (48:42):
Okay, just quickly. Many years ago, I used to run
a window company and we had a There was the
week before my wedding, so it was the friday before
the weekend I was going to get married. We had
to do a delivery for a for a window in
the east side of the Sydney and this window was
quite large, as three meters by five ments. What should

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have been a simple delivery turned into a nightmare because
mar sales rep didn't think about getting the window because
of at the rear of the property. Getting the window
from the street to the rear of the property. So
long story short, we had to drive the truck up
the back of the golf course, bring down the fance,
walk through the pool, had to get guys from the
factory out there. It was an exercise. So it took

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what was it usually an hour episode took six hours. Anyway,
a week later, I'm with my wife. There were at
the pool in Santa Rini in the Greek Islands, and
there was another couple on the other side of the pool. Anyway,
they noticed we were talking and then they were what
they were rossies as well, and so I'm sort of
sitting on the side of the pool and going, oh,
so what they said to us, what brings you guys here?

(49:46):
So we're on a honeymoon And I said, what brings
you guys here? And they said, well, we were doing
this renovation and we rang up this wretched window company
and they gave us all of this tremendous brief to
do this renovation. So we installed the window and took
the rest of the money for the renovation and took
this holiday and I just sank into the pool.

Speaker 9 (50:08):
And they said, oh, well, what's up?

Speaker 19 (50:10):
And they go I said, oh lord, long story short,
I know what you're gonna ask me and say what
do you do for a living?

Speaker 1 (50:20):
You might see me on the counter affairs. What Wayne, Wayne,
what are the wretched ods?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Brilliant story though, Oh my god, real life always writes
a better stories and that's insane. Oh my god, that's fantastic, Wayne,
Thank you so much for giving the show ago, Mom
Bortanley calling up and sharing that story.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Brilliant story. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Have a great day, guys, and you, by the way,
just quickly, I've had I've been in contact with someone
that knows who those two guys are from that incident
in Melbourne, the chair throwing.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
Oh this is huge.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Can't say anything.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
They do work together. This this listener used to work
at the factory that they are both from. One of
the guys, it's apparently the Big Boss. The other guy
is the Australian Rep. Guess who's on the floor the
Big Boss, the Australian Rep Holax, the Overseas boss.

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Can't say anymore.

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Kylie now. Hello, Kylie, this is Christian from the Bank
of Christian. Hello, Hello, can you can you hear me now?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (52:07):
I can hear.

Speaker 21 (52:08):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Hi, this is Christian from the Bank of Christian.

Speaker 8 (52:12):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Olhy it sounds like you're on a train or tram.

Speaker 18 (52:17):
I'm in the car. I'm just about to pull over
right now.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Please drive safe. I'll old.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Well, let me know when you say put the hazards
on so I can hear you and hazards on.

Speaker 18 (52:30):
I've got them one.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
There's someone else there who is on this call.

Speaker 18 (52:34):
I've got my two daughters in the car. Were on
the way to school.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
And how old are they?

Speaker 18 (52:41):
Bridget is twelve and Willow is sick.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
What lovely names, Bridget and Willow. I love the names.

Speaker 18 (52:48):
Yes, yes, well.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Listen, I'm calling to pay Willow or Bridget's phone bill
one hundred and sixty nine dollars. Oh, but it's not
the six year old well, she probably to call Bluey
or something, is she?

Speaker 18 (53:01):
Yeah? Probably she Love, You're probably called.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
So which one's running another one hundred and sixty nine dollars?

Speaker 18 (53:09):
It's bridgetnew it.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I knew, Bridge.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Come on, what you're doing one hundred and sixty nine bucks?
Why's she playing games? Buying those in app purchases? Come on, Bridge?

Speaker 6 (53:22):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (53:23):
Probably yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Well listen, Kylie, why don't I round that up from
one hundred and sixty nine to three hundred dollars?

Speaker 18 (53:30):
Oh my god, that would be amazing my pleasure, like
literally no idea because my husband just got into hospital,
so I haven't been able to work, so this is
just amazing.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Oh wow, And you've got the two young kids who
are six and twelve, and you're doing it all right now,
but like a Swiss army knife.

Speaker 18 (53:47):
Well yeah, I go to UNI, I try and work,
and both my daughters have special needs, so we do
do a tough but this is amazing.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Thank you so much, Kylie, Kylie, Kylie Curley, I'm so
glad that fate has set us together. Why don't we
round this up to three thousand dollars? No way, Yeah,
there's no way. I can just give you that note.
Let's let's get you three thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Everybody helps, Sorry, that's all right. It sounds like you've
got so much going on right now. I can't even imagine.

Speaker 18 (54:16):
Thank you so much, Oh my god, thank you.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
And now the kids are probably wondering why mum was
in a good mood earlier. Who is this guy who's
now making a cry? He was making a laugh earlier.
Now the same Guyyk, he's making a cry?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
What can I call?

Speaker 9 (54:33):
Is this.

Speaker 18 (54:36):
A bit crazy?

Speaker 2 (54:38):
It happens to every parent this time of the day,
during that drop off.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
It's all mad.

Speaker 18 (54:46):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Hey listen, Conlie, I really hope your husband's okay.

Speaker 9 (54:49):
Oh, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
All right, sending lots of love. I'm so glad we talked,
and I hope it helps a bit.

Speaker 18 (54:55):
Thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
All right, take care, bye, Thank you bye.

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looking for your bakery songs today. These jobs have the
earliest wake up calls. Bakers obviously at number one they
turn the ovens on at light two or three in
the morning.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
What do you think are behind early early early starts?

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Um airport, any airport staff.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
And number four airport baggage handlers. You've got to be
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Speaker 4 (56:00):
What about nurses?

Speaker 1 (56:02):
It's twenty four hour job. Yeah, constant, constant?

Speaker 5 (56:06):
Who else gets up early?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Tradies get out, they're up early. I mean they're they're
keen to get to site. When when I'm coming in
the morning, they well, well they really love that job.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
They got to get there early. At five, farmers had
three delivery drivers.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
Oh, yes, someone's going to deliver the bread.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Two fishers drew fish.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
By the way, I'm going fishing for the first time
in four weeks time. I've never done it before me
in about twelve mates, we've hired a boat, were going out.
I've net they will fish before all sharing the group chat,
they're all, oh when I went last time, like.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Loads of fish everywhere, and I never fished before that. Interesting,
I need to have a lesson or something.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I start looking at a YouTube video and I was
just like watching it casting off. I'm like, I don't
think this is the way to learn the art of fishing.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Just doing that.

Speaker 6 (57:02):
Well, if you take a boat, you just need to
drop it in. There's no need to cast.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Hand you drop it in. What do you just love it?

Speaker 5 (57:06):
Just release it?

Speaker 4 (57:09):
How are you going to go putting the worm on
the hawk and gutting the fish staff to do this?

Speaker 5 (57:17):
There'll be the help.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Anyway. Stay tuned for how that works out. All right?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Today, bakery songs. Do you know what the bakers love
to listen to? Muffing compares to you? Silver class, the
Flower of Love, silver Banhemian rhapsodies, Yeah, gold and some
of them.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
They love to listen to classical music as that's right.
A bit of.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Debussy and Eclaire, Dela Loon or Gulaire.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
Wow, that is gold class.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Yeah, that's right.

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a batch ain't one.

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No no, no pink coat again. Come on, I just
t happening in the four digits it's a.

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Bronze Dolly Pardon working in an Indian restaurant.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
She's working none to five.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Okay, yeah, now that's clever.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
That's yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
I didn't know it was back near the Island.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Spaghetti Davis Eyes, very very good.

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Two goals.

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Lee Collins, well done, You've got to fight for your
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Speaker 1 (59:05):
Oh good, Flat Brint, knowledge done, Nicole Baby, go up
the lava Silver plus, I don't Lauren sitting.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
On the dock of the bakery Silver.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Bummy and Nane Joe wake me up before you escargo
not really.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
Oh I guess there's baked Yeah, Kenny, Yeah yeah Silver.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Listen for Australian. That's pretty exhausting.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Kelly Carkson, she loves cream and jam. That's right, since
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Speaker 1 (59:48):
It's in the bakery, Okay, yeah it is. Yeah, yeah,
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