FULL: Million Dollar Headache

Life in six words, coincidences you won’t believe, and a cause that really matters.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Got anything good?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey?

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

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Is it sad that I've already texted both of my daughters.
We bond over music and their shoes. Teleswift fans, I
want them to be the first one to say, oh, girls,
got engage. I wanted to know that dad can still
break news. And then TikTok don't beat me to this one.
I just want to get in there half a beat
before TikTok. Where they get their music from their news

(00:47):
from TikTok is their life. There are a lot of
teenagers now. TikTok's bigger than Google. Chatch ept the amount
of actually interesting conversations we have now because they go, oh,
I I saw this on TikTok and we start talking
about it and it genuinely is something very interesting. But anyway,
I am buzzing now about the Telorswift news.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Well, I saw your eyes.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh god, it's such great news.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
They're a great couple, sawn together on the podcast a
couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's a good story.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
It's nice to have a celebrity couple that you don't hate.
I guess there's so many of them hating them, that's
what That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
It's nice to have You've.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Got so many in mine that you're hating.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
But don't you find a lot of the celebrity couples
grating and annoying? Like I get it out on my face.
But these guys are nice. It's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yesterday, right, I had to go to an eye doctor's place,
right and they I was the youngest person in there
by about three decades.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And blessed, I was with a lot of old people.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I was there for about two and a half
three hours in reception, one of the most surreal experiences
of my life, sat next to an elderly woman.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Blessed her.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Her and her husband had arrived two and a half
hours early to their appointment. And what the actual doctor
came out and said, Hey, you here really early? Did
you get confused or they were? They thought they were
closing the West Gate today, sorry, yesterday yesterday, so they
got over that West Gape. It is a big thing

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going to be happening this weekend. It's nip pantsy for
everyone that lives three days to close it.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
For yeah, well outbound lanes only and their warning of
ninety minute delays or under a midnight Friday until five
am Monday. So if there's dead air at five thirty
and six Monday morning at across.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
The ways, say that escape.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh so real are plants of work off the west
gate off.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
She's not got access to a boat or dirigible? Is
she past chapter one?

Speaker 7 (02:49):
So with the only exit I believe at Williamstown at
the Williamstown off ramp.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Look, that's going to be headish this weekend where this
this old couple was so terrified they thought it was
happening yesterday afternoon. They got their turn off famlies early anyway,
get this. Then they then go to me, can you
see out of your eyes? I'm like, yeah, my, I'm
here for another problem because they look confused, like what's
he doing?

Speaker 6 (03:12):
He this?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
You can see where there is some people like looking
into space, some people have some had sunglasses on, some
of the milky eyes and obviously get to like before
the caterin operations. Anyway, there's old couple right, they were going,
could you read the news out to us from our phone.
We're trying to get the headlines. I borrowed their phone
and started to read the news. He was a grim

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news story yesterday as well. So we were going through
all the news stories yesterday and then I found one.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I didn't know this.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
By the way, did you know about the bulldogs at
a bulldogs training session?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
There was some spies from.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Another from They got booted.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
They got booted to leave. That's right, their rugman coach.
There was spying on a bulldogs training session.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Like the world's tallest even Google, he's huge, going to
miss him? No, you need short Jason Bard was quite
a short our spy. You can't. I have some six
foot plus spy. They stand out too much.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was chatting my old friends like a live radio
shows evening. All right, coming up next, we'll take you
through everything you need to know about. The big thing
that we're asking you this week is to please donate
to a beautiful charity right here in Melbourne, Backpacks for
It Kids.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast The Rear.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Just ask me how big was that font on those
old people's phones? And these are old people who haven't
got great eyes. That's why they're at the eye dottor yesterday, Shoot,
how do you even know?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
When up that big?

Speaker 5 (04:40):
When I go home to my parents.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's like a billboard.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Seriously, it's like a word of page scroll it. It
was huge, huge, run a. So I actually have this
ie procedure. Yesterday they put needles in your eye and
then they clamped the eyelid shut and then they jamp
into it. They didn't then anyway, they did a great job.
And then then I had this patch that would work
for a couple of hours to stop the bleeding, and

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it was a massive eye patch, and then taped it
to my face. Then had to go and pack and
of course with apple you know that I didn't have
my wallet with me. It took ages because there's suddenly
I'd be replaced by one eyed fief.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's almost biblical. Yeah, it's a pirate. I'm like, how
am I going to do this?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I can't take this eye patch off and bleed all
over the county exception all right, So this week on
the show, the big thing we're asking from you is
please support an amazing charity. It's called Backpacks for vic Kids.
Over the last couple of weeks we've asked you this before.
We've raised almost half a million dollars for this important

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charity thanks to your huge donations. This charity shouldn't exist,
but they do and they're really needed this year more
than ever. Children who had taken out of a dangerous
home situation, often in the middle of the night. They
don't have anything. They're scared, they're vulnerable. Listen to this.
Does charity give them a backpack. In the backpack, it's
stuff that you and I would think is basic for child.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
These children do not have anything.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's a blanky, it's pens, it's papals, it's a toothbrush.
We've heard from charproection officers who've used these backpacks and
tell you that the kids get excited about just seeing
a blanket or even a toothbrush. It's as desperate as that,
but you must hang on to hope. The thing is
the more money we raise, the more backpacks they can
get the children of Melbourne, and so we're trying to
raise By the end of the week, I'd love to

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tell them that we've got one hundred thousand dollars. We're
almost we're almost halfway there. We started this Monday morning
at eight am. We're up to forty seven thousand, five
hundred and sixty five at the moment, so we're just
two and a half thousand shy of the halfway mark.
Thank you very much to everyone who's been donating. If
you'd like to donate and find out more about the
charity as well, you might want to volunteer for them,

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please go to the Christian o'connells show dot com dot au.
That's where you donate, The Christian o'connells show dot com
dot au. It's one hundred dollars for one of these backpacks.
So everything you give, whether that's ten dollars, fifteen, twenty,
please no more apologies saying you wish you could give more.
You've given. That's the most important thing. Some thank yous

(07:12):
pats who we got to thank.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
Yeah today, Louise Dean, Helen Robert who's given five hundred
dollars in Michelle who says it's in memory of my
daughter Meghan, who loved children and would have been the
first to donate to this wonderful cause.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thanks Michelle, Alex who have you got some thanks for us?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (07:29):
Yes, and big ones here. Tani love this, she says,
every child deserves the world and more. Thank you so
much Toarnei, Stephen and Leanne. They say all kids deserve
to feel safe, loved and valued. Nicole, thank you for
your donations, she says, thank you for a wonderful initiative.
No child should go without everyday love and belongings.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Happy to help.

Speaker 9 (07:48):
Jacqueline, Gail, Jennifer Millig as well. Thank you very much guys.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ria who alse to deserve our thanks. And when you
go on and donate, you have the option to leave
a message. Please take that option. Okay, just let us
know where you are your name on this so we
can say thank you on the show today.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Got a lovely message chief from Suzanne. I love that
you are continuing your support for this wonderful group. We
are all making a difference one donation at a time.
Thank you as well to Melanie, amazing work. Hopefully these
donations keep you guys up and running for a long time.
Thank you to Margaret, Thank you to Rachel, thank you
to Melinda, and thank you to Rebecca. What a great organization.
Can't believe how many kids have to go without. So

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glad I can.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Help all right, Please donate head to the Christian o'connorshow
dot com dot au.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Thank you The.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
All right, John, next half for now, I think you'd
enjoy this. It might take a bit of time, but
if you're at work or you're driving at the moment,
you've got a bit long drive during the next hour
or so, you might enjoy this challenge. In six words,
no more than six words, no less than six words,
in exactly six words, tell me the story of your

(08:55):
life so far in just six words. So before the show,
I was playing with mine, right, So there's a couple
of different drafts I've got here. Six word life so
far was over there. Now over here I can go
into a bit more detail on that midlife crisis move
down under.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's the headline really. And then if you really.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Had to sum me up, married with daughters, love being
Dad's love, that's me. That's me ultimately, I would say
that's it. Married with daughters, love being Dad. That's my
life so far in six words. Let's go to the
Chuckle Sisters, which is producers Caitlin and Tina. They are
literally like the chuckle are coming this morning. They already
laugh their heads off. They're literally just the chairs were

(09:38):
shaking with laughter. They're like Statre and Waldorf for the
show out there. Let's go to the chuckle sisters. See
what there are? Six words? Life so far.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Now, Tina, I know that actually you did work.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
In the in the Tina, Good morning, Tina morning, and
what is yours? Because you actually have done time in
the UK radio, which is why you so good?

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Thank you so much so my NIE's was here, went there?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Back here?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
You shade on mine?

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Not at all?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's upgraded yours, she has upgraded. Actually see he goes again.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's Tina, so was here, went there?

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Back here? Do you have a nice time over there?

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Great time? There's two years?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, nicely back here though, love being back here because
it sounded like we were a runner up to what
you did in the UK.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
No, both great moments both love have loved life all three?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh lovely Tina.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
All right, let's see how old mate is today? Bounced
up and down the chair. You had your popcorn yet, Caitlin.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Not yet? That's normally like an have you.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Seen this team?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
This is a new thing now where every morning about
eight o'clock Cainaan thinks she's hoints and will suddenly start
watching me do the breaks and chomping on a massive
family bag of popcorn gets What is.

Speaker 10 (10:49):
It not a family bag? It is only seventy six calories.
I am on a calorie deficit diet at the moment
for my wedding.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Do you need to do that yourself?

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Hell no, No.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
You eat so much.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
You just don't eat bad stuff like you don't.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Eat corner Am I am to us?

Speaker 10 (11:10):
Is midday, guys. I get up at three fifty am.
It's late in the day for me. And it's a
great show that I get to watch.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
From the popcorn.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Oh, she's good? Okay? Is that these? Six word life
so far? No great show? Watch with popcorn? What's yours?

Speaker 10 (11:25):
Mac myne Is didn't think I could.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
I did.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh that's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's really nice. Alice Color, what's yours?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Mate? Your life so far? In six words?

Speaker 9 (11:38):
Country city Sydney Melbourne, husband dad?

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Can you go again?

Speaker 9 (11:46):
Country City, Sydney Melbourne, husband dad?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Beautiful soldier spy, Yes, yes, he's a spy.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
I had another one. Bumpkin come city slicker family love.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's my favorite. There's something about that word bumpkin. I
just love.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's an old timey word, but I love the country Bumpkins, Patsy,
what's yours?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Mate? You've had an extraordinary life.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
Oh this is really hard. I don't know if I
can do it in six words, but I've initially written
not sure but comfortable as me. So you know in
your twenties where you never feel your enough and you've
got all these hopes and dreams, what am I going
to do? And then you go through the next decade
of For me, it was not being able to have

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a baby, and you know, finding my way in my career,
and then forties was having my baby and getting this
awesome job. It's like this big journey all the way
through that I can encapsulate in decades to this point.
And really there are no six words that can describe
all that I have been through. It doesn't seem to

(12:55):
be well.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Thanks for going for the feature today.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Hopefully the listeners can actually take the time to do it.
Texting yours four seventy five three one o four three The.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right now on invitation to tell me your life story
so far in six words, you can text me four
seventy five three one oh four three July the news.
I'd another think, here's mine born in England, found myself here.
That's how would sum up my life at fifty two,

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actually born in England, but found myself here.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Rio, what's yours? Mate? You've had an interesting life so far.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
I've got a couple. First one two degrees, never used
now radio.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
You are the most intelligent and overqualified man in Australian radio.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
And the most in texted. Paying that off for a while.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
The other one, First girls, now guys, much simpler.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Wow, read that again. People might have missed it, Reo.
That's very good. There's a lot going on there.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
First girls, now guys much simp.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I thought you were gonna end with what next? I
was like, Wow, who knows what the way it's all going?
Sex spots all right, some of the ones that are
coming in from everyone this morning.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
So it's your life so far?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And six words text me four seventy five three one
O four three. All of the ones who I'm about
to read out right now are all six words. Okay,
they're really good, all of a sudden, middle aged Yeah,
I mean I'm fifty two. I come sure because we
are me and Pats. It doesn't feel like you wake
up one morning and you're like.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Wait what.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You look in the mirror and you meet yourself as
a middle aged person, You're.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Like, bloody hell, how do we get here so quickly?
What happened to you? Christian? And suddenly you're an eye doctors?
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
A little bit of everything, blessed. That's from Amanda Armstrong.
Matthew's got a lot going on his life so far,
met married, Kobe Renovation, renovation Renovation.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
That sounds like a new TV show.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
There's ten night on renovation, renovation, Renovation. This is Megan's
from Little Things, Big Things Grow. I love this from
Gay Chatterton. My life's journey has made me.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I mean sometimes when you look back and you remember
the bits where it felt like actually the life's journey
was breaking you, I guess that's all part of the
remaking at times as well. Heather Struggle, pain, sorrow, grandchildren, happy, proud.
That's not the circle of life right there and those
there from Heather Ben Ben, this is amazing. Glad I survived.
Life got better.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Ben.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
We're glad you survived as well, mate, and congratulations. This
is Luke Crazy Beginning. What when you at zero.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
What a story.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
It is crazy suddenly you get evicted from there?

Speaker 1 (15:58):
So cozy in there for nine months? So well, hell
are you? We'll be back. Yes, it's so bright, so
sleeping in there.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Crazy beginning now settled for field, heart Luke, lovely stuff,
Keep this going, Text me your life so far and
six words?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh four seven five O three one oh four three.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
The Christian O'Connell show.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Podcast Desicading just came boun to in the studio said
I've got another one for my life so far and
six words. That's my invitation to you this morning is
to think about your life so far and then condense
it into six words.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Text them in.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh four seven five O three one oh four three.
This one has just dropped in. Cut finger off best
thing ever? Wow, Christian, it changed my outlook on life.
Don't sweat the small things now, you know, like fingers
and digits. I want to know more. What do you
mean you cut it off? Did you deliberately do this?

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Was it an accident and it got cut off? Do
you mean or you cut it off?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
I love vang Go? Is this melbourne'svang Go? Do we
need to see some of your artwork. All right, participating
What have you got for us now? Because you've you've
also had an amazing life so far.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (17:08):
So I've been really lucky and my six words are
pretty bloody happy then.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
And now, Oh my god, you've got to get that
into a T shirt.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
That is you?

Speaker 10 (17:17):
Yeah, yeah, because I'm always relatively.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Upbeat, like relatively you're the most. You're the most and
it's a beautiful way to be in the world. It
always lights me up in the morning. I almost like
the moon. I get my light in the morning from you.
The moon doesn't have its own light, it reflects the sun.
That's what you light us all up.

Speaker 10 (17:36):
Oh that's really lovely. But yeah, I've just I've been
really lucky. So I've had a really nice life and
I'm always pretty pretty bloody happy.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
So please you're six words again that you're honing it now.
This is like a Taylor Swift song title, what's Yours?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Get? What's you go?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
A game?

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mate?

Speaker 10 (17:50):
Pretty bloody happy then.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
And now, grabbed the popcorn and let's have a look
at some more of these. This is from Dusco Wife
Life Began, Kids Life Complete.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's from Dusk This Morning.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I love that travel, career, marriage, kids for botox. That's right, Lauren, Lauren,
that should be like an advert that is circular life. Yeah,
travel career, this is better than eat, pray, love, travel, career, marriage, kids,

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forties botox.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's like it equals botox.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know, you know all that travel, the career plus
marriage plus kids, fact divided by forties equals botox.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Lauren, very funny. Christian.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Mine is born England, lived Canada, now Melbourne. I love
this from you, Big Glenn. From cutting school to cutting grass.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
You should have that.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
That's a great business slogan as well as your life.
They're Big Glenn. And then this one. I'm sure I
speak for all of us. We all saw the horrific
news story yesterday about two of our own vic Police
officers who lost their own lives in the service of duty.
Just had this amazing message here from Alicia Christian as
a current serving Victoria Police officer who has pulled on

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the uniform to go to work today. The unfathomable loss
of two of our own and injury to another yesterday
will weigh heavily on every serving member, all retired member today.
This will also have a ripple effect to all the
loved ones who see us out the door and greet
us when we return home at the end of our shifts.
We stand true and blue when people are experiencing some

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of the worst moments of their lives.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
That is so true. That was their me and my
wife a year ago. We are just ordinary.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
People, mums, dads, sons, daughters doing an extraordinary job. We
will all be feeding a little flat today in the
light of what's happened. So if you see us today,
give us a wave or say gooday and thanks.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Let's do this.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
If you see a police officer today, say thank you
for your service. They're always there. We often tend for
granted until one day and I hope it never happens
for you that you really do need urgently their help.
And it will be a tough day today and a
tough couple of days, and we're all feeding it in
the community, and we tend for grant. It's very easy
to have a go at the police. But today today
they actually need our support. So if you see if

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the police officers today saying thank you for service and
you sorry for your loss, Alicia, I am sorry for us,
and thank you for all your coneagues and what you
do for us as well.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
All right, we've got the news and sporn the.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Way Christian O'Connell shower on podcast.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's Wednesday, it's the middle of the week. How is
your week going so far? Just imagine that Wednesday, it's halftime,
So right now halftime, are you winning or losing based
on the first half of the week?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Rio, Are you up or down? I'm down.

Speaker 6 (20:41):
I'm down pretty bad, but not quite as bad as
the poor woman in the apartment above us.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
We have leaks coming through out, yes, from.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
The ceiling will collapse, yes, well they're still just like
it's more, to be fair, it's more in the smelly stage.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
At the moment, what where everything's.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Just damble smell that is.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
And I feel bad for the poor woman because what
happened was on Friday, our hot water stopped working. So
she's gone to have a shower turned on, you know,
turned the handle onto full, and then no hot water
came out.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
She didn't turn it. Oh, she's went away for the weekend.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Entire weekend, so it's just been gushing out coming down.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
From It's just going to be a creak any minute now.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
I just to see a water bill and so our
floors just wet, and we've got that big industrial blower
that the building managers brought in.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Everything stinked.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
It need to be like replasced and repainted once it
stops and tries out.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
I assume. So I don't know.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
I haven't quite gotten to that point yet. It's just
like trying to minimize damage. And then every time I
go back to your part, just terrible.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
What are you doing to get rid of the smell?

Speaker 6 (21:49):
Just lots of incense, lots and lots of incense. So
it sort of smells like a time massage place at
the moment.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
But better than like a stinky, moldy roof. Yes, but yeah,
now I know I've got that every time.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
It's just like every time I go back to your palms,
I got to deal with this heavy It's.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Like a humidity in the air as well. So yeah,
I'm done pretty bad at the moment.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I am down, But it's all about today. Today is
third go for this useless delivery company to deliver this
rug I've ordered for myself that I got in the
cell online. It's one hundred and fifty dollars or whatever
it is for this rug two hundred by three hundred,
So it's a decent I thought it was getting a
great deal. Pay for express delivery. One day they gave me.

(22:31):
I waited an all day. They just didn't come. The
next day, I didn't wait all day because they weren't coming.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
They came, ahwere's the way.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Then they called me. We agreed.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Another day they didn't come. We've agreed, I complained, they've agreed.
They're bringing it today. But it's like it's sometime between
eleven and five. No, so I no, no, eight eight
till five, that's right, So I can't get back to
about half ten.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I've left to note.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I've left to not because I'm saying terms of conditions
we can't sign. We need someone signed for it doesn't matter.
Chuck it, just chuck it on the front porch. Just
if someone stills it, it's on me. I don't care,
and I don't even want the rugs now it's been
a what a million dollar headache, undred and fifty dollars rug?
Someone can have the rug leave if I leave it
on the nature strip?

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Is this a matching oasis rug to go with your No?

Speaker 2 (23:16):
No, this is a beautiful a zoo one. It really
does so quite nice for the change of the weather
coming in shortly. You know it's the spring. It's a
spring rug. I just started to treat myself. I didn't
even have signed off.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
My wife.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
She's like, we don't need a new rugweb, it's my rug.
Where are you going to put it somewhere? Today's rug
Day rug? So anyway, hopefully I'll get my rug things
gost me. Guys, Patsy, what's it for you? You're winning
or losing.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
I'm winning, but maybe losing. So I've ordered Chris.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
His Father's Day present.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
He's not listening, so I can say I've got him
an outdoor recliner, so a chair that you can.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Take with you. He got the side little tray for beer.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
The side tray for snacks.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Chair, Anaconda June four wheel drive. Oh so good.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
That recline mode. Yes, when you recline, you feel like
you're reclining from life.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
And I feel like I have very wise thoughts when
I'm in here.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
I actually thought one day about bringing getting a load
for the whole of us, right and just seeing and
have the recline hour and seeing if we're wiser in recline.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Should I get some of this Friday.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
The recline hour to see how we are doing the
breaks osk the audience.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Are you picking up more wisdom?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
We're forty five degrees back on today's show, just to
see what the show is up the recline now we.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Should try to find the ideal degree.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Is forty five.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
I wouldn't get up though, I'd stay there.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, but no, no, here, I'm done. It's the weekend,
it's Friday. Yeah, leave me here.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
So they tried to deliver it yesterday. Same story with me, Christian.
I was at home, so it's gone to the local
post office. So I'll pop over and get that today.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
For the post guy.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
After that little guy in that little motive motive bike
of is, how's he going to get that?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
With his sandwiches and a bloody great chair?

Speaker 6 (25:13):
It's huge where they fit it in that tiny Australia
post office as well?

Speaker 5 (25:17):
Actually was it a then? Surely?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Alex?

Speaker 8 (25:21):
Are you winning or losing? How's your week so far?
I'm pretty I'm pretty good. Solid eight out of ten,
I'll give it so far this week. I had a
good day yesterday with young Maxie. It was a terrible
day in Melbourne. As we all know, raining pretty ordinary.
So I was like, let's take back to the museum.

Speaker 11 (25:35):
So of course I went to the museum to Triceratops
is there.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm glad that young kids are still getting their minds blowing.
My dinosaurs amazing. I still remember when I saw one
that the British National History Museum. It used to be
this massive one. As you walked in it was a
couple of hundred feet long, and it was so impressive.
I still remember it now loved it.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
It's like this was a trust serratops once. It's a
real one. They dug it up in Montana sixty seven
million years ago. It died and they dug it up
a couple of monell They.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Are trainees back then, sixty seven.

Speaker 11 (26:03):
Million years years but it's a crowd.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's so cool.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
So I saw what we saw that, and then on
the way home, he's sort of.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Starting to fall asleep.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
I'm like, oh no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's like four o'clock.

Speaker 11 (26:17):
I've got a massive long night ahead of me if
this happens. So I'm thinking, what am I going to do?
Star Wars Return of the Jedi on my phone?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
No, this is this is this is Pete dadding, it
doesn't matter, noisy dramatic, no never too young.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
No way.

Speaker 11 (26:34):
That particular scene between Luke Skirlwalker and Darth Vader Jedi. O,
my godness, I do your father.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's waking me up, big stirring score. I'm true, that's
not Max.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
He'll start wondering about you. There's creating like daddy issues.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Saying subtext because four year olds are big on subjects. Yeah,
as he said, I'm not I'm not Dad, but I
told Bonnie about it. When we get homes he guaisd.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Is that suitable for four year olds? I mean, fair question, Yeah,
but that particular things?

Speaker 9 (27:15):
Okay, I think what is.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Dad attacks him with a sword and chops his arm off.
You're saying, basically, Max, she fought a seat. You might
wake up with one. All right, text me your mid
week school. How's your week going so far? Four seven
five three one oh four three.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Everyone's who's been donating this week on Monday show.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
We' oldy that are very good friends.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Great charity here in Melbourne called Backpacks for VIC Kids
really need much needed funds so they can meet Sandy
the huge demand for these backpacks from vulnerable children right
here in Melbourne. Backpacks of It Kids then were set
up about ten years ago in Sandy Beard. She did

(28:06):
foundered the whole thing in her kitchen and it's an
amazing charity. When children are taken from a dangerous home situation,
often in the middle of the night, they don't have anything,
they don't have much selling by selling it sometimes and
when they are taken, the kids just to have a
t shirt or their shorts on.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
They don't have any belongings.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
And so this backpack, in this backpack that the charity
mates up, it's got basic things like a blanky, it's
got coloring pens and a notepad, it's got a toothbrush,
basic stuff that actually isn't basic to these young kids.
And so we want to try and get as many
of these backpacks into these children's arms as possible. Who
wouldn't want to make that happen. So they need as
much money as we can raise. I'm really hoping if

(28:47):
we can give the charity one hundred thousand dollars by
the end of.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
This week, that would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
At the moment I'm looking at the page, if you
head to The Christian O'Connell's.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Show dot com dot au.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
It's forty nine thousand, one hundred and fifty so we're
just around about, you know, almost seven hundred dollars ago
until we hit the halfway mark with the fifty thousand,
which will be incredible. Please donate whatever you can at
the Christian o'connells Show dot com dot au. When you donate,
you get the option to leave a message a message,
and we're reading out all your messages and moreportantly your names.

(29:19):
Small thing for us just to say thank you for
your donation, whatever it is. One thing that's really made
me upset this week, even though I've asked you not
to do it, is people who ever donate tonight ten
dollars are saying sorry, wish I could give more. Please
don't do that. That ten dollars is obviously a lot
to you right now. Whatever you can give is an
act of generosity. It's not about how much you can give.
It's about the simple fact that you care enough to

(29:41):
give and that charity you have told me right, for
every one dollar we donate, they turn it into four
dollars worth of actual value. So your ten dollars is
forty dollars, which is almost half a backpack.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
So it's a hell of a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
And I know there are a lot of people listening,
and so what we're going to do is there's probably
quite a few of you thought, well, it's been embarrassing
if we go on there, or maybe you've been on there,
you've seen people donating various amounting. Well, I don't want
to just go on there and look like I don't care.
Ten dollars is a lot to me right now. No,
ten dollars. That's that's all I want for the next hour.
We're opening up now, it's only ten dollar donations. The

(30:12):
ten dollar Hour, I want ten dollar donations from as
many of you as possible. No apologies, I'm just asking
for ten dollars. I think actually we could raise quite
a bit of money to the next hour just from
a load of ten dollars. I came in this morning,
I said to team, this is what we're gonna do,
the ten dollar Hour up until half eight this morning,
I said, Rio, can we think of a song that's

(30:33):
got ten in the title. So I remembered the Barbie
movie and Ken Paul Rio. The last hour and a
half he's been contorting a lot of information into a
very unique cover version from the Barbie movie of Ken.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Just give ten, Just give ten, whether.

Speaker 12 (30:51):
It's pays pounds or yen. Can you go without July
Tay mikey or your sushi role?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
How are we gonna get home without them? Mkey?

Speaker 12 (31:03):
Just give ten, whether you're Beni Boomen.

Speaker 13 (31:08):
If we all just give a ten a week and he.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
A hundred.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Britant work rio, that's a rapid turnaround, come on, come on,
and obviously we don't want pesos.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
No, oh yeah, it really has to be used.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, it does devalue it. But look, you know there's
a little disclaimer at the end of the song. It's
going to have you know, watch the disease. Check out
the pds to check if it's right for you.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Eed only Yes.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, So welcome to the ten dollar Hour. For the
next sixty minutes up until let's say half eight this morning,
I only want ten dollar donations. If you haven't donated
so far, what is stopping you?

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Ten dollars.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Let's try and raise a load of money now from
just ten dollars. There's a lot of people listening right now.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Maybe it's your kids.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
You want to donate them, let us know their name
so we can say hi this morning. Head to the
Christian o'connells Show dot com dot au. No apologies, I'm
just asking for ten dollars there, Rio sing.

Speaker 11 (32:07):
Just give ten.

Speaker 12 (32:09):
Whether it's pastos, pounds or yen. Can you go without Jelte,
Mikey or your sushi roll today?

Speaker 11 (32:21):
Just give ten.

Speaker 12 (32:23):
Whether you're Betty Boo then if we.

Speaker 13 (32:27):
Are, just give a ten. No, we can heat a hundred.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Ee you Betty bow or Ben head right now to
the Christian.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
O'Connell show dot com dot au.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Donate just ten dollars the Christian O'Connell show dot com
dot A.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
You leave your name so we can say thank you.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Friends, it is on. The ten Dollar Hour is on.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Thank you very much to Kerry, Marie fil and Sarah, Kylie,
Monique Michael, thank you very much for your donation. On
behalf of the team, math Con, Margo Manola, Marie Rio,
you've got a page two. Sorry, we're on the page
right there. You donate and we just want to say

(33:18):
thank you to as many of you as possible. I've
noticed this week a lot of you are saying sorry
if you're donating ten dollars, it is now. I've decided
to have a ten dollar happy hour. To the next
hour ten dollars only loads of you are donating. The
money's going up all the time. Keep it going. Ten
dollars is all asking the next hour Rio. Who else
we have to say thanks to?

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Thank you, Christy, thank you, Rhonda, thank you, Aaron, thank you, Kerry,
thank you, Maria, Dina, thank you, Phil and Sarah.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Head to the Christian O'Connell show dot com dot au.
That's where we find out when you can donate just
ten dollars. Alfie, thank you very much. This is pocket money. Alfie,
thank you so much for doing that. That's huge. Aim
and Xavier it's their pocket money as well. Erin sorry
it's not yen, but it is ten. Thank you, Christian.
I love the song Happy to donate and stop saying sorry,

(34:09):
everyone please. The Christian O'Connell show dot com do au
is the ten dollar donation Hour.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
I need you help this week, I really do. And
it's not for me.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
It's on behalf of children that you don't even know,
and you're probably never going to meet, but you will
have an impact in their lives. Can you spare me
to the next hour? Ten dollars, Just ten dollars, Just
give ten to the next hour on the show this week,
we're raising much needed funds for backpacks for IT Kids.
They aim to put together these amazing backpacks for children

(34:44):
who have to be taken from an unsafe home environment
and they have nothing. In these kids, they have nothing,
and they give them a backpack. In the backpack, blankets, pens,
a toothbrush, basics, essentials not essential to these kids. They're
literally happy to have anything. So the more money you
can raise, the more backpacks we can get to these
kids in Melbourne. At the moment we are sitting on

(35:09):
Wow Weez now it's now over fifty three thousand dollars.
So I think in the last ten minutes since we
opened up the happy hour of Just Give ten, it's
about four thousand dollars from ten dollar donations.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's crazy, amazing. Thank you so much. Everybody.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
You go to to to donate and if you want
to a WhatsApp group chap, We're all on WhatsApp group chats.
Whether or not they listen to the show, or they're
never going to listen to the show.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Let them know what we're doing ntil the next hour.
Get them to tell them about the charity. Whenever I
tell anyone about this charity, it takes ten seconds to
tell somebody what they do. You go, people, go, my god,
that's heartbreaking. What can I do? Ten dollars? Ask your
work mats to do it right now? Head to the
Christian O'Connell show dot com dot au rio. You got
some thank you I do.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
I've got five ms in a row here Monique, Michael, Margo, Mandy,
and a lovely note from Millie who says, here's.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
My ten dollars. It might not change the whole world,
but it might change this.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Oh my god, that's beautifully beautifully said Patsy. Who do
we owe thanks to?

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Yeah, look at this from Winnie and Coca. We wanted
to give our pocket money. Well done. That is awesome.
Also Clinton, Amy and Shane, Lee, Dan and Barbara, thank
you for being there for these very vulnerable kids.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Alex who al Saill we owe a bigger gratitude too.

Speaker 11 (36:23):
Yeah, we've got Darren Jack, Allison Alis dear Jess, Susan
Steve Julie says, brilliant work for our most vulnerable and
look at this cruise.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
Thanks for listening cruise and your donation.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yay.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
I am a six year old child myself from cruise.
So well done you and well done all those wonderful
people who have donated.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Thank you, Thank you very much. Just coming in a
few seconds ago, VICKI thank you very much. Nat Jackie,
Lorraine Michelle are in the last two minutes you head
to the Christian o'connorshow dot com dot au.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
No apologies.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Ten dollars is all asking during the next forty five
minutes up until eight thirty this morning. If only I
had a song, Hang on a minute, I do have one.

Speaker 12 (37:04):
Just give ten, whether Rich payols, pounds, a yen. Can
you go without July taymikey or your sushi roll today?
Just give ten, whether your bety boomen.

Speaker 13 (37:22):
If we all just give a ten a week and
he a hundred.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
That's how go By Friday when we say goodbye, we
want to be saying one hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Dollars to backpacks of it kids.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
You've just broken through fifty four thousand dollars. Let's get
sixty thousand dollars by eight thirty this morning. If another
of you give ten, we can do this. Head to
the Christian O'Connell sshow dot com dot au.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
We've had about forty eight hours since the Monday morning.
Just before eight o'clock we start telling you what we're
going to be doing this week, trying to raise much
needed important donations for backpacks of it kids. So we're
just shy. We are ninety dollars shy. So I nine
of you donate ten, we can do fifty six thousand.
I'd love to get to sixty thousand by eight thirty
this morning. We're in the ten dollars hour. Okay, Head

(38:14):
to the Christian O'Connell show dot com dot au. Coming up,
I e them. We love doing this. Every Wednesday is
called what are the Odds? Your stories of coincidence and chance.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 14 (38:27):
What are the ods?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
You gotta be justhing me.

Speaker 12 (38:33):
Like we were you with Cheryl who married a Hun, who
was with the Cheryl.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
Who married a Hun as well.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
My dad was born in nineteen sixty eight and he
was adopted when he was a baby. In his forties,
he found his birth mother and learned that she'd had
kids not long after him, and they had all gone
to the same high school together and had been in
the same sporting settings and group parties and all that.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Kind of stuff.

Speaker 15 (39:02):
Had a new guy start at work and he goes, hate,
do you ever go out to this bar?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
It half an hour away?

Speaker 14 (39:09):
I go, yeah, yeah, I did.

Speaker 15 (39:11):
What are the odds of this? I had invited him
back around to my house in the group of our party.
Wouldn't know this guy from a bar of soap?

Speaker 14 (39:18):
Look back at my snapchat and I'll find a video
of this guy.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
It's incredible that one, isn't it has never heard that phrase?
By the way, wouldn't know him from a bar of soap? Yes, yeah,
we're known from Adam or Eve, but never from a bar.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
So I've never heard.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
I would have known from Adam or No, no, right,
but bar soap?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
It give me a context then, because what are you
asking to identify barra soap from a load of nists.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
That doesn't make Adam. I wouldn't know Adam or Reven.
Understand means you don't know who's who I don't know
who's Adam. I don't know who's Eve.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
I know him so little that if you put a
bar of soap next to him or him, I couldn't
even tell.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Want someone do that? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Welcome to Australia anymore?

Speaker 5 (39:59):
What will we used like gel in this show?

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Who even washes anymore?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Please?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Do?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Okay? What are the odds? Past doesn't wash?

Speaker 5 (40:18):
All right?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (40:19):
This is a lovely email I got this week from
Danny Christian.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
My beloved mum Zora passed away after a strong battle
with cancer. She was loved by many. I'm sorry to
hear that, Danny. However, she had one clear request, no wake.
Many people came to a service. Afterwards, we decided to
gather for some light refreshments in her honor, not classed
as awake.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
You're right, you don't, you don't, you don't want to,
you don't upset? Stay with me? What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (40:47):
My brother was born on March to twenty second. When
we ordered an uber after the gathering to head to
the not wake, the car pulled up, stopped us in
our tracks. The number plate red, Oh wow, Zora twenty two.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Shut off.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
This is Danny's as a photo of Dannie ryme by
next to the car plate the red Joe. Wow we
Zora twenty two. Talk about a sign. It literally is
a physical sign. You know, people see feathers and rainbows
sometimes and stuff like that. But Zora twenty two, this
is one of the most incredible ones we've ever had.
I can see if Danny you let us put the

(41:28):
photo up on our socials as well. It's incredible Christian
when he felt like Mum was having a cheeky laugh
with us, she knows you're on that.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
No Wake, She said to you, you don't mess with
the Zura.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
You can mess with the Zohan, but not the Zora,
making sure she still had the last word, right and rightley,
So Mum should always have the last word, Danny, beautiful,
beautiful story. All right, let's leave it there when we
come back after it would take your stories give me
a call. Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. What are the odds?

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Oh, no, she's not God from that to Kayla, No, she's.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Not got another one. And she was trying to avoid
her eye contact.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Listen, last week, bad thing happened and paducer Caitlan told
us a story she promised me was ten out of ten,
barely a one out of ten. She's back with another story.
She wants to be put back in the ring again, and.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
She's got to follow Zura. Yeah, good luck.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Alright, all right, unless a load of you call with
great stories, I have to go to producer Caitlan. Please
please thirteen fifty five twenty two give me ten and
also give me a story for what are the odds?

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Please?

Speaker 4 (42:37):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Christian I reckon producer Rio sounds exactly like Freddie Mercury. Wow,
he almost played him in the movie. He got a
cisc got.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Pipped, bluddy rummy Gody. Hell, Christian, just you know.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
The saying wouldn't know them from a bar of soap
originated in Australia around nineteen thirty eight, appearing first in
print in a cartoon by Stan Cross for Smith's Weekly Patsy.
You've got that issue, haven't you? Probably in the other
day showed me. Actually, she said it's almost done. The
cross word I's been working on a reviews just two

(43:15):
words sure. The phrase, which means to not recognize someone
at all, suggest a person is unfamiliar as a blank,
unrecognizable bar of soap. A really me put that, Peter,
thank you very much. I'm actually I've always thought that
we should do this right, is have a weekly feature
on the show oz Slang where we actually make a

(43:39):
note because there's so many of these, and when I
moved here, I did start to put a note of
them in my phone because it was like learning a
new language, because all these phrases that I had never
heard before. That is a new one for me. I've
never heard that one before. But maybe tomorrow we open
up for the first time ever the the oz Slang
where we can actually keep these great sayings because otherwise

(43:59):
some of them will just they just fade.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Out, won't they They need to be preserved Rio.

Speaker 6 (44:03):
And it's good to learn a history of them, because
I mean, we say them our whole last we actually never.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Know no they come from all what they mean?

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Really, Christian, I've just had a live what are the odds?
Sound the collects and we don't have one.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Live.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Believe it? What are the odds? I work at Maya, Southland.
That's not what are the odds? I just total to sell.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
That means added up. I've worked in the cells.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
And was let my customer know that it came to
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Just as I said, this.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Came on the speakers. Wow, what are the odds? The
big one? Guys, We've landed the big one. I love
live ones, I love I said to Reo. Actually, kind
of weeks ago, we need to start feature real time
radio where if there's something we're talking about and you

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see it right front your eyes, like Grace, beautiful name
by the way, Grace spots this alive. What are the odds?
It's real time radio.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
It's ready to go.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
All right, so let's take some stories right now. The
good news is that we don't have to go to
producer caating. So already today is winning Wednesday. But there's
always next Wednesday. I mean more Wednesdays. Have we got
into the end of the view.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
We've got to kill? I think probably about fourteen or.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
It's a long path ahead of us, guys. Day by
day we fight the good five Tim, Good morning.

Speaker 14 (45:36):
Timmy, good morning, Christian.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
How I'm good Tim? So what are the odds?

Speaker 14 (45:41):
So myself and my wife and our two kids, we
were on a holiday to itaalit to go and meet
up with my parents. And we got there, they said,
we'll look after the kids for you. I'm going to
have a weekend together. So we got on the train
and went to Vennis and we're walking around. We're in
some Peter's square and we thought, oh, great place for

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a photograph. Let's get someone to take a photograph for us.
So we turned and stopped and the first couple that
walk by, who should it be but my child's teacher,
John Jan.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
So Peter's coming. What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
There's so many people around there, thousands and thousands of
tourists that you could have selected.

Speaker 14 (46:21):
He was mobbed. Yeah, it was mobbed.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
He does get it's mobbed around there. They mobbed that pope.
Jan happy, Jane, Yeah, good one, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Jim.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Have a good day, Marty. Good morning, Marty, welcome to
the show. What are the odds? Marty?

Speaker 16 (46:43):
Yeah, morning team. A couple of years ago, we were
at camping Glenelg River and the kids are there and
they're looking at the rope hanging off the tree and
thinking I wouldn't mind having to go of that, And
I said, look, you've got to be very careful when
you do that. A couple of years ago or ten
or so years ago, guy, I did it, swung out right,
wrapped aroundy lot of limb. So oh she was no

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good anyway, The next next minute, guy's going past the boat.
It's the guy that lost the limb.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Oh, God, you've got to be kidding me, Marty. I
don't know about your story. The producers said to.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Me, Marty's kept with is one of the moose wild
stories we're ever going to hear.

Speaker 16 (47:32):
And I wouldn't have seen this guy for ten years more.
And anyway, the funny thing is, he went past the
boat and I reckon. Two weeks later, I've seen him again.
He was walking around with his wife pushing the pram.

Speaker 10 (47:47):
But the.

Speaker 16 (47:50):
There was a big story at the time when it happened,
and I think mate, his mate started having a going
and calling him Clock. I think it was that he's nicknamed.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
So he lost it, he lost a limb.

Speaker 16 (48:03):
Yeah, so you have to do swing on these, right, remember.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Them from the trees over a river?

Speaker 16 (48:08):
Yeah, creek did it many many times. I did it
all the time. There was a group and they used
to always go in and yeah, wrapped around his limb
and basically ripped it off from from the elbow.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
So you hear these stories, your parents.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Stories, and they're always grim one people like losing ahead
or something.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
But actually, but then to see him again, it was.

Speaker 16 (48:34):
Only young yan kid. Don't think he's a or something
like that. But it was not black and obviously went
back and tried to play footy and all that sort
of stuff. And yeah, but yeah, unfortunate action. But yeah,
I just couldn't believe. I said, oh my god, you know,
look at that. Look who's going past the boat and
you go, oh my god, it happened to you.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
That is a crazy story, Martin. Thank you so much
for giving us a call. Okay, have a great day,
but wild story.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Thanks for sharing it.

Speaker 16 (49:05):
Yeah, no, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
I need to go and have a couple of anyone
else is spinning out with that one?

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Just the speedo. I love it when listeners added on
an extra.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Bit of mayo. It really carry on playing football, you know.
Incredible story. Thank you, Marty.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Christian O'Connell, sho go on podcast.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
All let's take two stories here, pardicicated, come on second time, Lucky,
What is your story for? What are the odds will
it be good enough to get.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
Alrighty?

Speaker 10 (49:41):
So on the weekend, it was my partner's birthday and
her friend shares the same birthday, so we had them
over for a Mexican fiesta and I was out thinking, Okay,
I'm going to get some margaritas for everyone to have.
So looking at the recipe, I was like, I have
to get contro. And it's the most annoying drink because

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it's just like an orange flavored liqueur and you just
don't use it for anything else anyway. So I'm looking
for the three hundred mel bottle because all the other
ones are ninety dollars for a full bottle. Animal I'm
not spending that amount anyway.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
I'm looking, I'm looking good.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Do we get the whole interior monologue with this as well?

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (50:18):
And I was like, I'm not going to buy that,
and I'm looking and looking over an hour I'm searching,
and I thought.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
No hour, Come on, I listen, come on, no one's
looking for all the control for an hour.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
You go through BWS drive through. They got them.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Ask the assistant an hour, an hour, like this is
story is an hour.

Speaker 10 (50:37):
I was trying to find the three hundred mil.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
We got that earlier. Mate.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
So if you called in this show, would you put
you on air?

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Know you wouldn't you go? Don think?

Speaker 8 (50:45):
We go?

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Oh email him in love this? So she does, Alex
If no, she does. I get these emails when we're
all long stories. They go, yeah, thanks Maician, all right, sorry, okay,
yeah go on? Then yeah tell you what? Why don't
you email me the rest fencers alone? Now? Ben, Ben, Ben,
what's your story? Gallo?

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, that's it, saved by the Benn.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Yeah, good morning, Ben, welcome the show.

Speaker 17 (51:09):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 15 (51:10):
When I was a little boy, coming up towards Christmas time,
I was begging my mum for.

Speaker 17 (51:15):
A pet and mouse. I had mice previously and I
loved the little things. Now she was Adam and I
wasn't getting one. I kept begging and begging and begging.
A few days before Christmas comes around, I'm snooping under
the tree and I find this little box with the
corner that looks like it's been chewed out, and I
take it up to Mom.

Speaker 15 (51:35):
I'm like, no, what's this?

Speaker 12 (51:35):
What's this?

Speaker 15 (51:36):
She goes, oh, look, I got to a mouse for Christmas,
but it looks like it's escaped. So I spend the
next few hours pulling the room up.

Speaker 9 (51:46):
It was.

Speaker 15 (51:47):
I'm pulling draws out of cupboards and whatnot. And I
get to the computer desk and I pull out the
bottom drawer and lo and behold, I find a little
mouse under there, and I'll catch a little bugger. He
wasn't easy to catch, but I managed to get him
and I put him in my mouse cage and I'm
playing around with him, and my mom walks past and goes,
what are you doing? I go, I found the mouse.
I'm playing with the mouse. And she goes, what mouse

(52:08):
like the one you got me for Christmas? And she goes, who.

Speaker 14 (52:11):
Wasn't shut you up?

Speaker 15 (52:19):
Just a wild mouse? Quickly got rid of it.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Incredible. That is great, mummy. That is great, mummy. I
love that with the perforate edge to make it look.

Speaker 15 (52:37):
She had me pulled.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
Not quite enough.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Though, No, Ben, great story. Thank you very much.

Speaker 17 (52:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (52:45):
Have a good day, gays.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
All right, thanks coming on the show. All right, there's this,
Go and look at the scores on the doors. An
hour ago, I decided to turn the last hour into
the ten dollars hour. I noticed that when we've been
asking for donations for Backpacks of It Kids. This is
a beautiful charity that really need help to meet the
unprecedented demand for these poor children that are rescued and

(53:06):
taken from unsafe home and vironments. This chouity Backpacks of
It Kids. It's number one goal. It's to give as
many backpacks. In each backpack and it takes one hundred
dollars to put one together, are a load of essential
items for these vulnerable children. You talking blankets, pens, toothbrushes.
It sounds really basically it isn't.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
To these kids.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
It makes a huge difference in the moment when they're
scared and overwhelmed, just that someone has put together something
that says that they matter and that someone is thinking
of them, has got their back. So we're trying to
raise as much money as we can in Rio. What
are the scores or the doors we end the ten
dollar hour?

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Sixty one thousand, seven hundred and eighty dollars ten thousand.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
What's ten thousand dollars in the last hour? Thank you?

Speaker 12 (53:47):
Just give ten, whether it's pastels, pounds or yen. Can
you go without July temikey or your sushi roll today?
Just give ten, whether you're penty bowomen.

Speaker 13 (54:06):
If we are just give a week can heat a
hundred king.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Thank you very much to Kim for a donation. Christian
donated with a big hug. Thank you, Melissa, Jess Page
all donating in the last three minutes and Aaron, Thank you,
Cheryl Lee, thank you very much. Also, thank you very
much for the person who donated one hundred dollars the
winning from their footy tipping this year.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Incredible. That is really special. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's such a lovely, really classy.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Thing to do. Michael, thank you very very much for
your donation. Lovely because all kids are part of our future.
Keep it going, guys trying to get to the match
of one hundred thousand dollars by Friday. We can't do
without you. It is for these kids. Give whatever you can.
Head to the Christian o'connells show dot com dot au.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Anyone wondering what happens to that Pollo coontro not.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
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Speaker 2 (55:04):
Let's go and take a walk down Sesame Streets has
one more Emmy warton any.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Of the TV show in history. Two and twenty two more.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
Good Shame one.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Time more than double the next best, which is Saturday
Night Live. You imagine to being a writer on that,
you know, Saturday Night Live for a cast reformer. Yeah,
this is Steve might be great, but you ain't one
of the You ain't a puppet.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Count one, Count Steve Mutton.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
All right, So we're looking for your Sesame Street movies,
The importance of being Ernie.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
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Speaker 2 (55:46):
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that Burt Locker.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
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those two.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
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Speaker 1 (56:01):
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Speaker 2 (56:01):
Sesame Street movies, Nightmare on Ilmos Street?

Speaker 1 (56:05):
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Speaker 5 (56:07):
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Speaker 5 (56:09):
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Speaker 2 (56:17):
All right, Sesame Street movies. That's today's time, West who
context me yours?

Speaker 4 (56:20):
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Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yesterday, we're all horrified with the news about two members
or the Victoria Police who were killed in the line
of duty yesterday and the third one injured. Broke my
heart yesterday when I saw this story and then that
one of the guys was only just a couple of
days away from retiring as well. It is a tragic,
heartbreaking story and I'm sure we all pray today that
actually just as is served. But anyway, at the start

(56:45):
today's show had an amazing message come to the show
from a woman called Alicia Christian. I'm a current serving
Victoria Police member. Is pulled on the uniform to go
to work today. The unfathomable loss of two of our
own and injury to another yesterday were way heavily with
every serving or retired member of vic Police.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
This will also have a ripple effect to all the.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Loved ones who see us out at the front door
and greet us on our at and home. We stand
true and blue when people are experiencing some of the
worst moments in their lives. We are just ordinary people, mums, dads, sons,
daughters doing an extraordinary job. We will all be feeling
flat today in the light of yesterday's incident. Regard us
of where in the state we work. So if you

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see us today, give us a wave or say thank you.
And Atlisha is right. If we see anyone, any serving
member of the vic please today. You know they show
up and support us every single day twenty four to seven.
They're the easiest people to have a guard, but they
do show up. They're always there trying and do their best.
If you see them today, we need to show up
for them, so please say thank you for your service.

(57:46):
We'll also just say sorry for your loss as well.
All right, let's get into today's time waste, but thank
you if you do that today. Thank you very much
for everyone has been donating on this morning show.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Thank you for your big arts.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Just under sixty five thousand has been raised in about
twenty forty five hours since Monday morning on the show
at eight.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Thank you. Please keep giving head to.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
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Speaker 1 (58:15):
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Speaker 2 (58:16):
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street movies today.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
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Speaker 2 (58:25):
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the wind Gonzo girl Silva, same guy with those two

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double gonzo's he had there, Steve the Gonzo guy.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
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that Big Bird's house. Bruns Oscar Heimer, Dude, where's my Oscar?

Speaker 2 (58:59):
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Speaker 4 (59:11):
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Speaker 1 (59:11):
Edward Cookie, Hans Cookies. We'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
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