FULL: Operation Meat Tray

Christian kicks off the morning with a rant about fuel prices before we dive into 3 Word Weekend, f

We pay tribute to Chuck Norris, share your stories of being star‑struck, and revisit the posters that once covered your bedroom walls.

Then it’s time for Pump Man, another round of Misheard Lyrics and the team reacts to the latest radio ratings.

We wrap with a high octane edition of Fuel Movies for AWTW.

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A Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good Morning's to Christian O'Connell's Show nineteen twenty seven. That's
when I think of you. Today's show. We are live
on the Strait of Hamuz and Rieil and I Ree
and I went to budget tankers over the weekend and
we fired at the GPS and we're hoping to come
back with a whole tanker full of.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Fuel to give away to you lucky listeners.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Ask yourself with your breakfast show that you're flicking around
checking out this week, would they hire a budget anchor
and ship it to the straits of her Mews REEA,
we should be there. What's each is it? By eight?

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Yes, we should have it there, but I think seven
point thirty the wins are looking great.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
So fantastic, good morning, Alex, Good morning. I've got a
problem with Australian sport.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I was watching an AFL game over the weekend and
one player rubbed a rival players board spot that is
not on Harrison Petty. Yes, that's the most wildest thing
I've ever seen.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
I know.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
It was that a cry baby taunt as well, and
they are awful scenes are awful scenes, I know, and they're.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
An expensive for Americans, but it's un Australian rubbing a
man's board spot. So Penny Hill move. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
And now there's talk of removing taunting from the game
because they had that in the NFL in America that
you're not allowed to taunt opposition players. But here we
love it. That's part of the game. But now they're
going to say, hang on, maybe we shouldn't both.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Come on, I mean, there's taunting and there's rubbing a
man's board spot. I mean, what's next dacking.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Maybe he was rubbing it for good luck, you know,
like AMAI I had.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Some of that pace that you can rub in that
Steven Segulhaus where it kind of puts it up a
bit some two paint cream or something in there. I
saw what I saw and I was like, that is
I've never seen anything like that on the ultimate kind
of shit housury. That is, it's very shy.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
The fuel situation, I don't know about you guys. A
lot of the chat over the weekend in my house
was was fuel concerns. I mean, it's becoming a real problem.
People are really worried. It's you know, it's getting higher
and high and there's worries now about shortages. There's worries
about people that will stopped piling. Please don't stop pile.
Fuel in your house is a highly dangerous, unputictable element

(03:56):
as well on liquid, it's really dangerous.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Perhaps what what do we actually know?

Speaker 8 (04:00):
Well, unleaded on my way in today unleaded was about
two dollars eighty nine. Diesel was three dollars and five
don't believe that three dollars. But some servos across Melbourne
and Sydney have run dry, leading to a yeah, leading
to appeals for people. Look, if you can take public
transport or carpool, please do anything you can do will help.

(04:22):
But Canberra is saying that our supplies is safe, widespread
until about mid April.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
The Energy Minister, I'm certainly going to see mid July
or something on September. It's like, well it's four weeks time.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
Then what well East is coming up too, isn't it
won't bit.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
A drive to get the Easter eggs would deliver the
Easter eggs.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
Energy Minister Chris Bowen says there's been no change to
the amount of fuel available in the country. He says,
and there's no need to panic by as you touched on.
You shouldn't be taking jerry cans. I'm hearing stories of
farmers storing jerry cans in bedrooms and spare rooms.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Don't be so dangerous.

Speaker 8 (04:58):
Yeah, that's not safe. But yeah, look, if my advice
would be, if you can take any other form of transport,
do a bit hard for me coming in an hour out.
I don't think I could. I had my bike in
the morning.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
But you know what about an e scooter? Oh I
might see you on an e scooter tearing it across
that big old bridge you come in every day. Scooter
actually lives in Holland, so it's quite a trip every
day coming in as easy to get you from the
straight of her moves into work every day or car
pulling anyone give pats We've got a lot of truckies
driving along. Then he can pick you up on the

(05:31):
side of the road, chuck you in the back.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You chuck your way to work.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Put Patsy in the back of the ute.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
No worries open.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Top right, yes, all right, let's still come on a
song now. When we come back, we get into three
word weekend, where you can sub about your weekend in
three words.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Good morning, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Every mind You On the show, we ask you, how
is your weekend? Tell us the story of your weekend
in three words texted to me your three word weekend
four seven, five three one oh four three. My three
word weekend really is about what happened from and it's
good people everywhere right now. There's a lot of very
scary things happening in the world right now, but we

(06:16):
have to remind us house that there are good people everywhere.
I saw this on Friday. So last week we were
doing the show in Sydney and I wasn't very well,
and even when I did the show Thursday. On Friday,
I felt even worse Friday and souse Caitlin had to
remind me of what my flight time was and it
was an hour earlier than I thought, and so it
was a chaos even getting to the airport so much.

(06:37):
So you know, everything is on our phones now, boarding passes,
phone numbers, credit cards. I get to Sydney Airport and
I go to grab my phone to scam my boarding
pass so I can get the ticket to put my suitcase,
and then I read some utter horror. Oh my god,
I've lift my phone in the in the U. Now
it wasn't. I'd got an uber to the airport, and

(06:59):
then the uber driver accidental dropped me off at the
wrong terminal, and so I then just went outside the
front of the wrong terminal, and there was a kind
taxi driver who said it's all there.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
He went, hey, listen you, I could see you running late.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Get in. I'll drive you around there now for free.
It's a lovely guy called Michael. So anyway, we go
around there and then I leg it out and obviously
I realized, oh my god, I don't have this Michael's
phone number. I don't know what the taxi coming was.
He's got my phone. I can't well, I'm not going
to get on this plane. And then of course everything
is on their credit cards everything. I'm thinking, what do
I what I actually do?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm completely rendered you and I was sweating.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I was really unaware. I remember just resting my head
against a pillar, you know where you were, Like there's
a voice in every Disney movie there's some young princess
who has to spend that night in the forest and
she like rests her head on a on a on
a tree trunk or a boulder, and some animal or
some spirit comes along and helps him through that dark

(07:56):
night in the forest. It's suddenly suddenly, as I literally
was like sweating with the temperature co I don't even
know what I could have got no money on me,
I don't know anyone's phone numbers. I don't know why
wife's phone numbers. How am I going to get? Actually, like,
what am I going to do? I'm just leaning forward
on a pillar at Sydney Airport sweating. I felt terrible,

(08:17):
really not well. And then suddenly there's a hand on
my shoulder. I look around. It's this man Michael again,
and he goes it's me and I went. He goes,
I got your phone with so much, so get this.
I go, Michael, I haven't got any money on me.
He goes, oh no, no, don't want I don't want to
do I believe that Carmen comes around. It's okay, don't worry.

(08:37):
I was just thinking, how the hell the hell is
he going to get on his play? I went, I
wasn't going to be able to get on the plane.
And he goes, by the way, do you mind me
just asking what is the aftershave right that you've got
on right now? I said, I don't really like to
tell people is this? He goes, oh my god, I've
never heard of that one before. I went, actually, do
you know what? And I had a virtually brand new
bottle of it right and I said, take this as payment.

(08:58):
He took it.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
You didn't even do the dance where he goes, oh no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
He took it years ago. That used to be an aint.
Sure was it the bartering system where you might give
him someone three chickens? Now he's got some. He's got
an brandy bottler of a Soops after shave. Don't go,
I know I can't rush. And he was like, it
is actually quite an unusual and I've never heard of it.
I'll take that, thank you very much. He's now got

(09:26):
my essence driving around and pressing people in Sydney.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Series of events.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yes, good people everywhere. Thank you so much, Michael Rio.
What's your three word? Weekend?

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Schooled at Zumba. I went to my first ever Zumba class.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes, you say you can get schooled in a k
UFC fight or schooled in a sporting arena. Schooled at Zomba.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
It felt like I was in a UFC arena. Christianers.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
This weekend we lost Chuck Norris, and you're telling me
about getting He's spinning in his grave right now.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm telling you he wouldn't have survived fifteen minutes with
these old DearS at Zumba.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
It was full on. I rock up and I'm a
pretty fit thirty three year old.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
I look around the class mostly, I'd actually probably say
afty year old mums is sort of the core demo
patronizing old DearS. No, yeah, old DearS wasn't accurate. Old
is not accurate. They were, they were fit.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Mums is not old dear.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
I know I attract old dear.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
I attracted Patsy shitting me daggers do the window, But
I thought I'm pretty fit.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm gonna I'll be you know, I'll be in good
standing here. I might even be running rings around these ladies.
Three songs in, I am gasping for air. It's so hard.
But I was like on my haunches, like scrambling for water.
And then what.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Squo squirlrio did get him?

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (10:50):
These women had barely broken a sweat. They were looking
at me like you are pathetic, like.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
We welcome to the jungle. They are, they are so fit.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
What it's aerobics, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's aerobics, But I think it's a Latin infused.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
It's a lot of sort of grooving shaking, a lot,
I must say, there's no other way to say it.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
A lot of ass shaking.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
It is.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I would say seventy.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Actually it's actually creepy. For a I didn't know where
to burn around, you know, upskirting at the back.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
Of the Thank you very much, but I did feel
very You don't know where to look because.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's very Whether are the guys if.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
There was me and my gay partner.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
What sne We were definitely outnumbered.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
They must have been looking at you go. I think
they've got the wrong book.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Isn't that the guy that won the Hudson looking like
last week and what it gets club on.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Christian Color Show.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Podcast every Monday. Then we ask you how much your weekend?
You tell us about your weekend three words Christian my
three word weekend?

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Are you bored?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I took my son to his little buddy's fifth birthday party,
and an older kid seven or eight years old looked
at me intently for a few seconds before asking me,
are you bored? I think I saw that guy playing
in a against the decis weekend Robin Harrison's board spot.
I responded with it, Yes, I am, and he just

(12:30):
wandered off.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
He just wanted to hear him say it, Yes.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Say it to my face. That's Bruce. Congratulations too, Listener
David his three word weekend Today? I got married, David.
That's lovely. Congratulations to you and your partner as well.
Pass you, what are you been up to this weekend?
This weekend? What's your three word weekend? Mate?

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Unwelcome house guests. So we traveled three and a bit
hours to visit family at the weekend.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Stay on Friday, Shirt it was seven hours, you remember.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
What it was like?

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Seven or eight hours over.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
Broken glass, barefooted. No, I stayed at my brother and
sister in law's place, and they have a menagerie of animals.
They've got two dogs, two cats, the most beautiful cats
like the Russian What are those Russian Prussian ones? Anyway?
One of them took a real disliking to Chris and I.
To my husband and I, we woke up about midnight

(13:28):
Saturday night to this unmistakable stench of not only cat poo.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
What do you reckon? The two Russian cats? What decided
to invade your spies?

Speaker 8 (13:39):
They did not like us?

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Woke up just suddenly and then late at night ringing
my back back home to Putin. We really don't like.

Speaker 8 (13:47):
These too, Let's get rid of them. I think they
were trying to I woke up and I one, no,
it was cat not only cat poo, but cat DIARYA come.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
On, come on, Chris, we've all done that before. Bloody
cats Prussian ones as well.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
You know, when you're in a not in your own room,
you don't know where the light switches, so I'm fumbling
to find my phone to get what's a dangerous.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Right on like?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
And also barefoot, you could easily you could easily tread
on a landline by that I mean a cat poo.
As a cat owner, you don't on that that squished that.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
It was unmistaken cat mess. Anyway, the commotion woke my
sister in law up, so we're cleaning up cat poo
at like one am. And then a few hours later
I woke up to Chris.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
It strikes again, a revenge one.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
I'm screaming like a girl.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Someone a human in our cat litter trade? How can
a cat do an eight inch coiler?

Speaker 8 (14:54):
Chris woke up to the same cat vomiting on his
side of the bit, bringing up this spak.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Se Garfield the movie too.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's too funny.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
It was just foul. It's like, you know, we'd already
stripped the bed from the first time because it had
got on the site.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh, it was just gross for me.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Once Russian cats, Yeah, yeah, unwelcome house guests to the
Max Alex.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
How how was the school fate?

Speaker 7 (15:22):
It was great, it's finally over. There was such a
build up to it. It's just massive on so, so.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Did they really have a bath?

Speaker 7 (15:29):
The bar opened at midday, I'll say that again. It
opened at midday and went through at all about seven
o'clock at night, so you could imagine what happened, folks.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
What did they have at the bar?

Speaker 7 (15:40):
They had champagne, they had beers. There was wine as well,
white wine, no hard liquor, which was probably a very
good idea, but no, it was a wonderful laughter and
a really really good kids just lost it. Emotional on
so many levels as well for them, a lot of sugar,
a lot of running around. Bought Max a twenty dollars bike,
which was good.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
That was time.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
What you get for money for twenty dinners?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
It was great. Secondhand, it was amazing for me.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Sick hand I reckon.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Chaine keeps coming it on those penny five Actually, you'll
be a set up by the end of the week
with the fuel shorts. It shouldn't be worth a couple
of grands. Perhaps he'll be using it to comes to
what the cycle to work with a little fellow with
a white flag ring ahead of her. You're riding to
kindergarten on that thing. But no.

Speaker 7 (16:23):
And we just also had a moment, Bonnie and I
we just looked at each other and went, how good
is this? Last year was really hard, really really hard for.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Us with kids. Happy is there? Yeah? It was just lovely.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
You know, we lived for twenty five years and we're
in Melbourne now and we just had this moment, you
know where we thought to ourselves, gee, you look at
the journey we're on and this is such a wonderful
community we're now part of. We're making friends, the kids
are settled, they're happy, and it just was a really wonderful.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Moment for our family.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
And yeah, it's been a rollercoaster, my friend, it really has.
And you know, and you would have had the same
thing Christian coming from the UK. You know, you just
you have those moments where you just look at each
other and go, look, look look at where we are,
look at this this wonderful place, this wonderful community when
they're part of. So it was just a really special
moment for us.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, so lovely.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think sometimes when people are like they talk about,
you know, your highlights and this is a reel of life.
I think when you're a parent, it's not you don't
go close peak sort of big stories and moments. It's
actually so tiny that it's those tiny little scenes. It's
like pyroid moments of when your kids are happy or
they're laughing together. That that is that's your highlight reel
when you become a parent. Those are your happy I

(17:37):
guess they are the peak states, really, but they're not
big moments of like big holidays or Disneyland rethin. It's
suddenly looking around each other at a fate and your
kids are laughing and playing and you're part of a
sense of belonging and a sense of community. That's that's
all I think any of us want in life, really,
isn't it.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
Absolutely you're nailed in one and it's yeah, it's just
that that really quiet moment together, you know, just looking
out over this this scene of parents drinking, kids laughing.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
And that's what it was. I got it. Now, it's
the champagne and beers. We're in a good place. We're
really really good.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Over the weekend sad News. An amazing martial arts actor
and athlete Chuck Norris passed away. And for some of
you who are similar kind of age and vintage and myself,
Chuck Norris back in the eighties was and the seventies
the man. I was a massive Chuck Norris and Bruce

(18:40):
Lee fan as a kid. Still I'm a massive Bruce
Lee fan as an adult as well, some things from
Charlda to Stay with You and the fight seeing that
they had in Way of the Dragon. I had that
poster on my wall. So two things thinking about Chuck
Norris passing over the weekend that I thought about. One
of the posters that you had on your bedroom wall
when you were a kid. What were the posters on
your bedroom war mine was Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee

(19:02):
their fight at the Colar Team in Way of the Dragon.
The other thing is sometimes when you when you see
a star and you are actually starstruck. I remember about
fifteen years ago I happened to actually see Chuck Norris
on the streets of London. Feels like a Chunnahics joke.
It actually was marching down Regent Street and I couldn't

(19:25):
believe it really was Chuck Norris. And he was with
another martial arts legend as well. And if you know
you martial arts, you'll know who Benny the Jet Aquidas
was it propel them walking down. I don't know what
they've been doing in town. And I walked over the street.
I wanted to go and say hello to Chuck, and
then I got within about three or four metres and
I just froze. I think it's the aura and power

(19:45):
of Chunk Norris. Then actually my weak and testosterone. I
think he depleted it like a force field. It sort
of just reduced me to a quaking mess like many
of his foes. And so I said nothing. I actually
had nothing. I was starstruck. I never I'm gutted. I
would have loved to have said I used to love
you movies. I'm gutted I got to say anything to

(20:06):
Chuck Norris. So today Chuck Norris was on my Well.
The other thing this is so sad. I used to
get this imported American martial arts magazine when as a
teenager called Combat magazine, and I remember saving up. It
was fifty pounds, a lot of money as a kid.
That saved up for a couple of months, and my
paper round to get these genes that Chunk Norris advertise

(20:27):
as Chuck Norris Action Jeans. Still got a photo of
the advert I put it on it and it was
a picture of Chuck Norris right wearing cowboy boots, wearing
his own bespoke denim jeans and kicking a man in
the head right roundhousing and luckily these genes. I remember
the main bit on the advert was it, you know,

(20:50):
as a kid, you just don't understand anything. You just
taken a face value. Now I look back, what the
hell was a reinforced gusset. It had the phrase reassuringly
reinforced gusset like maybe a couple of times Chuck had
gone to Roundhouse some near Dueller and split his pants,
and it was like, this can never happen again. I

(21:11):
need to design genes so that members of the public
can always be Roundhouse ready. If you need to throw
down against some whoon, you don't need to worry about
splitting your denim cacs. You've got the ressurance you reinforce
guss it. Maybe we should also do this week what
you sent off for as a kid. You were easily

(21:32):
that precious pocket money of yours. You know your parents
wouldn't know what you were saving up for us sending
Chuck Norris action jeans so that I could be Chuck
Norris ready, just as roundhouse anyone in the streets.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
You've always got to be ready for that. You never
know what situation.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Ready Right now, I've got to reinforces It's sadly for
medical reasons at fifty two. So the memory of the
great man Chuck Norris, ever been starstruck?

Speaker 1 (21:58):
You said nothing?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
When you will confronted with someone famous to have you
ever been starstruck? And what were the posters on your
bedroom wall? As a teenage? It was Chuck Norris to me, Tina,
one of our producers on the show, you got starstruck
with Ricky Martin?

Speaker 5 (22:15):
I did.

Speaker 8 (22:16):
I met Ricky and he asked me for my name.
I just couldn't.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Remember my name.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Did this happen?

Speaker 5 (22:24):
He was doing CD siding at a local shopping sent
two years ago.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's with Joke Norris. Is it Ricky Martin? What's it?
He just don't. I just don't my cold shop and
it's going to do some some ceed.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
That for five in the morning.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Why did you?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I don't even like anyone else at five in the
morning there were I.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
Was number two hundred in the line and the two
hundred Thank god for that.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
He's back in favor again now because of his friendship
with Bad Bunny, isn't he?

Speaker 5 (22:56):
I think so?

Speaker 9 (22:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (22:57):
He did.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
The performance of the Super Bowl was great.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
So you go up there to get your CD signed
by Ricky Martin, and you just you've got nothing to say.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
I went blank, and I wanted him to sign it
for my mom for Mother's Day. So I wanted her
name and I couldn't remember her name. My friend had
to be like, oh, her name's Tina, and then he
started writing teen.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was like, no, Maria, you need to write Maria,
and he didn't. He looked at me confused.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right now over the weekend. Sad Passing of a legend
Chuck Norris. Now, as a kid, I had his poster
on my bedroom wall, and about fifteen years ago I
saw him on the streets of London went to go
and say hello. I got starstruck. I said nothing. So today,
what were the posters? Who did you have? Why bergil
wall as a teenager? And also have you ever been starstruck?

(23:51):
Christian John My teen years, my walls were shine to
the Backstreet boys, That's what they were. They were just
post as where they were shines. I had six walls
in my room. Wow, what are you living in? Six wolves?
This is gonna like a modern maths thing, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Like the Pentagon?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Listener Rhiannon has six walls in her room. Six anyway,
six walls in a room, and I had passed it
every single inch of the walls with posters and center
pages from all the Girly Team mags. When I went
out of space, I then covered the ceiling too, so
my room was considered very dark. Our posters off the
packst reports Rheiannon. Thank you much, Christian. I had kiss
posters on my wall. That's from Amanda. Christian starstruck the

(24:37):
original Disney lad In Anaheim, I met Mickey Bauble's Michael Boublay.
Somehow I managed the courage to go up and say
it and ask him for a photo. He was so
nice and made little joke as well. I was all
thumbs and I couldn't even work my phone. After the
excruciating small talk, I thanked him, turned and walked smack

(24:57):
bang into a pole. No, this is straight. In the nineties, Jess,
I had Dean Caine all over my as a teenager superman.
That's from Jess. We got Kylie on the line now morning, Kylie.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (25:16):
Thanks Christian.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Long time listeners, thank you very much. And now, Kylie,
who did you get starstruck over.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
So when I was in my teens in the late
eighties early nineties, Take That and Robbie Williams were all
over my walls. And when Robbie came for his first
two hours, which was early two thousand and so solo
to us, I went hunting in the city for a
couple of days to try to meet him and found him.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
He we end like track of dogs. I mean, how
are you, where are you going?

Speaker 10 (25:50):
Just hotels? We're just hoping to find him, and finally
found the hotel he was in because there were entourage
and bands around and fanm Emazon stuff. He walked out
of the hotel and I went to approach him and
got maybe three four meters away from him, and he
looked up, looked me dead in the eye, and I froze.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh no.

Speaker 10 (26:14):
And still to this day, every time he comes through
to our every time I live to his music, I
have that image in my head to be.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Burned, burned into the into your mind line forever.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
Isn't it into my brain? Until I actually get the
opportunity to meet him, shake his hand, sign a CD,
then it's still on the bucket list.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, listen, you know hopefully he's going to be coming
in on the show in November and and are doing
a show with us live, and so if that happens,
and it will happen, we've got to recreate this moment. Okay,
we're gonna we're going to recreate it. You're going to
call revisiting the scene of a Robbie crime.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
Yes, yeah, but no Robbie ultimate. So yeah, that was
my starstuck moment and I still regret it to this day.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
We'll see if we can change that in November. All right,
we've got your number. If he does come on the show,
we'll get you on and we'll do a makeover part two.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Who no, she's not even come on.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
You've got to tell you what. Let's do this. You
know what we're going to do. I'm going to hire
a hypnotherapist. No no, no, you've you've you've got this
and she's your bucket list thing. Put a new, better
memory instead of that one that's been there for too long.

Speaker 10 (27:33):
It's Robbie Williams. He's like just he's the sona his charisma,
he's just you would know, like he's just amazing. And
I'm like literally just shaking even.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
If it takes an hour for you just to stand
in front of them before we actually say something, Kylie anything, yeah, no, no, yeah,
give me some.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
More time.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Loving car together my kids.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
All right, Kylie, thank you very much to give us
a call mate. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Thanks Kristin Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
So today, ever been starstruck? You met someone and words
just escaped you. There were you could not say a word.
This happened to me about fifteen years ago. Chuck Norris
passed Tour of the Weekend and I saw Chuck on
the streets of London about fifteen years ago, and as
a kid, his poster was on my bedroom wall, and
I became starstruck. I've interviewed lots and lots of very

(28:32):
famous people. There were no words. I actually do believe
it was this. I've never felt a force field of aura,
charisma and karate chi like that had actually eviscerated my insides,
and so I found myself bowing down and walking away.
It was, you know, sometimes like horse whispers, dog whisperers,

(28:54):
and I guess he's like a man whisper where he
could just with his chie Yeah, so who you became
starstruck Patsy, has this happened to you?

Speaker 8 (29:05):
Yeah? I interviewed once Patrick Swayze out doing a film
tour ages ago and there was just a very small
interview crew which I was part of. There was about
ten journeys and Netflex thank you.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's a pretty small crew. Actually it was elite journalists.
It's the top ten.

Speaker 8 (29:24):
It was a lunch. We were having lunch with him
at a very nice hotel in Melbourne and I was
sat right opposite him on the table. So the idea
was to have this lovely like three hour lunch and
then everyone had to turn it interviewing him. And I've never.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Heard of I've never heard of that in my life.
I've been to so many different jun kits over the
hits around the world, but never heard of us. I
could sit down three course, how awful of batic sways
as well? I know, opposite you with some gorpy you know,
newsreader like Patsy. Can you pass us out at the
MP He's done with those breadsticks.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
You've got my bread roll, give it back.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
It was basket sways.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
It was utterly surreal and I was so so nervous.
It would have been maybe in my early twenties. I
guess I was new to the city. I hadn't been
in Melbourne long and I had this unreal opportunity to
interview one of my absolute idols. So it was in
the wake of dirty dancing, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was like, oh my, who is a megastar?

Speaker 8 (30:25):
Such a good looking, so charismatic and so kind and sweet.
And I was meant to go first. I was meant
to interview him first, but I was so nervous. I
said to everyone else, I know, you go, you guys,
trying to be polite, but I was actually just so nervous.
I couldn't summon up the courage to ask these long
list of questions that I've been working for days on.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
But he to his working for days on.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Yeah, I just I wanted to get it right.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I didn't want to look Japanese cons or standing Q
and A.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
This must have been brilliant questions, I mean, digged them out.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'd like to hear them now.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
I don't know where they are in the ether. But
he was so lovely and he could tell how nervous
I was. And I went last, but he was just
and he was all done up because he had photos
and everything done, so he almost looked a bit wax
figuri ish and it was just completely didn't feel real.
It did not feel real.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I reckon it was a lookerlike he you say, waxish,
I think, actually, you're right, it was just a wax doll.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
It was. It was legit.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
And then his wife Lisa came down and introduced herself
to us. Just a lovely couple of the.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Prerange code some of the real at that bug eyed
one still here when you come down, could you come
down your security as well.

Speaker 8 (31:42):
At least I had the courage to speak to him,
unlike you with your Chuck Norris.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
That.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
But then they're swazy and then it's their levels of
show Bizura. Chuck Norris stands above all men.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Oh wow, you don't talk to Chuck.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
No, no, he talks to you. Seriously, if Chuck Chuck
would have seen these new stars like Chamerlaine stuff like
that and laughed in their face and then probably Roundhouse
Smarty Supreme before breakfast, it's got a Lisa. Lisa's on
the line. Now we're talking your calls and stories to
there about being starstruck. I'm just Runner's Mainly it's stars

(32:21):
in the eighties, Chuck Patrick, Swayzey, Lisa, Welcome to the show.
Hi guys, Hey Lisa, I'm you a lovely weekend. So
who are you starstruck around?

Speaker 11 (32:32):
I was standing in as for those let's get that
clear on boot makers in Richmond in London, getting ready
to get my shoes fixed. And I turned around and
standing behind me was Mick Jagger, and I just I
don't know what happens. And I just looked at him
and I said, you can't get no satisfaction. And he

(32:53):
just laughed his head off and he politely told me
to f off, but in a really nice way. And
then we were just laughing in a nice way.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I don't know. It's a nice way. If you could
tell someone at off. Try the show today.

Speaker 11 (33:07):
It was hilarious. And by the way, guys, he's so tiny.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
He is a tiny little he's a tiny little man.

Speaker 11 (33:13):
Yes, he died, but the lips are real, so he has.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
I think he's still good. He's got a beautiful, massive
place in Richmond. They used to living with Jerry old
from a wife. But tell me this, And so you're
you're waiting to get your shoes rehealed or whatever, is.
Mick went to get his shoes rehealed as well, that's what.

Speaker 11 (33:30):
And he had this big leather long coat and I
was thinking, you're so rich, won't you just go buy another?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yes, Mick Jagger was frugal.

Speaker 11 (33:42):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Getting his boy boots rehealed a word everywhere.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
He was really lovely. But I was shaking like a lave.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
It was bizarre.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's a great one, Lisa, thank you very much for giving.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Us a call.

Speaker 10 (33:55):
You're welcome.

Speaker 11 (33:55):
Guys, have a great day.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
And you Christian Color Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Good wanted to Adam Christian like you. I was a
massive Chuck Norris fan. Did you know that when Chuck
nas was born he drove his mum home. I had
heard that. That's how tough he was. Christian. When Chuck
Norris does a push up, he used to push the
earth down. Chuck Norris actually invented memes, he really did.
He was the first kind of internet memestar. And yesterday

(34:23):
I was looking through some of the there's thousand sort
of online and oh my god, someone was so good.
If you spell Chuck Norris and scrabble, you win forever.
The dinosaurs looked at Chuck nos the wrong the wrong way.
You know what happened to them. We are living in
an expanded universe, all of us trying to get away
from the power of Chuck Norris. Before he forgot a

(34:46):
gift for Chuck Norris. Santa Claus used to be real.
Chuck Norris can speak brow. Chuck Norris's belly button is
actually a power.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Out and people would send them over massive group emails.
Remember those, Send it to a hundred of your friends.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yes, Christian Chuck Norris once took a lie detect to
test the machine. Confessed Christian Chuck Norris didn't flush the toilet.
He scared the crap out of it. Yeah, that's my favorite.
That's my favorite one. Christian chuk NOAs was once bitten
by King Cobra, the Dead List of All Snakes. After
five days of agonizing pain, that Cobra died. All right,

(35:28):
So we're all concerned about the the fuel prices they're rising,
and it's you know, it's hard not to be scared,
and so they say that sometimes in our times of
real need the superhero.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
We need emergers.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And yeah, we lost chun NOAs over the weekend, But
it feels like the universe took something but gave us
something we did right now, and that is pump Man.
Are you ready to meet pump hand?

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Where is all the cheap few gone?

Speaker 3 (36:04):
And where's the two dollar dream?

Speaker 12 (36:07):
Where this or that won't make you cry when you
check the pricing screen.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Isn't there a hero somewhere.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
To fill my tank for free?

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Every day I drive in fear of what is pump
costs me?

Speaker 6 (36:26):
I need a pump man. I'm holding up for a
pumpman until the end of the night. He's pumping away
and he's feeling a car and he's pumping as all
for free. I need a pump man. I'm holding up
for a pump man. He's coming your.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
Way with his nozzle of Larva's taping the wind.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
He's gonna make your morning.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Okay, right now, Pumpman with his nozzle off love and
he's he's pumping away.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
He's pumping away for you. Dear listener, pump Man, are you.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
There, Christian?

Speaker 6 (37:02):
I'm here.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
You sound very similar to Barry Claws.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
Close relative.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
You're not gonna be kidding me? What are the odds?

Speaker 6 (37:13):
What are the odds? Christian? But never fear. Pump Man
is here.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
And you ready to start pumping this morning into listeners.

Speaker 12 (37:21):
Christian, My tank is full and I'm ready to pump, pump,
pump away.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
And how's that nozzle of love?

Speaker 6 (37:28):
Nozzle of loved is locked and loaded.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Great Brian, and ready to go with that trigger finger.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
Oh yeah, okay, cooling.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Now, if you weren't free fuel from pump Man. Pump Man,
wats the number to get hold of you?

Speaker 6 (37:45):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Thank you very much, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
I did actually start to write lyrics to pump manto
this and found myself looking at what I had written, Come
on and pump on me, and I was like, this
cannot we cannot have this, We cannot have this. The
Pointer sisters jump for Oh I love every show this
week and next week. We are giving you free fuel

(38:14):
with the hero we need right now, pump Man.

Speaker 12 (38:18):
Pumpman's here, Christian, ready to pump away?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
All right, let's play your theme tune.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
I need a pump Man. I'm holding up for a
pump man. Near the end of the night.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
He's pumping away and he's feeling a car and he's
pumping us.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
All for free. I need a pump man. I'm holding
up for a pump man.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
He's coming your way with his nazl lags tape in
the wind.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
He's gonna make your morning.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, you're not adjust your radio, you right? I demand
to recounted me at those Sydney ratings. I'm pretty sure
this kind of stuff we're gonna farp the chance guys.
Good morning, Christian. Unable to call in due to work.
I'm quickly typing this. I'm a young trainee paying off
my ute. Now that fuel has doubled in my area

(39:14):
over three dollars, I'm finding it hard to actually drive
around for work, save money as well as live weekly. Please,
even if it's just half a tank, Connor, have a
tank on us, buddy. I'm really sorry in that situation.
Happy to help you out. We'll give you a full tank, pumpman.
Is that okay?

Speaker 6 (39:31):
That's absolutely fine? Christian.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
You remember yesterday we spoke. You said that at the
end of each one you'd have a snappy kind of phrase.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yes, where are we with that?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
We're just sort yeah, you're happy to give Connor a
full tank.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
I would love to give Connor a full tank.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Oh, I thought we had already ready to go to
be played there going beautiful.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Yes we don't.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Let's go now to moving on, Connor, don't worry, We've
got cha. Peter's on the line, Morning Peter, Good morning Christian.

Speaker 10 (40:06):
I would love Pumpman, that pump mep.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Who wouldn't we all would these prices right now? We
all need a good pumping by pump Man.

Speaker 12 (40:16):
Oh yes, well Peter, it would be Pumpman's pleasure to
pump you today and wealth pumps.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, and well we never find out what's what's he
filling out? What are you driving?

Speaker 4 (40:28):
I'm driving a diesel after I'm a courier.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
That must be costing you a bomb at the moment.

Speaker 10 (40:34):
Certainly is used to cost me a sorry, one hundred
and twenty eight hundred and thirty a week. Now, that's
one that's three quarters of a paint.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh my gosh, I'm crazy. Just a couple of weeks,
isn't it. Yeah, Peter, we're happy to help you out,
my friend. Okay, Yeah, thank you, Peter.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
Pizza, thank you.

Speaker 10 (40:55):
I love being pumped by.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
It goes giving you a catchphrase. Let's go to Robin here.
Just to warn you now, this is for Robin's daughter. Okay,
pump Man appropriate Robin, good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
I need your help, pump Man. My twenty one year
old daughter, who's a school nurse's battling to get to work.
She's thinking of taking a sick day and she she
needs to work.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
She does, yeah, and her patients need her to work
as well. It's it's a dire situation, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (41:31):
She lives independently, to on page five hundred a week
and she's struggling cleanse we help her ound.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Listening to this, she's pretty quiet over there.

Speaker 12 (41:42):
She sounds like a beautiful woman. Robin Pumpman would be
happy to help her out.

Speaker 9 (41:47):
Thank you, Pumpman, thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It is Hanneka real damson distressed and I was getting
into the whole character of it. Then it was great, Robin,
have you taught us? Okay, that's going to Rob hit
in morning. Rob. Rob's already on the road. Will you
in school? Run you on your way to work, Rob.

Speaker 10 (42:07):
I'm on my way to work.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
So I'm just looking for pump Man to actually not pup, but.

Speaker 10 (42:14):
My wife she needs fuel.

Speaker 9 (42:16):
We've got a lot of expectations this weekend, so.

Speaker 10 (42:21):
Keep life everything.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
Expectations, you say, Rob, this man delivers.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
This man the Pumpman always pumps twice.

Speaker 12 (42:30):
The higher the expectation, the more pump Man rises to
the occasion. I would be happy to help your wife
out in whatever capacity.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Know not whatever capacity, purely a few friends with pump benefits.
All right, Rob, thank you, Rop, Thank you very much
for calling mate. We'll sort you out.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
All right, Okay, well listen, Pumpman. Why don't you and
I chat after the show at nine, just to chiny
things up for your reappearance on the show tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Sounds necessary and good vitel.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
I'd say essential and vital. But for now, Pama, bye bye,
b bye.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
We're back after this.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Maybe a Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
We do something called the Misheard Lyrics.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
It's just another mishard man nay, Christian O'Connell's misheard lyrics.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
This, without doubt is our most popular feature. It's been
running for years. Thank you very much to everyone that
keeps us going every day twenty four to seven from
around the world. I get your misheard lyrics as always.
Whenever you mishear them, you email me Christian at Christian
O'Connor dot com dot AU as we're playing the back.
If we agree what you think you're mishearing, you'll hear this.

(44:00):
If we cannot hear it, you'll hear this. And for
the really great ones, Yes, that's all of favor.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
All right, Hall of Famer.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Last week on the show, from junior listener, seven year
old Nim has been listening to TLC and Waterfalls why
not and don't go Jason Waterfalls, brilliant one. Thank you
very much, Nim. All right, team, we ready for some
brand new ones. Let's do it, all right.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
So we got first of all, Brad Bishop Christian.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
I saw the Beach Boys were headed down to beach
in Sydney after they went to Komo. The Beach Boys Aruba, Jamaica.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
That was the one you deleted that not.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Accord to this sheet that Tina. Okay, let's go to
poison Cory Bunston nothing but a good time poison, or
is it? I'm really sorry about the shape. I mean
I just locked my phone every now and then. Yes,

(45:16):
we all hear on that one. Yeah, it's just locking
my phone, Christian. This is another chance by Roger Sanchez.
Jess has been listening to old two thousand dance hits
and if I had another chance tonight. That reminds me

(45:37):
that this song that same era was Dario g Sunshine
as well. And was it Tori Amos Professional Widow anyway,
Roger Sanchez another chance? Or is it falling in love
with Jessica Jesse in the Games? Yeah, I'm here and

(46:05):
Jess gone the second one? Yes, I like that, Well up, Jess.
Megan's been smashing the Beg's more than a woman? Or
is it bald headed woman? That's a that's a that's
a Hall of Famer, right, the.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Beg's bald headed woman.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
That's brilliant. That's It's like they were meant to be
saying that. It's only hearing. How do we ever think
it was more than a woman when they're singing about
a woman once more? Meghan, thank you very much. Lee
Clements has been listening to Taylor Swift and Style and
I've got that red lip classic thing you like? Or

(47:00):
is it Taylor's got that Brad Pitt classic thing that
you like? Yeah, I'm hearing that in there all right.
As always, when you miss here your lyrics, email me
Christian at christian Aconnell dot com dot Au. Coming up next,
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Speaker 4 (47:22):
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Speaker 2 (47:26):
The show needs your help. Now you probably were how
radio works. I'm sure that you've read about all the
goings on the moment with Carl and Jackieo's dominated the
news headlines all of last week and for the last
couple of weeks. And obviously we are a breakfast show
as well, and as of January this year, this show
is in all five cities. We are Australia's first ever

(47:49):
national commercial breakfast show.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
And last week was a big moment because it was.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
The first radio ratings of the year, and in this
country radio ratings are hysterical, ridiculous. I still can't believe
it's actually reported as news in the UK. It's just
used for radio nerds. And then I moved here and
it was actually on. It was actually on the TV

(48:14):
news I saw. I remember the first couple of months
of the show here in twenty eighteen. I was just
watching the TV news and I suddenly saw my face
and there was a graph that was not going up
to the right. I don't know whether I had upside
down the TV company, but was going down down down
to the mom right and there's a picture of me
with the headline expensive foreign import. And see if I

(48:35):
was some sort of as if I was a car.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Like a beautiful silk or Jaguar, Jaguar or Ross Royce.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
So anyway, that was nothing.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I thought it was a lot of the time, and
it was And saw the hysterical reaction. The team all
saw this, our family saw it. Friends of mine had
been clipping shots and sending it to me just to
give you an idea. So of what happened. So Melbourne,
we're sitting strong in Melbourne. In Sydney, obviously, the ratings
that came out last week were for the first six

(49:05):
weeks of our show and all the breakfast shows in Sydney.
The reason what we're focusing on Sydney at the moment,
And like I said, we're in all the cities, but
Sydney right now is wide open because of what's happened
with Carne and Jackie Oo. So it is crazy. It's
like a it's like a mad rush right now in
Sydney for a lot of available listeners. So it really

(49:25):
was a big deal in radio and the news last
week about the first ever ratings for two thousand and
twenty six, and we came in as a brand new show.
I've only been on air for six weeks, thirty odd shows.
We came in at number four. You would have thought
that I'd come in at number four hundred and forty four.
Here's some of the headlines radio Star suffers brutal ratings collapse.

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Then they paired it with a photo I've never seen
before of me looking to be honest Britney spears demented.
I don't know where they found that photo, but it
was an appropriate photo for a man who suffered and
apparent ratings collapse. The other one that I loved with
a friend of mine, I don't even know how I
found it was. The main use was a main news

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website in Indonesia, and on the main news website was
a picture of me with the headline radio Veterans ratings bomb.
What's it got to do with Indonesia? But as we
say in radio, if you can make it in Chikata,
you can make it anywhere. It's early days, okay, And

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actually I think you know what coming in strong at
number four. You imagine back in the day you listen
to Casey Cassim, you're recording your top ten countdown. Then
there's a hot new entry for Spandel Bali or Wham
at number four. It's a big deal. So I think
this is a strong stark. Guys, and the Boss had
a big chat with me over the weekend, and I

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want every single team member to listen in right now
because I think you're gonna you're gonna double down on
your efforts right now when I hear about the bonus
and incentive that's being offered to every single team member. Team.
I've been told that if we can get from fourth
to third the Sydney Breakfast Show ratings, everyone on this show,

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everyone who works on this show gets a Meet Tray.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Now you've got me with me, Now, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Now, Operation Meet Tray begins right now. Play the music,
Operation Meet Tree, Meet Tree. She offered me a meat tree.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
I'm definitely in.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
I mean a stranger love a meat trap and meat tree.
Operation Meet Tray begins right now, guys, every single one
of us, every single one of us, Well we climb
to that podium, finish p three Whilst all the other
fools they're up against in Sydney right now, they're all.
They're all trying to get to number one, number two.
The smart play here that no one is talking about

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is p three. Actually they've done research people that win
bronze medalist. They're the happiest of all the medalists. Silver's
my god, if I just if I just work to Lebahama,
I could have got the gold medal. Le Bronze is like, Wow,
I can't Believe'm on the podium. I actually got our medal.
That's going to be us guys, if we work together
as one a win for Operation Meat Tray.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Oh yeah, we can finally get on the lowest rung
of the podium.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Not the lowest song. It doesn't money. You're on the.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
On the podium with a meat trading our handsagne.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Forget about the champagne. I'd rather a meat trade.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Some pork chops, some lamb.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Chops, sirloin scotch Phil Rabbi, this is a Heroes meat
tray and here's everyone listening right now. I need your
help to take part in Operation Meat Trade, the most
powerful form. While for our marketing, we've got other people
that listen to our show every single day. You are
genuinely part of our family. We make the show for you, guys.

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And so at the moment, there are people in our
marketing department here at the radio station coming up with
all kinds of word playing, word magic to try and
sell the show to new and possible listeners in Sydney.
And I think the best people that we should ask
to help really with that is you, guys. If you
listen to the show and you keep coming back to us,
why how would you sell this show in one line

(53:25):
to someone who might be listening to us right now
in Sydney. You're flicking around of the next week or
two as they are looking for a brand new radio show.
It's hard to actually for us to actually say what
it is. It's not for me to say what the
show is, your takeaway, whatever it is to you. And
so I genuinely love to know in one line, what
is the show? How would you describe it? How would
you sell it to someone in Sydney right now that

(53:47):
maybe they're pretty gutt it, they've lost their breakfast show
they've be listening to for years, and they're flicking around
at the moment suddenly they come across us and they're like,
the is this the guy that Indonesia has turned on
right now and Indonesia. Indonesia, don't give up too soon
on me please. I'm hoping by the end of the
year you'll be erecting our statue in my name my
friends in Jakarta. I will not let you down. We've

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got this show is good for bronze. I said that
to the boss. I said, mark my words, Boss, I reckon,
we're good for third place in those Sydney ratings with.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Money on me taken third by the end of this year.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
So Operation Meat Tray listeners tell us on one line,
how would you describe the show?

Speaker 1 (54:27):
How would you sell it to somebody?

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Operation Meat Tray needs you.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
Who are Christian O'Connell Show podcast?

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Thank you very much. All these amazing messages coming in
right now. We're asking for your help. How would you
describe the show? Sell the show to a brand new listener?
Some of these are incredible, Thank you very much. Play music,
Mary or country Pumpkin's all right? So how would you

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describe the show to a new listener The Christian O'Connell Show.
Let this Pommey become a bronze.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Oh beautiful.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
The person that put that their first film was a
TYPEE and I couldn't work out why they thought it
would help a new listener with the let this pony
become a bos corrected. I was like only show Pony.
The Christian o'connock Show where we broadcast for Bronze. I
love its operation Metray. We may not have one one

(55:34):
hundred million dollars, but we'll give you one hundred million laughs.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
That's a lot of laughs.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not sure about that many good
enough to zone the kids out. Gee, thank you, thank
you sir Mark and Newcastle Radio. But done different. I
love that, Thank you very much. I love this from
Hailey Christian O'Connell show, like a cheese toasty on a
cold winter's night. That is great, Christian, you and the

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team of my light in a dark world right now,
what a lovely thing to say, Wayne Christian the morning
as comfortable as an old couch. Hmm. It was very
hard to have to be honest last week amongst all
the various headlines coming from me to hear myself from
one of them described as veteran broadcasting.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
Oh what term of endearment is it?

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Veteran experienced seasoned? I don't mind, you know, but veteran.
Veteran you know is normally someone when he's like seventy
or eight exac. All right, every ready for the brand
new time wasters.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
And there's them time wasters. They were looking for your
few movies few movies. The time wasters today just giving
me the time there for Mary to work. There, I'm
looking for a run he went to help put marry.
You have you being paid by Nova to work against me.

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You have a double A and we've just found out
who it is today on the time waster Gold class
past for you and three mates. We're looking for your
fuel movies Rio you reach to tear mine. I'm ready
feel movies, the Fast and the Fulius.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
That's good gold.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
No country for old fuel Bronze. Richard Curtis has got
a new fuel movie coming out. M hm gran It's
called fuel actually Bronze. You can't just can oh you can?
You can? You can't handle the truth? A few good leads.

Speaker 6 (57:44):
You've just done the same.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
You know the pump identity, non you? This is a
sure Fi gold, the great Gaspie Gold.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
What about this one? Back to the future, Back to
the fuel ure when the prices were better the great
gasby again, thank you still good to hear it, good
to hear it. You're we're good for one hundred million
laughs to forget. That's two ticked off, right there, team,

(58:21):
we can't keep in it tally? All right, Rio, what
have you got? Fuel movies for whom.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
The shell tolls?

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Oh? Oh, very smart an Australian Financial Review headline.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Silver, Mission Impossible like it, Gold Finding Servo.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
That's very good, Gold plus.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
White Men Can't Pump.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Also gold very good.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
And the lead actor was named after fuel Vin Diesel.
He stars in Triple Exon in Diesel.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
All right, what have you got them? Will mark them? Next?

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Christian O'Connell show by.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Gast Time Waster Today is fuel Movies Best in show?
You and three mates off to the cinema Gold Class
pass ya you're ready to mark they're fuel movies.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
These are very good K pop Diesel Hunters.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Oh god. Plus they are teasingly topical. Zeitgeist and Andy
the Diesel Night Rises, Silver, Coal Runnings, Gold, What.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Done, Mandy Hybrid School Musical.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Silver flas Oh and.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Peter forst Pump.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Hot Tub Kerosene Silver plus a Night in the Petroleum
very smart and Richard I am Paul Legend Gold. That's
very good. If I had Patty was talking about raving
about this movie Friday. If I had unled S, I'd

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kick you so clever, Ryan Toready, that is very good.
If I had Unleds, I'd kick you. Joshua, this is
very good. Not driving Miss Daisy. You can't of fall
to Silver plus the Pride in Petroleum Gold Jerry Can McGuire,

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So it's the image of him with as well. Jerry
Can McGuire. Sue Hartman, that is very good. Ferris Fueler's
Day Off, Oh clever, Silver plus Driving Miss Daisy every
second day, Bronze Savings, The magnif the Magnificent seven eleven,
oh Gold. Yeah, all right, who's your favorite one rider?

(01:00:59):
Who's best in show?

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Jerry Can McGuire was brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Sue you are Today's when Sue Harmon? That was absolutely outstanding.
All right? The big thing we need from you today
which would be amazing and you might be you might
actually get your phrase on our marketing book Billboards. How
would you describe this show in all seriousness in one
line to a new potential listener at the moment. We've
got marketing eggheads all trying to work this out at

(01:01:24):
the moment, and I think the best people to describe
the show are you guys. So what would it be?
In one line? How would you sum up the show?
What is it? Text me today four seven five three
one O four three one O four three. We deeply
appreciate it. Oh four seven five three one O four three.
We are back tomorrow and don't forget the climb drive

(01:01:47):
to third. The race for bronze is on. Please support
the show Operation Meet Trey needs you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Thank you Christian O'Connell show, Go on podcast.

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