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In this episode of the Christian O'Connell Show, Christian and the team discuss the ups and downs of the week, from the Easter Show giveaway to the challenges of Australian radio. They also dive into the theme of "fame in the family," where listeners share their incredible stories of famous relatives, including connections to Nick Cave and even Dick Van Dyke.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey this is Christian. Kind of a strange one for
me right at the top of the show, but let's
go for it. Anyway. There's a listener who emailed me,
a podcast listener in the UK called Paul Johnson. Paul
Johnson emailed me a couple of years ago with an
incredible story about my un called Tom, who saved his life.
And then Carma came back around and I'll correspondent Paul

(00:47):
saved someone related to Tom. This story whenever I share
it or tell anyone about it gives me goosebumps and
other people I just reduced to kind of all really,
which is why I want to include it in my book.
But I can't an s I hear from Paul. I've
emailed Paul Johnson. It's a bounce back. He's not on
that email anymore. All don't know as he listens to
the UK. Paul Johnson, if you're still listen to the show,

(01:09):
and I hope you're well, please email me Christian at
Christian O'Connell dot com dot a you thank you very much.
Enjoy today's pod.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
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Speaker 1 (01:20):
Good morning, Alex, good morning, coome On, Patsy Morning, Rieo,
good morning, good morning. Did everyone survive the storms?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
It was so windy over yes, so loud as well.
I could barely sleep. It was gushing that rain.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh you poor little we have a nightmare. Some team
members seem to think that we've gone into sub zero temperatures.
There's a producer who will remain nameless, who's wearing a
heavy knit nitwear has come out. It's blustery. It's blustery.
It's blustery. It's mild still out there. It's too soon
to get the nitwear out. But Caitlin is in nitwear

(01:55):
that you'd see if you're in Russia on the ski
fields Siberia. It is if you've seen it, heavy duty nitwear.
A mild breeze is like, get out the winter clothes.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
We don't have your cold English blood. We've got our warmest.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Pulls out. They get down the beach, get the slip
slap slop on, get a wine brimmed hat. It's another
glorious day to be out there. It's beautiful day. This
makes me does feel like it's still quite mild out there. Yeah,
so it's sort of even yesterday when it was pouring
our rain it was mild rain. It was it was,

(02:31):
it was, it was humid. Pats's right, it's mild rain.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Both cities have copped at Melbourne and Sydney. So do
you wear the warnings for both cities today?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
And so one bit to the footing last night was
there only delays We almost.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Got canceled ninety minutes before the game at Brookvale Oval
in Sydney's northern beaches. Like torrential rain, cyclonic winds. It
was crazy. There was a blackout of Brookvale Oval.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, Patsy, what's the bright side of your weekend?

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:54):
Well, we've got our teenager going to a party tomorrow night.
So it's uber mom and dad and it's in the
city and we thought, you know what, we might grab
a bite tweet while we do that. So it's kind
of a cheeky date night kind of not because you
you know, parents taxi, but you take anything you can get,
don't you really like it's like, oh, we've got three
hours to spin together. Yeah, so we've got a nice

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dinner tomorrow night. Would would be good?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
All right, let us know what is the bright side
of your weekend? Text me oh four seven five three
one oh four three.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
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Speaker 1 (03:26):
Let us know what is the bright side of your weekend?
You can share it with us. Oh fall seven five
three one oh four three. Alex, what are you up
to this weekend?

Speaker 7 (03:36):
Birthday parties coming out our ears? Birthday parties every weekend.
We've got two. We've got one on Saturday, we've got another.
Friends friends of the kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So lots of.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You always feel like you have to say to the kids,
how could a friend? Yeah, you actually got a sliding
scared of Kasherooney's that's it?

Speaker 7 (03:55):
What'sort of present are we buying for this friend? So
lots of small talk with other parents we don't really know, so, oh,
what's on for the rest.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It's the hard part of parenting that when he talks about,
is the crunchy small talk. You have to do a
lot of yes with people that you would never normally
be friends with, and unfortunately the dads just get thrown
together in a pit.

Speaker 7 (04:14):
With no alcohol.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
With no alcohol, it gets really raw dog in it
without any moos. It's it gets ready alcohol.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
At a kid's birthday part, you.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Know, they like young and they starts start tearing into
like get smashing beers.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Can you sometime?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
No?

Speaker 7 (04:30):
No, especially for the morning months.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, only what you're going to be at one of
those ball pits and it's like ten am on a
Sunday and you're smashing wine callers for pre mixer trips. No,
you need it. But the small talk, it's just like
men I don't think are good at small talk anyway. No,
they're not. Women are so good at making small talk.
They're just whereas menu, it's all that you know, how's

(04:53):
work going, what's what do you do? How's that going,
how's work going, how's your super It's just like, God,
you know how to stay gay? Rio stay gay?

Speaker 7 (05:09):
So sooner?

Speaker 5 (05:09):
That sounds bleaker.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
It's also leaving the conversations too.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's like, you know, there's no exit plan.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
There's no ex plan. That's the thing. You got to
go to the bathroom something like that.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's like, oh, my kid, I would always look over
enviously my wife be deep deep, deep in conversation. I
had some kind of deep podcast. We just made sure
the two minutes ago, how is she doing that?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Women get deep very quickly.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I learned this when I was getting ready at producer
Caitlin's wedding, and they really get into it, or even
like just very new friends.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I don't know how you guys do it.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you know what it's like. You Brian new iPhone
and you do that. You do you put the two
phones together, they start doing data transfer. That's what it's like.
We're gonna start doing it. I remember once being on
holiday and our daughters were younger, so this has been
about ten years ago, and we just got tracked to
this woman whose kids are also playing in this ball
a bit with our two daughters. I said I was

(06:05):
to tour with it. When I came back a beare.
A couple of minutes, Sarah goes, oh, this is alectures.
By the way, she's getting over a very big divorce
and starts to give down a drop down everything. Woman's
I've been gone for three How did you? How did you?
How did you get into She's divorced three minutes.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
This is O'Connor's good for that.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Great listeners. Almost I almost feel like they've gone. Where
is he gone? So you divorced? Quick? Quick, quick? He's
coming back in a minute. Tell me everything. I need
to have some stuff to break down for him. What
what are you up to this weekend? Are you back
to zoomber by the way?

Speaker 5 (06:45):
No, No, that's out of a once a month situation
in shape.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Just an hour a month.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Wow, I was actually sore on the Monday afterwards.

Speaker 8 (06:56):
Really it's a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Okay, So what are you up to this weekend?

Speaker 4 (06:58):
My partner Will is going on a winery tour with
his friends, which mercifully I am not invited to.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Thank God, that wine to much that that rip is chaos?

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah? Is it work friends?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
No, it's his sort of original and school friends. So
it's just it's carnage. Absolutely carnage. They're on a mini bus. No,
thank you. So I've got my friend Alex coming over
and he's helping me clean the gutters for our house
for the first and you judge.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
You judge Alex and I about small talk about our
super and you're doing the gutters.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Wouldn't you rather be doing the gunners.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
That Mary Poppins way? Are you insane were storms wind?
Perfect weather to get up there.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well, that's the only reason we knew the gutters needed cleaning.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
And Partsy's news on Monday.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Because there was just just rain gushing gushing down and
are like, I don't think that's supposed to be happening
from our gutters.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
Oh, they're overflowing.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
The overflow you have to go. You do have to
get up there and clear them out.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Is going to be that unsafe?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
You just got to clim up a ladder and give
a little I wouldn't do it today.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
No, no, not today.

Speaker 8 (08:09):
And there's still ladder.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
When was the last time you're upper ladder? That's proper
adulting as well. It's the ladder work. You've got a
good ladder sounds like a dad, you've got a good
ladder dirty. That's another good topic, you know when you're
in other dads, how's your how's work going? What do
you do? You got a good ladder?

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Five partners?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Dad will gave us a ladder for a Christmas so
we do have a good good gid Dad.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Do you wrap up a ladder?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Is it a new kayak? Yeah? You need a really
good ladder, okay, And the ladder is all about the
safety person, someone holding up Yes, and the standard post
that is one foot on that right. You always just
put what that foot on as if this will hold anything.
One foot here checking your phone there's someone up there,
but you do need a good safety person. That's the

(08:55):
anchor person.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Should be home on your own getting up.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
No, No, I've got my friend Alex.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Do you have that golden rom with Chris now, pats Well.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
I don't really think any man over fifty should be
upper ladder at all.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
But one of the biggest arguments we ever had once
when there came home and I was up a ladder.
Why were you up the ladder? You would have thought
I was taking drugs having an orgy. I think if
I was having an orgy it would have been milder.
Her response, what God? Getting down right now?

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Do you want to die?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Do you want to meet your grandchildren? I was like, wait,
they're pregnant. What's happened? But that'd been up this lad
of ten minutes. We now have a golden rule. You
don't go up a load of boy yourself.

Speaker 8 (09:34):
Oh definitely not. Chris will be up there with the
hedge trimmer and.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
The questions you've got a hedge on the roof. Why
does that house is that Christmas? With a clumps up there?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Today and all next week. We have got a big
prize for the families. We have family passes and loads
more after the Sydney guyal East to show. It is
back next week April the second to the thirteenth. You

(10:12):
can grab your early bird tickets and save at Easter
Show dot com dot au. At any moment on the show,
there'll be an Easter egg, an Easter egg played during
the show at any moment. Soon as you hear it,
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Speaker 4 (10:46):
I'm barely mister, ye I reckon because you go as
a kid with your family, then you go as a teenager,
then you go at UNI and now I'm taking my
next show every single home.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Wow, it's the best. It's an institution.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's got everything for anyone that could make you possibly won.
You've got wood chopping, showbags, ride.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
You haven'ty mentioned you haven't. He mentioned the cows.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
There's cows.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
If you want to see some of the best dad
clouds in the We love cows.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
They lose their money. Cows and lambs and goats. You're right, lambs.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yep, yes, your kids would love it, would nay, Alix.

Speaker 7 (11:17):
Oh, we used to take our kids all the time.
They absolutely adore the Royal Easter Show.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
And as you say, real, it's an institution. You do
whatever in Eastern So wonderful, wonderful weekend, well two weeks.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Really. We have a family pass to go to the
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Speaker 5 (11:35):
That's an insane amount of struck.

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We'll put you up for the night as well. And
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(11:56):
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Speaker 1 (12:18):
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spending money six hundred dollars accommodation Goodlett Sydney Royal Easter Show.
It's gonna be to the next five minutes. It can
be any time between now and nine a m. Christian,

(12:38):
and I'm ready to try and call and hear the
Golden Lamb. Give it next four five minutes, not far off.
That's some jasmine good luck. Often when you're busy any
texting the show, you know typos are going to happen, happen. Right,
we're asking you what are you doing this weekend? What's
the bright side of your weekend? Someone's off to see
war birds. Now I've just googled. It's not movie war birds.

(13:00):
Do you think they mean war plans?

Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's what I would have said.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Is it the International Air show of this weekend? On?
Is it Avalon?

Speaker 7 (13:06):
No?

Speaker 8 (13:06):
Not No, that's usually at the start.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
Of the year.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is it war birds? They're going to see warbirds?

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, vintage military aircraft.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
It could be tomorrow. Reading on your said, wells, yeah, Michelle,
we're gonna need more details. Christian. On a completely unrelated,
unrelated side note, and nothing on this show. There are
no tangents. It's all unrelated. You inspired me the other
day to look up a recipe for proprikash, the Hungarian
chicken dish that Phil listen to Sydney. How'd you get
on with it? Let me know, I had to freeze

(13:36):
mine because I made it. But then my wife was
I had root canal surgery and she didn't want it.
Wasn't really up for Hungarian proprikish dish?

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Sure, I mean, you know who does?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
After I think quite at lengthy root canal procedures she
didn't want. She didn't share mine tonight in a spicy
proprika dish.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
The doctors don't normally say that. Make sure you have
up kish yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yes, yes, but Phil glad to try it out. Christian.
This weekend we were going away and we have a
very very very very very long lunch from my cousin's
fiftieth looking forward to him. That's Peter, good luck. Don't
forget you're listening out for that golden lamb today. Today's
hidden Easter Egg at any moment, three minutes time, three
minutes time.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
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Speaker 1 (14:19):
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You can grab your early bird tickets and save at

(14:41):
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(15:05):
of the call thirteen fifty five twenty two because wherever
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and they're only going to get flights in accommodation if
you're not listening to us in Sydney. They're also throwing
six hundred dollars on a MasterCard for spending money right

(15:26):
now with the cost of fuel and it's the cost
of living. This is the ultimate family pride. Who do
we have on online right now? Sherry? Good morning Money,
How are you? I'm good, Sherry, So tell me about
the family.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I'd be taking two of my granddaughters and my husband. Yeah,
I would love it, just because I never get anywhere much,
because you know, the cost of living is just so
expensive right now.

Speaker 9 (15:49):
It's awful, especially few.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I saw two guys almost getting into an altercation yesterday
at the Bowser. Yeah. One guy was doing something really bad.
He was filling up a he's fed up his car.
Then he got out to Jerry can start filling that
out for his lawn mower.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
What is that bad?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Why don't know? Is being generous at that moment, but
it's leaders We're going to share it anyway. Anyway. Anyway, Sherry,
how old are the grandkids? You don't sound old enough
to be a nana? Sherry.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I've got nine grandchildren, actually nine, yes, so the two
grandchildren might be taking with me at ten and twelve.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
How are you going to picture just two? You're going
to do a competition. You can need your own East
Egg hunt with the tickets because I.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Live with these two. So yeah, it'll be not just
to take them out.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
I just keep it, just keep it quiet from the
other seven y.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
No, no, no, we haven't done anything recently. Those wait,
are those show bags? It's not a couple of years
ago there, those old things. Now? Yeah, all right, Sherry,
you are today's winner. You get a family pass. You're
off to the Raw Easter Show. You and the grandkids,
two of them will have an amazing time.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh, thank you so much, Gold, I really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's fantastic pleasure. I hope you will have a fantastic
time as well. Sherry, have a lovely weekend.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
You too, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Col all right, grab you early bird tickets and save
at the Easter Show dot com. Toda you more chances
Monday morning when there been new secret Easter egg on.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
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Speaker 1 (17:25):
Christian more recipe do you? Sir? The propeekish We've got
some chicken in the fridge. Fancy doing something different with
it over the weekend, Kylie Smith, I'll email you a link.
Please don't share it with anyone. Christian, you were kind
of right with the air show. The air Show. We're
going to see you to see those war words wanaka
New Zealand beautiful, beautiful place when they for the first

(17:45):
time in January with the kids when we were in
New Zealand. They is stunning, all right. Every Friday on
the show we share our recommendations and we hope you
do as well. Anything that you're reading, watching streaming apps
and he hacks you're into at the moment, we call
it double thumbs up. Real what have you enjoyed this week?

Speaker 5 (18:02):
I'm bloody loving Deadlock season two.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
I'm not sure have you guys watched it any of
the Deadlock season, You gotta watch it. It is an
aussy crime drama slash dark comedy.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
It is so funny.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
It is one of the most unapologetically, unapologetically bogan ossy
shows you'll ever see, but sort of twisted in with
this brilliant element of like a who done it?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah? The team love it. The Chuckle sisters love that show.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
It's so funny. It's got a Hemsworth in it. Not Chris,
not Liam, not Liam, the other one.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Fella. It's he's a good actor.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
He's really funny.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
We we we worship all the family of Pemes.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's good to see him getting some some screen time
as well.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Do you think that the constigation could believe that he
got the Chris Hemmersworth so cheap? And the first John
Sell went, wait, that's not Liam, that's what you're paying
You want to pull the big one on the other one.
Is it good? Second season?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
It's so good that watch the first season. Definitely at
set in Tasmania. Second season setting down, it's so funny,
like you have huge because the.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Two leads wrote as well, didn't they?

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
The two Kates, two.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Cakes the two Kates aren't in it. I don't believe,
but they are brilliant. They've done a lot of really
funny ABC work before, and it is just there's no
other AUSSI show like it.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
It's really really good.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
By the way, what happened? You only plug your sister's
TV show once?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Just keep doing it well you can.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
It is shocking. He did a quick nudge, a quick
sort drive by plugged a couple of weeks ago. We've
never heard of it since five minutes about some murder
mystery thing Australian dark compedy. Your sister makes her own
TV show? How hard is it to get your own
TV show? Your brother's on the radio, who says nothing?
He had more this hour? You've had more to do?

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What your gutters? You are putting that ladder up? You
know on the other lead, the talentedly I get it.
You're worried she's got it's the other least is TV.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Tonight at the Museum, hosted by the brilliant Alex Lee
eight a m. Wednesdays, very very funny, New Fresh.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Eight am eight pm. Say what comedy show it's on
eight am?

Speaker 5 (20:23):
We watch it? I did, Thank you, Thank you very much.
I'm up today.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
It's on you know what, Let's do a quiz Monday,
pats he's seen a second of this.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
I welcome that.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
All right when I'll be watching it all this weekend
making notes and questions. Is this happening Monday for you,
buddy boy? So once more? It's on at eight.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Pm tonight at the Museum eight pm Wednesdays, or you
could watch it right now on ABC I.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
View well, listen to the show What about Patsy's News?
And you are all over the place, all over the place.
That's number's gone to your head. Double thumbs up. Two
recommendations for me. First one is a movie my wife
and I finally got around to seeing. It was nominated
for Oscars. It's on Netflix. It's called Train Dreams. I
have not seen a movie as beautiful and as moving

(21:10):
as that. How Joel Editing didn't win an Oscar for
what at best thing he's ever done. And he is
an incredible Australian act to such a talent, he is amazing.
It is a beautiful movie, right you know? Sometimes you
see you finally says, saying they don't make movies like
that very often. They don't. It feels like a movie
from a different time. It's is so beautifully done. Everything

(21:31):
about it. It's a it's a deeply moving and thinking
film about life, and it's so good. The ending is beautiful.
My wife and I were in tears at the end
of it. Not not heavy tears, but just joy's tears
about what it is to live a life and everything
you'll go through together is Oh my god. I cannot
recommend Train Dreams enough. It's one of this because often

(21:51):
these days now, when we're streaming movies at home, it's
so much easier. But because easy, you don't engage with
it the same way you do at the cinema. You know,
at the moment, Ryan Gosney is saying, go and see
his new movie at the cinema. And it's not our
jobs to save cinema. It's movie makers need to make
better movies, you know. And actually, when we're streaming at home,
you have your you're half watching it, aren't you. You've

(22:13):
got your phone, you check it so let you see
what the footy scores are. I noticed that within twenty
minutes my wife and I didn't touch our phones. Wow,
where you are just you're you're compelled you're drawn into
this beautiful movie. It is so good. Can I recommend
that enough? You won't be disappointed. You'll be emailing me
over the weekend. If you watch it, you will have
a lot to say about it. It's beautiful. Train Dreams

(22:34):
is the name of the movie. It's on Netflix. And
the other thing, which is a bat for a second
season that is TV is TV. That's a work of art.
It's a hidden camera show called Jury Duty two second season.
I did not know that second season is so. It's
a hidden camera show. It's all improvactors and there's one
member of the public who doesn't know he's the unwitting

(22:56):
star of a hidden camera show. They're on a company retreat,
right and cast it really well. Is that he's such
a lovely, likable guy and they're all improvactors.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Credible.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
The first season was one of them better than that.
Groundbreaking pieces of TV I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, yeah, Jury Duty is called It's on Amazon Prime.
The second season is outstanding. You don't need to have
seen the first one. It is so funny. It's it's genius.
I don't know how they do it. It's incredible. It's
called company retreat. Jury Duty two. All right, we've got
the news spot on the way. What are you enjoying
at the moment? Text me oh four seven five three
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Morning to Glenn Weber. Christian, I'm enjoying the reboot Scrubs.
Me too. It's the show we need right now Christian.
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That's all right, pleasure. Now have you seen Robbie before? Never,
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Always despread to see him.

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I'm my best friend, Louise.

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All right, okay, so girls night out, Girl's night out. Yeah,
you're going to have the best time. He is incredible live,
so many great songs as well. Kylie, well done. Have
a lovely weekend. Thanks for the show. What that's all right?
Oh god, no, we're going well on Kylie. All right.
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Speaker 3 (26:20):
Good luck The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
One of this team has betrayed me. There is a
Judas on this team. Hmmmm. I have been very, very
lucky to have a hiding place here at the radio station.
Only the Inner Inner Inner team know where it is
and their respect the one I'm there in hiding. No

(26:48):
one's to know where I am.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
I'm going to take it to my grave that spot.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I appreciate that. It's a shame that somebody else on
this team didn't do that has blurted out to the
new boss.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
We have no carrying up to the boss.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yep. Yeah, Particier Caitlin Judas I heard yesterday I had
had a dinner with our new management team yesterday, and
they now know about my secret hiding spot because you
blurted it out to one of them.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh do you mean in the radio station?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, well, else I would have a hid spot. Sorry, sorry,
somewhere in the city. No, I didn't know. It sound
as dodgy as anything. We don't talk about that one,
that that rent, that massive.

Speaker 7 (27:35):
What you're doing.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, you blurted it out. I thought you had my back.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
I do no, no, no, no no, but you know
the bosses, and they came over to me and then you,
and I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Make a tough badass. You do not cower other people
cower at you. You're a bogan. You could fight anyone
and win.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
I apologize.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
They now know, they know I've learnt my lesson.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
It's too late, it's too late.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm going to have to fight.

Speaker 11 (28:07):
You.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Tell you what. The only way you would seem yourself
now is to find a new hiding place. No, no, no, no,
you need to. You need to build a somewhere in
this radio station, another hiding place for me.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
There is space underneath.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Say too much I need And also i'd imagine that
people listening right now who've probably got hiding space at work.
I think I think it's successful career involves having some
kind of hiding space somewhere at work. If you've got one, Alex,
if you've got one at Channel seven, I do.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
It's labeled a quiet room, but I'm going to call
it Alex's room because I always go there and no
one knows where it is, and no one knows can
see me in this and there's a wall that kind
of hides where I am.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah. Sometimes I lie on the floor of my old
hiding space. Yeah, yeah, just lie on the floor. No,
it's not for me. It's incredible. Have it snow angels now,
I can't do that. Car'tpt angels anyway. Let me tell
you about Operation Meat Trade. Now. I can't go into

(29:10):
too many details, but you don't need to be some
kind of radio industry expert to know that. Right now,
in Australian radio it is crazy scenes, wild scenes. You
know that I'm show I'm talking about. We're on there
for a long time, fall out, legal cases. I can

(29:31):
say no more. But what does it mean for this show?
And what does it mean for you? More importantly, it
means breakfast show wars are fully on and it's all
centering around the new listeners that are flicking around in
Sydney as they try and find some new home to
listen to the morning after having a show for a
very long time. So we need your help because right

(29:52):
now it's a battleground as all the other shows that
are up for grabs in Sydney are all trying like
a mad real estate gram or trying to get their
grubby hands and seize the flag at number one. Our
movie is to go straight to number three. We're sitting
strong at number four. Our first ratings Scence Sydney came
out last week number four, an honorable four. It's a

(30:12):
very honorable four. It's an honest for he's very honest.
You'd trust that too, honest. Just smudge it a bit,
you know. Anyway, while we demand a recount, stop the
votes we are it's the race too, not number one
for us, but third spot. Now. The boss said, if
we get third in the rankings in Sydney, Brankfort show

(30:34):
ratings a meat tray for every single person on this team.
So I need your help. How would you describe this
show in one line? Now, we've got like marketing people
in the moment, who are coming up with all these slogans?
But I think the best people to ask really about
what you get from the show? Why do you hang
out with us every morning? Is you tell us? So
if you've got a line about what you get from
the show, how would you sell it to somebody else?

(30:56):
Flicking around at the moment trying to work out what
is the show? Please text me any slogans we use
you win a meet tray, text meh four seven five
three one four to three. Here are some of our
favorites from you guys this week.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Hi, this is Tracy. You're listening to Gold FM. Your
daily dose of vitamin ha.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Ha, she's having enough. And this is from Nathan.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
The Christian O'Connell show, like Concenter, Isle of Aldi, good different.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
The Center Like that's so good. Yeah, she always gonna
have a little peat there to see what it is,
snow chains. Sometimes you find something good too, binoculars. Christian
O'Connell Show by Concenter, Isle of Aldi, good different. Alright,
go a.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Pauline, It's the christianer'connell show with your daily dose and dolphins.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thank you gold.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Finally, culture has returned to Sydney, If.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
This is culture, what does that say about Australian breakfast radio?
If this is culture.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Gold, Finally culture has returned to Sydney.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Thank you very much. Also, this one, The Christian O'Connell Show,
is like chicken soup.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
The radio fixes everything.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Thank you so much for these keep them coming. Four seven,
five three one oh four three.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Are Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Thank you very much. Sure you're marketing slogans. How would
you sell this show to a new listener? Question? Need
another und of those binstickers. Mine is still standing strong.
I drove past my old house the other day and
they'd put their bins out and I forgot it's still
got my name on it. Uh. Thank you very much

(32:40):
to Tim his show slogan. They make you laugh. I've
even cried just don't tell to producer Kaitlin where you hide? Tim?
Very good, very good the Christian O'Connell show. Because Mercury
is in retrograde, Jennifer, it's not. We moved out of
retrograde six days ago. I don't want to start getting
into astrology on the radio. We know how that worked out.

(33:01):
A couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 11 (33:03):
Yeah, they were listening and callin and choosing the music
just when it eate somebody.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Breaking the station.

Speaker 11 (33:12):
Choy play the people's play Listen, Christian.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Calling right now?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
When help Christian dig the songs for Friday show?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Christian. The lady who played out just now about chicken
soup for the soul in your show? Is that Pauline handsome.

Speaker 12 (33:29):
The Christian O'Connor shows like chicken soup the radio everything.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Even the same cotonation.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
No, she'd like this immigrant. I'm not sure. I'm not
sure what Pauline would think about me, but that is
an uncanny spot all right. Time for the bills play list.
We do this Friday from eight. We turn the show
into a giant jukebox. You pick all the music from eight.
I give you a theme today. It's songs to do
with transport, Patsy, what are you going for?

Speaker 8 (33:59):
I've got a car, I've got a big, black, shiny car.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yeah I know. And Ossie Classic Tune.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
I loved this song when it came out, and it
wasn't till much later that I realized why I liked
it so much.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
It was written by.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Brian Adams Lue album. That's why it's so familiar. It
sounds so much like him singing it, and that's why.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
And he actually performed with Ryan in It was about
two thousand and five in his Aussie tour and they
did this song on stage, so that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
That is a cool story. That is the first one
we've had on a Friday in years. Well done, It
is years well.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
I didn't even get a chance to give my great
juicy fact last week, so.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Thank you so much, Alex. What an old timey song
are you going for? When we go to Alex, there's
always something from the turn of the set back in
the day of panhanding Christian absolutely classics. Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
My wife gave me this idea. We're sitting there going
what are we going to do here? And my Bonnie
just puts on YouTube plays an amazing film called Easy Rider,
Iconic and the Weight by the band Tune. I love
the song and he Fonda guiding off the Sunset.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Originally written by Bryan Adams when he was three years
of age, top back, that is a good song. Rio.
What are you going for? Songs to do with transportation?

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Well, I got a gear change from that. It's a
song about movement, motion, local motion.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Kylie Mino Okay one from the Zoomer Classes.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
She performed this song for.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
The first time as a cover at a local football
club charity fundraising. I love that there was a guy
from Mushroom Records watching her, saw her signed her became
the biggest selling Aussie single of the eighties.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Story pretty much she was on Neighbors before that.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
She wasn't in.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, this and listen. Do you know what.
I didn't believe any of that story. There's no way
it's true. But it doesn't matter. You don't do that.
I told you the stories we have to listen to you,
Patsy that we know not remotely true. She took your
legs that one she has spear tackled you. Wow wows

(36:36):
just took him out from the top rope.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
I grew up with that song.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
I had it on cast single.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Now we need to replay the body cam there. You
just got slammed from the top rope full care of
four eggs. God. Impressive to see though we've not seen
one of those this year, the Patsy takedown. She's been
playing nice, faint nice since we went national, but now
we saw the real Claus come out there all right

(37:05):
songs to do with transportation. This is a Friday songs
all right. Lines are up in now, songs to do
a transportation Give us a call. Thirteen fifty five twenty two.
You're picking the music from eight this morning on the
People's Playlist.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Good morning too, Emira, listening to the show today in
Brisbane and Christian. I'm a few days behind on the podcast,
so's Patsy, don't worry about it. I just heard that's
still holding out for this week's Miiths Heardler it's coming
up any minute now. He's gonna do it. I just
heard you want promo ideas, all right, Radio boss promo
ideas inside baseball knowledge for the Sydney market. I'm surprised

(37:52):
Sue the Boss. Hey, yay, you don't want you do
not criticize Sue the Boss round here.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
That's the last we hear from a mirror, and indeed.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Any of us, I've taken this long to enter the
power vacuum after Kay and Jay's demise. Emira, you might
be sitting safe up there in Brisbane, but right now
this is controversial talk. Christian Mice about a suggestion for
the billboards on every road with peak hour traffic congestion.
Now you're head of marketing. When mom and dad fight,

(38:21):
come over to the bright side. Yeah, that's very good.
Collect the bright side in the divorce to me while
I was like, it was break. Oh oh, that's clever,
and that's very very good because we call this show
the bright side of the time. Find Kane, Jay brackets,

(38:43):
kindness and joy on the bright side. Boom a mirror.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (38:48):
They were listening and calling and choosing the music and
just when hit eh, somebody pay the station chardy play the.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
People's play Listen, Christian.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Calling right now? When help?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Christian?

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Pig the songs for Friday show?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
All right, every Friday, we turn the show into a jukebox,
not pute box. That's my Friday evening. He turned it
into it, silly boy, he turned into a giant jukebox.
We give you the theme. You pick all the songs today,
all sexy. One of this song as to do with transportation. Gosh,

(39:27):
and I tried to card it's too busy. But what
about that convoy song for all the truckers. Gotta keep
that convoy going while we can, damn right, Michael, Yes, convoy.
That says, pink pen on this, here's a rubber Doug.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
We just ain't a gon to pay no toll?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
What did we crashed the gate doing ninety eight?

Speaker 5 (39:45):
I says, letting them truckers roll a ten to four.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
This has spit the show in the middle, depending what
age you are, I get it, Pat's gets Alice gets it,
Rio and some of the young and said, no idea,
not for me. It's like we're playing coda. It's like
a dog whistle. You gotta let them truckers roll.

Speaker 8 (40:04):
I think my dad had this on vinyl.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
My dad had this on finally as well. All right,
songs do transportation, So any great ones coming in jet airliner?
This screens Friday definitely playing this till the next hour.

(40:34):
He go, brilliant t J on after us every morning's
got this great song from the eighties. Gary Newman, what
about the Doobie Brothers long train running number one? Suggesting

(41:00):
at the moment is I love playing this song in
any day? It's such a brilliant up song. This a
couple of you big clash fans like me train in vain.

(41:22):
All right, let's speak to sim humanoid W are calling right?
Now do you remember Humans thirteen fifty five twenty two?
We have Sonya joins us right now. Morning, Sonya morning,
how are you guys? I'm good, Sonya, and I hope
you've had a lovely week so far. What would you
love me to play?

Speaker 12 (41:38):
Fastcast by Chacy Chapman.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
So remember when we.

Speaker 11 (41:41):
Were daving in your car to.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
City, lady, I'm not seeing among to going, Sonya?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Mister are you oldies? Sonya? Thank you very much. The
carding might be playing that. Let's go to Rebecca. Good morning, Rebecca, morning,
how are you? I'm good, Rebecca, thanks for calling the show. Now?

(42:11):
What would you love us to play? A song to
do with transportation?

Speaker 10 (42:14):
The Little Red Corvette by Prince I love that song.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Rebecca, but in songs. Thank you very much you called
the show. Have a lovely weekend, Rebecca. Thank you you too. Trina, Trina, Yes, Trina,
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Driving Wheels by Jimmy barn O.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Good one. I don't know this in ages very appropriate
to me today. Why I'm driving to Bandzale from Melbourne
on wheels on wheels.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
In my car?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Wow, it's Rob Zecond is written by it for you?

Speaker 5 (43:06):
What are the odds.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
I know what train a great song. Have a lovely
weekend you do, Thanks you, mate, Gretchen. Good morning birds,
Shine up Bud's cage or something. Gretchen.

Speaker 12 (43:24):
Oh hi, you said, trainer, and I'm Gretchen.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
That's right, and and you out for walk right now?
It sounds like I can hear some sound birds.

Speaker 12 (43:33):
I am, but now I'm under shelter because it was
extremely windy.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Oh please be safe, always be safe in the No, no, no.

Speaker 12 (43:42):
It's just that that's really annoying.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Away then arouse you still sheltered? I am my love. Okay,
Now what do you want me to play for you?
And that shelter? My love?

Speaker 12 (44:00):
May I please have Big Yellow Taxi and I'll have
the Counting Crows version, even though I love Johnny Mitchell.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
You go, that's you, Dona.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
It is a great cover to.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Let's go on to be very nice.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
But I'm far in love bringing song, Gretchen. Thank you
very much for corning in. Have a lovely weekend you too, bye, Thanks,
thank you. Let's got a Debbie right now. Good morning Debs,
Good morning Christian.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I'm good, Debbian? How are you? How's your week gone? Oh?

Speaker 10 (44:31):
My week's gooling really good.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I've been playing pickleball and lawn ball by.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, verymasy awesome. And what song can we play?

Speaker 12 (44:41):
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I was listening to all these songs thinking, what's the
one we kick off a whole hour with? If you've
just found it, we will begin the next hour of
power on the People's Playliss Weird Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run, Debbie,
I'm playing it next. Oh, thank you, my pleasure to
have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Christian Connors Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yesterday we opened up the doors on our We call
it the last Video store on Earth. This studio has
over five hundred DVDs that have been generously donated since
last Friday. And I was recommending a war movie to
a nine year old boy. Actually, on reflection, not the
right recommendation actually, but look, it's been a while since

(45:32):
the last video store on Earth has opened to the public,
so you know, we're still working on our recommendations. However, yes,
on the show, we was talking about this very famous
story in the Second World War about the Siege of
the Brook and a couple of you actually emailed the show,
and then Alex Alex was telling us about a link
in his family to this very very famous story which

(45:55):
saw the birth of the desert Rats, who are what
the Sas were originally known as. In the siege or
to Brook, your family were involved.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Yeah, so Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Moore said, is my
grant uncle he commanded to Brook. He led the Ninth
Division at Ta Brook and later at El La Main.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
And that is incredible.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it. And I'll send you that
photo of him and Winston Winston Churchill. Winston's got his
It couldn't be anymore. Winston Churchill, the great commander. He's
got cigar there, and what a photo.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
He's also effectually got his left hand on your great
uncle's shoulder.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
So Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield, so
he went, that's a photo from Cairo.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
That's incredible. What snapshot of history for your family.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
It's crazy, isn't it. Yeah, it's up at the Australian
War Memorial that that particular photo.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, your great uncle. Then I can see as well.
Obviously I'm looking at all his his rankings as well,
so he must have been he must have done a
lot of acts services on the wall.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Very decorated. Yeah, he's captain at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yeah,
and there's a very famous photo of him at Lone
Pine and he's looking up onto the trench and there's
just littered with bodies, a really really movie kind of
sad photo and it's him there just looking up. And
then the one I sent you, the one with Churchill.
But yeah, he retired in Sydney and born in regionald Victoria.

(47:18):
Was a schoolteacher originally and then and joined the army
and went over to.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
How old was he when he joined the army? Was
just young. My granddad fought the Sequine War. He was sixteen,
he lied about his age, was actually fourteen.

Speaker 7 (47:28):
Wow, he was in his early twenties and became a captain.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Of twenty five. Yeah, there were just young guys, so so.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
Young, and yeah, retired in Sydney and yeah, pastor.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Your family must be so proud, very proud. Yes, Yeah,
such a great photo as well though. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
My mum's maiden name Moore said, and just there's photos
of him everywhere at well, my grandparents' house and you're
very proud of him.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Now, all we want to talk about now is fame
in the family. You go through your family tree. These days,
with ancestry and DNA testing, you can uncover so much
about your family. Often when we start talking about fame
in the family, there's a smell that comes in the
studio of BS and I can see Rio is prime
with a story that is a little bit of beer.
If the man who invented the jeff come on, a

(48:14):
man who took down Rommel and you're going to drop
the drefful maker.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Very decorated ancestors. My grandfather, doctor Ernest Smithers, invented.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Exactly Patch is right, she's calling it out if he's
gonna lie. He had that best mate, Homer Simpson.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
It was his name from the Simpsons existences. Doctor Ernest Smithers,
look it up, invented the jaffle maker. The trademark is
in his name. He invented it. So every time you
have a toasty you crunch into a delicious ham cheese
and tomato number, think, thank you, Rio and thank you,

(48:58):
You're welcome.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
You're all well.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Surely though, you should be sting the family dynasty. Now, No,
he was.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Actually he was a bit of a rogue operator.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
He had a number of inventions and would just invent
them and then sell the trademark straight away.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
My parents, actually my mum was actually quite poor.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
They He invented a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Invented the true sliced bread knife, which was a top
selling bread knife back in the day.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
We had Foreman just painting in different things.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Yes, also the surfer plane, which only our older listeners
would know. But it was the original boogie board, the
Aussie original boogie board. Is that an inflatable while?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
But yes, that is incredible.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
The only thing we've got to our name from him
is a lawn bowls green in his name at Sussex
Inlet on the Sydney South Coast.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
So he invented the jafful yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:42):
The jaffle maker, yeah, and it wasn't a thing.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
And then he came up with that yeah. And then
he goes, how I want to sue you should be
like your family should be like a billionaire dynasty. No,
I no, no, we're not on the Foreman grilling machine. Yes,
the original. You shouldn't be here.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
I know, I know he was. He was a strange unit.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
My mum tells me, all right, then what have you
got fame in your family, give us called thirteen fifty
five twenty two. I'm worried now that if I'm a
listening to this, I'm not calling in, you know, because
your stories are incredible.

Speaker 14 (50:12):
He's fighting in the war. Callippoi Alamin, You're watch know this.
But they did something significant? You know what are they
going to call in with now?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I think there's Christian my name killed Hitlers straight on
ter straight on thirteen fifty five twenty two. Shoot your shot.
I don't know what calls we're going to get now.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Christian, I'm too shy to talking the radio. But our
family claim to fame. It's that a couple of my
ancestors were convicted for plotting to kill the Prime Minister
of England. It's there's a whole book about them called
the Plot to Kill Lloyd George. Lloyd George was Prime minist.
I think Jore on the First World War. That must
mean Allison, that your family must be the Wilderns. O Christian.

(51:04):
My great great grand Auntie head ed Kelly. Here we go.
I wonder when the old Ned Kelly's We're going to
start a little bit later than I thought, yeah, it's
about twenty two links to Ned Kelly, imagine in the
last three minutes and fed him for a period of time. Sure, okay,

(51:26):
what are those us? All right? That's going to Rob
here now Rob, good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (51:31):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 11 (51:32):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (51:32):
I'm good, Rob, Thanks you Goring so fame in the family.
What's it for you? Rob?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Ah?

Speaker 9 (51:37):
The two people that started chibis regal whiskey my first cousins.
Four times removed, so I think it's too.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I think it was two brothers, James and John Chivers.
That's it.

Speaker 9 (51:47):
Yes, wow, my first cousins.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
And have you been over there? You've been to Scotland?

Speaker 9 (51:54):
I certainly have going again in there about four weeks.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Oh my god, yeah hope. Anyway, Yeah, it's a beautiful
part of Scotland as well, isn't it right?

Speaker 9 (52:03):
That's gorgeously, absolutely gorgeous. And when I went to the
Estual Distillery and they treated us like and they just
kipped feeding the whiskey out of the twenty five year old,
and my.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Wonder you're going back. He's back. We've only just refilled
the barrels. Have a safe trip out there, and enjoyed
lovely story as well. Thanks you calling Rob Fenn. Good morning, Fenn,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (52:31):
Gooday, Christian, Happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Happy Friday, Fenn. So fam in your family? What's the story.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
We did some deep diving on my mom's side and
found out Nick Cave is my fourth cousin.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
That's a good one. Patsy went to school with him
as well. There you go. Yeah, that's awesome. He was
nominated for an OSCAR this year for one of his
songs for Frank and starting. I think, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, Fenn,
thank you the one. Fenn, thank you very much to
give us a call. Mate, have a nice weekeame, thank you.

Speaker 10 (53:00):
Eys have a good one.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Is this the Dick Van Date one? In radio they
always say end if you can end with the Dick
Van date, and we are for filling that grace. Good morning,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
How are you.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I'm good. I am very very excited. He's still alive.
Dick Van Dyke is over. I think he's one hundred.

Speaker 10 (53:17):
Now, yeah, I think he is.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
I think he's in one hundred's in that complain video.
Not aware, not aware he's in your family. I seem
to know more about It's even in my family. So
tell us about Dick Vandyke.

Speaker 10 (53:32):
My grandfather was a dancer in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
against beside him.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Oh wow, wow, Bang.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
Bang bang pretty jitty bang bang jittyjity Bank.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
So when did you find this out? Is it a
story that's been in your family for years since you
were a kid, or recent thing.

Speaker 10 (53:50):
The first time we watched it is as children. Every
time I watch it, my MoMA goes, dais your grandfather?
DA's your grandfather? Did you know your grandfather was in
Chitty Chitty Bang Bank. What a great flav she tells
everyone when they watch it.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yeah, that's brilliant. I love that grace. Thank you very much.
You give us a call. Have a nice weekend.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
No you too, Christian Color Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
We will come back to this Monday. Fame in the family, Christian.
My dad's cousin played in the World Cup final for
the Netherlands.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
What is huge.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Their names are Willy and Rene vander Kirkhoff. I think
they actually made two World Cup finals seventy four and
seventy eight. I think Willy van der Kerkhoff was a midfielder,
incredible player as well. Christian Sandier only made it to
the local team in my career. Rico vander Kirkoff May
which there was a separate phone in. It's skipped a generation.

(54:45):
Christian although we had never met, Ian Moss and I
are third cousins. Dad and Ian's dad, our blood cousins,
went to the same school together in Perth. Christian my
omer used to play with Dick van Dyke when they
were children in Holland. Next week on the show just
Dick van dok stories in ten minutes that too. Can

(55:09):
we keep this street going as the kids? So?

Speaker 5 (55:11):
Should we keep the streak?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
No? We can come on next week on the Christian
O'Connell show, Dick van Dyke Week, the generation of Dick
van Dyke Christ And I'm also too shy to talk
on the radio, but I'm a distant relative of Adam Gilchrist. Wow, okay,
it's incredible all right. Time for today's time waste. It

(55:35):
is World Optimist Day. We're looking for your optimistic movies
up for grabs of the winner. Why not be optimistic?
Maybe you could be winning this grand prize Gold class
group passed for you and three mates. Optimistic movies. That's
our famous saying is and then the glass half full
or half empty, half empty or half full metal jacket
depends which way you see it. Silver, the imminently ending

(56:00):
story She's lost their glasses again, Steaks on a plane,
delicious minute, Steak so much better, Silver All Day, Breakfast
at Tiffany's.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
At four please, and Silver plus.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
What have you got? Optimistic movies?

Speaker 5 (56:23):
Jeez, don't look up?

Speaker 4 (56:24):
Was very pessimistic about climate change. Don't things are looking up.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm gonna be optimistic and give it bombs.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
Ice Cuban Cuban Cooding Junior are feeling good?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Wow, what a setup.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
They're buoyant in the hood. Yes, yes, Gold, don't Colleone's
feeling chipper. Yeah, he's the good Father.

Speaker 7 (56:51):
Yeah lovely, Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Silver Up was a bit of a down at the
start of that movie. The yeah yeah not Now it's upbeat.
And Daniel Craig he's an optimistic guy. He's a detective
in glass huff full onion.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Ah, okay, Silver, all right? What have you got then?
Optimistic movies? Text me yours O four seventy five three
one oh four three and date for diary next week.
It's Deeck van Dyke Week on the Show.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Thank you very much, Chevon. Who's sending their time? Is?
It is a bumper edition? Rio? Are you ready to Mark?

Speaker 5 (57:33):
I'm ready and I think they're gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Oh that's so so so so happy Gilmore, so so
so happy Gilmore optimism Heimer.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
Oh that's very good.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
An Amanda home alone and loving it. I love the
simplicity of that one. What Rachel Brown raging bullish.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Silver plus Every.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Clown has a silver lining playbook?

Speaker 5 (58:08):
Will Silver.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Pirates of the Sanguine? Oh okay, yes, no, that's a
good choice of work. It's a great choice of It
is silver, Mission possible.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Elegant, perfect, Gold plus.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
One and Corey one hundred sure Shank redemption.

Speaker 7 (58:28):
You gotta be.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Good will hunting cheap fuel? Oh, topical.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Goal?

Speaker 1 (58:40):
What on Glenn? Throw Mama from the train. She might
land softly in a haybell.

Speaker 5 (58:45):
It's a very optimistic way, it is.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Yeah, well done, Steve. I love that Adian loves Predator,
not versus no Predature. Where you heard that from? Love Predator?
The hills have googly eyes?

Speaker 12 (59:02):
Laugh?

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Gold plus as well, Why on.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Sharon, if I had legs, I'd kiss you silver, go
Lisen the Optimist. That's a bra cheerful metal jacket silver.
When Harry manifested Sally, that is so good. It is that,
Joshua Kavana, well done and last one today for optimistic movies.
But I caught down, but I get up again. You're

(59:27):
never gonna keep me down. I get no doubt altogether.
Now that's the winner, isn't it. Nathan right the buzzer
beach are there? Just texted that and just now Nathan,
well done. Well guys, I'm not going to sleep this weekend.
You know what, because when we come back six am
Monday morning, you're.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Gonna say pump Man.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Pumpman's here. But also so is Dick Van Dyke Stories.
It's Dick van Dyke week. And the shame is we're
not here. Good Friday. It's only four days to get
wall to wall cool, Colt non start Van Dyke, Dick
Van Dyke Stories, Dick Van Dyke, it is Dick Vandy
Week on the show next week. I for one cannot wait.

(01:00:13):
Why are you trying to silence the great man.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
I'm not trying to start. That's just that's that's why.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
I producer Caitlan just came in and it often gets
confused about you know what's being said on it? When
do you want me to try and get him for
guests on the show? And he's one hundred he share
a one hundred year olds on the Graham Norton Show.
Yanker that big red chair. They're out of it. He
was in the Conboy video show, but he was shuffling
and dancing with his lovely twinkly eyes. He's not he's

(01:00:39):
not yacking it up with Chris Martin.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
It'll be your greatest challenge yet. Imagine if you got
I don't want any challenge.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
You know what enough bloody challenges this year? Rio, I
could deal with free wheeling for the rest this year,
and what challenges Dick Vandy Week begins nice and early
Monday morning, six a m. Now you're probably think, Christian,
I've got loads of deep Van Dyke stories. How do
I drop them into your inbox over the weekend? Email me?
Email me Christian at Christian O'Connor dot com dot au.

(01:01:08):
All right, sweep state team? How many in four shows?
Twelve so twelve hours next week? How many quality? Quality
Dick Van Dyke? This is why do we do it?
As a bit. He's one of the greatest entertainers ever.
You know, before there was Hugh jack Man, there was
Dick Van Dyke.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
If we get two quality stories, I'll be over.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Them, very happy with that. Perhaps, what are you going for?

Speaker 8 (01:01:35):
I'm going to go a dozen.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
Dozen yep, twelve, absolutely three show three shows, three a night, Alex,
what do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Help me?

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
Eight high eight high seven?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Right? Yeah, I'm going to go with.

Speaker 8 (01:01:50):
One like you under estimate our listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Yet to encourage them. I don't. I don't want people
thinking I've got a great one. But there's probably gonna
be so many people calling in. He won't need it.
We need your Dick Van Dyke stories. Just imagine what
we're going to feel like. Some of the lines are
lit up and there's ten, there's ten, Well, just go
bang bang bang bait. Wait he did this, that guy.

(01:02:15):
I've got the production ready. I don't know how many
of us are going to sleep now to get to
the next two days. I wish Monday was here tomorrow.
The first thing you're going to hear when we begin
the show morning, How dare you a man tired of
Dick Van Dyke is a man tired of life.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
You didn't won the show, then, no love.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Best way, the best way to keep him alive is
with his with stories about the great man's work. At
tribute we had you might be when you listen to
the show. But we met a fantastic lady a couple
of years ago. Do remember we helped celebrate her one
hundred brother, Eileen Gold, Irene Gold, Irene Gold was a
joy and what wasn't the joys? You turned up in
a limo to take her out for the day and

(01:03:00):
you popped out that limo and drop the kids off
at the pool and made an elderly lady with frel
bones break up the damage lady. Okay, no, no, she
had to go and get a ship. Does a number
two and I one hundred year old ladies?

Speaker 13 (01:03:18):
Lou Anyway, see you Monday, friends, Get ready for the
next fan night week only on the Christian O'Connell Show.

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