FULL: Rainbows Through The Speakers

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Got anything good?

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

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay, good morning Rio, Happy Friday, Good morning Patsy, Happy Friday, and.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Happy Friday to Alex Cullen.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Good boding.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Everyone looking forward to this weekend.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Oh yeah, it's going to be beautiful, is it?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Is it going to beautiful?

Speaker 5 (00:38):
I believe?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, just say it is. Believe.

Speaker 6 (00:40):
It is Sunday sunshine, Liten.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Whatever told you about keeping it right?

Speaker 6 (00:44):
Sunshine?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
What about Saturday sun Fine?

Speaker 6 (00:47):
But hey, it's going to be sunny on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh we'll always have Sunday, guys, we will always have Sunday.
All right, let's get into double thumbs up. We go
around the team, we talk about the things we're enjoying
at the moment. Could be a TV show, a book,
or whatever. Craziness pats has found down the back of
an alleyway somewhere at kmart to do with the Ancho Corporation.
For me, Jason Mammo, a big TV show, Chief of War.

(01:11):
This is my kind of show, you know how much.
I love shogun. Right, this is four warring kingdoms, Jason Momoa.
It's setting US seventeen hundreds. Actually, I don't know how
loosely or tightly based on what happened to Hawaii before
colonization right aka the Americans, And so Jason Momoa is

(01:33):
a chief. He's got to bring and unite for warring
nations together, islands together to take on the encroaching Westerners.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
That sounds like it was made in a lab of
Christian O'Connell.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well it is.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's got my name, Rio, it's got better. But I'm
really really enjoying. It's beautifully shocked, very good. Apart from
a big Jason Momoa, it's a pretty much unknown cast.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's very very good. It's really good. Now.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's also made for how can I say this, women
of a certain age, I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Looking at you.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm looking at my wife, she's not here, but I'm
looking at both of you because Jason Momoa is dressed
as they would have done in the You've seen it,
Rio seventeen hundreds. Hello, every three minutes, you see the
best ass.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Wow, scantily class say, this is a happily married man
but you've got to give it up when you see
it that. You know, yesterday we were talking about peaches.
Those cheeks are a ripis. I don't know rio you're
you're a gym guy. I don't know how he it's
like biceps. I've never seen such a strong, firm buttocks

(02:40):
in my life on a man. Every three minutes he's
running around and obviously would do you know he's dressed
like they would have done in Hawaiian as seventeen hundred
as a loin cloth and it's it's all asses because
it's not just his ass out. All of his fellow
tribes mates are but Chase and Mum. I mean, he's
a big ripped dude anyway, but that backside, it.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Is one of the most muscular backsides I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know how. You know those men's health magazines
where they go like.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Guns like Dwayne the Rock John, I want to know
the glute workout to get buns, some guns bottom wheds.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, I don't know what he's doing. Curls with his ass.
I want to see what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Chase at Mamoa, Wow, we want those buns now.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's not just squat.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
There's a scene where he dived in the ocean Oka
and my god, I actually rewound it.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
My wife went, what are you doing? I went, actually
just went, how did you get?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Did you get like slow moded?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just take that screenshot, take that to the gym and
go to the big guys. Get it like that genetics.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
He doesn't use dumb bills. He uses bumbill.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
He was sounding something there. He's crushing walnuts with those cheeks. Honestly. Anyway,
the show is called Chief of What. You can find
it on Apple TV. We're going to take a break.
When we come back, we'll find out what Patsy's double
thumbs up.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Is to O'Connell show go on podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
We're doing double thumbs up. Let's go to Patsy. What's
it for you?

Speaker 7 (04:15):
This week just happened across when we watched The Voice
on Sunday night as a family.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
We love that show.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
After it, they had Boys, Own Life, Death and boy
Bands on You can now watch it on seven plus
and it was a story of Boys oone. It's three
part series, absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's incredible because it was on the UK a couple
of months ago and I saw the review saying it's
very moving because it's quite story.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
It really is.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
It tells their life story and the struggle with the
anonymity and you know, becoming famous, and how Ronan Keating
nearly was booted out of the group very early on
because it was a quote one of the managers or
something said, oh, you've got to get rid of the
blonde guy.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
He can't sing, and yet here he is the most
successful of the.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Loss at a point. But yeah, I mean, then stop him.
And actually he's encouragement to any of Ronan's a multimillionaire.
We're not a great voice. It's a lovely, lovely guy.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
And it's so likable on the voice.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, it's brilliant's been on this show a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I've known run for years. He's a lovely, lovely guy.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
It's just so likable on that show and just takes
them in and encourages them and backs them.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
So you'll love it.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
It's a three part series that surprised me. I was
really really loving it. The other thing I brought to
Double Thumbs a number of months ago, how we get
our coffee beans at Aldi, the Larzio coffee beans.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's yo yeah, other people were saying much they love them.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah, so cheap because you know all the other big
supermarkets you'll pay thirty forty fifty bucks for a bag
of beans.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Crazy.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
These are about I think fifteen sixteen bucks. Well, now
the world agrees with me.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
They have been voted the litigation. Wait the world, yes,
eight billion people.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Yes, they've won Australia's best coffee at the world's largest
coffee roasting.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
News for them and green news for your pocket.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Great and also great news locally because they're roasted by
a Melbourne based company, Black Bag Roasters. So if you
are into your coffee, you're looking for cheaper beans, but
not forgoing quality.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
I'm not getting paid for this. By the way, go
to Ali.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Sound disappointed, Why not chuck us some magic money beans. Hey,
come around the cough up.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
It is great coffee and the world says so. So
there you go.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's a the world at first double thumbs up from
the world.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
All right, let's second break.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
We're back on gold one oh four point three with
the Alex and Rio's double thumbs up. And please send
us your recommendations. What's good at the moment?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
What are you enjoying the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
We're doing double thumbs up. We do this every Friday.
We go around the team and we share what we're
into at the moment. Rhea, what are you enjoying?

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I'm currently on a mission to try and lower my
screen time on Instagram and TikTok because getting out of hand.
I don't know if you guys find it the same.
You just somehow waste away all these minutes, and you
I just feel dirty up minutes you do.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You're right?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Actually, then suddenly when those forty five minutes has gone
really quickly, do you feel.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
That is a sting of shame?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes, you're a friend of mine does now he uses Instagram.
What he does if he wants to post something, he
has to download the app again, And it's such a
fath right and to inconvenience himself, it's cutting down his usage.
So he wants to look at it, he has to
download the app and then use it and then delete
it and download it again. He's half to just by
doing that, he's half his usage.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, that's a good one. I've actually found. I guess
the nicotine patch equivalent of that. It's a website called wiktok,
and I've replaced it as my Instagram addiction, and it's
formatted exactly the same as TikTok. You just keep swiping down.
But it's interesting Wikipedia articles and just like the most
interesting parts from it, So you just keep swiping down,
swiping down.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Halfway house.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
That's really good.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's low alcohol beer, yes.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Exactly, exactly. So the one I was reading was the
nineteen oh fourth Summer Olympics about the men's marathon, where
this is a crazy, crazy, crazy marathon. The first place
winner took a cab during the race for ten miles,
and the second place winner took a mixture of brandy
and rat poison by accident and was carried over the

(08:18):
finish line by his countrymen who were running like moving
his legs as though he was running like a weekend
get burnished, and then the finished. The third place runner
was a random Cuban guy who arrived last minute wearing
street clothes because he lost all his money gambling.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
A lot of people, we now go remind them of
the name. Real what's that?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's called wiktok, wiktok, great idea. It's awesome, all right,
Alex aw slighting you up.

Speaker 8 (08:42):
Well, you're talking about Instagram there and trying to lessen
your time on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I'm on to.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
Instagram talking about this very site, to this very page
called twentieth Century Melbourne and oz History. And like, I've
never lived in Melbourne, obviously, I'm a newcomer, as is
my family and my wife and three young children. So
I want to kind of get a sense of this
wonderful city and the history as well. And so someone's
put up all these videos and photos of yesteryear in Melbourne.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
So twentieth century it's in the name.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
And I've been I was just watching last night this
amazing story. Someone's put up a news story about Collingwood
fans at Victoria Park in nineteen ninety one. They're standing
in front of the Adelaide Crows fans just screaming obscenities
at them, shouting the Collingwood song.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Careful they use that as part of that defense. Now
it's not just Snoop Dogg. They're rewind to that.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
No, but like Rabbit Collingwood fans, nothing's changed.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
History repeats into the twenty first century.

Speaker 8 (09:39):
And also they've just got like videos of people dry
follow down the streets.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Of Melbourne like a spring night in nine and eighty nine.

Speaker 8 (09:46):
It's just a wonderful little snapshot of Melbourne and this
wonderful city. So I'm really enjoying going through that. There's
another one Eddie McGuire, very very young, Anie macguy are
doing a news story on Saint Kilda.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Player and that's on the eighteenth century. Its Eddie and
black and white.

Speaker 8 (10:02):
He looks so young, and Sin Kilda playing in their
last game at Morabin. Going back and seeing you know,
thirty three years at Moraban in the last going first
of August ninety ninety.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
One, it was or ninety two, sorry ninety two. So yeah,
just I love that star.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
All right, give it a name check again in case
people want to give.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It a follow.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Twentieth century Melbourne and oz History. A little Instagram page
dedicated to Melbourne's yesteryear.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
When I was trying to find out about the city
when I moved here, someone once told me that they
changed the shape of the river the era. They didn't
like the shape of it, so they're or less picked it
up and sort of moved it.

Speaker 9 (10:35):
What.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know, if you're just saying to a wide
eyed pom, I'd love to know. If anyone has that
information about the change in the shape of the era,
please do let me know. All right, we're about to
get into the user sport text us. Then your recommendations
for double thumbs up four seventy five three one oh
four three.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast team.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's talk weekend Plans. Now.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I woke up this morning excited about today's show and
then horrified about what awaits me tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
One word, four letters, I k e a packs, Oh gosh,
what are you building? Well, I'll be buying and then
I'll be going on air task.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
So that is how I give to the economy basically.
And so yeah, I'm going to the hell of Ikea
on a Saturday. I beg my wife, can't we go
during the week when it's quiet, like at mid down
and Monday or Tuesday and no, no tomorrow. And my
wife was like, don't we what don't we get there

(11:38):
as soon as it opens one? But that's when other
people all think like that it's going to be crammed.
Please please please please know. So yeah, we're our twenty
one year old daughter. This is move number eleven. Next Saturday,
the big move out of her current place into unfurnished rental.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
So this is move number eleven next Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
So we need to get some basic furniture for her,
and so that's why we've got the second end counch
this week.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Get this from the twenty one.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Year old, right, She goes, Oh, Dad, it would be
really nice to get a new count I said it
wouldn't admit, but that's not what happens to twenty one years.
Facebook marketplace is your new best mate. I care for
those next off occasionals and all those bits there.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
But yeah, what are you up to, Alex? What's this
weekend for you?

Speaker 8 (12:24):
Well, the mighty North Melbourne Kangaroos up against the ladder
leading Adelaide Crows, so it's going to be the last
match of the year for the Mighty Kangers. Of course, yep,
I'll be playing at Marvel, so we're going to go
along and watch that. The Crows a cherry white, a
cherry ripe. I reckon they have it a tumultuosweet. I'll
probably rest a few players and I reckon we'll see

(12:46):
this season out with a win.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wo wow wow. We sit side. It's been a couple
of weeks how long. If you had a look on
Google about how your new team have gotten on this year.

Speaker 8 (12:57):
They're going well. Clarko was very very up and about yesterday.
He had his daughter at the press conference, which was
really interesting.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's a human asking him questions, said, if you're bringing
your kids to the press conference. She does work at
FASS winding down for the year, winding down for the year.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Look, it's been a tough year for the cagas.

Speaker 8 (13:18):
I get it. I get it. But it's a young list.
I keep saying that a lot of young top ten
draft picks. And it's going to click. I know it is.
I know it is.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
That is your new cash phrase, It's going to click. Patsy,
what's clicking for you this weekend? What are you up to?

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Well, it sounds very similar to your weekend because I've
dubbed tomorrow for the love God, flat pack fun Day.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
It's all about branding.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
I've got an Ancho bookcase which has been sitting in
the box in the garage for about three months. I
kid you not, And I said to him last night, Hey,
I really really, I really appreciate it if you could
please just do that book because you're so good at
the flat pack jobs and he's like, so that's what
we'll be doing tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
That's our highlight for.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Saturday, Patsy. Those Anko ones are harder to do than
the Ikea ones because now a little bit cheaper as well.
I've noticed, Yeah, I Kea ones are hard, but Anko
because there's a bit of us cutting and cost cutting
involved trying to put those flat packs together. That's actually
another layer of difficulty.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, it is. And what do you ria? What are
you up to this weekend?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I'm going to be a very very good boy this weekend.
I'm on my best behavior because Will, my partner's mum
is here. So the mother in law's in town all
weekend staying in the hotel right next to us.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
With binos. You have the binoculars out pairing in.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
So we have something scheduled in every hour of this
weekend as soon as I get back at about lunchtime,
when I'm not competed.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
When you done that move where you go, oh show it,
you'd be nice. I'll tuck out for a couple of
hours maybe Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
You have some time just you and your special time
with just you and your mum. You know, have you
done that one yet? Trying to get out of there.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
See that's a pro move too late, now it's too late.
I've really compressed all these things.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Thank you very much. A lot of you are sens
some messages in. I said, you know, seven years ago
when I moved to Melbourne, someone told me that they
moved the Yarra and I always just thought they were
winding up a wide eyed palm. But a love of
you said they actually did move the Yarra. How do
you move a river? What a city? The Christian that
is on Rachel, Good morning Rachel. The river was moved.

(15:26):
It should be running through the botanical gardens. It got
moved so that ships and boats should go further up
past where the Immigration Museum used to be. My sister
and I have done the walking tour of Melbourne. That's
what we were told as well. Christian, why don't you
and Alex go on the walking tour and record it
for the show next week. I'm up for that. Alex
has gone a walking history tour of Melbourne. We can

(15:48):
find out how the hell do you move a river?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Please?

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I love a walking to it. So let's do it.
Let's we're going, and it's a mandate.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Now I need everyone listening to really understand it is
strange being a man. Let me tell you what happened
to me yesterday. My wife sent me to going. You know,
we're downside of a moving house at the end of
the year and we need some new wooden flooring apparently,
so my wife sent me to go and pick up
some wooden floor samples, right, and so I just thought
these would be you know, about the size of a

(16:18):
you could fit them in your hand. I go to
this place where the guy who greets me is is
an intimidating man's man like massive man hands like both
of his hands were like baseball catcher mits, and they
were tough, calloused, the hands of a man who doesn't
ho his day's work, whereas mine are not the hands

(16:40):
and who doesn't know his day's work.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
They are.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
They're soft, just looks like they're almost like baby's hands.
But these are not the hands of a manual labor
of a trade. And so these these samples I need
to take through them away. They were five foot by
two foot, so five foot high by two foot, and
I was like my god, I got to get these
in the car, gonna put the seats down. All while
this guy is watching me and one born judging me. Ah,

(17:05):
so he eyes me up and down. He goes, you're
gonna need some help with these, and I go, na, no.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Right, but now yeah now yeah no no, Noah's so good.
Yeah now should be right? Should be right?

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeh rip mate, I said now yeah nah yeah nah no, no, no,
I've got this. I've got this.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
So I wabble out there and I'm like, you've got it.
You really have got a big boss. You've got to
And it's so much every to get these three wooden panels,
and they're so heavy, and I'm struggling out like mister Bean,
wobbling around with these.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
It's like a sort of core level workout.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Now I'm trying to I'm trying to clench my core,
even find my core, and then get to the car
put them up, I think his car. And this guy's
watching me the whole time. He's like looking out like
you need some hand, princess. No, no, no, no, no, I've
got this.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I've got this.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
And then that's the fumbling around you ever try to
put your seats down in a car under pressure. It's terrifying, right,
it's a it's a test for any man. I get
the seats down, okay, and then I'm actually get these
huge timber bits into the car. I go into the
driver's seat right, and I suddenly look at my left
hand and there's a there's a splinter.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
Oh no, I my mommy.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
The other way, Mummy, don't you pull it up?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I'm like, oh, trying to get out. And then
suddenly I look up and I can just see him
still staring at me. He knows, judging me, judging me
about weeping about a tiny little splinter.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I want to almost go back in going, Greg, can
you get do you wear gloves? Do this work? It
must be so painful.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Rio have you experienced man Shane recently? It's strange being
a man.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
I know where did these expectations come from? I don't understand.
But we bought a fancy Japanese knife a couple of
months ago. We've used it and now it's gotten pretty dull.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
And what do you mean dull? What you're bored of? It?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Always it blunt? Do you mean it's got blunts? It's
got dull Oh, it's just not the same anymore, so boring.
I know he moves Japanese blade.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
It no longer thrills me.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Any relationship gets out. You've got the seven blade ditch.
They rust it really easily, till crown they do.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
You have to take much meticulous care of them, so
much so you can't use a normal knife sharp and
you can't use that long cylindrical thing, nor can you
use the.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Cheating those things you even do anything.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I've got one of those.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
I'm not confused anything.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
I feel like a butcher when I'm doing it, though,
it's reassuring.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
We feel like you're continuing some ancient tradition when you
pull that thing back and forth in there, grinding it.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, well, this one you have to use the wetstone,
which is a whole other level. And we tried, we tried,
We tried to tried. I can't figure it out. I
can't get the exact angle correct. We've tried everything, so
I have had to sort of put my tail between
my legs. And there's a man, find a man, a
real man.

Speaker 10 (19:50):
There's a guy on Bridge Road who will sharpen your knives.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
What do you mean a guy? Is he working out
a shop or is he just out on the streets.
There's a lot of crazy people on Bridge Road with knives.
Probably shouldn't be called the police.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Don't give him a Japanese one for grind out loud.
In Patsy's News at seven, John's back.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
He's got some new tools.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
So do you mean what that's his business?

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah, there's a there's a knife blacksmith. I'm not across
the nomenclatcher, but normal clatcher.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Get you in your double decree, normal clatcher.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
I don't know it's a knife shop. I think it's
called Chef's Armory on Bridge Row.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Great name for a business. It's the name armory has
me Chef's Armory.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
There was a mobile one in Sydney and he used
to go around on a motorbike and he had one
of those filing things on the bound of his motorbike.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
I've seen that there's a mobile guy goes on in
a neighborhood yet sharpening people's knives.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Sometimes I see him with.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
A load of kitchen knives all laid out on the
front of someone's lawn. He's on his knees sharpening it.
Like you couldn't even let the dude in the house.
You go, yeah, you just do it out the front.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
It looks terrifying. It's like Joe Wicks out there on
some new mission job.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
It's a very humbling experience going to another and.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Say, like, caut shopping my knife.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
No, I actually I think it's no.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I think it's like there are these ancient jobs, aren't
they that have been around for a very very long time.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'm glad that.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I still exist. That's his that's his craft. You're keeping
that ritual alive. Can ask how much is it to sharpener?
So do you just take one knife?

Speaker 5 (21:26):
I just took one Japanese knife. It was about fifteen bucks,
I think to get a sharp.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
What do you wait while he does it at the back?

Speaker 5 (21:34):
No, I just I left it with him and then
I came back a.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Day later, a day.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
He doesn't need a day to do that. He's having
a laugh out the back without fifteen bucks. Wait, is
this going to hand it to you and here go
oh it's so sharp now? But nothing's been done.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
I wouldn't know the difference, to be honest.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Christian O'Connell Show Go One podcast, it.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Was playing this coming up in twenty minutes time. Now.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Over the last four days there's been a ongoing mess
legal bs involving Adelaide and the AFL and the player
is it ranking And yes day on the show, we
were talking about this when it looked like going to
be a five game ban, and then the club work
starting to prepare statements and they were talking about snoop
dog and all kinds of other things, giving mitigating circumstances

(22:17):
why that word was used. And I actually feel like
we owe you are an apology rear, because when I
went home, I felt really bad because there are too
many voices like mine, all the media commentators weighing in
on this, and I can't speak for the gay community.
It's actually I want to hear your voices because you
know fall fully well the power of that word and

(22:38):
those slurs, and why there are bands in place for
behavior like that. I actually felt like on the show yesterday,
we let you down. I want to know what you're
taking is. It's not like whenever there's going to be
a gay story, we need to go to our chief
gay correspondent, chief of Gay's rio. But I actually think
it's really important. Actually, the most important voices in order
this are those in the gay community to tell us

(22:59):
really how they feel, not how Eddie McGuire feels, or
even me for that matter. So Rio, if you're happy
to I really know. What do you think about this?
But now the band is down to four games?

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah mate, thank you. It's been a I would say
it's been an upsetting week. Like it's just on a
just personal level. I've loved footy my whole life. I've
followed the Swans my whole life. I've played footy my
whole life. It's just upsetting for a whole week to
be reminded that there are elements of the game that

(23:29):
maybe don't accept you or that don't make you feel
welcome and for I still have a very you know,
that wide eyed view of footy like I did when
I was a kid, Like I just love it on
such a really deep, you know, almost childlike level. And
to be sort of dragged back to reality for a
whole week with this kind of stuff has been pretty upsetting,

(23:50):
to be honest.

Speaker 10 (23:52):
But the most frustrating thing.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
About it isn't the four weeks or the five weeks
or the you know, getting hung up on you know,
should we wait finals games? Differently to a regular game
for this kind of stuff, because I think the whole
conversation has missed a very important element of it.

Speaker 10 (24:09):
And it's not the football impact, the impact.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
On Grand Final Day or the Adelaide Crows or rankin
that's all anyone's spoken about for the whole week. I
think there's a human impact that people just hasn't been
talked about for seven days.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
And the reality is there are gay.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
Players in the AFL. Clubs are on record about that.
There's a four Call, four corners sort of documentary on
it that came out last year. Yeah they're a gay. Yeah,
it was brilliant. There are gay players in the AFL
that do not feel comfortable to come out and to
be their true selves in the place that they work,

(24:47):
playing the game that they love.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
And it's because of things like this.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
This has happened five times this year where these slurs
have happened, and people wonder why don't people feel comfortable
coming out?

Speaker 10 (24:57):
It's because of things like this.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
If there were you know, if you told me five
people in our workplace had used that word at work,
I would not feel comfortable being in a meeting room
with them. I wouldn't feel comfortable you know.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Having the wouldn't employed, they would removed, they fired, would.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Should be exactly and my heart made That was just
where my heart went to this whole week, of those
players there that have to be sort of living a
lie essentially and every day putting on a mask, trying
to hide who they are, living in fear, probably because
it's just such a hostile environment for them to step into.

(25:35):
And for me personally, especially as someone who is really lucky.
I mean, it shouldn't be lucky, but it is that
I come to work every day and I can be
my full self and I don't have to hide any
part of it. And actually, the the Monday after my
first ever date with a guy, I told you guys
about you were the first people I told. It was

(25:56):
in between time Waster, in between the long ad break.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Just came out in the studio fair and I was like, Wow,
this is amazing.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
I wish i'd known advance. I would have dressed up,
but I don't know you.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's just an invites so I've never mentor coming out
party and happening in the middle of a radio show.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
But I felt very honored. I was like, but this
is how it should be you.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Know, I felt proud and actually of the work environment
that we are all part of, where everybody's welcome and
all voices are welcome. You should be hiding away any
part of who you are. It's not like it's a
choice or it's anything like that. It's like, this is
who you are. Yeah, there was an amazing moment for
you to come out like that, really in the the
middle of a show. But yeah, I just felt yes,
and I do I own an apology. Rio it's because

(26:38):
I just thought, you know, we could talk about it
from our point of view, but our point of view
is irrelevant. You know, I don't speak for the gay community.
You know what that's like. And I can imagine how
this is incredibly hurtful. You're right, not maybe the reduction
from five to four, just the embarrassment of the AFL
saying it's five games. There's precedent here, then a club
going can we have three? And then what negotiating over this?

(26:59):
And then I know there's these medical statements that we're
not going to see because obviously they're confidential, But surely
there can't be any mitigating circumstances for using a word
like that.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
What do you think about that.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Look, I don't know enough probably about Isaac's personal situation
to comment, but I find it, you know, very difficult
to certainly think of a situation where we would make
it acceptable. To be honest, I'm not particularly hung up
on the going down from five to four. I know
the precedents there and all that kind of thing. The impact, Yeah,

(27:35):
it's the impact.

Speaker 10 (27:35):
I think I would just prefer people to you know,
this has happened.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Can we have a conversation about the actual culture of
the AFL and what are we going to do to
actually improve it beyond worrying about weeks and punishments and
stuff like that.

Speaker 10 (27:50):
I would love I would much rather Isaac.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Have two weeks and go out to a gay outreach
program and you know, talk to the homeless gay kids
that have been kicked out by their families and he
wouldn't use that word again, or go talk you know,
every single club has a gay element of their like
a gay cheer squad. Go and hang out with the
you know, the guys and girls who you know bleed

(28:16):
for your club and who live for you and your club.
Go have a chat with them for a week. Go
hang out with them. And I promise you they won't
use that word again. And I'd just love to see
action and actually going out of your way to you know,
involve yourself in these communities that really look up to
you and that are a big part of the football world,
but get chunned a lot. I would love to see

(28:39):
that sort of action and that sort of conversation happen
so that you know, the sixteen year old kid running around,
you know that might think they're gay or is gay
and is watching this and isn't thinking, Okay, do I
have to choose between chasing my dream and living a
lion and hiding.

Speaker 10 (28:57):
My true self? Like to me, that's that's much more.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Important to me than the weeks or the Grand Final
or the waiting or any of that. Yeah, that's what
I'd really love to see come from this. And to
be honest, unfortunately, I haven't really seen.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Much of that.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Beautifully said Rio are you you're talking about that? It's
just not a safe space for people, is it?

Speaker 1 (29:17):
You know?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
And you look at like the AFLW that does appear
to be the opposite, a very very safe space where
I can't speak for it, but I'm sure you wouldn't
hear words like that, you know, and then they wonder
and scratch the heads away. Right while there are no
openly gay players, you see this week, an entire week,
an entire week, this has been in the headlines. It's
a terrible decision by a terribly run organization. At times

(29:41):
it is rio. Thank you so much for giving us
the real perspective what we need to hear this week.
And you're right, there'll be a lot of mums and
dads and kids listening to the show this week. You know,
what would you be saying to them, because you know,
right now you've got this opportunity. There are going to
be people listening right now who are struggling with their
identity and how they feel about and they would have
seen this week and this huge kind of everyone on

(30:01):
TV going, oh, it should just be one round or
two rounds as wokeness gone mad. What do you say
to that? If someone's listening, maybe like when you were
like fourteen or fifteen, and you've got these really big,
what feel like big secrets, what would you say to someone?

Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think this is exactly the reason why we need
to have Pride rounds, why we need to you know,
have people I see people in comments getting pissed off
because they're are rainbow flags in the Swan's cheer section.
They keep politics out of sport, blah blah blah. Well,
people are still saying these horrible words professional players five
times this year. The fact that we're having this conversation,

(30:37):
the fact that we're even talking about Isaac Rankin, is
the reason we need to be having these rounds and
be talking about these things. And I would have you know,
to any you know, gay players or kids out there,
as much as probably a harrowing week this has been,
I have you know, I've found a huge sense of

(30:59):
community and identity and belonging within football and within my
football club and within the Swans and all that kind
of thing. So I would I still think it's the
greatest game in the world. I loved so so much,
So I would say, you know, it will get better,
and you know, the more of us that are able
to feel confident enough to sort of step out into ourselves,

(31:19):
the you know, the easier it's going to be for everyone.
So yeah, don't don't give up on the AFL as well.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Thanks Reyer, beautifully said The.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Christian o'connall Show.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Podcast beautiful words. Rio, how are you. I just want
to check in with you. We're getting these have you
seen them? Lovely messages to support and just the power
of what you said, just giving us the real voice
and take on everything this week. I think you summed
up out of all the mess and just the gutless
leadership that the AO l are shown in this, You've

(31:49):
You've put it into a much better place.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Thank you, Thanks man, Yeah, thank you so much. The
text Caitlin was just showing me. They're so lovely. My
heart is full. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Christian. Can you pass on to own. Thank you?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
It was really inspirational what he said. Lots of love
to you and everyone. Wow, God, this incredible. We've had
it everyone. We've never done everyone on the show before.
This is on Sarah, Sarah, this is beautiful.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Christian. Please pass us on to Rio. Rio.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
I tears in my eyes listen to you speak right
now to put over what a powerful, honest and accurrent
point you've made about why those comments within the game
are just so wrong. You articulated this issue perfectly. I
hadn't thought about a lot of that. My best friend
is in the same sex relationship and for a long
time that now they're not seen as a gay couple
or in a gay relationship, but just rather just in
a relationship without labels. I think a lot of people

(32:41):
listening would have felt so seen and validated by how
beautifully you spoke. Thank you, Rio, Yeah, I think that
speaks for all of us actually, and indeed everyone, Rio,
really thank you very much for doing that. We got
the news and sport on the way, and then we
get in to today's People's Playlist where every morning from
a every Friday, sorry, on the Christian O'Connor show from

(33:01):
eight sort of, the thought of your picking the music
every day on the show has just raised my blood pressures.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
That good God, thought of doing the.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
People's place every day asking for your songs isn't stressful
enough on a Friday, it says slight, Well, we thought
this is an obvious one. Today it's songs with objects
in the title, but someone at the radio station does
not understand what an object is. Will explain more in
five minutes time.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
All the messages coming in after Rio shifted a conversation
perspective about all the all the bs this week to
do with Adelaide and ranking. Christian Rio spoke so well,
this is a great idea. Rio should have an advisory
role with the AFL and the Players Association. I genuinely
think that should happen. I don't know what job title

(33:51):
you want to give yourself there at AFL House, but
that's Zach.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
I think this is that that's a great idea.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, I think there's probably people smarter than me and
better than me that.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well, I haven't heard them this week coming out of
AFL House. All we've heard from is the idiots like
didn't so actually they must be locked up the back there.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Look, if it's well paid, our take.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
All. Right, let's get into today's People's playlist.

Speaker 11 (34:16):
Yeah, they were listening and call in and choose and
the music, and just when hit eight, somebody pay the
station Choty play the People's play Listen Christian, call in right.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Now and and help Christian thing the songs for Friday show.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Every Friday on the show the last hour from eight
to nine, you're in control of the music. You pick
all the songs. We give you a theme. Today it's
songs with an object in the title. Songs with an
object in the title what would you love us to play?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
This morning?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
On a show from eight between eight and nine, Patsy,
what would you love us to play?

Speaker 7 (34:53):
I do have to think hard about this and I
went with the bad Boys from Boston Aerosmith and Love
in an elevator.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Chunes Big Weekend playing pat.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm going remember I used to stairs or the fire
exit today a rea and from the rest of the
year as well, passing the where I be love God
of destroyed that.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
Where gets verdygoing in elevators? So whatever, nothing happened.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Maybe that's the kind of through it, that's how you
like to do it, you know, I know what it's like.
We need to have been in a relationship for a while,
you need a new age.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
Must have been the moment of you know, in the
eighties we had a lot of saxophones in songs. Yes,
La capella was a big thing in the eighties and
this was one of those songs where all the band
members sung the last.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
Chorus lapapilla, lapapilla.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
That sounds like lapo gettera papella, thank you.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I just thought it must be an Australian way soon
and I was like, I have to get Google Chat
la Capella Capella, Mexican Town, isn't it la Capella?

Speaker 6 (35:56):
So others are like just like Paradise, David Lee, Roth.

Speaker 7 (35:59):
Hold On, Wilson Philler, Lacapella and it you give lave
a bad name.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Bon Jovi, you should have a job at the AFL
as well of the AFL choir. Okay, guys, we're going
to do lack a fellow.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Now gotta go. Chris, my husband said, We're just gonna
get in the.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Lift moverside Snoop Daddy, Snoop Patsy.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Coming into hot drop it like his pats drop it
like his pats Alex, where are we going today?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
What have you got?

Speaker 4 (36:27):
I've got an Australian classic.

Speaker 8 (36:28):
We're meant to be going to see this guy in
Sydney next weekend, the one, the only Paul Kelly and
I think arguably he's greatest song to her Door.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
That's one of the last couple of weeks. Alex. You've
you've done it, well done, you tuned it. And this
is a brilliant song.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
It's a ripper, absolute ripper.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Really yeah. I love Paul Kelly. Have you seen him
like before? It's a brilliant performer live.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
We have not We've heard great things about it, and you're.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
A real treat. He came in. Do you remember team
two years ago?

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Year and a half ago, last show here at Christmas
time in Caden played live at the station on the show,
he was incredible.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
How to make gravy one of my songs rio?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
You've gone from an absolute shocker.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
I think I think maturing is realizing that Nickelback are
actually good.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Listen to yourself, man, listen to yourself.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
What the hell is on Joey's head? This is photograph Nickelback?

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Why man, we're having a good show. Oh yeah, justify
this real, justify this.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
I mean Christian, you know you want to. I can
see it in your eyes.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Keep them out my eyes, my blood coming out, my
ears and uries. Right now, we do not need Nickelback
stinking up the last hour of power. This is a
Nickelback free zone.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
All right.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I'm gonna go with the classic from Songs with an
Object in the title.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
We gonna go with this classic from Billy Joel sing.

Speaker 10 (38:00):
Us Piano Man sing Us Tonight.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I'll be honest, I actually googled is an item of clothing?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
An object? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (38:13):
I did a lot of googling.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm just gonna full disclosure here. I'm not proud of that,
not proud of that at all. Now, Sue our boss, right,
very very smart lady. Okay, However, I think she's struggling
with the concept of what it's someone who does need
to be googling and what isn't an object? She thought
we should play this song, Sorry, an Egyptians an object

(38:38):
unless Sue boss.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Has a sarcophagus.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
You don't get fired by Sue, you get entombed and embalmed.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
That's where Joe and Limo went.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
They're around up Sue the boss's house, entombed in sue sarcopha.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Guy, you go for one last meeting with the other world.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
All right, lines are open now then song you may
need to google? What is an object? Okay, this is
going to be interesting twenty minutes as we see our listeners,
do they know what and what isn't an object? Songs
with an object in the title, give us a call,
will take your songs after the ads.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Now, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Are saying, how me and the team are going to
go and do a pub quiz one night. So if
you've got a local pub quiz. That's great. We'd love
to come and bring our team to take you down.
Greg sent me an email yesterday, Christian. I love the
idea about you, you and the team doing a quiz night,
although you may have an issue with one team member.
One callers said their quiz started at six thirty pm.

(39:45):
This seems very early for the start of a pub quiz.
From what we know about Patsy, she's either in her
Pja's by three point thirty pm or in a Mexican
restaurant at five and bladdered.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
On giant Margarita's by six pm.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I fear one team member may be faced down on
the table before Eve didn't start the questions.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
You may need a plan B. What about that strange
guy who was on the other day, who was on
the chase ringer. You're right, we need a ringer. You
need to Greg.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Thank you very much, and good morning to a new
mum Melanie, to a little beautiful baby boy River who's
listened to us right now. Christian, can I request John
Fine and two strong hearts. Today was our baby's due date,
but he was so keen to join the world. Here
arrived two weeks ago. This is a special song two
hearts for our new baby boy, River and our family.

(40:39):
We love listening to the show and Bub's love dancing
along for the last couple of months as I drove
to work each morning listening to you guys. We look
forward to doing the same as he grows up and
learns the good music from gold Maybe not Nickelbacks, sorry, Rio.
Christian is right, that's myle new mum to River. All right,
let's get into this week's People's playlist.

Speaker 11 (41:00):
Yeah, they were listening and calling and choosing the music
and just.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
When how did you.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Break the station?

Speaker 11 (41:10):
Charny play the People's play Listen?

Speaker 10 (41:12):
Christian calling right now?

Speaker 5 (41:16):
When help Christian pick the songs for Friday show?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yes, you're picking the songs every Friday from it. We
call it the People's play This we give you a theme,
you picked the songs to do with that. Today it's
got to be songs with an object in the title,
like Martining Craigieburn. What's there this great banger good Friday
song Little Red Corvette by Prince have been playing it

(41:40):
on Corvette is an object? My words really aimed at
Sudbos and also video killed the radio star. Thank you
very much to Peter who email brackets video cassette is
the object.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Thank you Radio for the heart of intelligence every day
with us. This is a great song by Buggles.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
This one is another one that's come from pats and
her Big Weekend and the lift. Here you can leave
your hat on obviously some kind of sexting message subtext
going on the between her and Chris our husband. Please
keeping on the chat. Please not on the show, but
Joe Cocker, you can leave your hats.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
On, fucking.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
The hats on.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Don't hummer knocking.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Hep me you're talking to see you started?

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Patsy, Yeah, all right and better be home soon. Great
song object in the title what tell You.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
All Right?

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Give us are thirteen fifty five twenty two songs with
an object and the title we need Big Friday Songs.
Is a kickstart your weekend at eight Richard, good morning,
Welcome to the show. Happy Friday, Happy Friday, Richard. I
hope you have had a good week. What song would
you love us to play?

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Mate? How about all the Small Things by Blink one
two banger.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
This is this is a great song. This is Friday, Richard.
Great song will stick it on John the next hour.
Have a lovely weekend, Richard.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Thanks to calling you, Judy. Good morning, Hi, Hi Christian,
Happy Hello, Happy Friday to you, Judy, Judy. What have
we got to play?

Speaker 12 (43:39):
Big yellow taxi counting crows?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Great object, great object, A big yellow taxi. It's made
You've made it easy for us, A big yellow, shiny taxi.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (43:52):
Oh you play yellow Submarine.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
No we can't, No, we can't.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I love the Beatles, but that song is the kids
or Stoner's Judy, have a lovely weekend. Thanks to calling
you two. Thank you, bye bye bye bye Now, Justin,
how are you going? I'm good, Justin? And what would
you love us to play?

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Bicycle by Queen?

Speaker 1 (44:14):
I want to buy, I want to rid my bye,
I want to ride by bye. I resought. This is
a strange song. Is it a metaphor?

Speaker 5 (44:27):
I'm trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Let's not go there.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
It's a family show, all right, we don't go road. Okay,
it's in a metaphor for what. Don't answer, do not
call in, do not call in, do not text?

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Thank you, Justin. Let's go Brendan now, good morning, Brendan,
Good morning, guys, Happy Friday, Happy Friday, b Man, Okay,
b Rock, what should we play? How about going us
solid rock?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yes, great song, great object, knowledge, great object, ten out
of ten, ten out of ten.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Brandan, thank you, have a great weekday, gud and you're Brendan.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Un let's just squeeze on one more and it's you, Jason, Jason,
welcome to.

Speaker 12 (45:10):
A show, can I guys and helping Friday to you?

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Happy Friday to you? Now? What is an object to you?
My friend? Jason? What's a great song with an object
to the title.

Speaker 12 (45:22):
Men in the Mirror or Marchael Jackson seems to be
a fucking song for today?

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Just click the lovely start for today. You're right, yes, yes,
and it's a great song as well. Jason, thank you
very much.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Akright, thank you, thank you now.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
This hasn't come across a dumb question. I we're looking
at menod the's message about Coldplay. Great song sky full
of Stars?

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Stars? Are they matter? Objects? Are they?

Speaker 5 (45:58):
I guess?

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Star? That's what is a star? Isn't it light of
a dying planet? Yes? Maybe we're getting deep on today's show, aren't.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
We if it is an object, it's a bloody big
object like that.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
I love that song and any deep questions tembusta every
Friday on The Christian O'Connell Show. All Right, this week,
thank you so much to everyone who shared their stories
for our funerals and wedding week. There have been some
incredible moments this week. Thank you very very much. Now
we're going to see if we can kick this one.
So last week was cats and Dogs stories and this
week it's been weddings and funerals. Now we're going to

(46:35):
be launching into next week. And the theme next week
on the show is births and birthdays. Why the producers
must have thought long and hard about what song can
we lift this break with.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Let's not go to the no actually, let's go to
the obvious one.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
All right, So, Caitlyn, you've got a story about a
birthday or a birth Yes.

Speaker 9 (47:09):
So one of my friends at her fortieth there were
forty candles on the birthday cake.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
She leant over to get the further ones. Her hair legit.

Speaker 9 (47:18):
Caught on fire. I thought it only happened to movies.
Caught on fire caused three of us to run to her,
because you know in like, you don't know what she's like?

Speaker 6 (47:27):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (47:29):
Little?

Speaker 9 (47:29):
Just you know, her whole side of her left hair
is up in fla. So we run at her, tackle.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
Her to the floor, drop and roll, chrop and roll
cutting her hair out.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
And what was it like the hairsprail or something bogan hair.

Speaker 9 (47:44):
Oh, she probably would have had some sort of you know,
hair spray in that certainly helped it along the way
because it went up quick.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
I have never seen anything like it.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I love the way you went and she legit? When
are we doing Legit Week? That would be Kaitlin's favorite week,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Legit Rio? You got a story as well?

Speaker 5 (48:06):
Yes, I saw one a couple of days ago. I
was reading an article about Nikita Zoo, who's like an
upcoming Aussie boxer. Brother Kim Zoo had a fight on
Wednesday and also just had a baby daughter, his first
kid last week. And he said while his wife was
giving birth, and I'd love to get your opinion on this, Patsy,
he blasted on the speakers on repeat thunderstruck by acdcus.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Can I ask why, like, was.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
It to help with her breathing or is it his
walkout music when he's fighting, or how missus give birth
and push a little kiddy out.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
I think maybe like that's just the boxer's mentality, you know,
get the adrenaline going, scream, shout, pump it out.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Maybe she requested it.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
Yeah, well that would be different if it was something
she wanted.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Did you have music, Patsy?

Speaker 6 (48:54):
No, I didn't. I had a caesar, so I didn't.
It was very quick over and quick and guess so
no I did. The birth plan went out the window.
There was no music, There was no oils, nothing.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Yeah, I mean up a pair all the oils.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I think, I said before even went on a on
a course to learn acupressure to cold thought I could
relieve my wife's incredible pain by simply applying a little
bit of pressure to a point on her ankle. And
I got a big old donkey kick away, and rightly,
so rightly, so I went, somebody's a little bit tetchy
right now, I'll just get my lang ylang diffuse her out.

Speaker 8 (49:34):
Bonny's was an emergency season with the Tweeties, Yeah, full on.
That was full on, and then with Max we had
it all set up as well. The steery and everything,
but it just doll goes out the window, doesn't Yeah,
all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yeah that for Lois, a second daughter, my wife had
a home birth and that was incredible. So we hired
a private midwife that was all safe. That was terrifying
and so exciting because then within half an hour Sarah's
back in her bed with our newborn second daughter, Lois.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
It was it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
But I do remember at one point Sarah went into
labor and the midwife lived half an hour away London traffic.
She said, hey, just timing your wife's contractions, you may
have to deliver the baby. And I remember, just quickly
going into another one went that can't happen. No, no,

(50:25):
in real life, No no, no, baby should be born
into the world. And the first is my fumbling hand. Actually,
I'm gonna go back up, back up, back up a treat.
There's a shambling mess of a dad waiting for me.
Good lord, No, all right, So we're looking for your
stories thirteen fifty five twenty two. Stories about what happened

(50:48):
on a birthday or at the birth thirteen fifty five
twenty two. I saw actually in Melbourne this week in Bayswater,
a woman went into labor at the gym. She actually
gave a birth by the weights. It begs a question,
if you're that close, what are you doing in the gym.
You've got a workout, such an extreme workout coming, what

(51:08):
are you doing getting a work in by the waits
she got a squat rack or something popping a kidy out.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
So we're looking for your stories of what happened on
a birthday or at the birth. If you've got a story,
call me thirteen fifty five twenty two. Back in two
thousand and four when our first daughter, Ruby was born,
it was meant to be a home birth, but she
was two week late, so my wife had to be
going and being induced and so it was taking.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Quite a while.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
It's like a Saturday afternoon and being the radio nerd
that I am, i went. My wife said, look, you
know you can go for a little walk now, stretch
your legs, but you know, take your phone with you
because things could change in a moment. I forgot the phone.
I went for a walk and a lot of radio.
A lot of hospitals in the UK they have volunteer
radio stations in them. I went for a walk and
suddenly spied a radio studio and they had it. They

(51:58):
were having an open day. This is two thousand and foe.
I'm hosting a London breakfas show at this point, right,
And whenever I see a radio studio that the nerd
in me just gets activated. And so I walked into
this open day and this guy goes, oh, you're interested.
We were looking for we're looking for weekend presenters.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
And I took a leaf for it.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
And I was looking at the desk and I was thinking,
this studio is better for these volunteers, right. They can't
afford medical equipment on some of these wars, but this
volunteer radio studio, it's kidding out better than the one
I'm doing a London showing.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Right. Then all of a sudden I hear this Tanner.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Announcement urgently paging mister Christian O'Connor, and I was like,
oh my god, Oh, where's my phone.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
My phone's not on me. I had one job. Just
be there.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I'm taking part in an open day to be a
volunteer radio presenter at the weekend. My wife was a
few she's running an emotional stat anyway, she's gone into
labor and I'm like, where where is my husband? She
is nerding out right now and a volunteer radio.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Station sah, yeah, yeah, I've been in a second.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
All right, give us a call then, births and birthday
it's your Stories thirteen fifty five twenty two, John Farnham,
two Strong Hearts. This is for River two weeks old
today and mum Melanie. Welcome to the world River.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Christian that beas autogym where the lady gave birth in
the gym this week they can now advertise you can
lose up to five kilos with one single workout.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Martin. That's very good, all right.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
So we're looking for your stories today and next week
on the show about what happened at a birthday or
at the birth thirteen fifty five twenty two.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
It's got to Ben here morning, Ben morning.

Speaker 12 (53:48):
So I with our firstborn, met my daughter in the elevator.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
What happened?

Speaker 12 (53:55):
So my wife was in hospital for two months leading
up to it because of a few scenes and they
didn't want to risk it. And so I was about
an hour away from the hospital and she called me
at like nine o'clock saying, Oh, it's going to happen,
you know, don't rush, And then so I started packing
up and she was like, Okay, it's going to happen
before lunch, you know, you might as well get a

(54:16):
move on. And then, not knowing to me, as I
was pulling into the hospital to park Is when our
daughter was born, and I hopped in the elevator and
the doors opened, and I was in such a rush.
The nurses looked at me and said, oh you mister
cron and I'm like, oh yeah, and they're like.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Oh, this is your daughter. Oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (54:39):
And because she had to have an emergency cesarian, right,
so yeah, I wouldn't have been at the birth because
she had to go under. But yeah, I still, you know,
still a funny story that I've met my daughter in
the elevator.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Absolutely yeah, loving and elevator. That that's that's that's your daughter.
That's going to be a ring. That's inredible story.

Speaker 12 (55:00):
I ended up calling my daughter elevator.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
It's a great name for a kid. It's a great
name for Oh lift, Yes, Ben, great story. Have a
lovely weekend. Thanks the cooler mate, have you got it?
Justin good morning, Justin welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
How are you going.

Speaker 14 (55:19):
Yeah, I actually delivered my baby at home, my second daughter.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Congratulations, well done to all of you.

Speaker 14 (55:27):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we lived close to the hospital.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
We went to the hospital earlier.

Speaker 14 (55:32):
They sent us home because the contractions were too far apart,
seeing that we lived close.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
And then my partner and.

Speaker 14 (55:39):
Tim fell asleep and during workup crowning she was she
was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, and then woke
up crowning and yeah, just jumping back and.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
It was well, I guess.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Crown Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
So yeah, well yeah, so yeah, delivered her.

Speaker 14 (56:05):
Actually got a phone call halfway through the delivery, yeah,
from my friends, and I answered it and yeah yeah
my partners with looks could kill.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Yeah, that was pretty much what was happening at that time.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
So I had up very quickly.

Speaker 14 (56:23):
And yeah, she came out, Oh good, no problems. Ambulance
then came after the birth, so and yeah, it took
a cut the cord.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
And did all of that and she was fine and
did brilliant stuff all rightly. Justin thank you very much,
she called, I have a lovely weekend, justin thank you.
Can we do an edit before the end of the show.
Is it twenty so a sweet State team? Was it
twenty times? You said the word yeah? Seventeen seventeen?

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Patsy, what do you say?

Speaker 6 (56:56):
Yeah, I'd say about seventeen was nervous.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Yeah, Christian O'Connell shar Go on podcast, I know, Christian,
am I hearing Nicole Mack? Have you lost the band
or removed the band?

Speaker 1 (57:10):
What can I say? Rio has rainbow powers? I have
no match.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
It's a gay anthem.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
I love that, Christian.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
You caved into the mighty nickelback bow down, No shame
in that, my friend? All hell our new overlord, Chad Kruger, Ryan,
do you know what years ago I interviewed Chad the
leading of Nicoback. One of my most enjoyable interviews.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Really. Oh yeah, charming, charming guy.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
He gets everything that people sending out nick Aback and
he gets it. He said, we should not be this popular.
It doesn't make any sense. And we talked about I said,
what is that that song?

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Even you know, what the hell is that? And Joey said,
he goes in all seriess I just remember.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
You know, it's like sometimes on a night out, you
take a lot of photos and then the next day
you're like, what that and it goes. It literally was
there was our friend Joey collapsed and drunken, stupid, and
we put stuff on his head, took a photo.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
The next day was just like what.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
It's that on Joey's head and he went, hang on
a minute, there might be a sor It's as easy
as that, kids, all right. So every day on the show,
we're always looking out for great stories and you could
be winning one thousand dollars for an instant Call of
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four years of complimentary servicing across their range until five
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be doing this week. Your story is about weddings and
funeral If you missed it, this is Lorraine's wedding story
from earlier on Monday.

Speaker 13 (58:43):
My mother dropped dead at my cousin's wedding reception. She'd
been having a wonderful time with the family and seeing
everything else. She went up to the bad or her
favorite drink, which is a BRANDI and Dry, and literally
dropped dead.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
At the bar before she got to have.

Speaker 13 (58:56):
The drink about trying to pick her up ticular.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Out of the room.

Speaker 13 (58:59):
Well, the runny parties standing.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
And looking up.

Speaker 13 (59:02):
Is everything out?

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Kay?

Speaker 13 (59:03):
And they go oh yes, yes, every sigh.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
It's a real weekend, Lorraine. Enjoy spending your one thousand dollars.
Let's get into today's time wastter, Today's World Happiness Day.
We're looking for your happy celebrities up for grabs. You've
got a pair of tickets to go and see the
outstanding Beatle Juice and Musical only a couple more weeks

(59:26):
leaves the country on the eleventh of September. We've got
a pair of tickets. We're looking for happy celebrities as
your time wasted Today. The top five happiest jobs in
Australia according to seek dot com dot au. What do
we think you're in the top five the happiest jobs?

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Fust driver's Do.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
You get that from the looks stressed targets? You know
it's a lot waiting people get the change and all
that stressful job. The traffic here. Merging with the.

Speaker 7 (59:57):
Traffic, I'd have to say, is a teacher a pie here?
Because you know they're in the jobs I love.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
I would have thought a teacher as well. Yeah, they
seem to have a lot of fulfillment with their job.
Not in the top five, top five, that number five
tour guides, do you think so?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Yeah, but you're saying the same old spilled day in
day out, we do good point. I'm thought about.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
At number four Nicobat's gons, red Mate and number four
web developers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Not in our building. Those people three influencers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
That's people like Patsy, two care workers and a number
one the Fieries firefighters. All right, so happy celebrities roundhouse?
You know that was chuckle Norris, Oh God, thank you,
thank you, thank you. Grinneth Paltrow, grinn he's in a

(01:01:00):
big movie at the moment. Liam Gleason, Liam Gleeson, very
gleeful fellow to dance and is always pretty happy. But
he puts on those tap shoes and that's right, he's
ted tap and no one's happier than Christopher walking on
sunshine as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
All right, Ria, what have you got then? Happy celebrities?

Speaker 10 (01:01:25):
I got a happy wrapper here.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
It's d M ecstatic.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Wait, shout out to the trouble j listeners out there,
right now an think o're audience DMX going to give
it to you exhibit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
It's like a dog whistle. You look it. There's two
people that get that one.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Oh, Serena Williams finally found in a piece. She's Serene Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Oh yeah, it's very good.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
Gold Rear Harry smiles, Yes, Silver and the Bonus Brothers
they got a little he.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Said, the Boner Brothers. Then it was like, that's a
very different time waster. Make a celebrity rude. Can we
do that one day? Maybe a podcast special? All right,
send us yours looking for Happy celebrite.

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The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Thank you, I'm much sure the time when it is
coming in, We're looking for happy celebrities Rio Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Tomork?

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
So ready?

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Someone is and let's get that bed fired up right now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Mary, let's go to lady haha, Lady like, nothing happened
then not George Clooney, George Mooney, Silver, Glad Pit, Yes, yeah,

(01:02:46):
what Janets, Oprah Grinfree God plus Oprah Grinfrey is genius.
Well done, Mitchell, what about Happerson Ford Silver looking for
your happy celebrities? Lady done that on Smiley Minogue silver
plus Michael can not stop laughing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
God gotta be the winner.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Okay, we are back Monday morning. Have a great weekend.

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