October 8, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Right now. Then small Thing, Big Joy Joy. Last week
on this we had Jeff Small Thing, Big Joy. When
the toaster cooks the bread just right and you can
bud it from corner to corner. Sasha getting into bed
and find the hot water bottle in the right place.
David opening a microwave right before it hits zero. You
(00:49):
think you're like James Bond in a movie of all
that bomb detonates just that red, white, blue, orange wire
grace peeling up. Oh god, this is gonna make me gag.
Only savages can peel boiled eggs and think it's okay.
My wife does it while she's chatting to me about
like family stuffing, like nah, whoa, No, just peeling it
(01:12):
like that? No peeling a boiled egg and the shell
comes off in one big piece.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That Mark watching my dog eat angry. What a great observation.
They do look like that, Lucy. When I drive to work,
I pass a work site that has those big machines
that clock your speed, and if you drive too fast
you get an angry face. I love driving the speed
and getting a smile from the machine. This is how
it works. A Pavlovian response. Okay, small thing, big joy rio,
(01:43):
what's it for you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I have very small thing, big satisfaction. When you've got
a little piece of meat or a seed wedged into
your tooth, oh gosh, but you don't have a toothpick.
Say you're at the workplace using the side of your tongue.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
To add Oh yeah, dislodge it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dislodge it, and you're going, you're working, you're working.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Finally, dislodge it is released, Yes, goes back into the
rear of life and the river.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Of your Finally you can breathe again, and you get the.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I want to ruin your day everyone, I want to
prank you anyone that sees it in there.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You're right, but it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Sticks to me.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I can't move on from whatever task I'm doing until
I've got that one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And it's always a sinew of meat.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, my beef.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's the main offender. It's really a piece of chicken
in there. No, you're right, slipperdge lamb it's beef doesn't
want to go all the way down there. There's always one rogue,
sinual strand of the day of the day. And you're right.
You look around the office. What can I use? Yes,
trying to use the fingers. Fingers aren't enough, are they?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Because it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The tongue has to get to work.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, I went into the toilet and I.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Used to start workout for your tongue, isn't it. You've
got to work the obliques, the oblique muscle. You get
a six pack tongue. Christian, my small thing, big joy.
I guessed today's show number at the same time Rio
said it, Christian, I got it today. It's going to
be a great day. It's going to be a great day.
(03:12):
Let's go to a Patsy. What's it for you? You
know what?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I got an online order yesterday and I love when
they include a little chocolate. So you open up your
pack this long awaited package for me.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
It was clothing, Go figure.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And they'd put a little tiny chocolate in there.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
You're not ordering the right stuff online.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Then what sort of choky like a little pepper? Miss
it's a little.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Dairy milk, just a simple little Cabri dairy milk.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But it just made my afternoon because I went and
made a coffee.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
House was quiet, no one was.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In that afternoon coffee and it was just a little
bit of chocolate.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was fantastic. I thought, well, I've done a good
thing today. I've gone and bought myself an outfit and I've.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Got a chocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Good work in the world on top okay phone, it's
nineteen gale. It's amazing how easy we are impressed in
the afternoon. If it's a chocolate, you've got anything? You
could lure me in a kidnappers man. Yes, Wait, is
that Whitaker's coconut locking there? I'm getting in and then
the doors are closed. I don't know if there's any
more of this in here. I know to sugar hit Alex,
(04:17):
what's the small thing? Big joy?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
If you are so, you might be at the airport,
and you might be in the supermarket and you're in
a queue and it's a really long queue, and then
someone opens up another.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Counter and the new queue and you're.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
At the front of the duke que again.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You're back in the flow of life. Yes, you went
from stock that you're in p one you're in the
whole position, right, Yeah, life's all good again. All right?
Then what have you got? Text to Small Thing, Big Joy, The.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We're doing Small Thing, Big Joy. Good morning, Joel Christian,
Small Thing, Big Joy. When you piss the al foil
on the tin, you're getting that first smell of fresh
nice Cafe Blend forty three coffee upon opening. It's for me.
(05:05):
It's the same when you piss the top of pringles
are and some of that angel does as I call it,
is released, and I'm like Hannibal letter sour cream come
to me. I have to eat my My wife won't
have them in the car. So what I do is
they do those smaller Yeah, I have that in the
(05:26):
car in the supermarket car park. And then I get
out the evidence. I'm saying, no more. She doesn't hear
this part of the show. And if any of her
little witchy mates for this thing.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Get it just gets my wife's That is such.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A bad look. Hold over can of pringles. You're going
to divorce me for that? Trust me. There's semi more.
Maybe that is the thing that will just break her back.
Go goddamn. It was enough but now this sat in
the car destroying evidence the paper trail. Uh, Christian small thing,
(06:09):
big joy. Watching the flight my husband is on cross
back into Victoria after two weeks working away on the
flight radar. App Oh, Kylie, that is sas gorgeous. Thank
you for sharing that Christian small thing, big joy. When
I go through the dry through a mac as an
order of hot chocolate in the mornings, they sometimes give
me a cookie with my drink.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Oh it's nice.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
See that's really good, Danielle Christian having just the right
amount of milk left for your coffee slash tea, saving
you from having to get another milk from the fridge
to top up. It is the tiny things that just
they mean so much.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That is an instant win.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You're I'm winning right now in this moment.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I was at the servo station the other day filling
out with fuel and by the way, why can't that
be easier getting out of the car with that clankying
it back? Exactly? Why you can't get with the vacuum
where you press the button and just retracts its ownly
that come on that sciences do that anyway? As I
was going into pay. There was a guy leaving who'd
(07:20):
ordered a mass bar and I don't mean the fun size,
a proper on a fist full of mars and he
is trady and he was chomping it down, crack crack,
three bites. Gone. Wow, it's like legend. That's like, wow,
it's too much for me. One of those big ones.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, those days along behind me as a teenager. Sure,
crazy young kid, but yes, fifties, no way you can.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Be doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
In the eighties in the UK, mass bars had a
big national TV campaign. The slogan was a mars Bar
a day keeps the doctor away. So I was thought, alrighty,
I'm not stupid. I have these to keep that doctor away.
And my parents double down it. My mum was a nurse,
(08:05):
she should have murt her.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Why would the Mask corporation.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You would never get away with that. Now, a mars
Bar day keeps the doctor away. I was like, thank you,
mars par a first defense against illness and viruses.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I remember that though. I remember the ad A mars
O day, and I forget the other people.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, no, it was work, rest and play, work and play. Yeah,
we've got some of the old adverts here and here's
the Mars bar. One have listened to this.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Mars is no ten pig still only forty cents recommended
retail price.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
More fond money banger.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
However, I'm more of a Milky Way guy. Really, yeah.
I love that lighter, softer fear, more digestible.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yes, yes, more digestible.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think as you age, I'm finding myself moving into
the milky Way terror more.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's not as sweet, it's not too sweet, it's softer.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah you bees, yeah, and a beautiful appetizer served on
the plate to impress the neighbors. Slice.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
No, I think it's the insipid chocolate bar.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I find the mass bar too thick, dense, yeah, yeah, yeah,
keep going with the caramel, chopping and coating secretly thick.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
What can you do with a milky bar Mars bar?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You can make Mars bars slice, true, deconstructed.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I used to do it school.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Jones. The microwave an ice cream. Yes, actually, Mars bar
ice cream is really nice, but in the microwave, so
it's all like it ice cream, soupy owey. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
No, milky bars just like in your MoU Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Perfect, that's what I mean digesting it for a year,
wears a tiny Yeah, I've got more room for leafy greens. Exactly.
I took my eighteen year old. We went and had
dinner last night, right, just me and her, and we
were ordering food and we had the menus with mumas here.
(10:32):
She insist that we ordered some greens. Saw the waitress
looking at me like judgment went, I'm joking, of course
that would have that. I was just a lesson. I
was testing her. We'll have side those greens. Anyway, we
eat all the food, the greens haven't been touched, and
then I have to do this performance. So it's responsible
down and they go, can I have those to go?
She goes, you want me to box these? They're in
(10:54):
the fridge at work. You know what, I'm never touching.
I'm going to lead them in there. My food is
always getting stolen. It's an experiment this week. See if
anyone tucks into those leafy greens. So you two miles
bar fans. I have, but it's just more.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
It's too much nothing, Alex, is it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I wouldn't expect Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You're right, it's it's the air of nobility about isn't
for everybody real, it's not. We need foot soldiers real
there with their chunky, thick new gart based and there's
more bite the glass of water.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The Christian o'connal show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
An email yesterday from one of you with an idea
for the show. Guy called Luke McGuire. So we listened
to us for quite a few years. Christian have an
idea for a feature on the show. It's called Cameo
Higher or Lower. It's a game I play regularly with
my wife. We look at the celebrity video website cameo.
We start with the celebrity, try and guess where the
next name celebrity charges more or less for their video message. Chanks,
(12:06):
chanks forever, my friend look at You can tell your
long term listener thank you. Yeah, cameo. I've used it
a couple of times. If you're not up to speak
to this website. Lots of different celebrities from all sport, movies,
TV shows, music. There's a lot of them there, Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Or a celebrities lower down, sometimes the whole spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, from like most of your favorite TV shows, a
lot of nostalgia shows. For the last forty years. I've
used it a couple of times to the kids for
their birthdays. Yeah, because you pay the celebrity, you asked
them for a birthday video and then it's a lovely
surprise for somebody. But when you do go on there,
the one thing you do look at and Luke and
his wife al right, is you start. Some of the
amounts are really random. It's like sort of fifty one bucks,
(12:50):
it's not fifty or it's fifty three, or it's seventy two.
I don't know why it's odd amounts. Anyway, I thought
we'd give this a go. So this is Luke Maguire's idea.
It's a cameo higher or lower game. I'm going to
give you two celebrities. You've got to work out who
is charging more? So what first? Then Greg Page from
the Wiggles O Wiggles Yummy Greg Page or fellow O
(13:15):
g Wiggles Murray Cook, Greg versus Murray? Who's charging more?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
In my head, Greg was always the leader of the Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
So I'm going to go Greg Alex.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah, I think Greg, because Murray is not as well
known to the younger generation.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Murray sort of it does use it's there with the
Quitari is the driving four house in there.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I've got a photo, a really irigated photo with Murray.
I saw him on a pub crawl and we want
us in the street just in the park. Back in Sydney,
I was at a kebab shop and Murray was there
and we got a pot together.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
To who going for Greg Page or Murray Cook.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I'm gonna have to say Yellow Wiggle. I'm gonna have
to say Greg, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's actually Murray by some distance, Greg Page original Yellow
Wiggle one hundred and fifty one. I mean that's a lot.
Murray's four or five three, four hundred and fifty three. Really,
it's several times more than his fellow og Wiggle. The
market prices for Murray is his stock is skyh wow.
(14:23):
I would have thought Greg too. I would have thought
Greg too.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
He's gone on to do stuff like he was in
any recently, whereas I haven't seen Murray around.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
He's doing cameo videos. Cout of those a day. It's
easy money, is it? On top of they're not sure
for Bubble two, they've made so much money. I did
so night, seven or eight nights at Madison Square Garden. Yeah,
and Themember interviewing and they were saying how their rnager
got a phone call from Alexton Sorry, Robert de Niro's
(14:54):
people saying can you hold the shop? Him and his
family and the kids who Mega fans are running late,
and they did, oh my god. And then they saw
DeNiro and he's seen bringing dinner in. Denner sat down
and gave them the double thumbs up, like thank you,
that's amazing. Chris Mark was saying the first time that
Coldplay got to I was an interview and that I
complained and I was talking about how big they were.
(15:15):
They said, but there's levels to this game. The first
time they did Madison Square Garden sold out. It's a
very big, big moment in a British band's life, right.
You never think you'd ever get to do that in America.
There's nothing more American in New York than Madison Square Garden.
Chris said he went out the front to take a
photo and as he was like framing up the shot
to send his mom and dad, he suddenly saw his
band he never heard of, called the Wiggles, and he said, so,
(15:35):
who the hell do they get? Oh, it's a kid's
band from Australian kids. It's like six sold out nights
kids banned from Australia. God damn it. On my biggest
night in my life, there's a kids band from down under,
the Wiggles. All right, So Leanne Rhymes or Richard Marx.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Hey, Melanie, Richard Marx here, happy birthday to you?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are we going for Leanne Rhymes or Richard Mark?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Surprise Richard? I'm not I would have to say Richard.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I mean he's on the voice.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I'll go Richard Marks two.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Actually it's five hundred and four dollars for Leanne Rhymes.
My four hundred and fifty five for Richard Mark. I'm
more expensive than the Wiggles here in Australia. That's a lot.
All right, This one will confuse you. Nicky Webster had
another heavyweight, Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Oh goody Chappelle Corby here on cameom ready first.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Who would want this?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Who is kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Who? For someone they care about? To go? Happy birthday,
Nikki Webster.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
She's sang at the twenty fifth anniversary of the two
thousand Games the other night.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Too with Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Oh look it goes against my grain, like rubbing a
cat's fur up the wrong way.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
But I'm going to say Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I was in a Chappelle Corby musical at Uni. I'd
say the judge, like an original musical.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Why is it that on Broadway?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It never got picked up?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What was it called?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think it's just Chappelle Corby the musical. Book you board,
I will go, I'll go, Nicky, She's a start.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I'm with you, Nikki. It's Nicky Webster. But only
one hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I'd pay more for that, would you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
One hundred and six dollars if you want to book
a video message from Nicki Webster and as Chappelle Corby
fifty three bucks? All right, Luke, thank you very much
your idea. Mate.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Christian O'Connell show on podcast Now.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
As part of an employee motivation scheme, I'm going to
offer up this idea. I have no confidence in it.
I don't believe we're going to get a single call,
but sometimes I have to entertain the wild thoughts of
our producer Caitlin, and sadly I can't there. I can't
give any more knows this year. This one is simply
called stuck in a tree, Eyebra, Stuck in a tree,
(18:14):
because sometimes in life you got to join the doors.
Are we seeing a trend emrger because to be honest,
we have had two unconnected but connected by trees different
stories this week about things being stuck in trees. That's true.
Right started with Sharpie, I was wasting showtime by demanding
that people tell me what bird this is? Ha ha.
(18:35):
We found out it was the pied curraw on. That's it. Yeah,
and sharply said Christian, I don't know what the bird is,
but where there used to be one outsideber mom and
Dad's place, who I used to live at home. And
I throw a shoe, my shoe with it at the bird,
and the shoe is still in the tree, thirty years old.
It's almost like some kind of monument. It's an art
installation up there. Coralie kicked it off earlier this week
(18:58):
when we're looking for your pet stories, Christian, my daughter
had a pet goldfish in the outside pond, but it died.
I throw it over the fence. It's not a thing
you do. It's not a thing you do. You don't
do that. We'll just make it a neighbor's problem. As
a scull over the fence. I think I have the fence,
and the damn thing got stuck in the branches of
a tree. I had to avoid the era till it
(19:18):
finally went to God, I'm order a new one. Thankfully,
Thankfully she never noticed. That's from colleague. So Caitlin, this
is your baby, okay, And I hope we get calls.
So what do you imagine that we're going to get,
like people being stuck in trees or everything.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I mean, if we get people, we could get items
like you know the guy that had his shoes stuck.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
In the tree, and its yeah, cat's.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Funniest cats, that's do you know what I do? Remember
a couple of years ago I saw some fieries trying
to get a cat out of a tree, and I
didn't know this actually happened, right and goes to me,
He goes, you'd be surprised. And then remember the next
day I was talking about this and what have you
called triple zero for or for a non emergency? And
(20:10):
this woman said that she called I always remember this called.
She said, she called them. She had a count up
a tree and the truck turns up two five fieries
go up there and they get stuck. She then has
to call Triple Z there again. Can you send out
some more fieries to the cat had come down by
now the cat just mosey down and go look at
(20:32):
these clowns. Another truck turns up these fieries. See they're
two college stuck up and just film it. What a scene.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You're not helping the rescue.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So you're right, there's so many stories are emerging about
stuck up a tree. Alex, you've got a story of
any about stuck up a tree.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Cat's children can get stuck up trees. I was at
Forkner Park here in Melbourne, Oh a couple of years ago.
One of my twin daughters, six year old Evey. They
were both up the tree. I had Max sort of
just close to that and he's my four year old,
and all of a sudden I hear this branch is breaking.
Evie falls out out of the tree, but manages to
(21:10):
get caught by her undies on a branch.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Say that's another phone the next week. Saved by your undies.
She's hanging there.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
It's a mid air and it gave me time to
run to the tree and grab her just as the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That is ripped. A lucky catch by the undies. Is
it also? I've got to be honest dad of the
year there who lets young kids up a tree? What
could possibly go right?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
I'll climb anything, and I'm helpless against it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's no good with varying consequences. And that was wasn't
too bad? Audrey has fallen out of it, save by
your's neck. On Monday Show K thirteen fifty five twenty
two Upper Tree, Patsy.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, I've accidentally flung some dog poop in a bag
up in the tree.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm sorry. I don't believe that's an accident. I think
you've done on purpose. How you accidently do that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I was spinning it around my head, trying to be smart, and.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I thought that smart.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, well no, it's just very stupid. And I thought
i'd be able to get into bean.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You always know you've got a real smart person. If
you see them that's showing a bag of dog turds
around their heads, you go, my god, that's some of
the very high on the cue. Must be the granddaughter
of Einstein right there working out the theory of relativet I.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Overshot the being terribly and it ended up in the
branch up above.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'd love to see that he is walking in and
what Wow?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I felt bad? Was I going to I just had
to leave it?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What was that.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That's going to fall on somebody and give them a
very nasty surprise.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I call the fire brigade to get a bag up there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's a bad day for fiery hours. Well, I don't
want to do it. All right, lines are up, But
now are there any more stories? Stuck in a tree.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Christian not a tree, but there was a phallic shaped
adult toy stuck on a power line in the middle
of our center for ages. It was there for months
until a truck knocked it down. Spoil spotoo truck, Jess,
that is so good. You should have put it back
up there. Christian Pats could have something. Maybe her next Olympics.
(23:24):
You could do dog turd tossing. Yeah, I see. We
can get mass bar to sponsoring Brisbane. Maybe that could
be one of the Brisbane demonstration events. Christian, my snake
got stuck in a tree which took him outside for
some UV and he wrapped himself around the branch. Now,
being an eight foot long, incredibly strong diamond python, there
was no unwrapping him, and we had to wait for
(23:46):
hours until he felt like unwrapping himself and coming back
in the house. We tried spraying it with water. I
don't think that's a way to get a pythonto on coil,
just spritzing them with water. There are a pion. Jared,
Welcome to the show, Jared.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Good day, Christian carew how's it going?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, very good, thanks for calling the show. She's got
a story about something stuck in a tree.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, So the thing that got stuck in the tree
was me.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
How what happened?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I decided, while on holiday with family, I would take
on one of the hotels little extra curricular activities of paragliding.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I always see that leaflet and I wonder who does that?
Who is bulls? Your brave enough both to do that?
And that was you.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Yeah, And they seem to have mispied the things that
controlled my turning wrong. So I had zero control at all.
I didn't guy to turn it or anything.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No way. You just strapped to wherever that thing, well,
where the wind wants you to go and blow yep.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I was swinging around and then they were like indicating
for me to turn away. So I could land, but
it wasn't turning obviously, and and I'm heading for straight
for a tree and I'm just yelling tree and then crash.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm not going to move the I was stuck there
for about fifteen minutes while they mess around trying to
cut the parachute to pieces. You must have been terrified.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I was at first, and after about the five to
ten minute mark, I'll sort it just bored.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Jared. Awesome story. Thank you very much for sharing that.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Mate, No problems. It's the cherry on top of it
is after I finally get down. I was seventeen at
the time, so not even able to legally drink. But
a guy at the hotels all the whole thing and
brought me a beer. And my dad saw me with
the beer to have a goal with me, and I said,
I I effing deserve it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
There's a record shortage of new clowns. Yes, they've lost
them to TikTok. They're clowning around online, that's what they're
doing now. They don't want to get clown around in
the big top.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I know it's tragic really to see that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think it's just going to die out.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do know. If you know ten twenty years now,
they just won't be big tops.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
To be no circuses, no little carnivals, those bloody gen
Z I know.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I get this email from Kate Christian, My gen Z
daughter just did a career profiling test at school. She
was hoping to get a scientist a lawyer, but instead
of got entertainer, and it said examples a clown, a juggler,
or a puppeteer. She was not rest.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Actually not suited to be a lawyer. You're more suited
to juggling.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, go and pick up that felt animal and put
your hand on its backside. Welcome to your next life
as a puppeteer. Here's a cream pie. Yes. Yeah. Whenever
I see a puppeteer now or a juggler, think they
just in their heart they just want to be a lawyer.
They're not living the life they wanted. So anyway, it
just reminds me of career profiling. This was hour in
(26:57):
the eighties we did at my school. This is when
school computers. There was this one school computer, right and
it was massive. I think there were like two scientists
that lived in the back end of this big ass
school computer. There's only one we're teaching who you how
to use it? Like the pe teachers were too thick
to work out was there's this beat it with sticks,
so were terrified of the future that was coming. So
we had this I don't know what wordy whatever it
(27:19):
was there Commodore Spectrum. Anyway, you had this rubbish software that'sok,
like a data load up called Cascade, where this teacher
would ask you what what kind of things are you
interested in? What are you doing? What subjects do you
do the best at school? And anything? And the couter,
the computer would spit out what it thought you should
be doing. So I said, look, I really want I
(27:39):
was sixteen, nineteen eighty nine, so they really want to
work in entertainment like TV or radio. The teacher went,
and you getting on a mass. I'm terrible at mass.
I'm probably going to faint that. Okay, English good right,
puts it all in, spits out quarry manager or funeral director.
And he was like, listen, if you don't if you
don't work harder at mass, you're never going to make
it into entertainment and showbiz. I'm like, these people aren't geniuses.
(28:01):
It's many quite low level IQ to be and they
speak about myself that do this work. If you're good
at mass, you don't end up doing these jobs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Don't need to and.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Trust me, for a lot of my career, the maths
don't add up. You don't mean maths for jazz hands, right?
So did you? Did you do some of that? At
school career profile in year ten?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I remember we went into a big assembly hall. We
all took the test.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It was quite extensive, and then I went in the
room with mister Dobbs, who was our careers counselor, and
he told me that I should be a car salesman.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
This is what they were careers advice missed.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He was so confident about it, and I didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have no interest in class whatsoever, So I don't
know why it'd be a very good car salesman.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I remembering, pissed off. Is this my future now?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So what did you say you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think back then I either wanted to be a
marine biologist or an astronomer.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I don't even know what.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What with your eyesight, I've seen you squinching at that
laptop with glasses. You ain't seen anything up in spectator
in the sea. There prescription conls and snorkel. I can
you get those alongside? I can't even see that it
(29:21):
was a sharks too. I must get my eyes tested underwater,
perhapsy what did you have at school?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Not a thing. They wouldn't have cared what we did.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I could have joined the circus, the mafia, or whatever
else you did, both.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The radio circus and them. He filmed you, O, Matthew yours.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Mister Beer was our.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Mister Beer is a mate and he sounds like a
Sax children's entertainer. Listen, mister Beer, this is not an
aspirational kids character of you drinking all day long, mister Beer.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Tony Beer was his name, and yes, and his wife
was one of the pe teachers.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
She was lovely.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
But mister Beer had no faith whatsoever in me. And
when I said to him I wanted to get into
radio and maybe journalism, radio journalism, he basically said, good
luck with that, but you need to do an arts degree.
So no faith whatsoever, no test, nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
How many people would have been talked out maybe pursuing
something that they really would have been happy doing. Yeah,
what did you have? Alex On that farm.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Nothing of the sore because you're raised by sheeps and
ghats and wolves wolves, which was what my school was like,
so you know it was it was like a jail
other than a school.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
My body school in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
We had a careers person, but she didn't really do
much at all, and you might have gone in there
just to chat to her about what you wanted to
do in life. But there was never any tests, never
any nice really yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Always tried to lower your expectations. Like I went in,
why do I thinking I'd like to sit and try
and make it in TV already was like that ain't
gonna happen. Listen to this idiot not to make it?
So would I, but I'm not Christians.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
To sit down.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
There's a factory over there with your name on it.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It was really about lowering ambition, like.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Empowering story now could like you could do anything, become
a billionaire online ten x t that opt to minds
you cryptocurrency.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I was lucky that I wanted to do this anyway,
aged at twelve or thirteen, so I was I was
quite lucky and that I knew what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I'd love to speak to other people than what was
your experience doing career profiling at school? And is anyone
actually doing what they want to do? We just got
talked out of our dreams and beaten out of us.
Give us a cool time.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Talking about career profiling on the show right now, Jules,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 10 (31:36):
Hi Christin, how are you?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm good Jewels, you were you did career profiling at school?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
My son had to do career profiling five years ago
at a public school and they did a test and
they had to see the career's counselor, and the results
came back and told.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Him that he needed to be a brewster.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
So he told us that at the dinner table, and
we were.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
Happy for him, tried to pump him up about it.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
And then about a week later, I said, hey, mate,
can I have a look at those results. It'd be
really keen to understand you know, how you got to
that result. And anyway I had to look at it, it
was barrister.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Wow, barristers have made that wrong mix up. There were
a lot of criminals who've got way too big a sentences.
He did make a good confident.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
He had no idea what a barrister was at all.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Jill's great story. Thank
you very much for sharing.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
It, mate, No worries.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Bye, Sarah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Hey, Christian hay Gang.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
How's it going.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, we're good, Sarah, Thanks for calling in. So career profiling.
Speaker 12 (32:41):
Yes, so it was very serious business at the school
that I went to, and we did it in year
tenth and my results were that I was going to
be a teacher and early childcare teacher, and I thought
that was rubbish because I wanted to be an engineer.
So I went off and I did engineering. I just
ignored everything they told me, and then fifteen years later,
guess what I'm doing now? I am a teacher.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
The circuit of life they knew.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
Yes, yes, my teachers were always convinced that that's what
I would end up doing.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What are you teaching engineering?
Speaker 8 (33:16):
No?
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Oh no, but I teach physics and stem submic subjects.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So yeah, and do you enjoy it?
Speaker 12 (33:23):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (33:23):
I do.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
It was I kind of feel like it was what
I was meant to be doing. It's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, Well, there are no straight rivers, are there in life,
there's so many twists and turns. Sometimes you're right where
you need to, where you meant to be anyway.
Speaker 12 (33:35):
Yes, so yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Awesome, Sarah, thank you very much your story. Thanks you
giving us. Are cool, no worries. Bye, let's go to uh. Kate,
Good morning, Kate, Good.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Morning everyone, and I hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
We are having a good day. Is having a good day?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Excellent?
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Have an interesting story. So it was a while ago now,
my career council they came back and I was really
keen on doing computer science and going into technology, and
they said it was far too niche and it will
never take off.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
These sill boxes and all that knowledge in there. There's
nothing in these for you.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
There's definitely nothing in technology, not a good.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Career, just going nowhere, no where.
Speaker 11 (34:17):
I say, fortunately, I completely ignored them, and yeah, twenty
five years later in it and run my own IT company.
So love technology. Yeah, yeah, you should go.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
To schools and talk to them about following actually callings
in life because no one knows anything, really, no one
knows that much.
Speaker 11 (34:36):
There are no experts, no, no, I'll look at it
and you know nothing, follow your passion and because you're
going to be doing it a long time, so you've
got to be enjoying what you're doing. So if you
get a choice, do something you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I just looked at a couple of team members are
all looking down their feet. I was working with me,
was not in that mood board when they were a teenager.
One of them was running. I was shoveling popcorn into
their face. Yeah, I'm talking to are we at the cinema?
Sorry about this, Kate, Kate, thank you very much for
giving us a call.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
See ya, Christian, I've got show podcast Sirio. You're doing
you do God's work sometimes. Now you've moved into the
big room and you're out of that bullpit where the
feral producers are, and I mean producer Bogan, producer Caitlin
and Tina. We have this instant message between RhE and
I here in the studio and the bullpit. How many
(35:30):
times you've you told them line four needs to get
off hands free? Three times? Why are they listening? You
know why she's chomping on popcorn out there? Hey we
know at Hoyts I'm on air, Okay, Partici Katelyn. What's
going on? He's telling you on the group chat Line
four is usable, but get them off hands free. Yeah,
that's why I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Just said, I'm trying to get you off hands from you.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh sorry, Well just let us know the quick. I
am like thumbs up or you get got your mate,
got your mate here, get on your get.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
You.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I like I bogn producer as well as her new
official title.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Let's put it on your business cards. Okay, let's play.
Do you have a.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Name that's a pain?
Speaker 13 (36:11):
A name you always need to explain? Well, we've made
my name as in game.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
All right, the name game as in producer. Rio and
I are also Patsy and Alex. We take each other on.
We're trying to get your name. We don't know your name,
which is why you're hear me go Caller one two
and three, Caller one, welcome. My first name as in
Sunshine Sonny Warm, the suburb Sunlight West, Lollipops.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Sonny Oh Ray, that's it, wow way.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
But it's actually spelled r e y ah.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I've seen that before. Yeah, all right, well listen, thank
you very much, Ray, but not spelled that way.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
A good day.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I have a good day, thank you. Ray. Caller two,
Welcome to the name game, as in as in sandwich
b lt Club plowers, tuna, tasty, multi grain, crusty, multi
grain rye white. This could take ages. I'm now in
(37:28):
the supermarket. Anyone else going up and down the aisle? Ruby,
that is one that that's one of the guesses of
the year. Well done, Ruben. I was about to go
with Pastromi, but of course that is no one's name. Ruben.
Thank you very much. You come. Have a good day.
(37:49):
Caller three, good morning, Welcome to the name game.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
Wishes m wishes.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Best best good wishes wishes as in good wishes to you, yep,
well Genie in the lamp three wishes Jeanie jee. That
gotcha buff the lamp in Genie appears. She said, all right, lovely,
(38:19):
thank you Jeannie, Thank you mane much. You call us.
Go to line four. Good morning, line four. Oh no,
you tried to tell them you better not be on
hands free buddy and I loan four. Blinker. It's a blinker.
It's a blinking something, Caitlin. It's going on out there.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
That is on rio.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, I hate it
when you two bicker. Oh no, no, no, no, the
gays can't fall our work. No no, no, don't break
the rainbow.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Oh my work.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
He's a loudspeaker, but he's a lovely young.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Fifteen year Okay, here he's here, Yeah, he's here. What
do you want? Hello?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Hey, we go on?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, no, it sounds like you really want to take
part in this. Uh. They're starting new game called the
Luctant Quiz Show. It's as teenagers have been forced to
call in by mom and dad. Yeah you want he wanted?
This sounds like it. It sounds like the old tiger
mom there. All right, then, all right, what's your what's
your clear? My friend? What is it?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
My name?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
As in Noah, no, Noah, yeah straight away, shame.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
On us, and we didn't get us straight as well. Noah,
thank you very much for calling in. Yeah yeah, there's
no way that Noah wants to calling. All right, we
are second round, next back after these ads.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
The Christian o'connall Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
It's The Christian O'Connell Show, Thursday morning, Final round for
the name game.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Do you have a.
Speaker 13 (40:06):
Name that's a pain and you always need to explain?
Well with main my name as in.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Game all I find a round team. Let's try and
get some names.
Speaker 12 (40:20):
Caller one, welcome, good morning, my surname as in cooking.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Baking, gas, elect kitchen.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Stewing, stove.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You cuss role frier, fer frey, fry, wow, fry. Well done,
all right, thank you very much, have a lovely day.
Thanks you calling you. It's going to call it too welcome, mhm, Hello,
(40:56):
caller too.
Speaker 11 (40:57):
Hello, my first name as in warm warm.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yes, oh that's very good too, right once today, that's
very good. Caller three. Let's go get a third one
on welcome to the name game Hello, Hello.
Speaker 11 (41:16):
My first name as is a verb.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
A verb, run or an action run walk, you walk,
runny walkie, no dance name, moonwalk, prancer, blitzen. It's a
verb and active yeah, verb or an action. There's a
(41:44):
lot of those waving, swimming, boxing, Can we know it? Down?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Another que please do it?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Justice, vengeance, no arresting running, run running is close? Is it?
What's running? Pursuing? No apprehending in prisoning enforcement? I listen
(42:22):
times running out, danger, getting what is your name?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Time?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
God? We were going all around that one chase. Of course,
you try to have us out with it close to
running and a great second clue. Chase, we'll send your price.
Thank you so much for doing that. Chase, have a
lovely day. Thanks for calling. Thank you you two call
of fur.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (42:50):
My last name is in biblical.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
King David Herold James.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
Oh well look at you going with might.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Those big the big kings, see David James Herod.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
No, I stop giving clothes because don't line of sight.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The mind's blank. Solomon. Yes, Empire today, m v P
is alex today for this. Well done, Solomon, thank you
very much to call him.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
All right, we got the news and sport coming up
next The.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
All right, time wasted Today, we're looking for your polite movies.
Hugger Games, Superman, Nurse Superman is after you, Yes, after you.
The Empire gives back. That's goods and voluntary work at
the weekend. He's joined the CFA. It's because breathing apparatus
(44:08):
in TV with a vampire terrifying movie. Yeah, but let's
make things a bit more polite. Job interview with a
vampire and can I can I? We're hiring at the
moment at the vault just so polite. I'd like to
work here. Silver, thank you, Jude wears my car a
(44:29):
little bit aggressive gratitude, where's my car?
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Gratitude Grove and Minus.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Oh what have you got? Polite movies?
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Hey, don't interrupt the Zoheim he's talking.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Oh boy, bronze, jeez.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Those bombs are a nice family. Yeah, they're the loyal
ten and bombs.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Rings. Oh brother, how are there?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah? Silver, alright, what have you got that now? Polite
movies when Harry pet Sally Silver, that's polite year, Oh god,
Janet very good. Ten things I don't mind about you.
V for volunteering, not volunteers. Men who don't scare it
(45:17):
goats because it's rude. It is rude, actually is rude.
Thank you, Silver, Etiquette Shorty Oh yeah yeah, Wizard of
Sauce God plus Jody, very good. Men who politely glance
at goats. There's a lot of action today. Bend the
(45:41):
knee for Beckham, sil plus Ben Sir, Oh Gold please, Academy,
respect to gadget. That's some Sam Day and upskill Bill
Silver Retraining.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more gold one I
four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart app. Got anything good?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Right now. Then small Thing, Big Joy Joy. Last week
on this we had Jeff Small Thing, Big Joy. When
the toaster cooks the bread just right and you can
bud it from corner to corner. Sasha getting into bed
and find the hot water bottle in the right place.
David opening a microwave right before it hits zero. You
(00:49):
think you're like James Bond in a movie of all
that bomb detonates just that red, white, blue, orange wire
grace peeling up. Oh god, this is gonna make me gag.
Only savages can peel boiled eggs and think it's okay.
My wife does it while she's chatting to me about
like family stuffing, like nah, whoa, No, just peeling it
(01:12):
like that? No peeling a boiled egg and the shell
comes off in one big piece.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That Mark watching my dog eat angry. What a great observation.
They do look like that, Lucy. When I drive to work,
I pass a work site that has those big machines
that clock your speed, and if you drive too fast
you get an angry face. I love driving the speed
and getting a smile from the machine. This is how
it works. A Pavlovian response. Okay, small thing, big joy rio,
(01:43):
what's it for you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I have very small thing, big satisfaction. When you've got
a little piece of meat or a seed wedged into
your tooth, oh gosh, but you don't have a toothpick.
Say you're at the workplace using the side of your tongue.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
To add Oh yeah, dislodge it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dislodge it, and you're going, you're working, you're working.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Finally, dislodge it is released, Yes, goes back into the
rear of life and the river.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Of your Finally you can breathe again, and you get the.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I want to ruin your day everyone, I want to
prank you anyone that sees it in there.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You're right, but it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Sticks to me.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I can't move on from whatever task I'm doing until
I've got that one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And it's always a sinew of meat.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, my beef.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's the main offender. It's really a piece of chicken
in there. No, you're right, slipperdge lamb it's beef doesn't
want to go all the way down there. There's always one rogue,
sinual strand of the day of the day. And you're right.
You look around the office. What can I use? Yes,
trying to use the fingers. Fingers aren't enough, are they?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Because it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The tongue has to get to work.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, I went into the toilet and I.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Used to start workout for your tongue, isn't it. You've
got to work the obliques, the oblique muscle. You get
a six pack tongue. Christian, my small thing, big joy.
I guessed today's show number at the same time Rio
said it, Christian, I got it today. It's going to
be a great day. It's going to be a great day.
(03:12):
Let's go to a Patsy. What's it for you? You
know what?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I got an online order yesterday and I love when
they include a little chocolate. So you open up your
pack this long awaited package for me.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
It was clothing, Go figure.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And they'd put a little tiny chocolate in there.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
You're not ordering the right stuff online.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Then what sort of choky like a little pepper? Miss
it's a little.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Dairy milk, just a simple little Cabri dairy milk.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But it just made my afternoon because I went and
made a coffee.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
House was quiet, no one was.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In that afternoon coffee and it was just a little
bit of chocolate.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was fantastic. I thought, well, I've done a good
thing today. I've gone and bought myself an outfit and I've.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Got a chocolate.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Good work in the world on top okay phone, it's
nineteen gale. It's amazing how easy we are impressed in
the afternoon. If it's a chocolate, you've got anything? You
could lure me in a kidnappers man. Yes, Wait, is
that Whitaker's coconut locking there? I'm getting in and then
the doors are closed. I don't know if there's any
more of this in here. I know to sugar hit Alex,
(04:17):
what's the small thing? Big joy?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
If you are so, you might be at the airport,
and you might be in the supermarket and you're in
a queue and it's a really long queue, and then
someone opens up another.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Counter and the new queue and you're.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
At the front of the duke que again.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You're back in the flow of life. Yes, you went
from stock that you're in p one you're in the
whole position, right, Yeah, life's all good again. All right?
Then what have you got? Text to Small Thing, Big Joy, The.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We're doing Small Thing, Big Joy. Good morning, Joel Christian,
Small Thing, Big Joy. When you piss the al foil
on the tin, you're getting that first smell of fresh
nice Cafe Blend forty three coffee upon opening. It's for me.
(05:05):
It's the same when you piss the top of pringles
are and some of that angel does as I call it,
is released, and I'm like Hannibal letter sour cream come
to me. I have to eat my My wife won't
have them in the car. So what I do is
they do those smaller Yeah, I have that in the
(05:26):
car in the supermarket car park. And then I get
out the evidence. I'm saying, no more. She doesn't hear
this part of the show. And if any of her
little witchy mates for this thing.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Get it just gets my wife's That is such.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A bad look. Hold over can of pringles. You're going
to divorce me for that? Trust me. There's semi more.
Maybe that is the thing that will just break her back.
Go goddamn. It was enough but now this sat in
the car destroying evidence the paper trail. Uh, Christian small thing,
(06:09):
big joy. Watching the flight my husband is on cross
back into Victoria after two weeks working away on the
flight radar. App Oh, Kylie, that is sas gorgeous. Thank
you for sharing that Christian small thing, big joy. When
I go through the dry through a mac as an
order of hot chocolate in the mornings, they sometimes give
me a cookie with my drink.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Oh it's nice.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
See that's really good, Danielle Christian having just the right
amount of milk left for your coffee slash tea, saving
you from having to get another milk from the fridge
to top up. It is the tiny things that just
they mean so much.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That is an instant win.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You're I'm winning right now in this moment.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I was at the servo station the other day filling
out with fuel and by the way, why can't that
be easier getting out of the car with that clankying
it back? Exactly? Why you can't get with the vacuum
where you press the button and just retracts its ownly
that come on that sciences do that anyway? As I
was going into pay. There was a guy leaving who'd
(07:20):
ordered a mass bar and I don't mean the fun size,
a proper on a fist full of mars and he
is trady and he was chomping it down, crack crack,
three bites. Gone. Wow, it's like legend. That's like, wow,
it's too much for me. One of those big ones.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, those days along behind me as a teenager. Sure,
crazy young kid, but yes, fifties, no way you can.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Be doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
In the eighties in the UK, mass bars had a
big national TV campaign. The slogan was a mars Bar
a day keeps the doctor away. So I was thought, alrighty,
I'm not stupid. I have these to keep that doctor away.
And my parents double down it. My mum was a nurse,
(08:05):
she should have murt her.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Why would the Mask corporation.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You would never get away with that. Now, a mars
Bar day keeps the doctor away. I was like, thank you,
mars par a first defense against illness and viruses.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I remember that though. I remember the ad A mars
O day, and I forget the other people.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, no, it was work, rest and play, work and play. Yeah,
we've got some of the old adverts here and here's
the Mars bar. One have listened to this.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Mars is no ten pig still only forty cents recommended
retail price.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
More fond money banger.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
However, I'm more of a Milky Way guy. Really, yeah.
I love that lighter, softer fear, more digestible.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yes, yes, more digestible.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I think as you age, I'm finding myself moving into
the milky Way terror more.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's not as sweet, it's not too sweet, it's softer.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah you bees, yeah, and a beautiful appetizer served on
the plate to impress the neighbors. Slice.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
No, I think it's the insipid chocolate bar.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I find the mass bar too thick, dense, yeah, yeah, yeah,
keep going with the caramel, chopping and coating secretly thick.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
What can you do with a milky bar Mars bar?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You can make Mars bars slice, true, deconstructed.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I used to do it school.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Jones. The microwave an ice cream. Yes, actually, Mars bar
ice cream is really nice, but in the microwave, so
it's all like it ice cream, soupy owey. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
No, milky bars just like in your MoU Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Perfect, that's what I mean digesting it for a year,
wears a tiny Yeah, I've got more room for leafy greens. Exactly.
I took my eighteen year old. We went and had
dinner last night, right, just me and her, and we
were ordering food and we had the menus with mumas here.
(10:32):
She insist that we ordered some greens. Saw the waitress
looking at me like judgment went, I'm joking, of course
that would have that. I was just a lesson. I
was testing her. We'll have side those greens. Anyway, we
eat all the food, the greens haven't been touched, and
then I have to do this performance. So it's responsible
down and they go, can I have those to go?
She goes, you want me to box these? They're in
(10:54):
the fridge at work. You know what, I'm never touching.
I'm going to lead them in there. My food is
always getting stolen. It's an experiment this week. See if
anyone tucks into those leafy greens. So you two miles
bar fans. I have, but it's just more.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
It's too much nothing, Alex, is it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I wouldn't expect Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You're right, it's it's the air of nobility about isn't
for everybody real, it's not. We need foot soldiers real
there with their chunky, thick new gart based and there's
more bite the glass of water.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The Christian o'connal show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
An email yesterday from one of you with an idea
for the show. Guy called Luke McGuire. So we listened
to us for quite a few years. Christian have an
idea for a feature on the show. It's called Cameo
Higher or Lower. It's a game I play regularly with
my wife. We look at the celebrity video website cameo.
We start with the celebrity, try and guess where the
next name celebrity charges more or less for their video message. Chanks,
(12:06):
chanks forever, my friend look at You can tell your
long term listener thank you. Yeah, cameo. I've used it
a couple of times. If you're not up to speak
to this website. Lots of different celebrities from all sport, movies,
TV shows, music. There's a lot of them there, Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Or a celebrities lower down, sometimes the whole spectrum.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, from like most of your favorite TV shows, a
lot of nostalgia shows. For the last forty years. I've
used it a couple of times to the kids for
their birthdays. Yeah, because you pay the celebrity, you asked
them for a birthday video and then it's a lovely
surprise for somebody. But when you do go on there,
the one thing you do look at and Luke and
his wife al right, is you start. Some of the
amounts are really random. It's like sort of fifty one bucks,
(12:50):
it's not fifty or it's fifty three, or it's seventy two.
I don't know why it's odd amounts. Anyway, I thought
we'd give this a go. So this is Luke Maguire's idea.
It's a cameo higher or lower game. I'm going to
give you two celebrities. You've got to work out who
is charging more? So what first? Then Greg Page from
the Wiggles O Wiggles Yummy Greg Page or fellow O
(13:15):
g Wiggles Murray Cook, Greg versus Murray? Who's charging more?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
In my head, Greg was always the leader of the Wiggles.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
So I'm going to go Greg Alex.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah, I think Greg, because Murray is not as well
known to the younger generation.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Murray sort of it does use it's there with the
Quitari is the driving four house in there.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I've got a photo, a really irigated photo with Murray.
I saw him on a pub crawl and we want
us in the street just in the park. Back in Sydney,
I was at a kebab shop and Murray was there
and we got a pot together.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
To who going for Greg Page or Murray Cook.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I'm gonna have to say Yellow Wiggle. I'm gonna have
to say Greg, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's actually Murray by some distance, Greg Page original Yellow
Wiggle one hundred and fifty one. I mean that's a lot.
Murray's four or five three, four hundred and fifty three. Really,
it's several times more than his fellow og Wiggle. The
market prices for Murray is his stock is skyh wow.
(14:23):
I would have thought Greg too. I would have thought
Greg too.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
He's gone on to do stuff like he was in
any recently, whereas I haven't seen Murray around.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
He's doing cameo videos. Cout of those a day. It's
easy money, is it? On top of they're not sure
for Bubble two, they've made so much money. I did
so night, seven or eight nights at Madison Square Garden. Yeah,
and Themember interviewing and they were saying how their rnager
got a phone call from Alexton Sorry, Robert de Niro's
(14:54):
people saying can you hold the shop? Him and his
family and the kids who Mega fans are running late,
and they did, oh my god. And then they saw
DeNiro and he's seen bringing dinner in. Denner sat down
and gave them the double thumbs up, like thank you,
that's amazing. Chris Mark was saying the first time that
Coldplay got to I was an interview and that I
complained and I was talking about how big they were.
(15:15):
They said, but there's levels to this game. The first
time they did Madison Square Garden sold out. It's a
very big, big moment in a British band's life, right.
You never think you'd ever get to do that in America.
There's nothing more American in New York than Madison Square Garden.
Chris said he went out the front to take a
photo and as he was like framing up the shot
to send his mom and dad, he suddenly saw his
band he never heard of, called the Wiggles, and he said, so,
(15:35):
who the hell do they get? Oh, it's a kid's
band from Australian kids. It's like six sold out nights
kids banned from Australia. God damn it. On my biggest
night in my life, there's a kids band from down under,
the Wiggles. All right, So Leanne Rhymes or Richard Marx.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Hey, Melanie, Richard Marx here, happy birthday to you?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are we going for Leanne Rhymes or Richard Mark?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Surprise Richard? I'm not I would have to say Richard.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I mean he's on the voice.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I'll go Richard Marks two.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Actually it's five hundred and four dollars for Leanne Rhymes.
My four hundred and fifty five for Richard Mark. I'm
more expensive than the Wiggles here in Australia. That's a lot.
All right, This one will confuse you. Nicky Webster had
another heavyweight, Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Oh goody Chappelle Corby here on cameom ready first.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Who would want this?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Who is kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Who? For someone they care about? To go? Happy birthday,
Nikki Webster.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
She's sang at the twenty fifth anniversary of the two
thousand Games the other night.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Too with Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Oh look it goes against my grain, like rubbing a
cat's fur up the wrong way.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
But I'm going to say Chappelle Corby.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I was in a Chappelle Corby musical at Uni. I'd
say the judge, like an original musical.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Why is it that on Broadway?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It never got picked up?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What was it called?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think it's just Chappelle Corby the musical. Book you board,
I will go, I'll go, Nicky, She's a start.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I'm with you, Nikki. It's Nicky Webster. But only
one hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I'd pay more for that, would you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
One hundred and six dollars if you want to book
a video message from Nicki Webster and as Chappelle Corby
fifty three bucks? All right, Luke, thank you very much
your idea. Mate.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Christian O'Connell show on podcast Now.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
As part of an employee motivation scheme, I'm going to
offer up this idea. I have no confidence in it.
I don't believe we're going to get a single call,
but sometimes I have to entertain the wild thoughts of
our producer Caitlin, and sadly I can't there. I can't
give any more knows this year. This one is simply
called stuck in a tree, Eyebra, Stuck in a tree,
(18:14):
because sometimes in life you got to join the doors.
Are we seeing a trend emrger because to be honest,
we have had two unconnected but connected by trees different
stories this week about things being stuck in trees. That's true.
Right started with Sharpie, I was wasting showtime by demanding
that people tell me what bird this is? Ha ha.
(18:35):
We found out it was the pied curraw on. That's it. Yeah,
and sharply said Christian, I don't know what the bird is,
but where there used to be one outsideber mom and
Dad's place, who I used to live at home. And
I throw a shoe, my shoe with it at the bird,
and the shoe is still in the tree, thirty years old.
It's almost like some kind of monument. It's an art
installation up there. Coralie kicked it off earlier this week
(18:58):
when we're looking for your pet stories, Christian, my daughter
had a pet goldfish in the outside pond, but it died.
I throw it over the fence. It's not a thing
you do. It's not a thing you do. You don't
do that. We'll just make it a neighbor's problem. As
a scull over the fence. I think I have the fence,
and the damn thing got stuck in the branches of
a tree. I had to avoid the era till it
(19:18):
finally went to God, I'm order a new one. Thankfully,
Thankfully she never noticed. That's from colleague. So Caitlin, this
is your baby, okay, And I hope we get calls.
So what do you imagine that we're going to get,
like people being stuck in trees or everything.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I mean, if we get people, we could get items
like you know the guy that had his shoes stuck.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
In the tree, and its yeah, cat's.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Funniest cats, that's do you know what I do? Remember
a couple of years ago I saw some fieries trying
to get a cat out of a tree, and I
didn't know this actually happened, right and goes to me,
He goes, you'd be surprised. And then remember the next
day I was talking about this and what have you
called triple zero for or for a non emergency? And
(20:10):
this woman said that she called I always remember this called.
She said, she called them. She had a count up
a tree and the truck turns up two five fieries
go up there and they get stuck. She then has
to call Triple Z there again. Can you send out
some more fieries to the cat had come down by
now the cat just mosey down and go look at
(20:32):
these clowns. Another truck turns up these fieries. See they're
two college stuck up and just film it. What a scene.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You're not helping the rescue.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So you're right, there's so many stories are emerging about
stuck up a tree. Alex, you've got a story of
any about stuck up a tree.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Cat's children can get stuck up trees. I was at
Forkner Park here in Melbourne, Oh a couple of years ago.
One of my twin daughters, six year old Evey. They
were both up the tree. I had Max sort of
just close to that and he's my four year old,
and all of a sudden I hear this branch is breaking.
Evie falls out out of the tree, but manages to
(21:10):
get caught by her undies on a branch.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Say that's another phone the next week. Saved by your undies.
She's hanging there.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
It's a mid air and it gave me time to
run to the tree and grab her just as the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That is ripped. A lucky catch by the undies. Is
it also? I've got to be honest dad of the
year there who lets young kids up a tree? What
could possibly go right?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
I'll climb anything, and I'm helpless against it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's no good with varying consequences. And that was wasn't
too bad? Audrey has fallen out of it, save by
your's neck. On Monday Show K thirteen fifty five twenty
two Upper Tree, Patsy.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, I've accidentally flung some dog poop in a bag
up in the tree.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm sorry. I don't believe that's an accident. I think
you've done on purpose. How you accidently do that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I was spinning it around my head, trying to be smart, and.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I thought that smart.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, well no, it's just very stupid. And I thought
i'd be able to get into bean.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You always know you've got a real smart person. If
you see them that's showing a bag of dog turds
around their heads, you go, my god, that's some of
the very high on the cue. Must be the granddaughter
of Einstein right there working out the theory of relativet I.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Overshot the being terribly and it ended up in the
branch up above.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'd love to see that he is walking in and
what Wow?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I felt bad? Was I going to I just had
to leave it?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What was that.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That's going to fall on somebody and give them a
very nasty surprise.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I call the fire brigade to get a bag up there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's a bad day for fiery hours. Well, I don't
want to do it. All right, lines are up, But
now are there any more stories? Stuck in a tree.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Christian not a tree, but there was a phallic shaped
adult toy stuck on a power line in the middle
of our center for ages. It was there for months
until a truck knocked it down. Spoil spotoo truck, Jess,
that is so good. You should have put it back
up there. Christian Pats could have something. Maybe her next Olympics.
(23:24):
You could do dog turd tossing. Yeah, I see. We
can get mass bar to sponsoring Brisbane. Maybe that could
be one of the Brisbane demonstration events. Christian, my snake
got stuck in a tree which took him outside for
some UV and he wrapped himself around the branch. Now,
being an eight foot long, incredibly strong diamond python, there
was no unwrapping him, and we had to wait for
(23:46):
hours until he felt like unwrapping himself and coming back
in the house. We tried spraying it with water. I
don't think that's a way to get a pythonto on coil,
just spritzing them with water. There are a pion. Jared,
Welcome to the show, Jared.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Good day, Christian carew how's it going?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, very good, thanks for calling the show. She's got
a story about something stuck in a tree.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, So the thing that got stuck in the tree
was me.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
How what happened?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I decided, while on holiday with family, I would take
on one of the hotels little extra curricular activities of paragliding.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I always see that leaflet and I wonder who does that?
Who is bulls? Your brave enough both to do that?
And that was you.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Yeah, And they seem to have mispied the things that
controlled my turning wrong. So I had zero control at all.
I didn't guy to turn it or anything.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
No way. You just strapped to wherever that thing, well,
where the wind wants you to go and blow yep.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I was swinging around and then they were like indicating
for me to turn away. So I could land, but
it wasn't turning obviously, and and I'm heading for straight
for a tree and I'm just yelling tree and then crash.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm not going to move the I was stuck there
for about fifteen minutes while they mess around trying to
cut the parachute to pieces. You must have been terrified.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I was at first, and after about the five to
ten minute mark, I'll sort it just bored.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Jared. Awesome story. Thank you very much for sharing that.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Mate, No problems. It's the cherry on top of it
is after I finally get down. I was seventeen at
the time, so not even able to legally drink. But
a guy at the hotels all the whole thing and
brought me a beer. And my dad saw me with
the beer to have a goal with me, and I said,
I I effing deserve it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
There's a record shortage of new clowns. Yes, they've lost
them to TikTok. They're clowning around online, that's what they're
doing now. They don't want to get clown around in
the big top.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I know it's tragic really to see that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think it's just going to die out.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do know. If you know ten twenty years now,
they just won't be big tops.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
To be no circuses, no little carnivals, those bloody gen
Z I know.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I get this email from Kate Christian, My gen Z
daughter just did a career profiling test at school. She
was hoping to get a scientist a lawyer, but instead
of got entertainer, and it said examples a clown, a juggler,
or a puppeteer. She was not rest.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Actually not suited to be a lawyer. You're more suited
to juggling.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, go and pick up that felt animal and put
your hand on its backside. Welcome to your next life
as a puppeteer. Here's a cream pie. Yes. Yeah. Whenever
I see a puppeteer now or a juggler, think they
just in their heart they just want to be a lawyer.
They're not living the life they wanted. So anyway, it
just reminds me of career profiling. This was hour in
(26:57):
the eighties we did at my school. This is when
school computers. There was this one school computer, right and
it was massive. I think there were like two scientists
that lived in the back end of this big ass
school computer. There's only one we're teaching who you how
to use it? Like the pe teachers were too thick
to work out was there's this beat it with sticks,
so were terrified of the future that was coming. So
we had this I don't know what wordy whatever it
(27:19):
was there Commodore Spectrum. Anyway, you had this rubbish software that'sok,
like a data load up called Cascade, where this teacher
would ask you what what kind of things are you
interested in? What are you doing? What subjects do you
do the best at school? And anything? And the couter,
the computer would spit out what it thought you should
be doing. So I said, look, I really want I
(27:39):
was sixteen, nineteen eighty nine, so they really want to
work in entertainment like TV or radio. The teacher went,
and you getting on a mass. I'm terrible at mass.
I'm probably going to faint that. Okay, English good right,
puts it all in, spits out quarry manager or funeral director.
And he was like, listen, if you don't if you
don't work harder at mass, you're never going to make
it into entertainment and showbiz. I'm like, these people aren't geniuses.
(28:01):
It's many quite low level IQ to be and they
speak about myself that do this work. If you're good
at mass, you don't end up doing these jobs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Don't need to and.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Trust me, for a lot of my career, the maths
don't add up. You don't mean maths for jazz hands, right?
So did you? Did you do some of that? At
school career profile in year ten?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I remember we went into a big assembly hall. We
all took the test.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It was quite extensive, and then I went in the
room with mister Dobbs, who was our careers counselor, and
he told me that I should be a car salesman.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
This is what they were careers advice missed.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He was so confident about it, and I didn't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have no interest in class whatsoever, So I don't
know why it'd be a very good car salesman.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I remembering, pissed off. Is this my future now?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So what did you say you wanted to do?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I think back then I either wanted to be a
marine biologist or an astronomer.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I don't even know what.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What with your eyesight, I've seen you squinching at that
laptop with glasses. You ain't seen anything up in spectator
in the sea. There prescription conls and snorkel. I can
you get those alongside? I can't even see that it
(29:21):
was a sharks too. I must get my eyes tested underwater,
perhapsy what did you have at school?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Not a thing. They wouldn't have cared what we did.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I could have joined the circus, the mafia, or whatever
else you did, both.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The radio circus and them. He filmed you, O, Matthew yours.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Mister Beer was our.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Mister Beer is a mate and he sounds like a
Sax children's entertainer. Listen, mister Beer, this is not an
aspirational kids character of you drinking all day long, mister Beer.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Tony Beer was his name, and yes, and his wife
was one of the pe teachers.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
She was lovely.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
But mister Beer had no faith whatsoever in me. And
when I said to him I wanted to get into
radio and maybe journalism, radio journalism, he basically said, good
luck with that, but you need to do an arts degree.
So no faith whatsoever, no test, nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
How many people would have been talked out maybe pursuing
something that they really would have been happy doing. Yeah,
what did you have? Alex On that farm.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Nothing of the sore because you're raised by sheeps and
ghats and wolves wolves, which was what my school was like,
so you know it was it was like a jail
other than a school.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
My body school in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
We had a careers person, but she didn't really do
much at all, and you might have gone in there
just to chat to her about what you wanted to
do in life. But there was never any tests, never
any nice really yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Always tried to lower your expectations. Like I went in,
why do I thinking I'd like to sit and try
and make it in TV already was like that ain't
gonna happen. Listen to this idiot not to make it?
So would I, but I'm not Christians.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
To sit down.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
There's a factory over there with your name on it.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It was really about lowering ambition, like.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Empowering story now could like you could do anything, become
a billionaire online ten x t that opt to minds
you cryptocurrency.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I was lucky that I wanted to do this anyway,
aged at twelve or thirteen, so I was I was
quite lucky and that I knew what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I'd love to speak to other people than what was
your experience doing career profiling at school? And is anyone
actually doing what they want to do? We just got
talked out of our dreams and beaten out of us.
Give us a cool time.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Talking about career profiling on the show right now, Jules,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 10 (31:36):
Hi Christin, how are you?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm good Jewels, you were you did career profiling at school?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
My son had to do career profiling five years ago
at a public school and they did a test and
they had to see the career's counselor, and the results
came back and told.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Him that he needed to be a brewster.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
So he told us that at the dinner table, and
we were.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
Happy for him, tried to pump him up about it.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
And then about a week later, I said, hey, mate,
can I have a look at those results. It'd be
really keen to understand you know, how you got to
that result. And anyway I had to look at it, it
was barrister.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Wow, barristers have made that wrong mix up. There were
a lot of criminals who've got way too big a sentences.
He did make a good confident.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
He had no idea what a barrister was at all.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Jill's great story. Thank
you very much for sharing.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
It, mate, No worries.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Bye, Sarah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Hey, Christian hay Gang.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
How's it going.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, we're good, Sarah, Thanks for calling in. So career profiling.
Speaker 12 (32:41):
Yes, so it was very serious business at the school
that I went to, and we did it in year
tenth and my results were that I was going to
be a teacher and early childcare teacher, and I thought
that was rubbish because I wanted to be an engineer.
So I went off and I did engineering. I just
ignored everything they told me, and then fifteen years later,
guess what I'm doing now? I am a teacher.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
The circuit of life they knew.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
Yes, yes, my teachers were always convinced that that's what
I would end up doing.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What are you teaching engineering?
Speaker 8 (33:16):
No?
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Oh no, but I teach physics and stem submic subjects.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So yeah, and do you enjoy it?
Speaker 12 (33:23):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (33:23):
I do.
Speaker 12 (33:23):
It was I kind of feel like it was what
I was meant to be doing. It's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, Well, there are no straight rivers, are there in life,
there's so many twists and turns. Sometimes you're right where
you need to, where you meant to be anyway.
Speaker 12 (33:35):
Yes, so yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Awesome, Sarah, thank you very much your story. Thanks you
giving us. Are cool, no worries. Bye, let's go to uh. Kate,
Good morning, Kate, Good.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Morning everyone, and I hope you're having a good day.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
We are having a good day. Is having a good day?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Excellent?
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Have an interesting story. So it was a while ago now,
my career council they came back and I was really
keen on doing computer science and going into technology, and
they said it was far too niche and it will
never take off.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
These sill boxes and all that knowledge in there. There's
nothing in these for you.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
There's definitely nothing in technology, not a good.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Career, just going nowhere, no where.
Speaker 11 (34:17):
I say, fortunately, I completely ignored them, and yeah, twenty
five years later in it and run my own IT company.
So love technology. Yeah, yeah, you should go.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
To schools and talk to them about following actually callings
in life because no one knows anything, really, no one
knows that much.
Speaker 11 (34:36):
There are no experts, no, no, I'll look at it
and you know nothing, follow your passion and because you're
going to be doing it a long time, so you've
got to be enjoying what you're doing. So if you
get a choice, do something you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I just looked at a couple of team members are
all looking down their feet. I was working with me,
was not in that mood board when they were a teenager.
One of them was running. I was shoveling popcorn into
their face. Yeah, I'm talking to are we at the cinema?
Sorry about this, Kate, Kate, thank you very much for
giving us a call.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
See ya, Christian, I've got show podcast Sirio. You're doing
you do God's work sometimes. Now you've moved into the
big room and you're out of that bullpit where the
feral producers are, and I mean producer Bogan, producer Caitlin
and Tina. We have this instant message between RhE and
I here in the studio and the bullpit. How many
(35:30):
times you've you told them line four needs to get
off hands free? Three times? Why are they listening? You
know why she's chomping on popcorn out there? Hey we
know at Hoyts I'm on air, Okay, Partici Katelyn. What's
going on? He's telling you on the group chat Line
four is usable, but get them off hands free. Yeah,
that's why I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Just said, I'm trying to get you off hands from you.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh sorry, Well just let us know the quick. I
am like thumbs up or you get got your mate,
got your mate here, get on your get.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
You.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I like I bogn producer as well as her new
official title.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Let's put it on your business cards. Okay, let's play.
Do you have a.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Name that's a pain?
Speaker 13 (36:11):
A name you always need to explain? Well, we've made
my name as in game.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
All right, the name game as in producer. Rio and
I are also Patsy and Alex. We take each other on.
We're trying to get your name. We don't know your name,
which is why you're hear me go Caller one two
and three, Caller one, welcome. My first name as in
Sunshine Sonny Warm, the suburb Sunlight West, Lollipops.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Sonny Oh Ray, that's it, wow way.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
But it's actually spelled r e y ah.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I've seen that before. Yeah, all right, well listen, thank
you very much, Ray, but not spelled that way.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
A good day.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I have a good day, thank you. Ray. Caller two,
Welcome to the name game, as in as in sandwich
b lt Club plowers, tuna, tasty, multi grain, crusty, multi
grain rye white. This could take ages. I'm now in
(37:28):
the supermarket. Anyone else going up and down the aisle? Ruby,
that is one that that's one of the guesses of
the year. Well done, Ruben. I was about to go
with Pastromi, but of course that is no one's name. Ruben.
Thank you very much. You come. Have a good day.
(37:49):
Caller three, good morning, Welcome to the name game.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
Wishes m wishes.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Best best good wishes wishes as in good wishes to you, yep,
well Genie in the lamp three wishes Jeanie jee. That
gotcha buff the lamp in Genie appears. She said, all right, lovely,
(38:19):
thank you Jeannie, Thank you mane much. You call us.
Go to line four. Good morning, line four. Oh no,
you tried to tell them you better not be on
hands free buddy and I loan four. Blinker. It's a blinker.
It's a blinking something, Caitlin. It's going on out there.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
That is on rio.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, I hate it
when you two bicker. Oh no, no, no, no, the
gays can't fall our work. No no, no, don't break
the rainbow.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Oh my work.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
He's a loudspeaker, but he's a lovely young.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Fifteen year Okay, here he's here, Yeah, he's here. What
do you want? Hello?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Hey, we go on?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, no, it sounds like you really want to take
part in this. Uh. They're starting new game called the
Luctant Quiz Show. It's as teenagers have been forced to
call in by mom and dad. Yeah you want he wanted?
This sounds like it. It sounds like the old tiger
mom there. All right, then, all right, what's your what's
your clear? My friend? What is it?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
My name?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
As in Noah, no, Noah, yeah straight away, shame.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
On us, and we didn't get us straight as well. Noah,
thank you very much for calling in. Yeah yeah, there's
no way that Noah wants to calling. All right, we
are second round, next back after these ads.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
The Christian o'connall Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
It's The Christian O'Connell Show, Thursday morning, Final round for
the name game.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Do you have a.
Speaker 13 (40:06):
Name that's a pain and you always need to explain?
Well with main my name as in.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Game all I find a round team. Let's try and
get some names.
Speaker 12 (40:20):
Caller one, welcome, good morning, my surname as in cooking.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Baking, gas, elect kitchen.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Stewing, stove.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You cuss role frier, fer frey, fry, wow, fry. Well done,
all right, thank you very much, have a lovely day.
Thanks you calling you. It's going to call it too welcome, mhm, Hello,
(40:56):
caller too.
Speaker 11 (40:57):
Hello, my first name as in warm warm.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yes, oh that's very good too, right once today, that's
very good. Caller three. Let's go get a third one
on welcome to the name game Hello, Hello.
Speaker 11 (41:16):
My first name as is a verb.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
A verb, run or an action run walk, you walk,
runny walkie, no dance name, moonwalk, prancer, blitzen. It's a
verb and active yeah, verb or an action. There's a
(41:44):
lot of those waving, swimming, boxing, Can we know it? Down?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Another que please do it?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Justice, vengeance, no arresting running, run running is close? Is it?
What's running? Pursuing? No apprehending in prisoning enforcement? I listen
(42:22):
times running out, danger, getting what is your name?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Time?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
God? We were going all around that one chase. Of course,
you try to have us out with it close to
running and a great second clue. Chase, we'll send your price.
Thank you so much for doing that. Chase, have a
lovely day. Thanks for calling. Thank you you two call
of fur.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (42:50):
My last name is in biblical.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
King David Herold James.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
Oh well look at you going with might.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Those big the big kings, see David James Herod.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
No, I stop giving clothes because don't line of sight.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The mind's blank. Solomon. Yes, Empire today, m v P
is alex today for this. Well done, Solomon, thank you
very much to call him.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
All right, we got the news and sport coming up
next The.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
All right, time wasted Today, we're looking for your polite movies.
Hugger Games, Superman, Nurse Superman is after you, Yes, after you.
The Empire gives back. That's goods and voluntary work at
the weekend. He's joined the CFA. It's because breathing apparatus
(44:08):
in TV with a vampire terrifying movie. Yeah, but let's
make things a bit more polite. Job interview with a
vampire and can I can I? We're hiring at the
moment at the vault just so polite. I'd like to
work here. Silver, thank you, Jude wears my car a
(44:29):
little bit aggressive gratitude, where's my car?
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Gratitude Grove and Minus.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Oh what have you got? Polite movies?
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Hey, don't interrupt the Zoheim he's talking.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Oh boy, bronze, jeez.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Those bombs are a nice family. Yeah, they're the loyal
ten and bombs.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Rings. Oh brother, how are there?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah? Silver, alright, what have you got that now? Polite
movies when Harry pet Sally Silver, that's polite year, Oh god,
Janet very good. Ten things I don't mind about you.
V for volunteering, not volunteers. Men who don't scare it
(45:17):
goats because it's rude. It is rude, actually is rude.
Thank you, Silver, Etiquette Shorty Oh yeah yeah, Wizard of
Sauce God plus Jody, very good. Men who politely glance
at goats. There's a lot of action today. Bend the
(45:41):
knee for Beckham, sil plus Ben Sir, Oh Gold please, Academy,
respect to gadget. That's some Sam Day and upskill Bill
Silver Retraining.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
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