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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):
Good morning, Rio, Good morning, Good morning, Alex morning, Good morning,
pats morning.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Everyone.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now we'll get into today's show in a second. But
I just Rhei and I were just you know, doing
pre show checks during a newstap Patsy in the last
story you had really did. Uh, it's really rattled with
me because yeah, it was just I didn't know that
they were importing sperm to Australia. Yes, yes, it was real.

(00:53):
Just said there can't be a shortage though.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
There is a short plenty of plenty of men walking.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Around, yes, and not either on walking around. What about
the ones indoors exactly, those of they should be targeting
with a kind of awareness or marketing campaign here. So
what is because people aren't donating?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, not enough people are donating, and there's there's a
big demand because you know, lots of people with varying
circumstances need sperm, need eggs to have a party and
have a baby, and so are leading IVF specialists is saying, hey,
we should be paying men as an incentive to donate sperm,
and therefore the shortage would be no longer.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So how do they even import that? I mean where
male countries?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Male male?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Is that right? In a letter?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
In a special yeah, partic hand up there.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
So a lot of my friends are lesbians and they
are going through the process right now of having children.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now in Victoria, you well, they will go to a
special post box. There's a hidden one.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
You can only get Victorian men's sperm in Victoria if
you want.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
To do us.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is a divided country, so you can't get wa nah.
So it's for everything in this country.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
And the pool of people in Victoria is tight, like minuscule.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
We had no idea that it's really bad.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
So a lot of my friends actually travel to New
South Wales because you can import.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Sperm from what look for men just driving around in
a big van mystery machine, get in the back. What
where do you come from? Victoria?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
But they do.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
They go to New South Wales to get sperm from overseas.
So friends of mine got sperm from America, yeah, and
the UK.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So are they selecting countries because they think it might
be higher quality.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
No, not about high quality. It's about what they want
usually with their child. So for example, someone might want like,
for example, if it me and my partner Zem and
Zem was having the child, we might want them to
look like me, just to have that little bit of
a like not connection, but you know, and so I
might to get a white, blue, wide, blonde haired male.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
You go through a catalog, you do.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
You go through a catalog.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
The show is really just so many things are opening
right now. In my eyes, I didn't know anything like
this was going on.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, a big part of like a
lot of my friends are going through it right now. Yeah,
and Victoria Pool is just so tiny. So I'm not
surprised that they're asking people to be paid to give spam.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's not shocking at all.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
When I was at university, we were you could go
and earn money to donate, and so I did it
a couple of times because it was like fifty bucks,
and when you're a student, that was a difference. Beween
going out for the weekend. I've only just thought about
that now, but that was in the nineties and it
never occurred to me at the time, because there was
just like being given cash. It never curred to me
like what are they doing with that stuff? Only until

(03:58):
the s morning til the news, and I was like,
hang on a minute, you might.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Have other children across the world.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Christian whoa, That's why I moved here. Keep it quiet.
But on the lowdown.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Christian O'Connell shown podcast.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
There was a lot going on that last week, wasn't
it something? I does feel like we need to call
the engine of the showdown a bit there, and then
we always came in a little bit too hot. You
put something like that and then use their patch here,
it's irresponsible. Maybe it's just warn us, like, hey, in
half an hour's time, we're going to be talking about this,
so we can just prepare ourselves. Good morning, it's the

(04:33):
Christian O'Connell's show on God. Let's talk about yesterday and Monday.
Winners or losers. I am definitely a loser. Yes Ill
the shame member was talking about how last week I
was supposed to be going to ikea of the weekend
and I did a deal with the devil. I said, hey,
why don't we do that on Monday when it's quiet
Monday was a course.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yesterday is the devil your wife in this situation?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Not quite clear on that. It's like I said, everything's
coming in hot right now? Am I the devil? It's
the Swedish? What is your retailer? Ike I'm not sure
who is the devil in the story? To be honest,
the devil is in the detail and in this story. Anyway,
Yesterday I had to go to Ikea after the show. No,
I was alex Yes, I was angry, and apparently there

(05:17):
was no time for me to pre feed. I have
to be honest, I had one of the worst public
meltdowns I've ever had toddler. It was like a fifty
something toddler. Basically, it was bad. I could apologize to
my wife. I don't know. I can't. I can't get
out of this. No, I meant I can't get out

(05:37):
of this. The big thing I did right, My wife
is constantly running late, so I got there like before her,
and I need to get a desk for myself. So
I think I just pop into the we were there
to do click and clients. I thought I just quickly
go upstairs to the showroom. Shocking shog out. Oh my god,
so I, first of all takes stages, that labyrinth going

(06:00):
round like Narnia. Just just go see where the office
desk were. I see two or three. I like a
coach at the photos and the strange names. And then
I go to an employee, how do I get out
of here as quick as possible? I said, I see
you just came out that door there, and she went on,
that's it's not a customers what's through the other side
that door? A slide down the car park? Yes, there

(06:22):
are doors doors. Yeah, I saw her just come out
of the door. She went, don't go through that door.
I was trying to run through it, but you tackle me.
They fire Swedish meatballs at me. She was going to
go she was. She said to me, you need to
get back on the path and follow the arrows and

(06:44):
don't come off the path. So I was like, hanging
a minute. If I'm back on that path, I'm going
to be going through everywhere in the house, toilets, kitchens,
the bathrooms. I only came to look at office. They
must do research about you spend extra money with that
windy wine everywhere?

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yes, doing it to you, But you still can't help.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
But you're like, I know you're making me go through
the coat hanger section and this is a deliberate plot,
but I do need someone.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
All the way they got I did buy some. Yes,
they were the nice one ones with a kind of
nice rounded shoulder. I don't like it when you use
a hanger and it leaves.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
That too sharp pree yes, yes, yes, that especially on
a knitted se Well the good for the good people
are kid they've rounded it out there in Sweden and
that so anyway I got so, I was lady annoyed.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Once I finally got out there, my wife or I
shout my going are you okay? I went no, I'm not.
I saw the desk, but I saw hell. Just get
back out. It wouldn't let me go through. There's a
side door. It's like Disneyland. Those employees they come out
of like hidden doors and trap doors and then and
then to because they used to work out where to
go and get this clicking collect The woman goes, you

(07:55):
got a pee two And when I'm sorry, I don't
work here. What is P two? It's not like a
universal thing. She goes as the second level of the
car park again, we're going down to Hell. I go
down there right, and an elderly couple come up to
me mistake me for managers. At first, I was just

(08:16):
confused because they were very distressed. You know, old people
just like blurt stuff out. They didn't even say hello,
it's like yeah. I was trying to sit down and going,
what what's happening here right now? And so they had
like a really long receipt and I was like, do
you think I'm a manager? And she was like yes,
and your team and not. I was this closed to going,
do you know what? You're quite right? Let me just

(08:36):
sign this here and authorize it, go and help go
and get whatever you want from the showroom and load up.
I just said. Derek said it's fine, the general manager
of VIK Springville. So I kind of like snapped on
and said I'm not the manager and walked off. And
then I felt really bad and I saw that they
were then they must have been their late seventies. They
were then struggling with a load of flatback into the car.

(08:57):
I went over and said, hey, do you need a
hand with this, and and they were like, oh no, no,
it's quite right. Don't't to bother you doing your own stuff.
Then I said no, no, let me, let me help put
it in the car. These old people, right, I went,
you've got so much, you'd have stuff by now at
your age. They're like, we're driving to Tasmania now.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
With all this my God spirit, yes to.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Go and make out their place. Yes? What yeah, ca
And then then I went, oh my god, you to
a hardcoren that went. We just finished playing tennis tennis
and then dried to Tasmania. There's no Ikea in Tasmania.
So I said, you come a long way to Springvale, Victoria.
What I said, if you're not got they're not got
dial up internet over there on the island. There must

(09:40):
be an Ikea in Tasmania. There's no footy team there,
no Ikea. There must be an Ikea in Tasmania. Has
to be.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Tasmania collect but you can't go to All day.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I kept thinking about Lord driving back to Tasmania and
then wait when they get there, they gonna put all together.
One was a bed and they said it was their
new bed. So they had to drive home and make
the bed to leap in that night. Pay tennis. They're
in better shake to me. They pay tennis in the morning.
These old times, their late seventies.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
There must be tennis courts in Tasmania.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
They know on that ANFL stadium. They want tennis and
they do not want Ikea furniture as well. So anyway,
by the time I didn't go back to my wife,
I put all our stuff in the car and it
was a lot. You know, it's yesterday. I said, there
was like a bed better tembers. There was no room
for me in the car. Yeah, we told you that.
I then had to go and basically stand at the
side of the hive way. I tried an uber and

(10:44):
I was just outside and I care I fell on
the guy goes if you escape from and I went
kind of.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thank you very much. Paul just donated backpacks of it Kids,
which only everything you need to know about the big
thing that's happening at the moment on the show in
five when it's time, Paul, thank you very much for
your amazing donation. Christians Paul in perth Wa I listen
to your show every day Monday to Friday on ninety
six FM from two am till five a m. That

(11:19):
is hardcore, Paul, and thank you very much for donating Michelle,
thank you very much as well for your donation as well.
So I want to know are you a Monday winner
or loser Christian? According to TikTok, I've just had a
look my TikTok followers the tower. There's no Aldi also
in Tasmania.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
To come on the spirit to get the special buyers.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
They want snow chains or a telescope. See. I feel
for the Teswegians, I really do. I'm stunned that they've
got no Aldi and no Ikea. And as the old
couple that obviously have driven from Tasmania to Springville here
in Victoria to get some flatback and then driving back

(12:04):
in on the ferry and taking it all back of
them making it And.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
Doesn't it take like twelve fifteen hours each way on
the boat.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
They're like, no, no, it's.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
About seven hours, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's about five, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's like overnight.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, it's overnight.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
It's eleven it's eleven hour journey, right, it was five hours, yeah, nine.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
To eleven hours. It can take pending weather conditions because.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
It's a huge so slowly.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well you know what's on there now, don't you? We
know it's twas maintenance is loaded up right with Algie
deals flat back. Now, one of that boat takes so
long it's way down with all the footback. They've got
the priorities right.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
They haven't got an I, they haven't got an Houri,
but they're getting a football team.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
That's just brilliant. They've cracked the code to a happy Yeah,
that's great, Alex. How was your d Yes, sir, you're
a Monday winner and lose weight.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
I'm a winner for now because my kids are growing
up very fast.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
You've got under six year olds.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
I know my twin girls ordering Eva six, Max is four.
He just turned four last weekend. But he got quite
upset the other day because he's growing up and he's
not her baby anymore. But listen, yesterday I walked with
Max down to pick up the kids from school, which
I do as often as I can, which is very special.
Seeing the girls, you know, walk out of their classroom
and they see you in the low dome.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Oh my god. They run towards you, squealing the best
thing in the world. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they go
where's Mum.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
I'm like, okay, thanks kids, But look, we were walking
after the shops we played at the playground, which is
also really lovely, and it's really nice to get to
spend this time with my children. Not many, not everyone does.
And as we were walking down to food works to
get some food, Evie just reaches into my hand and

(13:55):
grabs my hand. And I can't tell you the feeling
I got when that happened. And it was a really
really special moment, because those moments are becoming less and
less that my kids, the six year olds sort of
grabbing your hand and those those little moments of real
emotion and love.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
And yeah, where they don't feel they're not yet at
the self conscious moments. Yeah, and also cherish those because
at some moment there is the last time. Yeah. I
remember when Ruby and Lois suddenly it's not okay. I
think it's about nine or ten, she's still got a
couple of years. And then I remember, it's just been
out in our little town where we raised the kids
back in the UK, and suddenly Ruby went, don't do that.

(14:32):
It's strange now, Yeah, And she wasn't being rude or anything.
I get it. It would be you know, walking on
and arm with your dad and suddenly getting into ten
and eleven it's strange. I was like, oh my god,
that part being a dad is now over. Yeah, you've
got another couple of years cherishing. I hope.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
So, I really do, because something that simple is just
so so magical.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, it is holding hands with your child. Definitely, you're
a Monday winner. Yeah, yeah you are. Yeah, it's not
hanging in the balance. Yeah, that's great, Patsy. How is
your day?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah good.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I think I'm a loser though, speaking of ELDI so
I just had to go for a tub of you
I get it out yesterday And there was this guy
this trip to was out of my yogurt from a
fruit salad.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
What do you Farmer's Union girl, what do you?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, like a creamy one. But you know, you've got
to be careful because of course it tastes good, so
it's less good for you. But there was a gentleman
with a full trolley load and we arrived at the
checkout at the same time. Now, courtesy would dictate that
he would say, please, you've got one.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Item totally, even if you had five, if you've got
full trolley. Yeah, it's like people letting you out in
the traffic. Yes, you know, absolutely, did.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
You not No, I reckon my category for me. If
they've got a hand basket, you say, please go before me.
You've just got a few things, but the trolley, that's
when it's But there was no I didn't even have
a hand basket. I just had my container of yogurt
and he just like shoved in front of me, and.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I thought it nice, Especially Jones, that's.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Just not nice and that's bad karma.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
So did you wear in the car park?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
If not, with my she.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
You can't tell us something. But yeah, we know what happened.
We know you're not getting the real story. Listeners, that
guy right now is in a hospital bed. Any food
through a straw, sucking yogurt got the news.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Coming up next the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yester on the show, we still have a big thing
we're doing this week supporting the amazing work of a
very small but important charity called Backpacks for vic Kids.
If you've not heard about them, the moment you hear
what they do, your heart just breaks open that they
even need to exist. Your heart also just melts that
they do something like this for the children that really

(16:50):
are in need right here in Victoria. So Sally there
is a situation all around Australia that one in thirty
three Australian children are taken out of comb and put
into taken out of an unsafe home environment. And right
here in Victoria, what Backpacks of Kids do is they
give these children when they're taking from an unsafe home
of Roman a backpack and it has just got essentials

(17:11):
in there, like a blanky, it's pens, pencils, coloring pencils,
a toothbrush. And it might sound like quite a small
thing to give a chilt, but honestly, the impact of
these backpacks for these kids who sadly have little or nothing.
I got this email yesterday evening. If you want to donate,
and the charity really do need donations because actually, if

(17:31):
they don't have donations in the next couple of weeks,
the charity is on the verge of collapsing. So that's
what we're doing this week. We're trying to really plead
with you to donate whatever you can. Ten twenty bucks
is amazing. The cost of one of these backpacks toe
to the cost of everything at the moment is one
hundred dollars. We're not expecting everyone to be able to
donate one hundred dollars, but the tens to twenties they

(17:53):
all add up. And the charity told me last week,
every one dollar they get from you guys, they convert
that into four dollars of value and worth. So your
ten dollar donation is actually forty dollars. That's almost half
a backpack, So everything does count now, if you're thinking
about have listened to this email I got yesterday from
Kerry Christian, my foster care. Myself also worked for child protection,

(18:15):
so I'm aware firsthand how valuable these backpacks are to
our vulnerable children. At a time when children are confused
and scared, with little or no familiarity with anything, these
backpacks provide a sense of stability, comfort and independence. I've
personally given these packs to the kids and seen the
reaction from them. It's this says something to be to
call their own in really scary, troubling times. As a

(18:36):
foster care, I cannot highlight the importance of these children
having a bag of their own instead of cuting around
their belongings in a binliner, which is normally, sadly the normal.
It breaks your heart, so please donate whatever you can
head to the Christian O'Connell Show dot com dead Au.
Now we started this yesterday morning at eight o'clock and
the good news is, Rio, what of our generous family

(19:00):
of listeners donated so far?

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Right over twenty eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
So I'm hoping by nine o'clock this morning we're up
to fifty. Yesterday morning at eight we had nothing. Now
it's just over twenty seven thousand, So let's hope by
nine o'clock this morning we've got fifty thousand. So thank
you very much who people who have been donating since
the start of the show today, So that really is
a big thank you. To Paul who's listened to this

(19:25):
in per Thank you very much, Mark who's just donated
as well from the Hunter Valley. When you go and donate,
head to the Christian O'Connell's Show dot com dot au.
Please leave a message with your name, where you are,
and anything else you want to say, because so we
can read out your names and thank you very much.
Thank you very much to an who donated at two
to eight m this morning, Rio, you got some more

(19:46):
thank you I do.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
We've got Susan one hundred dollars. Such a wonderful cause.
Thank you for raising awareness. Lee one hundred dollars. Hope
this warms the heart of some tiny humans. Such a
great cause and returning all the good juju I get
from the Christian O'Connell show.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Thank you very much, Alex, she got some of there
as well.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mate.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Yeah, George's donated twenty dollars. I was driving it to
work in tears. What a heartbreaking situation for these tw
de bean Amanda donated one hundred dollars, glen Us two hundred,
Paul one hundred, Howard one hundred dollars as well, So
thank you so much, guys, Patsy some more, thank you.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Jer Leanne has donated a whopping one thousand dollars, Melissa
five hundred, Chris three hundred, Greg two hundred, Rex two hundred,
and he said for my wife who was put in
this situation as a teenager and her sister. Sorry to
hear that, Rex, but thank you. That's so inspirational.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Thank you so much. Say everyone who is donating anything
on behalf of all these kids that are going to
be receiving these backpacks. And actually, if we don't donate
this week, they're not going to really meet the huge
need for them, so please, if you want to find
out more and most importantly donate, leave your name on there.
When you've donated, head to the Christian O'Connell show. Easy
than to do It's chuck it Orderto, Google the Christian

(20:54):
o'connells Show dot com dot au.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Thank you, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Thank you very much too, Rachel, Linda, Jackie, Christina shen
All donating in the last two minutes, head to the
Christian O'Connell's show dot com Today you tonight support the
children in need in Victoria Backpacks of It Kids. Right now,
we're doing What's the Year? My Friend? TV? Shows movie songs,

(21:22):
Pats Rio Alex taking each other on to try and
guess what was the year it came out? Team? Are
you ready to play? Ready?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Ready to smash it?

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Again? Through this week?

Speaker 1 (21:33):
So everyone's fired up? I like it.

Speaker 8 (21:34):
Do you know what they released free Willie?

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Was it eighty nine or ninety three? Or when did
Tita record Life for Brands? I'm not very good with taste.
Does anybody? And they know? What's the year again? What's
the year? My friend?

Speaker 1 (21:50):
All right, Dad's play Billy Madison.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Back to School?

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sanman, Betty Madison.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
I've sort of erased it from my memory.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
I hated.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
This is I'm human to say you don't like Billy Madison.
I love the same man of the best.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I don't need to, but this was not his best one.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
You got Sam Man, Norm McDonald, norms the drunken principle.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, Bradley Whitford's in.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
It didn't rock my boat.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Let's just say, oh, speak Sam Man for everyone.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Say early nineties ninety.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Two, No, ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Nine, nineteen ninety five, right in the middle, holding the
nineties up like a giant ten pole of killer comedy.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's thirty years old.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
No, thirty lord, we are terrible at mass in mind.
Last week I was saying we should enter a pub quiz. Actually, no,
we should. We just need to make sure there's no
mouths questions. That is a giant a kiddies hell. People
must just like punch the speaker someone times. Whenever we

(23:16):
get do we know what decade we're in? I just
had to look up Billy Madison and Rotten Tomorrow is
there forty No, it's people like pats running a smear campaign. No,
it's not. It's one hundred percent comedy. All right, running,
Let's go to a song. Now, what's the here for this?
Running up that hill? Kate Bush, Oh, such a resurgent.

(23:41):
Eighty seven not eighty seven eighty four?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, I would have said eighty four as well.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Both of you are eighty five ninety eight five running
up the hell stranger things. Yeah, pushed it back up
the streaming charts, as the kids say these days, probably
all over the tocks right now, blowing up. Everyone gets
very excited about the last final season. It's a November
because they're doing in batches on there.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, Audrey can't do do TV shows and batches.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know if that's a terminology. Yeah, don't you
cook it like a batch of.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Cakes you're making because you're binge.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Now, don't you bringe?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
But you don't binge your batch, do you?

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, you watch that new batch of those shows, a
batch of The Bachelor, Golden Girls. Oh, they're back. Patsy
one hundred percent for this.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Thank you for being free now God for did I
get this wrong?

Speaker 4 (24:32):
It sounds like it's from the fifties.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well no, no, no, is what pats loves it's her ear,
isn't it. Forty nine during the water and the Blitz
those girls bits stick.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
My head out and say eighty nine, head out out
the car.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
On season eighty nine, I'm going to say ninety one.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I would have said seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
No, you're thinking welcome back Cotter.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I'm definitely not.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
In nineteen eighty five, it was like I would I
would have get seventies. No lame old show as well.
It's not really bashing to know it was lame, so
of come of it. It was Benny Madison and then
tell us the Golden Galas.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Is better masterpiece of sisterhood.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Liked it.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Weirdly, do you know what? Just some facts right? Became
an instant number one immediately. No other shows that Seinfeld
took a couple of seasons. Even Friends wasn't massive immediately.
Golden Girls number one from the first episode, and I
didn't know this. At one point the cast performed a
live episode for the Queen Mother. Just that's that's Royal Palace.

(25:42):
That is final boss level. They're not they haven't got
those powers anymore now, are they. They're not making that call.
No one's doing that for them. But the Queen Mother
Buckingham Paris. She was such a big friend. Who would
you call b Arthur up and go he listen, get
on a plane, come and to it. No's no one else,
It's just me in the front room. Fell asleep in
the middle of it as well. Golden and Son. Yeah,

(26:06):
all right, let's go back to music.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh wow, Peace, I reckon that two thousand and eight.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh, I give it to two thousand and nine. Oh
so close. And now another comedy, Ballades of Glory. Jimmer
Will Pharaoh. John Header went on it as well, very
very funny, laughing at us.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
It laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was
going to go an Now he's.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Up there laughing down a combo eight twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, No, no.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
No, no, you're the shot like two thousand and seven.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
Oh my god, and.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Two thousand and seven ten for me. Yeah, what happened
to John Header? Napoleon Dynamo? Yeah, but then nothing, Yeah,
he struck.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
He as one of those people that was just content
with a couple of good films. And that's right off
into the sunset.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I love Blades Glory. Really, there's the scene where they're
on the ice skates and they've been pursued by will
Arnett and they go on the upstairs escalator and the
blades get stuck in those groups. I don't know why
for that one scene. And also that hair brush he had,
you only had a special hair Rum's almost bunk beds.
Great movie.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Christian O'Connell Show, go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Thank you very much your donations, so we do a
follow update about ten to fifteen minutes time. Find out
more about the amazing work that is charity that's on
the verge of going under if we don't donate much
needed funds. The Christian o'connells Show dot com dot aus
we can find out more and also donate. Make sure
you leave your name and anything you want to say,
because we'll be saying some thank yous in ten minutes time.

(27:53):
Right now, though, we need you to vent your spleen.
Small thing, big rage, small all right, text in small thing,
big rage, oh four seventy five three one oh four three.
For me at the moment, it is delivery companies that
give you that wide open window of some time between

(28:13):
eight and five we have to go to work. You're
at work, driving around with my one hundred and twenty
two dollar rug. I've got a rug in the cell
deal that's a two hundred by three hundred rug.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
They ain't cheap as well.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, but they're saying they can't leave it. Why not
without a signature? I say this, dump it, let's ut
steal it.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I always say no, no sign just oh you know,
I'll play rule it. If someone takes it, that's it.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
It's two hundred dollar rug. But right now this is
a million dollar headache. Three failed attempts. I'm on my
last one tomorrow. They said, you know, we're going to
deliver it between eight and five. I said, I can't
the whole eight. Well, yeah, I can't wait in all day.
No one's going to be there eight am. Oh why
start working? I'm at work. Who is in all day

(29:04):
hanging around for these rugs?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Exactly? And why can we track them or something? Let
us know where you are? Yes, I just call them
bloody phone.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I can't leave the show tomorrow. Anker guy, the rugs coming.
Will you three stick on an album? I'll just stick
on an album. I'm just waiting for that roke, Alex,
you small thing, big rate.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
This has been going on for a long, long time now.
When I first went to a game at Marvel Stadium,
I thought, Oh, they're.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Going to open the roof. It's a beautiful day outside. No, no, no,
they did not.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
No, we're stuck in a cave with disco lights. Why
are they not opening the roof. It is absolutely ridiculous.
No one's been able to give me a decent explanation.
Someone said to me the other day, Oh, they did
have it open, and then it rained at three o'clock
and from then on it ruined everyone's days. And they're
not going to do that again. Someone else said to me, oh,

(29:57):
it's too expensive to open the roof. What do you
mean it's too expensive? They opened a rod labor arena
roof every day. How does the grass growth? They opened
the roof.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Women don't house that roof. They're constantly opening and closing
it wind and like it was.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
The most beautiful day on Saturday. It was the magical weekend,
and we're stuck in this cavernous, massive stadium.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
It is like a nightclub. Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
What do we do?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
The oval is to the state of the grass. Obviously
needs some rain on it. It's awful out there.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
It is easily the most ridiculous, strangest environment to watch
sport in. When the sun is shining outside, you have
to sit in this this big room basically and watch
this wonderful.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
That money can it be to winch it back?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Ask the people there. We need a couple of stop
manning the winch the handle.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Marvel's not short of money.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Superhero money, Yeah, get a superhero to open the door.
Someone's lost the key. They just don't want to be honest. Yeah,
maybe they lost. Maybe the buttons broken and they're not
telling you this.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Maybe we need to introduce like a Marvel tax and
we all pay the tax to.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
The roof open. Have the roof open?

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yes, I've never seen this angry. It's lovely, mild.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
It is small, small thing, big roof rage And.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
As a North Melbourne fan, it's our home ground. We're
not treated to the MCG the brightlight right, so you
know the sunshine, the Western bulldogs as well, playing in
there the other day in darkness.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's just outrage. Actually, like, why is there no answer
we needed? Why is that roof kept shot?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
I reckon it's to do with the grass because when they.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Can't be it's manky ash.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yeah, but when they first.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Doesn't have a roof, and it's like you know, they
have there. They have all the games all year on it.
They also have like the ashes to be coming up
as well.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
They had shocking trouble with the grass when it first
opened that stadium. It was just shocking. They had to
replace it so many times. They couldn't get you know,
the sun would only go on certain angles of the ground.
It wouldn't hit all of the ground. I wonder if
it's blood its sun.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
They've been the sun. It's the wrong kind of.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
Are there are three masons at work here because they're
a secret society that lives in me.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
He's trying to get a bigger story here, isn't it
for three mansons? The sun inspiraency? Honestly? All right, we
have to fight by you one morning. We need to
provide as with an answer, okay about why don't they
open that big ass roof a marble stadium? Rial? What's
it for you? A small thing?

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Big races mine happens every single time we go out
to dinner or lunch to a restaurant. My partner will
when it comes for dessert decision time, I always say,
I love a dessert, and he always does this whole.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Pious act, you know, like I'm better than you. I'm
I'm not going to have any dessert. I'm going to
have your dessert. Dessert comes my delicious sticky date or
cream breule. He eats tough.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
They're giving us the cantories.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yes, yes, exactly exactly. Either shames me.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
When I get Bloodyer, you can eat dessert. You're not already.
You have the bread, you have the stars, the mate.
You need more food, Tabby carry you out.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
If I'm getting a shame, I want the holders.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Charlie, you lose The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Christian, did we anaer say I want to love you
like a hot pie? Get really on it for next
week's mishurts Adam, thank you very much. We're on it.
Small thing, big rage, Hello Santo, Christian. Small thing, big rage.
When a barista burns the hell out of your coffee.
The milkers like lava. I'm sorry, I didn't know lava

(33:42):
was a menu option. Strong words there from Santa. My
favorite thing when someone loves their mind was oh, I'm
sorry I And then we get into the big thing
that it's a hornet's nest. You've kicked up today, Alex Callen.
I'd tell you now why doesn't the roof open at
Marvel Stadium. The Marvel roof does not open since Brad

(34:03):
Scott sucked it up while coaching North He did you
remember it and it became a little bit slipper when
he lost his mind and went on a rent. They've
been too scared to ever since there anymore.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Roof gees.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
A lot of a lot of messages are coming in
right now. I think Steve is on the line. It
makes the most sense. Hey, Steve, welcome to the show mate,
good morning.

Speaker 9 (34:30):
I can give a definitive answer on the roof for
Marvel Stadium. The reason why it's like that is because
it's the only football field in Australia that has been
built north south. Every single stadium in Australia is built
east west, so the sun goes across the ground instead
of over the ground, so you're going to have the
sun in your eyes firstly all day and then it

(34:52):
just doesn't make sense to do that. And they only
found that out about three weeks into the season. Back
in more than ninety nine when they.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Opened the thing.

Speaker 9 (34:58):
What I've got another one for you as another answer
to give you. Yes, why not Nolber doesn't play the MCG.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yes, because you haven't got any members. Very small little club.
We're getting there.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
Oh yes, they're passionate. Yes, we love North Melbourne did
hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
He was down in Yes, yeah, Sunday North mates. That's
your team Champion.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
One is the Mighty Carton Football Club game for.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
You've lost your rockomend Tom Dy Carney. How's that going
for your house?

Speaker 8 (35:34):
We don't need it anymore.

Speaker 9 (35:35):
We've got sixteen and a half premierships on our side.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
I love me.

Speaker 9 (35:42):
You know how we got the half, don't you know?
Because because during the nineties Carlton Football Club actually owned
twenty five percent of the North Melbourne Football Club. They
won the premierships in ninety six ninety nine, So two
times a quarter. That's a half, my friends, quick man.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yes, water tight Steve, thank you very much. You're cool.
When you're building like a multi million dollars stadium. You know,
even if you're building a house, you have these what
are the engineers or some do they line it all up?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Even the sun? I could do that, like I know
where the sun is like you don't need an engineer
to know.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
That's even as they started to like build it where
they were like, my son's in the eyes? Can we
is it too late? Is that concrete set just jimmy
around you? We all just pick up a corner twist twist,
Maybe we can get all the North Melbourne members to
do that. Pick it up. Who builds a stadium? Basically
the reason why they're the roof is so the sun

(36:36):
obviously creates too many shadows for the TV crowd.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Isn't it, yes one that the players playing the well,
they're not going.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
To not to see each other in the shadows.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Only the glare is really bad to the players as well.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
This week on the show, we really need your help.
And when I say, we are speaking on behalf of
children who are in a real need. There are thousands
of these kids that have to be taken out of
a dangerous home environment and put into foster care or
any kind of care that isn't actually their home. And
this charity Backpacks Bit kids who we support a lot
over the last couple years, really need help at the moment.

(37:15):
They need money, They need funds, they need donations. Each
backpack they put together, these beautiful backpacks, and these children
that have little or nothing when they're taken into care,
they give them a backpack. You imagine that a small
defense as child who's had a very traumatic time being
given a backpack. Yesterday I got this email from Eloise,
So if you haven't donated yet, in a wander wiring,

(37:36):
it's so important. Christian a former child protection emergency officer.
I've given those actual backpacks to so many children the
worst moments of their lives. I've seen children so excited
over a blanket somewhere, or even just a toothbrush or
a small toy, or even just to have some clothing
as well. They really do go a long way. So Eloise,
thank you very much for letting us know that we're

(37:58):
up to now real how much has been donated by
very generous listeners.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Nine and ninety seven dollars.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Thank you very much. So you go to the Christian
O'Connell's show dot com dot au and you can donate that,
whether it's ten dollars or you can actually buy a
backpack which costs one hundred dollars. Thank you so much.
We've got a lot of thank you to do here. Patsy,
you've got some thank you so sure do you.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Christian Leanne, thank you for your two hundred dollars, Philip
one hundred, Monica one hundred, Lara one hundred, and Julia
one hundred. And just listening to you speak then, Christian,
you know, with our teenager, we've always taught Audrey to
you know, that home is the safest place for her
to be, and hearing these stories, you suddenly realize very

(38:42):
quickly that that's not the case for a lot of
these children. And it's as a mum, it's absolutely heartbreaking.
So thank you to everyone who's giving. It's just it's enormous.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, well said Patsy. Alex We've got some more thank yous.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
Yeah, Val, she's donated one hundred dollars. Thank you for
the wonderful work that you do to help the poor kids.
I hope it find them some peace and happiness. Enjoy
Amanda ten dollars every dollar accounts, keep up the great
works you see. Robert one hundred dollars. Rebecca too, so
thank you so much. And yeah, as a dad, I've
got six year old twins. Max Is four to think
that kids that age are going through something so brutal,

(39:21):
so awful, so horrible, These innocent, beautiful, caring children to
be going through something like that, And if we can
help in any way we can by doing what we're
doing this morning. That is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
So thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who's donated.
The website go to to find out more and donate,
head to The Christian O'connellshow dot com dot au. Just
broken over thirty one thousand dollars. Now, so we started
this almost twenty four hours ago. I really would love
to get them at least one hundred thousand dollars by
the end of this week. Now, yesterday there was a

(39:52):
business that if I plugged them, would donate five hundred dollars.
I'm very very happy to do that. So if you've
got a company and obviously get some tax lee for
donations as well, but if you're a company and you'd
like a free plug on the show, very happy to
do that, but it has to be at least five
hundred dollars. However, coming up next we have another offer

(40:12):
to really get more donations and exclusive probably never going
to offer this again. It really is a money can't
buy opportunity until now the big guns are about to
be released.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Christian O'Connell show go On podcast, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
See your news donated during the last five minutes. Meren,
great name, Meren and Ted, thank you for your generous donation. Teresa,
Louise christianized to work Child protection and outreach services have
seen the impacts of these backpacks. Thank you for using
the show to brings people attention to such a worthy course.
The very least with you. Thank you, Louise, Thank you, Andrea, Darryl,

(40:52):
Darcy Well, Andrew and the team Tangerine Telecom, thank you
very much. They just pay for ten backpacks. One thousand
dollar donation. Thank you, Tangerine Telecom. Now it's okay, we
want to try and raise at least one hundred thousand
dollars by the time we said goodbye nine am on Friday,

(41:13):
we're about sort of thirty three thirty four thousand dollars
at the moment, and we started this almost twenty four
hours ago. So you know, over thirty thousand dollars in
twenty four hours is amazing. And also, you know, this year,
we all know about the cost of living crisis if
you feel it every time you go to the supermarket
and you buy your groceries. So the ten the twenty dollars,
stop saying sorry on there. There's no apology need to

(41:36):
be given. Okay, I'm sorry that we have to be
in this situation where this charity needs our help. But honestly,
ten twenty dollars, you're doing your bit, so thank you
very much. And that's a lot of money for some
of you right now. So giving anything is you so please,
there's no reason to say sorry. Putting your money up there.
Whatever you're giving is gratefully welcomed and received by those
kids as well. Head to the Christian o'connellshow dot com

(41:58):
dot au. Now, what I'm hoping is like our friends
at Tangerine Telecom, the accountants yesterday as well. I know
there's a lot of business people that listen to our show,
and I'm really talking to you guys right now because
if you can donate the kind of thousand dollar mark,
we have an amazing opportunity during the next hour where

(42:18):
the only way I can really compare what I'm about
to say is if Elton John wrote a song for
you or your business? Who is my Elton John? It's
re in the studio. He's the guy, he's the voice,
he's the power. Whatever nonsense we've got going on with
the show. This is the man that sings it to
make it work.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm a slebrity. You haven't thought about it a while?
Do you think? Come?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Am I dead?

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Aura loud?

Speaker 1 (42:49):
That's why? Wow? What about? How many Scomo's gone back
quite a few years here to find his great hits?

Speaker 6 (42:56):
How many celebs on top of chu until you reach
the top.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
Of this thing?

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Like?

Speaker 4 (43:04):
How many storemos? I would you say? All the group
or the right stock building?

Speaker 1 (43:12):
What's this one here? Do you know the age of
do you know the ull? We just played it? How ago?
How show amnesia some time or so? I'm like, what
what are we doing an hour ago?

Speaker 8 (43:23):
Do you know the age of this celebrity? What is
hen or forty three? What decades do you think the
rock was born? Is Keith rich is still alive? As
anybody know their age?

Speaker 4 (43:35):
What's their age? Again?

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Rio will make you a jingle for your company or
for your family. This starts at one thousand dollars. He's
made a jingle about making you a jingle that's this
guy my outon John.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Bickt buggy By.

Speaker 10 (43:59):
Yeah, with the jingle that rock FODC today today.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Wow, it's up there doing it for the kids exactly.
I heard five k Yes, I was under selling it.
I apologize, Elton.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
I was born with a gift, Christian gift of jingles,
and it doesn't come.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
And that's why we're here, is to make money from
our gifts. Yes, are you listening kids on the school
run commercialization? You're right hey, as you get it. Welcome
to commercial radio.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
If you can monetize your skills, why not monetize.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
It for good, the greater good, the greater good, the
greater good. So five thousand dollars get you a bespoke
jingle for your business or your family.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
I'll do a jingle to advertise your family.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Sure, we surely got some. They're going to be rich
families right now. Listen to us right now in Portsy
you know they're washing the deck of that you're right
now down there, or in trag maybe the cleaner or
the butler's listening to the show in the background while
el in your newspaper.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
And I guarantee for your business, your business tennis tennis.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yes, within a month.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
There's your business now and there's your business tomorrow. What's
in the way making more money, more revenue? Too much? No,
no is donating just five thousand dollars. That five thousand
dollars we transformed within minutes, two millions exactly.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
It's the smartest money you'll ever You're making money.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
You're making money here. Oh ay, we're losing money. Yes, yeah,
take the shirt of our backs. Why don't you. Sorry,
I didn't realize I have to go to work naked
today to do this. All right, So you're going to
The Christian O'Connell Show dot com dot AU. Five thousand dollars,
get you your own one of these.

Speaker 10 (45:57):
Big bug you yeah with the jingle ri fe donate to.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Look at that voice. It's sorry doing it for the kids.
Five k bid now donate now head to the Christian
o'connells show dot com dot au.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Thank you, The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Thank you very much. All donations come in just while
we're on air in the last five minutes. M thank
you very much. Beck Christian. I'm a single parent with
two kids. It's a privilege to help I wish you
could do more. Please, no apologies. We don't need anything that. Beck.
I don't think you can do anymore. You've got two
kids and you're a single parent. You're doing everything you
can and donating. Thank you very much, Beck, Judy James.

(46:50):
People just want to remain anonymous. Tina, thank you very
much for your donation. Head to the Christian O'Connell show
dot com dot au to find out more about this
amazing charity, Backpacks of It Kids that we're helping this week.
I did it. We'd love to raise one hundred thousand
by the end of the show Friday. At the moment
we are up to just turn over thirty five thousand

(47:11):
dollars in the last twenty four hours. Thank you so much. Now,
yesterday on the Time Waste, we were talking about the
shortage of the young generation going into clowning as a
vocation and a living. There's as a record shortage of
new clowns. Yes, fifty lost them to TikTok. They're clowning

(47:33):
around online, that's what they're doing now. They don't want
to get clown around in the big top.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
I know it's tragic really to see that.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I think it's just going to die out.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
I hope not.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
I do know.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
You know, ten twenty years now, they just won't be
big tops.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Yeah, there'd be no circuses, no little carnivals, those bloody gen.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Z I know.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
I get this email towards the show and of the
show yesterday from Kate Christian. My gen Z daughter just
did a career profile and test at school. She was
hoping to get a scientist a lawyer, but instead of entertainer,
and it set examples a clown, a juggler, or a puppeteer.
It was not rest.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Actually not suited to be a lawyer. You're more suited
to juggling.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
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 in there or juggling and 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 how

(48:37):
in 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
had 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 word whatever it was,

(48:59):
the Commodore a spectrum. Anyway, you had this rubbish software
that took like a day to load up called Cascade,
where this teacher would ask you 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 comuter the computer would spit out what it thought
you should be doing. So I said, look, I really
want I was sixteen, nineteen eighty nine, so I really

(49:21):
want to work in entertainment like TV or radio. The
teacher went and he getting on a mass. I'm terrible
at that, so I'm probably going to find 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. It's many quite low level IQ

(49:43):
to be and the speak about myself that do this work.
If you're good at mass, you don't end up doing
these jobs. You don't need to and trust me, for
a lot of my career, the maths don't add up
maths for jazz hands, right? So you did you do
some of that? At school? Career profiling we had as
in year ten.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
I remember we went into a big assembly hall. We
all took the test. It was quite extensive, and then
I went in the room with mister Dobbs, who was
our career his counselor, and he told me that I
should be a car salesman.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
This is what they were his careers advising.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
Mister you were so confident about it, and I didn't.

Speaker 6 (50:19):
I have no interesting class whatsoever, so I don't know
why it would be a very good car salesman, remembering
pissed off?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Is this my future now?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
So what did you say you wanted to do?

Speaker 6 (50:30):
I think back then I either wanted to be a
marine biologist or an astronomer.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I don't even know what.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
What with your eyesight, I've seen you squinching at that
laptop with glasses. I ain't seen anything up in SPECIs
in the sea. You'd have to have those there, prescription
cols and snorkel. I can you get alongside all? I

(51:00):
can't even see? That was was sharks to I must
get my eyes tested underwater, Peraraentsly, what did you have
at school?

Speaker 7 (51:07):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Not a thing.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
They wouldn't have cared what we did. I could have
joined the circus, the mafia, or whatever else you did.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Both the radio circus and the mat He filmed your own,
Matthew was yours.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Mister Beer was our, mister Beer.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
And he sounds like a Sax children's entertainer. Listen, mister Beer,
this is not an aspirational kid's character of you drinking
all day long, mister Beer.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Tony Beer was his name, and yes, and his wife
was one of the pe teachers. She was lovely. 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 (51:52):
How many people would have been talked out, maybe pursuing
something that they would have been happy doing. Yeah, what
did you have, Alex on that farm?

Speaker 7 (51:58):
Nothing of the sore was you raised by sheeps and
ghosts and wolves, which.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Was what my school was like, so you know it
was it was like a jail than a school.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
My body school in Sydney, we had a careers person,
but she didn't really do much at all, and you
might have gone in there to chat to her about
what you wanted to do in life, but there was
never any tists, never any nice really.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Yeah, they always tried to lower your expectations. Like I
went in why do I thinking I'd like to try
and make it in TV already was like that ain't
going to happen. Listen to this idiot. They want to
make it so and I but I'm not Christians. To
sit down, there's a factory over there with your name
on it.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
It was really about lowering ambition, yes, like empowering story
now like you could do anything, become a billionaire online
ten X, this.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Optimize your life cryptocurrency.

Speaker 7 (52:50):
I was lucky that I wanted to do this anyway
from aged twelve or thirteen, so I was I was
quite lucky and that I knew what I wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
I'd love to speak to other people than what was
your experience doing career profiling at school? And it's anyone
actually doing what they want to do. We just got
talked out of our dreams and beaten out of us.
Give us a call.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
J O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Time Wasted coming up in ten minutes time. We're talking
about career profiling on the show right now? Did you
have it done? Jules? Welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (53:21):
Hi Christin, how are you?

Speaker 1 (53:23):
I'm good Jewels? So you were you did career profiling
at school?

Speaker 11 (53:27):
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 him that he needed to be
a brewister. So he told us that at the dinner table,
and we were happy for him, tried to pump him
up about it. And then about a week later, I said, hey, mate,
can I have a look at those results. It'd be

(53:47):
really keen to understand you know, how you got to
that results? And anyway I had to look at it.
It was barrister.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Wowy barristers have made that wrong mix up. They were
a lot of criminals who got way too big a sentences.
He did make a.

Speaker 11 (54:07):
He had no idea what am barrister was?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Jill's great story. Thank
you very much for sharing it.

Speaker 12 (54:16):
Mate, No worries.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Bye, Sarah, welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (54:21):
Hey, Christin hay Gang. How's it going.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Yeah, we're good, Sarah, thanks for calling in. So career
profiling yes.

Speaker 11 (54:27):
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 (54:49):
Wo wow, the circuit of life?

Speaker 7 (54:53):
You thank you?

Speaker 11 (54:55):
Yes, yes, my teachers were always convinced that that's what
I would end up doing.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
What are you teaching engineering?

Speaker 5 (55:01):
No?

Speaker 11 (55:02):
Oh no, but I teach physics and stem subject subjects.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
So yeah, and do you enjoy it? Yes? I do.

Speaker 11 (55:09):
It was I kind of feel like it was what
I was meant to be doing. It's really interesting.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Yeah, well, there are no straight rivers that are there
in in life. There's so many twists and turns. Sometimes
you're right where you need to where you meant to
be anyway. Yes, yeah, it's amazing, awesome, Sarah, thank you
very much your story. Thanks giving us are caol, no worries. Bye,
Let's go to h Kate. Good morning, Kate, Good.

Speaker 12 (55:31):
Morning everyone, and I hope we're having.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
A good day. We are having a good day. Is
even having a good day?

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Excellent?

Speaker 12 (55:38):
I 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 pay off.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
There's on these sitting boxes and all that knowledge in there.
There's nothing in these for you.

Speaker 12 (55:58):
There's definitely nothing in technology. Not a good career, just
going nowhere, no way, I say, Fortunately, I completely ignored them,
and yeah, twenty five years later in it and run
my own IT company. So love technology.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Yeah, yeah, you should go to schools and talk to
them about following. Actually, the callings in life because no
one knows anything. Really, no one knows that much. There
are no experts, no.

Speaker 12 (56:25):
No, I you know, I think 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 (56:33):
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 around there was shoveling popcorn into
their face. I'm talking to you. Are we at the cinema?
Sorry about this, Kate, Kate, thank you very much for
giving us a call.

Speaker 12 (56:51):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
So Ya maybe on tomorrow show. You ignored the advice.
Whatever the stories are, whatever, it's not bad, it could
or bad, but you ignored the advice.

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