September 1, 2026 • 28 mins
While Christian is away, we're diving into some of the best bits from the show! Featuring Nominative Determinism, tales of items brought from famous people, a round of What Are The Odds, and Pirate Movies for AWTW.
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yesterday, someone DM'd me, as the kids say, on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Slipped in there.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, yeah, right into my DMs. And I don't mind that.
I'm here for that. They had a brand new person
and a name. and an occupation for nominative determinism. This
is something that occasionally comes up on the show, and
it's a genuine theory that's improved by science that people's
names influence their choice of jobs. We've had these before.
(01:38):
Have a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
My uncle was one William Toombs, and he was an undertaker.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
My son's surname is Carr, C-A-R-R.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
He's a mechanic.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We had a general surgeon by the name of John Hack,
local dentist by the name of Barry Cutmore, and a
lovely GP by the name of Dr.
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Deeth, spelled D-E-A-T-H.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
There was a blacksmith, and his name was Dietmar Fleckhammer.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Dietmar Fleckhammer, the blacksmith, one of my favourite ones. However,
I've got a brand new one. It's a doctor. Okay.
You're not going to believe what I'm about to say.
Go ahead on Google. You'll see this lovely doctor. Lady doctor, Dr.
Asmi Butt. A-S-M-A, surname B-U-T-T.
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Dr.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Butt is enough. Dr. Asmi Butt is enough. is incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's incredible. Have you seen her? Dr. Asmi Butt. Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Asmi Butt. Beautiful name. A great name. But obviously the
surname Butt, she's gone into medicine. It's Dr. Butt.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Yeah, that's where inject into your butt, the gluteus maximus.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What injections you have in your ass?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It's what they do? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Why are they injecting your bum? Why not somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Maybe that's steroids.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, you're the son of a doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think they do inject it to the butt.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Are you roiding right now? You are a chat young man.
Stay off the roids. All right. So nominative determinism, the
theory that names influence jobs. Dr. Butt. Dr. Asmi Butt.
It's incredible. It's too good to be true. All right,
you can Google it. All right, so what have you got?
Maybe it's you or someone you've worked with or someone
who went to school. Their job is linked to their name.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, I don't want to hear about the gynecologist called that.
Keep it to yourself. This is a PG family show. Standards,
mind your P's and Q's, please. Hell of a name.
What branding? All right, is your name, or maybe it's
someone you know, linked to their job? It's a phenomenon
(03:55):
called nominative determinism. Christian, we see a paediatric orthopaedic doctor
for our daughter. Dr Little. Perfect. It's a really warm,
friendly name for a child doctor, isn't it? Christian. We've
lived in two different suburbs. The first one, we had
the local butcher, Gary Ham.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We change suburbs. Gary Lamb. Do they know each other?
The two Garys? Hammy and Lammy?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Ham and Lamb.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That is beautiful. Thank you very much. Christian, I'm a teacher.
We have a food tech teacher, Miss Cook. Right. Pea teacher, Mr. Sweatman. Christian,
my dentist is Dr.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Mola.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Christian, just to let you know, the I Feel Like
Chicken Tonight people also have a stroganoff version. Guess what
it's called? You guessed it. I Feel Like Stroganoff Tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How do they do it?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How do they do it? Christian, I used to have
a dentist called Dr. Lipschutz. Good morning, Christian. Mark here
in New South Wales. We had a patient on our
ward called Mr. Chicken. His doctor, a doctor, what are
the odds? Dr.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Ingham.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh, great. Christian, I once had a colonoscopy. This is
from Wendy from a doctor ring. Ian's on the line now.
He's got a great one as well. Good morning, Ian.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'm good, Ian. So a name linked to a job.
You've got a great one. What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh, it's very amusing.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
It's always amused me. A Catholic archbishop in Manila in
the Philippines named Cardinal Sin.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's like something from a kid's TV show or movie.
Heart of all sin. Amazing. Gold. Yeah, that's a growing. Ian,
thank you very much for sharing. Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For the next 20 minutes, I'm looking for your stories.
Have you ever bought anything from someone famous? If you have,
give us a call. 13 55 22. Intern Pete has
a peach of a story. Oh, yeah. So who do
you buy something off?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Yeah, this is a big story. I think it was
at 93, 94, Geelong, Victoria. Basically, for context, any AFL
player back in the 90s, 80s, they'd all have to
have side jobs because they weren't paid really a lot
of money at all.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I know, it's bizarre. There's so many players I play
who were playing at the weekend and then during the
week were plumbers.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But go around houses and people would have a go
at them, but oh crap, they were at the weekend.
Speaker 13 (06:34):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Imagine if Messi had also had a carpet business as well.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He probably does, to be fair.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
No, it's basically everyone in Geelong, because there was a
lot of car yards around Geelong, so everyone who played
for the Geelong Cats pretty much was a car salesman
on the side, basically, right? So people would go down
and buy cars from AFL players. And I couldn't believe this.
It was 1993, 1994, and you would not believe it.
Ken Hinckley, former AFL player.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now coach. He's got the Tassie job.
Speaker 11 (07:03):
Yes, right. He sold us a, I was going to say, well,
it was a white car anyway, some Ford Falcon or
something or other.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And we lived off that clout for years.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We would drive up like, yep, Ken Hinckley sold us
this car.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That would have been actually back in the day, even now,
if they made like NRL and AFL players sell cars,
only cars during the week, that would be a big story.
It totally would.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
I'm almost trying to envision it now because I just
remember like, A celebrity is at, we've got a celebrity's car.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Like in my head as a kid.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I can't imagine any other like major sporting code in
the world where not that long ago, only a couple
of decades ago, the players, like 18 players and talented
players were selling cars during the week. Yeah. Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I love it so much.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
It was just, it's such a big story of our
time growing up. Like no one else, what celebrity, you know,
did you get that car off?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah. Once you pull out the Ken Hinckley car.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's a name. It's a brand. It's a way of being. Yeah.
How would you describe that? Very big in Victoria, right?
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I guess Ricky Stewart in terms of temperament and career
would be the NRL equivalent.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah. I wouldn't mess with Ken Hinckley.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He doesn't suffer falls. And also, the name Ken, I
think that's why he's got the job, not just his
incredible resume. But the name Ken is a dependable caretaker
in life. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
I agree. No, it is.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He's a dependable uncle. Uncle Ken's going to come around
and jumpstart your car.
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You trust a Ken, don't you, in life?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ken has jumper leads for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
100% he does as well. He has, yeah. Now I
want to know if Ken Hinckley has them. He's also
got a big ladder that you could probably borrow as well. Yes.
Uncle Ken will come over and do your gutters. He'll
sort that out for you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Have you ever brought anything from somebody famous? Christian, I
can't get through on the lines right now, but I
ended up with Bruce McIverney's spearfishing gear. That's... Shut the
show down. Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I can't imagine Bruce McIverney spearfishing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Not just that. How are the producers not putting that through?
You should get a fast pass. You've got to start
like that. Wowee. All right. Have you ever brought something
from someone famous? Let's go to the lines right now. Morning, Erica.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Hi, Christian. How are you going?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm good. Welcome to the show, Erica. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So what did you get and who did you get
it from?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I have a top... that Kylie Minogue wore on Neighbours.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A top? Do you mean like a shirt or a blouse?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Like a tank top, singlet top.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
How did you get hold of that?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Well, actually, it was back in the late 80s. They
were just selling off some of the clothes, the costumes
they wore on Neighbours, and I bought it for $ 5.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I mean, listen, if it was Elton John's wardrobe or
someone like that, Liberate should understand it, but some of
the cast from Have you got Mrs. Mangle's dress?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No, I don't. I'm not trying to sell it to you.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
How much did you pay for.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
It, Erica? I paid $ 5.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And that's a Sotheby's auction, yes?
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Yes, and they've got, on the label, they've got Charlene
written on it. I wish I could prove that it
was her, you know, that it actually.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Belonged to her. I might just start selling some of
my wife's clothes, you know, and just say it's from
a famous writer, Charlene, on it. Erica, thank you very
much for your story.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
No worries. Thanks, Christian.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Have a good day. Bye. Phil, good morning, Phil.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Good morning, Christian and team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Hey, Phil, welcome to the show. So what did you
buy and who did you get it from?
Speaker 12 (10:33):
It wasn't me, but it was my ex-girlfriend Nancy's father
had bought and had John Lennon's snooker table in his house.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
This is incredible. What a story. John Lennon's snooker table.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
In his house in Kew, yes.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Now, Phil, forgive my cynicism.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Hey, you believed a top that had Charlene sprawled in
the care instructions by the dry cleaning only label?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I just have questions.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
How did it get into his ownership?
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Nancy invited me around and I was playing. I said,
can we have a game of snooker?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And she said yes.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
And I had the beer on the table. And her
father come down and he said, can you please take
that beer off the table? And he goes, it actually
belonged to John Lennon. And I went, ooh, yeah. He
had it for a long time, apparently.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
How did he get it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Listen, we know how he got it, right? Let him
have his story. I know, I want to find out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm sure there's more to this.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
What, you think he's got official papers? It ain't John Lennon's, OK?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Come on. I could be selling anything, like some old
stunt guy. That's John Lennon's from Abbey Road Studios. Let's
go to Jacob now. Morning, Jacob.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'm good, Jacob. Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling in.
All right, so what famous person did you get something from?
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Well, honestly, it's probably a bit bigger than John Lennon,
but I didn't really buy it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's more what I picked up.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
It's what I picked up. I was driving.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I was, you know, at the cost of living, Christian.
Speaker 12 (12:13):
We all need furniture.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And I saw a chest of drawers.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
John Lennon sent in his snooker table. You know, he
needs that. John Lennon, who's that compared to the guy
I'm thinking about? So I picked up a wardrobe off
the side of the road and I was going, I'm
struggling to get it on.
Speaker 11 (12:28):
A medium-sized chest of drawers, timber, lovely timber.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And who comes out?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Guy Sebastian. He came out, rolled the sleeves up, helped
me load it on.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
What a man.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Lovely man.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
He didn't have the Afro at that point. It was
two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So no Afro, so not as good, but still. What
a legend. Not only that he's giving away medium-sized set
of drawers, but actually helped you load it as well.
Speaker 12 (12:55):
Of course, I was shocked.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I was shocked, but what a man. What a man.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
What a man. You know, would John Lennon have done
that in his heyday? We never know. How would someone
load a snooker table? It must weigh a ton.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
He's our John Lennon.
Speaker 12 (13:08):
What I've heard, John Lennon's selfish, Guy Sebastian, man of
the people.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Brilliant story. Very well told, Jacob. Have a great day.
Thanks for calling. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Time for extreme opinions. Some extreme opinions I've got right now. Okay.
Anyone who replies to an old company email should be fined.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A month's salary. Yeah, those idiots.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Everyone does it here. And you can't escape it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's the worst thing.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
There's no way to sub out of it. You're completely trapped.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes. Adults who say just manifest it are not adults.
You've never done a tax return. You don't just manifest it.
If only it worked like that. I'll just manifest it. No,
it just doesn't work like that. Or we'd all be
on our backside manifesting Ferraris, ratings, salaries. Ooh, just manifest it.
(14:09):
Have you tried manifestation?
Speaker 12 (14:10):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And the other one then, strong opinions, couples who share
Facebook accounts.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Oh, I hate that. Oh, my God.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
And emails.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Ah!
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And emails.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Grow up.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And emails. Once or twice a year, one will get
through the filters I've set up here at work. And
I'm like, whatever you're saying isn't coming on my show.
I don't want to reward this kind of behavior. You know,
couples sharing Facebook accounts and email addresses.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I haven't seen the Facebook account one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That one sounds diabolical. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, it's people of a certain age, Rio.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Right, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
When this was a big thing before Instagram or TikTok,
when Facebook was like the way to... Stay connected with friends.
Now it's a way to get irritated with friends and
their political views.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
And it's always that couple that have to do like
an annual update just before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh, you're right.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
The newsletter.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Of what the family's up to.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I actually don't care.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
My Instagram, my partner needs to stay way away. Only
bad things will come if he starts looking through that Instagram.
There's no way they can be joined together.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right. Strong opinions. What have you got, Rio?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
I feel very passionately that if you're in a restaurant
and one table is singing happy birthday to everyone, to
someone on the table, sorry, everyone in the restaurant should
join in and sing happy birthday with that table.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're wrong. No.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're a grown-up.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Why do us strangers need to sing happy birthday to you?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Because you're not miserable old creatures.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's happy birthday. This is what's wrong with the world
right now. Everyone's feelings need to be validated. Sick. We're
not that special. It's their special day, though.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Once a year. It's like a giant.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When you're 10. When you're 10.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No, it's like a big choir.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Like a splash.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't know who you are. Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
No, but that's, have you, it happened recently, last weekend,
and the whole restaurant was singing, and it was a
beautiful moment of community.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's a fake knee-jerk moment of faux. You heard it,
I said it. Faux community. You're doing it because you
had to. Did you buy them anything?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well, where's the community? That's what made it so special.
Some half-assed hip.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hip, hip.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No, no. You don't even know their name.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
No, but that, yeah, that does get a bit awkward
when you get to the happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Do you know how you feel most sorry for the staff?
How many of those in an average week have you
got to do? And also what I feel sorry for,
those tables that insist the staff lean into it, they
never tip. And they come. They never tip.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Maybe tip me, you know, barely making minimum wage in
this job, just singing, oh Lord, fancy pants, happy birthday.
Out the back here washing pants.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Wow, this did not get received how I thought it would.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Toddlers are running countries. And now we're supposed to sing
happy birthday to each other. You're a grown-ass person. They're
not connected. Birthdays are very different. Anyway, it's called Strong Opinions.
It's time for this week's What Are The Odds? Your
stories of coincidence and chance on 135522. Christian, what are
(17:20):
the odds? My parents have just got back from Europe.
They were on a bus tour and were talking to
a couple who used to live in Garfield, West Gippsland.
Turns out they built and used to live in the
same house my parents now live in. What are the odds?
Let's go to Maria here. Good morning, Maria.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
How are we?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, good. Maria, what are the odds?
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Okay, well, the odds are that a couple of weeks
ago at school camp, I did a coffee run for
the teachers, and we have two daughters named Kayla and Liana.
I went to order the coffees, and as I was
talking to the lady, I asked her name because I
knew I'd have a big order again the next day,
and she said her name was Kayla. I said, oh, gosh, well,
that's my daughter's name. Now, there was another lady waiting
(18:03):
to pick up her coffee, so they yelled at her name,
and they yelled out, Liana. And I spun around and
I said, I'm sorry, what's your name? She said, Liana.
And I said, oh, my gosh, that's my other daughter's name.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Now, there was a third.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Lady serving and she turned around and she said, okay,
so tomorrow morning when you ring up, what name do
I need to look out for?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
And I said, Maria.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
And she said, guess what? She goes, that's my middle name.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You had us there. We were poised. Beautiful time, and
I thought we had a trifecta there with the Maria.
But still, still, this is great.
Speaker 12 (18:39):
What are the odds?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
What are the odds? And so I need to shout
out to Aidan, the other teacher, who reminded me to
call you guys to say this.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, thank you very much to Aidan, and thank you
very much, Maria, for giving us a call. Have a
good day.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
You too.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Linda? Good morning. Linda, gotcha. Linda, welcome to the show.
What are the odds?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, the odds are.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Many years ago when I met my now husband, we
started dating, I moved to a little place, got a
phone put on, gave him the phone number. He says, oh,
that looks familiar. I said, it can't be, it's a
new number. Kept getting these phone calls asking for his
ex-wife's name, which was Lorna, very similar.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
And in the end, I'm like, what the hell? Turns
out Telstra had given me his ex-wife's phone number after
she left town.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This is incredible.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Sorry, I shouldn't swear. But she'd only been gone two
months out of the area.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I mean, seriously, to this.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Day, I tell everybody this story. No one believes it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
He's got a type.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He has, doesn't he? The L and the L and
the name and the number. It's similar.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
He doesn't have to learn a new number. He used
to slip up and call me Lorna from time to time.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It's a perfect cover-up as well. You go, oh, no, sorry,
I didn't mean to. I was trying to call you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:58):
Sometimes.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think people were just taking the mickey. But yeah, Telstra, seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Wow. I think it's A-Octus then. Lorna, great call. No,
I'm Lisa. Thank you. Thank you very much. Give us
a call.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, let's get your stories. What are the odds?
Let's go to Steve here. Steve, what are the odds?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
The odds, mate, are sensational. I picked the Melbourne Cup
winner out of four different sweeps, the same horse.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And then they.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Also backed that after I had a dream three days
prior that this horse was going to win and got
the same horse in every sweep.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is quite a unique, helpful skill, isn't it? So
you have the dream, you put the bet on, according
to the dream.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I went back to put back the horse at $ 30
to $ 150, and then drew it out. My mum had
a sweep at work. They had three sweeps, a $ 10,
a $ 20, a $ 50. She said, which one do you
want to go in? I go, chuck me in all
of them. Why not?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You went in your mum's work sweep?
Speaker 12 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Quite a story, yes, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
And because they had a public, she went for the bank,
and they had a public holiday on the Monday, so
they drew the numbers out only on the Friday, and
then whatever number you got. And I got number 13
three times in all three of them. And I go,
I hope it's viewed, because that's the horse I had a.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Dream of winning.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
And sure enough, when the field come out, viewed was
number 13. And then I went to one of my
sisters that morning. She said, do you want to go
in my sweep? And I said, yeah, why not?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
In for a penny, in for a pound, I say.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I drew it out of that and I got viewed again.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It's like a real life Danny Ocean. All right, Steve,
thanks for calling me. Naomi, good morning.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
How are you today?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Terrible, actually. Naomi, what are the odds? What are the odds?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Okay, so what are the odds? I actually had a
car uninsured for over a year, and my ex was
harassing me, get it insured, get it insured. So I
finally did it, and within 24 hours it was stolen.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh, yeah. The story, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Investigated it.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
They went through all my phone records.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Sure they did.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
It's absolutely 100% true.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
There's two ways to read this story.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What are the odds? Lo and behold. Barely put your
name on that contract. I actually thought I.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Was insured the year before with RACQ and I actually
hadn't paid the bill.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, we're not investigating. Hopefully someone this thing is. What
are the criminal odds? Naomi, thank you very much. You're cool.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And it's great to have that kind of nefarious behaviour
on the show, isn't it? Steve, what are the odds?
Two Steves in one break.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, absolutely crazy. I've won the Grand Jackpot at the
pokies three times in one week.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is it this week?
Speaker 12 (22:56):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, so six days ago.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I won $ 19, 000.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, my word.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And then a couple of days ago, I'm like, oh,
stuff it. I'll chuck another couple of 50s in. I
won $ 12, 500. Yesterday, I won $ 10, 500.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
This is amazing. So how much have you won in
total in the last six days?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
$ 42, 000.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So it's time to quit while you're ahead, yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Always get responsibly. Well done, well done. What are you
going to do with your money?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm going to give most of it away. I got
a fine, so I'm paying for a fine through WorkSafe.
But all the rest of it, I'm giving away to
all the people that need it.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And that's a great story as well.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Thanks, man.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
All right, take care. Wild run of calls there.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Pogies, TAB, and insurance fraud all in my brain.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Welcome to radio.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
All right, time for today's time waste, sir. I think
you can have fun with this one. Today is apparently
World Pirate Day. Ah, yes.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Arr!
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes. Arr!
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Arr!
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Arr!
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Arr!
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oh, he's Scottish. Yeah, Scottish, yeah. Like a lot of
them Celtic, actually. All right. Pirate movies. Arr! Being John Malkovich. No,
I've ruined that one. Let me come back to that one. No,
I've got it now. I've got it now. Sorry. It's
(24:30):
because I've got my.
Speaker 13 (24:32):
Eye patch on. I couldn't see the punchline there. Being
Long John Malkovich.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Silver. Men who stare at boats. Gold. Sword fight club.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Gold plus.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Give me a medal.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Gold plus.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Anticipation.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Booty nights. Gold.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Shiver my timbers. Your favorite movie is Patch Adams, isn't it?
I love it so much. The Pirates got a version
of that. I patch Adams.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That's gold.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
These are gold. And dude, where's me? No, no, no. Plunder.
Plunder and gold. All righty, all righty, sailors. What are
you doing? Trying to find it. You sound like a
child doing it.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
Trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
This must be great radio to listen to. Two guys
growling at each other. Pete's getting aroused. He loves that.
Pays a lot of money for that on OnlyFans.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All righty, all righty there.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
About Ahoy!
Speaker 1 (25:50):
About Ahoy!
Speaker 4 (25:51):
About a boy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Silver, silver, silver. The hills have aye-aye.
It's good. Cold. It's a slow burn. That's a good one.
That's good. The landlubber, those filthy landlubbers. The landlubber before time. Yeah, bronze.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
And booty, booty and the beast.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Booty and the beast. That's gold.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's over, guys. It's okay.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What have you got then? Pirate movies, 0475-03104. The Christian
O'Connell Show podcast. Today's time waster on World Pirate Day.
We're looking for your pirate movies. All right. Jess has got.
Me myself an eye patch. Silver plus. Davy Jones's diary. Gold.
(26:47):
Tom the Chippy. No, that was from Tom the Chippy.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh, good name.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The hills have eye patches. Gold.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm just going to do it normal.
Speaker 12 (26:56):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Charplank redemption. Silver plus. If I had a wooden leg,
I'd kick you. That is gold plus. Just coming out
of character. That is brilliant, Laura. Laura Harvey, well done.
Days of Plunder. Silver. Edward Cutler's hands. Silver. Who framed
(27:17):
Jolly Roger Rabbit. Brons. Das Booty. German Pirate. Nasty.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
Arr. Arr.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
Arr.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Arr.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Arata.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
What?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Arata.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Like Avatar?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Arata.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Gold.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
What a people.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Voice is drunk now. My left hook. My left hook.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Silver plus.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The life of pirates. Silver.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Malcolm X marks the spot.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gold. Uncle Buccaneer.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Silver plus.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm getting me treasure.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Silver.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Whitehouse down the hatch. Silver. And Dabloonie Darko. Dabloonie. Dabloonie Darko.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Great use of ploonies.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Dabloonie spelt correctly as well.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Who is winning the plunder? If I had a wooden peg,
I'd kick you. Well done. We're back tomorrow. Have a
great day. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yesterday, someone DM'd me, as the kids say, on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Slipped in there.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, yeah, right into my DMs. And I don't mind that.
I'm here for that. They had a brand new person
and a name. and an occupation for nominative determinism. This
is something that occasionally comes up on the show, and
it's a genuine theory that's improved by science that people's
names influence their choice of jobs. We've had these before.
(01:38):
Have a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
My uncle was one William Toombs, and he was an undertaker.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
My son's surname is Carr, C-A-R-R.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
He's a mechanic.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We had a general surgeon by the name of John Hack,
local dentist by the name of Barry Cutmore, and a
lovely GP by the name of Dr.
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Deeth, spelled D-E-A-T-H.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
There was a blacksmith, and his name was Dietmar Fleckhammer.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Dietmar Fleckhammer, the blacksmith, one of my favourite ones. However,
I've got a brand new one. It's a doctor. Okay.
You're not going to believe what I'm about to say.
Go ahead on Google. You'll see this lovely doctor. Lady doctor, Dr.
Asmi Butt. A-S-M-A, surname B-U-T-T.
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Dr.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Butt is enough. Dr. Asmi Butt is enough. is incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's incredible. Have you seen her? Dr. Asmi Butt. Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Asmi Butt. Beautiful name. A great name. But obviously the
surname Butt, she's gone into medicine. It's Dr. Butt.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Yeah, that's where inject into your butt, the gluteus maximus.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What injections you have in your ass?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It's what they do? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Why are they injecting your bum? Why not somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Maybe that's steroids.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, you're the son of a doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I think they do inject it to the butt.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Are you roiding right now? You are a chat young man.
Stay off the roids. All right. So nominative determinism, the
theory that names influence jobs. Dr. Butt. Dr. Asmi Butt.
It's incredible. It's too good to be true. All right,
you can Google it. All right, so what have you got?
Maybe it's you or someone you've worked with or someone
who went to school. Their job is linked to their name.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, I don't want to hear about the gynecologist called that.
Keep it to yourself. This is a PG family show. Standards,
mind your P's and Q's, please. Hell of a name.
What branding? All right, is your name, or maybe it's
someone you know, linked to their job? It's a phenomenon
(03:55):
called nominative determinism. Christian, we see a paediatric orthopaedic doctor
for our daughter. Dr Little. Perfect. It's a really warm,
friendly name for a child doctor, isn't it? Christian. We've
lived in two different suburbs. The first one, we had
the local butcher, Gary Ham.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We change suburbs. Gary Lamb. Do they know each other?
The two Garys? Hammy and Lammy?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Ham and Lamb.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That is beautiful. Thank you very much. Christian, I'm a teacher.
We have a food tech teacher, Miss Cook. Right. Pea teacher, Mr. Sweatman. Christian,
my dentist is Dr.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Mola.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Christian, just to let you know, the I Feel Like
Chicken Tonight people also have a stroganoff version. Guess what
it's called? You guessed it. I Feel Like Stroganoff Tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How do they do it?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How do they do it? Christian, I used to have
a dentist called Dr. Lipschutz. Good morning, Christian. Mark here
in New South Wales. We had a patient on our
ward called Mr. Chicken. His doctor, a doctor, what are
the odds? Dr.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Ingham.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh, great. Christian, I once had a colonoscopy. This is
from Wendy from a doctor ring. Ian's on the line now.
He's got a great one as well. Good morning, Ian.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'm good, Ian. So a name linked to a job.
You've got a great one. What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh, it's very amusing.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
It's always amused me. A Catholic archbishop in Manila in
the Philippines named Cardinal Sin.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's like something from a kid's TV show or movie.
Heart of all sin. Amazing. Gold. Yeah, that's a growing. Ian,
thank you very much for sharing. Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For the next 20 minutes, I'm looking for your stories.
Have you ever bought anything from someone famous? If you have,
give us a call. 13 55 22. Intern Pete has
a peach of a story. Oh, yeah. So who do
you buy something off?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Yeah, this is a big story. I think it was
at 93, 94, Geelong, Victoria. Basically, for context, any AFL
player back in the 90s, 80s, they'd all have to
have side jobs because they weren't paid really a lot
of money at all.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I know, it's bizarre. There's so many players I play
who were playing at the weekend and then during the
week were plumbers.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But go around houses and people would have a go
at them, but oh crap, they were at the weekend.
Speaker 13 (06:34):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Imagine if Messi had also had a carpet business as well.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He probably does, to be fair.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
No, it's basically everyone in Geelong, because there was a
lot of car yards around Geelong, so everyone who played
for the Geelong Cats pretty much was a car salesman
on the side, basically, right? So people would go down
and buy cars from AFL players. And I couldn't believe this.
It was 1993, 1994, and you would not believe it.
Ken Hinckley, former AFL player.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now coach. He's got the Tassie job.
Speaker 11 (07:03):
Yes, right. He sold us a, I was going to say, well,
it was a white car anyway, some Ford Falcon or
something or other.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And we lived off that clout for years.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We would drive up like, yep, Ken Hinckley sold us
this car.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That would have been actually back in the day, even now,
if they made like NRL and AFL players sell cars,
only cars during the week, that would be a big story.
It totally would.
Speaker 11 (07:25):
I'm almost trying to envision it now because I just
remember like, A celebrity is at, we've got a celebrity's car.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Like in my head as a kid.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I can't imagine any other like major sporting code in
the world where not that long ago, only a couple
of decades ago, the players, like 18 players and talented
players were selling cars during the week. Yeah. Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I love it so much.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
It was just, it's such a big story of our
time growing up. Like no one else, what celebrity, you know,
did you get that car off?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah. Once you pull out the Ken Hinckley car.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's a name. It's a brand. It's a way of being. Yeah.
How would you describe that? Very big in Victoria, right?
Speaker 9 (08:02):
I guess Ricky Stewart in terms of temperament and career
would be the NRL equivalent.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah. I wouldn't mess with Ken Hinckley.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He doesn't suffer falls. And also, the name Ken, I
think that's why he's got the job, not just his
incredible resume. But the name Ken is a dependable caretaker
in life. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
I agree. No, it is.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He's a dependable uncle. Uncle Ken's going to come around
and jumpstart your car.
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You trust a Ken, don't you, in life?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Ken has jumper leads for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
100% he does as well. He has, yeah. Now I
want to know if Ken Hinckley has them. He's also
got a big ladder that you could probably borrow as well. Yes.
Uncle Ken will come over and do your gutters. He'll
sort that out for you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Have you ever brought anything from somebody famous? Christian, I
can't get through on the lines right now, but I
ended up with Bruce McIverney's spearfishing gear. That's... Shut the
show down. Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I can't imagine Bruce McIverney spearfishing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Not just that. How are the producers not putting that through?
You should get a fast pass. You've got to start
like that. Wowee. All right. Have you ever brought something
from someone famous? Let's go to the lines right now. Morning, Erica.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Hi, Christian. How are you going?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm good. Welcome to the show, Erica. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So what did you get and who did you get
it from?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I have a top... that Kylie Minogue wore on Neighbours.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A top? Do you mean like a shirt or a blouse?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Like a tank top, singlet top.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
How did you get hold of that?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Well, actually, it was back in the late 80s. They
were just selling off some of the clothes, the costumes
they wore on Neighbours, and I bought it for $ 5.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I mean, listen, if it was Elton John's wardrobe or
someone like that, Liberate should understand it, but some of
the cast from Have you got Mrs. Mangle's dress?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No, I don't. I'm not trying to sell it to you.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
How much did you pay for.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
It, Erica? I paid $ 5.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And that's a Sotheby's auction, yes?
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Yes, and they've got, on the label, they've got Charlene
written on it. I wish I could prove that it
was her, you know, that it actually.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Belonged to her. I might just start selling some of
my wife's clothes, you know, and just say it's from
a famous writer, Charlene, on it. Erica, thank you very
much for your story.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
No worries. Thanks, Christian.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Have a good day. Bye. Phil, good morning, Phil.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Good morning, Christian and team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Hey, Phil, welcome to the show. So what did you
buy and who did you get it from?
Speaker 12 (10:33):
It wasn't me, but it was my ex-girlfriend Nancy's father
had bought and had John Lennon's snooker table in his house.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
This is incredible. What a story. John Lennon's snooker table.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
In his house in Kew, yes.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Now, Phil, forgive my cynicism.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Hey, you believed a top that had Charlene sprawled in
the care instructions by the dry cleaning only label?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I just have questions.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
How did it get into his ownership?
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Nancy invited me around and I was playing. I said,
can we have a game of snooker?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And she said yes.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
And I had the beer on the table. And her
father come down and he said, can you please take
that beer off the table? And he goes, it actually
belonged to John Lennon. And I went, ooh, yeah. He
had it for a long time, apparently.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
How did he get it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Listen, we know how he got it, right? Let him
have his story. I know, I want to find out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm sure there's more to this.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
What, you think he's got official papers? It ain't John Lennon's, OK?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Come on. I could be selling anything, like some old
stunt guy. That's John Lennon's from Abbey Road Studios. Let's
go to Jacob now. Morning, Jacob.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'm good, Jacob. Welcome to the show. Thanks for calling in.
All right, so what famous person did you get something from?
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Well, honestly, it's probably a bit bigger than John Lennon,
but I didn't really buy it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's more what I picked up.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
It's what I picked up. I was driving.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I was, you know, at the cost of living, Christian.
Speaker 12 (12:13):
We all need furniture.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And I saw a chest of drawers.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
John Lennon sent in his snooker table. You know, he
needs that. John Lennon, who's that compared to the guy
I'm thinking about? So I picked up a wardrobe off
the side of the road and I was going, I'm
struggling to get it on.
Speaker 11 (12:28):
A medium-sized chest of drawers, timber, lovely timber.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And who comes out?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Guy Sebastian. He came out, rolled the sleeves up, helped
me load it on.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
What a man.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Lovely man.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
He didn't have the Afro at that point. It was
two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So no Afro, so not as good, but still. What
a legend. Not only that he's giving away medium-sized set
of drawers, but actually helped you load it as well.
Speaker 12 (12:55):
Of course, I was shocked.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I was shocked, but what a man. What a man.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
What a man. You know, would John Lennon have done
that in his heyday? We never know. How would someone
load a snooker table? It must weigh a ton.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
He's our John Lennon.
Speaker 12 (13:08):
What I've heard, John Lennon's selfish, Guy Sebastian, man of
the people.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Brilliant story. Very well told, Jacob. Have a great day.
Thanks for calling. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Time for extreme opinions. Some extreme opinions I've got right now. Okay.
Anyone who replies to an old company email should be fined.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A month's salary. Yeah, those idiots.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Everyone does it here. And you can't escape it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's the worst thing.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
There's no way to sub out of it. You're completely trapped.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes. Adults who say just manifest it are not adults.
You've never done a tax return. You don't just manifest it.
If only it worked like that. I'll just manifest it. No,
it just doesn't work like that. Or we'd all be
on our backside manifesting Ferraris, ratings, salaries. Ooh, just manifest it.
(14:09):
Have you tried manifestation?
Speaker 12 (14:10):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And the other one then, strong opinions, couples who share
Facebook accounts.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Oh, I hate that. Oh, my God.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
And emails.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Ah!
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And emails.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Grow up.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And emails. Once or twice a year, one will get
through the filters I've set up here at work. And
I'm like, whatever you're saying isn't coming on my show.
I don't want to reward this kind of behavior. You know,
couples sharing Facebook accounts and email addresses.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I haven't seen the Facebook account one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That one sounds diabolical. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, it's people of a certain age, Rio.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Right, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
When this was a big thing before Instagram or TikTok,
when Facebook was like the way to... Stay connected with friends.
Now it's a way to get irritated with friends and
their political views.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
And it's always that couple that have to do like
an annual update just before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh, you're right.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
The newsletter.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Of what the family's up to.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I actually don't care.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
My Instagram, my partner needs to stay way away. Only
bad things will come if he starts looking through that Instagram.
There's no way they can be joined together.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right. Strong opinions. What have you got, Rio?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
I feel very passionately that if you're in a restaurant
and one table is singing happy birthday to everyone, to
someone on the table, sorry, everyone in the restaurant should
join in and sing happy birthday with that table.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're wrong. No.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're a grown-up.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Why do us strangers need to sing happy birthday to you?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Because you're not miserable old creatures.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's happy birthday. This is what's wrong with the world
right now. Everyone's feelings need to be validated. Sick. We're
not that special. It's their special day, though.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Once a year. It's like a giant.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When you're 10. When you're 10.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No, it's like a big choir.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Like a splash.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't know who you are. Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
No, but that's, have you, it happened recently, last weekend,
and the whole restaurant was singing, and it was a
beautiful moment of community.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's a fake knee-jerk moment of faux. You heard it,
I said it. Faux community. You're doing it because you
had to. Did you buy them anything?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well, where's the community? That's what made it so special.
Some half-assed hip.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hip, hip.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No, no. You don't even know their name.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
No, but that, yeah, that does get a bit awkward
when you get to the happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Do you know how you feel most sorry for the staff?
How many of those in an average week have you
got to do? And also what I feel sorry for,
those tables that insist the staff lean into it, they
never tip. And they come. They never tip.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Maybe tip me, you know, barely making minimum wage in
this job, just singing, oh Lord, fancy pants, happy birthday.
Out the back here washing pants.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Wow, this did not get received how I thought it would.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Toddlers are running countries. And now we're supposed to sing
happy birthday to each other. You're a grown-ass person. They're
not connected. Birthdays are very different. Anyway, it's called Strong Opinions.
It's time for this week's What Are The Odds? Your
stories of coincidence and chance on 135522. Christian, what are
(17:20):
the odds? My parents have just got back from Europe.
They were on a bus tour and were talking to
a couple who used to live in Garfield, West Gippsland.
Turns out they built and used to live in the
same house my parents now live in. What are the odds?
Let's go to Maria here. Good morning, Maria.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
How are we?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, good. Maria, what are the odds?
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Okay, well, the odds are that a couple of weeks
ago at school camp, I did a coffee run for
the teachers, and we have two daughters named Kayla and Liana.
I went to order the coffees, and as I was
talking to the lady, I asked her name because I
knew I'd have a big order again the next day,
and she said her name was Kayla. I said, oh, gosh, well,
that's my daughter's name. Now, there was another lady waiting
(18:03):
to pick up her coffee, so they yelled at her name,
and they yelled out, Liana. And I spun around and
I said, I'm sorry, what's your name? She said, Liana.
And I said, oh, my gosh, that's my other daughter's name.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Now, there was a third.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Lady serving and she turned around and she said, okay,
so tomorrow morning when you ring up, what name do
I need to look out for?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
And I said, Maria.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
And she said, guess what? She goes, that's my middle name.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You had us there. We were poised. Beautiful time, and
I thought we had a trifecta there with the Maria.
But still, still, this is great.
Speaker 12 (18:39):
What are the odds?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
What are the odds? And so I need to shout
out to Aidan, the other teacher, who reminded me to
call you guys to say this.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, thank you very much to Aidan, and thank you
very much, Maria, for giving us a call. Have a
good day.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Thanks, guys.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
You too.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Linda? Good morning. Linda, gotcha. Linda, welcome to the show.
What are the odds?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, the odds are.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Many years ago when I met my now husband, we
started dating, I moved to a little place, got a
phone put on, gave him the phone number. He says, oh,
that looks familiar. I said, it can't be, it's a
new number. Kept getting these phone calls asking for his
ex-wife's name, which was Lorna, very similar.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
And in the end, I'm like, what the hell? Turns
out Telstra had given me his ex-wife's phone number after
she left town.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This is incredible.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Sorry, I shouldn't swear. But she'd only been gone two
months out of the area.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I mean, seriously, to this.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Day, I tell everybody this story. No one believes it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
He's got a type.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He has, doesn't he? The L and the L and
the name and the number. It's similar.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
He doesn't have to learn a new number. He used
to slip up and call me Lorna from time to time.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It's a perfect cover-up as well. You go, oh, no, sorry,
I didn't mean to. I was trying to call you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:58):
Sometimes.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think people were just taking the mickey. But yeah, Telstra, seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Wow. I think it's A-Octus then. Lorna, great call. No,
I'm Lisa. Thank you. Thank you very much. Give us
a call.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, let's get your stories. What are the odds?
Let's go to Steve here. Steve, what are the odds?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
The odds, mate, are sensational. I picked the Melbourne Cup
winner out of four different sweeps, the same horse.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And then they.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Also backed that after I had a dream three days
prior that this horse was going to win and got
the same horse in every sweep.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is quite a unique, helpful skill, isn't it? So
you have the dream, you put the bet on, according
to the dream.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I went back to put back the horse at $ 30
to $ 150, and then drew it out. My mum had
a sweep at work. They had three sweeps, a $ 10,
a $ 20, a $ 50. She said, which one do you
want to go in? I go, chuck me in all
of them. Why not?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You went in your mum's work sweep?
Speaker 12 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Quite a story, yes, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
And because they had a public, she went for the bank,
and they had a public holiday on the Monday, so
they drew the numbers out only on the Friday, and
then whatever number you got. And I got number 13
three times in all three of them. And I go,
I hope it's viewed, because that's the horse I had a.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Dream of winning.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
And sure enough, when the field come out, viewed was
number 13. And then I went to one of my
sisters that morning. She said, do you want to go
in my sweep? And I said, yeah, why not?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
In for a penny, in for a pound, I say.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I drew it out of that and I got viewed again.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
It's like a real life Danny Ocean. All right, Steve,
thanks for calling me. Naomi, good morning.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
How are you today?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Terrible, actually. Naomi, what are the odds? What are the odds?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Okay, so what are the odds? I actually had a
car uninsured for over a year, and my ex was
harassing me, get it insured, get it insured. So I
finally did it, and within 24 hours it was stolen.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh, yeah. The story, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Investigated it.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
They went through all my phone records.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Sure they did.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
It's absolutely 100% true.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
There's two ways to read this story.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What are the odds? Lo and behold. Barely put your
name on that contract. I actually thought I.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Was insured the year before with RACQ and I actually
hadn't paid the bill.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, we're not investigating. Hopefully someone this thing is. What
are the criminal odds? Naomi, thank you very much. You're cool.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And it's great to have that kind of nefarious behaviour
on the show, isn't it? Steve, what are the odds?
Two Steves in one break.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, absolutely crazy. I've won the Grand Jackpot at the
pokies three times in one week.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is it this week?
Speaker 12 (22:56):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, so six days ago.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I won $ 19, 000.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, my word.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And then a couple of days ago, I'm like, oh,
stuff it. I'll chuck another couple of 50s in. I
won $ 12, 500. Yesterday, I won $ 10, 500.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
This is amazing. So how much have you won in
total in the last six days?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
$ 42, 000.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So it's time to quit while you're ahead, yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Always get responsibly. Well done, well done. What are you
going to do with your money?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm going to give most of it away. I got
a fine, so I'm paying for a fine through WorkSafe.
But all the rest of it, I'm giving away to
all the people that need it.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And that's a great story as well.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Thanks, man.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
All right, take care. Wild run of calls there.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Pogies, TAB, and insurance fraud all in my brain.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Welcome to radio.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
All right, time for today's time waste, sir. I think
you can have fun with this one. Today is apparently
World Pirate Day. Ah, yes.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Arr!
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes. Arr!
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Arr!
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Arr!
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Arr!
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oh, he's Scottish. Yeah, Scottish, yeah. Like a lot of
them Celtic, actually. All right. Pirate movies. Arr! Being John Malkovich. No,
I've ruined that one. Let me come back to that one. No,
I've got it now. I've got it now. Sorry. It's
(24:30):
because I've got my.
Speaker 13 (24:32):
Eye patch on. I couldn't see the punchline there. Being
Long John Malkovich.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Silver. Men who stare at boats. Gold. Sword fight club.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Gold plus.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Give me a medal.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Gold plus.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Anticipation.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Booty nights. Gold.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Shiver my timbers. Your favorite movie is Patch Adams, isn't it?
I love it so much. The Pirates got a version
of that. I patch Adams.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That's gold.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
These are gold. And dude, where's me? No, no, no. Plunder.
Plunder and gold. All righty, all righty, sailors. What are
you doing? Trying to find it. You sound like a
child doing it.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
Trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
This must be great radio to listen to. Two guys
growling at each other. Pete's getting aroused. He loves that.
Pays a lot of money for that on OnlyFans.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All righty, all righty there.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
About Ahoy!
Speaker 1 (25:50):
About Ahoy!
Speaker 4 (25:51):
About a boy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Silver, silver, silver. The hills have aye-aye.
It's good. Cold. It's a slow burn. That's a good one.
That's good. The landlubber, those filthy landlubbers. The landlubber before time. Yeah, bronze.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
And booty, booty and the beast.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Booty and the beast. That's gold.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's over, guys. It's okay.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What have you got then? Pirate movies, 0475-03104. The Christian
O'Connell Show podcast. Today's time waster on World Pirate Day.
We're looking for your pirate movies. All right. Jess has got.
Me myself an eye patch. Silver plus. Davy Jones's diary. Gold.
(26:47):
Tom the Chippy. No, that was from Tom the Chippy.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh, good name.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The hills have eye patches. Gold.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm just going to do it normal.
Speaker 12 (26:56):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Charplank redemption. Silver plus. If I had a wooden leg,
I'd kick you. That is gold plus. Just coming out
of character. That is brilliant, Laura. Laura Harvey, well done.
Days of Plunder. Silver. Edward Cutler's hands. Silver. Who framed
(27:17):
Jolly Roger Rabbit. Brons. Das Booty. German Pirate. Nasty.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
Arr. Arr.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Arr.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
Arr.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Arr.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Arata.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
What?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Arata.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Like Avatar?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Arata.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Gold.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
What a people.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Voice is drunk now. My left hook. My left hook.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Silver plus.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The life of pirates. Silver.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Malcolm X marks the spot.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gold. Uncle Buccaneer.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Silver plus.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm getting me treasure.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Silver.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Whitehouse down the hatch. Silver. And Dabloonie Darko. Dabloonie. Dabloonie Darko.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Great use of ploonies.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Dabloonie spelt correctly as well.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Who is winning the plunder? If I had a wooden peg,
I'd kick you. Well done. We're back tomorrow. Have a
great day. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Podcast.
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