December 16, 2025 • 53 mins
Today we continue getting to know Sydney, the city they’re temporarily calling home. Sharing powerful stories of kindness and resilience in the wake of tragedy, including a moving email from listener Brad about people lining up for hours to donate blood. There’s also room for lighter moments as the team dives into some of Sydney’s quirks, from the mythical panther to the ongoing seagull problem, and even a visit from a listener who claims to remember Saga World, the short lived theme park of the 90s. It’s a thoughtful mix of heart, humour, and discovery.
This episode contains discussion of violence, terrorism, and loss, which some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised. If this conversation brings up difficult feelings, support is available. You can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 for 24/7 confidential support, or visit lifeline.org.au.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Good morning, Pats morning.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Good morning, Alex, Good morning, and good morning Rio, Good morning.
Can I just please begin today's show with a plea
for the next couple of days of leniency. It's the
ashes I'm just getting. I just want to put this
out there. It's the ashes. It's not gone very well
even just hearing any sports news there, Alex ben Stoke's
just going fielding, batting.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Just try, can you guys?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Just Unfortunately I can't offer an olive branch of that card.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I would love just treading coming into I'm actually dreading
in coming in tomorrow and Friday. What's on throat? It's
like plus, it's like, obviously you've got pack comings, an
amazing leader, he's back, You've got Lion and then the weather.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yes, yes, the weather's perfect for its.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So hot thirty five degrees thirty built for those temperatures. No,
those and it's another example of cheating Australias. If it's
not sound paper, it's the sun time play fair Australia.
The England team should be allowed to play under cabanas.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'm actually worried.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think they should have to have sunscreen breaks. I
know they have drinks breaks, but those pasty skin in
thirty nine degrees that is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stokes in heat, in heat, I mean that's what they're doing.
So anyway, can't wait for tomorrow's show. Yeah, it's just
going to be such a blast for a couple of
hours suddenly being the only English guy in Australia on
the radio. There's no way to hide.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
No, no, no, no, I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But what happens. So if it goes well today.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You actually do normally, you start well, your day ones
have been good the last two tests, and then there's
business capitulations in day two and three.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's more of a one day today than for Ingden.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Then yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now we did this yesterday and I think it's really
important the moment that you know, with everything that we're
still trying to deal with after what happened in Bonda
on Sunday, we've got the Prime Minister call on the
show after ac o'clock this morning. Wich would be great
to speak to the Prime Minister. That's after eight o'clock
this morning. It's actually there are these stories that are
coming out and we really need to hear them and
we need to share them as well. I think we're
desperate for them, that there are these good news stories. Pats,
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what have you got there? Mate? Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Look this go fund me Paige for hero Ahmed is
just excuse me taking off. So it's at two point
three million at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I find this incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It's phenomenal, and it's people all over the world.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
It's people all over the world like Adam, he's in
New York City. Please accept endless gratitude and thanks to you,
mister Ahmed from New York City. You've shown us all
the true meaning of selflessness and have done so with
one of your finest acts of bravery I've known God
bless you. May you be a blessing and an example
to all people around the world. Isn't that gorgeous?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A bit bad? But that guy there in New York, Adam,
he's right, he's he's like some kind of modern angel.
Not only did he see if lies, but we're all
seeing that all over the world and being in awe
of what he's done. I think he goes in for
a second surgery today.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
He goes for his second round today, but he makes
us all want to be better people. Yes, from Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So it's two and a half million, two and a
half million people never going to have to go back
to work at that tobacconist. Does he know how much
money that people have donated each other?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
One day because he was he was in a coma,
wasn't he yes, wow? To come out of that.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I bet he will because he's that sort of I reckoning,
be that sort of man that he will go back
and open up the shop.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's clearly a man of character for every day Aria.
What have you got? What the good news to have
we got today?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I was surprised by how moved I was by the
news that John Williamson is going to be performing True
Blue before the Ashes. Because it's just a guy singing
a song, but for Australia, it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Won't be today that it's actually going to have the
minute Silence as well. They're playing Are they playing your
Black Armbones as well?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's yeah, yes they are indeed, and the Minute Silence
as well. But yeah, the lines in that song, Hey
true Blue helping out a mate when he's in a fight.
That's one of the lines which I just just resonate
so much.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think everyone's going to be in tens.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, it'll be beautiful and he's there's something like that
just touches the soul. I think of all Australians when
he sings, he's got this beautiful, beautiful, like resonant voice.
You just feel safe, you feel Australian. And he doesn't
really perform these big shows very much. He used to
perform before the Wallabies played in these big national moments.
And for him to you know, come out of the
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woodwork and be performing today, I think it's going to
be really special.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah. I think even people on massive cricket fans will
be tuning in to see that. Yeah, you guys, what
time is that?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ten thirty a AT starts, so it'll probably be between
ten and ten thirty the performance.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Great the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So I'm aware that some of you might be tuning
in right now, going who is this? Please tell me
the radios broke it. This is not an English guys.
It that's the last thing we need this week. It's
an uninvited englishman suddenly on the radio. I'm Christian O'Connell
and we are the show that is going to be
replacing Jones in and Amanda. And the goodness to you
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guys is you're going to have two great shows come
January on this radio station. We're going to be waking
you up and then Jones Amanda gonna be taking you home.
This is going to be some radio station for Australia.
It's a radio station for grown ups. Obviously, you love
Jones Amanda an incredible show for twenty odd years together.
It's an honor to take over their show. So we're
here this week to get to know you. And obviously
(06:00):
we flew in Sunday and then Sunday Night happens. So
I'm aware that you're dealing with a lot. Sydney is
going through a lot, and then obviously suddenly there's a
radio show. There's a brand new radio show that you've
not heard before. But I just want to say the
reaction we've had over the last two days I was
just saying to Rio during the song, has been nothing
but humbling. People have been so kind. Someone has just
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dropped off a bakewell tart at reception at six am,
someone has made me a cake. I'm just in awe
of so thank you very much. Everyone has been sending
a message and taking part of the show. We've got
a load of great stuff that I lined up for
you guys today as well. Thank you Andrew for dropping
off the cake a lot time. It does look really nice.
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And your lovely letter as well. It was really moving Andrew.
Thank you very much. Christian, don't eat it for another hour,
it's just come out the fridge. Welcome to Sydney, Christian.
You assumed yesterday I was an old woman. I just
thought I just couldn't help, but think I didn't know.
I'm sorry. However, it does a lot. You've got the
writing of a child. Also, there's about eighteen f words
(07:09):
well together, the cake and the f words.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Grannie's not writing this.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Some of the other messages that came in off the
show yesterday, Christian, will you be moving up to the
big smoking Sydney or staying there in Mexico Mexican? Yeah,
there was a lot of that during COVID, wasn't it
us is thirty Mexican? Not a nice sur on many counts.
The south of the border. Yeah yeah, Christian ed here
in Sydney. Been listening to your show on the catch
(07:39):
up show in the evening. Lovely to hear you guys live.
I think I heard you say that you're in Manly.
Be careful those mega sea girls. One once I was
having an extra large kebab and a mega seagull. Just
a kebab is just enoughing. It sounds who needs an excel?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I didn't know you could order it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Too much meat and onion down there on the beach
in the sun. I think the seagulls are trying to intervene.
It's an intervention there, the mega seagulls. They took the
whole thing. Christian, great things doing Manly. Hire a kayak
and kayak out to a secret beach called Store Beach.
It's beautiful. I tell you what the weather today tomorrow Friday.
(08:21):
I am not kayaking out to a secret beach. Otherwise
I'll be in Patsy's news. I'll be stranded out there
about coming incident. One thing we're doing a part two
off on today's show is the Weird and Wonderful Guy
to Sydney. As we get to know Sydney. I want
to know the real Sydney and not the stuff that
chatchipt or Google is going to throw the things that
you know. Yesterday, one of the big shock things that
(08:42):
we found out was about the panther. Sydney has a mythical,
mystical beast of a panther, and we had a guy
on yesterday, Bob, who claims to have seen it for
three point five seconds in a drain.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
The size of a German shepherd, apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
With a very muscular buffhead.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yes, his words escape from the circus yep.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And Alex seems to think it's it's from the nineteen twenty.
So we're dealing with one hundred and five year old panther.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
And thank you Bob for velladating my client.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You do if Bobby is you have validati a Christian
in relationship the panther story. There are several panthers of Sydney.
We're not doing with one. It's a whole gang of them.
Apparently one of them came to Sydney on an American
naval ship sailed into Sydney Harbor, but they weren't allowed
to take their mascot back, so they took it and
(09:29):
they just dropped it off at the Blue Mountains and
let it go.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why did they have a panther mascot Africa?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The other panther was set free from a private zoo.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, people are so confident about these legend historical facts.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yep. And Christian, I do win a billboard today? Yes
we are. We have access to these big billboards all
over Sydney and you can have your message whenever you
want to say to Sydney Live this morning, Christian, I'm Jasmine. Tomorrow,
thousands of year to twelve students get their results, the
HSC results tomorrow. Could we do a billboard that says,
proud of you HRC class of twenty twenty five. Your
(10:06):
mark doesn't define your worth or future. You've a rey
achieved so much from all your teachers, Jasmine. That is
a lovely idea. All right, coming up next, Hey, you
can win prizes this morning with something called The Time Wasters.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I love getting your emails. If you ever want to
email the shabout And you think my inbox is always
wide open, it's Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Got a lovely one that came in yesterday. I think
you already enjoy hearing saw a man called Brad Stokes
here in Sydney Christian enjoyed the show and getting to
know you and your team this week. Just I want
to share this. Yesterday my wife and I went to
(10:43):
Paramatta to donate blood. When we arrived, the queue was huge.
It took us an hour and a half just to
get to reception. We've been saying this, it's incredible. There
are literally thousands of people queuing up to give blood.
In the queue was almost every nationality and occupation represented, Arabic, Indian, Korean,
young lassie trades, girls and active where executives. Folks from
(11:06):
all walks of life were there together. There was a
sure elderly couple when the husbandman was proudly wearing his
yamuka and had been unable to give blood at Bondai,
so driven all the way to wait in a queue again. Wow,
this is incredible. My wife had a young Chinese dad
behind her, also waiting, and as we slowly proceeded up
the stair one by one, it was a case of
oneness and camaraderie developed amongst everybody. The man in front
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of me had taken time off work to donate and
was wearing an indigenous printed sloppy joe over his work clothes,
which were clearly a police officer. I asked him how
he was traveling, particularly due to his line of work
this week. Yeah, we were talking about checking in. If
you see any police or first responders this week, just
ask how they are. And he quietly said, the rabbi
that died was our chaplain. Ah oh oh, incredible, he's
(11:52):
queuing up to give blood. It just it breaks your heart,
it really does. But it also there someone just this
is almostly the kindness that surround the last couple of days.
It's just really worth remembering in these tough times. After
waiting in the queue, the officer was told you'd have
to come back tomorrow at seven and am here applied
no problems see then just quietly walked off. This to memize,
(12:13):
is just from so many different callings. Everyone's benefacted by
this and how we all stand together and how we
all act is the most important thing Australia. This is
a lovely line, Brad, What a lovely email this is.
Brad's last line is something so beautiful. He writes saying
Australia is a wonderful country and I'm proud to be Australian. Brad.
That is lovely. Thank you for saying that your words
(12:33):
will help so many this morning. We'll read it out
again later and let's see if Brad's okay. Maybe we
should put up on our website as well. That is
a lovely letter.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Finning War with the Chinnai super Kings.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Good morning, It's the Christian O'Connell's show on Gold. That's
Alex practicing. Is our cricket sledges? See moonlighting? Has he
got another secret show somewhere ESBs. He's got a lot
of side huts. Its doing the He's doing chicky sports
bulletins all the side. We just caught your red handed there.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Just getting my head around this being system. Apologies to that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're right, it's like we're in a new studio, okay,
and it's light, driving a new car everything. Yeah, it
is even yesterday right, I'm staying in a man in
this Airbnb and it had a list of that had
a TV and I bothered the super host yesterday. I
can't there's no TV and she said, it's that large
picture on the wall. I just thought it was a
(13:33):
strange bit of art.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It must be the Samsung frame I've got that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well for this idiot, I see a large smart TV anywhere.
I don't see a smart human anywhere. I was staring
at it. I'm strange bit of art. An elephant on
the plane, what's their connection to that? Where's the TV?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You know how you get Airbnb?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You get reviewed by the hotel ending me like dumbest
man ever.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Brackets pop. All right, let's do this. We do this
every down the show. We call it the time Wasters.
We set up and give you a theme. You send
them in and then we mark them gold, silver, bronze.
And for the Western show you win a prize today.
The prize is a brand new digital Korea Funk Debbie Radio.
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What does that mean? Basically, it's a digital radio. These
things are amazing and it has forty stations. Of course
you don't need any of those other thirty nine ones.
I remember when I first started in radio in the nineties.
As you remember this, radio stations used to have crazy
production in the nineties, didn't they. The station that I
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started at in nineteen ninety eight. The main jingle they
had was no, you found us, rip that knob off?
And now anyone under like thirty or twenty wouldn't even
know about radios where you had a knob and had
a jewelry. Hey Goolard in Sydney. That's actually tune the
radio show in Now this is all automatic the scans.
(15:10):
Kids these days we have no idea about.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Tuning the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Win to find the radio show.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
They can't rip any knobs off these.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Now you found us, rip that numb off? Maybe we
should do today. Kids today would have no idea about it. Yeah,
actually tune in to find the radio band. There there
is our guy. Can you hear my words? Anyway, you
can win a modern radio that's what it is. We're
asking you to mix a band and a movie. Mix
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a band and a movie. We had some good ones
yesterday Red Hot Mary Poppins, after Oom Crash, Phantom of
the Opera from Trish Mark and The Darkness Night for
Metallica Jackets, Shane had Beetles Juice I Do Love as
well The Genius of a few good Men at work
(15:59):
from Mark as well was very good. All right, let's
see what you've got then asking you to combine a
movie with a band. Mix a movie and a band.
Text me the number you need to text this show
and chat to us. Oh for seven five put it
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The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So we are your brand new reckfast show that you
didn't ask for, but you're welcome anyway, Sydney, and we
do a thing every single day. Load by the way,
Alex on Sports, our sports guy Alex Cunnins just had
some great news. Your brother and his wife have given birth.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Yes, Ron also hospital last night they my my brother's
partner gave birth to a little girl. So after a
pretty rough start to the week, you know, a lot
of hardship and a lot of tragedy, something.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Nice congratulations in the middle of the week. So yeah,
your brother and his partner. That is great all right.
Thanks to Cogan dot Com, chop up to seventy percent
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We're asking you to mix a movie and a band rio.
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Are you ready tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
These are very good. Chris has got the Old Man
and the CNC Music Factory Silver Music Early for that,
I'm get in fifty cents ah Silver Michael when you
send these in, by the way, put your name on
them as well, Nannia the line the Witch and the
who and the silver plass. Look who's talking heads. That's
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very good. Barrye, well done, Fleetwood Mac to the future.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
God as well.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That's awesome. Shane listened till this morning in Liverpool. Thanks mate, Christian.
I'm driving to work listen to your show. Welcome to Sydney.
Would you and the team like the chance of a
cruise around Sydney Harbor. I'm the GM for a cruise company. Yes, yes, yes,
thank you. Blink one eighty two times in Hollywood, Silver
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Barbie streisens, Oh god, wow, that is so clever. Did
you come up with that within a couple of minutes
this time of the morning, Barbie Streisand is very good.
Motley Few good Men, not Motley Crue, but Motley Few
good Men, Silver Man. That should have been a gold,
Greg Deep, the Color Purple, Silver plus, Queen Kong, Oh Gone, Judy,
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that's great, Queen Kong, very good. The Green Day, mile Go.
It's a wonderful West Life. Who's that?
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Karen?
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Well done? Tina Turner and Hooch Silver plus, the Elf
Redemption Silver point Blink, that's pretty good, Silver plus, all right.
Who's best in show? Tough to pit? There were some
great ones.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
They were brilliant, but the best one Barbie Streissa.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Brby Streisen Okay.
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The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
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Due in the next twenty two minutes. Then before the
news at half past the Pats and Alex. It's kind
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you can get intell for the show, and the contact
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We made the show with you guys every single day.
So I meet it this week when I'm saying, put
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(19:43):
do not put my name down as that Pom on
the radio. I have a friend of mine and we've
known each now for six years. It's really offensive that
he still has mes that that poem on the radio.
I'm more than that Poma. All right, So we've got
we're doing this every single day this week. We are
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putting your message, whatever you want to say to Sydney
on billboards. We've got these big to billboards and we
can put a message up there very quickly and it
goes live, and so it's up there all day and
literally hundreds of thousands of Sydney side is driving around
can see your message. When we first started on Monday,
what a great beautiful word from Lissa Shane who just said,
(20:25):
just put on their good on your armed. Now we
are putting brand new ones every day, but we decided
to keep that one up all this week because I'd
imagine that as people just see it, it just lifts them. Yeah,
you know, good on your Hmed is such a great
phrase this week. What a hero he is. They came
from listener Shame. Some more contenders for today. This is
from Dad Mark to his son Jack lift a toilet
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seat when peeing. I mean he's obviously told Jack so
many times. It's now time for a bigger message. It's
not getting through. It's a billboard hopefully public shaming. So
what message would you love to say to Sydney today?
Whatever it is, It might be sown personal, it might
be just a message of support and so soli downity
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right now. Whatever you want up there, give us a
call thirteen fifty five twenty two and text four seven
five three one oh four three. And the other thing
I'm building with this week is my weird and wonderful
guide to Sydney. I need to know the real Sydney,
not the stuff that you give to tourists, the real stuff.
Rio yesterday told me that the Townhill Steps is a
multi generational spot for teens. Yes now phase of teens,
(21:33):
goths emos. They gather there and they do like moths
to a bowl exactly, and goths to a bowl. Alex
told us about the mystical Lone panther that roams the
Blue Mountains and apparently has done for one hundred years.
Listener Bob claims to seeing it twice down a drain.
(21:53):
Xavier Rio six shorldn Effort nephew called hi yesterday to
tell us that they are ills in Centennial Park that
go down through the sewers to New Caledonia. Good, yeah,
it is all right. So what have you got Weird
and Wonderful Guide to Sydney? Or if you want to
say something on the billboards today, your message will go
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you can text four seven five three one oh four three.
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The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
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Put your message on a billboard live to Sydney today.
Whatever you want to say? Oh, four seven five three
one oh four three. And have you got something that
I need to know about the real Sydney from my
Weird and Wonderful Guide to Sydney Rio, you've got something else?
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Yes, Siega World Now.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Anyone listening in Sydney now has probably never heard those words.
In about twenty years, it was a short lived theme
park in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
It was built as this huge new thing.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So you are you to it like son at the
Hedgehold ride.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yes, well that that would be. That was the initials
I was sold.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
It was sold in this Australia's Interactive Disneyland. It was
this futuristic theme park right in Darling harborst so in
prime position.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
It only lasted five years.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
It went from nin ninety four to two thousand or
six years, I guess. And the reason was and I
went there twice. The riots were terrible.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It was build as this like futuristic theme fuck.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So no magic King I wanted it. There's anyone else
listening right now? That also went there. Yes, I was
underwhelmed by the Sonic ride or whatever it was.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
So some of the rides, but it didn't make sense
like thematically, it was so confused. There would be like
a Sonic the Hedgehog ride. Then there was like a
submarine simulator, one of those four D movies where they
like spray water in your phone rain. But the crowning
jewel of weird rides at Siaga World was the Michael
Jackson pilot simulator.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Excuse me, where it was eight people.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You'd sit in this like like a plane simulator, like
a flight simulator and you were doing a pilot training course.
And for reasons that and with Michael Jackson, the reasons
that I never explained ever. Michael Jackson, like the actual
Michael Jackson, like holograph of him is the pilot that's
terrifying it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Why is it he's going to to do with planes?
Never explained. I think he must have just got touch
in his joystick.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
That's like a fevered dream.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You just recounted that it was so weird, and Lee's
called us today you went to Saga World as Rio
just made this up?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
No, I promise it's really if you know, you know, isn't.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That scream nineties? Anyone else? Remember the Hollywood burger chain
Planet Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Did? They might think they might have had one here
in London.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It was marketed as you might see Sylvester Stallone or
Arnie chomping burgers and chips. Have you seen those guys
back and they were ripped. They're not having to quarter
pounders in over priced restaurants. Alex, what's another one for
our weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Well, I got a.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Text from my wife Bonnie saying that there are guard
dogs at the opera house, and I went, what do
you mean guard dogs at the opera house? Well, she said,
the dogs are the here to scare away the seagulls.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
What sort of dogs, Well, that's what I'm keeping.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'm going to be a sausage dog, is it, little man? Yeah,
shepherd dogs. No, Doberman's Dobermans. I would suggest Dobermans. That
would a good idea. Wolves.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Why not if they have wolves at the opera house.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
The opera should have something wolves, something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
If you die wolves to.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Keep Charles has got the bee features, you know, to
defend the pallace. The opera should have something like wolves.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We have a pitbull for Australia.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
What about blue cattle dogs? That's very.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You should have kelpies the most Australia. There has to
be roaming kelpiece all around it. Reading. Are they on
the Are they on the roof? Apparently? Because that's what
sloped man.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
They're on the stairs and they're sort of.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Talking, barking away the seagulls. Why did you went on
the stairs? Bunny's ad on the roof and that's why
they're up there pooping on it.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
She's adamant that there are seagull dogs at the Opera House.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It sounds like a mom who hasn't had enough sleep.
I'm not entirely sure you and real I think you're
winding me up.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
She's an home three small children in this week, so.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Can't get over the the Michael Jackson flight simulators. I'm
gonna have to google this. There's any remaining evidence of
this seagull? All right, weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.
What can you add? What do I need to know?
What can you show?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Christian O'Connell Show Gone Podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What have you got from my weird and wonderful guy
to Sydney? What do I need to know? Christian? Good morning.
The Sydney Opera House was originally a major Sydney tram shed.
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Oh? I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Thank you very much, Christian. If you search Google Maps
for every Red Rooster store in Sydney, it draws a
neat red line that divides East and West Sydney. Economists
actually use this tool and they know it as the
Red Rooster line to study socio economic inequality. If you're
east of the line, you're in the posh part town.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
There's no red roosters on the east side of towns.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's true, yes, yeah, too good for rooster Australia. He's
got the Prime Minister in half an hour, just speak
to him about it.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
And he demanded the regulatan and that's the only risters
you'll finding me.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Is and then Maddie Alex was just saying how his
wife said that they have guard dogs guarding Sydney Opera
House from seagulls. One thing I'm really learning about Sydney
is you've got a major seagull problem. All right, it's
it's a pandemic, I would say, smil link to this
(27:51):
website saying it's true. There's a company set up by
an English guy, Christian. It's called Mad Dogs and the
Englishman Seagull Patrol. What a proud boast. This is the
leader in dog based seagull To Terrence, there's a photo
that is now my favorite photo of a Border Collie
barking at a seagull as it's flying away.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Get out of here, right up the guts.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Not on my watch. It's a bit like the old
lady who swallowed a fly.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
But now we've got all these dogs roaming around our
brouse yes.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Seagulls can be a real nuisance I'm reading from the website,
from stealing food at outdoor cafes, creating health housards with
their droppings. We offer an effective and humane solution to
manage these pesty birds using our hardly trained border collies
and kelpies. We use the dogs and natural herding in
sincetant cotage burst couch bursts to leave the area.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Come on, get out of here.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The presence of the dog creates a predator effect teaching
the seagulls, and when the dogs are there, food is
off libds. This is a powerful long term solution and
the dogs find the boss seagull. Did we know that
there's a like a final boss seagull? And the dogs
go not you mate, You're not the boss. You're a
(29:10):
fake boss. You ain't nothing. You're like the VP your pence.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I did know there was a hierarchy.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We are finding out so much with this weird and
guy to see me. I need to get this. Apparently
they can. They're happy to to come on TV and
radio shows. I know we've got the Prime Minister today.
How do we go bigger Thursday? We get one of
these dogs on for an interview.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
But do we bump albow and then yes.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Just put in abody house your mumps. It's a dog
that can find the final boss. Get the Kelpie, get
the always Saying Showbiz book the Kelpie. John's on the
line also has experienced Saga World. Yes, John, welcome to
the show. Morning John Morning.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Listening to you in the afternoons. I'm hoping you can
do him better on the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thank you very much. Well, it's it's it's an extraordinary
week to be here launching the show in Sydney. But
I really hope we're helping and it's lovely being able
to chat to people and hopefully offer some comfort and
support right now and nonsense about dogs and Saga World.
We need all of that in the world right now,
all of that. So you you heard really real talking
(30:26):
about Saga World. Did you go?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I went to the opening, you witnessed history.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
It's help there with the moon landing, John, John, what
was it like?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
It was very underwhelming?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah, yeah, but that adds up the reason.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Why the only reason why we hanged around was because
they've given away free stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Of course, not a sustainable business model, though. If your
attractions are underwhelming, and you've got to keep people there
by giving stuff away.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
This radio station, it's been running on it for years.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
And the cues and that were many people showed up.
The cues were sober. You had to wait about half
an hour at least to get onto a ride, and.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
They weren't very good rides.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
No, John, do you remember this Michael Jackson flight simulator.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
I've never got a chance to get onto it because
the cues were that we get on.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
All right, John, thank you very much for giving us
a cool.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Mate on one last The only saving grace was the
arcade games.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
There were a lot of arcade I remember playing this
pokey kids.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You can't run a theme.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Park off that why it was, it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Actually, yeah, I remember they had a hockey.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
That's the I spent a lot of time doing a
hockey to impress Australians.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We've got air hockey.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
It's hockey worse right now.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Now. I know how we're going to dominate the ratings
next year, giving away air hockey table our first week
when we're back January nineteenth, Air Hockey's.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Good Morning Danuel Work Christian one of the best things
since Sydney. It is the train seats can flip to
face away you're traveling. Yeah, oh travel sickness in Sydney.
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yes, they're brilliant.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And you can also turn a three seater into a
six seater if you've got a bigger group.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
If only Saga World to try that out in the
air hockey tables, then it would have had some the
rival Disneyland of the Magic Kingdom. All right, this is
a bound new thing we're going to be doing with
you guys. Every week. We call it what are the Odds?
What are the Oddsers? You are your stories? People have
such incredible stories of coincidence and chance. We do every
Wednesday it's called what are the Odds? This is one
(32:41):
of our all time Hall of Fame with calls from Cheryl.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
My name is Cheryl, and I was married to men
called Hunt, and I worked with a Hunt who was
married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave each other
a Christmas card which was exactly the same card and
read to Cheryl and hands from Hunts and Cheryl.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It still gets me every time. All right, let's get
into it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I believe it or not.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
You gotta be justhing me like where you with Ryl
who married a Hun?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Who was with Cheryl who married a Hunt as well?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right, lines are Repper? Now your stories of coincidence
and chance for What are the odds? Thirteen fifty five,
twenty two.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
So I was going to barbers a few weeks ago.
To me, he goes, oh, what's your name? And I said, oh,
it's Paul. There was four other people in there, and
the guy next to me he goes, oh, my name's Paul.
The barber says, my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh,
my name's Paul.
Speaker 13 (33:41):
So I thought, well, the odds.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
So I took a phograph four Pauls and there was
only four people in the barbers and we're all called Paul.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
What are the odds that you on a boat in
the Nile and you run into your husband's best friend,
Nanny who was from Lebanon.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
Preparing my breakfast just the other day, I cracked open
the egg and had two yolks inside the one egg.
And then I went on to have a banana and
peeled the banana and there were two bananas inside the
one pile.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Champagne Radio we can all agree. All right, lines are open.
Now what are your story? Do we need that one end?
He said? It off for seat. How's some more of
that protein, sir thirteen fifty five twenty two. Your stories
of coincidence and chance brio? You have one?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yes, let me take you back to two thousand and two.
We were on a family holiday in Coffs Harbor. Family
was playing tennis. I got bored.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I wandered off.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It was quite dark by the end, and I was very,
very lost as a ten year old boy, so I
just started screaming. I was like, I'm lost, Like at
someone held me. There was no one around as a highway. Eventually,
this nice stranger comes out ask me.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Where I'm staying. I I'm staying here, and he walks
me back home.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
All's well, that ends well. Two years later, we're in Bali.
We're out in the markets. You know, they're crazy, they're busy.
I wander off again and then again, hopelessly lost. I'm
looking around. I was like, oh, looking for someone that
looked vaguely Australian. Find A guy's like, oh, can you
please take you back to the club men? I'm so lost,
hecaues yeah, of course I'll take you back. He takes
me back, take you back to my family, knocks on
(35:09):
their door, and before he leaves, he goes, do I
know you guys?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Like?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
No, I don't think so, like tells his name, tells
him our name. No, I don't know. Yes, well you
were you in Coffs Harbor a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
It's not the same guy.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It was the same guy that's.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Saved say again in Bali.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
What he was working giving me goosebu it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
He was training acrobats at the Club med in Coffs
Harbor and then at the Club med in Balwin.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I don't know. It's an extraordinary story. Now we've got
even more extorting a training acrobat.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yes, so he would go around to all the different
I guess club meds.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So he found me twice.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Actually incredible.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, what a story?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
All right? What have you got? Lines are up and
now thirteen fifty five twenty two your stories of coincidence
and chance would take them next.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
The Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Look me stories right now? Coincidence and chances. You're going
to be doing this every Wednesday with you was called
what are the Odds? Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. Emma,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (36:12):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Pleasure all right, Emma, So you've got a story of
coincidence and chance. What's your story, mate?
Speaker 14 (36:18):
I do a very embarrassing one.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
Look.
Speaker 14 (36:21):
A number of years ago, I was driving to Taronga
Zoo and stucking horendous traffic. So obviously all the cars stopped,
and there was a car in front that had those
seats where people faced you, and a bunch of yes
and a bunch of kids in there. So I thought,
I'll entertain them. I'll pull faces at them and make
a complete full of myself, which I did solidly for
(36:42):
about five minutes, and then the day progressed. I then
started a new job in January, and as a teacher,
primary school teacher, and I was introducing myself to my
new class thinking I was very professional, and this little
boy putting you can see where this.
Speaker 15 (36:58):
Is going to go.
Speaker 14 (36:59):
This little boy put his hand up and went, I
know you missed. You were in the car behind me
making all these faces.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
What a great way to meet your new classmates. That's fantastic.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
You could only get better from there at least.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Emma, thank you very much the story and have a
lovely Christmas you too, Karen. Welcome to the show. Hello Karen, Hi,
Hello mate, welcome to show. Thanks you giving us a call.
What's your story?
Speaker 15 (37:33):
My story is back in ninety nine, my wife and
I were shopping at I at Home Bosh. Now during
that period, we were with our eight and a month
old daughter, Sophie, and my wife said, aren't your grandparents
over at Rookwood Cemetery? So I said, yeah, that's where
they rested. So we went over to Rookwood and we
(37:57):
were up there searching around, trying to follow their plaques
in the garden. And as you know, there are thousands
of parks up there, and we were there looking for
a good forty five minute. I couldn't find them, and
my daughter was just picking up pedals off the ground,
and we got fed up with looking, so I said
(38:18):
let's go. She went over and went to pick Sophie up,
and she was sitting there and she'd been placing these
petals along the along the fence line. And I looked
down and that's where Grandma and Grandpa were.
Speaker 8 (38:32):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Was that incredible? Something letter there?
Speaker 15 (38:36):
Yeah, And the other thing that made us freak out
was We looked next to Grandma and Grandpa and there
was a plaque with a lady's named Sophie's.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Rookwood's the biggest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere, so it's massive.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
So the odds are actually very very very.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Very strange fleas the Southern Hemisphere. That's amazing is that
advertisement hoarding outside when you walk here, and that's a
beautiful story, really well told. Thank you very much for sharing.
I have a lovely Christmas. Take care, Thank you all right,
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Speaker 3 (39:23):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
We've got the Prime Minister live on the line now,
welcome to the show. Prime Minister, good morning, thank you
very much for joining us. I first of all, I
thought it'd be really nice if you can offer a
message to us. So it's still very shook up from
the events on Sunday. What words of hope and support
can you offer us right now, Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
That Australia will come through this. We are a brave
country and this is the darkest of times for an
any Semitic terrorist attack to occur on a Hanikah celebration.
Hanikah celebrates the festival Light, the victoria of a light
(40:10):
over darkness and we will come through this, will come
through it together with national unity. And my heart goes
out to the community today and every day, but today
particularly will be a difficult day with the first funerals underway.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And how do we stick together right now as a community?
Already you're seeing these incredible scenes of people queuing for
hours to donate lar. People want to help, people wanted
to support each other. We want to feel closer to
each other right now, don't we?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
We do? And last night the Government General hosted an
event at Admiralty House and there was lots of hugging
and just warm embraces with leaders of the Jewish community,
with people across the political spectrum who came together last night.
(41:04):
And it is a difficult period, but Australs are reaching out.
Australians are lighting candles in their front windows as a
symbol of Harniker and a symbol of the victory of light.
Australians are queuing in their tens of thousands to donate
(41:25):
blood in order to assist people. And I think people
are engaging with each other about the values that matter.
What terrorists seek to do is to pit Australian against
Australian and promote division in the world. And this is
(41:46):
an Isis inspired attack that cannot be allowed to succeed.
And the way that we hurt that attack is by
uniting is coming together as Australians and providing support, particularly
for the Jewish community at this difficult time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Talk about the darkness and the light and the meaning
for Hanniker as well. The real light that also came
on Sunday was incredible. I don't think any of us
have seen anything like and the man of the moment
Australian or the air armed and I think you actually
went and saw him and visited him. How is he?
Everyone wants to know how is he?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I did see him yesterday in hospital. He's being operated
on today. It's quite an extensive operation. He had substantial wounds,
but was in a very upbeat mood. He's a very
humble man. His parents are visiting him at the moment
(42:52):
and they were very proud, quite rightly of their son.
This is someone who ran towards danger, put himself at risk,
and we know that there were a number of heroes
as well. On Sunday Day. He Armored is someone who
(43:13):
I think shows the best of the Australian character. He
didn't think of himself, he thought of others and as
a direct result of his intervention, lives were saved.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, it's an incredible, incredible story and you're right, he
embodies the best of us. That's Australia, that's Australian values,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It certainly is. And this is someone who was with
friends heading down to Bondo Beach on a Sunday afternoon
to get a cup of coffee was what he wanted
to do. He came across the festival that was taking
place and someone invited him to join. It was a
(43:57):
very open celebration of joy and so he was aware
that of the festival taking place. And then shots started
to ring out and mister l Armored intervened in a
way that made an enormous difference.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah, and if you must be aware of this, go
fund me, Paige. I think it's up to two and
a half million dollars, not just from Australians once they
support him from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Well, he's got a small business that is currently not
able to operate because he's in hospital and that will
certainly help, but indeed not just armored but people who
lost their lives. There are heroic stories in today's news
Boris and Sophie German, a married couple in their sixties
(44:51):
who tried to take down one of the governments right
at the very beginning of the attack before they were murdered.
Ruben Morrison who threw bricks at the government heading towards
danger before he was murdered. These heroes, and I think
(45:12):
at a time when you look at the events of
Sunday with shock and horror, this is of some comfort
about what the true Australian character is.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, beautifully said, and I think a lot of people
listening right now as well, a Prime minister is there
is obviously a need for unity as well. But are
there gaps in the gun laws? We're in this situation
where a guy living in the inner suburbs, what does
he need a license for to have six guns? Are
there gaps in the laws that need to change?
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Well, clearly in my view there are a need for tightening.
These gun laws were introduced, of course in nineteen ninety
six in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre. If
we need to do anything to tighten them up state
and territory governments. So I brought together in order to
make sure we do just that.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Great, that's good to hear that, actually, and I think
a lot of people as well. You know, this time
of year, obviously Hanakh is still going on. There are
going to be festivals, are going to be public gatherings,
there's summertime, some of the holidays are coming up soon,
you know. I'm looking out over the Harbor Bridge, you know,
and I'm thinking about the fireworks on New Year's Eve?
Can people feel safe gathering in public?
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Look, we need to make sure that fear doesn't win
here and that people continue to conduct their lives and
express their sense of community. These are there is an
increasingly dangerous world that we live in, tragically, but we
(46:52):
can't allow fear to win. That's what that's what the
terrorists seek. And know the actions of Australians I don't
think will be cowered by what has occurred. You know,
these people evil, they were cowards and their actions were
(47:16):
an atrocity.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Thank you very much for speaking us today. I can
tell that actually, you know, in a job like yours,
you deal with some situations, difficult situations, horrific situations. But
I get the feeling talking to you today, Prime Minister,
even you're struggling with this and also the stuff that
you would have been across the last couple of days.
It must be heavy for you as well on a
personal level. And I know you're stoic and I thought
(47:39):
you spoke very very well Monday. And this is a
time for leaders in all shapes and forms to step up,
not just elected ones like yourself, but in the community
as well, for us all to step up and be
leaders as well. But this must be hard for you,
as the Prime minister this country to just be yeah,
to be around for it this week and through it all.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah, thanks, Christian, But that's my responsibility. My thoughts are
really with those grieving their loved ones is my priority.
They are doing it tough. I've been to homes of
people in the last couple of days as well as
having meetings as well, and my thoughts are with them today.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, beautifully said, It's been the reaction of what's happened
since Sunday night has been nothing but humbling. It actually
reminds us that there are way more good people in
the world than evil, and it's an aberration that happened
on Sunday night. It's not the norm here in Australia,
and all these everyday heroes that acted that took action.
You know, I can't even imagine what it's like to
be in a situation like that. None of us know
(48:43):
how we would really handle it. But don't you think
it's also it's an amazing place full of amazing people
and kind hearted people. And we saw that Sunday, We've
seen it over the last couple of days, and we
will see it over the next couple of days as well.
Australia will I don't want to say bounce back because
it's morning right now. We're all feeling this, but there's
also an air of defiance and actually acts like Sunday night,
(49:04):
they don't change anything. They don't get to take our
joy from us.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Indeed, thank you very much, Christian, take.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Care, promise to thank you for bringing up some time
and speaking to the show today, and have a happy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Thank you. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Well, one thing I've really come to love since moving
to Australia is this concept of mateship, and I think
we've seen that this week. We have. That's incredible thing
and you'll see it again today as well. You know,
at start of the show out this incredible email by
one of you, lovely Matt, beautifully written email. I really
hope Brad is okay that we put up on the
website because I think people will get something from reading it.
(49:42):
I did when it came in yesterday night, Brad Stokes Christian. Yesterday,
my wife and I went to the Paramatter Blood Bank
to donat. When we arrived, the queue is huge. It
took us an hour and a half just to get
to the reception desk. In the queue, almost every nationality
and occupation was represented. Arabic, Indian, Korean, Aussie trades, young
girls and activewear executives, Folks from every walk of life
(50:04):
all there together. A sure elderly couple, a husband proudly
wearing in his yamaka, been unable to give blood at Bondai,
so they drove all the way to wait and queue again.
And my wife had a young Chinese dad behind her,
also waiting, And as we all slowly shuffled up the
stairs one by one, there was this case of oneness
and camaraderie developed amongst us. The man in front of
me had taken some of work to Donat was wearing
(50:25):
an indigenous printed sloppy joe over his work clothes, which
were very clearly that of a police officer asked him
how he was traveling, especially with what they've been through
this week, and he quietly said, the rabbi that died
was our chaplain after what an incredible man. It just humbles,
didn't it. After waiting in the queue, the officer was
told he'd have to come back tomorrow at seven am.
(50:46):
Hey replied, no problem, see them. This to me, Christian
epitomized not just how many from so many different cardings
were affected by the events of Sunday, but how we
can all stand together and do what we can to help,
but also that the palpable grief that was visible in
the waiting queue, but everyone waiting patiently to look at this,
everyone waiting patiently to be part of the solution, not
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the problem. This guy is yeah, and his final line
Australia is a wonderful country. I am proud to be
an Australian. Brad. Thank you very much. We'll be back
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show on Gold Morning to Julie Christian, I was in
tears listening to True Blue, Thank you for playing that.
I think the billboard today should say, hey, true Blue
love that. Oh Judy, what a moving idea. Yes, that's
to that. Every day this week we've got these billboards,
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you know, the billboards you see them all over town,
all on there, and we can change them at a
moment's notice and put whatever message you want on them
to say to the people of Sydney. And obviously when
we were thinking about this last week, it was a
different world. So actually I think for the rest of
this week. You know, normally when we've done this before
giving away billboards, people put really funny and different things on.
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That's just I don't think it's just it's just not
how we're feeling this week, and just seeing that message
from Julian. Then the first one we had Monday when
listeners Shane Cording on our first show with you guys
and said, why don't you just say good on your Ahmed.
We're going to have that up all week. I think
the billboards this week should only be messages of support
for Sydney. I think they should only be for that.
So we do them tomorrow and we do them Friday
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as well. But today I think, Judy, that is incredible. Hey,
true Blue is just what we need to be reminded of.
It feels like the anthem of this week. So that's
a lovely idea. We are back tomorrow. Thank you very
much all the stories of the calls, and thank you
to Andrew who actually dropped off a Bakewell tart. You know,
we talk about acts of kindness. That's a big one
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for me. Six o'clock Smaller and this guy Andrew turns
up at this radio station with a Bakewell tart is
made overnight. So I'm going to have someone with the
team and a cup of tea after the show today,
before the ashes begins, and then my day. I'm afraid
we'll take a very different turn.
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Got anything good?
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Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Good morning, Pats morning.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Good morning, Alex, Good morning, and good morning Rio, Good morning.
Can I just please begin today's show with a plea
for the next couple of days of leniency. It's the
ashes I'm just getting. I just want to put this
out there. It's the ashes. It's not gone very well
even just hearing any sports news there, Alex ben Stoke's
just going fielding, batting.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Just try, can you guys?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Just Unfortunately I can't offer an olive branch of that card.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I would love just treading coming into I'm actually dreading
in coming in tomorrow and Friday. What's on throat? It's
like plus, it's like, obviously you've got pack comings, an
amazing leader, he's back, You've got Lion and then the weather.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yes, yes, the weather's perfect for its.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So hot thirty five degrees thirty built for those temperatures. No,
those and it's another example of cheating Australias. If it's
not sound paper, it's the sun time play fair Australia.
The England team should be allowed to play under cabanas.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'm actually worried.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think they should have to have sunscreen breaks. I
know they have drinks breaks, but those pasty skin in
thirty nine degrees that is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stokes in heat, in heat, I mean that's what they're doing.
So anyway, can't wait for tomorrow's show. Yeah, it's just
going to be such a blast for a couple of
hours suddenly being the only English guy in Australia on
the radio. There's no way to hide.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
No, no, no, no, I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But what happens. So if it goes well today.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You actually do normally, you start well, your day ones
have been good the last two tests, and then there's
business capitulations in day two and three.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's more of a one day today than for Ingden.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Then yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now we did this yesterday and I think it's really
important the moment that you know, with everything that we're
still trying to deal with after what happened in Bonda
on Sunday, we've got the Prime Minister call on the
show after ac o'clock this morning. Wich would be great
to speak to the Prime Minister. That's after eight o'clock
this morning. It's actually there are these stories that are
coming out and we really need to hear them and
we need to share them as well. I think we're
desperate for them, that there are these good news stories. Pats,
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what have you got there? Mate? Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Look this go fund me Paige for hero Ahmed is
just excuse me taking off. So it's at two point
three million at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I find this incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It's phenomenal, and it's people all over the world.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
It's people all over the world like Adam, he's in
New York City. Please accept endless gratitude and thanks to you,
mister Ahmed from New York City. You've shown us all
the true meaning of selflessness and have done so with
one of your finest acts of bravery I've known God
bless you. May you be a blessing and an example
to all people around the world. Isn't that gorgeous?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A bit bad? But that guy there in New York, Adam,
he's right, he's he's like some kind of modern angel.
Not only did he see if lies, but we're all
seeing that all over the world and being in awe
of what he's done. I think he goes in for
a second surgery today.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
He goes for his second round today, but he makes
us all want to be better people. Yes, from Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So it's two and a half million, two and a
half million people never going to have to go back
to work at that tobacconist. Does he know how much
money that people have donated each other?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
One day because he was he was in a coma,
wasn't he yes, wow? To come out of that.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I bet he will because he's that sort of I reckoning,
be that sort of man that he will go back
and open up the shop.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's clearly a man of character for every day Aria.
What have you got? What the good news to have
we got today?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I was surprised by how moved I was by the
news that John Williamson is going to be performing True
Blue before the Ashes. Because it's just a guy singing
a song, but for Australia, it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Won't be today that it's actually going to have the
minute Silence as well. They're playing Are they playing your
Black Armbones as well?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's yeah, yes they are indeed, and the Minute Silence
as well. But yeah, the lines in that song, Hey
true Blue helping out a mate when he's in a fight.
That's one of the lines which I just just resonate
so much.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think everyone's going to be in tens.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, it'll be beautiful and he's there's something like that
just touches the soul. I think of all Australians when
he sings, he's got this beautiful, beautiful, like resonant voice.
You just feel safe, you feel Australian. And he doesn't
really perform these big shows very much. He used to
perform before the Wallabies played in these big national moments.
And for him to you know, come out of the
(04:58):
woodwork and be performing today, I think it's going to
be really special.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah. I think even people on massive cricket fans will
be tuning in to see that. Yeah, you guys, what
time is that?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ten thirty a AT starts, so it'll probably be between
ten and ten thirty the performance.
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Great the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So I'm aware that some of you might be tuning
in right now, going who is this? Please tell me
the radios broke it. This is not an English guys.
It that's the last thing we need this week. It's
an uninvited englishman suddenly on the radio. I'm Christian O'Connell
and we are the show that is going to be
replacing Jones in and Amanda. And the goodness to you
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guys is you're going to have two great shows come
January on this radio station. We're going to be waking
you up and then Jones Amanda gonna be taking you home.
This is going to be some radio station for Australia.
It's a radio station for grown ups. Obviously, you love
Jones Amanda an incredible show for twenty odd years together.
It's an honor to take over their show. So we're
here this week to get to know you. And obviously
(06:00):
we flew in Sunday and then Sunday Night happens. So
I'm aware that you're dealing with a lot. Sydney is
going through a lot, and then obviously suddenly there's a
radio show. There's a brand new radio show that you've
not heard before. But I just want to say the
reaction we've had over the last two days I was
just saying to Rio during the song, has been nothing
but humbling. People have been so kind. Someone has just
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dropped off a bakewell tart at reception at six am,
someone has made me a cake. I'm just in awe
of so thank you very much. Everyone has been sending
a message and taking part of the show. We've got
a load of great stuff that I lined up for
you guys today as well. Thank you Andrew for dropping
off the cake a lot time. It does look really nice.
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And your lovely letter as well. It was really moving Andrew.
Thank you very much. Christian, don't eat it for another hour,
it's just come out the fridge. Welcome to Sydney, Christian.
You assumed yesterday I was an old woman. I just
thought I just couldn't help, but think I didn't know.
I'm sorry. However, it does a lot. You've got the
writing of a child. Also, there's about eighteen f words
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well together, the cake and the f words.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Grannie's not writing this.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Some of the other messages that came in off the
show yesterday, Christian, will you be moving up to the
big smoking Sydney or staying there in Mexico Mexican? Yeah,
there was a lot of that during COVID, wasn't it
us is thirty Mexican? Not a nice sur on many counts.
The south of the border. Yeah yeah, Christian ed here
in Sydney. Been listening to your show on the catch
(07:39):
up show in the evening. Lovely to hear you guys live.
I think I heard you say that you're in Manly.
Be careful those mega sea girls. One once I was
having an extra large kebab and a mega seagull. Just
a kebab is just enoughing. It sounds who needs an excel?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I didn't know you could order it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Too much meat and onion down there on the beach
in the sun. I think the seagulls are trying to intervene.
It's an intervention there, the mega seagulls. They took the
whole thing. Christian, great things doing Manly. Hire a kayak
and kayak out to a secret beach called Store Beach.
It's beautiful. I tell you what the weather today tomorrow Friday.
(08:21):
I am not kayaking out to a secret beach. Otherwise
I'll be in Patsy's news. I'll be stranded out there
about coming incident. One thing we're doing a part two
off on today's show is the Weird and Wonderful Guy
to Sydney. As we get to know Sydney. I want
to know the real Sydney and not the stuff that
chatchipt or Google is going to throw the things that
you know. Yesterday, one of the big shock things that
(08:42):
we found out was about the panther. Sydney has a mythical,
mystical beast of a panther, and we had a guy
on yesterday, Bob, who claims to have seen it for
three point five seconds in a drain.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
The size of a German shepherd, apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
With a very muscular buffhead.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yes, his words escape from the circus yep.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And Alex seems to think it's it's from the nineteen twenty.
So we're dealing with one hundred and five year old panther.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
And thank you Bob for velladating my client.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You do if Bobby is you have validati a Christian
in relationship the panther story. There are several panthers of Sydney.
We're not doing with one. It's a whole gang of them.
Apparently one of them came to Sydney on an American
naval ship sailed into Sydney Harbor, but they weren't allowed
to take their mascot back, so they took it and
(09:29):
they just dropped it off at the Blue Mountains and
let it go.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why did they have a panther mascot Africa?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The other panther was set free from a private zoo.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, people are so confident about these legend historical facts.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yep. And Christian, I do win a billboard today? Yes
we are. We have access to these big billboards all
over Sydney and you can have your message whenever you
want to say to Sydney Live this morning, Christian, I'm Jasmine. Tomorrow,
thousands of year to twelve students get their results, the
HSC results tomorrow. Could we do a billboard that says,
proud of you HRC class of twenty twenty five. Your
(10:06):
mark doesn't define your worth or future. You've a rey
achieved so much from all your teachers, Jasmine. That is
a lovely idea. All right, coming up next, Hey, you
can win prizes this morning with something called The Time Wasters.
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The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
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I love getting your emails. If you ever want to
email the shabout And you think my inbox is always
wide open, it's Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Got a lovely one that came in yesterday. I think
you already enjoy hearing saw a man called Brad Stokes
here in Sydney Christian enjoyed the show and getting to
know you and your team this week. Just I want
to share this. Yesterday my wife and I went to
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Paramatta to donate blood. When we arrived, the queue was huge.
It took us an hour and a half just to
get to reception. We've been saying this, it's incredible. There
are literally thousands of people queuing up to give blood.
In the queue was almost every nationality and occupation represented, Arabic, Indian, Korean,
young lassie trades, girls and active where executives. Folks from
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all walks of life were there together. There was a
sure elderly couple when the husbandman was proudly wearing his
yamuka and had been unable to give blood at Bondai,
so driven all the way to wait in a queue again. Wow,
this is incredible. My wife had a young Chinese dad
behind her, also waiting, and as we slowly proceeded up
the stair one by one, it was a case of
oneness and camaraderie developed amongst everybody. The man in front
(11:29):
of me had taken time off work to donate and
was wearing an indigenous printed sloppy joe over his work clothes,
which were clearly a police officer. I asked him how
he was traveling, particularly due to his line of work
this week. Yeah, we were talking about checking in. If
you see any police or first responders this week, just
ask how they are. And he quietly said, the rabbi
that died was our chaplain. Ah oh oh, incredible, he's
(11:52):
queuing up to give blood. It just it breaks your heart,
it really does. But it also there someone just this
is almostly the kindness that surround the last couple of days.
It's just really worth remembering in these tough times. After
waiting in the queue, the officer was told you'd have
to come back tomorrow at seven and am here applied
no problems see then just quietly walked off. This to memize,
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is just from so many different callings. Everyone's benefacted by
this and how we all stand together and how we
all act is the most important thing Australia. This is
a lovely line, Brad, What a lovely email this is.
Brad's last line is something so beautiful. He writes saying
Australia is a wonderful country and I'm proud to be Australian. Brad.
That is lovely. Thank you for saying that your words
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will help so many this morning. We'll read it out
again later and let's see if Brad's okay. Maybe we
should put up on our website as well. That is
a lovely letter.
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Good morning, It's the Christian O'Connell's show on Gold. That's
Alex practicing. Is our cricket sledges? See moonlighting? Has he
got another secret show somewhere ESBs. He's got a lot
of side huts. Its doing the He's doing chicky sports
bulletins all the side. We just caught your red handed there.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Just getting my head around this being system. Apologies to that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're right, it's like we're in a new studio, okay,
and it's light, driving a new car everything. Yeah, it
is even yesterday right, I'm staying in a man in
this Airbnb and it had a list of that had
a TV and I bothered the super host yesterday. I
can't there's no TV and she said, it's that large
picture on the wall. I just thought it was a
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strange bit of art.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It must be the Samsung frame I've got that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well for this idiot, I see a large smart TV anywhere.
I don't see a smart human anywhere. I was staring
at it. I'm strange bit of art. An elephant on
the plane, what's their connection to that? Where's the TV?
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You know how you get Airbnb?
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You get reviewed by the hotel ending me like dumbest
man ever.
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Brackets pop. All right, let's do this. We do this
every down the show. We call it the time Wasters.
We set up and give you a theme. You send
them in and then we mark them gold, silver, bronze.
And for the Western show you win a prize today.
The prize is a brand new digital Korea Funk Debbie Radio.
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What does that mean? Basically, it's a digital radio. These
things are amazing and it has forty stations. Of course
you don't need any of those other thirty nine ones.
I remember when I first started in radio in the nineties.
As you remember this, radio stations used to have crazy
production in the nineties, didn't they. The station that I
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started at in nineteen ninety eight. The main jingle they
had was no, you found us, rip that knob off?
And now anyone under like thirty or twenty wouldn't even
know about radios where you had a knob and had
a jewelry. Hey Goolard in Sydney. That's actually tune the
radio show in Now this is all automatic the scans.
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Kids these days we have no idea about.
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They can't rip any knobs off these.
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Now you found us, rip that numb off? Maybe we
should do today. Kids today would have no idea about it. Yeah,
actually tune in to find the radio band. There there
is our guy. Can you hear my words? Anyway, you
can win a modern radio that's what it is. We're
asking you to mix a band and a movie. Mix
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a band and a movie. We had some good ones
yesterday Red Hot Mary Poppins, after Oom Crash, Phantom of
the Opera from Trish Mark and The Darkness Night for
Metallica Jackets, Shane had Beetles Juice I Do Love as
well The Genius of a few good Men at work
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from Mark as well was very good. All right, let's
see what you've got then asking you to combine a
movie with a band. Mix a movie and a band.
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So we are your brand new reckfast show that you
didn't ask for, but you're welcome anyway, Sydney, and we
do a thing every single day. Load by the way,
Alex on Sports, our sports guy Alex Cunnins just had
some great news. Your brother and his wife have given birth.
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Yes, Ron also hospital last night they my my brother's
partner gave birth to a little girl. So after a
pretty rough start to the week, you know, a lot
of hardship and a lot of tragedy, something.
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Nice congratulations in the middle of the week. So yeah,
your brother and his partner. That is great all right.
Thanks to Cogan dot Com, chop up to seventy percent
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I'm ready.
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very good. Barrye, well done, Fleetwood Mac to the future.
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God as well.
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That's awesome. Shane listened till this morning in Liverpool. Thanks mate, Christian.
I'm driving to work listen to your show. Welcome to Sydney.
Would you and the team like the chance of a
cruise around Sydney Harbor. I'm the GM for a cruise company. Yes, yes, yes,
thank you. Blink one eighty two times in Hollywood, Silver
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Barbie streisens, Oh god, wow, that is so clever. Did
you come up with that within a couple of minutes
this time of the morning, Barbie Streisand is very good.
Motley Few good Men, not Motley Crue, but Motley Few
good Men, Silver Man. That should have been a gold,
Greg Deep, the Color Purple, Silver plus, Queen Kong, Oh Gone, Judy,
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that's great, Queen Kong, very good. The Green Day, mile Go.
It's a wonderful West Life. Who's that?
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Well done? Tina Turner and Hooch Silver plus, the Elf
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Who's best in show? Tough to pit? There were some
great ones.
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Brby Streisen Okay.
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I'm more than that Poma. All right, So we've got
we're doing this every single day this week. We are
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putting your message, whatever you want to say to Sydney
on billboards. We've got these big to billboards and we
can put a message up there very quickly and it
goes live, and so it's up there all day and
literally hundreds of thousands of Sydney side is driving around
can see your message. When we first started on Monday,
what a great beautiful word from Lissa Shane who just said,
(20:25):
just put on their good on your armed. Now we
are putting brand new ones every day, but we decided
to keep that one up all this week because I'd
imagine that as people just see it, it just lifts them. Yeah,
you know, good on your Hmed is such a great
phrase this week. What a hero he is. They came
from listener Shame. Some more contenders for today. This is
from Dad Mark to his son Jack lift a toilet
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seat when peeing. I mean he's obviously told Jack so
many times. It's now time for a bigger message. It's
not getting through. It's a billboard hopefully public shaming. So
what message would you love to say to Sydney today?
Whatever it is, It might be sown personal, it might
be just a message of support and so soli downity
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right now. Whatever you want up there, give us a
call thirteen fifty five twenty two and text four seven
five three one oh four three. And the other thing
I'm building with this week is my weird and wonderful
guide to Sydney. I need to know the real Sydney,
not the stuff that you give to tourists, the real stuff.
Rio yesterday told me that the Townhill Steps is a
multi generational spot for teens. Yes now phase of teens,
(21:33):
goths emos. They gather there and they do like moths
to a bowl exactly, and goths to a bowl. Alex
told us about the mystical Lone panther that roams the
Blue Mountains and apparently has done for one hundred years.
Listener Bob claims to seeing it twice down a drain.
(21:53):
Xavier Rio six shorldn Effort nephew called hi yesterday to
tell us that they are ills in Centennial Park that
go down through the sewers to New Caledonia. Good, yeah,
it is all right. So what have you got Weird
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Anyone listening in Sydney now has probably never heard those words.
In about twenty years, it was a short lived theme
park in the nineties.
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It was built as this huge new thing.
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So you are you to it like son at the
Hedgehold ride.
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Yes, well that that would be. That was the initials
I was sold.
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It was sold in this Australia's Interactive Disneyland. It was
this futuristic theme park right in Darling harborst so in
prime position.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
It only lasted five years.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
It went from nin ninety four to two thousand or
six years, I guess. And the reason was and I
went there twice. The riots were terrible.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It was build as this like futuristic theme fuck.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So no magic King I wanted it. There's anyone else
listening right now? That also went there. Yes, I was
underwhelmed by the Sonic ride or whatever it was.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
So some of the rides, but it didn't make sense
like thematically, it was so confused. There would be like
a Sonic the Hedgehog ride. Then there was like a
submarine simulator, one of those four D movies where they
like spray water in your phone rain. But the crowning
jewel of weird rides at Siaga World was the Michael
Jackson pilot simulator.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Excuse me, where it was eight people.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
You'd sit in this like like a plane simulator, like
a flight simulator and you were doing a pilot training course.
And for reasons that and with Michael Jackson, the reasons
that I never explained ever. Michael Jackson, like the actual
Michael Jackson, like holograph of him is the pilot that's
terrifying it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Why is it he's going to to do with planes?
Never explained. I think he must have just got touch
in his joystick.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
That's like a fevered dream.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You just recounted that it was so weird, and Lee's
called us today you went to Saga World as Rio
just made this up?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
No, I promise it's really if you know, you know, isn't.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That scream nineties? Anyone else? Remember the Hollywood burger chain
Planet Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Did? They might think they might have had one here
in London.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It was marketed as you might see Sylvester Stallone or
Arnie chomping burgers and chips. Have you seen those guys
back and they were ripped. They're not having to quarter
pounders in over priced restaurants. Alex, what's another one for
our weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Well, I got a.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Text from my wife Bonnie saying that there are guard
dogs at the opera house, and I went, what do
you mean guard dogs at the opera house? Well, she said,
the dogs are the here to scare away the seagulls.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
What sort of dogs, Well, that's what I'm keeping.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'm going to be a sausage dog, is it, little man? Yeah,
shepherd dogs. No, Doberman's Dobermans. I would suggest Dobermans. That
would a good idea. Wolves.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Why not if they have wolves at the opera house.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
The opera should have something wolves, something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
If you die wolves to.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Keep Charles has got the bee features, you know, to
defend the pallace. The opera should have something like wolves.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
We have a pitbull for Australia.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
What about blue cattle dogs? That's very.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You should have kelpies the most Australia. There has to
be roaming kelpiece all around it. Reading. Are they on
the Are they on the roof? Apparently? Because that's what
sloped man.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
They're on the stairs and they're sort of.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Talking, barking away the seagulls. Why did you went on
the stairs? Bunny's ad on the roof and that's why
they're up there pooping on it.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
She's adamant that there are seagull dogs at the Opera House.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It sounds like a mom who hasn't had enough sleep.
I'm not entirely sure you and real I think you're
winding me up.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
She's an home three small children in this week, so.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Can't get over the the Michael Jackson flight simulators. I'm
gonna have to google this. There's any remaining evidence of
this seagull? All right, weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.
What can you add? What do I need to know?
What can you show?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Christian O'Connell Show Gone Podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What have you got from my weird and wonderful guy
to Sydney? What do I need to know? Christian? Good morning.
The Sydney Opera House was originally a major Sydney tram shed.
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Oh? I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Thank you very much, Christian. If you search Google Maps
for every Red Rooster store in Sydney, it draws a
neat red line that divides East and West Sydney. Economists
actually use this tool and they know it as the
Red Rooster line to study socio economic inequality. If you're
east of the line, you're in the posh part town.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
There's no red roosters on the east side of towns.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's true, yes, yeah, too good for rooster Australia. He's
got the Prime Minister in half an hour, just speak
to him about it.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
And he demanded the regulatan and that's the only risters
you'll finding me.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Is and then Maddie Alex was just saying how his
wife said that they have guard dogs guarding Sydney Opera
House from seagulls. One thing I'm really learning about Sydney
is you've got a major seagull problem. All right, it's
it's a pandemic, I would say, smil link to this
(27:51):
website saying it's true. There's a company set up by
an English guy, Christian. It's called Mad Dogs and the
Englishman Seagull Patrol. What a proud boast. This is the
leader in dog based seagull To Terrence, there's a photo
that is now my favorite photo of a Border Collie
barking at a seagull as it's flying away.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Get out of here, right up the guts.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Not on my watch. It's a bit like the old
lady who swallowed a fly.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
But now we've got all these dogs roaming around our
brouse yes.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Seagulls can be a real nuisance I'm reading from the website,
from stealing food at outdoor cafes, creating health housards with
their droppings. We offer an effective and humane solution to
manage these pesty birds using our hardly trained border collies
and kelpies. We use the dogs and natural herding in
sincetant cotage burst couch bursts to leave the area.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Come on, get out of here.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The presence of the dog creates a predator effect teaching
the seagulls, and when the dogs are there, food is
off libds. This is a powerful long term solution and
the dogs find the boss seagull. Did we know that
there's a like a final boss seagull? And the dogs
go not you mate, You're not the boss. You're a
(29:10):
fake boss. You ain't nothing. You're like the VP your pence.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I did know there was a hierarchy.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We are finding out so much with this weird and
guy to see me. I need to get this. Apparently
they can. They're happy to to come on TV and
radio shows. I know we've got the Prime Minister today.
How do we go bigger Thursday? We get one of
these dogs on for an interview.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
But do we bump albow and then yes.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Just put in abody house your mumps. It's a dog
that can find the final boss. Get the Kelpie, get
the always Saying Showbiz book the Kelpie. John's on the
line also has experienced Saga World. Yes, John, welcome to
the show. Morning John Morning.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Listening to you in the afternoons. I'm hoping you can
do him better on the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thank you very much. Well, it's it's it's an extraordinary
week to be here launching the show in Sydney. But
I really hope we're helping and it's lovely being able
to chat to people and hopefully offer some comfort and
support right now and nonsense about dogs and Saga World.
We need all of that in the world right now,
all of that. So you you heard really real talking
(30:26):
about Saga World. Did you go?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I went to the opening, you witnessed history.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
It's help there with the moon landing, John, John, what
was it like?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
It was very underwhelming?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yeah, yeah, but that adds up the reason.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Why the only reason why we hanged around was because
they've given away free stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Of course, not a sustainable business model, though. If your
attractions are underwhelming, and you've got to keep people there
by giving stuff away.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
This radio station, it's been running on it for years.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
And the cues and that were many people showed up.
The cues were sober. You had to wait about half
an hour at least to get onto a ride, and.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
They weren't very good rides.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
No, John, do you remember this Michael Jackson flight simulator.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
I've never got a chance to get onto it because
the cues were that we get on.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
All right, John, thank you very much for giving us
a cool.
Speaker 9 (31:27):
Mate on one last The only saving grace was the
arcade games.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
There were a lot of arcade I remember playing this
pokey kids.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You can't run a theme.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Park off that why it was, it was worth it.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Actually, yeah, I remember they had a hockey.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
That's the I spent a lot of time doing a
hockey to impress Australians.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We've got air hockey.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
It's hockey worse right now.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Now. I know how we're going to dominate the ratings
next year, giving away air hockey table our first week
when we're back January nineteenth, Air Hockey's.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Good Morning Danuel Work Christian one of the best things
since Sydney. It is the train seats can flip to
face away you're traveling. Yeah, oh travel sickness in Sydney.
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yes, they're brilliant.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And you can also turn a three seater into a
six seater if you've got a bigger group.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
If only Saga World to try that out in the
air hockey tables, then it would have had some the
rival Disneyland of the Magic Kingdom. All right, this is
a bound new thing we're going to be doing with
you guys. Every week. We call it what are the Odds?
What are the Oddsers? You are your stories? People have
such incredible stories of coincidence and chance. We do every
Wednesday it's called what are the Odds? This is one
(32:41):
of our all time Hall of Fame with calls from Cheryl.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
My name is Cheryl, and I was married to men
called Hunt, and I worked with a Hunt who was
married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave each other
a Christmas card which was exactly the same card and
read to Cheryl and hands from Hunts and Cheryl.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
It still gets me every time. All right, let's get
into it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I believe it or not.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
You gotta be justhing me like where you with Ryl
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Speaker 1 (33:24):
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Speaker 12 (33:31):
So I was going to barbers a few weeks ago.
To me, he goes, oh, what's your name? And I said, oh,
it's Paul. There was four other people in there, and
the guy next to me he goes, oh, my name's Paul.
The barber says, my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh,
my name's Paul.
Speaker 13 (33:41):
So I thought, well, the odds.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
So I took a phograph four Pauls and there was
only four people in the barbers and we're all called Paul.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
What are the odds that you on a boat in
the Nile and you run into your husband's best friend,
Nanny who was from Lebanon.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
Preparing my breakfast just the other day, I cracked open
the egg and had two yolks inside the one egg.
And then I went on to have a banana and
peeled the banana and there were two bananas inside the
one pile.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
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Now what are your story? Do we need that one end?
He said? It off for seat. How's some more of
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of coincidence and chance brio? You have one?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yes, let me take you back to two thousand and two.
We were on a family holiday in Coffs Harbor. Family
was playing tennis. I got bored.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I wandered off.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It was quite dark by the end, and I was very,
very lost as a ten year old boy, so I
just started screaming. I was like, I'm lost, Like at
someone held me. There was no one around as a highway. Eventually,
this nice stranger comes out ask me.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Where I'm staying. I I'm staying here, and he walks
me back home.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
All's well, that ends well. Two years later, we're in Bali.
We're out in the markets. You know, they're crazy, they're busy.
I wander off again and then again, hopelessly lost. I'm
looking around. I was like, oh, looking for someone that
looked vaguely Australian. Find A guy's like, oh, can you
please take you back to the club men? I'm so lost,
hecaues yeah, of course I'll take you back. He takes
me back, take you back to my family, knocks on
(35:09):
their door, and before he leaves, he goes, do I
know you guys?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Like?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
No, I don't think so, like tells his name, tells
him our name. No, I don't know. Yes, well you
were you in Coffs Harbor a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
It's not the same guy.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It was the same guy that's.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Saved say again in Bali.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
What he was working giving me goosebu it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
He was training acrobats at the Club med in Coffs
Harbor and then at the Club med in Balwin.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I don't know. It's an extraordinary story. Now we've got
even more extorting a training acrobat.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yes, so he would go around to all the different
I guess club meds.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So he found me twice.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Actually incredible.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, what a story?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
All right? What have you got? Lines are up and
now thirteen fifty five twenty two your stories of coincidence
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Speaker 3 (35:57):
The Christian o'connall show podcast.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Look me stories right now? Coincidence and chances. You're going
to be doing this every Wednesday with you was called
what are the Odds? Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. Emma,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 14 (36:12):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Pleasure all right, Emma, So you've got a story of
coincidence and chance. What's your story, mate?
Speaker 14 (36:18):
I do a very embarrassing one.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
Look.
Speaker 14 (36:21):
A number of years ago, I was driving to Taronga
Zoo and stucking horendous traffic. So obviously all the cars stopped,
and there was a car in front that had those
seats where people faced you, and a bunch of yes
and a bunch of kids in there. So I thought,
I'll entertain them. I'll pull faces at them and make
a complete full of myself, which I did solidly for
(36:42):
about five minutes, and then the day progressed. I then
started a new job in January, and as a teacher,
primary school teacher, and I was introducing myself to my
new class thinking I was very professional, and this little
boy putting you can see where this.
Speaker 15 (36:58):
Is going to go.
Speaker 14 (36:59):
This little boy put his hand up and went, I
know you missed. You were in the car behind me
making all these faces.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
What a great way to meet your new classmates. That's fantastic.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
You could only get better from there at least.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Emma, thank you very much the story and have a
lovely Christmas you too, Karen. Welcome to the show. Hello Karen, Hi,
Hello mate, welcome to show. Thanks you giving us a call.
What's your story?
Speaker 15 (37:33):
My story is back in ninety nine, my wife and
I were shopping at I at Home Bosh. Now during
that period, we were with our eight and a month
old daughter, Sophie, and my wife said, aren't your grandparents
over at Rookwood Cemetery? So I said, yeah, that's where
they rested. So we went over to Rookwood and we
(37:57):
were up there searching around, trying to follow their plaques
in the garden. And as you know, there are thousands
of parks up there, and we were there looking for
a good forty five minute. I couldn't find them, and
my daughter was just picking up pedals off the ground,
and we got fed up with looking, so I said
(38:18):
let's go. She went over and went to pick Sophie up,
and she was sitting there and she'd been placing these
petals along the along the fence line. And I looked
down and that's where Grandma and Grandpa were.
Speaker 8 (38:32):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Was that incredible? Something letter there?
Speaker 15 (38:36):
Yeah, And the other thing that made us freak out
was We looked next to Grandma and Grandpa and there
was a plaque with a lady's named Sophie's.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Rookwood's the biggest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere, so it's massive.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
So the odds are actually very very very.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Very strange fleas the Southern Hemisphere. That's amazing is that
advertisement hoarding outside when you walk here, and that's a
beautiful story, really well told. Thank you very much for sharing.
I have a lovely Christmas. Take care, Thank you all right,
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Speaker 3 (39:23):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
We've got the Prime Minister live on the line now,
welcome to the show. Prime Minister, good morning, thank you
very much for joining us. I first of all, I
thought it'd be really nice if you can offer a
message to us. So it's still very shook up from
the events on Sunday. What words of hope and support
can you offer us right now, Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
That Australia will come through this. We are a brave
country and this is the darkest of times for an
any Semitic terrorist attack to occur on a Hanikah celebration.
Hanikah celebrates the festival Light, the victoria of a light
(40:10):
over darkness and we will come through this, will come
through it together with national unity. And my heart goes
out to the community today and every day, but today
particularly will be a difficult day with the first funerals underway.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And how do we stick together right now as a community?
Already you're seeing these incredible scenes of people queuing for
hours to donate lar. People want to help, people wanted
to support each other. We want to feel closer to
each other right now, don't we?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
We do? And last night the Government General hosted an
event at Admiralty House and there was lots of hugging
and just warm embraces with leaders of the Jewish community,
with people across the political spectrum who came together last night.
(41:04):
And it is a difficult period, but Australs are reaching out.
Australians are lighting candles in their front windows as a
symbol of Harniker and a symbol of the victory of light.
Australians are queuing in their tens of thousands to donate
(41:25):
blood in order to assist people. And I think people
are engaging with each other about the values that matter.
What terrorists seek to do is to pit Australian against
Australian and promote division in the world. And this is
(41:46):
an Isis inspired attack that cannot be allowed to succeed.
And the way that we hurt that attack is by
uniting is coming together as Australians and providing support, particularly
for the Jewish community at this difficult time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Talk about the darkness and the light and the meaning
for Hanniker as well. The real light that also came
on Sunday was incredible. I don't think any of us
have seen anything like and the man of the moment
Australian or the air armed and I think you actually
went and saw him and visited him. How is he?
Everyone wants to know how is he?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I did see him yesterday in hospital. He's being operated
on today. It's quite an extensive operation. He had substantial wounds,
but was in a very upbeat mood. He's a very
humble man. His parents are visiting him at the moment
(42:52):
and they were very proud, quite rightly of their son.
This is someone who ran towards danger, put himself at risk,
and we know that there were a number of heroes
as well. On Sunday Day. He Armored is someone who
(43:13):
I think shows the best of the Australian character. He
didn't think of himself, he thought of others and as
a direct result of his intervention, lives were saved.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, it's an incredible, incredible story and you're right, he
embodies the best of us. That's Australia, that's Australian values,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It certainly is. And this is someone who was with
friends heading down to Bondo Beach on a Sunday afternoon
to get a cup of coffee was what he wanted
to do. He came across the festival that was taking
place and someone invited him to join. It was a
(43:57):
very open celebration of joy and so he was aware
that of the festival taking place. And then shots started
to ring out and mister l Armored intervened in a
way that made an enormous difference.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah, and if you must be aware of this, go
fund me, Paige. I think it's up to two and
a half million dollars, not just from Australians once they
support him from all over the world.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Well, he's got a small business that is currently not
able to operate because he's in hospital and that will
certainly help, but indeed not just armored but people who
lost their lives. There are heroic stories in today's news
Boris and Sophie German, a married couple in their sixties
(44:51):
who tried to take down one of the governments right
at the very beginning of the attack before they were murdered.
Ruben Morrison who threw bricks at the government heading towards
danger before he was murdered. These heroes, and I think
(45:12):
at a time when you look at the events of
Sunday with shock and horror, this is of some comfort
about what the true Australian character is.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, beautifully said, and I think a lot of people
listening right now as well, a Prime minister is there
is obviously a need for unity as well. But are
there gaps in the gun laws? We're in this situation
where a guy living in the inner suburbs, what does
he need a license for to have six guns? Are
there gaps in the laws that need to change?
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Well, clearly in my view there are a need for tightening.
These gun laws were introduced, of course in nineteen ninety
six in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre. If
we need to do anything to tighten them up state
and territory governments. So I brought together in order to
make sure we do just that.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Great, that's good to hear that, actually, and I think
a lot of people as well. You know, this time
of year, obviously Hanakh is still going on. There are
going to be festivals, are going to be public gatherings,
there's summertime, some of the holidays are coming up soon,
you know. I'm looking out over the Harbor Bridge, you know,
and I'm thinking about the fireworks on New Year's Eve?
Can people feel safe gathering in public?
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Look, we need to make sure that fear doesn't win
here and that people continue to conduct their lives and
express their sense of community. These are there is an
increasingly dangerous world that we live in, tragically, but we
(46:52):
can't allow fear to win. That's what that's what the
terrorists seek. And know the actions of Australians I don't
think will be cowered by what has occurred. You know,
these people evil, they were cowards and their actions were
(47:16):
an atrocity.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Thank you very much for speaking us today. I can
tell that actually, you know, in a job like yours,
you deal with some situations, difficult situations, horrific situations. But
I get the feeling talking to you today, Prime Minister,
even you're struggling with this and also the stuff that
you would have been across the last couple of days.
It must be heavy for you as well on a
personal level. And I know you're stoic and I thought
(47:39):
you spoke very very well Monday. And this is a
time for leaders in all shapes and forms to step up,
not just elected ones like yourself, but in the community
as well, for us all to step up and be
leaders as well. But this must be hard for you,
as the Prime minister this country to just be yeah,
to be around for it this week and through it all.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah, thanks, Christian, But that's my responsibility. My thoughts are
really with those grieving their loved ones is my priority.
They are doing it tough. I've been to homes of
people in the last couple of days as well as
having meetings as well, and my thoughts are with them today.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, beautifully said, It's been the reaction of what's happened
since Sunday night has been nothing but humbling. It actually
reminds us that there are way more good people in
the world than evil, and it's an aberration that happened
on Sunday night. It's not the norm here in Australia,
and all these everyday heroes that acted that took action.
You know, I can't even imagine what it's like to
be in a situation like that. None of us know
(48:43):
how we would really handle it. But don't you think
it's also it's an amazing place full of amazing people
and kind hearted people. And we saw that Sunday, We've
seen it over the last couple of days, and we
will see it over the next couple of days as well.
Australia will I don't want to say bounce back because
it's morning right now. We're all feeling this, but there's
also an air of defiance and actually acts like Sunday night,
(49:04):
they don't change anything. They don't get to take our
joy from us.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Indeed, thank you very much, Christian, take.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Care, promise to thank you for bringing up some time
and speaking to the show today, and have a happy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Thank you. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Well, one thing I've really come to love since moving
to Australia is this concept of mateship, and I think
we've seen that this week. We have. That's incredible thing
and you'll see it again today as well. You know,
at start of the show out this incredible email by
one of you, lovely Matt, beautifully written email. I really
hope Brad is okay that we put up on the
website because I think people will get something from reading it.
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I did when it came in yesterday night, Brad Stokes Christian. Yesterday,
my wife and I went to the Paramatter Blood Bank
to donat. When we arrived, the queue is huge. It
took us an hour and a half just to get
to the reception desk. In the queue, almost every nationality
and occupation was represented. Arabic, Indian, Korean, Aussie trades, young
girls and activewear executives, Folks from every walk of life
(50:04):
all there together. A sure elderly couple, a husband proudly
wearing in his yamaka, been unable to give blood at Bondai,
so they drove all the way to wait and queue again.
And my wife had a young Chinese dad behind her,
also waiting, And as we all slowly shuffled up the
stairs one by one, there was this case of oneness
and camaraderie developed amongst us. The man in front of
me had taken some of work to Donat was wearing
(50:25):
an indigenous printed sloppy joe over his work clothes, which
were very clearly that of a police officer asked him
how he was traveling, especially with what they've been through
this week, and he quietly said, the rabbi that died
was our chaplain after what an incredible man. It just humbles,
didn't it. After waiting in the queue, the officer was
told he'd have to come back tomorrow at seven am.
(50:46):
Hey replied, no problem, see them. This to me, Christian
epitomized not just how many from so many different cardings
were affected by the events of Sunday, but how we
can all stand together and do what we can to help,
but also that the palpable grief that was visible in
the waiting queue, but everyone waiting patiently to look at this,
everyone waiting patiently to be part of the solution, not
(51:07):
the problem. This guy is yeah, and his final line
Australia is a wonderful country. I am proud to be
an Australian. Brad. Thank you very much. We'll be back
after these ads.
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Speaker 1 (51:25):
Ice House Great Southern Land A fifty three. Christian O'Connell's
show on Gold Morning to Julie Christian, I was in
tears listening to True Blue, Thank you for playing that.
I think the billboard today should say, hey, true Blue
love that. Oh Judy, what a moving idea. Yes, that's
to that. Every day this week we've got these billboards,
(51:48):
you know, the billboards you see them all over town,
all on there, and we can change them at a
moment's notice and put whatever message you want on them
to say to the people of Sydney. And obviously when
we were thinking about this last week, it was a
different world. So actually I think for the rest of
this week. You know, normally when we've done this before
giving away billboards, people put really funny and different things on.
(52:08):
That's just I don't think it's just it's just not
how we're feeling this week, and just seeing that message
from Julian. Then the first one we had Monday when
listeners Shane Cording on our first show with you guys
and said, why don't you just say good on your Ahmed.
We're going to have that up all week. I think
the billboards this week should only be messages of support
for Sydney. I think they should only be for that.
So we do them tomorrow and we do them Friday
(52:30):
as well. But today I think, Judy, that is incredible. Hey,
true Blue is just what we need to be reminded of.
It feels like the anthem of this week. So that's
a lovely idea. We are back tomorrow. Thank you very
much all the stories of the calls, and thank you
to Andrew who actually dropped off a Bakewell tart. You know,
we talk about acts of kindness. That's a big one
(52:50):
for me. Six o'clock Smaller and this guy Andrew turns
up at this radio station with a Bakewell tart is
made overnight. So I'm going to have someone with the
team and a cup of tea after the show today,
before the ashes begins, and then my day. I'm afraid
we'll take a very different turn.
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