FULL: Tunnels Under Tunnels

Day two in Sydney and Christian’s already replacing Jonesy & Amanda (don’t worry, they’ve been sent to a comfy “radio retirement home” with bingo and a nightly meat raffle). The team chats the weirdest things they’ve noticed around town, hands Sydney the keys to the billboards again, gets you texting in peak nonsense for Time Wasters, and “What’s The Year?” featuring Austin Powers and the cinematic masterpiece Big Momma’s House.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good? Hey, this is.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good morning, Rio, good morning, Good.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Morning, Patsy, morning everyone, Good.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Morning, Alex, Good morning. So this is day two of
your new breakfast show. I know you didn't ask for it.
We're here anyway. We started yesterday. We are the show
that come January next year, are replacing Jones in Manday.
Don't need to worry. They're not going anywhere. They're resting
at the moment. They're in a retirement home. Actually for
radio presenters, it's a lovely place. They're well looked after,

(00:53):
their three solid meals a day, meat raffle every evening
and bingo bingo twice a day. They're so happy there
right now. So on one radio station, this radio station,
come January, we'll be waking you up and then they'd
be taking you home. So the good we're here this
week to try and get you through. This week is
an extraordinary time and a moment in history for Sydney

(01:16):
and Australia. And even though everyone around the world is
talking about what's happened, and the other thing is what's happening.
There's two things at play here. There's what happened Sunday night,
and I think what is giving us a lot of
comfort is all these stories of community, and we're reminded
of that there are more, way more overwhelmingly kind hearted,
generous people in this world. There's been so many acts

(01:39):
of kindness that have happened in the last day and
a half, and I thought today, if you know of any,
please share them, because I think we all need them
right now, we really really do. And actually they remind
people that the horror and the tragedy of what happens
Sunday is going to be something that we're going to
be processing and dealing with and trying to hear with
for a very very long time. And obviously that I'm
aware that there are people who are wide about loved

(02:00):
ones right now who are going to be going through Christmas,
you know, who are mourning people who lost their lives
on Sunday. And there are what thirty people still in
us all.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Perhaps yeah, about twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
So what I want today, though, is to remind ourselves
of these stories of support and of community. And just
people doing nice things on that. The Hero of the
Year Australi unofficial Streading of the Year is obviously hmed
the fact that he's become like beyoncey a one name brand.
I mean everyone knows, even getting the Ether And this

(02:31):
morning the guy and I were talking about Armed yep, right,
we know so much about this guy's you know, three
or four days ago we didn't know who Armed was,
but now he is.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
He's the hero we really need.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's an incredible story what he did. And every day
this week we're doing a thing for you guys where
we're giving you the access to a billboards.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Billboards of Sydney.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
There are these big electronic ones where we didn't know
but you can change the message on them within ours.
We have a load of these big billboards all over
Sydney and each day we're giving you a chance to
put whatever message you want on them. Whatever that is.
It might be happy Christmas to your loved ones, you
might want to propose. Yesterday, on day one for the
Christian O'Connell show, one of you, Shane said something just

(03:13):
perfect that really spoke for everybody. He just wanted on
the billboard. Good on your shape, not good on your
shae getting up on a Monday on your ahmen, and
that stood up there. I think we should keep that
one up all week. Yes, definitely. So later was waning
from seven o'clock, we've been asking me again, what do
you want to put on the billboards today? So team,

(03:34):
what are the good news stories that have come out
in the last twenty four hours?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
What have you got rere mate.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
I had goosebumps watching the news yesterday the que from
the town Hall Blood Donation Center. I know the Red
Cross put out a alert they were desperately in need
of blood. The q snaking around the CBD from the
town Hall Blood Donation Center.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
People were waiting for four hours.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I just read that there was also Good Samaritans who
were making macas runs, getting Hash Browns from the makers
of the CBD and giving hash Browns to the people
waiting in line.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Today.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just give me goosebumps.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Yeah, so that was that really warmed my heart. Yesterday
they're still looking for own negative donors. I know they
have been overwhelmed, but they asked still on the hunt
for those. So if you are an own negative donor,
please get to the nearest Red cross.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
PASSI what are the other good news?

Speaker 6 (04:21):
This go fundme page Christian that's been set up for Ahmed.
It's attracting major community contributions. It's currently at about one
and a half million dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I want nothing about this. And before we met up
for dinner last night, I was in at Tax and
ATTAXID I was telling about it and it was like
eight one hundred and eighty thousand.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, just incredible business.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I think a business or some business people have set
this up and the money goes to Armored and it's
like what one point three million.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
One point five as it stands?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (04:49):
One yeah, one point five. But you know he'll be
off work for a long time. He's a dad with
two little girls. Goodness knows how much you know, even
just the mental trauma down the track for him as well.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
They need their health.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Physical and mental trauninger, so he's got to have I
think I heard yesterday three or four surgeries. He wasn't
just shot twice, so I think it was three or
four times.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Wow, So miracle he is alone.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I've been shot already when he still went to tackle
the guy to shoot. Really, I didn't see them, I'm
sure when he's ready to speak, will get his full story.
I saw is Mam and Dabin interviewed last night and
they're from Syria and they just said, this is who
our son is.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Didn't they speak beautiful as it did?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, incredible story.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
The other thing too, down at Bondi, a lot of
the local cafes are just giving people free coffee and
food because there's a floral shrine that's just growing by
the hour down there, and you know what it's. Yes,
it was the scene of just absolute atrocity, but it's
also a place where people can go and mourn and

(05:50):
pay tribute. It's a space where they all feel safe
and they've got this connection. So sorry, it's really emotional,
but so local cafes down there, local business owners are
just giving people free coffee.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
You Almos loved it is. I think that people are
always looking for a way to try and be kind
and we forget that we can choose to do that.
You don't need a tragedy to do that, you know,
the one, the one, the only good thing to come
out the last couple of days or all these stories, Alex,
what else have you seen so.

Speaker 7 (06:20):
Much support, especially some from sort of community leaders too,
and one guy a colleague of minut Channel seven. Larry Ender,
absolute legend, one of the last names.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Say the Big Al.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
You don't drive out there's the big or oh Roy
Robison And in Australia the Big Al is Larry Elder. Yeah, yeah,
you don't casually go a colleague of mine you just
mentioned like the Pope, the go the go of daytime TV.
If there's a lightweight game show, you call Larry.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
If you need someone to throw to an infomercial, you
get Larry Elder.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Larry and I were up for the same game show
two years ago. I bowed out, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There's no way on winning that race. And sometimes Enda
has it. I give it to you, Larry.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
It's rude to go for that, and sometimes you go
high lower is right the tow of Larry.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
They can do that.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
Let's but he sent out this beautiful message yesterday. He
took him about thirty five takes because he was so upset.
It was so heartfelt, it was so beautilessul Was. He
spent most of his life at Bondai. Fifty sixty years.
He was at that park, Archer Park, so many days
of his life and this beautiful heartfelt I guess thank
you to the people, the first responders, those people that

(07:37):
came and helped and did what they could to save
people's lives that day, and his message of support was
just really wonderful. And I guess also the sporting landscape
as well, there's people like Usman Kohwaja saying things like
up before the break of dawn and praying for the
Jewish and Bondai community as a whole, no room whatsoever

(07:57):
for those hate crimes. We know that the players tomorrow
in Adelaide test there'll be a minute silence. You're going
to wear black arm mans and Pat Cummins also issuing
the call for blood donation and Adelaide Oval flags at
half mast as well.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So across the sport, I think you're saying he's a
shrinkled for blood from the English players.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, we're already that's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Please.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I am just treading the ashes even as I sort
of scratched my neck. Yeah, we've all had We've all
got a towel when it's stressed. You scratched something, don't you.
Mention of the ashes are oh my god, it's back tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
And it's also so I've been living here seven years, right,
we have Australian passports, and so everyone's always like you're
one of us. Now, you're one of us now until
the ashes come and you're like, no, you're one of them.
Know what happened yesterday? I was one of you guys.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're one of them. And man, we are so bad
at the moment. Yeah, and I cannot see it changing
because wait, comings is back lines is back?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah. Yeah, you're in trouble. Oh, We're in so much trouble.

Speaker 8 (09:03):
And the weather is going to be absolutely stinking hot.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Not built for these climates. It's an overwhelming home advance
you have. And the fact that our top, middle and
bottom order is this terrible.

Speaker 8 (09:19):
Yeah, that is average.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'll worry for you guys. Yes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's listen, guys, I said that we want good vibes. Please,
this is a time to come together. Okay, all right,
let's play new radicals.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's The Christian O'Connell Show Tuesday morning on Gold Good Morning.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yesterday on the show, we introduced a new thing to
you guys. We do this every day. It's called the
outword time waster. It's very simple. You get your phone out,
we give you a topic of theme, you write a
joke for it, you sling it into us. REO marks
them in a very very inconsistent system of gold silver,
a bronze that should be bulletproof and idiot proof, but

(10:02):
it isn't. I get complaints every day. It's random. It's
really unfair noise, every single humor that comes into contractions. Now,
what's lovely is you know? For doing that for seven
off years in Melbourne, it's nice now to bring that
to Sydney. And then come January, every city in Australia
gets a chance to be randomly unfairly more randomly.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's very very randomly.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yesterday and we're going to do a part two because
we've run out of time. Yesterday, we're asking you to
bogan a movie. So take a movie title, movie title
and then turn it into a Bogan one. We are real.
We have a good price. What is the price for
today we do.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
We've got the dab radios Dabby from Kogan dot com
dot au.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right, so the ones that we didn't have time
to get mark Saul yesterday. I thought we'd mark now,
and then you can send them into the next ten
minutes as well. The most important number you need is
the brand new text number for the show to interact
with us. And that isn't just for what we're doing
break to Break, it's also if you've got anything you
want to say at the moment, anything you want to share,
please use that number and you can chat to us.
Oh fall seven five O three one O four three,

(11:06):
Oh Fall seven five three one four three. It's the
text them for this show. The Devil Wears Thongs Silver
for some of those posh bogans, Priscilla Queen of the Mullet,
Gold Housos of Wax, Oh God, that's very good. H
Forest Gronk, I love, I love, I love the phrase Gronk.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Gronk is a great should be in the AUSSI dictionary.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Gronk God just Forest Gronk just makes me laugh. The
gooney bags at the Raiders of the Lost, Eski Tilpas,
the VB movie, Gold Movie, The Shatter of Redemption, Silver
Mullets in the Midst, Silver Saving Private Bin Tang God plus,

(12:00):
and some of these notts are subtle. Christian Wolf of
Wall Street is just a bloke who won big on
the pokies. That's needs a bit of finessing with the language,
like the first Bruns of the year. Yeah, all right,
so what have you got then, Bogan a movie? We
got prizes for the best two and text them in
and then real will randomly marked them next four seven, five, three,
one oh four three. We're back after these.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Adds the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
All right, we are We've got your time wasters. This
is something we do every day on the show. We
give you a difpic theme and then you text in
and for the best ones you win prizes. Rio marks
them in a very random, nonsensical way. Gold, silver, bronze.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
You ready, I'm ready?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right, We've got four Flanno jacket mark gold, gold,
mullet rouge plus gold plus for that one, four and
twenty meat pies in a funeral silver plus for that one. Dude,
where's my commodore? Oh silva silver for that one? Grand

(13:12):
Tarana instead of torino A love the fact that produces
a snuck in the studio for some reason. Now, your
microphone that was working for the last twenty minutes now
isn't working again? This is more skull degree from Brendan Jones.
Oh here we go, I'm.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I tried, Josh.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well yeah yeah, fall us once? So do we mark
four and twenty pis in the funeral? That is gold world,
am I dude? Where's my commodore?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
A silver? When?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
How's I met? Shazer?

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Gold?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Citizen Shane gold plus the.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Cat in the Pats silver.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
And obviously classy Bruce Lee movie Enter the Dragon, Enter
the Dragon Concert?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yay silver plus?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
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Speaker 2 (14:15):
Citizens Shane and Morlette Rouge?

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Okay, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
So what did you yesterday? You had a nice tranquil
afternoon some downtime.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
I've got my teenage daughter up with me.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
How was that going?

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well, look, it's only there.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
A tough crowd. They are a tough.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Crowd, just you know, the eye rolling.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh look I noticed you didn't come up for dinner
last time. We thought you were having a situation.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
No, I was exhausted. I just after year.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Na nap Yeah, I do you have a nap pass?
Is the oldest lady in the world. If you open up?
Is it page sixty two you're on in the Guinness
Book of Records.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
You're hilarious Carbon dated her.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Really, I do believe we have a similar birthday.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Everything.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Nana's still got it.

Speaker 9 (15:06):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's how you wait, so you wake her.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Up, take out that it's miss Daisy. But I believe
we have a similar vintage. But anyway, we I just
felt like a bit of tranquility yesterday after such a
heavy morning. And I do have the fifteen year old
staying with me. She's on school holidays, which which is great.
She's got a week in Sydney. She thinks that's fantastic.
But I thought, well, I need to get her out
of the hotel room.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
So we went to the Beautiful.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Channelan obviously track the hotel room for the week with
our mouths.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh God, I felt sorry for your daughter in this
story banning room.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
So we went to the beautiful Chinese Friendship Garden.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I what a great thing to do.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I have.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Yeah, Oh it's stunning, and there was a beautiful breeze
and the sun was out.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Teenagers love a breeze, don't you know. They wouldn't want
to be at Mecca again.

Speaker 10 (15:57):
We'll makeup that came after library if we can go
to the Chinese Garden And it was beautiful, but it's amazing.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
They've got all these water dress there. They look like
these sort of prehistoric they're phenomenal, but they are everywhare
like everywhere, big.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Every everywhere. Jurassic Park. I didn't know it. I was
Drassic part is set on very small things eight inches
at max. What a cheaper way of doing Australian versions,
just small dragons.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
They were so cute though, because they look like they've
got big long talons on the ends of their claws, right.
But they're quite friendly and obviously very used to the
tourists and the people.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
So what do you take one ticket back from bedroom?

Speaker 6 (16:45):
But they we were watching them swim because there's beautiful
ponds and everything right throughout the garden. So we were
just sitting on a on a bench and watching one
I heard this PLoP in the water, and you should
have seen the thing swim. It was like Ian Thorpe
through the water that.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Was animated about it, like chat Forest Gump, who's just
discovered poles?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Once a week on the show we play a game
called what's the year? Once you get over the age
of thirty, you're constantly obsessed with how old? I don't
know why we do this is just like DNA winks up.
You're constantly amazed at what do you mean that's twenty
years old?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's never good, you know, Oh, that's actually much more recent.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
You do it just to depress yourself. What do you
mean that's twenty seven years old? How can that be
a Shall we turn that into a game? It's called
what's the year?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Do you know what they released? Free Willy? Was it
eighty nine or nine three? Or when did Tita record Life?
Four brands? I'm not very good with taste. Does anybody?

Speaker 8 (17:49):
And they know?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
What's the year?

Speaker 11 (17:51):
Again?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
What's the year? My friend?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right? What's the year? First of all, we go
to a movie, big classic movie, when there's a fancy
dress party. Someone still comes as this guy Austin Powers.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Still it feels that even though it was years, it's
still around.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yes, yes, and it's still funny. I watched it a
couple of weeks ago, is it. I watched it. That's
what you think. You think it's gonna age ply, it's
so funny. It's still so so funny.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I remember when it came out, right, it was just
the biggest thing in the world. Yes, Mike Myers became
a megastar, and it was just every scene had either
a visual gag or a one liner. Everything shamelessly silly. Yes, yes,
all right, So Austin Bowers, International Man of Mystery Team,
when do you think it came out ninety eighth? Ninety eight?

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Say ninety eight?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
So close, very very close? Wrong way no?

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
The other thing you learned about this game is, for
some reason, Eve, though I'm holding a piece of paper
with the answers, it's still conducing. It's your kryptonize is
my crypte nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Liz Early was so.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Good in that twenty eight years old. Yeah, that's a
whole ageless.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah really really, I'm now going to watch it over
Christmas again. Actually, two facts I'm going to insist at
my nineteen and twenty one year old daughter's watch you're
with me. I know they won't like it. They will
try and cancel me. It's not for their generation, and
they will cancel me within ten minutes of their generation.
You're right, it's not TikTok friendly. This man is problematic

(19:32):
and needs to go to a HR meeting. Austin Powers
has been canceled. Adele, Hello, oh that's pretty twenty twenty Yeah, No,
not twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Twenty sixteen, close.

Speaker 12 (19:52):
I'll say twenty seventeen, twenty fifteen, well done, pat six
twenty yeah twenty fifteen, ten years ago, became the first
video to reach one billion views.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Really yeah, what an amazing boy.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
He's gone. I think with Adele though, right, you love it.
We all brought the albums. But it's not someone you
play a lot, is it. She's not because it's so sad. Yes,
you don't go. We've got some friends coming around. Let
me just crank at Adele's miserable song. She needs to

(20:31):
balance out the misery with a few bangers.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
Not Friday Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
A few Friday ones is.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
The modern Di Franklin.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Did you know it's a big yeah?

Speaker 8 (20:42):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Come on, team Adele A few cheerful ones.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
He came back.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
He was a nice guy.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
You've got so much money, it's understood.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
The situation a few of those. All right, TV show
now one of my favorite TV shows. I still watch this.
They're still making it graz Anatomy, they're still shadow Yes,
that's all great. There's work, pioneering work has been done.
My very as well. I genuinely love the show. I
watch it. This is my happy place is great?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Actually, all right, when did it come out?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Dreamy? What the fact? I answered that, Well, I don't
think it's a good look. So but we are who
we are exactly, we are who we are? Crazy?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
That to me?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
When did it come out?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I'm sad that none of you even know?

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I want to guess I would say five, whoa, he's
straight on the nose, well done for twenty years? Yes, yeah,
what And as someone who's watched all of them, they
repeat every story though, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (21:48):
Was this your choice or your wife?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
She doesn't watch it anymore? Really, I watch it by myself.
My hate rate is I've never seen an episode where
it didn't bring it. And now, listen, we're going to
end with one of the all time greatest. This is
a seminal movie that actually should have got Oscars. Of course,

(22:11):
I'm talking about Big Muma's House.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Wow, Okay, when.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I say seminole, you say Martin Lawrence in a fat suit.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Talking about don't let your daughters watch that one anfist.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
This is a seminole movie. How dare you turn your
nose up at Big Mamma's House.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's gotta be nineties or two ninety.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Nine, close two thousand and two, No, wrong way.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
Two thousand and one, two thousand, two thousand.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
It made one hundred and eighty million dollars.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
There's no ridiculous argue.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
One hundred million ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, time with Martin Lawrence, time wasted.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Out, got out of the second rage.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
How dare people turn their back on the great work
of Martin Lawrence Oscars?

Speaker 8 (23:03):
Now, yes, you're.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Like two bucks at the DVD shot.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
That's that's had to end like this, guys. News and
Sport coming up next here on Gold.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
So yesterday on our first show with you guys, we
want to do some a message to Sydney, and so
we gave away a billboard. You know the billboards. You
see them every single day. They are all over the world,
all over Sydney. Wherever you're driving, there's a billboard. We
found out that you can actually change the messages on
them within hours, and so we have a company's billboards

(23:38):
every single day this week. We have access to them,
which is ridiculous, that's crazy, and we can put a
message up there day by day, whatever you want. Yesterday,
on the first day of Winter Billboard, a lovely listener
called Shane cold In and he had the best idea.
He said, just put on their good on your hmed
and so that would have cheered up hundreds of thousands

(23:59):
of people yesterday. I almost want to put on the
good on your Shane today to thank you for doing that.
We got so many lovely messages for people who after
the show yesterday were driving around of getting on with
your lives. Suddenly you see your billboard with good on
your armed and it makes you feel something. And right
now we need hope, we need support, we really do.
And I've got a message here from Zena that she

(24:19):
took from a car the passenger seat yesterday on the
M four. Normally you don't really take a posts sound social?
Why would you just depressing as a car park? Christian
just drove past a billboard on the M four. I
started crying. It's so good. That's from Dina and lots
of you as well. Sonny messages day about armored. Christian

(24:40):
is a true hero. Good on shame for doing this.
It needs to be Australian of the Year. Nick had
a lovely message, courage is contagious, armored and may your
spread through our country. You're a ripper mate. Good on you.
So the good news is we have more billboards billboards
going live this morning now to give you an idea.
You can put whatever you want on their Sydney's and

(25:02):
entirely up to you. The lines are open. Now, what
do you want to say on a billboard today? Thirteen
fifty five twenty two. You might be after a job, Yes,
you might want to have resign from a job A
great way to Why would.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
You say that? Two millions?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yes, I mean the power is yours.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Don't rock up to work. Just put it where your
boss's going.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yes, live to the end. Four lithe on the Hume
to Paramatta. So what do you want to sell on
the billboard? The lines are up and now thirteen fifty
five twenty two. Previously people have used of all kinds
of things. Susie was looking for a boyfriend. This is
what had actually said, vacancy boyfriend wanted forty to fifty five.

(25:45):
Beard not essential, but preferred.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay, she was looking for a bearded lover.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes, and we all speak to Soub hopefully married man.
And I don't want you spreading rumors that my wife
is a bearded lady. Oh she's going through Oh I change, Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Wow, I've said too much. She's flying right now.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
It looks like when you finish the show just finished,
the billboards will all say tomorrow. Sorry, Sarah, let me in.
Maria said this one. I think this is relatable to
a lot of people. Steve Excamation, Mark put your dishes
in the dishwasher, all right? And then Tom, maybe you're

(26:32):
selling something at the moment, get it on Facebook, Marketplace
and not getting any nipples. Tom was selling his vintage
Hyundai gets one hundred and forty K hot hatch.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Hot deal seven k the good price.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
All right, So lines are up in now, Sydney, call me,
call me what do you want to say on the billboard?
You can say whatever you want. Thirteen fifty five twenty
two would take your calls. Next on Gold and say
team minutes past seven, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
A lovely message here, welcome Christian, loving hearing you in
the team in Sydney. I a tiny, tiny English accent.
I'm making a massive English Bakeworld tart for work tomorrow.
Let me know if you and your team want some
tomorrow morning. It's the best. I live in Kirabilly. If
you're in the studio in North Sydney, yeah, we are all.

(27:25):
We happy to drop off reception. I'd love that you
guys ever had it. Bake Well Tart is laser pastry
jam and if it's done correctly, has a frangchi panny
which is custard of normand oh it's a lot that
it's a heavy.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Break sticks to the roof in the US. It sounds delicious.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, it's illegal for an Englishman to turn down at
bake tar if. If that's legit, honor, that is already
my Wednesday. My hump day is looking better. I'd love
a slice of Bake Well Tart. Teams you want to
try some tomorrow? That's so lovely team gets your franchire
Panny on some frangi Panny Wednesday right here on Gold.

(28:10):
All right, we've gotten amazing offer. Right now we have
live access to a lot of big billboards all over
Sydney and you can put whatever message you want today
live on this So whatever you've got going on, whatever
you'd like to say to Sydney, or maybe just one
person like Marie to saying to her husband Steve, but
the dishes in the dishwasher, the power is yours. Use

(28:31):
it wisely. So we're giving away billboards and by ten
o'clock this morning, whatever message that we choose, like yesterday's
one which is perfect for yesterday from listener Shane, which
was good on your armored. Whatever message we choose, it
goes live all over Sydney this morning from ten a m.
Lines are open now thirteen fifty five twenty two. If
you want to give us a call. You can also
send me a text message with your message that you'd

(28:52):
like to say to Sydney. Four seven five three one
oh four three.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Christian O'Connell show Gone podcast.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Good What is Sydney? This is to Christian O'Connell's show
on Gold it is seven twenty nine. I hope you're
well this morning, every day this week, as we get
to know each other, we're giving you billboards. You can
say whatever you want within reason. Obviously on these billboards.
I should have to say that, but it feels right.
Can I say whatever you want on the billboards? Thirteen

(29:22):
fifty five twenty two. If you are sending me a
message today, the text number for this show four seventy
five three one O four three. Put it in your phone.
I am replying to all the messages I get this
week from our new friends, as you make you one
by one. However, in my excitement to reply to the
lady who's offered me a bake weld tart and to

(29:43):
bring it here tomorrow lives in Crebilly, I've replied, but
I'm afraid. In the frenzy the thought of having some
franchipanny tomorrow morning. It's a mixture of up and lower case.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
It looks like a mad man, and it says this,
Hell yes, please.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
One she's not.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
That's what I should put on the billboards today.

Speaker 8 (30:03):
Hell yes, please to be going well tarts heartless tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yes, it's heartless. We got Brad on the line now.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Good morning Brad, Hi Christian, welcome to Sydney.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Mate, Thank you very much and Brad two words, Yes,
what do you want on the billboard?

Speaker 13 (30:19):
Bond I Strong?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Bond I Strong is that?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I think?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
I think we can't have enough messages of support all
this week and beyond as well. Yeah, the one that's
staying up today, good on your armored. I think BONDI
Strong is a lovely one today, Brad. We're going to
put that one up, Brad. Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Christian O'Connell show go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Clarification and update on the breaking situation has has come
out in the last twenty minutes. One of our lovely
listeners to one of our new friends that we've made,
it's Offerer, is making a bake Well tart for their
office tomorrow and has has somehow worked out for the
medium of radio. I think Christian might have an English
accent there where Don't Shutot comes and has offered me

(30:59):
to bring some in tomorrow, and I said, yes please.
I love bakewell tart, haven't had one in seventy years
since moving here. Right, It's going to be a very
emotional reunion guys, and you can try some as well. Now,
I just presumed that this was a lady and it's
a man called Andrew. Hey, men can bake to nim
absolutely right. What a wonderful world we live in is
twenty twenty five? Wake up, sheeople, men can make two.

(31:21):
Andrew's making me the cake right now?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh wow? A legend?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, all right. So when I got
here Sunday afternoon, I got into a taxi and this
guy and I went deep into his life. He was
I think he thought he had Michael Parkinson in the
car and this was the interview he's been waiting for
his whole life. I'm not joking. And I said, I
know how much debt he's got, right, Wow, you really

(31:46):
got into We know he really got into it. I
was just an unwilling interviewer in the back.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Anyways.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
It was a lovely guy. And as we're going through
the various tunnels of Sydney, of which there appears to
be more tunnels than any other city in the world. Yeah,
I start saying, oh, there's a lot tunnels here, and
he goes, oh, some of the best tunnels in the
world are here in Sydney. Well, wow, that's quite a
flex and he goes, in fact, there's a cutting edge
new tunnel that's being built under one of the tunnels.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
A tunnel under the fund.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Now I don't know where he was just winding out
with a wide eyed palm who didn't really know anything
about the tunnel system here tics, Is that true? There's
a tunnel being built under the tunnel?

Speaker 8 (32:24):
I believe so.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:24):
And there was this spaghetti junction and that was supposed
to relieve traffic going out to the Paramounta Road.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, but it created a disaster for the people of Roselle.

Speaker 7 (32:34):
Don't get the people of the Inner West started on
spaghetti junction.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Civil War much anyhow, absolutely mad.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
If you live in Balmona roseill just don't bring it up.
Sorry I brought it up.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Sorry, sorry, sorry. So there's a tunnel being built under
a tunnel.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Wow, how did they do that?

Speaker 5 (32:52):
I didn't even know how you build a first tunnel,
so I would have no idea how you build a
tunnel under a tunnel.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Well, back to me and my new friend Dean on Sunday, right,
we were talking about his life and times and then
we're talking about tunnels and how do they build them,
and is it incredible these tunnels now that they can
build quicker than before. It's He goes, and he's obviously
in his sixties. He goes, do you know what, I've
had my time again, I'd be a tunnel maker. So
we all have those what could have been omens seen

(33:19):
another life, a parallel life as a tunnel maker, building
tunnels in Sydney the envy of the world. Yeah, what
other city has tunnels under tunnels?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, all right, So here's what I want to do.
I want to by the end of this week, when
we say goodbye to you guys and then we're back
in January. I want to have a weird and wonderful
guy to Sydney love it. And I don't mean the
stuff you find on Google or the mukut gave away
to Taurus. I mean the real weird and wonderful guy
to Sydney. Already My first entry is wait, they have

(33:53):
tunnels under tunnels. I mean that should be a marketing campaign. Yes,
the opera house is stunning.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yes, wait till you see what's underneath the harbor.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Stay for the tunnels under the tunnels. Now you must
have some things are my weird and wonderful going to Sydney.
What do I need to know?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yes, one thing that's not making the Lonely Planet guide
is the town Hall steps.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Now these are out the front of the Sydney Town Hall,
in between the KFC and the QVB building.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
This is an the fact that you were EMO with
the KFC building.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yes, that's the other landmark of Cydney's Opera House.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
And this is a famous multi generational teen loitering spot
and it is a microcosm of the fads of the time.
So for my sister's generation, it was goths. Goths would
always hang out at the Sydney Town Hall. Vast the
millennials emos. If you would go past town Hall anytime
and day, even in the stinking heat in summer, you've

(34:48):
got emos with the I make up, the listening to
simple planting them to the town Hall steps. It's a
loitering spot. They just sit there and loiter and they
just spend time at Sydney Town Hall.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
There's another entry in my Weird and Wonderful Going to Sydney, Alex.
What have you got the.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
Blue line as you come on to the Anzac Bridge
city bound, because the blue line is still there from
the marathon. So the blue line guided people marathon runners
during the Sydney Olympic Games and not.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Being funny about how thick are the runners. If you
need a line, there's thousands of people running ahead of you.
Unless you're winning the race.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
You need a guy, you don't need arrows. Who's still
out there now running lots in Paramattaca?

Speaker 8 (35:28):
Where is Everywhere's the finish line.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's the toughest mount in the world. You haven't even
run under the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Under the tunnel again, but the blue line is.

Speaker 8 (35:36):
Still there and it's a lovely reminder.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Brillian, Oh you keep it there? Yeah, yeah, all right,
So Sidney, what do I need to know? What have
you got for my weird and wonderful guy to Sydney.
You can call me if you want thirteen fifty five
twenty two saying number if you want to bake me
stuff this week and wouldn't harm you to woke meet
to the city actually with some cakes. And also you
can text me for my weird and wonderful guy to Sydney.

(35:59):
What can you share?

Speaker 3 (36:00):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
As I'm getting to know Sydney. I want to shortcut that,
and I want to have a weird and wonderful guy
to Sydney, not the staff to chatch Ebt would throw
up or would be on Google, or the pass off
to Tauris. I want to know the weird and wonderful
truthsome facts of Sydney. Now, any place I've been to
in the world, London had it, Melbourne, Scotland as well,
every city and Cydy cannot be any stranger. This has

(36:26):
a mythical, mystical animal all right in London. I've seen it,
but no one believes me. I've seen King Rat.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well is King Rat.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Obviously in the underground system and back to It's like
the theme of the show for substrange reasons. Anyway, the
underground system has been there for years in London. There
are obviously a lot of rats, okay, and there is
a king Rap. This is a there's a phenomenon with
rats because there's so many of them, they become entangled
with their tails, and so King Rat is eighteen rats.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Who's counting them? I've seen it. It's terrifying. I've seen
King Rat a bad city.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, I've seen King Rat, but no one ever believes
me and eighteen bodied rats. It's the stuff of nightmare.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
So there's a king of the king rats who decides
which directions.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, that's the horror they're all going into. It's like
the show. They're all going in different directions. They're hopelessly entangled.
Even Stephen King couldn't come up with such a thing.
I didn't see the days after.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Just seeing it. I'm never going to London.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
If it grabs you, I'm not coming to save you.
So anyway, there must be a mister call animal of Sydney.
What is it? Oh, the panther.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Melbourne's got the panther as well.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, I got one as well.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
It's a big gap.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
What about those water dragons I saw yesterday.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Where they're not mythical, they're just there their natural habitat.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
Panthers got their name from this mythical panther, and the
panther apparently still wandering the Blue Mountains one loan panthers,
one loan panther that they reckon may have might have
alleged to have escape from a circus, right.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
I want it to be true. Yes, yeah, I've never
heard a love an escape from the circus story.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
Yeah, back in the nineteen twenties. They live a long
old age.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
What is a hundred year old panther?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
That is you going to find it?

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Give us you how quickly? One hundred year old people
move very slow, a little walking sticks.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
It's very great.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
So tired up there? All right? What have you got
for the weird and wonderful guy to Sydney? Can give
us a call. Thirteen fifty five twenty two. Peter's on
the line now he's got something. Good morning, Peter, welcome
to the show.

Speaker 14 (38:46):
Yeah, good morning, welcome to Sydney, Christian, Thank you very much.
I I've have the there's a thing of the Panos
set in Sydney. It's a it's a big framework where
they set off with a writer or the traffic lights
are on. I think, yeah, that's ants from the intersection

(39:09):
of the hum Highway. Yeah, Wood Road and Henry Laws
and drive.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
So what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
It goes above the above the road, not the side
like normal traffic lights.

Speaker 14 (39:19):
Yeah, a big square thing above the road on on
steel framework on the corners.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
It's like a it's like think of the ugliest traffic
light you could possibly think of, and it's this huge,
big for some reason, like a steel structure that goes
across the hall.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
I don't I don't want to know.

Speaker 14 (39:37):
Yeah, they wanted to get rid of.

Speaker 9 (39:38):
It a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
That I also love. The great used to work the
phrase Huller blue as well, a great word.

Speaker 14 (39:52):
Yeah, And that's like people when they're directing you you
go to the mccons, they turn right or left, you know.
And as soon as people feel like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
That's the kind of it's ugly but it's our it
should be up there in tripi Advisor. Then before you
see the opera house, check out those traffic it likes. Peter,
this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Peter,
thank you very much to give us a call and
have a lovely Christmas you too, Thank you, thank you.
Right all right, what have you got for my weird
and wonderful guy to Sydney. You can give me a
call thirteen fifty five twenty two and you can also

(40:22):
message you in as well if you want, if it's
easier this morning, oh four seven five three one oh
four three? What is it?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
I am making my weird and wonderful guy to Sydney.
I want to really know the city, and I want
to go on Google. I don't want to ask AI
chat GPT. It's just going to say it serve up
the same old stuff, Okay. I want the really weird
and unusual facts. When I arrived here Sunday, the taxi
driver told me that they're building a tunnel under a tunnel.
I don't know why. This blew my mind. That's my

(40:53):
first entry in Christian ocondals. Totally useless guy to Sydney.
Alex has told us about the mythical animal, the panther
of the Blue Mountains. Someone else is recommended they go
and as some fish and chips on Manly Beach. I'm
staying at Manley. I did do that yesterday, and I
did go to buy some chips, some hot chips and
sit on the beach. And then I left rapily because

(41:15):
the largest seagulls I've ever seen in my life actually
feared they were going to fly away with me. It
was like that dress part. Why is the seagulls so?
Are they giving them or something? Mutant seagulls.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
I never noticed that they were that big. Maybe you
have time.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I made a mistake, right, I offered a few up
to my seagull overlords and then more descend. There was
a lovely old couple sat there innocently on this bench
next to me. They tutted and walked off because the
seagulls are now descending on us. Yes, yes, that created
a seagull orgie.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
It's a cardinal seed in Sydney to be feeding the seagulls.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Because yes, like pelicans, because.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Now you're ruining the whole promenade, all the seagulls.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
The more I think about it, I think I saw
that panther. It's moved from the Blue Mountains. Somebody's got
a bit of coin. It's not cheap around Manley and
their wings panthers. Even monkeys talk about the panther. Right
you mentioned that is Bob's on the line now and
here because he's actually seen it. Bob, welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Good morning, Yes, good.

Speaker 9 (42:18):
Morning, Kristin. Yes, I have seen it. I've seen it twice.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
No where did you say it? That's incredible, Bob. Where
did you see it?

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Mate?

Speaker 9 (42:26):
Well, look, I was I used to be involved with
the maintenance on the Info Motorway and we were I
was out there with the maintenance manager, and we were
looking at replacing the concrete V drains and we were
sort of in the in the bushy part out near Blacktown,
and we were looking in the V drains and we

(42:47):
were walking on the concrete, so we were fairly silent.
And we came around and we just round a bit
of a corner and there he was. We saw him
for about maybe three three and a half seconds, and
then he got into As soon as he saw us,
he took off. He went into the drains because the
system there is.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Massive, massive, won't they big storm drains?

Speaker 9 (43:10):
Yes, they are, and he uses he uses that to
travel from.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
There all the way out his own secret Panther Highway.

Speaker 9 (43:21):
And the second time I saw him was about three
years after that, and that was out around the Blacktown
Drive in an area.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Again he loves that area, didn't he maymbe he's got
a bit of side action, a little pantherest on the site.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Anyway, the I'm saw him, it was about the size
of a fully grown German shepherd and big muscular head,
you know, big head on him.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Muscular head.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
That's amazing. He's so claim to fame.

Speaker 9 (43:51):
He really exists, and you know, I had the maintenance.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Manager with me, another eyewitness that is now Bob.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
We heard that it was from nineteen twenty, this panther,
so we thought it must be a very old pan.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
With a muscular head. Yes, this is the Jacks Chick boat.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Did it seem like an old panther.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
I don't know how long these things live, but we
saw him about fifteen years ago. So there used to
be a zoo out in Well. There used to be
a circus that traveled around and it stored as animals
out near Silverdale.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Right. He's probably a skate though, isn't.

Speaker 9 (44:32):
He And that's most probably the theory.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah, I reckon he put its muscular head in between
those bars and pop them off. It flexed them.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
It certainly had a big buff head.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
The tos the big buffheaded panther of Sydney. The legend
lives on, Bob. Thank you very very much. Keith is going.
I love this. It's now really rocking. The weird wonderful
guy to Sydney with the muscular buffhead of the Sydney
panther that travels underneath us, underneath us, undetected down the
storm drain system. There and if you're wondering Sydney. Why

(45:09):
to listen to the show is that we're going to
get amazing stories about the drain system of Sydney and
the tunnel system as well. That's what we're here to do,
all right, there's playpond Jovi now living on a prey.
Good Morning's ten minutes past eight. Share your what have
you got for the weird and wonderful guy to Sydney.
You can text me yours oh four seven five three
one oh four three, and you can also give me
a call. Thirteen fifty five twenty two, The.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Good morning to Julie Christian. If the Wishbone Chicken Shop
is still in Manly, it has the best charcoal chicken
in Sydney. This city loves charcoal chicken.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
That's controversial.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
This'sday Chuck, Old Charlie's, Chaco, Charlie Choco, Charlie's and El
Johanna in the Western Suburbs as Wow, A lot of contenders.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Stiff Cat's agree. Now this is interesting. What are the
Chuckle Sisters. These are two women who claim to produce
the show, but I'm yet to find evidence of that
they do work with us and they claim to be
producers accorded the Chuckle system because they chuck on on sup.
They're not related, but they kind of feel like one Uni. Yes,

(46:14):
they move us anyway, one of the Chuckle sisters came
in and when Rio's nephew is on the line, now
some boy genius, Rio must have said, very proudly eighteen
times very I'm start.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Listening to ABC Radio. Actually I'm surprised he's on god
hosting it.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
He's slumming it with us today. Now he's six years Xavier,
are you there?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Hello Xavier, So you're related to Rio?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, and Zevia, thank you very much for giving us
a call, and thank you for listening to the show
as well. You're part of the younger demo that they've
brought us into town to try and win over. And
a Xavier, what have you got? If you've got a
fact from our we'd a wonderful guy to Sydney.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Oh yeah, how what have you got?

Speaker 11 (47:01):
There's like some eels in Centennial Park and they go
all the way down into the sewers and go all
the way through the sewers to New Caledonia.

Speaker 15 (47:12):
WHOA, this is incredible. Do you think they know the
panther alright, yeah, well that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
How how do you know this?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Have you seen them?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Xavier?

Speaker 1 (47:27):
No? Like?

Speaker 11 (47:29):
Can you play the Seclists there in my presentation? Day
and and talked about it.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
The minister Tania. This is wow.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
That's the smartest so far.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
That's a great fact, David. Wow.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
We now, Xavier, are you excited about Christmas?

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (47:52):
My birthday is the day before Christmas?

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Your birthday is Christmas Eve?

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (47:57):
Can I get two days of present? Oh?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I am so jealous right now? Xavier? And what are
you hoping that Santa is going to.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Get you this year?

Speaker 11 (48:06):
I'm still thinking?

Speaker 7 (48:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Yeah, Well Harry, what would birthday?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
You've got any ideas?

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Something expensive?

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (48:16):
A video.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
And these wages?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Maybe the a two for one that's your Christmas and
your birthdays again someone.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Who Scott went out the front their nature strip.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Maybe well listen.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Xavier, thank you very much for calling in and I
hope you have a lovely birthday and a great Christmas
as well.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
So my genius way to try and befriend a brand
new city of Sydney. Also arrive Sunday with a lot
of Christmas Hams. I realized it's a big city. You know,
you got Carlin Jackie, I dominated it for years, and
I thought there's a gap here for a guy to
turn up with some Christmas hams. Welcome to the New King.
And someone sent me a message today who obviously heard

(49:01):
me yesterday. Go and we're not give them away today.
I don't know when we'll be doing it. And however,
I think the lovely thing to do would be to
give them to the first respond It's just a small
gift to let them know that we, even though we
don't know them, we see what they did Sunday, which
was just in the news there perhaps who played that
clip and the guy talked about the extraordinary acts of

(49:23):
bravery encourage that the flyow and that's there every single day,
all right, but Sunday that's I can't even imagine what
it's like to actually have seen that and trying to
help people who were there. And so I think it'd
be a lovely thing for us. Maybe we could even
speak to them and do it tomorrow's show. But to
give them these Christmas hams. Rosie's on the line because
I don't know how to do that. I need information. Rosie.

(49:46):
Welcome to the show. Thank you for calling him.

Speaker 13 (49:48):
Oh, good morning. How are you.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
I'm good, Rosie, and I'm you having a good morning
so far. Now, Rosie, can you help me get in
touch with the first responders?

Speaker 13 (49:57):
Okay, So mom lives in KMC and straight across the
road is a differends the daughter. Recent they joined the
ambulance and hers was the third to a ride at
the scene.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (50:14):
And then her ambulance was one of the ones that
took the police officers to the hospital that was injured
and didn't get home till two in the morning when
her shift should have finished at six thirty on Sundays,
I didn't until two in the morning.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I know.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
I heard all these stories. And obviously when we talk
about first responders as the police as well as the
ambos as well, and there were stories of the police
having to drive the ambulances because the ambos were needed
to do triage all over the place.

Speaker 13 (50:45):
Because one, yeah, one couldn't help the person that was
in the back in the enbulance.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Yeah what next then? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, all right, well listen, Rosie, thank you very much
for your help, and so do you know how we
could get them a gift?

Speaker 13 (51:06):
I can send Aliyah a text message?

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Is it all right?

Speaker 2 (51:10):
A five pass.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Ano? The fact that producers are doing nothing and not
to actually help this. I'm relying on you, Rosie sending
a text me directly question. Normally these other people chuck
your sisters. Feel free to get the phones out onto something.
But Rosie, thank you.

Speaker 7 (51:28):
You know there's a.

Speaker 13 (51:28):
Policy that you can't just hand over anybody's phone number.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Two.

Speaker 13 (51:33):
I understand. I call the radio session all the time,
but I just I can't hand over her number to you.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Last I want to do my second shows break up policy.
I am not a policy breaker, not this guy. More
on that policy upholder.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
We'll out.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
We're getting deep into this now, all right, Rosie, thank
you very much. You call though, Okay, I have a
lovely Christmas to you.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
All right, let's get into today's time waste stuff. Everything
on the show right about this time, normally actually earlier.
We are really running late. But you can't rush rush
through an eyewitness account about a guy who's seen the
panther exactly. Then we can be late, but you cannot
rush through those Eyewinness stories like that. All right, So

(52:25):
today's time waster. We're asking you to merge a band
and a movie. So you mix a band in a movie.
That's today's one. The prize is for the best ones
we get today, and then you text it into us.
Rio will mark them in five minutes time. The text
number you need for this show is four seven five three,
one oh four three. So asking to merge a band
and a movie like zz top Gun, very good, silver

(52:48):
plus Bob Marley and Me God, very very different kind
of movie.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Kill that dog.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Strokes on a plane.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Sounds wrong?

Speaker 1 (53:00):
The band, you're a band, the Strokes. They're on a plane.
A tory right now, Strokes on a plane? Okay, I'm
a policy upholder. His policies about that there are we
don't have a censor on this show, ac DC Ventura.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Now this one, I'm hoping.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
I'm hoping for a god. What about I've met an
interview with Elon john He's tougher than people think. That's right.
I call him Elton john Wick.

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That's good, that's good, that's god, Mario, what have you got?

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Mix a band in a movie?

Speaker 2 (53:33):
How to lose a guy? Sebastian in ten days.

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Oh wow, I phoned, he's always around gold.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
A Shrika Khan. Oh, shuck a card, Chrika Khan. That's
gold as well, very good. And Horden, here's a Hoodoo Guru.

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what have you got? Then? Mix a band in a movie?
Text us yours O four seven five three one oh
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