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Today we unwrap the strange universe of Christmas movies, from the classics everyone loves to the truly unhinged festive favourites, and listeners jump in with big opinions, hot takes, and the “correct” way to eat a sweet potato.

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Speaker 1 (01:20):
Today. You hope you well here's today's show, Big Love,
Got Anything Good?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good morning, Pats, Good morning, Alex Morning, Good morning, Rio,
Good morning today. I was when I came into this
radio station and I went to make a cup of
tea and I walked past a meeting room and this
was different today. The meeting room had the lights on
like someone was about to have a meeting in And
you know, suddenly, sometimes in life, you can be going
along your day you see something it reminds you of

(01:56):
something awful that once happened. Oh yeah, radio is terrible
at firings one. I would say probably the most brutal
industry in the world. This time of year particularly bad
as well. It's called the killing time. And I remember
once my boss was in the radio station when we
were getting ready for the show, which has unheard of.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's like half five, and I said, what are you
in for? He goes, oh, I'm here.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
To let Robin go. I went, he's on air right now.
He finishes at six. You're not firing him in a minute,
are you. Yeah, I've asked him just to when during
the outbreak is pop down. So he's on air Now
the meeting were where this happened is next to where
me and the team were prepping that day show. So
we're having our pre show meeting. Robin comes in looking

(02:41):
a bit confused. We're not like, hey, we don't know
any everything. We pretend to come with the meeting. We're
all like, what's happening right now? A man is fired
five feet then told he's done his last show.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right, and then told to go and just finish up
on air?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Can you.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And just throw a head to the breakfast shows come
at six?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And I'm excited. You're about that. The worst thing I've
ever seen this poor guy, Robin, the worst thing. And
then we had to solve Then we had to console
this guy, and then we had to go listen the
show's starting now.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
We then start the show. We can't see unfil really
strange start to the show.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh that's a weird energy. This's the guy Robin fired
by six a m. Who gets fired overnight?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's too early to be firing someone.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
What are the standard hours?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I think daylight. Yes, he can't do it under the
cloak of d I always think.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
About Paul Robin. By the way, Robin's had a great
life since that, No, he has. He now deals with
big movie directors. He's of his own company. He makes
movie promo reels. The adverts you see, most of them
are done by his company. Right, we never worked another
day in radio. He said, it's the best thing that
ever happens. So you never know sometimes the life, what's

(04:03):
around the corner. But anyway, when I saw that meeting
with a light on, I went, it's the boss here.
Don't go into the furs. They ain't getting hold of
me that way. I'm going to run to go and
make my cup of tea. You've got to catch me
first of all.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
So the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, I just presume that Patsy and the Porsche was
like a weekend loan normally she's obviously not giving it
back because coming into work today the station car park,
she was back where we drift yo yo, just doing
donuts at the front of the radio station, you know,

(04:41):
just whales. Bernie Green racing in a Porsche McCann. If
anyone can, pats can in the McCann. So are you
just keeping it?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I got this thinging like someone's ringing the patch every day?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Hello? Can you go back to us beak about returning
our car was a rental delete deletes.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I've decided to keep it. It's going back home on Friday.
So join its.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
First electric car. It is actually should like to drive
an electure car.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
How do you find it fantastic?

Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's it's so nice not to have the hassle of
calling into the petrol station monkey.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
And the money.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and the charge in your hands mankey that versus
save the planet.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm sorry, children, but.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
You know when you go the petrol bowser and you
just even though you wash your hands and you don't
know who's had it before.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
You are the people it would been my guest. Petrol smell Hello, right,
it's never really got that.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, No, I know there's a smell and you can
never wash it off your hands.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Behind a fire truck yesterday filling up it took so long.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I guess truck, I mean got the wrong one.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I thought that big ass one is going to take
up like five fays.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
That was the only one that was on my side,
Like I was like, come on, you know it's it
is a beautiful car.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's going to be awfully hard to go back to
just you know, the normal family suv.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
After you've had a little taste.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Where are you charging it? How are you getting on
with that bit?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, there are certain so it's brilliant actually, so if
you go into the nav system on on the MACA,
it will show you where.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
All right, John Lupicard, you start a bridge, go into
the nav system.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
But it's great to learn something new as well. Like
it is. It is different, but it is. It is
the way of the future. It is very good.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I'm very really really enjoying it, and I would like
to when I do eventually upgrade maybe.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
So it's just now, sorry, this break has just turned
into you basically begging.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
As they give it to you. Well, you know a story.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
I do have a story because I thought, I thought
I have to tell you.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
What you need to do is check in that nav
system and go find the story here, because we're in
a culder sat right now, and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
This is a dad I'm doing. It started to break
down the way.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
You were coming up to the giveaway side charge here
I go later own, I was rudely awoken overnight.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Back to the break.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
We've gone out of neutral into drive and I was
really awakened by the alarm of the Porsche last night
at about eleven thirty, and I'd be asleep, maybe through
trying to get it, break into my house, give it.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Back, Alan the manager a web Porsche.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Is there a Porsche?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I like?

Speaker 4 (07:50):
And it was so loud, So the back of our
wall actually kind of backs onto our garage, so it
was like right there in my ear it's going off.
It was so loud, and I've sprung up in bed.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Those teenagers they can't go and take to just take
into the streets.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I thought, oh my god, someone's going to take the car.
How am I going to explain this that you know
we've been broken into?

Speaker 5 (08:11):
But it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
It was Chris had gone in. He hadn't come to
bedget but he'd gone in looking for his sunglasses. He'd
left them on the car from the weekend and he thought,
I need them for work tomorrow. I think they're in
Patrina's car. So the window was down. It's in a
locked up garage, I might say, But the window was
down and he's put his arm in to get them
on the dashboard and the alarm's gone off. I thought,

(08:35):
oh my god, someone's trying to take the car.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
But no, I'll tell you what. There's an alarm going off.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Might be one of the what stinkiest breaks of the year.
I always always wonder when you're in it.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Like, okay, just so we know we've hit a rock bottom.
This is it?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
No? Yes, The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, let's play Lost in Translation, the foreign title
movie game. When big movies to translate into local languages
all over the world, sometimes the meaning of the original
title gets lost in translation. We turn it into a game.
Last week, Insomnia of Love was the Spanish version of
sleeplessen Coreer Alex Big Rock fallsome space and everybody panics,

(09:20):
the Italian version of a Yes, right, we reready with
some brand new ones. Yes, some of these.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Are Christmas ones.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh yes, Santa gets this one, definitely is. Santa gets
stuck in a chimney and the kids are terrified.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh that's the Tim Allen movie.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Holer express.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
No, no, what was the Tim Allen movie?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Santa Claus?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yes, simply Santa. There you go. What about this one?
This is the Spanish version of a big movie. Annoying
Green Monster takes city hostage. Grinch, Yeah the Grinch.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, I would have thought that annoying green. There's going
to be a close number two. Come on the Hulk. No, no, no, not,
it's not sh.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Shrek.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
He does take the city.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Technically, they're right.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
The Spanish are ons or something.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Elf.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
This is a really tough one, guys, is it Elf?

Speaker 7 (10:19):
I can't believe Alex didn't get Will Ferrell's finess work.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Elf with a serious sugar problem. It's a Spanish version
of Elf. He does have a serious sugar problem. Do
you have that breakfast this morning?

Speaker 1 (10:34):
All the major food? Boots, Candy and Kenny k James.
That's right, yeah, yeah. A woman can't decide which guy
she loves or this could be any movie. Well notas Boots,
that's true. Or John Wick what's not private?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Ryan Love?

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Actually is it?

Speaker 1 (10:57):
No? No, but noo guess no Bridge Drenes Diary. No,
oh goodness, twenty seven dresses.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
Oh for Christmas movie?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Christmas movie. I've never seen that movie. It's great.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah yeah, well it's like good good but you know
the strange world of giant bugs and tiny humans.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Honey, I shrunk the kids?

Speaker 6 (11:21):
No a bugs life, No, but closer Jane's and the
Giant Peach.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, the clue again.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's in the title The Strange World with Giant bugs
and tiny humans Spider Man. Yeah, and finally no, the
Christmas one guys, the family who cannot.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Decorate, Oh, Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
No. This is the quiz setter Tina's favorite Christmas movie
and usually somehow weed in her love for this movie
into the show. This week, word Tina, I do know
that it's.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
From figuring it out, but from spaying too much non stop.
It is Christmas with the Cranks.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
What is the team's favorite Christmas movie? I would say Elf.
Elf is a great just giving our family, we watch
it every Christmas. On Christmas Eve, it's like officially Christmas
is here. When we all sit down and it's like
karaoke really because we all know every single line in it.
But there's something we've watched that movie so many times.

(12:39):
Always of that to me, you can track. As I'm
watching the movie with the girls, I'm also watching.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Them as well.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
I remember when you are half the size and now
we're still watching the same movie. As your kids start
to grow up, and especially once they become teenagers, everything
just accelerates. It's like you're becoming a parent. Your life
goes on double time, and so suddenly they're nineteen and
twenty one, but they're back next year on the couch
and you're watching Elf again. And actually it's kind of

(13:06):
like it's that's what Christmas is about that you all
come back together, don't you at Christmas time? You know,
no matter what age and stage of your life, right,
and Elf has been this constant.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's constant for us. So I yet that's that's the
best one for me. What's yours?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Rio?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
The Family Stone is the perfect.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Smart kish manipulates rubbish that's got a serious sugar problem.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, no, we just got.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Early into extreme opinions. Perfect movie, killer cartla, great cast,
great cast, some.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Of that Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, it's like a traveling Wheelberys. It doesn't up to
a great sun.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's actually like this.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
You couldn't possibly have any edit notes for that movie.
Every single second.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
But are you running now the debate club?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
You could ed who has edit notes?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Edit note for Christmas with the crank?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Excuse me, mister Spielberg.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I've got some edit notes about Jaws.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's a bit the first quarter is a bit sluggish.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's a beautiful story about a family patriarch, and I think, yeah,
it's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
The end, oh my.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Godness is great because it's ended smart man.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And the husband is portrayed such a narrow way as well.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a dullarg Why did gay people hate husbands? Gay
people have two husbands?

Speaker 1 (14:43):
We love your pro husband. What's what's your favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Definitely National Lampoons and that's Christmas Night for us, and
it kind of is representative of the day of excess
and you know, just silliness by the end of Christmas,
Christmas Night when you know the kids have got up
at four or five am for presents and it's just
that is always our tradition is to sit down and
watch that to leftovers for dinner. I just think it's hilarious.

(15:11):
And I know you've seen it a million times and
laughed at it a million times, but it's always funny
every time.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's just, yeah, Christmas Eve is the highlight of Christmas
for me. Yeah, that's what I'm happiest the whole year
is Christmas Eve because you know it's coming. Yeah, as
we mean a kid, do you remember that you're almost
sick with excitement. He just couldn't believe everything went so
suddenly so slowly, didn't it.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yes, you're trying to work out what the time was.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
You couldn't sleep very well, and then you My mum
and dad would say to me, listen if you're not
properly asleep.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Santa doesn't leave any presents.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, which it just developed so much sleep anxiety.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's my Melotoninx bike. He's not going to give me
the b Rex bike. Alex. That's your favorite Christmas Moore.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Mine is the same one as Pats Christmas Vacation Clark
Great Chevy Chase.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
It's some of his finest works. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
I love the scene where he's trying to get the
Christmas tree. He's trying to get it on the car
into the front yard, and that scene when the neighbors
rock up and they say where are you gonna put
a tree?

Speaker 8 (16:11):
That big Clark, and he goes, why don't you bend
it over? And I'll show you.

Speaker 9 (16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
Then he says, you got a lot of nerve talking
to me like.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
Like that like that, and his wife's standing there with
him and he goes, I wasn't talking to you so
it's just it's there's those lines throughout the film that
I just know every single one of them verbatim, and
I just sit there and watch it with the family
and we laugh every single time.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, there's something.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
What we're talking about movies that are Christmas movies that
are reassuringly predictable. You're never going to watch a brand
new movie on Christmas Eve. Yes, you don't want surprises.
That's under the tree. You want something that's beautifully familiar,
don't you, trusty friend, Yes, that's what it is. That's
what it is, all right, and let us know what
do you think is You'll go to what is your
favorite Christmas movie? Text me o four seven five three

(16:58):
one oh four three. I'll account for those family stone ones.
They won't be coming.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
The Christian o'connal show podcast.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's your favorite Christmas movie? Christian? I one Hoder Express.
That's from Lisa. Morning, Lisa, and have a great Christmas
you and your family. Catherine, Hello, Christian. My favorite Christmas movie?
Oh wow, what a classic this is in black and white.
It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart. That is a
brilliant movie. A lot of love for Postspret's two other
ones that I would say great Christmas movies as well.

(17:29):
Any movie that's got Eddie Murphy and Dan Acroyd has
to be great. Which is Trading Places. It's such a
great story as well on the learning in it all
as well, and very very funny for the festive cheer
as well. Trading Places is great and classic eighties one Gremlins.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
That's a great.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
One, really really good one. All right, it's time now
for barry Clause.

Speaker 10 (17:53):
Fair reclauses come in a test. Fair reclauses come.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
In a test making a list of its truckers with
gifts like washers and dries and.

Speaker 10 (18:04):
A bloody beef fridge. Fair re clauses come in stopping
at the pub all the Crown Barry Course is coming.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
To ten.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Happy Ian SMUs big prizes for the ten last shows
of the year thanks to ian S and higher upgrade
your kitchen, bathroom and laundry before the festive season. Another
big prize. Now, let's go live to the North Pole
and barry Clause.

Speaker 12 (18:34):
Christian Happy Ianisthmas.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
May I'm here with Pats and Allen, the whole jeens
here hey, and you obviously get Patsy an early Christmas
present with the Porsche.

Speaker 12 (18:47):
Oh yeah, thanks, Yes, you're welcome. Patsy betrayed it very well.
You've only got it for three more days, so Barry's
gonna leave that one back please.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, we'll see about that now, Barry, what is today's
star prize?

Speaker 12 (19:01):
Today's star prize is the amazing high at ten kilogram
white front load washing machine valued at one thousand.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wow. We okay, now we've got a brand new Fiendish quiz.

Speaker 12 (19:14):
Yes, yes, now this is Listen closely would be my
advice because this isn't the most straightforward game that we've
ever done on the show.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Here, So basically, three wrongs make it all right.

Speaker 12 (19:29):
Three wrong, make it all right. So I will give
the listener three five questions. Sorry three Ready.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
The wheels have come off. This hour has sucked.

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Genuinely nervous, I am.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
And it's my fault. Why did I come up with
this game? It's too confusing? Basically real go again? We can,
we can, we can get through this. Sorry not Rio?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
What would I say?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Rio? Alan, Peter, Paul Donna Spitzon, Barry Christian It's.

Speaker 12 (20:06):
Barry, Bob.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
We've got a big prize.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Three wrongs?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Make it all right?

Speaker 10 (20:12):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (20:12):
So what will happen? Christian? I will give five statements.
Three of those will be wrong. If you can get
those right. If you can pick which of other three
wrong statements out of the five, then you win the
washing machine.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's a lot of effort to give away a washing machine.

Speaker 12 (20:34):
We should have just done something much easy.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, you know, lucky line nine.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
That's work for radio for years.

Speaker 12 (20:41):
Don't pick for it ain't broken?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
All right, let's play the song You're.

Speaker 13 (20:46):
Right when you're wrong, when you're right? Did you get
all three old hands? We're going to get through this together?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Is a no?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Is a yes?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Pet?

Speaker 14 (20:57):
If you don't know, they just have a guess?

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Do we all understand?

Speaker 10 (21:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't think we came up with us we going on.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
We had a meeting yesterday where I confused the entire
team for at least forty four minutes.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
When I left.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
As I left, I was like, did they get it
all that?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I just want the meeting to be over and to
not hear any more about my three wrongs?

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Make it all right?

Speaker 2 (21:26):
All right, let's do a demo round see if this
does make sense Barry, why don't you play a demo
round with Patsy?

Speaker 12 (21:31):
Now, okay, Patsy, let's go birth Slatement. New York is
the capital of the United States of America. M you
say that's wrong? You say is that right or wrong?

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's wrong?

Speaker 10 (21:51):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (21:52):
Every good?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
WHOA Three wrongs?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Make it all right?

Speaker 12 (21:59):
Statement number two. The Australian flag has eight stars on it.
Right or wrong?

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Wrong makes it right? You are a winner, easy peasy,
you win a News at seven? All right? Calling now
to play? Call it please? Is anyone going to call
in to play this confusing game? Calling down to play?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
You'll go down in radio history because I promise you this,
We're never going to do this game every game. It's
a one, very very limited edition game. Three wrongs make
all right? Barry, You stay there listen. Is calling now
to win thirteen fifty five twenty two?

Speaker 13 (22:40):
Because you're right when you're going nowt wrong when you're right.

Speaker 12 (22:44):
If you get all three.

Speaker 14 (22:46):
It's a washing merchie A yes is and no no
is a yes petty. If you don't know, they just
have a guess.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Get all three, it's a washing machine.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Last three shows of the year, and if you just
heard the last hour, you're probably going Thank the stars.
We wrap it up now, Christian at seven, finish up. Now,
that's why the lights were on that meeting room. I
should have seen this coming. If you got young kids
and you won a great recommendation for Christmas movie this year,

(23:23):
Arthur Christmas brilliant, brilliant, really really very very funny. Tons
of heart as well. Cannot recommend that now. My girls
have loved that so much over the years. Okay, already,
the shark is in the water, Barry Clause just just
messages me saying, how about what do you do you think?
Instead of five truffle Stamus, we just crunch it down

(23:44):
to three.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Great call, Barry. Already the vote of no confidences coming
from the North Pole.

Speaker 13 (23:49):
You're right, when you're out, when you're right?

Speaker 15 (23:53):
Did you get here?

Speaker 14 (23:55):
The watching musci A yes is and no no is
A yes pett If you don't know, they just have
a guess, all right, draw or.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
False statements Coretti identified and you win the big Star prize.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's as simple as that, isn't it, Barry, Cause.

Speaker 12 (24:14):
It's so easy, Christian, and it makes so much sense.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
It really does.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Guys, all right playing today?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Is dad? Ben?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Good morning, Ben, good morning?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
How are you going? I'm good Ben? So four kids?
I've got four kids?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yes, see you really need you really need this prize.

Speaker 16 (24:32):
Oh look, we've had our washing machine pushing on ten
years now. It's a little seven kilo one and it
just doesn't keep up with the washing.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Four kids.

Speaker 16 (24:42):
We're constantly having to send washing home with mum and
get her to help me out, which which isn't so
bad because usually it comes back all nice and folding.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah it's folded, yes, perfectly. And how old are you kids? Ben?

Speaker 16 (24:55):
The youngest is about to turn three on Monday, and
the oldest turns twelve on the twenty seventh of December.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
That is a busy family.

Speaker 16 (25:04):
Oh look three if there's another birthday in December to
actually my birthday and the second oldest is in December
as well, so we really didn't plan December too while
look in our family.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, let's try and win you this, okay, So Ben,
you get how this works. You're just gonna work out
the true and false ones, get the false ones and
you win.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Ben.

Speaker 16 (25:22):
It seems pretty straightforward. But let's let's go easy on me, all.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right, will we'll get you through this.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (25:27):
All right, Barry you ready there in the North Pole.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Ben?

Speaker 12 (25:30):
You ready?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
And also made me Barry, could you send Ben some contraception.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
As well this Christmas?

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I've got plenty snip as well.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
You're in the wreck, all right, Barry, Off you go.
You're wrong when you're right, you get it?

Speaker 12 (25:47):
Oh yeah, Question number one, the electric washing machine was
invented in Australia.

Speaker 16 (25:57):
Oh boy, I'm gonna I'm gonna say that that sounds.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
False.

Speaker 10 (26:05):
Correct it is right?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yes, wow, you're right when you're wrong. You're wrong when
you're right.

Speaker 12 (26:13):
And the real tricky one for you, Ben to penguins
live at the North Pole?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Of course they don't.

Speaker 14 (26:23):
It's correct.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Two of three, ain't man? It's right.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
You are a winner.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Radio is the loser. But what Ben is the winner?
Father of four? Finally, finally, well done, Dad, Ben, well played. Okay,
you are today's winner. I hope you and your family
have a great Christmas.

Speaker 16 (26:45):
Ben, Thank you so much. No, that's amazing, thank you.
That's a good Christmas present. Put under the tree.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Awesome, Ben, have a lovely day as well, Barry. Are
we ever going to play this game again?

Speaker 12 (26:57):
Wouldn't the body thought so bad?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right? Then, why don't we, for one last time
sing this song right.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
When you're wrong? You're wrong, when you're.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Was good bye? Just meet listeners, Where are you now?
Hands in here, we're waving goodbye to three rocks. Make
it shikes, you don't know they just have a guess. Okay,
here's the situation. There's awful on the West Gate, and
there's been awful on the last hour the show. It's
a chance for all of us to reboot control or delete,

(27:29):
shake it off, and come back fresh out of the
gates at seven with a.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Brand new hour. Let's forget what's just happened.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Christian thoughts and prayers to people on the road clearing
up the offul this morning.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You're right, what a start to day for some crew
doing that. It's a sunny, hot day. You got that
meaty Christmas tinsel all over the West Gate. Christian, My
mum accidentally drove through some offul once going past an
abattoir that'd been a leak, and the meat man had
to pay to clean the car.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
It smelt like someone had died.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Stuff gets stuck in those tires.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's fair and good thing that the west gates are
all quiet. This is a country lane, isn't it. It's
not like thousands thousands. It's going to impact so much?

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Is it inbound or outbound? So is the smell going
to be drifting into well.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Both people driving back and forwards over the west gate's
going to stink.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
It is the heat that happened to produce a Caitlin
and I in.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Fishguts and Kayler reade a letter to the council demanding
that they did they they did they.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Val at the car.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, they never did.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Obviously, Bloody Buggers new weekly feature, Bloody Buggers your shoes
with your local council. If we did that, it actually
would be huge. Hear it, though it's dull radio all right?
Tying for this week's extreme opinions just were all clear
because obviously we live in a time of extreme opinions

(29:03):
about politics, not about politics. We don't want your hot
take on this show about politics. Okay, I'm talking about
extreme opinions on things that don't really matter. All right,
So a couple from me, people who say I'm five
minutes away, No, you're not. You're still at home, Susan
picking out of jackets. No one, No one is just

(29:23):
five minutes away, are they? People say that all the time,
just five minutes away. Know they're at least caught of
an hour away.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Because if you are five minutes away, you just be
there trying to buy you actually at least ten minutes
yourself an extra five.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Another extreme opinion people that send just checking in emails.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
You're not checking in, you're checking up. Yeah, it's passive
aggressive behavior. Just following up on this one as per
my last email.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's just seeing if you had time to read them
below and the other one a Christmas extreme opinion. Elf
on the shelf?

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Oh, now, come on, no, you dare Shame.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
On you parents for giving your children trust issues.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
What happened to the magic of Christmas?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Why have an elf that spies on your kids? That's
the magic of Christmas in that it says, I don't
trust you.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
We love the elf in our house. Have you got
it in your house?

Speaker 8 (30:14):
Alex hasn't quite taken off.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, we didn't know we did.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Audrey loved it. She loved getting up in the morning
and seeing what Rosie was her ELF's.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Name, fictional thing spying on you.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Look, you know what goes so quickly?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
It's the magic of Christmas.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
You are such a grinch.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
This is no.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I think it's grinchy behavior to have an Elf on
the shelf.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Please, So if you don't.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Have this, you won't be good. But now we've got
this mandering thing Rosie who's watching every move.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Nothing creepy about that.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
She was great. She It was so much fun doing Rosie.
She was great.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
And what happened to Rosie work?

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Now she's at the North Pole Steel, No, she's gone.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Into and that's very grinchy, you find it.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
She trains all the other little young.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Elves, intergenerations of surveillance creeps, you know.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
I like they're keeping all that expertise at the North Pole,
the new generation of Elves.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Real. What's your extreme opinion?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
The encore at concerts is dead.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Yes, yes, it is so lame now because everyone knows
you're coming back on and so there's no there's no like.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Big so it's not a surprise anymore. No, you're waiting,
aren't you.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
They They don't said it very well.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Just come back on casually.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
And I know you're going to come back on.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
The lights have stayed off, and then they just come
onto this really awkward, like very underwhelming applause. We know
what you're going to do. Just stay on for the
extra five minutes. You've gone off to gone for a week.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Just stay on.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
You're right, the audience are actually just tired by then
you're more you're more mindful about So are they going
to do two or three songs? Because I was hoping
it was over now I just wanted the parking.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
I want to get out. I want to beat the traffice.
Oh god, how long is.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
The Tell me exactly how long the concert is? To
me when it starts, tell me when it ends, and
don't bother with the and you.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Want to know listen.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
If it's that good, what you're going to do, do
it earlier on the show, done in one chunky and
then we can all go that.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
You must be tired band as well.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yes, you want to get off, don't come on, come off,
come on, come off, let's go.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
You've given us all the best songs. Yes, why do
you save something as an afterthough? Exactly? Thank you when
you're most tired.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
Like even set lists?

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Now, who hasn't googled a set list, and it's almost
like you spoiling part of this surprise to yourself.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I agree, Yeah, I want to.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I want to hear some surprises that they've got something
different for tonight.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
You know, you're driving there on the way you think, oh,
I wonder if they're going to play that song or
what are they going to leave out?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
But yeah, I kind of feel. And then the whole
currency is do you know what time they're on stage?
Is the only thing we talked about, and what time
are they on stage?

Speaker 6 (33:03):
I called rod Laver Arena once because I tell them
was on a school night. I was like, you tell
me what time trying to get is exactly coming on?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Is it eight forty five or is it eight forty five?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
For nine sat the man down the dog park said
it was nine, but you're saying it's eight forty five.
We've become an whole generation anxious to people to minding,
to know.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I feel so sophy now for support acts.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yes, loving, that's no one there other than the clowns
who didn't have quite what time it is the main
act on? All right? What is your extreme opinion you
Contextionals seventy five three one oh four three.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
What's the deal with awful on the West Skate? It
seems to happen a lot.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yes, actually you're right, I.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Just googled it West Skate awful new support last month
has happened? And then a classic one. Loads of articles
about twenty seventeen March. Anyone remember twenty seventeen March.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
A really bad one.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm reading the newspaper headline here he uses the phrase
bedlam headline bedlam on the West Gate. There's bedlam on
the West Gate Freeway tonight after a truck carrying off
all spilt its load onto all the inbound lanes above
above King's Way.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Why are we not securing our How's it getting out
of the trucks?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
I want to know, appeal Piley. Into the trucks, where's
it going to and from? Why can't they shove it
in planes? But then I'm worried it might be dropped
from the planes.

Speaker 8 (34:33):
On raining kidneys.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
It's raining kidneys.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
At least need to put like a tarp over the
top of it, because I think it rides.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
In open top slurry.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah, I don't think they put a tarp.

Speaker 5 (34:48):
Over it enough.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm happy to
take calls on it today. I want to get a
lot of why is this happening so much? Why is
it always on the West skates? You know, split it around,
chuck a little bit on the Princess and the Hume.

Speaker 10 (35:04):
You know?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Why is it always the West Skate? Is there some
sort of Ambatoi processing place the other side? Has it
being taken into Melbourne or from Melbourne?

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Interesting? Or they need like a big clean rap?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (35:19):
And why is it nothing good? Why can't it ever
be like marshmallows on the West.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Rose manchego cheeks quince jelly. Because this happens frequently, you
can't be surprised them more. There's yet again more off
the scale. Have a giant bucket of sand above the
West Gate that can speed.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
The vomit bucket. Go get the sound buckets.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Thomas Harris is just junding again under Christian extreme opinion.
I hated the film Titanic and the musical Phantom of
the Operation.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
That's not crazy opinion. Titanic is a classic.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
It's a beautiful story as well, so well done, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
I never seen it what. I never forgot about it.
I never really got to it. It's beautiful, actually amazing.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Oh it's so good, especially with at the end of
the movie as well with seeing them the survivors, and
oh it's a genius movie. It's brilliant, really really great.
Then Christian, what do you where do you stand on
sweet potato? I agree with you, Glenn. It's an abomination.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Potato cannot be improved it make it sweet?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
No, why do we need an orange flooro potato?

Speaker 1 (36:41):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
No, Glenn, I'm with you. Regular potato was already the
perfect food. Why try and fancy up with this orange
branded crap. If you want it sweet, eat it, desert,
strong words, strong woods. Listen, Glen Webber, I stand with you, GLENNO.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Potato. It was a naturally occurring thing. It's not like
someone with let's put sugar in for decades. No one
has really, no one.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
No, it's I would say it to the last what
fifteen twenty years? Sweet potato?

Speaker 10 (37:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I never saw it grown up. You know why, because
we're raised that's why. That's that's why we created sports
coming Home scurvyess well, a lot of the team being
sent home Christian reverse parking should be a jailable offense.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Oh well there's yeah, that's not me, by the way.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Is it really Marcus O'Malley made a Irish name.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Ali.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I don't mind your reverse parking, but you do need
to sort of nail it in two guys otherwise.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
It's time Christian socks and thongs.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's not right. Yes, I just presume your German. I've
been to Jermy three times. They love that. Look.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
I don't know why. Very smart people.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
You know, semi sophisticated cars as I don't get.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
They really love that sock and thong.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Look right, Okay, it's not the sexiest nurse someone.

Speaker 8 (38:12):
Between the big time.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's uncomfortable. Pushes the sock. Yes, that's happening to that
webbing there. It's uncomfortable. All right, No, we're talk about
sweet potato. It's foul agreed nuisancepont coming up next. And
don't forget it's Allan. His name is Alan. You keep
calling him Alex of the last color months. He's put
up with enough now or Andy? Just say Andy's here,
anyho know?

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Christian O'Connell show on podcast.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Last three shows of the year, Christian before you sign
off for this year. Please put me on my madness.
There's a sound bite played on your show. It's better
than nothing? Right? Who says that? What's it from? I've
been googling this. Please help me, Mark, I'll find out
from the audio wizards and I'll let you know. Christian
extreme opinion tomato sauce. This is the kind of extreme

(38:59):
opinion we're talking about. Hot takes tomato sauce. Whether it
goes in the fridge or pantry. Now Luke here is
saying it should be putting the pantry, not the fridge.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I agree, there's nothing perishable.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Oh no, we put ours in the your fridge.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, fridge too, Yeah, fridge, Yeah, mayonnaise one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I've got to go.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Once you open that radioactive mustard, it lives on it
when it's not been opened, it's right on the shelf. Yes,
in a moment it gets open and it gets somehow
it comes activated. Yes, unstable elements need to be contained
in the fridge. Cool fridge environment. Christian Mike stream opinion.
Red ruster is the superior in takeaway. I'm coming round.

(39:41):
I've never had red rooster from my life, but now
we've moved it's the nearest kind of drive through, and
so I've been there every day for the last three days.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hot Honey Chicken.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
That's too much read. I'm in buying it for the trades. Yeah,
we look after our trades, and so this hot honey chicken. Guys,
get on it, right, Okay, it is so good.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Once you have it, you keep going back three days.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
I've got a problem, guysdge interventionally.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Just give me a couple more days. I'll get my
act cleaned up.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
All right.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
So there's awful on the West Gate.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, that's the world you're waking up to you right now, kids,
Awful on the West Gate. There was awful on the
West Gate last month. But I googled this a really
big story in March twenty seventeen. I went on to Google,
and there's acres and acres of coverage about what happened
in March twenty seventeen. Yet again, a really big one.
The headline I saw was bedlam. Bedlom is a strong word.

(40:40):
Journalists only use it when appropriate. I'm the worst kind
of bedlam. Awful bedroom.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Say that. I'll say this great name for a heavy
metal band. Awful bedroom.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, yes, Now, Tash is on the line. Tash, you
heard us talking about the twenty seventeen the March twenty
seventeen bedlam with awful. You have a connection to that
moment in history.

Speaker 17 (41:04):
I certainly do. Good morning everyone, Morning Tash. It was
actually my husband driving the awful truck.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Wow, this is huge breaking news. Yes, we're going back
to March twenty seventeen. So what happened, Well.

Speaker 17 (41:26):
From what I understand, a car pulled in front of
the fully loaded truck on the freeway and didn't give
any room between the car and truck and broke really quickly.
It was awful. Yes, he had to break, like stand
on the brakes to break and it just went over

(41:46):
the roof, over the side.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
That's what you get for cutting him off.

Speaker 17 (41:54):
Actually drove away, so I don't think anything happened. Yeah,
he just got out of there.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
So yeah, amazing to talk to someone who's been through history.

Speaker 17 (42:05):
Yeah, yes, yeah, great history here.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
And how is your husband now? I like the way
he went from what I understand where he just doesn't
like to go there. Don't ask Malcolm about March twenty seventeen.
Just come to a place of peace about it.

Speaker 17 (42:22):
Is in that industry anymore. The awful days are behind him, Yes, thankfully.
I mean someone's got to do it.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Until that day where you slam those brakes off and
it was coming over the front of the cab.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
How do they clean it all up?

Speaker 6 (42:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (42:40):
You know, yes, I think they had to get like
the like it had to be hosed and because it's
like raw materials.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
So I have to be Yeah, a big old hose,
isn't it.

Speaker 17 (42:59):
He was looking at the road at one point and
there was like a hoof just sitting.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
No. Wow, Wow, this call needs to be taken.

Speaker 17 (43:12):
I'm sorry everyone that's having breakfast right.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Sorry, not sorry.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
History doesn't apologize, you know. Wow, And that's the moment
you question all your life choices. Yes, that suddenly put
you on the west gate looking at want.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
To go there.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Thank you so much again, this cool a memorable call
before the end of the year for us. Have a
lovely Christmas send up as to your husband as well.

Speaker 17 (43:44):
You two guys, Thank you so much. Love listening to you.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Thanks guys, pleasure Christian O'Connell show on podcast.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
When the team just crept in here and when in
the zone you can't creep up, I mean Tina, did
you see it come in? She's very snee silent. She
moves on wheels. Producer Tina. She glides in like her tesla.
You need to make an audible noise now when you move, Lordy,

(44:15):
that's producing ninja something. She was there and I say,
you came to the skies above, repel them down. Listen.
We're all in the higher off, all off and everywhere
right now.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Could be easily on the show. We've been talking.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
We've been on a phone in what came off the
back of a truck and we have this story.

Speaker 11 (44:34):
We're on the way to the burial and in the
process one of the funeral cars looked inside running on
the Fume Highway, ended up cleaning up a truck which
was carrying kebbab meat. All the kebbab meat went all
over the road. I was trying to get thrown into
the people with back of cars. So as they said, oh,

(44:54):
this is an opportunity. We're going through people the boots,
open your boot, Oh you've got cobbed meat.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Put it back on the other side. That is such
a great story. I totally forgot about that up.

Speaker 6 (45:08):
There, putting them back from people's boots into the truck
and then selling it.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
What scenes because so many years ago has worked out
at Flemington and a truck hit one of the many
low bridges in the area, the Cargo area.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
The truck was ripped open, spilling its contents onto the road.
The truck was carrying.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Chocolate bush people were putting them inside their clothes and jumpers.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Wow, Sammy, that's great.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Every Wednesday on this show from eight it's.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
All about what are the odds? This is going to
be the last what are the Odds of the year
when we return in January. The great thing about the
show going national from January and all the cities of
Australia live is that we're going to get more stories.
And so we love this feature dearly because from call
to calls, story to story, we've had some genuinely incredible stories.

(46:06):
We've also recently, if I'm being honest, had a few stinkers,
and I don't blame anyone, but I do. I'm pointing
right now at the Chuckle sisters to busy creeping up
on legendary presenters and scaring them. A great callers today,
a grade. I'm talking to you directly now, Chuckle Sisters.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
A game we try every single.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Time they're they're doing the old women do with a
looking believe do you believe?

Speaker 1 (46:33):
The cheek on the palm? Chuckle sisters, chuck or less
better callers.

Speaker 17 (46:41):
Joy brings great stories.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
So chuckling is always top of mine.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Second to that is always great calls.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
And I could actually attention to detail to be top
of mine. Then chuckling as a number two? Can we
green that for twenty six? Still be chuckling. But also
thats why, you know, because it's like it's a high
performance job this. You know, if we're operating together, then
we are in a team situation. Everything's changing. You can't
be chuckling sometimes when you're opening up a patient.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
I don't want a giggly surgeon. I don't want a
giggly surgeon.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Again, Hey, listen, doctor, it's great to have a laugh,
but just when you're doing a half surgery, just you know,
chuckle sisters, Well, how many great calls you're gonna put
through in the next half an hour?

Speaker 17 (47:20):
We're gonna put us three.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
You couldn't even lie to me, o.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Wow, Hey listeners, stay tuned, you might hear three decent
stories to you the next thirteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
What's in beteen awful?

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Radio? Offul?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
All right, then let's play the thing you.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 16 (47:46):
One of the yards.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
You gotta be justshing me.

Speaker 10 (47:52):
Like, were you a Cheryl who married a hun?

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Who worked with the cheryl who married a hun? As?
What are the odds your stories?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Dare we dream of three great ones? Next thirty weeks
of radio? Dare we I dare your stories? What are
the odds? We actually get three detail ones?

Speaker 1 (48:18):
And the promise over to live.

Speaker 6 (48:19):
That's the mono of the Show's the number of.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
The odd stories or coincidence and chance thirteen fifty five
twenty two when it goes well, walk in the.

Speaker 18 (48:31):
Other street and I need to see a GP. As
I walked up to the desk the reception, I said
to me, so, what's your name? And behind me on
the TV you could hear Hi, I'm Antona. I'm a
primary school teacher. The Chase episode that I was on
was playing right there and then as she answered the question.

Speaker 19 (48:47):
I was fishing with my dad and lost a lure.
Later that day we dropped off all the fish we'd
caught to an old Greek friend of his that wanted it.
He picked up the tab a couple days later with
a lure in it. It was inside one of the fish,
so we had caught the same fish twice.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
What are the.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Teen fifty five twenty two?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Now? Last week you were part of the badness right now,
I was that chicken pie story.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
You were awful all over the West Gates.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It was chicken by sticking up Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
And we couldn't hose the showdown.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Redeem your Salvrio, Rio the Redeemer.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
All right, Christian and Australia. Last Thursday, I'm going to
the shops. I walk past a four territory with the
number plate four dot D E C. I even took
a photo of it. Sounds pretty ordinary. Think about what
the date of last Thursday was fourth of December and

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the number plate was four D E C four readym
that's great.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
He was genuinely like it was a court trial. You
were in the top.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Rio had had the photo and an a piece of
paper list and he was pointing, pointing at it, showing
it to me, Pats and AIX, like we were the jury.

Speaker 16 (50:16):
Trial.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Jim Brows has got a story for us Christian. After
hearing Rio's chicken pie storry last week, I thought i'd
let you know of my what are the odds of
the weekend.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I walked to into a Coles. Me and a complete.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Stranger both went to grab a kit kat at exactly
the same time. Christian, what are the odds? We could
have grabbed completely different products, but we both went kick kat.
It's huge already, We've landed the big one.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
I've done that with a chicken before, with a roast
chalk and you sort of look at each other like
it you know who's going to.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Drop down.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Shoots out? That's the okay corral Stranger, what are the odds?
Christian podcast listener from.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Canada, Oh wow?

Speaker 2 (51:14):
I decided to go back to some earlier episodes of
your podcast, so I randomly picked one from twenty twenty
two and continued from there. I've only just made it
to June twenty twenty five, but I have a what
are the odds?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
For you?

Speaker 2 (51:26):
While walking and listening to the randomly selected twenty twenty
two episode, I happened to read the word cafe at
the exact same moment the listeners of yours called in
and said cafe I read it. I heard it at
exactly the same time. If I'd picked any other episode,
this would not have happened. What are the cafe odds?

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (51:49):
I thought the kit kat one was huge? We've now
got two. The word cafe Canadian cafe moment, We're always
going to know it folklore? Which has heard? And what
about this one? Love Anna McDonald's drive Through? Yeah, that's
what I've got here, Christian. I listened to your show
through three B A in Balaram. Shout out to all

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of our ballot fans on three B A. It broadcasts
in the evening for an hour. Wow, they might actually
get the show down to a best of an hour.
I guess it's a few quite a few songs as well.
Sack on Stairway to drive. You'd easily fill that our out,
can't you? I have a fate? What are the odd story?
Twenty five years ago, I's manager at McDonald's in Sydney.
I was doing a perimeter check one night, walking up

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the drive through lane against the traffic when I saw
headlights coming. I moved over and a white van came
flying around the corner, going a little bit too quick.
It scared me. It could have hit me if I
hadn't moved. The driver apologized. We both nodded at each
other and carried on. About thirty minutes later, I'm outside
clean tables. I see the same van partner. The guy
gets out, walks over, apologizes again for NELI running me over,
hands me a teddy Bear with his business card. We

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message on and off for a few months, getting to
know each other, but I meet someone else.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
We stopped talking.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Nine months later, I'm running late for work at the
same McDonald's. I see the same guy. We laugh, but
I rush off because I'm late for my shift. At
the end of that shift, I get a text from
an unknown number. What's that fate or coincidence? Signed by him?
I deleted his number a couple of months ago. I asked,
why have you still got mine? His supply? Why would

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I throw away a beautiful flower?

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Oh? Fast forward, guys, twenty five years. We're married. Oh,
we have two girls.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Our first child is named after the teddy Bear. Oh question.
I never believed in fate before, but I do believe
in it now. I hope you love this story, Kate Treacky.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
We love that story.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
That's actually one of those one of my sweet ones
of the year. It's a really really nice story. Now,
all right, we're gonna go. We've got some callers. Ah chuckum,
sister's got the game face on, all right, I don't
you don't have a snap breakout there. Look pickny Marie,
good morning, Good.

Speaker 15 (53:59):
Morning, Hi gang. What are the odds? Last night I
was walking around town and I picked up a five
dollar note off the ground. I got home to tell
my husband that I found a five dollar note and
he goes, oh, you're kidding. He goes, My boss gave
me the corner of a five dollar note and said
if I find the rest of it, I can keep it.

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Then I showed him my five dollar note and it
had a corner out of it.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Wow, that's an incredible story.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Marine.

Speaker 15 (54:31):
Just last night, yes, last just walking around town and
there was a five dollar note just lying in the grass.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Wow. Marie, thank you very much the story, and you
have a lovely Christmas.

Speaker 15 (54:43):
Thank you you guys too.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Thanks one out of one and we got two more.
You heard the promises from the Chuckle Sisters. Three gate
corners will happen today, Georgia, that's me.

Speaker 9 (54:55):
How are you all right?

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Georgia? What are the arts?

Speaker 1 (54:58):
My friends?

Speaker 20 (54:58):
What are they?

Speaker 12 (54:59):
Arts?

Speaker 1 (54:59):
What are they?

Speaker 9 (55:00):
What are they? My partner Geordie used to set his
alarm for six o three am every morning. He's a
trading and it did avoids the the Jesus out of
me because I'm like six or six so fast. And
then I was pregnant with our first son, and I
went into labor on a Saturday night and his charm
of first is six o three am.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Love it.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
He knew, he knew, he just came at the right chance.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Head the little numbers.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Hey, Georgia, love that story. Have a lovely Christmas. Thanks
for sharing.

Speaker 9 (55:33):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Merry Christmas?

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Two out of two?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Chuckle sisters?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Yeah, have you got a third for us?

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Not just yet? Please?

Speaker 2 (55:46):
All right, we're going to do the ads when we
come back. Could we have that third? One? Thirteen, fifty five,
twenty two? Every what are the odds? We've heard from
so far? Has been a great one? Can we keep
this run going?

Speaker 3 (55:59):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Time waster in ten minutes time? Another chance to two
of you to win Christmass. That's right, mommy, did he
just say Christmas hams? You hurt me? Kiddies, the Hamman's here.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
In ten minutes you go to school.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Us grown ups are getting into some Christmas hams.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
All right for the last time this year? What are
the odds? Friends? Thirteen fifty five, twenty.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Two so far, two great calls, four killer stories on emails,
even those stats, What are the odds?

Speaker 1 (56:38):
It's the most consistence has been all year. Your chuckle
sisters are focused for once.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
This year as well. What are the odds? It's huge? Allison?

Speaker 15 (56:50):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I can hear those beautiful hazard lights you pulled over
somewhere radio safe, radio friendly? Thank you? All right, Alison,
we're looking forward to this. Then, what's your story for great?

Speaker 9 (57:03):
So, I work in a team of eleven and there's
only myself and one other female on the team. Name
is Alison Fiona and her name is Fiona Allison.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
I love it?

Speaker 1 (57:18):
What are the art.

Speaker 16 (57:22):
Year?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Right? As a buzzer beater?

Speaker 2 (57:30):
So you're Alison Fiona I am, and she's Fiona Allison.

Speaker 12 (57:34):
She is.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I love this what I do? It is hilarious. Next year,
can you both call it at the same time?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Yes? Great, please arrange that January nineteenth, first show of
the year. Let's start with a bang. Alison, Fiona, have
a great Christmas.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Thank you for calling.

Speaker 17 (57:51):
Thanks Christian, thank you.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
All right, three out of three we've got a fourth caller, Kate, Hello,
how are you.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
I'm really looking forward to hearing your story. The team
are very excited. Kate.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Off you go, mate.

Speaker 20 (58:05):
Okay, So I'll do my best to explain this. So
I'm adopteds When my mom and dad were waiting to
adopt me as a baby, mum worked at the ANZ
bank and she worked with a lady named Walder. Anyway,
mum and dad adopted me, and fast forward twenty years.
Mum's long lifelong friends with Walder and whatnot. So I

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tracked down my birth mum's family. Turns out that my
birth mum grew up in the same street where mum's
friend Walda lived. Walder knew my birth mum's family and
my birth mum, and she used to see my birth
mum walking past her house while she was pregnant with me,
having no idea that her friend from work was about

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to adopt that baby.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Oh my god, what a story.

Speaker 20 (58:54):
I know. I have actually told you a previously Christian
another story about tracking down my birth father on the
other side of the coin, and it turned out we
had done a gig together, both being new those twenty
years earlier, and had no idea who the other person.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Isn't that incredible the way it all works comes back.

Speaker 20 (59:13):
Yeah, and there's like so many stories to do with
my adoption where it's all is such a small world.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yes, amazing, good, how incredible? Kate?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, I love that this is the last story we're
going to get this year for one of the odds.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Just perfect.

Speaker 17 (59:27):
Yeah, cool, Thanks.

Speaker 20 (59:29):
For letting me tell it. It's a great story to tell.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
And as always, to everyone like Kate who calls and
trusts us with these really intimate stories sometimes, thank you
for trusting us and sharing it as well.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
Kate.

Speaker 20 (59:39):
Yeah, pleasure, Thanks for having me, and have a really
really great Christmas.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
We will thank you very much. And listen, chuckle sisters,
the pep.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Chot, the peptop, keep on chuckling.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Ignore my words, what do I know?

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Keep on chuckling, sisters, keep on chuckling. Well, I mean
I'm toasting them because they must basically do their job
and put through four good stories. But I'm going what
are the odds they can do this?

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
If only we can have a couple more half on
hours like that, say Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
we're gonna win Australia next year.

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mustard recipes. I'm all here for that, all right, Time
wasted Day. Then we're looking for make a movie, bigger,
bigger movies. It is Australian big thing day. No surprise,
this press release came from Pats genuinely.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Did actually thank you, Pats.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
New surveys are really the most popular big Things of
Australia were for twenty twenty five. Big Banana COFs Harbor
took out first one, followed by the big Pineapple Sunshine
Coast and then the big Marino New South Wales.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
That's culture all right, bigger movies.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
When does a small table become a bigger table? Love
me extender? Thank you? What's the what's the lovely tender?
Elvis Presley?

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Love me Extender?

Speaker 16 (01:02:05):
Up?

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And actually Elvis did open up?

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I get it now?

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A Phantom of the Opera's.

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Bigger, He's bigger, what's bigger than the Phantom? And Phantom
the ear? A Phantom of the Opera sing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
His trunk, Dude, where it's my caravan?

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Bigger, bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Caravan?

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Technically I'm right with this. Technically good love me sender?
All right, real, what have you got? Bigger movies?

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Whaley Wonka, chocolate tea Whale, No.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
No, can you judge me?

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
No, bronze Boeing, John Malkovich. Yeah, that's better, better, that's good.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
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I could have done a lot of goo of mammothon mine.

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And big Trouble at the Great Wall of China. Right, yeah,
technically you know where's my snowy river? Calvin?

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Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I thought those were the better ones. Now we're asking
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kids of Clamean Pit now they're grandkids, all right, real
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