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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're just about to open up the lines for this
week's three Topic Tuesday, where you have many ways to
share your stories on the show and you could be
winning one thousand dollars all all the week.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This morning on the show then or nine four one
four one four three.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Tell me in one story how strict your parents were
for me? Was?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was never.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Allowed to own a denim jacket until I was sixteen.
It was like they thought, if he gets one before that,
we're going to lose him to the denim gangs home
in the street looking for confused teenagers like our boy Christians.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And of course, well, you know, it kind of puts
you off it. Then you get sixteen and you feel like,
I want that denim jacket anymore. What was it for you? Jack?
In one story? How strict were your parents were?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
My mum was so strict about the M fifteen rating
on movies that I wasn't allowed to watch any ms
before the age of fifteen. I went to the city
one time as a fourteen year old with a bunch
of friends, new friends at high school and we bought
tickets to Romeo Must Dive.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh my god, I remember that movie.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And then I got cold feet. As we were going
into the cinema. I was like, my mum will not
like this, and I said I was watching it, and
I went home tickets already more feeling sick.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm not in them. I've got a cold. I can't
sit here enjoying Romeo Musky is that rapper in that?
To remember who was in that? Romeo Stye, I've still
never seen it, so I can't wow. Wow, all right,
linees open.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Then tell us in one story, just one story, how
strict were your parents? On nine four one four one
o four three? And then this is the news today, Paul.
Last night on stage on this big global tour that
she's on at the moment, Olivia Rodrigo fell through the stage.
Literally there was a manhole or trap door open for
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some reason. She fell through it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You can actually hear that thud. Poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
She is okay in my mind. You can't see, but
you can hear her. That's like you, No, she's on
the stage. Welcome to Melbourne. Wast be looking at all
this going. We need to check the stage of trap
doors and King Charles Sweep all stages Charlie Boy for
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Republican trap doors.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's why he's bringing his own blood.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He's ready for your Australia.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh my goodness. Sometimes it's just a hostage.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That is a protopotized her way out of that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That is very good. That is total positivity Tuesday. There.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The reason why we weren't while we're playing that out
and telling about that is the Willking fuel stories of
falling falling through ideally trap.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Doors, any holes, any holes, man holes? What do you
fall through?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Any holes? Nine for one four one oh four three.
Remember one thousand dollars is up for grabs for star
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we give it away straight away. Nine four one four
one o four three. All right, So the first two
tell us in one story how strict your parents were?
And then what are you falling through? Any holes? Ideally
a manhole, trapdoor, hatches.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Look, Christian Connall Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Christian O'Connell's show. I'm really looking forward to again your
stories about both of these. First one, tell me one
story how strict your parents were like this, Christian, my
dad was so strict that my friends.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Nicknamed him the warden. Warden's coming. Let's out.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I need to search as romantosis mattress right now nine
four four one oh four three. Tell us in one
story how struct your parents were? And this one after
Olivia Rodrigo was in Melbourne last night and fell through
a hole in the stage. She is okay, but she
did it fall through a hole in the stage, So
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we want to know what have you fallen through? Nine
four one four one oh four three? What holes have
you fallen through? Christian I had very strict Greek parents.
My mother refused to let me get a bicycle in
Brimary And High school. She told me they were way
too dangerous. I'd be killed by a car, so I
had to walk to a wrong school while Mace would
just ride home. One day, I borrowed a mates bike
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after school to see what I was missing. Within five minutes,
I was head to head with an oncoming car and
it swerved.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
In the nicke of time.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Maybe she was right, Michael Yanakis, I reckon that was
your mum one hundred percent. Who was that mysterious bearded lady?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It was Mamma Yanikis.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I wasn't allowed to ride to school either, and so
I was in year twelve.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Didn't you tell us you you used to swim to
school in the crate.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
One of those we swim in the creek during lunchtime.
We had a craik run through the backroom.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Jack and I used to swim to school. Some of
the kids did it next break.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I never said I swam to school. That is a
ridiculous name.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We went on a raft or something.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, yeah, you did.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Go back to the tape.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Go back to the tape, you Christian.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Growing up, my parents were devout Mormons and were very
overprotective when it came to content. I consumed bracket ned Flanders,
so when Christmas would roll around, I got the stock
Standard And you remember.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
These thirty dollars thirty bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Sanity gift card from a relative represented a challenge for
the ten year old me. I vividly remember attending Sanity
with my parents and looking through all the CDs. I
had an offer to buy one I could afford with
my gift card. Finally I settled on Simple Plans album.
I saw there was no explicit content Morning on the cover,
and I thought perfect. I found the one However, being
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ten years old, I didn't quite understand what the name
of the album was, hinting at still not getting any
Upon handing the CD to my very protective parents, they
took one look and gave me another CD instead, Wholesome Family,
Tap Dancing Penguins, The Happy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Feast, No Simple Plan for You.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I'm still not getting any No, and I love this
one Christian.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
When I was fifteen, I was invited.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
To go to the movies with a new group of
friends I made at summer camp. We're going to see
a movie called The Inside Man with Russell Crowe. This
is in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now, I had a.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Pretty long run time compared to most of the movies
at the time, like Austin Powers An American Buyme. After
begging my dad was allowed to go to the movie,
but he would not extend my curfew by a single minute.
Determined to go, I still went back to lead two
thirds of the way through Tennis Day. I still don't
know how Inside Man where Russell Crowe ends.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
We have to find out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Does anyone know how Inside Man with Russell Crowe from
ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
How does it end?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Please let me know? Nine four one four one, four three.
We have some brilliant stories and calls lined up next
about in one story, how stript were your parents? And
also what holes have you fallen through? We go to
them next.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Christian O'Connell's show, tell me in one story how strict
were your parents?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It's come from Pete Dixon. Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Mum caught me sipping a beer at a school formal, drove
me home without saying a word.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
An hour later, I was in his sleep in bed.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
She pursted into my room and started reading Bible passages.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
To me for two hours.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We pray for you. The Devil's come for him. We
weren't allowed to watch neighbors. No reason given, Christian. My
dad was so strict. I was not allowed to he
to the house until I was seven teen years old,
and although all through high school I had to sit
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out the back of the house and do my homework
until my college hours.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Shock, isn't that my Chris? Because his dad used to
do that. Pat would never trust him with a house key.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What do you think he was going to do?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Probaly, he's safer inside the house that roaming around outside
the house of waiting again, and it was like.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
He almost had to earn his trust to get just
a housekeep.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Christian, my parentcil so street. They didn't let me go
to a green light disco to primary school. Remember crying
for hours in great faith grade five that I couldn't go,
and they still refused me to send me to something
that was happening in the middle of the afternoon. And
that is, of course a bewitching hour, isn't it the
middle of the afternoon. It's not midnight, it's the middle
of the afternoon, Mary Anne. Christian you're talking to there
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about falling through hrles in a just arsenal for Joseph
and the Technicolor Dream Go, I missed my which meant
one of the other brothers miss his, and he fell
into the band Pip and landed on the eighty year
old piano.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
This is why we need to search your stories of
falling through holes on nine four one four one four three.
Good morning, count him Ah, Hi Christian, good morning. I
understand you're on the train.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yes I am, so. It's quite embarrassing. Anyway, I'll tell
you my story, but yes, I fell through a toilet
this is going back about.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He fell through a toilet.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes, what have I My sister locked us out and
I climbed through the toilet to get in. We had
said these flats and the flats so I was going
head first and then I thought I better turn myself around,
and then to myself around, jumped on the toilet bowl
and the whole bowl broke chat his premium leg. Oh
my god, twenty one. I was in year nine at
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the time, so going to school and craptures every day. Yeah,
but that was very, very funny. Oh he's funny now,
not at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
No, I know about you. Not full of lolls that count.
And thank you very much the story, and thanks you
colling in on the train a lot of problem. Thank you, Susan.
Good morning, Hi Christian.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
My parents were so strict that when I went for
my driver's LIGHTNSE and I passed, I wasn't allowed to
drive the car until the day was satisfied that I
had the skill. So my dad used to take me
out in the car and he had his hand on
the handbrake ready to pull it up. Every time Johny.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Would make it worse.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep, and he'd tell me what lane
had been and I had to do this until he
was satisfied that it was okay for me to drive,
even maybe crones did.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I could well, so despite you know, state elected examiners
with an agreed test that is not easy to pass.
In my mind, your dad's got a clipboard and it's.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Like go again.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Oh my gosh. He had that. He his hands so
tightly held onto that am brake and I was shaking.
I was sweaty.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You'd be more nervous.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It actually more dangerous to be nervous driving like that.
It's putting you in more risk.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was dad. That's how strict
they were.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Strict they were, Susan, thank you very much the story mate.
Have a good day you too, Babe Cowen, and good morning.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Good morning here, Christian.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
How are you. I'm good, thank you. On the show,
so strict parents in one story tell us how straet
they were.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Definitely I had the strictest parents that. When I was
little and I got invited to birthday parties, I actually
went with a pre passed lunch, a water bottle, a
vegimite sandwich and a piece of fruit. And they even
went so far because I wasn't allowed to eat the
food at the party. They even went so far to
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wrap up a gift that if the other parents had lollies,
like a lolly hunt or anything like that, that they
gave the parents the lollies that if I found lollies,
I got extra changed.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Wow, that is a lot.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
That is very strict. Needless to say, I didn't go
to very many parties after a very long time. Oh so,
and once I left home, I partied like there was
no tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Two streets.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I partied like. I partied like it was nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And are those wild days over now? They're still on?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Oh no, No, I'm fifty next year and I'm partying
like there's no tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Really making up for lost time. I don't keep blaming
the past.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Seventy still playing hard. That great story, Thank you very
much when he made us laugh. Thanks, go on and
have a good day.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
No worries you too, babe.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
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