April 12, 2026 • 6 mins
Christian O'Connell shares a hilarious and relatable story about a chaotic weekend in Sydney, where he got separated from his phone at the airport and had to rely on the kindness of a stranger, to get back on track.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I
four point three podcast playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So that's the story of your weekend in three words
texted to me your three word weekend four seven five
three one o four three. My three word weekend really
is about what happened Friday, and it's good people everywhere
right now. It's there's a lot of very scary things
happening in the world right now, but we have to
remind us outs that there are good people everywhere. I
(00:49):
saw this on Friday. So last week we were doing
the show in Sydney and I wasn't very well, and
even when I did the show Thursday. On Friday, I
felt even worse Friday, and so user Kaitlin had to
remind me of what my flight time was, and it
was an hour earlier than I thought, and so it
was a chaos even getting to the airport much. So
you know, everything is on our phones now, boarding passes,
(01:12):
phone numbers, credit cards. I get to Sydney Airport and
I go to grab my phone to scam my boarding pass.
So I can get the ticket to put my suitcase.
And then I realized some utter horror, oh my god,
I've left my phone in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The in the U.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Now it wasn't I'd got an Uber to the airport,
and then the uber driver accidental dropped me off at
the wrong terminal, and so I then just went outside
the front of the wrong terminal, and there was a
kind taxi driver who said, it's all the way over there.
He went, hey, listen you, I could see you running late.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Get in.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'll drive you around there now for free. It's a
lovely guy called Michael. So anyway, we go around there,
and then I leg it out and obviously I realized,
oh my god, I don't have this Michael's phone number.
I don't know what the taxi company was. He's got
my phone. I can't well, I'm not going to get
on this plane. And then of course everything is on
their credit cards. Everything. I'm thinking, what do I what
(02:03):
youn't actually do?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm completely rendered you and I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I was really unawell. I remember just rest in my
head against a pillar. You know what you're like. There's
a voice in every Disney movie there's some young princess
who has to spend that night in the forest, and
she like rests her head on a on a on
a tree trunk or a boulder, and some animal or
some spirit comes along and helps them through that dark
(02:27):
night in the forest. It's suddenly, suddenly, as I literally
was like sweating with the temperature, go I don't even
know what I could have got no money on me.
I don't know anyone's phone numbers. I don't know why
wife's phone numbers. How am I going to get She's like,
what am I going to do? I'm just leaning forward
on a pillar at Sydney Airport sweating. I felt terrible,
(02:48):
really not well. And then suddenly there's a hand on
my shoulder. I look around. It's this man Michael again,
and he goes, it's me and I went. He goes,
I got your phone with so much so get this.
I go, Michael, I haven't got any money on me.
He goes, Oh no, I don't want I don't want
to do I believe that Karmen comes around. It's okay,
don't worry. I was just thinking, how the hell is
(03:10):
he going to get on his play? I went, I
wasn't going to be able to get on the plane,
and he goes, by the way, do you mind me
just asking what is the after shave right that you've
got on right now? I said, I don't really like
to tell people, is this? He goes, oh my god,
I've never heard of that one before. I went actually
to know what and I had a virtually brand new
bottle of it right and I said, take this as payment.
He took it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You didn't even do the dance where he goes, oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Years ago that used to be ancient. Was it the
bartering system where you might give someone three chickens? Now
he's got some. He's got an brandy bottle of a
soops after shave. I thought, you go, I no, I
can't rush, and he was like, it is actually quite
an unusual and I've never heard of it. I'll take that,
Thank you very much. He's now got my essence driving
around and pressing people in Sydney series of events. Yes,
(04:03):
good people everywhere. Thank you so much. Michael Aria. What's
your three word weekend?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Zumba? I went to my first ever zumber class, Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Saying you can get schooled in an ik UFC fight
or schooled in a sporting arena, schooled at Zumba.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It felt like I was in a UFC arena Christian.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
This weekend we lost Chuck Norris, and you're telling me
about getting He's spinning in his grave right now.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm telling you he wouldn't have survived fifteen minutes with
these old deers.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
At Zumba. It was full on.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I rock up and I'm a pretty fit thirty three
year old. I look around the class mostly. I'd actually
probably say fifty year old mums is sort of the core.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Demo su patronizing old DearS. No, yeah, old DearS wasn't accurate.
Old he is not accurate. They were They were fit
mums and is not old dear. I know I attract
old dear. I attracted Patsy shitting me daggers do the window.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
But I thought I'm pretty fit. I'm gonna I'll be
you know, I'll be in good standing here. I might
even be running rings around these ladies. Three songs in,
I am gasping for air. It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But I was like on my haunches, like scrambling for water.
And what were they doing to you?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Squio Squirlrio did getting.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, these women had barely broken a sweat. They were
looking at me like you are pathetic, Like.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, welcome to the jungle fit they are. They are
so fi.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What is its aerobics? Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's aerobics, But I think it's a Latin infused It's
a lot of sort of grooving shaking, A lot, I
must say, there's no other way to say it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A lot of ash shaking. It is. I would say
seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Actually it's actually creepy for they didn't know where to
burn around, you know, upskirting at the back.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Thank you very much, but I did feel very you
don't know where to look because it's very If there
was me and my gay partner, we were definitely outnumbered.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They must have been looking at you go. I think
they've got the wrong book. Isn't that the guy that
won the Hudson looking like last weekend? Once he gets
at my glue burn
Speaker 3 (06:26):
On Christian O'Connell show on podcast
I Heart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I
four point three podcast playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So that's the story of your weekend in three words
texted to me your three word weekend four seven five
three one o four three. My three word weekend really
is about what happened Friday, and it's good people everywhere
right now. It's there's a lot of very scary things
happening in the world right now, but we have to
remind us outs that there are good people everywhere. I
(00:49):
saw this on Friday. So last week we were doing
the show in Sydney and I wasn't very well, and
even when I did the show Thursday. On Friday, I
felt even worse Friday, and so user Kaitlin had to
remind me of what my flight time was, and it
was an hour earlier than I thought, and so it
was a chaos even getting to the airport much. So
you know, everything is on our phones now, boarding passes,
(01:12):
phone numbers, credit cards. I get to Sydney Airport and
I go to grab my phone to scam my boarding pass.
So I can get the ticket to put my suitcase.
And then I realized some utter horror, oh my god,
I've left my phone in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The in the U.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Now it wasn't I'd got an Uber to the airport,
and then the uber driver accidental dropped me off at
the wrong terminal, and so I then just went outside
the front of the wrong terminal, and there was a
kind taxi driver who said, it's all the way over there.
He went, hey, listen you, I could see you running late.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Get in.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'll drive you around there now for free. It's a
lovely guy called Michael. So anyway, we go around there,
and then I leg it out and obviously I realized,
oh my god, I don't have this Michael's phone number.
I don't know what the taxi company was. He's got
my phone. I can't well, I'm not going to get
on this plane. And then of course everything is on
their credit cards. Everything. I'm thinking, what do I what
(02:03):
youn't actually do?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm completely rendered you and I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I was really unawell. I remember just rest in my
head against a pillar. You know what you're like. There's
a voice in every Disney movie there's some young princess
who has to spend that night in the forest, and
she like rests her head on a on a on
a tree trunk or a boulder, and some animal or
some spirit comes along and helps them through that dark
(02:27):
night in the forest. It's suddenly, suddenly, as I literally
was like sweating with the temperature, go I don't even
know what I could have got no money on me.
I don't know anyone's phone numbers. I don't know why
wife's phone numbers. How am I going to get She's like,
what am I going to do? I'm just leaning forward
on a pillar at Sydney Airport sweating. I felt terrible,
(02:48):
really not well. And then suddenly there's a hand on
my shoulder. I look around. It's this man Michael again,
and he goes, it's me and I went. He goes,
I got your phone with so much so get this.
I go, Michael, I haven't got any money on me.
He goes, Oh no, I don't want I don't want
to do I believe that Karmen comes around. It's okay,
don't worry. I was just thinking, how the hell is
(03:10):
he going to get on his play? I went, I
wasn't going to be able to get on the plane,
and he goes, by the way, do you mind me
just asking what is the after shave right that you've
got on right now? I said, I don't really like
to tell people, is this? He goes, oh my god,
I've never heard of that one before. I went actually
to know what and I had a virtually brand new
bottle of it right and I said, take this as payment.
He took it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
You didn't even do the dance where he goes, oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Years ago that used to be ancient. Was it the
bartering system where you might give someone three chickens? Now
he's got some. He's got an brandy bottle of a
soops after shave. I thought, you go, I no, I
can't rush, and he was like, it is actually quite
an unusual and I've never heard of it. I'll take that,
Thank you very much. He's now got my essence driving
around and pressing people in Sydney series of events. Yes,
(04:03):
good people everywhere. Thank you so much. Michael Aria. What's
your three word weekend?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Zumba? I went to my first ever zumber class, Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Saying you can get schooled in an ik UFC fight
or schooled in a sporting arena, schooled at Zumba.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It felt like I was in a UFC arena Christian.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
This weekend we lost Chuck Norris, and you're telling me
about getting He's spinning in his grave right now.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm telling you he wouldn't have survived fifteen minutes with
these old deers.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
At Zumba. It was full on.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I rock up and I'm a pretty fit thirty three
year old. I look around the class mostly. I'd actually
probably say fifty year old mums is sort of the core.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Demo su patronizing old DearS. No, yeah, old DearS wasn't accurate.
Old he is not accurate. They were They were fit
mums and is not old dear. I know I attract
old dear. I attracted Patsy shitting me daggers do the window.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
But I thought I'm pretty fit. I'm gonna I'll be
you know, I'll be in good standing here. I might
even be running rings around these ladies. Three songs in,
I am gasping for air. It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But I was like on my haunches, like scrambling for water.
And what were they doing to you?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Squio Squirlrio did getting.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, these women had barely broken a sweat. They were
looking at me like you are pathetic, Like.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, welcome to the jungle fit they are. They are
so fi.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What is its aerobics? Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's aerobics, But I think it's a Latin infused It's
a lot of sort of grooving shaking, A lot, I
must say, there's no other way to say it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A lot of ash shaking. It is. I would say
seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Actually it's actually creepy for they didn't know where to
burn around, you know, upskirting at the back.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Thank you very much, but I did feel very you
don't know where to look because it's very If there
was me and my gay partner, we were definitely outnumbered.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They must have been looking at you go. I think
they've got the wrong book. Isn't that the guy that
won the Hudson looking like last weekend? Once he gets
at my glue burn
Speaker 3 (06:26):
On Christian O'Connell show on podcast
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