April 10, 2024 • 7 mins
While Christian is away on his break, we're going through some of our favourite bits from the show so far.
We can't go past some of these calls we got off the back of Christian's story about coming to this wife's rescue when she ran out of fuel.
Do you do run the fuel gauntlet? Got a funny story about running out of petrol?
Email us christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:04):
I got a phone call yesterday from my wife who
was hysterical, and it was the car has mysteriously stopped working.
So she rings are like the car it was moving, Chris,
and now it's just stopped working. I immediately said, you
drive around half the time with that blinking reserve fuel
like on you've run out of fuel, Chris. I'm not stupid,
(00:25):
it's not that it was driving along. Can you go
and pick up me and lower? So I go to
get a bollaway.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
She's forty seconds away, right, so it can't you walk
end of the street.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
On this foot where Chris is getting a car and come.
So I go and pick her up, and my other
door two runs out of the car towards me, laughing, hysteric.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And it's run out of field. It is the Feld
and I.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Gotta be honest, right, I go yes, because for all
of our twenty six almost twenty six years of marriage,
I've said this day would come. You can't keep rolling
that dice. It's going to bite you on the back side.
And it finally happened. But it's a diesel car. When
diasels run out. It's a major problem. You have to
like bleed the engine, get these air gaps on this.
So anyway, she says, can you go and go to
the Serfo and buy the old jerry can of shame
(01:09):
and put five bucks worth in there? And so I'm
there with that little can and people judge it it's you. Yeah,
and I didn't want to go. It's my wife. And
then people are going, guy, it's you. You don't do that,
don't be that guy. So then so yeah, she finally
it finally happens.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
So where do you actually don't even know how you
do that? You feel up the jerry can, then you
get a funnel or and then pour it back in.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, okay, yeah, And you're there by the side of
the road.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
People are like driving around and they're like staring out,
and then you know the dad is going he's running
out a few and so my wife you can't see.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
She's in the car. It's not judging me. I know,
I'm not one of these people.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
As soon as as soon as it flashes, I'm not
pulling over finding herself.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
You need big duck sunglasses and a cap pole, yeah,
your face just to keep your identity anonymous.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Do you drive around that pass?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I love playing Russian rulette.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
With Can it happened to you if you run out? Twice?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Most recently, I remember where I was in the middle.
I was in the car wash and it couldn't start.
I was in the car wash and got in there.
I don't know how I limped in there, and ironically
the servos like next door right, and so I went
to start it would start. I thought, oh, there must
(02:18):
be water in the engine or something. No, I had
no fuel, So.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
How do you get out?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I had to ring the love God.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Who had to drive my dive soup pushed the car
out of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
By those brushes of con swimming goggles.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And then it's a really tight turn to get so
I had to sort of steer to get out of
the car and then get to the service road. So
that was the first thing. Then he had to get
back in his car and go and get a.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Cherry stopping.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Was not pressed all right?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
If you've ever run out of fuel where and because
sometimes it's terrible timing, Caitlin, you've got a story about this.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When did you run out of fuel?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I was on my l's and I mistaked the gauge
that tells you how hot the curry is, and I
thought it was the fuel gauge.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So it was always sitting in it like that. Couple's like,
I'm fine, and then I I'm with my daddy in
the car. I break down on a roundabout and my
dad has to push me five hundred meters to a server.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, years ago, you used to have to push the
car somewhere, you know, as see the other people used
to pull over and out You push the car.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You must have thought it had incredible fuel efficiency. Damn,
we've been practicing all day.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
A movie talked it out once every.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Two years, say my dad.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
He was like, Kaylin, you.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Eat it, and.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Dad rage.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Dad raised that the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
My wife is a habitualar fendor, driving around with the
fuel on red in reserve.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yesterday finally caught up with her. She run out of fuel.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Christ I know it's bad for the car, but I
also late your wife loved that cheeky little thrill I
get from running around with that fuel light on. Will
I make it? Will just ask us strike while it rush? Bob,
where did you run out fuel?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Mate, I was in the UK on the eighth thirty,
a long sweeping hill and I actually ran out of
fuel halfway down the hill. But luckily there was a
total petrol station right at the bottom, and I actually
ran twisted into the into the petrol station and actually
stopped beside the pump.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
See free wheel it down that using the momentum of
the hill. Yeah, that's a perfect place to run out.
Actually perfect timing. Really, that's great one for the lifetime.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, yes, Christian, I was cruising to Gisbon.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Range came up.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
To zero, I had zero left and I knew I
had about fifteen k to make it to the Sovo.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Get this.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I made it to the edge off the soo, had
to go and buy a five a can so I
could drive eight meters to the park. Brad, that's great
Christian about work. This is a Natalie Christian. My mum
is in her own words, a very strong, devout Christian.
(05:14):
And on both occasions she has run out of petrol.
She's been on a hill of sorts and rolled into
a petrol station at the bottle of the hill. She
always says, the Lord works in mysterious ways. I just
say it's dumb luck. I love that, Natalie Christian. Many
years ago, my husband used to run out of petrol
all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
How can you do this all the time? One occasion,
he run out of petrol the end of the freeway.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
He wondered about three hundred meters away to a servo
with a Jerry can. I waited patient in the car.
I happened to look in the rear visionary and notice
that behind us very long cue. Right behind us there
was a funeral procession in the hers. There was only
one exit lane and nowhere to go. I was so mortified.
I slid down in my seat and waited until are
(06:00):
now ex husband first broke up in that car.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You just.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I could see it was just having a lovely long
chat to the servo attendant. No rush whatsoever. The funeral
directors were waving their hands around all over the place
and booping their horns.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't think they're allowed to beat their horse. I
don't know if.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've never forgotten the shame that's from Michelle bian could
running out of fuel?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
My husband bought a new boat and decided, nice day
go out on the bay. Wonderful launch the boat cruising along,
all of a sudden ran out of fuel. The boat stopped.
We had to paddle into shore. Finally made it to shore,
missed all the rocks at the end of Oliver's Hill.
They're on the point. I had to jump out with
the fuel tank, walk up the hill and walk into
(06:47):
a school as to use the phone so that my
little brother could come and get meself a get more fuel.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So where do you go to get more fuel? If
the boat's run out?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
You have to put the oars in the water and
pedal work crazy to get to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sure bloody hell, what a nightmare. Never even thought about that.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And what of that happens with jet skis as well,
where suddenly they're hammering it around.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's got adjacent my.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Stories from a long time ago. I had a beat
up old car, used to ride the wire a little bit,
and they had a lot of money to leave it
out the front. One morning I get up, it's gone,
someone's stolen it. Funny thing years and they got around
the corner because it ran out of fueld.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would have loved to see that idiot's face. Oh
gont believe the girl for crying out loud? How can
they live like this. Christian Connell's Show podcast
Quest.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:04):
I got a phone call yesterday from my wife who
was hysterical, and it was the car has mysteriously stopped working.
So she rings are like the car it was moving, Chris,
and now it's just stopped working. I immediately said, you
drive around half the time with that blinking reserve fuel
like on you've run out of fuel, Chris. I'm not stupid,
(00:25):
it's not that it was driving along. Can you go
and pick up me and lower? So I go to
get a bollaway.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
She's forty seconds away, right, so it can't you walk
end of the street.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
On this foot where Chris is getting a car and come.
So I go and pick her up, and my other
door two runs out of the car towards me, laughing, hysteric.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And it's run out of field. It is the Feld
and I.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Gotta be honest, right, I go yes, because for all
of our twenty six almost twenty six years of marriage,
I've said this day would come. You can't keep rolling
that dice. It's going to bite you on the back side.
And it finally happened. But it's a diesel car. When
diasels run out. It's a major problem. You have to
like bleed the engine, get these air gaps on this.
So anyway, she says, can you go and go to
the Serfo and buy the old jerry can of shame
(01:09):
and put five bucks worth in there? And so I'm
there with that little can and people judge it it's you. Yeah,
and I didn't want to go. It's my wife. And
then people are going, guy, it's you. You don't do that,
don't be that guy. So then so yeah, she finally
it finally happens.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
So where do you actually don't even know how you
do that? You feel up the jerry can, then you
get a funnel or and then pour it back in.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes, okay, yeah, And you're there by the side of
the road.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
People are like driving around and they're like staring out,
and then you know the dad is going he's running
out a few and so my wife you can't see.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
She's in the car. It's not judging me. I know,
I'm not one of these people.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
As soon as as soon as it flashes, I'm not
pulling over finding herself.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
You need big duck sunglasses and a cap pole, yeah,
your face just to keep your identity anonymous.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Do you drive around that pass?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I love playing Russian rulette.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
With Can it happened to you if you run out? Twice?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Most recently, I remember where I was in the middle.
I was in the car wash and it couldn't start.
I was in the car wash and got in there.
I don't know how I limped in there, and ironically
the servos like next door right, and so I went
to start it would start. I thought, oh, there must
(02:18):
be water in the engine or something. No, I had
no fuel, So.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
How do you get out?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So I had to ring the love God.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Who had to drive my dive soup pushed the car
out of the car.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
By those brushes of con swimming goggles.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And then it's a really tight turn to get so
I had to sort of steer to get out of
the car and then get to the service road. So
that was the first thing. Then he had to get
back in his car and go and get a.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Cherry stopping.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Was not pressed all right?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
If you've ever run out of fuel where and because
sometimes it's terrible timing, Caitlin, you've got a story about this.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
When did you run out of fuel?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I was on my l's and I mistaked the gauge
that tells you how hot the curry is, and I
thought it was the fuel gauge.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So it was always sitting in it like that. Couple's like,
I'm fine, and then I I'm with my daddy in
the car. I break down on a roundabout and my
dad has to push me five hundred meters to a server.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, years ago, you used to have to push the
car somewhere, you know, as see the other people used
to pull over and out You push the car.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You must have thought it had incredible fuel efficiency. Damn,
we've been practicing all day.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
A movie talked it out once every.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Two years, say my dad.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
He was like, Kaylin, you.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Eat it, and.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Dad rage.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Dad raised that the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
My wife is a habitualar fendor, driving around with the
fuel on red in reserve.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yesterday finally caught up with her. She run out of fuel.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Christ I know it's bad for the car, but I
also late your wife loved that cheeky little thrill I
get from running around with that fuel light on. Will
I make it? Will just ask us strike while it rush? Bob,
where did you run out fuel?
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Mate, I was in the UK on the eighth thirty,
a long sweeping hill and I actually ran out of
fuel halfway down the hill. But luckily there was a
total petrol station right at the bottom, and I actually
ran twisted into the into the petrol station and actually
stopped beside the pump.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
See free wheel it down that using the momentum of
the hill. Yeah, that's a perfect place to run out.
Actually perfect timing. Really, that's great one for the lifetime.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, yes, Christian, I was cruising to Gisbon.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Range came up.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
To zero, I had zero left and I knew I
had about fifteen k to make it to the Sovo.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Get this.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I made it to the edge off the soo, had
to go and buy a five a can so I
could drive eight meters to the park. Brad, that's great
Christian about work. This is a Natalie Christian. My mum
is in her own words, a very strong, devout Christian.
(05:14):
And on both occasions she has run out of petrol.
She's been on a hill of sorts and rolled into
a petrol station at the bottle of the hill. She
always says, the Lord works in mysterious ways. I just
say it's dumb luck. I love that, Natalie Christian. Many
years ago, my husband used to run out of petrol
all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
How can you do this all the time? One occasion,
he run out of petrol the end of the freeway.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
He wondered about three hundred meters away to a servo
with a Jerry can. I waited patient in the car.
I happened to look in the rear visionary and notice
that behind us very long cue. Right behind us there
was a funeral procession in the hers. There was only
one exit lane and nowhere to go. I was so mortified.
I slid down in my seat and waited until are
(06:00):
now ex husband first broke up in that car.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You just.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I could see it was just having a lovely long
chat to the servo attendant. No rush whatsoever. The funeral
directors were waving their hands around all over the place
and booping their horns.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't think they're allowed to beat their horse. I
don't know if.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I've never forgotten the shame that's from Michelle bian could
running out of fuel?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
My husband bought a new boat and decided, nice day
go out on the bay. Wonderful launch the boat cruising along,
all of a sudden ran out of fuel. The boat stopped.
We had to paddle into shore. Finally made it to shore,
missed all the rocks at the end of Oliver's Hill.
They're on the point. I had to jump out with
the fuel tank, walk up the hill and walk into
(06:47):
a school as to use the phone so that my
little brother could come and get meself a get more fuel.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So where do you go to get more fuel? If
the boat's run out?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
You have to put the oars in the water and
pedal work crazy to get to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sure bloody hell, what a nightmare. Never even thought about that.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And what of that happens with jet skis as well,
where suddenly they're hammering it around.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's got adjacent my.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Stories from a long time ago. I had a beat
up old car, used to ride the wire a little bit,
and they had a lot of money to leave it
out the front. One morning I get up, it's gone,
someone's stolen it. Funny thing years and they got around
the corner because it ran out of fueld.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would have loved to see that idiot's face. Oh
gont believe the girl for crying out loud? How can
they live like this. Christian Connell's Show podcast
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