October 12, 2025 • 10 mins
This Wednesday on the show we are celebrating the unstoppable Lillian turning 100 years old. Born in 1925, she’s lived through every invention, every song, and every dance craze. Join us as her granddaughter Carly helps us honour a true Melbourne legend. What do we gift a centenarian? email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one I four
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. This is
how I'm so excited about that it is happening this Wednesday.
That's one of our listeners target audience who is ninety
nine at the moment, but turns get this one hundred
this Wednesday. So born in nineteen twenty five, Now I
(00:41):
think about how just how amazing our line is at
the moment. So, you know, yesterday evening, I'm on a
video phone call with my dad. He can show me
his garden, I can show him the strange weather we've
got at the moment of hellstones and then slightly sunny
and so, but we can see each other the other
side of the world on a phone. There were no
phones in nineteen twenty five. There were no TVs. Radio
(01:03):
was still starting and come through as an emergent technology.
Also born in nineteen twenty five, Paul Newman, Angela Lansbury,
Sammy Davis Junior, and Margaret Thatcher. Oh yes, yes it
was the movies. Charlie Chaplin was the biggest star in
silent movies. It was going to be another couple of
years before there were even any talkies. She's lived through
(01:26):
the last one hundred years of human history has been
the most dramatic. Obviously, You've got the two World Wars,
You've got the forties, the fifties, the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, noughties.
What she's seen is mind blowing. You know, she's gone
through it and now chatch ebt. So anyway, the only
(01:46):
reason I know about her is because I was speaking
to her granddaughter a couple of weeks ago on the
show Carly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, Hi Christian, how are you going.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I'll tell you what. I'm so excited the whole
team are, because so she's your grandmother, isn't she? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Absolutely so, she's one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hundred yees yeah. And now is she still okay? Because
I said a couple of weeks ago you said she
listens to the show. If she wants to come in
and watch some of the show, we'd love to meet
her and say happy birthday. Is she still up for that?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah? Absolutely, she's looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It now, Tina, who's been speaking to you, one of
my team has said that obviously, she is one hundred
years old this week, so a hearing isn't too great.
Now we have everything quite loud here. I don't want
to distress he or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, it's going to need to be loud.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, well that's why I have to have it loud
as well. My headphones are at height. Well, would you
think she'd be okay to chat to me on the show?
I don't want to sort of put too much on her,
like she's going to turn up and suddenly it's not
at the zoo and we're prodding her and carbon dating her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know she's up for anything. She's yeah, she's always keen,
so she's very much looking.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Forward to it. This is incredible. Now we're going to
get her a gift. Okay, are there any areas I mean,
she must have had so many gifts to the years.
She's one hundred this week. Are there any areas of
interest you think she'd like a gift?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, she loves music a lot. I've been asked this
question a lot over the last couple of weeks. She's insistent,
she needs nothing, she wants nothing, but she loves music.
She was a dancer. She yeah, she is just always
(03:24):
up for a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Basically, does she still dance now?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, she likes too. She's a little bit slower on
her feet, but she Yeah, she absolutely loves to take
a spin around the dance floor.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I was googling the other day, what were the big
songs of nineteen twenty five? Yeah, and business a different time.
You imagine it's crackling through the radio. What you need?
What about it? But yes, sir, that's my baby. Man
we play this Wednesday for a bat This is a
banger in his orchestra. Yes, that's my baby, noir, eat
(04:02):
that head shearing?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yes, ma'am, we did that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Would she like some?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh for sure? Always that's the cake.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay, all right, well listen, Carly, we will see you
and you're soon to be one hundred year old grandmother
this Wednesday. We're all super excited. We see them mean.
Lillian excellent the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So Lillian is
this lovely lady's name who's coming in on the show
this Wednesday? She listens to the show. She's ninety nine.
(04:34):
In a moment, she turns one hundred this Wednesday. Anyone
ever met at one hundred year old before no, I haven't.
Don't believe I have. I'm actually so excited what I
just said about all those other people that were also
born in nineteen twenty five, like Sammy Davis Junior, Paul Newman,
and Margaret Thatcher. They're not around, Kaylen you just said,
but just again into a great thought here about other
(04:56):
people who are one hundred yees.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So there would only be like ten, if that many
people in the world that are over one hundred right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So when she was boris in more than ten, Maybe
there'd be a couple of hundred. Tina is laughing at
you over your shoulder. It will just be ten really always.
You might have to put them in a house together
and make a reality shot, some sort of flat house.
Why not zero? You know? Yeah, you must just party.
(05:27):
You've lived through so much.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I was just thinking when she was born, everyone that
existed when she was born are no longer here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Listen, when she comes in, she doesn't want to hear
that kind of chichen about it must be really lonely
being you or he makes her dead. Not lonely.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're here for her.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We've got to keep the vibes up. Let me let
me look at your calendar. It must be like just
back to about a few quick flipping not another one
these days and barely out of black Tina? Can we
what does Google say? What does the internet say about
how many people are over one hundred? Is it nine?
(06:06):
Like Kaylen's a million? Can anyone go from I think
it's ten people to half a million?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now I think you're right these days like we're getting up,
we're aging older. Half a million people hundred they should
all live in their own country. We should just have
Oldsville and it just be a country where it's just
old people shuffling around and hanging out together.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Don't believe are the facts that come from you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Just clutched a number of it and went ten. Hey, Lellian,
you want a ten an Australia. No, I reckon you'd
even be over a hundred one hundred year olds here?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
N crazy?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You get a letter from the Queen there miracle a miracle.
Miracle was the Queen from the other side Royal. Before
she died, she par one might make a home not
missing out a Lillian. That one's a gamer. Shit be funny.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
According to that he's the king is a very busy
person writing letters half a million people over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, that's why his fingers around. The Christian O'Connell show podcast,
one of my listeners turns to one hundred this Wednesday
is blowing our minds today, Lillian, she's coming in on
the show. We'd like to get her a gift. I
need somehow what do you get a one hundred year
old At the moment, The most common idea is newspaper
(07:46):
from the day she was born. I reckon, she's got
sixty copies of newspapers. She must have gone through so many,
so many years where that someone's got a newspaper. Newspapers
would have looked very different from now. Imagine one from
nineteen twenty five, like two pages, so partuicicating. You thought
(08:07):
they were about nine to ten one hundred year olds
in the world. We found out it's nine hundred. It's
estimated at nine hundred and thirty five thousand. There are
six thousand, three hundred, one hundred year olds and above
in this country alone. A number, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It has this we're living older now, which the science
of medicine, we're living old. It's six thousand and three
hundred just in Australia, the oldest Australian turned one hundred
and twelve two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Whoa and his name of course ken I am ken I.
They sung that too birthday one hundred and twelve on
October the fifth. That is incredible. All right, So some
ideas then, for what do we get Lilian Christian? She
(08:56):
loves music, needs a present? What does are all old
people love? Come on? Oh, there's get him out of
a time and serenade. Yes, I think he's nearly what
she joins that red club. What about concert by candlelight experience.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh yes, they're supposed to be very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, but she's not going to be She won't be
walking around and stuff like that. Apparently I'm not charging.
Of course, her hearing isn't great. You know, there's only
so much technology can do. You know, maybe you could
trap some speakers to her head from sons or something
that's so she can hear a bit easier. Christian, can
you imagine Lillian when she first heard radio, Well, she
(09:43):
would have, obviously she were them been gathered around the
radio like people were all over the world when church
was announced the end of the war. She would have
probably been heard about that, and then start to maybe
when they had the advent of TV scene pictures. Do
you mean when not every household had a TV? I
remember like a big girl like who in your area
had a TV? And then it was like a black
(10:05):
just a black and white one. Christian, you could get
letters from King Charles and also now the now the
pope does the letter right thing too. Oh, Lea's got
a lot more to send out. Story to Catholics turning
one hundred blood. Yeah, he's from Chicago, so he probably
gives them like pizza vouchers and stuff like that. Christian,
my grandmother is one hundred and five. Wow, do you
(10:27):
know the incredible thing about Lillian who's a hundred this Wednesday?
She lives still this by herself.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You're kidding me?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Is amazing. He's serious for herself. That's amazing. Christian. My
mum is listen to this. She's one hundred and one,
still lives in our family home. Mind is as sharp
as attached. She's amazing. That's from Leanne. Thank you very
much for all the Christian O'Connell show podcast
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one I four
point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. This is
how I'm so excited about that it is happening this Wednesday.
That's one of our listeners target audience who is ninety
nine at the moment, but turns get this one hundred
this Wednesday. So born in nineteen twenty five, Now I
(00:41):
think about how just how amazing our line is at
the moment. So, you know, yesterday evening, I'm on a
video phone call with my dad. He can show me
his garden, I can show him the strange weather we've
got at the moment of hellstones and then slightly sunny
and so, but we can see each other the other
side of the world on a phone. There were no
phones in nineteen twenty five. There were no TVs. Radio
(01:03):
was still starting and come through as an emergent technology.
Also born in nineteen twenty five, Paul Newman, Angela Lansbury,
Sammy Davis Junior, and Margaret Thatcher. Oh yes, yes it
was the movies. Charlie Chaplin was the biggest star in
silent movies. It was going to be another couple of
years before there were even any talkies. She's lived through
(01:26):
the last one hundred years of human history has been
the most dramatic. Obviously, You've got the two World Wars,
You've got the forties, the fifties, the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, noughties.
What she's seen is mind blowing. You know, she's gone
through it and now chatch ebt. So anyway, the only
(01:46):
reason I know about her is because I was speaking
to her granddaughter a couple of weeks ago on the
show Carly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, Hi Christian, how are you going.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I'll tell you what. I'm so excited the whole
team are, because so she's your grandmother, isn't she? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Absolutely so, she's one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hundred yees yeah. And now is she still okay? Because
I said a couple of weeks ago you said she
listens to the show. If she wants to come in
and watch some of the show, we'd love to meet
her and say happy birthday. Is she still up for that?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah? Absolutely, she's looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It now, Tina, who's been speaking to you, one of
my team has said that obviously, she is one hundred
years old this week, so a hearing isn't too great.
Now we have everything quite loud here. I don't want
to distress he or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, it's going to need to be loud.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, well that's why I have to have it loud
as well. My headphones are at height. Well, would you
think she'd be okay to chat to me on the show?
I don't want to sort of put too much on her,
like she's going to turn up and suddenly it's not
at the zoo and we're prodding her and carbon dating her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know she's up for anything. She's yeah, she's always keen,
so she's very much looking.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Forward to it. This is incredible. Now we're going to
get her a gift. Okay, are there any areas I mean,
she must have had so many gifts to the years.
She's one hundred this week. Are there any areas of
interest you think she'd like a gift?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, she loves music a lot. I've been asked this
question a lot over the last couple of weeks. She's insistent,
she needs nothing, she wants nothing, but she loves music.
She was a dancer. She yeah, she is just always
(03:24):
up for a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Basically, does she still dance now?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, she likes too. She's a little bit slower on
her feet, but she Yeah, she absolutely loves to take
a spin around the dance floor.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I was googling the other day, what were the big
songs of nineteen twenty five? Yeah, and business a different time.
You imagine it's crackling through the radio. What you need?
What about it? But yes, sir, that's my baby. Man
we play this Wednesday for a bat This is a
banger in his orchestra. Yes, that's my baby, noir, eat
(04:02):
that head shearing?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yes, ma'am, we did that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Would she like some?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh for sure? Always that's the cake.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay, all right, well listen, Carly, we will see you
and you're soon to be one hundred year old grandmother
this Wednesday. We're all super excited. We see them mean.
Lillian excellent the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So Lillian is
this lovely lady's name who's coming in on the show
this Wednesday? She listens to the show. She's ninety nine.
(04:34):
In a moment, she turns one hundred this Wednesday. Anyone
ever met at one hundred year old before no, I haven't.
Don't believe I have. I'm actually so excited what I
just said about all those other people that were also
born in nineteen twenty five, like Sammy Davis Junior, Paul Newman,
and Margaret Thatcher. They're not around, Kaylen you just said,
but just again into a great thought here about other
(04:56):
people who are one hundred yees.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So there would only be like ten, if that many
people in the world that are over one hundred right now.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So when she was boris in more than ten, Maybe
there'd be a couple of hundred. Tina is laughing at
you over your shoulder. It will just be ten really always.
You might have to put them in a house together
and make a reality shot, some sort of flat house.
Why not zero? You know? Yeah, you must just party.
(05:27):
You've lived through so much.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I was just thinking when she was born, everyone that
existed when she was born are no longer here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Listen, when she comes in, she doesn't want to hear
that kind of chichen about it must be really lonely
being you or he makes her dead. Not lonely.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're here for her.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We've got to keep the vibes up. Let me let
me look at your calendar. It must be like just
back to about a few quick flipping not another one
these days and barely out of black Tina? Can we
what does Google say? What does the internet say about
how many people are over one hundred? Is it nine?
(06:06):
Like Kaylen's a million? Can anyone go from I think
it's ten people to half a million?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now I think you're right these days like we're getting up,
we're aging older. Half a million people hundred they should
all live in their own country. We should just have
Oldsville and it just be a country where it's just
old people shuffling around and hanging out together.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Don't believe are the facts that come from you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Just clutched a number of it and went ten. Hey, Lellian,
you want a ten an Australia. No, I reckon you'd
even be over a hundred one hundred year olds here?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
N crazy?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You get a letter from the Queen there miracle a miracle.
Miracle was the Queen from the other side Royal. Before
she died, she par one might make a home not
missing out a Lillian. That one's a gamer. Shit be funny.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
According to that he's the king is a very busy
person writing letters half a million people over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, that's why his fingers around. The Christian O'Connell show podcast,
one of my listeners turns to one hundred this Wednesday
is blowing our minds today, Lillian, she's coming in on
the show. We'd like to get her a gift. I
need somehow what do you get a one hundred year
old At the moment, The most common idea is newspaper
(07:46):
from the day she was born. I reckon, she's got
sixty copies of newspapers. She must have gone through so many,
so many years where that someone's got a newspaper. Newspapers
would have looked very different from now. Imagine one from
nineteen twenty five, like two pages, so partuicicating. You thought
(08:07):
they were about nine to ten one hundred year olds
in the world. We found out it's nine hundred. It's
estimated at nine hundred and thirty five thousand. There are
six thousand, three hundred, one hundred year olds and above
in this country alone. A number, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
It has this we're living older now, which the science
of medicine, we're living old. It's six thousand and three
hundred just in Australia, the oldest Australian turned one hundred
and twelve two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Whoa and his name of course ken I am ken I.
They sung that too birthday one hundred and twelve on
October the fifth. That is incredible. All right, So some
ideas then, for what do we get Lilian Christian? She
(08:56):
loves music, needs a present? What does are all old
people love? Come on? Oh, there's get him out of
a time and serenade. Yes, I think he's nearly what
she joins that red club. What about concert by candlelight experience.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh yes, they're supposed to be very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, but she's not going to be She won't be
walking around and stuff like that. Apparently I'm not charging.
Of course, her hearing isn't great. You know, there's only
so much technology can do. You know, maybe you could
trap some speakers to her head from sons or something
that's so she can hear a bit easier. Christian, can
you imagine Lillian when she first heard radio, Well, she
(09:43):
would have, obviously she were them been gathered around the
radio like people were all over the world when church
was announced the end of the war. She would have
probably been heard about that, and then start to maybe
when they had the advent of TV scene pictures. Do
you mean when not every household had a TV? I
remember like a big girl like who in your area
had a TV? And then it was like a black
(10:05):
just a black and white one. Christian, you could get
letters from King Charles and also now the now the
pope does the letter right thing too. Oh, Lea's got
a lot more to send out. Story to Catholics turning
one hundred blood. Yeah, he's from Chicago, so he probably
gives them like pizza vouchers and stuff like that. Christian,
my grandmother is one hundred and five. Wow, do you
(10:27):
know the incredible thing about Lillian who's a hundred this Wednesday?
She lives still this by herself.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You're kidding me?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Is amazing. He's serious for herself. That's amazing. Christian. My
mum is listen to this. She's one hundred and one,
still lives in our family home. Mind is as sharp
as attached. She's amazing. That's from Leanne. Thank you very
much for all the Christian O'Connell show podcast
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