MINI: Lillian's Pearls of Wisdom

On her 100th Birthday Lillian joins the show to share a few stories and pearls of wisdom she's gathered over the years.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's to Christian O'Connell's show and right now in the
studio live on the show, we have an.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Incredibly special guest, a v VIP.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lillian is in the house and she is one hundred
years old today, Lillian, happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Thank you very much. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes, yes, yes, you're doing a great job, Lillian. Lillian,
first of all, you look amazing. You look like a queen.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't feel a hundred, don't you.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
How old do you feel?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Feel it at all?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
How old do you feel?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Really? Fitten? Well, you look.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Incredible for one hundred years old. Tell me this, Lidian,
which has been your favorite daid to live in? Because
you've been through so much? What was your favorite one? Sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh, I really don't know. I've all been good. Yes,
it's all been good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Now, Lillian, thank you very much for coming in on
the show today, and thank you very much for listening
to the show as well. Now, I understand you've got
five pearls of wisdom that you can share with us today.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'd love for you to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, okay, Lillian's glasses has just been placed upon her
head right now by her a granddaughter slash assistant.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
No, no, they're falling out. Now the hell are you
doing there? CARDI you yeah, smack in a minute. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
So Lillian, your piles of wisdom? What have you got there?
What can you tell of you on this morning?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well? A glass of red wine every day?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Great idea.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Definitely you lived to your nineties.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, okay, we can make it that far. Okay, So
a glass of red wine a.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Day, yes, okay, Champagne doesn't help.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, Champagne's no good. It's got to be red wine.
Doctor Lillion's orders.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, red wine, red wine a day.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Now, we have a present few. This is a really
nice bottle of red wine for you. This is our
one of our kiss for you, Lillian, since you've been
in on the show. Now, it didn't light up the
matter like that when she met me.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay, so you.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Can't have it now, Lilien and Lillian, what are the
other pearls of wisdom your life advice that you've got there.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh well, well you've got to keep your friends, keep
in touch with your friends and family of course. But
friends should make a big difference.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
They do, don't they. If you've got some good.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Friends, got many friends? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, I bet you have? All right?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So okay, red glass of red wine a day. Friendship
is really really important, very important. Are we friends now?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Any?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
What are we friends now? You and I?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, great besties, new besties. Do you have any English friends?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
No?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I haven't got no stand.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well you can have one now, yes?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Okay, so gloss of red wine today? And friendship is
really important. What else have you got to tell us
to day?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Lillian?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Enough?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
What I just say? You've got to move around with
the you know, were friends because you can go on
holidays or they can you go to the theater?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah? Do you love to go to the theater?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Go to the theater?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah? Did have you seen the Michael Jackson show? That's
very good?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah? And I love love going to ballroom dancing and
all that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you still dance now? No?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I haven't been for a while. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, and uh, let's have one more piece of life
advice then, And what else have you got there on
your piece of paper?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh don't, let's maybe that too much. Red principal, Yeah, principal. Dance, Yeah, dance,
just dance, Just dance.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Get a remix that just dance. Yeah, it's good, it's
a It's a lovely thing to just dance.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah. Well, I was in a concert party during the war,
were you. I was a tap dancer during the war, right,
And we used to go to the Army, Navy and
the Air Force and the prisoner war camps.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Did you really wow where the.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Germans and Italians were and not tap dance?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wow? You tap dance for everybody? What a lovely thing
to do.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, I did it all through the w incredible.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
And he used to work in this building as well, Billian.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Fift day, Welsh fifteen when.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
You were fifteen and you met your first boyfriend here
in this building. Yeah wow, wee okay, now we've got
some more gifts rio. What else have we got for
our very special guest today? We have a cake as well. Actually,
let's bring the cake in. I understand you love sponge cakes.
We've got your very nice sponge cake. Linion where you
can wash down with quite go with the red wine.

(05:37):
So that's your that's your birthday cakes. At least we
can do linear on your special day today. Well, Lillian,
it has been a treat meeting you. I hope you
have a lovely birthday today. You look incredible. I think everyone,
every one of us who works on the show, I
hope I get to live as long as you and.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Look as great as you. You look fresher than any
of us.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I didn't quite tell you that, Lillian.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Thank you very much for coming in and happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
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