MINI: Mid Week Scores

Alex gives Melbourne a 7.5/10 so far. He talks about the challenges of moving with three young kids, figuring out Melbourne's hook turns and almost getting clipped by cars in the wide streets. Plus, Christian wants to know if you're a midweek winner or loser so far.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Got anything good?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast now Alex.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Obviously you're new to the show. Day three with Us.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Alex Cullen has joined the show on Monday. He's moved, obviously,
not just from the world of TV slumming it with
us on radio now sadly due to a fall from Grace,
but r I p Alex is career.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
This machine coffee now. I don't get abroad for me anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And you've changed cities.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
You've moved with your with your with your wife Bonnie,
and your three kids are all under six?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Are you now? What are you week into living in
the new city of Melbourne?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, week and half. It's good.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's good. It's hard light, high pitching, Yeah, yeah good.
No one speaks so that.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'll give it a seven and a half out of ten.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Put that on the posters.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
There's a lot of new things going on, kids were
starting school, new job for me, great, fantastic, wonderful, But
you know, it's it's it has its challenges in a
new city.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And are you talking about Pats.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, when you've see New City, the principality of Pats
hard to navigate around right hook turns everywhere their heart.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I did one of those, my first one, a few
days ago. I still have seven years living here, I
still avoid doing them. Oh my god. I drive from
the couple of blocks and then circle back round and
I was sort of on the middle of the tram
tracks as well.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'm like, am I supposed to be years and I've
been just in front of them, so I've got to
turn all the way right to get left again.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
It was a big moment and I did it, and
I'm very proud.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well done.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
That is a big moment. There are no where the
cities in the world the have of the hook turn
for clear reasons. It's absolutely ludicrous. Not in England, anywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
In England anyway, not in America anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
No one's giving me a good enough reason why. Yeah anyway.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Uh, roundabouts that have pedestrian crossings, I'm still getting used
to those.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Coming out of a roundabout and there's people crossing, I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Like, oh, this is new again. Unique to Melbourne.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, very unique to Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And just when you get a green light, so you
got to turn.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Then suddenly you've got to wait, your backside stuck stuck.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Out, cars could clip it.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
And there's people taking their time dawdling across the road.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
They should be they should be like speakers going right
to day. It's my green eye five four three two? What?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
And then a trap door opens up there sweats into
sewers or dogs are let loose?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yes, both dogs in the sewers.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Good water pressure, great water pressure in Melbourn out of
the taps.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, in Sydney then is it a bit weaker in Sydney.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
In Sydney, Yeah, you've got to turn the tap right on.
You can get really caught out if you're in the
bathroom and you turn the tap on it and it
comes all over.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
You're growing, You're like, oh no, yea to wash yourself
all that. What else can I tell you?

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh, there's what about the the I love the wide
streets as well, the really lovely wide streets. It's very
kind of country town. I love that, and I'm from
a country town.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
When I came here, having verse living in London.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Just how we obviously have big white streets in London,
but generally in every suburb.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
And it's like you and you park nose in. So
I've been hit almost like three or four times now,
almost hit backing out because I sort of I'm not
used to looking around.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, I don't like it, you know what I mean. No,
I don't like.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're playing with your life every time parking and more
importantly reversing out this after you've parted.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, it's this beautiful. Mercedes just almost clipped me.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I was very very close. Probably Patters.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sending you another message, will be many more of those
always there. All right, how is your week going so far?
You're a midweek winner or loser?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Let me know.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
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