February 26, 2025 • 27 mins
Catchup on the Llama hunt.. it all stated on Monday's show.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Time waiting Today we're looking for your pet celebrities. Everyone
getting a gold plus. When's two hundred dollars in cash
thanks to dream Home Art Union check you were you're
ready to mark, Let's.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Do it all right. Pet celebrities Lady Gala.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, but not really a pet silvera.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Some people have pet glass.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Absolutely. Yes, we had a pet Cocky growing up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, cocky two you can imagine, but not a glass.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Oh yeah, spaniel day Lewis, that's added a word und
Danny Powell, Joe Cocker Spaniel Silba.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Barack Olama.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah there is a lama, isn't there in North Melbourne
called Barack Olama?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We Someone called the show a couple of years ago,
five or six years ago about a lama in Fitzroy
would be Hipstersville cool Barack Olama. I'm pretty sure they've
got one. Rio Get back to me. Brad Pittbull Silver,
Will Ferrett gold, Burmese Theron instead of Chinese there on
(01:22):
Burmese Jess Reese with a spaniel silver plus, Tim were
done Gerbilly Idol Gerbilly Idol mel gibbon.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Not really a pet.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Silver.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So when you run a pet shop over there with
a suddenly done ardly a pet, we're asking to do
pet celebrities.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What's the logic in that?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Lama del ray o gold plus, someone's loosened up.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, but Lami, you can have at it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Sheila Wolf. They don't brackets here, Sheila Boof. You know,
transformer fella and actually put it transformer fellow, got it gap?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Mike Python, you can actually mention him saying it like that.
Sorry the name Mike Python. Give my god, it's not
really a pet.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Though a python as a pet.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Then you can have a beaver as a pet, and
you can have a yak. Anything can be a pet.
Samuel L. Quackson silver sho I do with gold plus,
John Miawi camp Ron Dave grown.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Silver, some little Dean is eleven is of sick today.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
From skilt silver Pa.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's a dark old art today. And that was the
last one there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We've actually got a surplus of money now because you
only gave out like two so that, oh well, what
do we find out about Barack Olama Rio?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Nos?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Absolutely nothing on Google?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You know, I remember, yes ringing bell, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We have to go into the show archives after this.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He was a man who walked his lama through the
streets of fitzro That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Someone will know something about this right now, about Alama
in North Melbourne. I think Fitzroy called Barack Olama.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Now I'm such as Barack Olama. I was right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We have talked about whether or not this is fact
talk fiction about Alama in North Melbourne called Barack Olama.
And I found the original email from twenty nineteen first
year of the show, twenty fourth of July twenty nineteen
from a guy called Brian maguire Christian, I need to
sell you to set on an argument. A few years ago,
my best mate Poul emigrated to Melbourne from Scotland.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's now living in Geelong.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He's back in Scotland for a few week visiting family
and we found ourselves having a few beers. Asked him
about what life up and was like and he was
saying what a diverse and dire, dynamic city is and
he also said that Australians are mad and that he
claims that whilst walking once in an area called Fitzroy
after work, he was asked to hold the lead to
someone's pet lama whilst the owner went to get a
(04:15):
coffee in a coffee shop. This was clearly met with
cynicism from US Scots. We don't know what a vegetable
looks like, levermind someone who takes a lama for a walk.
He swears it's true, not just that that when he
was chatting with the only when it came back with
the coffee, that the lama.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Was called Barack o Lama? Christian?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Are there locals walking around Melbourne with lama's on leeds,
parents and shoulders and snakes.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Around the next? Is that what accounts for a hipster
in North Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I can't remember what we found out about the legend.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I think is it still hanging out?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
There's a question I need to know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, all these years later, in twenty twenty five, we
still haven't got any closer to the truth about Barack
oh Lama. If anyone's got anything to say about that,
please email me today, Christian at Christian O'Connor dot com The.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
At the end of the show yesterday, the time Waster
was pet celebrities and one of you did barack Olama. Suddenly,
I remembered in the early days of the show, back
in the first year of the show in twenty nineteen,
I got an email from one of you about Alama,
the story about this lama in Fitzroy.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Guy called Brian emailed me saying.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That a friend of his, Paul, claims that once he
was walking in Fitzroy after work one day and was
asked to hold the lead of someone's pet lama. Was
the owner ran in to pick up a coffee and
he said that the lama had a tag around its
neck and its full name was Barack O Lama. So
we were hoping to find out more about this, because
if you've seen that or you know that in Livereil,
(05:46):
North Melbourne, you'd know what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
But that's where it went completely cold.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yesterday after the show, I put two of radio's finest
investigative reporters on this very much, our Bernstein and Woodward
producers Kaitlin and Ria. Perhaps you could pick up the here, Kaitlin,
So what did you do yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Alrighty, So we were lucky enough to get an email
from a woman called Kathy Lee who had a tip off.
She said, there's a larma called Barack Obama at the
Big Goose Farm in more and Duck in Burnington Peninsula.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh wow, So what it's retired now?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
That's the question. Is it the same one? Then I
emailed the Big Goose Farm at one thirteen PM and
I said to them, Hi, my name's Caitlin. I'm a
producer from Why do you.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Went to one thirteen? The show wins at nine AM.
I know you guys like to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Go for a little walk to like coffee.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The end of day after I left it a jackie
like ten am. I'm walking out of the radio station
train station. I see four the producers just on some
day trips somewhere or waving at me. I'm like, the
office is back that way, do some work. They were
getting out there, got boss ten Orf for a little breakfast.
Where are you going to the train station? No, no,
looking for content. I'm riding that train line like a hobo.
(07:03):
I went to Bendigo looking for content. You got wait,
I get my Bendigo tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We do. Yeah, we got the Bendigo hour.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Trust me, I've got some hot content from the bend Egos.
One thirteen. Okay, one thirteen. On your way out, you
just fire off an email to the Big Goose Farm.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, also investigative journalists, I imagine on the phone tell
me where are he is? And emails, so like yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Nine am, one thirteen, four hours later, Oh what was
he going on about this morning?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
We've had brunch, haven't we? All right? Yeah, where we
go for lunch?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
In a minute, did in fact try and call the
Big Goose Farm?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And yeah, yeah, I wouldn't see your phone logs.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No, I'm going to investigate your investigators.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Dire closed Monday and Tuesday, so I had to email option,
but I did put it as high importance on the email.
So at one thirteen I.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Email, hopefully get the eyeballs of the Big Goose one
A jump In.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Introduced myself and then I said to them, look, this
is a bit random. Radio is random. We are looking
for excuse me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Don't mean lowballing me like that. No, it was kind
of like, you know, English guy, he's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From this is high importance.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It's random.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's some ship, amount of donkey or something. Dave the
Donkeys he there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Can you listen to the podcast and give me a reply.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And then hit off the out of office reply At
one fourteen pm.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I said, we're on a mission.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We are trying to track that is slow mission at
four hours to get even an email sent.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
And I said, by any chance Nixon.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Would have got away scot free if you two were
on the case.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Ten years later we fired off an email.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I was very busy during the day, but this is
very high important. I said, do you have on I
know of Alama by the name of Barack Olama. We're
hoping we've come to the right place. Get back to
me as soon as possible. This is very important. At
four fifty five pm, you sent another email.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh so another bomb burning.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Day, an email from the Big Goose Farm.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Hi, Caitlin, you have.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Absolutely come to the right place. Not only do we
wow Barack Olama, but we also have Michelle Olama.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And so did you find out if it's the lama
that used to walk around Fitzroy?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:34):
No, I have not found that out yet. However, they
said we could give them a call, So I'm happy
to give him a call asap.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And you want me to call him up on the
show to go? Is that is it? The lama from Fitzroy,
that's your job to do that. Well, they go. We
don't know where they came from. They've been there a while.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, he didn't send.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Me his number, so I couldn't call him at that time,
so I emailed him back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Just now you said to me, Hey, listen, Rio and
I put a lot of work into this.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You can need Rio's my cup as well. What's hold mate?
Done it?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, the plot dickens.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Hang on, let me play some come back because this
is high drama.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well are you excited? I am so excited. Producer Rio there,
what a cliffhanger? Has promised us a thick plot here?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The plot dickens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh yeah, the plot until now has been watery and
super Yes.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Wait, it's good about get very audious cordials here, weak cordio.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Now it's going to be reduced to a delicious thick sauce.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
All right, So if you just tuned in, then yesterday
we were talking about the urban legend of barack O
Lama cited around Fitzroy. We want to know is this
true that there was a lama that someone walk around
on a lead called barack O Lama? Yesterday to Lukewarm.
Emails were rushed off by the so called investigative double
act or producer Caitlin and Rio, and all you got
(10:54):
was one back saying it, actually they do have down
in the morning to Peninsula Barack Olama with this wife
michell Ow Lama.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Correct, no confirmation if they're out Fitzroy Lama.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
No confirmation, no, but I can call them soon.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
So you had all day yesterday and all we've got
now is half a lead.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's not exactly a front page.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
New So basically you're now just going you do the
work on the show, You call them, find out, you
do the reporter.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It's just I had a lot of trouble getting into
contact with the just a bit slow on email because
they're closed Monday Tuesday. But I can absolutely get it
and we will have an email.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Where's that plot thickening? A What I'm hearing is a
BS At the moment.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Front page headline was like president impeach. I think I
got to call them.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Can't getting hold of the president.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
So we need to find whether or not Barack Olama
is in Fitzroy. Now I could go to Fitzroy Pound
the pavement, but I'm just won.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Wait, you want me and Jack to do that?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You want me to call everyone in Fitzroy.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm just one man.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Why is the power of one man when you can
use the power of twelve and a half thousand people
on the Fitzroy Neighborhood Network Facebook group.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
This is now?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
This is good work, smarter, not harder.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
So I requested my admission into the group at ten
three am.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Did you give yourself a user name?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I used the show account.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Really underdig Cover O'Connell show Gold fMRI six tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Wow, that's so smart.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
You had to actually answer a series of questions about
Fitzroy to get admission into the group.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
That's how we got a Suburbs one group.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah no, what street is the provincial hotel? And I
had to google it?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Eventually I got through at one twelve pm. I then posted,
hey guys, we're a radio show and had a listener
this morning tell us about a pet lama in Fitzroy
called Barack Olama.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
We can't seem to find much about it. Is it real?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Does anyone have any hot leads? Thanks for your help now.
That was at one point thirty did not get approved
for six hours. I was worried we were maybe being blackboard,
we were getting too close.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
To the truth.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
They were trying to silence us. Some responses came in Dominic.
A lot of jokesters. I gotta say, I think someone
pulled the wool over your eyes, was the first comment, Tom.
Fake news again, a lot of silencing, someone saying maybe
check the Collingwood Children's farm.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
But then it gets very thick.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
A breakthrough anonymous member four five three, Yes, exclamation mark,
it's owned by Al and his lovely family.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who's hell.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
He's on the line. Now, No, that's not what.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
We're still working on our but we have a name.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So in twenty two hours, two emails, no sorry, two emails,
a chat room got fired up, and now all we've
got is owl.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, hell of a lot closer hours were We're not
a hell of a lot closer.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
We're a tiny eenie lean a bit closer to OL.
Do you know an owl of Fitzroy?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yes, that would be a good starting point, but we'll
take any owls at this point.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Who had or still has a pet lama?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Yes, ideally, what do you mean ideally, Well, I start
owls exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
We're just talking to OL.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, can't take a week and get at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
All right, so just any our in so we can
discontinue you or discount you for Fitzroy exactly right. Okay,
where would you homer a lama in Fitzroy?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Space is a premium there. You can't be a.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Rental because nandlaws. Maybe a counter but bloody gate Lama.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It can't be upstairs.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And you say they don't like going upstairs or downstairs?
Same thing because they haven't got haven't got any knees.
Have you ever seen a cow curtsy or anything like that?
They can't have got no nice same with lamas.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's true the cows. Maybe they have similar something you
don't want to go down?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah right, yeah right, I mean yeah, not helpful, but
well that's not people live in glasshouses, shouldn't go stones,
my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'll tell you what. It's not helpful, solow And just
like are you ow cool?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now? The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
This week, producers Rio and Caitlin are trying to wrap
up the case once and for all about the urban
legend sure force of Barack Lama, the lama that apparently
people have seen around Fitzroy. Yesterday when they're reported on
their first twenty four hours investigating this, they're essentially got nowhere.
So hopefully today more information is coming. Already are you
(15:53):
feeling nerves in the studio because Rio said, do not
come to me. In other words, this is someone who's
smartly about to throw producer then under the wheels of
the bus and then he those do not expect conclusions.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Just Katan, please pick up the trail here what have
you found?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Look, it actually is a huge breakthrough. We've got an
answer and it's from the Big Goose farm down in Mornington. Brett,
the general manager, has left us a voicemail.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Oka listen a Christian.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
It is bred here from the Big Goose on the
Mornington Peninsula. Here you're looking for a baraq O Lama.
We do in fact have a Barack Olama with a
Michelle Olama and their children. Unfortunately, though, I don't think
that it is the Fitzroy Barack Olama that you have
been searching for. Barack has been with us for about
seven years and he has spent the entire time in
(16:45):
Muradak down with us. Wish you guys the best of
luck hunting for your Barack Olama. I'm sure they probably
stole the name for us. I reckon, we've got the
original barck Olama dead end.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Yeah, so but oh you're chipping in now, there is
there is we have like a little flickering ember of hope.
I then said, okay, maybe that's the Mornington barack Olama.
We need the Fitzroy a man walking a lama in Fitzroy.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Remembering what we discussed, falm is not worth doing and
the hours you put into this.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
So I'm narrowing it down to Fitzroy. There needs to
be somewhere you can keep a lama in Fitzroy. So
I go to the Lama Owner's Handbook, which is.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
A real thing.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You're kidding.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
No, there is Alama's an official Lama's Owner's handbook, and
it says you need at least an acre per lama.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Good cost you well?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
So then I zoom out.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I get an aerial map of Fitzroy. What can I find?
There's no spare acres in the.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Money just housing your pet lama.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
The only place I could find Collingwood Children's Farm just
next to it.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I give them a call.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Have you had a lama called Baraka Lama or just
any Lamas that maybe someone might have taken for a
walk from the farm. No, Lamas, not even in twenty nineteen,
she said, But we do have sheep.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, it's not a true you know.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Then as this guy, I don't forget where this story
came from, says that this guy asked him to hold
his pet lama in Fitzroy while he went to get
a coffee. And he looked at the name tag on
the lama and it said Barack Olama.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, no way that that's a sheep. And he's mistaken.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
No, it's got to be alone.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Sure to squat animals.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Then I'm sent a video by someone from the Facebook
group that I posted in yesterday of a man walking a.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Lama down a street.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I pause.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I see a phone number in the shop like in
the what's it called? Like in the background the background?
I call that number?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Wow, done, this is good work.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
It is a tile store in Tasmania. Unfortunately, so it's
not that lama. I feel like I'm chasing a god.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Could he have got on the spirit?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Did you call the tileplace in Tasmania to ask them
have they ever seen a pet lama walked around there?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I just said, where are you, and they said we're
in Tasmania.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I said, it's not much to text said Tasmania.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So there it says. So I feel like I'm chasing ghosts?
Does this actual thing exist?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I email Brian, who's the original email started all this.
He was told by his friend, is this just a rumor?
Is this just some bs that they've made up?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Is his friend a liar?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Exactly? His friend now lives in Geelong.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
He has asked his wife if I can have his
number so I can check the source.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
So the original spots are of this.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
That's just where we're at at the moment on more day.
So I need an extension.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Okay, I tell you what you also need. Right, You
are someone who is very competitive. You like to win.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I do and I always do.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And I know that the weekend it hurt. You were
beaten by a small child. I think it is.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It is because when someone's been beaten some they go
on a streak of losers because they don't mentally they've
been beaten as much as physically.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yes, I was beaten by a sixteen year old on
Sunday at tournament.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
He was And you're a grown ass, big strong man,
small wheat child.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I think there was some sort of prodigy. Yeah, in
Australia for the next couple of.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Dodgy tournament was this where a child plays a grown
ass man is a real tournament. So this is hurting you, yes,
of course. Okay, So do you want to win? You
want to solve this one?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Win?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Okay, you need a win. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Tomorrow we're going out for a really nice lunch. We're
going to Lamarro's Paths. We've booked it.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
This is a place.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Where on Sunday night, this is where the AFL had
hired to have the AFL and the Captain's lunch.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's a gas stro pub.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But in showburs there's a phrase there's no such thing
as a free lunch. And so you know this is
a place where the captains were, you know, not the
sort of underlings and people like you real on. So
pat yes, one hundred percent, you're a captain okay.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh okay, yeah, okay, so you can be there as well.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Question cRIO.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
At the moment, there's a question mark whether you are
at that captain's table, because at the there's a smell
of a loss about you.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Beaten by a ten year old small.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Child at a tennis stalment and now you kind of
track down a Lama Rio from twenty twenty four would
have nailed us within an hour. I think you're a
little bit a bit fumbly and mumbly. Okay, So at
the moment to anyone proposing what are you proposing, I
think it's fair to say there's no lunch unless you
sold this case for anyone.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
No, no, no, no, we'll be there. We will be there. Okay,
we'll look.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
At the States. They've got a nice porterhouse up for grabs.
I've got my eyes that looks beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
So you'd want to have a winner's lunch.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And I want to cut your steak up for you
as you tell with the details of Barack Obama once
and for.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
All, I get to the bottom of this case. Will
you cut my steak first?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Feed it to you?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Do we have a deal?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Is It fact Or Is It myth?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
In twenty nineteen, this show got a story, a rumored
story about a Lama scene being walked by its owner
in Fitzroy that had around his collar a name Tank
that you count a dog might have that said Barack
O Lama. Many times we tried to find out is
this actually true or is it some kind of urban legend.
(22:37):
The story came back around many years later on Monday
Show and I put Rio, one of our sharpest minds
on the team, onto the case. I'll be honest, we
got nowhere. Sorry, he got nowhere real quick. Shabby emails
were fired off, chat rooms were logged into try and
find out information.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He controlled online.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Essentially he did.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And I don't think the fact that at the weekend, Rio,
who is a man, got beaten by a sixteen year
old child in a tennis tournament, and I think mentally
it made you weak. I think it's shattered that swagger,
that confidence you have.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Very happy to you've beaten by a tennis prodigy and.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Playing in a tournament in Bentley.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't think you're going to find the next future
style Grand Slam winner.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
That he is where heroes are born Christian speaking of heroes.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now, which is also said, there's an incentive for Rio
because Rio is a competitive man by nature, and the
team is very excited. We're going out for lunch today
to a place called Lamarro's. Lamarro's is the place where
all the AFL captains all eighteen captains went on Sunday
night for big pow wow and a bite to eat.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
We're all going there.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Rio has to earn his lunch. Give us the truth.
I'll give you your steak and I will personally cut
it up however you.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Like, and I believe not just cut it up, but
you'll also feed it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I forgot about that, Okay, bye, and the Fagazi of
the show, I forgot about that, but yes, I will
do that if you give me the truth.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Finally, about Barack O Lama, what have you found out?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
All right?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
The latest update before today was that I really I
felt like I was chasing a ghost. It felt like
it was a complete myth that Barack Alama.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Did not exist. Everywhere we looked, there was nothing to find.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
We then get a hot tip from Rick, a listener
who says, go on the Reddit thread because apparently there
is a white Lama that has been spotted in Melbourne,
which is as close as we've gotten.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
You.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I have since made a wanted poster because I was getting.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Nowhere to turn this around before midday today.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
This is the efforts of a desperate man. Is it
saying is it saying wanted? Lunch once because tos wanted.
Have you seen this local lama. We would love to
meet him. Please text any info.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
I then, in the thirty six degree heat yesterday pounded
the pavement in.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It's actually put the wanted posse yesterday.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I have put about ten to twelve wanted posters up
around Fitzroy. This is great work begging for information because
you've got to go to the source you.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I was trying online. That wasn't the way.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I'm on the streets of Fitzroy, Brunswick Street, Gertrude Street,
amongst the hipsters. Please help me find this lama. We
then get a text. I can now start.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
To triangulate Barack Olama's location.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Edwina b Hi, I saw a guy walking a lama
called Meatball.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Not so this is a text response to the wanted poster.
He's already working.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It's already working in stint Kilda near Lunar Park a
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yesterday we had a science in St Kilda as well.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yes, this one near Luna Park.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Maybe she said that it was near Fitzroy Street in
Saint Kilda, which is maybe stream.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Maybe that got lost in communication. Saw it in fitz.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yes, we also got a hot tip.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
R M I T University at white Lama has been
seen and at Preston Markets, so we know that there
is a white Lama.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Good if the steak knife is being warmed up.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
As north as Preston, as south as Saint Kilda, as
central as r M I T University, within those boundaries,
there is a white Lama. I cannot confirm if it
is Barack Olama. But how many white Lamas can there
be in Melbourne?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's good to be the one if I am drawing,
I'm drawing Saint Kilda, r M I T. In the
city Preston. You put all those together. What's bang in
the middle, Fitzroy, what is bang in the middle of
all those locations.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Is increasedlock home.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You've done it and you have to cut up your steaks,
cutting it out.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm cutting it up. I'll see you at last. You
just made your way to the captain's table.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Time waiting Today we're looking for your pet celebrities. Everyone
getting a gold plus. When's two hundred dollars in cash
thanks to dream Home Art Union check you were you're
ready to mark, Let's.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Do it all right. Pet celebrities Lady Gala.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, but not really a pet silvera.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Some people have pet glass.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Absolutely. Yes, we had a pet Cocky growing up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, cocky two you can imagine, but not a glass.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Oh yeah, spaniel day Lewis, that's added a word und
Danny Powell, Joe Cocker Spaniel Silba.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Barack Olama.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah there is a lama, isn't there in North Melbourne
called Barack Olama?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We Someone called the show a couple of years ago,
five or six years ago about a lama in Fitzroy
would be Hipstersville cool Barack Olama. I'm pretty sure they've
got one. Rio Get back to me. Brad Pittbull Silver,
Will Ferrett gold, Burmese Theron instead of Chinese there on
(01:22):
Burmese Jess Reese with a spaniel silver plus, Tim were
done Gerbilly Idol Gerbilly Idol mel gibbon.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Not really a pet.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Silver.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So when you run a pet shop over there with
a suddenly done ardly a pet, we're asking to do
pet celebrities.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What's the logic in that?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Lama del ray o gold plus, someone's loosened up.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, but Lami, you can have at it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Sheila Wolf. They don't brackets here, Sheila Boof. You know,
transformer fella and actually put it transformer fellow, got it gap?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Mike Python, you can actually mention him saying it like that.
Sorry the name Mike Python. Give my god, it's not
really a pet.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Though a python as a pet.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Then you can have a beaver as a pet, and
you can have a yak. Anything can be a pet.
Samuel L. Quackson silver sho I do with gold plus,
John Miawi camp Ron Dave grown.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Silver, some little Dean is eleven is of sick today.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
From skilt silver Pa.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's a dark old art today. And that was the
last one there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We've actually got a surplus of money now because you
only gave out like two so that, oh well, what
do we find out about Barack Olama Rio?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Nos?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Absolutely nothing on Google?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You know, I remember, yes ringing bell, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
We have to go into the show archives after this.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He was a man who walked his lama through the
streets of fitzro That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Someone will know something about this right now, about Alama
in North Melbourne. I think Fitzroy called Barack Olama.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
A Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Now I'm such as Barack Olama. I was right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We have talked about whether or not this is fact
talk fiction about Alama in North Melbourne called Barack Olama.
And I found the original email from twenty nineteen first
year of the show, twenty fourth of July twenty nineteen
from a guy called Brian maguire Christian, I need to
sell you to set on an argument. A few years ago,
my best mate Poul emigrated to Melbourne from Scotland.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's now living in Geelong.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He's back in Scotland for a few week visiting family
and we found ourselves having a few beers. Asked him
about what life up and was like and he was
saying what a diverse and dire, dynamic city is and
he also said that Australians are mad and that he
claims that whilst walking once in an area called Fitzroy
after work, he was asked to hold the lead to
someone's pet lama whilst the owner went to get a
(04:15):
coffee in a coffee shop. This was clearly met with
cynicism from US Scots. We don't know what a vegetable
looks like, levermind someone who takes a lama for a walk.
He swears it's true, not just that that when he
was chatting with the only when it came back with
the coffee, that the lama.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Was called Barack o Lama? Christian?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Are there locals walking around Melbourne with lama's on leeds,
parents and shoulders and snakes.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Around the next? Is that what accounts for a hipster
in North Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I can't remember what we found out about the legend.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I think is it still hanging out?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
There's a question I need to know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, all these years later, in twenty twenty five, we
still haven't got any closer to the truth about Barack
oh Lama. If anyone's got anything to say about that,
please email me today, Christian at Christian O'Connor dot com The.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
At the end of the show yesterday, the time Waster
was pet celebrities and one of you did barack Olama. Suddenly,
I remembered in the early days of the show, back
in the first year of the show in twenty nineteen,
I got an email from one of you about Alama,
the story about this lama in Fitzroy.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Guy called Brian emailed me saying.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That a friend of his, Paul, claims that once he
was walking in Fitzroy after work one day and was
asked to hold the lead of someone's pet lama. Was
the owner ran in to pick up a coffee and
he said that the lama had a tag around its
neck and its full name was Barack O Lama. So
we were hoping to find out more about this, because
if you've seen that or you know that in Livereil,
(05:46):
North Melbourne, you'd know what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
But that's where it went completely cold.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yesterday after the show, I put two of radio's finest
investigative reporters on this very much, our Bernstein and Woodward
producers Kaitlin and Ria. Perhaps you could pick up the here, Kaitlin,
So what did you do yesterday?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Alrighty, So we were lucky enough to get an email
from a woman called Kathy Lee who had a tip off.
She said, there's a larma called Barack Obama at the
Big Goose Farm in more and Duck in Burnington Peninsula.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh wow, So what it's retired now?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
That's the question. Is it the same one? Then I
emailed the Big Goose Farm at one thirteen PM and
I said to them, Hi, my name's Caitlin. I'm a
producer from Why do you.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Went to one thirteen? The show wins at nine AM.
I know you guys like to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Go for a little walk to like coffee.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The end of day after I left it a jackie
like ten am. I'm walking out of the radio station
train station. I see four the producers just on some
day trips somewhere or waving at me. I'm like, the
office is back that way, do some work. They were
getting out there, got boss ten Orf for a little breakfast.
Where are you going to the train station? No, no,
looking for content. I'm riding that train line like a hobo.
(07:03):
I went to Bendigo looking for content. You got wait,
I get my Bendigo tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We do. Yeah, we got the Bendigo hour.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Trust me, I've got some hot content from the bend Egos.
One thirteen. Okay, one thirteen. On your way out, you
just fire off an email to the Big Goose Farm.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, also investigative journalists, I imagine on the phone tell
me where are he is? And emails, so like yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Nine am, one thirteen, four hours later, Oh what was
he going on about this morning?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
We've had brunch, haven't we? All right? Yeah, where we
go for lunch?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
In a minute, did in fact try and call the
Big Goose Farm?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And yeah, yeah, I wouldn't see your phone logs.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No, I'm going to investigate your investigators.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Dire closed Monday and Tuesday, so I had to email option,
but I did put it as high importance on the email.
So at one thirteen I.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Email, hopefully get the eyeballs of the Big Goose one
A jump In.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Introduced myself and then I said to them, look, this
is a bit random. Radio is random. We are looking
for excuse me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Don't mean lowballing me like that. No, it was kind
of like, you know, English guy, he's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From this is high importance.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It's random.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's some ship, amount of donkey or something. Dave the
Donkeys he there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Can you listen to the podcast and give me a reply.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And then hit off the out of office reply At
one fourteen pm.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I said, we're on a mission.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We are trying to track that is slow mission at
four hours to get even an email sent.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
And I said, by any chance Nixon.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Would have got away scot free if you two were
on the case.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Ten years later we fired off an email.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I was very busy during the day, but this is
very high important. I said, do you have on I
know of Alama by the name of Barack Olama. We're
hoping we've come to the right place. Get back to
me as soon as possible. This is very important. At
four fifty five pm, you sent another email.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh so another bomb burning.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Day, an email from the Big Goose Farm.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Hi, Caitlin, you have.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Absolutely come to the right place. Not only do we
wow Barack Olama, but we also have Michelle Olama.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And so did you find out if it's the lama
that used to walk around Fitzroy?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:34):
No, I have not found that out yet. However, they
said we could give them a call, So I'm happy
to give him a call asap.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And you want me to call him up on the
show to go? Is that is it? The lama from Fitzroy,
that's your job to do that. Well, they go. We
don't know where they came from. They've been there a while.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, he didn't send.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Me his number, so I couldn't call him at that time,
so I emailed him back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Just now you said to me, Hey, listen, Rio and
I put a lot of work into this.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You can need Rio's my cup as well. What's hold mate?
Done it?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, the plot dickens.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Hang on, let me play some come back because this
is high drama.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well are you excited? I am so excited. Producer Rio there,
what a cliffhanger? Has promised us a thick plot here?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The plot dickens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh yeah, the plot until now has been watery and
super Yes.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Wait, it's good about get very audious cordials here, weak cordio.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Now it's going to be reduced to a delicious thick sauce.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
All right, So if you just tuned in, then yesterday
we were talking about the urban legend of barack O
Lama cited around Fitzroy. We want to know is this
true that there was a lama that someone walk around
on a lead called barack O Lama? Yesterday to Lukewarm.
Emails were rushed off by the so called investigative double
act or producer Caitlin and Rio, and all you got
(10:54):
was one back saying it, actually they do have down
in the morning to Peninsula Barack Olama with this wife
michell Ow Lama.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Correct, no confirmation if they're out Fitzroy Lama.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
No confirmation, no, but I can call them soon.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
So you had all day yesterday and all we've got
now is half a lead.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's not exactly a front page.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
New So basically you're now just going you do the
work on the show, You call them, find out, you
do the reporter.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It's just I had a lot of trouble getting into
contact with the just a bit slow on email because
they're closed Monday Tuesday. But I can absolutely get it
and we will have an email.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Where's that plot thickening? A What I'm hearing is a
BS At the moment.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Front page headline was like president impeach. I think I
got to call them.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Can't getting hold of the president.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
So we need to find whether or not Barack Olama
is in Fitzroy. Now I could go to Fitzroy Pound
the pavement, but I'm just won.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Wait, you want me and Jack to do that?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You want me to call everyone in Fitzroy.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm just one man.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Why is the power of one man when you can
use the power of twelve and a half thousand people
on the Fitzroy Neighborhood Network Facebook group.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
This is now?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
This is good work, smarter, not harder.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
So I requested my admission into the group at ten
three am.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Did you give yourself a user name?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I used the show account.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Really underdig Cover O'Connell show Gold fMRI six tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Wow, that's so smart.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
You had to actually answer a series of questions about
Fitzroy to get admission into the group.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
That's how we got a Suburbs one group.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah no, what street is the provincial hotel? And I
had to google it?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Eventually I got through at one twelve pm. I then posted,
hey guys, we're a radio show and had a listener
this morning tell us about a pet lama in Fitzroy
called Barack Olama.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
We can't seem to find much about it. Is it real?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Does anyone have any hot leads? Thanks for your help now.
That was at one point thirty did not get approved
for six hours. I was worried we were maybe being blackboard,
we were getting too close.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
To the truth.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
They were trying to silence us. Some responses came in Dominic.
A lot of jokesters. I gotta say, I think someone
pulled the wool over your eyes, was the first comment, Tom.
Fake news again, a lot of silencing, someone saying maybe
check the Collingwood Children's farm.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
But then it gets very thick.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
A breakthrough anonymous member four five three, Yes, exclamation mark,
it's owned by Al and his lovely family.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who's hell.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
He's on the line. Now, No, that's not what.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
We're still working on our but we have a name.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So in twenty two hours, two emails, no sorry, two emails,
a chat room got fired up, and now all we've
got is owl.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, hell of a lot closer hours were We're not
a hell of a lot closer.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
We're a tiny eenie lean a bit closer to OL.
Do you know an owl of Fitzroy?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yes, that would be a good starting point, but we'll
take any owls at this point.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Who had or still has a pet lama?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Yes, ideally, what do you mean ideally, Well, I start
owls exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
We're just talking to OL.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, can't take a week and get at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
All right, so just any our in so we can
discontinue you or discount you for Fitzroy exactly right. Okay,
where would you homer a lama in Fitzroy?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Space is a premium there. You can't be a.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Rental because nandlaws. Maybe a counter but bloody gate Lama.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It can't be upstairs.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And you say they don't like going upstairs or downstairs?
Same thing because they haven't got haven't got any knees.
Have you ever seen a cow curtsy or anything like that?
They can't have got no nice same with lamas.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's true the cows. Maybe they have similar something you
don't want to go down?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah right, yeah right, I mean yeah, not helpful, but
well that's not people live in glasshouses, shouldn't go stones,
my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'll tell you what. It's not helpful, solow And just
like are you ow cool?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now? The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
This week, producers Rio and Caitlin are trying to wrap
up the case once and for all about the urban
legend sure force of Barack Lama, the lama that apparently
people have seen around Fitzroy. Yesterday when they're reported on
their first twenty four hours investigating this, they're essentially got nowhere.
So hopefully today more information is coming. Already are you
(15:53):
feeling nerves in the studio because Rio said, do not
come to me. In other words, this is someone who's
smartly about to throw producer then under the wheels of
the bus and then he those do not expect conclusions.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Just Katan, please pick up the trail here what have
you found?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Look, it actually is a huge breakthrough. We've got an
answer and it's from the Big Goose farm down in Mornington. Brett,
the general manager, has left us a voicemail.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Oka listen a Christian.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
It is bred here from the Big Goose on the
Mornington Peninsula. Here you're looking for a baraq O Lama.
We do in fact have a Barack Olama with a
Michelle Olama and their children. Unfortunately, though, I don't think
that it is the Fitzroy Barack Olama that you have
been searching for. Barack has been with us for about
seven years and he has spent the entire time in
(16:45):
Muradak down with us. Wish you guys the best of
luck hunting for your Barack Olama. I'm sure they probably
stole the name for us. I reckon, we've got the
original barck Olama dead end.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Yeah, so but oh you're chipping in now, there is
there is we have like a little flickering ember of hope.
I then said, okay, maybe that's the Mornington barack Olama.
We need the Fitzroy a man walking a lama in Fitzroy.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Remembering what we discussed, falm is not worth doing and
the hours you put into this.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
So I'm narrowing it down to Fitzroy. There needs to
be somewhere you can keep a lama in Fitzroy. So
I go to the Lama Owner's Handbook, which is.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
A real thing.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You're kidding.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
No, there is Alama's an official Lama's Owner's handbook, and
it says you need at least an acre per lama.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Good cost you well?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
So then I zoom out.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I get an aerial map of Fitzroy. What can I find?
There's no spare acres in the.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Money just housing your pet lama.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
The only place I could find Collingwood Children's Farm just
next to it.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I give them a call.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Have you had a lama called Baraka Lama or just
any Lamas that maybe someone might have taken for a
walk from the farm. No, Lamas, not even in twenty nineteen,
she said, But we do have sheep.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, it's not a true you know.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Then as this guy, I don't forget where this story
came from, says that this guy asked him to hold
his pet lama in Fitzroy while he went to get
a coffee. And he looked at the name tag on
the lama and it said Barack Olama.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, no way that that's a sheep. And he's mistaken.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
No, it's got to be alone.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Sure to squat animals.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Then I'm sent a video by someone from the Facebook
group that I posted in yesterday of a man walking a.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Lama down a street.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I pause.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I see a phone number in the shop like in
the what's it called? Like in the background the background?
I call that number?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Wow, done, this is good work.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
It is a tile store in Tasmania. Unfortunately, so it's
not that lama. I feel like I'm chasing a god.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Could he have got on the spirit?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Did you call the tileplace in Tasmania to ask them
have they ever seen a pet lama walked around there?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I just said, where are you, and they said we're
in Tasmania.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I said, it's not much to text said Tasmania.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So there it says. So I feel like I'm chasing ghosts?
Does this actual thing exist?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I email Brian, who's the original email started all this.
He was told by his friend, is this just a rumor?
Is this just some bs that they've made up?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Is his friend a liar?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Exactly? His friend now lives in Geelong.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
He has asked his wife if I can have his
number so I can check the source.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
So the original spots are of this.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
That's just where we're at at the moment on more day.
So I need an extension.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Okay, I tell you what you also need. Right, You
are someone who is very competitive. You like to win.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I do and I always do.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And I know that the weekend it hurt. You were
beaten by a small child. I think it is.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It is because when someone's been beaten some they go
on a streak of losers because they don't mentally they've
been beaten as much as physically.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yes, I was beaten by a sixteen year old on
Sunday at tournament.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
He was And you're a grown ass, big strong man,
small wheat child.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I think there was some sort of prodigy. Yeah, in
Australia for the next couple of.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Dodgy tournament was this where a child plays a grown
ass man is a real tournament. So this is hurting you, yes,
of course. Okay, So do you want to win? You
want to solve this one?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Win?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Okay, you need a win. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Tomorrow we're going out for a really nice lunch. We're
going to Lamarro's Paths. We've booked it.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
This is a place.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Where on Sunday night, this is where the AFL had
hired to have the AFL and the Captain's lunch.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It's a gas stro pub.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But in showburs there's a phrase there's no such thing
as a free lunch. And so you know this is
a place where the captains were, you know, not the
sort of underlings and people like you real on. So
pat yes, one hundred percent, you're a captain okay.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Oh okay, yeah, okay, so you can be there as well.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Question cRIO.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
At the moment, there's a question mark whether you are
at that captain's table, because at the there's a smell
of a loss about you.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Beaten by a ten year old small.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Child at a tennis stalment and now you kind of
track down a Lama Rio from twenty twenty four would
have nailed us within an hour. I think you're a
little bit a bit fumbly and mumbly. Okay, So at
the moment to anyone proposing what are you proposing, I
think it's fair to say there's no lunch unless you
sold this case for anyone.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
No, no, no, no, we'll be there. We will be there. Okay,
we'll look.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
At the States. They've got a nice porterhouse up for grabs.
I've got my eyes that looks beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
So you'd want to have a winner's lunch.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And I want to cut your steak up for you
as you tell with the details of Barack Obama once
and for.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
All, I get to the bottom of this case. Will
you cut my steak first?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Feed it to you?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Do we have a deal?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Is It fact Or Is It myth?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
In twenty nineteen, this show got a story, a rumored
story about a Lama scene being walked by its owner
in Fitzroy that had around his collar a name Tank
that you count a dog might have that said Barack
O Lama. Many times we tried to find out is
this actually true or is it some kind of urban legend.
(22:37):
The story came back around many years later on Monday
Show and I put Rio, one of our sharpest minds
on the team, onto the case. I'll be honest, we
got nowhere. Sorry, he got nowhere real quick. Shabby emails
were fired off, chat rooms were logged into try and
find out information.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He controlled online.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Essentially he did.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And I don't think the fact that at the weekend, Rio,
who is a man, got beaten by a sixteen year
old child in a tennis tournament, and I think mentally
it made you weak. I think it's shattered that swagger,
that confidence you have.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Very happy to you've beaten by a tennis prodigy and.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Playing in a tournament in Bentley.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't think you're going to find the next future
style Grand Slam winner.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
That he is where heroes are born Christian speaking of heroes.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now, which is also said, there's an incentive for Rio
because Rio is a competitive man by nature, and the
team is very excited. We're going out for lunch today
to a place called Lamarro's. Lamarro's is the place where
all the AFL captains all eighteen captains went on Sunday
night for big pow wow and a bite to eat.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
We're all going there.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Rio has to earn his lunch. Give us the truth.
I'll give you your steak and I will personally cut
it up however you.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Like, and I believe not just cut it up, but
you'll also feed it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I forgot about that, Okay, bye, and the Fagazi of
the show, I forgot about that, but yes, I will
do that if you give me the truth.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Finally, about Barack O Lama, what have you found out?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
All right?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
The latest update before today was that I really I
felt like I was chasing a ghost. It felt like
it was a complete myth that Barack Alama.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Did not exist. Everywhere we looked, there was nothing to find.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
We then get a hot tip from Rick, a listener
who says, go on the Reddit thread because apparently there
is a white Lama that has been spotted in Melbourne,
which is as close as we've gotten.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
You.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I have since made a wanted poster because I was getting.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Nowhere to turn this around before midday today.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
This is the efforts of a desperate man. Is it
saying is it saying wanted? Lunch once because tos wanted.
Have you seen this local lama. We would love to
meet him. Please text any info.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
I then, in the thirty six degree heat yesterday pounded
the pavement in.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It's actually put the wanted posse yesterday.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
I have put about ten to twelve wanted posters up
around Fitzroy. This is great work begging for information because
you've got to go to the source you.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I was trying online. That wasn't the way.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I'm on the streets of Fitzroy, Brunswick Street, Gertrude Street,
amongst the hipsters. Please help me find this lama. We
then get a text. I can now start.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
To triangulate Barack Olama's location.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Edwina b Hi, I saw a guy walking a lama
called Meatball.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Not so this is a text response to the wanted poster.
He's already working.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It's already working in stint Kilda near Lunar Park a
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yesterday we had a science in St Kilda as well.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yes, this one near Luna Park.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Maybe she said that it was near Fitzroy Street in
Saint Kilda, which is maybe stream.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Maybe that got lost in communication. Saw it in fitz.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yes, we also got a hot tip.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
R M I T University at white Lama has been
seen and at Preston Markets, so we know that there
is a white Lama.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Good if the steak knife is being warmed up.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
As north as Preston, as south as Saint Kilda, as
central as r M I T University, within those boundaries,
there is a white Lama. I cannot confirm if it
is Barack Olama. But how many white Lamas can there
be in Melbourne?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's good to be the one if I am drawing,
I'm drawing Saint Kilda, r M I T. In the
city Preston. You put all those together. What's bang in
the middle, Fitzroy, what is bang in the middle of
all those locations.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Is increasedlock home.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
You've done it and you have to cut up your steaks,
cutting it out.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm cutting it up. I'll see you at last. You
just made your way to the captain's table.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
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