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September 23, 2024 9 mins

After we were reminded of the town called Donald.. we simply asked the question - "Can you add to our list of towns and places with people names?" 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We just found out there's a place called Donald. I
know there's a place called Keith. I'm now fascinated. Are
there more places in this great Southern land that are
also people's names? Nine four one four one four three.
It is a school holidays And on Sunday night, my

(00:25):
wife and our seventeen year old daughter are going on
a three day day trip road trip. Sorry, to get
up her mars, you've got to get one hundred and
twenty hours, and Lois is up to one hundred hours
at moment. She just got twenty to go before she's
can take the test in November. And so they're driving together.
I mean, I think they're going to end up in
your news, Patsy. Those two wow, we wow we At first,

(00:49):
I was like when they gave me the dates, went
thank god, I'm at work. I thought I was going
in from my week office. I'm not getting a mid
of that. I am not getting between that in a
confined space. I can't do that between you two on
the road. They're driving to Malakuta.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yet beautiful but long seven or eight hour drive.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, all right, So places in Australia that are also
people's names. Do we know there's a place called Catherine,
that's Suppo's called Catherine, Northerncdonald's.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, yes, on the way through. Yeah, who knew? Yeah,
so there's catboy could tip off Christian by the way Donald.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's a sign when you drive into Donald that says
welcome to Donald Duck Country.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
No more details, just that Christian.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
There's also Milicent and Dorena places in Australia. Christian place
near where I live called Gordon.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh, my little boy Gordon.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
They'll let him their local boy mayre. They might chuck
at the top of the pole, give him the.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Keys to the city. Let's got Joe here, Good morning, Joel.
Yes we go, Joel.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So we're looking for places in Australia that are also
people's names.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, there's actually a place named after me, Joel.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
No, it's actually called Joe.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Joel, Joe, what a country.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
It's actually I'm not sure it's actually been named after
me personally, but I'll fake.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
It, Joel Joel Victoria.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wow, who knew? Yes, Joe, Joel that thanks for giving
us that one. Joe.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Have you been out there, Joel? Yeah, I haven't been
through the town itself, but I only found it because
there is a creek.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Through that area Victoria that's called Joe Joel Creek, and
I sort of looked them up at It leads you
to a town called Joe Joel.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
There's so much Joel coming from a Joel telling us
about Joe Joel Creek and Joe Joel Joel.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Thank you leasure so much it starts to lose all meaning.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
So crazy Joe Joe Joe Creek in Joe Joe Leanne,
good morning, christianly end. So what can you give a
surday place in Australia. There's also a person's name.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, we've just come back from a trip to Western Australia.
There's a little mining town near the Pilborough called tom Price.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh we've got firsday Tom Price.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So you get a surname as well.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a toofa we'll add that. Thank
you very much Leanne for telling us about Tom Price.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Darren, good morning, good morning. Here are you going? I'm
good Donald Donald, Donald, Keith, Joel Joel. I'm going mad now.
And Darren, where can you tell us about? Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
There's two places, so.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Just shouted Geelong, hidding towards Ballarette. You've got Elaine and
you got mirrors.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Married, beautiful goats. Cheez Yes, Darren, thank you very much.
She called it's got a Brett now, good morning Brett.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, good, here you're going.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
We're good.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So there's a place name this also a person's name
in Australia.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, we'll traveling through Wa a couple of years ago.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
My son's name is Harvey.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
So we drove down road and there's a sign saying
Harvey the town. Great Brett, thank you very much for
that one. Let's squeeze in Robin. Here morning Robin, Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Good morning everyone, Christian, you'll love this. There's a town
called Ruby. Wow, why like your daughter?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah? Whereabouts is that?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's nearly in Gatha? Gotcha about fifty years ago. It
used to be a township with a baker and a dairy,
et cetera. And now you just blink and pass through it.
Unfortunately it got kind of swallowed up by.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
We could start making chat what the hell happened to
Ruby got swallowed up us hanging in the air like that.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
So also a great started to episode.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
One by Town's likely and gas.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Blood Speak Ruby back out Leon Gatha, do you know what.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Let's form a posse.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
We're going to go and reclaim Ruby.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do that.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's very pretty and heals it's lovely.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh god, I love it. Hill Well, listen, stop by
the hills, but not the hills out the boy. That's
what my dad used to say to me.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Robin, thank you very much for your frontline report.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
From the People's Republic of Ruby. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Robbie Williams bringing at the Grand Final two years ago.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Kiss were great last year.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Katy Perry this weekend, apparently Affella in talks with her
management company, insisting that Katie Perry only do the Bangers,
no new stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Obviously AFL the teenage kids have gone. Dad.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
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no new stuff, Katie Bangers only Raw, just do raw
half an hour Google what happens when you don't read
that big Big Room The mcg very well meet Loaf
Killers Bangers.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Robbie did one new song.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Robbie is so smart and coold, he actually said. And
now the obligatory news single I'll hold your hand, We'll
get through it. Together and at the end of it,
when everyone like, okay, at least she knew what we're thinking.
I went now back to the Hits. I went straight
into rock DJ. All right, So this morning, after finding
out that one of you lives in a place called Donald,

(06:22):
we're looking for places around Australia that also people's names.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Jack. What have we had so far?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
So we also had Keith, South Australia, Katherine in the
Northern Territory, Millicine in South Australia, Gordon, Victoria, Dreen, Victoria, Joel,
Joel Victoria, Tom Price in WA, Meredith in Victoria, Elaine
in Victoria, Harvey in Tasmania, and Ruby in Gippsland.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
All right, I can add there's a suburb Christian in
Melbourne called Dennis Dennis.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I've been to Denis Stration.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's got a station as Dennis Christian. There's Julia Creek.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
In Queensland and there's oh, there can't be. Not only
is there a Dennis, we found out that on there's
also a Dean. It appeared to be a Victoria by
the way, there's a Dean in Victoria obviously. Also there's
Rosanna as well. In Queensland's a place called Lucinda Christian.
There's also a town in Victoria called Maude. It's next

(07:19):
to Lethbridge. Mood is a great name.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Christian.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
There are Bruce and Claire are actual towns in Essay.
And there's a place in Tasmania called Linda.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Mary. Where else can you? I know? Right? The Mordan's
all basic. The name the funnier it is Linda's grown.
But Dennis is also great. Mary, good morning, good morning.
How are you guys? We're good Linda. Have you having
a good show? Sorry? Mary? Now?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Mary, where can you add? For our list of places
around Australia? There are also people's names.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, So there's a Stanley in Victoria that's known for
its nuts, and there's a Stanley in Tasmania that's on
a nut. You with all the nut facts, I just
made me laugh when I read it on Google. But yeah,
Stanley Tasmania is absolutely very beautiful. But yeah, they've both
got nuts involved.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
So I'm wondering about Stanley. What does it mean to
be built on a nut? Understanding it's part.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Of a volcanic formation, a nuts and it's called a nut.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I didn't know there was volcanoes in Tasmania.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
No, there's all sorts of geographics and all sorts of things.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
There's geographics, it's very true geographics.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Met all at the bottom of the nut a large
round volcanic plug that rises one hundred and forty three
meters above the sea.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
How do you know all this, Mary, I guess Google.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
But well it's a lot more research than the team
are doing at the moment.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Do you want a job?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
I'd laugh too much, Christian, you laugh and all that.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean nice to have some of that round in now.
Serious point, Actually, Mary, what do you mean? There's a
plug out radio out? Whos out there right now?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Pull it fucking around with that plug? Go pull out
the plug. Mary, thank you very much. You call it
k I have a great day you bye. Christian O'Connell
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