September 14, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I
four point three podcast playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App that anything gag Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right, we're doing weakest claim to fame right now
on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh business like show business?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
My dad tot Grant doing you how to play the guitar?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Mind another stiff and Dinnis France came to airhouse and
shows a cut I helping Fris Diana's shop inherits in
the toy department.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to fame?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All right, what have you gotta give us a call? Now?
Week claim to fame? You can call me thirteen fifty
five twenty two. If it's easier, you can message me
now oh four seventy five three one oh four three.
Last week I saw a pie's legend in a Bunnings
near me. You're chatting to him. So, by the way,
what are you doing here? You know you've got a
(01:09):
lot going on at the moment. It was buying a
specific nut or bolt for his home. Pilates bed ex player,
Cura legend, legend, legend, legend, I will preserve his privacy
and his right to it. I was so excited. Is
(01:29):
tell me about when you see famous people in the wild,
It is intoxicated. I'm ashamed to say. He walked past
me and do that double take, and then I went
and followed him, and then I cut him off by
running around so that I could look like I wasn't
following him and speaking from behind him. You know, tall
guy as well that I was coming. So I was
(01:50):
just happy to be the other side. Good luck. I'm
also trying this weekend. Oh knackled my palate's bed too.
I have a very strong core muscles and intrinsic muscles,
like you, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Maybe you two could mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, two guys in one bed, start that rumor. That's
why I didn't mention his name, Brio. What's your weakest
claim to fame? Well, I actually have one.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you guys remember the old Gladiator TV series?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right? Those shows were huge? Just love Gladiators.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
One of my dad's patients friends was one of the
giant men, Ron Reeves aka Tower, and I actually got
to meet him once as a kid. Oh wow, big day, Yeah,
huge day.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So one of your doctor Lee your dad one of
his patients.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, it was best friends with Tower. He was the
patient was a body builder, right and obviously Tower big guy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah yeah nickname yes, yeah, yeah, it's brainstorming that one.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Did they having in the UK?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah? Huge? See massive. I used to be on like
a six o'clock on a Saturday night and millions watched it. Yeah,
it was all Hue Show and they were all like
cartoonish kind of characters with nicknames.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, Vulcan was another one, Australian one.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm going to Tenure was linked to Storm. Oh oh
yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So Bonnie's mom's cousin, Melinda has a best friend called Shin. Now,
Chanell's sister is Storm from Gladiators.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You know what, this sets a new high for weakest
claim to name most of our stories and we love them.
Ask you're several people removed. That's the biggest one ever.
So break it down again for us. If you're joined
the family tree, you run out page.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
So my wife Bonnie, so her mom's cousin, Melinda has
a best friend called Chanell. Name Chanell's sister is Storm.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not on what are you the odds? But hang on,
you said, Caitlin, It's for is it four?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That is four people removed from him?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
O my god still hateless.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Trifects great and Bonnie used to get all the merch
from storm Storm signed. She signed a poster, a gladiator's
poster for the kids.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
They've got an accordion at home That TV coin.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Way, Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Weeks is claim to Fame? What's yours thirteen fifty five
twenty two, Ben's got one? Christian. My dad had the
key to the local waybridge in the eighties. He weighed
the car from Mad Max when they were filming. Oh,
that is a great one. Christian. My Estonian grandfather was
(04:36):
a chef in Parliament House in the eighties. He cooked
for and met Bob Hawk. His poroshkis were to die
for by the way he played the piano while puffing
away on his pipe. The Triple threats Nicole, what a
legend your Estonian granddad was. That's incredible love. So many
(05:00):
streams are running at the moment the accordion. We can't
move on from everywhere The Stonian granddad, Christian week Claim
to Fame. I once met j Black walking down a
hallway on the set of King Kong. Many always scenes
in it, that classic always scene, you know where Kong
was just on a lunch break in the canteen and
(05:22):
he said my cookie looked delicious, so I gave him
half far nice Jacqueline. Good morning, Jaqueline, Good morning, Jacqueline.
Welcome to the show. And what is your claim to fame?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
My weekest claim to fame is that my French teacher
forty odd years ago was Annie Lennox's aunt.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Wow. Wait now, Annie Lennox herself is an amazing thing.
Who's Scottish and you have yourself a beautiful Scottish accent?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And is that Edinburgh or Glasgow?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Halfway in between? Yea in between Edinburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Right, thank you, bye, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
This is doubt Vill on the show, That lovely half
from Virginia. Doubt five. Aaron, good morning.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
My weekest game to fame.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Is that Kate Blanchett named her son after my brother
in law, whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Some big plan. You didn't need to see receipts for
the es.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
So in two thousand and four, my mother in law
was walking around South Malbourne Market as a Mama's three
with a newborn trying to wrangle all the kids, and
my brother in law was running around and she's having
to go Rome and Rome and come back here.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What do you do it?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Like right, running everywhere, And Kate Blanchett comes over and
was like, Roman is a really nice name, Like she
hadn't heard that one before. And my brother in law
was trying to act really cool because she's a really
big fan of Kate Blanchet and was like yeah, like
I'm like, it's a nice name, and lo and behold.
(07:09):
A couple months later, she pops out her son named Roman.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
This is modible. I love this story.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Has she taken it?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Has she met Kate Blanchett since her back down the market?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
It has not, but she tells everyone that that's who
played the bave. Is that Kate Blanchett? The song after
her had got inspirations and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It is a great name. Roman is a great name.
Erin thank you very much? She cool, Thank you all right,
miss hur Lyrics on the way the story's coming. Then
your weakest claim to fame? Have you got an Estonian
grandfather that for Bob Hawk and used to smoke a
pipe and play the piano cord And then number the
calling If you haven't thirteen fifty five twenty two
Speaker 2 (07:50):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I
four point three podcast playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App that anything gag Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right, we're doing weakest claim to fame right now
on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh business like show business?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
My dad tot Grant doing you how to play the guitar?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Mind another stiff and Dinnis France came to airhouse and
shows a cut I helping Fris Diana's shop inherits in
the toy department.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to fame?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
All right, what have you gotta give us a call? Now?
Week claim to fame? You can call me thirteen fifty
five twenty two. If it's easier, you can message me
now oh four seventy five three one oh four three.
Last week I saw a pie's legend in a Bunnings
near me. You're chatting to him. So, by the way,
what are you doing here? You know you've got a
(01:09):
lot going on at the moment. It was buying a
specific nut or bolt for his home. Pilates bed ex player,
Cura legend, legend, legend, legend, I will preserve his privacy
and his right to it. I was so excited. Is
(01:29):
tell me about when you see famous people in the wild,
It is intoxicated. I'm ashamed to say. He walked past
me and do that double take, and then I went
and followed him, and then I cut him off by
running around so that I could look like I wasn't
following him and speaking from behind him. You know, tall
guy as well that I was coming. So I was
(01:50):
just happy to be the other side. Good luck. I'm
also trying this weekend. Oh knackled my palate's bed too.
I have a very strong core muscles and intrinsic muscles,
like you, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Maybe you two could mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, two guys in one bed, start that rumor. That's
why I didn't mention his name, Brio. What's your weakest
claim to fame? Well, I actually have one.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do you guys remember the old Gladiator TV series?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right? Those shows were huge? Just love Gladiators.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
One of my dad's patients friends was one of the
giant men, Ron Reeves aka Tower, and I actually got
to meet him once as a kid. Oh wow, big day, Yeah,
huge day.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So one of your doctor Lee your dad one of
his patients.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, it was best friends with Tower. He was the
patient was a body builder, right and obviously Tower big guy.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah yeah nickname yes, yeah, yeah, it's brainstorming that one.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Did they having in the UK?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah? Huge? See massive. I used to be on like
a six o'clock on a Saturday night and millions watched it. Yeah,
it was all Hue Show and they were all like
cartoonish kind of characters with nicknames.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, Vulcan was another one, Australian one.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm going to Tenure was linked to Storm. Oh oh
yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So Bonnie's mom's cousin, Melinda has a best friend called Shin. Now,
Chanell's sister is Storm from Gladiators.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You know what, this sets a new high for weakest
claim to name most of our stories and we love them.
Ask you're several people removed. That's the biggest one ever.
So break it down again for us. If you're joined
the family tree, you run out page.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
So my wife Bonnie, so her mom's cousin, Melinda has
a best friend called Chanell. Name Chanell's sister is Storm.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not on what are you the odds? But hang on,
you said, Caitlin, It's for is it four?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That is four people removed from him?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
O my god still hateless.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Trifects great and Bonnie used to get all the merch
from storm Storm signed. She signed a poster, a gladiator's
poster for the kids.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
They've got an accordion at home That TV coin.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Way, Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Weeks is claim to Fame? What's yours thirteen fifty five
twenty two, Ben's got one? Christian. My dad had the
key to the local waybridge in the eighties. He weighed
the car from Mad Max when they were filming. Oh,
that is a great one. Christian. My Estonian grandfather was
(04:36):
a chef in Parliament House in the eighties. He cooked
for and met Bob Hawk. His poroshkis were to die
for by the way he played the piano while puffing
away on his pipe. The Triple threats Nicole, what a
legend your Estonian granddad was. That's incredible love. So many
(05:00):
streams are running at the moment the accordion. We can't
move on from everywhere The Stonian granddad, Christian week Claim
to Fame. I once met j Black walking down a
hallway on the set of King Kong. Many always scenes
in it, that classic always scene, you know where Kong
was just on a lunch break in the canteen and
(05:22):
he said my cookie looked delicious, so I gave him
half far nice Jacqueline. Good morning, Jaqueline, Good morning, Jacqueline.
Welcome to the show. And what is your claim to fame?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
My weekest claim to fame is that my French teacher
forty odd years ago was Annie Lennox's aunt.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Wow. Wait now, Annie Lennox herself is an amazing thing.
Who's Scottish and you have yourself a beautiful Scottish accent?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And is that Edinburgh or Glasgow?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Halfway in between? Yea in between Edinburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Right, thank you, bye, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
This is doubt Vill on the show, That lovely half
from Virginia. Doubt five. Aaron, good morning.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
My weekest game to fame.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Is that Kate Blanchett named her son after my brother
in law, whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Some big plan. You didn't need to see receipts for
the es.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
So in two thousand and four, my mother in law
was walking around South Malbourne Market as a Mama's three
with a newborn trying to wrangle all the kids, and
my brother in law was running around and she's having
to go Rome and Rome and come back here.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What do you do it?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Like right, running everywhere, And Kate Blanchett comes over and
was like, Roman is a really nice name, Like she
hadn't heard that one before. And my brother in law
was trying to act really cool because she's a really
big fan of Kate Blanchet and was like yeah, like
I'm like, it's a nice name, and lo and behold.
(07:09):
A couple months later, she pops out her son named Roman.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
This is modible. I love this story.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Has she taken it?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Has she met Kate Blanchett since her back down the market?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
It has not, but she tells everyone that that's who
played the bave. Is that Kate Blanchett? The song after
her had got inspirations and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It is a great name. Roman is a great name.
Erin thank you very much? She cool, Thank you all right,
miss hur Lyrics on the way the story's coming. Then
your weakest claim to fame? Have you got an Estonian
grandfather that for Bob Hawk and used to smoke a
pipe and play the piano cord And then number the
calling If you haven't thirteen fifty five twenty two
Speaker 2 (07:50):
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