MINI: What Weird Thing Did You Believe As A Kid

In this episode of the Christian O'Connell show, listeners share their childhood misconceptions. Christian chats with Kim about her teenage years, when she believed every road with the same name was the same road. Jenny shares a hilarious story about thinking eggs came from battery hens, and Alex reveals he thought iPods got heavier with more songs added, which triggers the memory for Christian of not knowing what a lamb and sheep was.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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why they made you tired. That's from Tanya. And let's
take some calls. Now we're talking about were strange things

(00:42):
used to believe as a kid. Morning Kim, Good morning, Hey,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Kim, Thanks for calling, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's quite a right, all right, So Kim, what did
young Kim believe as a kid?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
So young Kim, And I'm ashamed to admit that young
Kim was into her teens before she realized this wasn't true.
Every road with the same name was the same road.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh, it is crazy though, like in some suburbs in Melbourne.
Actually in Richmond, there's two There's Chapel Street and Church Street,
and there's two Chapel streets that are smaller Chapel Streets
off Jee Street.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, so I believe that it didn't matter where the
road was if it had the same name, it somehow
would join up and it would be the same road.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Never ending road. You'll get that. You'll get that, Kim.
That's a great one. Kim. Have a lovely weekend, Mate,
take care.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Of you too. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Jenny. Good morning, Jenny, Good morning, Christian.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I'm good Jenny and Jenny. What did young Jenny believe
as a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
So my mom she purchased some eggs and I somehow
heard her drop the word battery and I thought what
And I said to my big brother, what's the battery egg?
And he said, okay, So what it is is they
get the chruck and they get a piece of wire
and they hook it up to the chaluk's leg and
in the other end goes to a back tree. When
they want an egg, they touched the battery and better

(02:12):
than that, you got an egg. It shocks her chouk,
it drops her egg, and that's a battery hen And
I was like, oh my god, that is awful. But
the worst thing nutrition years and years later, many years later,
my husband and I bought a milk and we had
this lady turn up and she had a vand and
she had eggs and she's coming and I'm in my
twenties but twenty six. She's coming and she's like, oh,

(02:33):
I just want to know if you want to buy
makes you sa milk ba And I looked at her,
said egsactly, and she said, well, the battery eggs, how
could you.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
How could you dry them up to electrodes.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Eggs. That's discussing. She'd ended up leaving the shop and
my husband's like, you need to calm down.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I was to read a book friend Australian, don't have any.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
My sister finally time in my thirties, Jennifer. That's he
was just.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Trying to sit down and have the chat about the
chops and the battery against Yeah, yeah, Jenny, that's a
classic Jenny. Thank you very much, your story mate. That's
got the show. I have a lovely weekend me too.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Bye. Alex. Please tell everyone what you believed about iPods.

Speaker 6 (03:19):
So my brother convinced me that the more songs you
put on the iPad pod, the heavier it gets.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's just remind us sounds.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're a managing in your forties, right, They've not been
around that long, you know. They're not like an ancient technology.
So by my rating, you would have been in your
thirties when you believe this.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh yeah, mid to late twenties. It's a simple farm land,
simple around there. Two thousand songs. Oh it's going to
be too heavy. Oh I better get if you are.
But he said, you didn't really blame me, did your Like, yeah,
it's so much lighter now.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well, I can't judge.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I remember, I think it was only about ten years
ago when we were going to one of these farms
you can take kids too, and I was trying to
we were looking at these animals. I was trying to
work out with my daughters, who were a lot younger
than which ones were sheeps and lambs. And I did
not know until my forties about sheeps and lambs. I
thought there were two completely different things. My wife was like,

(04:16):
what do you mean, which one's a sheep and a lamb?
And I went, well, trying to work out how you
tell them aparture? Are you joking? I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I seriously was forty five when I found out my kids,
My kids who were like nine and ten, were telling me,
didn't you believe as a kid teen's twenties thirties into
your forties.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, I can't judge you, Alex. I'm with you, okay.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
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