November 5, 2025 • 9 mins
While the show is off this week we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits.
Like when we asked you "Where did you get stuck?"
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Coming this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And so away, I see that there's a broken door,
the bit, one of the big security doors here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's just stuck. I'm going to see.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
One of the engineers called Brad and I said, bloody,
what's happening here? He goes, Oh, me and two other
staffermer's got stuck inside this radio station. That security door
which we've got the little tag for wouldn't open. They
were imagine being stuck in stuck at work on a
Friday night.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Halt five.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hear him and Sue the boss and crazy Ray trying
to leave this building.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh that's a hell of a tree.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There's I thought it might have been one of Sue's
new productivity members.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
People in work aning modules. I still can't roll it.
I can't roll I can't roll it out.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We were always playing for dy chess with Sue. Imagine
been stuck at work wherever you work on a Friday night.
You want to go home, it's the weekend. And suddenly
you're stuck inside these days because everything's you know, tap
in tap outs of that. They can't get out with
your boss, Yes, says a bad thing. Do you not
like sue the boss?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Now?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I love our boss, obviously I would love to be
trapped in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You're speaking about the listeners stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
With their their boss boss. Please catch up time? Isn't
it on a Friday night? Yes? Oh my god, came
out here? Anyone got you know? But that is horrendous.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So Brad is an engineer, and I said, so, couldn't
you hard wire or whatever you got to do?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He said he he had.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
To like rip off a panel and start pulling out
random wise.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is that desperate to get out? Yes? Stuck in for
an hour and a half. Shouldn't it be like what's
called fire escapes?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He was telling me. And I'm thinking of this isn't
actually how do we you must be able to leave
a building trying to escape a crazy listener? Why would
a fire alarm? Having an alarm? There was this big
do you remember how loud it was?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Was terrifying?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Why why do you need an alarm if you're leaving
the fire exit's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Just someone's leaving. Why do we need an alarm for that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, if you're if you're, if you're fleeing a fire
or danger, you don't need any more stress of like
a great big going off in your ears. Anyway, this
morning we want your stories about where did you get
stuck in?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Stuck at work? Is herrenudar anything worse? I mean obviously
we get stories.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Pro rather been stuck in lifts and that'd be terrible,
But stuck at what on a Friday night a half five?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Perhaps? You ever been stuck somewhere? Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I remember why. Ago when I was on the road reporter,
I had to go to a media conference within Premier
Jiff Kinnett and it happened to be right up the
very top of the rialto building here in Melbourne, which
is about what nearly thirty floors anyway, So I went
into the stairwell to file my story. Only as I
went in and my bag i'd left in sort of
(03:21):
you know where the media conference was. I thought I'd
just starting here. As I've gone in the door, it's closed,
but it's locked behind me in the stairwell. So not
only that my phone died. Didn't realize that my phone
mobile wouldn't work in the stairwells. It was dead. But
the worst thing was that it was pitch black, like
there wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You wave your arms around and the light comes on.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, nothing, And I could even see my hands in
front of my face and it was dead, quiet, scared.
It's a serial killer in here that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I stuck with yourself. You have to report on your own.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Use stiletto heels down thirty floors and each each level.
I tried the door locked down another flight of stairs
that's locked all the way down to the bottom floor.
About took me about an hour, and I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was awful. It's terrify.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What did you actually get out?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Well, I had to go all the way down to
the bottom floor and then that door would open, but
none of them in between.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Someone would have got a spray. Yes, oh yeah, someone's
getting a spray. Can copy Yeah in a headlock? All right?
Where did you get stuck in? Give us a call?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two your stories? Where were you
stuck in?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Three people that work at this radio station stuck inside
the radio station Friday night, half five, time to go home.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Can't get out.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We've got one of these security doors everyone has these days,
with the passes. They're meant to stop people getting in.
Now a new way, it's a stop employees leaving. Maybe
it's a productivity booster, make us work hard.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You cannot leave. What a nightmare? Half five and a
Friday because you've got plans.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, you came out, and especially in Richmond, you can
see everyone having fun on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Just sat there.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, Christian, I got lots in a small toilet with
no window in a bar in Spain, said about my birthday.
Couldn't bunch the door open, but to keep me hydrate,
the bar owner put a bendy store with a JD
drink through the keyhole.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's brilliant. That's amazing. What great customer service that is.
Genius Shane, Thank you very much. Christian.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I went to work after hours to pick up my laptop.
Found a plumber who was stuck in the office. We
had a weird foyer area where you couldn't get in
all out without past he'd been working and everyone forgot
about him and and left the day. He'd been there
since three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's nine pm.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh my god, do you remember we had that lady
who went and got acupuncture and she had actually just
put the needle in her back and then just went
off forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
She was doing her washing at home. That's right, she
was just stuck there with the needles in her back.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Give us a call, Christian oak All Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Right now your stories are being stuck. Three team members
got stuck here Friday night, five thirty. You're trying to
go home begin your weekend, your Friday night, and you
can't get out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's cruel, trick, is yes, it is. It seems to
be a reality show. Yes, like psychological torture. Yes, stuck here.
I don't know what it's. It's the thought.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's the Friday night that I keeping if it was
like during the week, it's it's a pain, right, But
it's your Friday night.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You've done the week.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yes, yeah, it's not like you get that time back.
Yes yeah, yeah, an hour and a half. You can't
escape work.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And the best hour and a half that those first
post work drinks, those beers and now you yes, now
you're with the boss.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it stopped going about that sounds that you got
the boss. You're reading into things.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, So we want to know where you get stuck?
Thirteen fifty five, twenty two, Christian I was having just
a regular checkup, a mammogram when the machine broke and
by right breast or stuck?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Oh no, and it hurts to it really.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Pincha does it? Yeah? It's really painful, poor sharp, he
just stuck there? How long were you trapped there? Trapped
by your own breast?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Is there an alarm you, Paul to people come in
and hard to know how to free a lady up
from that?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yes, in a modern age.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
With hands on literally booby trapped.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, that's the.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
News journalist there. That's the headline of the story, isn't it?
Your story is where do you get stuck? Thirteen fifty five,
twenty two. We've got Lisa Joe here, Lisa Joe.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Good morning, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm good, Lisa Joe. Welcome to the show. So it's
Lisa Joe. It's not Lisa hyphen Joe.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
It is Lisa hyphen Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yees, gotcha? All right, So Lisa Joe, what's your story?
Where do you get stuck? It?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Wasn't me. It was my husband Peter. I'd left him
home responsibly to look after one and two year old sons.
And he went out the back door and we had
an inner door that led to the kitchen, and it
locked and he was stuck on the outside of it
with one and the two year old sitting on the
floor in the kitchen. So he decided to go down
the chimney Santa, Yes, exactly, like Santa, however, commer. He
(08:26):
went down feet first, and it was a really old
house fortunately, and yeah, he started to head down and
then could not move in A big boy played rugby
to his little Yeah, anyway, he got down.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
In the chimney a rugby player.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Yes, yes, exactly, he's six foot across. Stand up anyway,
he's a perfect sphere. His feet were dangling over the
combustion stove and wiggling his toes, and the boys thought
it was hilarious, even though they were babies. And eventually, yeah,
(09:04):
the grease from the inside of the chimney.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
A Christmas turkey to free himself. Well, yeah, to be
worried about the kids.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Exactly, and I'd be I would have been at work
for another eight hours.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It enough to give you a fear of christrophobian, you know,
fear be attracting spaces in the chimney breast. Exactly incredible story,
Lisa Joe, thank you very much for sharing.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Christian Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Coming this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And so away, I see that there's a broken door,
the bit, one of the big security doors here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's just stuck. I'm going to see.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
One of the engineers called Brad and I said, bloody,
what's happening here? He goes, Oh, me and two other
staffermer's got stuck inside this radio station. That security door
which we've got the little tag for wouldn't open. They
were imagine being stuck in stuck at work on a
Friday night.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Halt five.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hear him and Sue the boss and crazy Ray trying
to leave this building.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh that's a hell of a tree.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There's I thought it might have been one of Sue's
new productivity members.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
People in work aning modules. I still can't roll it.
I can't roll I can't roll it out.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We were always playing for dy chess with Sue. Imagine
been stuck at work wherever you work on a Friday night.
You want to go home, it's the weekend. And suddenly
you're stuck inside these days because everything's you know, tap
in tap outs of that. They can't get out with
your boss, Yes, says a bad thing. Do you not
like sue the boss?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Now?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I love our boss, obviously I would love to be
trapped in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You're speaking about the listeners stuck.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
With their their boss boss. Please catch up time? Isn't
it on a Friday night? Yes? Oh my god, came
out here? Anyone got you know? But that is horrendous.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So Brad is an engineer, and I said, so, couldn't
you hard wire or whatever you got to do?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He said he he had.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
To like rip off a panel and start pulling out
random wise.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is that desperate to get out? Yes? Stuck in for
an hour and a half. Shouldn't it be like what's
called fire escapes?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He was telling me. And I'm thinking of this isn't
actually how do we you must be able to leave
a building trying to escape a crazy listener? Why would
a fire alarm? Having an alarm? There was this big
do you remember how loud it was?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Was terrifying?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Why why do you need an alarm if you're leaving
the fire exit's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Just someone's leaving. Why do we need an alarm for that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, if you're if you're, if you're fleeing a fire
or danger, you don't need any more stress of like
a great big going off in your ears. Anyway, this
morning we want your stories about where did you get
stuck in?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Stuck at work? Is herrenudar anything worse? I mean obviously
we get stories.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Pro rather been stuck in lifts and that'd be terrible,
But stuck at what on a Friday night a half five?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Perhaps? You ever been stuck somewhere? Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I remember why. Ago when I was on the road reporter,
I had to go to a media conference within Premier
Jiff Kinnett and it happened to be right up the
very top of the rialto building here in Melbourne, which
is about what nearly thirty floors anyway, So I went
into the stairwell to file my story. Only as I
went in and my bag i'd left in sort of
(03:21):
you know where the media conference was. I thought I'd
just starting here. As I've gone in the door, it's closed,
but it's locked behind me in the stairwell. So not
only that my phone died. Didn't realize that my phone
mobile wouldn't work in the stairwells. It was dead. But
the worst thing was that it was pitch black, like
there wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You wave your arms around and the light comes on.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, nothing, And I could even see my hands in
front of my face and it was dead, quiet, scared.
It's a serial killer in here that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I stuck with yourself. You have to report on your own.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Use stiletto heels down thirty floors and each each level.
I tried the door locked down another flight of stairs
that's locked all the way down to the bottom floor.
About took me about an hour, and I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was awful. It's terrify.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What did you actually get out?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Well, I had to go all the way down to
the bottom floor and then that door would open, but
none of them in between.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Someone would have got a spray. Yes, oh yeah, someone's
getting a spray. Can copy Yeah in a headlock? All right?
Where did you get stuck in? Give us a call?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Thirteen fifty five twenty two your stories? Where were you
stuck in?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Three people that work at this radio station stuck inside
the radio station Friday night, half five, time to go home.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Can't get out.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We've got one of these security doors everyone has these days,
with the passes. They're meant to stop people getting in.
Now a new way, it's a stop employees leaving. Maybe
it's a productivity booster, make us work hard.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You cannot leave. What a nightmare? Half five and a
Friday because you've got plans.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, you came out, and especially in Richmond, you can
see everyone having fun on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Just sat there.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, Christian, I got lots in a small toilet with
no window in a bar in Spain, said about my birthday.
Couldn't bunch the door open, but to keep me hydrate,
the bar owner put a bendy store with a JD
drink through the keyhole.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's brilliant. That's amazing. What great customer service that is.
Genius Shane, Thank you very much. Christian.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I went to work after hours to pick up my laptop.
Found a plumber who was stuck in the office. We
had a weird foyer area where you couldn't get in
all out without past he'd been working and everyone forgot
about him and and left the day. He'd been there
since three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's nine pm.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh my god, do you remember we had that lady
who went and got acupuncture and she had actually just
put the needle in her back and then just went
off forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
She was doing her washing at home. That's right, she
was just stuck there with the needles in her back.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Give us a call, Christian oak All Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Right now your stories are being stuck. Three team members
got stuck here Friday night, five thirty. You're trying to
go home begin your weekend, your Friday night, and you
can't get out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's cruel, trick, is yes, it is. It seems to
be a reality show. Yes, like psychological torture. Yes, stuck here.
I don't know what it's. It's the thought.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's the Friday night that I keeping if it was
like during the week, it's it's a pain, right, But
it's your Friday night.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You've done the week.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yes, yeah, it's not like you get that time back.
Yes yeah, yeah, an hour and a half. You can't
escape work.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And the best hour and a half that those first
post work drinks, those beers and now you yes, now
you're with the boss.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it stopped going about that sounds that you got
the boss. You're reading into things.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, So we want to know where you get stuck?
Thirteen fifty five, twenty two, Christian I was having just
a regular checkup, a mammogram when the machine broke and
by right breast or stuck?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Oh no, and it hurts to it really.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Pincha does it? Yeah? It's really painful, poor sharp, he
just stuck there? How long were you trapped there? Trapped
by your own breast?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Is there an alarm you, Paul to people come in
and hard to know how to free a lady up
from that?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yes, in a modern age.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
With hands on literally booby trapped.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, that's the.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
News journalist there. That's the headline of the story, isn't it?
Your story is where do you get stuck? Thirteen fifty five,
twenty two. We've got Lisa Joe here, Lisa Joe.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Good morning, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm good, Lisa Joe. Welcome to the show. So it's
Lisa Joe. It's not Lisa hyphen Joe.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
It is Lisa hyphen Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yees, gotcha? All right, So Lisa Joe, what's your story?
Where do you get stuck? It?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Wasn't me. It was my husband Peter. I'd left him
home responsibly to look after one and two year old sons.
And he went out the back door and we had
an inner door that led to the kitchen, and it
locked and he was stuck on the outside of it
with one and the two year old sitting on the
floor in the kitchen. So he decided to go down
the chimney Santa, Yes, exactly, like Santa, however, commer. He
(08:26):
went down feet first, and it was a really old
house fortunately, and yeah, he started to head down and
then could not move in A big boy played rugby
to his little Yeah, anyway, he got down.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
In the chimney a rugby player.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Yes, yes, exactly, he's six foot across. Stand up anyway,
he's a perfect sphere. His feet were dangling over the
combustion stove and wiggling his toes, and the boys thought
it was hilarious, even though they were babies. And eventually, yeah,
(09:04):
the grease from the inside of the chimney.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
A Christmas turkey to free himself. Well, yeah, to be
worried about the kids.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Exactly, and I'd be I would have been at work
for another eight hours.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It enough to give you a fear of christrophobian, you know,
fear be attracting spaces in the chimney breast. Exactly incredible story,
Lisa Joe, thank you very much for sharing.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Christian Connell Show podcast
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