January 14, 2026 • 10 mins
While the shoe is away we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits.. Like when we asked for your stories about being chased by an animal!
Nothing we ever cover on the show gets completely left behind, if you have a chased by an animal story email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au
The Christian O'Connell show returns Monday!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's Australia.
There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard.
There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia,
whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on
(00:40):
land or above us. Even the magpies here are vicious bastards,
you know, so chased by an animal. The reason I'm
doing this I've got a great email yesterday for one
of you. Christian. A friend of mine cycled around Australia
and during one of his stretches he was chased by
a dingo that wanted his ham sandwich. We were talking earlier,
(01:00):
you know, the dingo might I thought was a club sandwich. Go,
my god, you don't see one of those outside of
a hotel menu one in the world. I'm having that.
Make sure you take the toothpicket so we want your
stories of animal if you've been changed by an animals
thirteen fifty five twenty two. In between all the fun lockdowns,
when there was like a brief respite. Me and the
(01:22):
family went over to Hobart and we hardly can't Hobart
beautiful place. It's been a couple of times now. And
we drove for an hour outside of Hobart to go
to a wildlife sanctuary. It looked beautiful when.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
One of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh,
I saw on the poats on the way and you've
got one bats. The kids really want to see one bats.
We're English, we've never seen a one bat. He goes,
we do have a wombat. It's a sleep at the moment,
and it's a teenager. So I could go and sort
of wake it up, but it's it gets really grumpy,
and of course my wife doesn't take no fin answer.
I was like, I don't worry about that, and the
(01:54):
kids were like like pushing my mum and she went,
go wake it up, right, this woe bat literally it's
like a teenager. That the keeper says, now listen, you
know they are friendly animals. They don't go for you,
but just please sit down and don't make any big
moves or anything that. So we all sat down. The
one mat is grumpy ass looking one, but it's released
(02:16):
for no I'll share the photo in a minute. For
no known reason, it starts to chase me.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You were it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was just sat down. I didn't want to wake
up this teenage one. But which it marks me?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't know. He slept in the weakness.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's just strange. I'm trying to move away without reacting
with my hat. The kid goes, keep your hands in
your pockets, so I'm keeping him, but also just get
off now, and then all of a sudden, I need
it pursue me. It bites my ass, and I mean
a real like out keeper grabs it goes, Oh my god,
I've never oh my, I've never seen that before. When
(02:52):
you say you're going to show us there with your
no no, we've had those before. One of my moment,
one of my most popular and shared post.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
One.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They went viral for crazy twenty four hours. This is
so rare. This place has now in in receptionally going
a picture of me being bitten by this. They're very proud.
They are very very proud. You should be proud. Oh
my god, I'm so proud. The guy was obviously he
was worried, like, hey, can you just go and just
check yourself out and just see if you ketch having
(03:23):
a chamb or anything. I said, I don't think it
pissed skin. I had my jeans on it. It's no
big good so anyway, because it was right around the
back of my back, so my wife had to follow
me into the toilets there while I pulled my pants down.
That's our story and we're sticking to it. Bon the
Wrong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobarts, Alex, you grew up on
a farm, you must have had countless animals chasing.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I was chased by animals every day. Christian.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We had this ram called Bruce, and Bruce was a
certified nutter. If she had asylums, he would have spent
most of his life in a straight jacket.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
This random Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So is he a horny ram?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No? Well no, he was in this house paddic and
like whenever he got out, like your life was in danger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Seriously, so would he butt you and like ram you
with the hoo would back up, back up like they do,
and just absolute go for you and smash you and
once and he used to hate the motorbike.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So what I used to do is I used to
tease breast a bit.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I'd get on the bruce and this old ct
won too fire this old motorbike, and every time he
would back up, I'd sort of start to speed off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I go and just take off, and he gets so angry.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And then one day, one day he took his moment.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
He took his moment, starts backing up. I'm on the motorbike,
wady through, start taking off. The motorbike conks out.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh wow, dotcha the motorbike.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I fly across the paddy. Bruce has one.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
He's standing there and I'm like, oh my god, what
I do. He hated the motorbike and he just starts
going at the motorbike. He's just smashing it to me. Yeah,
the fuel tank. He was like just into it and
I'm like, Bruce, stop, stop, And I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
He got tired.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eventually he just walked off, but he was hilarious. Cut
your fuel lead, yeah, horns.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Another time he knocked my grandfather into a water trough.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like the stories I could tell you good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's of course he would be called Bruce. It's Australia.
Christian O'Connell show podcast. Christian has a Great Wildlife part
just near Warnable called Warnable wildlife encounters where you can
actually hold a one. Bat dies, never happening again, form
whites wombats, never doing it again. All right, we're looking
for your stories of being chased by animals. Christian As kids,
(05:41):
we had a family picnic gate crashed by a rampant emu.
Rampant emu. The emu took a big beak shaped bite
out of my vegemite sandwich. Who doesn't love vegamites? Mom
tried to shoe it away while shrieking at it, which
resulted in emu chasing us away. So the go back
(06:03):
to his vegemite sandwich. We never get to it in Australia.
How to get rid of an emails? In America? Out
near the big parks. Now you talk to you make
your sound big for a bear on?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah? What to do here with the ears and they're
very fast? Yeah, years and years ago, my grandma lived
down there. It was in Gippsland and my best friend
I were playing cricket on the street and I was
about to come into bowl. My best friend, he was batting,
was standing still like he'd seen a ghosts. He then
pointed for me to look behind. I saw it, Christian,
a huge, big red kangaroo about ten meters from me.
(06:35):
I didn't know what to do. The kangaroo decided to
charge us. Luckily, we're close to Nana's house. Nana, my
grandma and her new boyfriend. Oh yeah, it's a door
locked Nana, and the curtains are closed. And two in
the afternoon, Nana, the house is rattling in a kangaroo.
(06:56):
My kangaroo and her new boyfriend. Sorry, my grandma and
the new boyfriend came running to scare out the kangaroo.
There was to put some pants on then then then
start the pickup. It's the triveway to throw the kangaroo.
Kangaroo was unfazed Christian and then grabbed her car keys
(07:17):
and start up ninety eight camaro. Yeah, the kangaro was like, oh,
I'm out of here. You ain't no match for that.
It's not a camaro. Wow. Wait whoa reverse from us?
Oh wow, Christian. I walk home from work most afternoons
along a creek and there was a fa There's a
(07:37):
family of ducks that live there. More than one occasion
of about to sprint because the daddy duck has decided
on far too. They are vicious a little things, aren't they?
Can they move surprisingly quickly with a little waddle? Yes? Yes?
Do you think were you bad to get a load
of animals together? Put them in a race? So emu
versus protective duck versus one bat. I would love to
(07:58):
see it to race for cash? We do we scambals. Yeah,
Australia a century. We can give it ten yes, yes,
call Ko Sports at nine. We're stream it live. All right,
let's go to Dale here. Good morning, Dale.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Morning, How are you?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm good Dale, Welcome to a show. So an animal
chase you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Actually it was my grandma and we were at a
nature park and we were king. We were in the
animal quota and my grandmother decided to get us some
biscuits and my grandmother, not being tall, the taste.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her a little missus doubt Finn. They went for a
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, she went to her and his use tastes running
around mister tin above her head with tasting it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, Nana on the loose, Nana on the run,
Nana on the run. This is another game we could
play for cash? How long?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You know how long before the em you gets the
biscuits from Nana's head.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, he just ended up tacking the tea in and
the imans went to the pink.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Wow, that's what you do.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now we know what to do for cases.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Get the biscuits on your head, all right? Dale, Thank
you very much your story. Thanks you calling the show.
Have a good day. Same to you, Wayne, Thank you
very much. Same to you. Sounds a bit lame, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Same to you what you just said.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You wouldn't put that in a card. Send you having birthday?
Same to you. Wayne, is on the line.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Now come on in Wayne, I'm on in Christen in time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Same to you, okay.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Whilst northling in Niedisberg in South Australia, I was just
driving down looking at the fish and there was this
beautiful little pufferfish there, so I thought I'd just go
down a bit closer.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
The next minute it just turned and came straight at
my mask.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
So I thought for some reason I was scared, so
I trained for the surface and it was it's out
of jaws.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Not sho I want six inch puffer fish?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I absolutely panny which inch fish?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I shouted, swimming as fast as I could, and I
thought I'd swim about ten meters, so I'll start, and
I turned and then again through all the bubbles, all
I saw was puffa fish with his teeth going up
and down, coming through the bubbles.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Come on, what's it going to nibble? You take like
a year to nibble a weight your foot and I'd
like giant balloons.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like how fast was it swilling?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, So all my friends for the rest of the
weekend called me puffer.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
God of course, do you know what, Wayne, you give
me an idea for tomorrow show? How did you get
your nickname Puffer? This is how the best nicknames are
born out those stories, aren't they? Wing Wayne, great story, Puffa.
Thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one I four
point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free
iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's Australia.
There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard.
There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia,
whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on
(00:40):
land or above us. Even the magpies here are vicious bastards,
you know, so chased by an animal. The reason I'm
doing this I've got a great email yesterday for one
of you. Christian. A friend of mine cycled around Australia
and during one of his stretches he was chased by
a dingo that wanted his ham sandwich. We were talking earlier,
(01:00):
you know, the dingo might I thought was a club sandwich. Go,
my god, you don't see one of those outside of
a hotel menu one in the world. I'm having that.
Make sure you take the toothpicket so we want your
stories of animal if you've been changed by an animals
thirteen fifty five twenty two. In between all the fun lockdowns,
when there was like a brief respite. Me and the
(01:22):
family went over to Hobart and we hardly can't Hobart
beautiful place. It's been a couple of times now. And
we drove for an hour outside of Hobart to go
to a wildlife sanctuary. It looked beautiful when.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
One of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh,
I saw on the poats on the way and you've
got one bats. The kids really want to see one bats.
We're English, we've never seen a one bat. He goes,
we do have a wombat. It's a sleep at the moment,
and it's a teenager. So I could go and sort
of wake it up, but it's it gets really grumpy,
and of course my wife doesn't take no fin answer.
I was like, I don't worry about that, and the
(01:54):
kids were like like pushing my mum and she went,
go wake it up, right, this woe bat literally it's
like a teenager. That the keeper says, now listen, you
know they are friendly animals. They don't go for you,
but just please sit down and don't make any big
moves or anything that. So we all sat down. The
one mat is grumpy ass looking one, but it's released
(02:16):
for no I'll share the photo in a minute. For
no known reason, it starts to chase me.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You were it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was just sat down. I didn't want to wake
up this teenage one. But which it marks me?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't know. He slept in the weakness.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's just strange. I'm trying to move away without reacting
with my hat. The kid goes, keep your hands in
your pockets, so I'm keeping him, but also just get
off now, and then all of a sudden, I need
it pursue me. It bites my ass, and I mean
a real like out keeper grabs it goes, Oh my god,
I've never oh my, I've never seen that before. When
(02:52):
you say you're going to show us there with your
no no, we've had those before. One of my moment,
one of my most popular and shared post.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
One.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They went viral for crazy twenty four hours. This is
so rare. This place has now in in receptionally going
a picture of me being bitten by this. They're very proud.
They are very very proud. You should be proud. Oh
my god, I'm so proud. The guy was obviously he
was worried, like, hey, can you just go and just
check yourself out and just see if you ketch having
(03:23):
a chamb or anything. I said, I don't think it
pissed skin. I had my jeans on it. It's no
big good so anyway, because it was right around the
back of my back, so my wife had to follow
me into the toilets there while I pulled my pants down.
That's our story and we're sticking to it. Bon the
Wrong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobarts, Alex, you grew up on
a farm, you must have had countless animals chasing.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I was chased by animals every day. Christian.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We had this ram called Bruce, and Bruce was a
certified nutter. If she had asylums, he would have spent
most of his life in a straight jacket.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
This random Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So is he a horny ram?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No? Well no, he was in this house paddic and
like whenever he got out, like your life was in danger.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Seriously, so would he butt you and like ram you
with the hoo would back up, back up like they do,
and just absolute go for you and smash you and
once and he used to hate the motorbike.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So what I used to do is I used to
tease breast a bit.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I'd get on the bruce and this old ct
won too fire this old motorbike, and every time he
would back up, I'd sort of start to speed off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I go and just take off, and he gets so angry.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And then one day, one day he took his moment.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
He took his moment, starts backing up. I'm on the motorbike,
wady through, start taking off. The motorbike conks out.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh wow, dotcha the motorbike.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I fly across the paddy. Bruce has one.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
He's standing there and I'm like, oh my god, what
I do. He hated the motorbike and he just starts
going at the motorbike. He's just smashing it to me. Yeah,
the fuel tank. He was like just into it and
I'm like, Bruce, stop, stop, And I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
He got tired.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eventually he just walked off, but he was hilarious. Cut
your fuel lead, yeah, horns.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Another time he knocked my grandfather into a water trough.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like the stories I could tell you good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's of course he would be called Bruce. It's Australia.
Christian O'Connell show podcast. Christian has a Great Wildlife part
just near Warnable called Warnable wildlife encounters where you can
actually hold a one. Bat dies, never happening again, form
whites wombats, never doing it again. All right, we're looking
for your stories of being chased by animals. Christian As kids,
(05:41):
we had a family picnic gate crashed by a rampant emu.
Rampant emu. The emu took a big beak shaped bite
out of my vegemite sandwich. Who doesn't love vegamites? Mom
tried to shoe it away while shrieking at it, which
resulted in emu chasing us away. So the go back
(06:03):
to his vegemite sandwich. We never get to it in Australia.
How to get rid of an emails? In America? Out
near the big parks. Now you talk to you make
your sound big for a bear on?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah? What to do here with the ears and they're
very fast? Yeah, years and years ago, my grandma lived
down there. It was in Gippsland and my best friend
I were playing cricket on the street and I was
about to come into bowl. My best friend, he was batting,
was standing still like he'd seen a ghosts. He then
pointed for me to look behind. I saw it, Christian,
a huge, big red kangaroo about ten meters from me.
(06:35):
I didn't know what to do. The kangaroo decided to
charge us. Luckily, we're close to Nana's house. Nana, my
grandma and her new boyfriend. Oh yeah, it's a door
locked Nana, and the curtains are closed. And two in
the afternoon, Nana, the house is rattling in a kangaroo.
(06:56):
My kangaroo and her new boyfriend. Sorry, my grandma and
the new boyfriend came running to scare out the kangaroo.
There was to put some pants on then then then
start the pickup. It's the triveway to throw the kangaroo.
Kangaroo was unfazed Christian and then grabbed her car keys
(07:17):
and start up ninety eight camaro. Yeah, the kangaro was like, oh,
I'm out of here. You ain't no match for that.
It's not a camaro. Wow. Wait whoa reverse from us?
Oh wow, Christian. I walk home from work most afternoons
along a creek and there was a fa There's a
(07:37):
family of ducks that live there. More than one occasion
of about to sprint because the daddy duck has decided
on far too. They are vicious a little things, aren't they?
Can they move surprisingly quickly with a little waddle? Yes? Yes?
Do you think were you bad to get a load
of animals together? Put them in a race? So emu
versus protective duck versus one bat. I would love to
(07:58):
see it to race for cash? We do we scambals. Yeah,
Australia a century. We can give it ten yes, yes,
call Ko Sports at nine. We're stream it live. All right,
let's go to Dale here. Good morning, Dale.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Morning, How are you?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm good Dale, Welcome to a show. So an animal
chase you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Actually it was my grandma and we were at a
nature park and we were king. We were in the
animal quota and my grandmother decided to get us some
biscuits and my grandmother, not being tall, the taste.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her a little missus doubt Finn. They went for a
shame on you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, she went to her and his use tastes running
around mister tin above her head with tasting it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh no, Nana on the loose, Nana on the run,
Nana on the run. This is another game we could
play for cash? How long?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You know how long before the em you gets the
biscuits from Nana's head.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, he just ended up tacking the tea in and
the imans went to the pink.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Wow, that's what you do.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now we know what to do for cases.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Get the biscuits on your head, all right? Dale, Thank
you very much your story. Thanks you calling the show.
Have a good day. Same to you, Wayne, Thank you
very much. Same to you. Sounds a bit lame, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Same to you what you just said.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You wouldn't put that in a card. Send you having birthday?
Same to you. Wayne, is on the line.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Now come on in Wayne, I'm on in Christen in time.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Same to you, okay.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Whilst northling in Niedisberg in South Australia, I was just
driving down looking at the fish and there was this
beautiful little pufferfish there, so I thought I'd just go
down a bit closer.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
The next minute it just turned and came straight at
my mask.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
So I thought for some reason I was scared, so
I trained for the surface and it was it's out
of jaws.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Not sho I want six inch puffer fish?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
I absolutely panny which inch fish?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I shouted, swimming as fast as I could, and I
thought I'd swim about ten meters, so I'll start, and
I turned and then again through all the bubbles, all
I saw was puffa fish with his teeth going up
and down, coming through the bubbles.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Come on, what's it going to nibble? You take like
a year to nibble a weight your foot and I'd
like giant balloons.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like how fast was it swilling?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, So all my friends for the rest of the
weekend called me puffer.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
God of course, do you know what, Wayne, you give
me an idea for tomorrow show? How did you get
your nickname Puffer? This is how the best nicknames are
born out those stories, aren't they? Wing Wayne, great story, Puffa.
Thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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