January 7, 2026 • 4 mins
While the show is away we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite bits..
In this episode of The Christian O’Connell Show, a simple café order in Albert Park turns into a quietly infuriating moment when Christian is charged for bacon he never receives.
The team unpack why so many of us hesitate to speak up in everyday situations, and are ofren guilty of letting small things slide rather than risking awkwardness.
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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 app.
Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Patsy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Actually something happened to me yesterday and thought, I wonder
what pats would have done this situation. I was put
into a very awkward situation yesterday. I went over to
one of the more expensive and pricey and beautiful parts
of Melbourne, Albert Park. Oh yeah, and of course that's
where they have that billionaire sport. F one tickets go
and sell today. You think at midday. So if you
(00:48):
work with a piston head like we do on the
team Lockie, he'll be doing no work from midday. GA
tickets go and sell midday Today. Biggest is going to
be the biggest Australian Grand Prix ever. Next year the
sport gets bigger and bigger and bigger and they release
some more tickets. But anyway, I want to surprise my wife.
She's a massive fan of Elizabeth Gilbert and her new
book came out yesterday and I was ringing around old
(01:08):
see if they had a copy, and Avenue bookstores it's
a brilliant chain of them. There's one here in Richmond.
They didn't have it, yeah, but they did. The one
in albert Park did. So I went over to albert
Park got the book for her to surprise her, and
I thought, I'll have some breakfast, some staffing now. So
it's a gift for my wife and a gift for
Christy boy a listener. It serves me right. So I
(01:30):
wanted some chili scrambled eggs with a side of bacon.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Beautiful nice. I got to pay. I didn't have the bacon.
They charged me for the bacon.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What do you mean you didn't You didn't eat it,
or they didn't they didn't bring it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You didn't say anything even at the time when you
get bacon, I have a real I have a real problem. Right.
If Sarah was star i'd ask her to say something.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Because if you talk for a living, you do stand
up anywhere you jump up into that you won't even So,
where's my Bacon's?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Grown? Ass? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I just skunked out there stopped. I thought, you've grown.
You gotta go back in and say something. But the
listener was so kind. They'd ask for a photo with me.
I can't then go, hey, I think you scam me.
You're tickling my ego one hand, and then you take
your money out of my back pocket.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't think you do. Listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But you tried that one the other day with you know,
Sampang or.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Dam Paint didn't get his posy for me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
One sound but part cafe.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It is a man thing. Produce a tina at a
cafe down the road and they made this terrible coffee.
It was actually foaming up and curdl in this city.
That's unheard, and she's like, send it back.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I was like, possibly, possibly, and she took it up
for me to be even sounded English when you said
I couldn't possibly, that's how we sound.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It makes my blood run.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I would apologize. I would apologize for not having my
own bacony. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I even ordered it.
I'm sorry to ask, I'm sorry to have to I
paid it. It wasn't cheap amber part sign of bloody bacon.
Am I paying for the pig is?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then like Christ, hating myself all day. I was
so annoyed I didn't have the bulls to go in
going hey, listen, you know, you're obviously busy.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But I never got that bacon because then I thought
they might think that I was lying.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I hate the bacon, and that's even worse that
they were with it. I met that English guy once
and he what he does.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He goes around asking for a sign of bacon and
then he eats and goes. I don't get many bacon
bacon deadI mail CMZ.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
This having in Melbourne Park, I frequent corse you do,
Gorsey does. I'm sorry to hear this macon and eating it? Yeah,
so perhaps would you have gone back?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It'd be honest right if it was a listener and
they just asked for a photo with you, would you
go in and go?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're paying twelve dollars more for something good.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No, it's all about timing and it's all about how
you bring the topic up. Chris will do this, won't
say anything, but he'll be scathing in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
My day, Phil field Day and I couldn't go to
sleep as distant.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We just say something strand up and say I'm sorry,
I'm still waiting on my bike anymore. He making me blush,
say anything. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How Yeah, I got this person would do that. I
was giving a very easy to skulk into your radio studio.
Yeah me, twelve bucks Albert Park.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't do that with tried that same scan That
will piastre next year. You know the drivers been massive fan.
That's it man. How is that making another one's forwn
for it Christian O'Connell show on 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 app.
Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Patsy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Actually something happened to me yesterday and thought, I wonder
what pats would have done this situation. I was put
into a very awkward situation yesterday. I went over to
one of the more expensive and pricey and beautiful parts
of Melbourne, Albert Park. Oh yeah, and of course that's
where they have that billionaire sport. F one tickets go
and sell today. You think at midday. So if you
(00:48):
work with a piston head like we do on the
team Lockie, he'll be doing no work from midday. GA
tickets go and sell midday Today. Biggest is going to
be the biggest Australian Grand Prix ever. Next year the
sport gets bigger and bigger and bigger and they release
some more tickets. But anyway, I want to surprise my wife.
She's a massive fan of Elizabeth Gilbert and her new
book came out yesterday and I was ringing around old
(01:08):
see if they had a copy, and Avenue bookstores it's
a brilliant chain of them. There's one here in Richmond.
They didn't have it, yeah, but they did. The one
in albert Park did. So I went over to albert
Park got the book for her to surprise her, and
I thought, I'll have some breakfast, some staffing now. So
it's a gift for my wife and a gift for
Christy boy a listener. It serves me right. So I
(01:30):
wanted some chili scrambled eggs with a side of bacon.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Beautiful nice. I got to pay. I didn't have the bacon.
They charged me for the bacon.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What do you mean you didn't You didn't eat it,
or they didn't they didn't bring it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You didn't say anything even at the time when you
get bacon, I have a real I have a real problem. Right.
If Sarah was star i'd ask her to say something.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Because if you talk for a living, you do stand
up anywhere you jump up into that you won't even So,
where's my Bacon's?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Grown? Ass? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I just skunked out there stopped. I thought, you've grown.
You gotta go back in and say something. But the
listener was so kind. They'd ask for a photo with me.
I can't then go, hey, I think you scam me.
You're tickling my ego one hand, and then you take
your money out of my back pocket.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't think you do. Listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But you tried that one the other day with you know,
Sampang or.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Dam Paint didn't get his posy for me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
One sound but part cafe.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It is a man thing. Produce a tina at a
cafe down the road and they made this terrible coffee.
It was actually foaming up and curdl in this city.
That's unheard, and she's like, send it back.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I was like, possibly, possibly, and she took it up
for me to be even sounded English when you said
I couldn't possibly, that's how we sound.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It makes my blood run.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I would apologize. I would apologize for not having my
own bacony. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I even ordered it.
I'm sorry to ask, I'm sorry to have to I
paid it. It wasn't cheap amber part sign of bloody bacon.
Am I paying for the pig is?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then like Christ, hating myself all day. I was
so annoyed I didn't have the bulls to go in
going hey, listen, you know, you're obviously busy.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But I never got that bacon because then I thought
they might think that I was lying.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I hate the bacon, and that's even worse that
they were with it. I met that English guy once
and he what he does.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He goes around asking for a sign of bacon and
then he eats and goes. I don't get many bacon
bacon deadI mail CMZ.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
This having in Melbourne Park, I frequent corse you do,
Gorsey does. I'm sorry to hear this macon and eating it? Yeah,
so perhaps would you have gone back?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It'd be honest right if it was a listener and
they just asked for a photo with you, would you
go in and go?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're paying twelve dollars more for something good.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No, it's all about timing and it's all about how
you bring the topic up. Chris will do this, won't
say anything, but he'll be scathing in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
My day, Phil field Day and I couldn't go to
sleep as distant.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We just say something strand up and say I'm sorry,
I'm still waiting on my bike anymore. He making me blush,
say anything. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How Yeah, I got this person would do that. I
was giving a very easy to skulk into your radio studio.
Yeah me, twelve bucks Albert Park.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't do that with tried that same scan That
will piastre next year. You know the drivers been massive fan.
That's it man. How is that making another one's forwn
for it Christian O'Connell show on podcast
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