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The Christian O’Connell Show

BEST OF: There Were Fireworks!

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

While Christian is away we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits!

From the absurdity of a man's shower giving way, to the ridiculousness of a clown shortage, and career profiling. 

Plus Small Thing, Big Joy!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

IHart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.

0:09.3

Got anything good?

0:11.1

Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:18.6

All right, this morning, the Uber driver bringing me today was a lovely guy called Kevin. And we got starting talking and he wanted to know where I was going. What did I do for a living? What's my job? So I started talking to about what we do. And he said, oh my God, how do you know what to talk about? Do you ever run out of things to talk about? I said, no, not really because in any life so much happens to people. My job is to simply pay attention, right, and collect stories, mine and other people's. So I said, so what do you do? He goes, well, I used to work in property insurance and now work in marine insurance. I said, you must have what, you deal with claims. He was like, yeah, you must have had some crazy calls what just happens in people's homes that they have to call you and claim for. And he goes, oh, yeah, actually. There was a couple years ago, this lady was having a shower, and there must have been a leak going on for quite a while. The shower basin just gave way, and it was a two-story building. She went from the first floor to the ground floor into her own kitchen.

1:13.4

Oh my.

1:14.4

The shower gave way.

1:15.8

And I went, what?

1:17.6

I went, excuse me, I'm going to get my phone out.

1:20.4

I just typed in, it gave way.

1:23.1

And he goes, yeah, then there was the old lady on the toilet.

1:25.6

I went, what about the old lady in the toilet?

2:03.1

Some 70-year-old lady was on the toilet on the first floor again, and the toilet just gave way her sitting on it crashes to the floor beneath. She was not injured. It's a miracle. Wow. But she was calling to explain why she needs to make an insurance claim. You would think it's a prank caller. Oh, yeah, you're toilet. A lady flying through the air. Okay, madam. Okay, ease up on the meds. So I don't know if we're going to get any more stories, or we've heard the stories we're ever going to get for. It gave way. But if anyone's got a story that involves something giving way,

2:04.8

I want to hear about this morning.

2:07.0

The Christian O'Connell Show.

2:07.7

Go on.

2:08.5

Podcast.

2:12.8

Guys, just had some really exciting news on the producers.

2:15.4

They said, listen, we've got a couple of stories lined up,

2:18.2

a couple of callers with It Gave Way.

2:19.6

No one died in them.

2:20.7

They're not... Caitlinie producer, who can be quite direct with her language, she's spoken.

2:25.0

I'm not saying that's good or bad.

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