FULL: Real Men Have Dry Hands
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We kick off with Tombstone Texts, where Patsy's long‑gone cat Puss triggers a discussion about the lifespan of cats.
Small Thing, Big Joy celebrates the little wins - new socks, fancy restaurant soap and dogs with their heads out car windows. Then listeners confess why they got in trouble at school, from flying scissors to mystery detentions.
Plus, Australia’s Funniest Mum continues with more brilliant callers, before the show wraps with Nervous Movies for At Work Time Wasters!
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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. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey, this is Christian here. Thank you very much for checking out today's show. |
| 0:20.0 | Now, the one thing I'm excited to talk about today, something I've been working on for a couple of years. I've written a new book and it's out for pre-order today. It comes out in July. And it's called Unscript, the radical act of being yourself. And it's about something very, very dear to my heart, which is about how we connect to each other and what gets in the way |
| 0:39.2 | to deeper, real connection. And one thing I've noticed, and I know that you all would have |
| 0:44.1 | noticed this as well in your own lives as well, over the last couple of years, we are becoming |
| 0:48.3 | more and more disconnected. As we spend more and more time online, we're losing like this muscle |
| 0:54.0 | that we have to connect with each other. And the more time we time online, we're losing like this muscle that we have to connect |
| 0:55.3 | with each other. And the more time we are online, we think we're being social. And if you |
| 0:59.9 | really think about social media, it's actually that social. It's more about, the algorithm |
| 1:04.6 | wants us to stay in the algorithm. And it feeds us division and anger. It's not about |
| 1:10.6 | true connection. That is not where true connection |
| 1:13.3 | lives in front of each other. We're losing this. And the one thing about why I think radio is a |
| 1:19.0 | magical, magical media more than TV or anything else, is that radio is about right now. And the radio |
| 1:25.3 | we do and the radio you hopefully like listening to. And we've |
| 1:29.4 | heard this to so many stories from you guys day in, day out. Is this a chance to actually |
| 1:34.5 | drop the performance that most of us do in all of our lives? There was a point before I decided |
| 1:39.1 | to move to Australia and really changed our lives where I was driving home from a radio show. |
| 1:43.7 | I'd done four hours. I took for four hours |
| 1:45.5 | I built that show that had two and a half million listeners and you know sometimes you catch yourself in the mirror |
| 1:50.4 | I was stuck in traffic which was every day my life in London and I looked to myself in the in the rearview mirror and I looked away because I suddenly realized you actually haven't said anything for the last four hours that you actually meant. |
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