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The Christian O’Connell Show

FULL: The Capitulation Station

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Music, Comedy

4.7820 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Christian wakes from his “Ashes coma” only to discover England’s record breaking collapse, and we relive every dramatic ball, headline, meltdown and burn. Rio tries to settle on a house that apparently doesn’t exist in any database, sparking a full show investigation into NMI numbers, electricity meters and the mysteries of adulting.

And “Regretcation” week with your holiday from hell stories, including cruises gone wrong, crocodile close calls, flooded bookings, and the most chaotic family trip we’ve ever heard. Plus: mouth ulcer radio, Patsy’s thermal patch disaster, free eggplant, F1 confusion, and an everyday Aussie hero who saved a Greyhound bus driver’s life.

It’s chaos, capitulation and comedy.. from the Ashes to the electricity box.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

iHeart podcasts you can hear more gold 104.3 podcast playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app got anything good

0:10.6

hey this is the christian o'connell show podcast so team you're going to have to help me out here

0:20.4

uh i watched the cricket the ashes ashes, on day one. And then I slipped into a coma. I think I was so excited that we're going to smash you guys. And I've only just woken up. So I presume England won. Yeah, well, you could... Just tell me what happened. We must have smashed you guys because Friday night, it was all in England's favour,

0:38.5

so I presume that would have carried on.

0:39.9

No reason for it not to.

0:41.2

Yeah, I mean, at 3 o'clock, you guys were definitely going to win.

0:43.9

Definitely going to win.

0:44.8

So I've been in a coma since Friday night.

0:48.3

England won by how many wickets?

0:50.3

Nine, ten?

0:52.1

I don't know how to break it to you.

0:54.0

Just give it to me straight, guys. And that must be awkward for you to say congratulations. Because there's no way we would have just... The only word I keep seeing over the weekend is capitulation. I've never said the word in my life, but it's the only word to stop up England's humiliating. There were nine England wickets in 99 balls. Just incredible. Yeah. I'd never seen... First of all, well done, Australia. Amazing stuff. Just on all counts. But I don't think I've ever seen anything so dramatic. Friday was wild. Yeah, Friday was crazy enough. It felt like the whole series in one day. Yes, yeah, yeah. It was like the Game of Thrones, all of Game of Thrones in one day. It was just wild. So we're winning now? Yeah, but you were in an unassailable position. At 3 o'clock, I was complete despair. I was like, well, there's no way we can come back. I presume they're just going to night Ben Stokes by Saturday morning,

1:44.9

wake King Charles up if he's not watching it already.

1:48.0

And then Saturday was another, just a wild, wild run.

1:51.9

Yeah, it was over so quickly.

1:53.5

It was like you went from being in an absolutely unbeatable position to losing by so much.

2:17.5

So much at that level. And also, there's such a long gap in between. It's a really big deal. Yeah, now... It's huge. Now, it's supposed to be 25 days at cricket. We should still be playing cricket. No, I can't, I don't know how England come back. No.

2:17.8

I think, I think that some of that really damages you psychologically. It has to. It does. How could it not? It's such, it's such global humiliation. I'm telling you now, I've seen all the newspaper headlines here. That's nothing compared to how bad it is in the UK. It's awful. You guys are savage. I saw some of those as well.

2:35.0

They did a rap actually.

2:36.1

They'd be trying to get citizenship here.

2:38.2

Yeah. nothing compared to how bad it is in the UK. It's awful. You guys are savage. I saw some of those as well.

2:35.0

They did a rap actually.

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