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

Yesterday we announced the big news and this show is going national next year, all across Australia, into Adelaide, into Perth, at the Sunderland Coast, Brisbane, Sydney.

Thank you very much, everyone who's made this possible by listening to the show, whether that's the last couple of months.

Over the last couple of years, we make the show with you guys every day. That will be exactly the same next year. So thank you very much to all the people have just sent these incredible emails that you do not need to send. But thank you very much that people have sent such a lovely messages. I do appreciate it's more our world that's going to be changing, but it means so much. Christian, did you get to have your takeaway yesterday evening? I heard the big news and your wife texted you during the show. Such a big day. Let's get a takeaway. No. When it came down to it, she said, do you know what, just make some food for us? Not just that. She made me eat something called sauerkraut because apparently it's good for your gut by him. Not on a celebratory day. A bit of cabbage for you. Yeah, a bit of pickles. Pickled cabbage. Picklew. It's sour by name. It is acidic that. But I hope my gut thank me. I really do. So, yeah, we're going to get these lovely messages. Christian, who's

Christian? My 13-year-old and I have been listening to a show for about four years. We moved from

Melbourne to Sydney at the beginning of this year. One of the biggest impacts for us has not been

able to listen to you and the team want to in the school run. Other shows are great. We just want

to say how delighted we are that all of you, you, Patty, Rio and Alex will be returning to our morning routine. Not that long, not that long, just a couple of months' time. Christian, late to the party. It's only been 24 hours, mate. I appreciate you who have lives of your own. Where are the flowers, Tim? When I came in today.

Congratulations on going national.

Christian, Sarah in Adelaide, ready and waiting.

I'll send you the bin stickers.

Yes, if you are in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth or Sydney,

and you already listen to a podcast or listen to show,

we need you to start spreading the word, please. We've got a couple of months. We're going from a very cold start.

An entire country is going to go, who? It's bad enough seven years ago when it was just Melbourne.

Now an entire nation?

Christian, this is great news. I moved from Melbourne to WA a few years ago. I miss you guys. It was such a beautiful start to the day. It's a fresh air, your show. We'll start to spread the word in W.A. I mean, it's a big old stretch. You're a big drive. You know, right out of you from Broome to Mark River. There's a lot of land to cover there.

Maggie, this is fantastic news.

We travel around in our caravan a fair bit. Nice to know we can listen to you in all our favourite places. It's why we did this, really, Maggie. We've really missed you since you left last year. I remember Maggie called in the show, actually. It was her retirement thing, and she was going to go and do a... They were taken literally a couple of years to do a lap of Australia.

So, yeah, we're stalking you, basically, Maggie. So this is what the reaction was like in my house yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, my wife, I hadn't seen all day, she caught up. We caught up right when we sat there and we've shown a cup of tea, as English people do. It's so dramatic. Why don't I put the kettle on, Chris?

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