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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: 3 Topic Tuesday

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today we're asking three questions.

Have you seen anyone famous in the gym? What don't you have? (after Christian met someone without fingerprints) and what is your town famous for?

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0:00.0

Christian.

0:01.2

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:04.6

Have you ever seen anyone famous in the gym?

0:09.0

Our producer Tom, he told me that he'd seen Bruce Springsteen.

0:13.6

Bruce Springsteen in the gym in Perth, several hours before a show that night.

0:21.7

Bruce Springsteen.

0:22.5

Now, let's hear this eyewitness report right now from producer Tom.

0:25.4

Tom, take us through it.

0:27.8

It was January 22nd, 2017.

0:31.7

I was in the gym in Perth.

0:35.1

First of all, what kind of gym, like a fitness first or one of those 24-hour meathead places? No, it's next gen in Kings Park in Perth. Yeah. And I walked in and there was Bruce Springsteen doing free weights. Free weights. Of course, he's on the free weights, isn't he? And when he does his rep counts as well, he's going, two, three, four, tramstar, girls, son, a broken freeway. So he's doing free weights, and is everyone else going, oh my God, don't look, but that is the boss over there. Yeah, he was doing a tricep curl from Mimrate. Oh, come on. Come on, trisep curl. That's sort of a know, he's been that big power finish. And is this before a show or after a Bruce Springsteen show? Well, no, he was there. It must have been prior to sound check because it was in the morning. Same day as the show. Come on. He does a three and a half hour show. How has he got more energy to get in a quick free weight workout with the dumbbells?

1:30.1

He's the boss.

1:31.3

So how could you tell it was definitely Bruce Springsteen, not just someone who looked a bit like him in Perth? No, it was Bruce Springsteen. You don't mistake the boss when you see him doing tricycle girls. How close were you? It could just look from, if it's doing trisot curls,

1:25.2

you might just see the back of the head of the boss.

1:26.9

Well, I also needed to use the free weight,

1:29.0

so I had to wait for him to finish the same.

1:30.5

Oh, right, you doing trisot curls, you might just see the back of the head of the boss. Well, I also needed to use the free weight, so I had to wait for him to finish the same. Oh, right? You're going, you must done with those? You done with those 40s? You've seen Tom? 40s. That's great. Okay, so have you seen someone famous in the gym?

2:01.8

I met a lady last week who told me she has no fingerprints. What? Oh, like men in black? Yeah. Straight up, right? I was buying someone a gift and it was behind one of these, you know, his cabinets. They don't want you in. You've got to go and ask them to open it up. And normally it's a key thing, but this one, now they don't do the keys,

1:59.8

it's like a fingerprint thing where their staff put the ask them to open it up. And normally it's a key thing, but this one, now they don't do the keys, it's like a fingerprint

2:19.3

thing where their staff put the fingerprint on, it opens up. High tech. Yeah. She goes, oh, no, I can't, I won't be to open this and I have to get one of my assistants to do it. She was the manager of right. And she said, oh, I can't do this. I have no fingerprints.

2:14.4

I went, well, I think everyone has a fingerprint.

2:17.0

That's why criminals are database.

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