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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: 3 Word Weekend

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Christian O'Connell shares a hilarious and relatable story about a chaotic weekend in Sydney, where he got separated from his phone at the airport and had to rely on the kindness of a stranger, to get back on track. 

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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.

0:09.2

Got anything good?

0:11.1

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

0:19.0

That's the story of your weekend in three words. Texted to me. Your three-word weekend,

0:24.7

0-475-03-1043. My three-word weekend really is about what happened Friday. And it's good people

0:33.0

everywhere. Right now, there's a lot of very scary things happening in the world right now.

0:38.3

But we have to remind ourselves that there are good people everywhere.

0:41.1

I saw this on Friday.

0:42.8

So last week, we were doing the show in Sydney, and I wasn't very well.

0:48.0

And even when I did the show Thursday and Friday, it felt even worse Friday.

0:51.9

And so, because of Caitlin had to remind me what my flight time was,

0:55.6

and it was an hour earlier than I thought.

0:57.4

And so it was chaos even getting to the airport.

0:59.9

So much so.

1:00.8

You know everything is on our phones now?

1:02.7

Boarding passes, phone numbers, credit cards.

1:05.9

I get to Sydney Airport,

1:07.6

and I go to grab my phone to scan my boarding pass so I can get the ticket to put

1:12.4

my suitcase and then I realized to my utter horror, oh my God, I've left my phone in the

1:17.4

airport. Now I'd got an Uber to the airport and then the Uber driver had accidentally

1:22.8

dropped me off at the wrong terminal and so I then just went outside the front of the wrong terminal. And there

1:28.9

was a kind taxi driver who said it's all the way over there. He went, hey, listen, I could see you running late. Get in. I'll drive you around there now for free. It's a lovely guy called Michael. So anyway, we go around there and then I leg it out. And obviously I realized, oh my God, I don't have this Michael's phone number. I don't know what the taxi company was. He's got my phone. I can't, well, I'm not going to get on this plane. And then of course, everything is on there, credit cards, everything. I'm thinking, what do I, what do I actually do? You're completely rendered useless. And I was sweating. I was really unwell. I remember just resting my head against

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