MINI: Best Of The Christian O'Connell Show
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
While Christian is away on his break, we're going through some of our favourite bits from the show so far.
We can't go past some of these calls we got off the back of Christian's story about coming to this wife's rescue when she ran out of fuel.
Do you do run the fuel gauntlet? Got a funny story about running out of petrol?
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.3 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | I got a phone call yesterday from my wife who was hysterical, and it was the car has mysteriously stopped working. |
| 0:13.0 | So she rings her like the car, it was moving, Chris, and now it's just stopped working. |
| 0:17.2 | I immediately said, you drive around half the time with that blinking |
| 0:21.3 | reserve fuel light on you've run out of fuel Chris I'm not stupid it's not that it was |
| 0:26.5 | driving along can you go and pick up me and lower so I go to get by the way she's 40 seconds |
| 0:31.9 | away right I can't you walk you're out of the corner not on this footwear Chris just |
| 0:37.1 | get in a car and come so i go |
| 0:39.1 | and pick her up and my other door to runs out the car towards me laughing hysterically going it's |
| 0:43.9 | right it's right it is the fuel and i i got to be honest right i go yes because for all of our 26 |
| 0:50.6 | almost 26 years of marriage i've said this day would come you can't keep rolling that It's going to bite you on the back side and it finally happened. But it's a diesel car. And when Teasel's run out, it's a major problem. You have to like bleed the engine, get these air gaps, some of this. So anyway, she goes, can you go and go to the servo and buy the old Jerry can of shame and put five bucks worth in there |
| 1:11.1 | and so I'm there with that little can and people judge you because they think... Yeah, and I didn't want to go, it's my wife and then people are going, Guy, it's you, don't do that, don't be that guy. So then, so yeah, she finally, it finally happened. So how do you actually don't even know how you do that? You fill up the jerry can And then you get a funnel or a tube and then pour it back in. |
| 1:09.3 | Yes. |
| 1:09.6 | Okay. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.8 | And you're there by the fill up the jerry can, then you get a funnel or a tube and then pour it back in. |
| 1:28.6 | Yes. |
| 1:28.9 | Okay. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.2 | And you're there by the side of the road. People are driving around and they're like staring out. And you know the dad is going, he's run out of a few. So stop me. My wife, you can't see if she's in the car. Stop judging me. I know. I'm not one of these people. |
| 1:25.4 | As soon as it flashes, |
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