MINI: Do Sydney Listeners Use Dryers?
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Christian O'Connell's Monday Menders share their weekend DIY triumphs and disasters. From fixing a spinning brush on a robot vacuum cleaner to unclogging a toilet. Christian also dives into a lighthearted rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne, with some surprising claims about dryers and oysters.
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| 0:00.0 | IHart Podcasts. |
| 0:02.3 | You can hear more |
| 0:03.1 | Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, |
| 0:05.8 | 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. |
| 0:18.8 | You may have noticed this, but I'm not from Australia. |
| 0:22.9 | And I often get fed a load of lies and generalisations from the pin-headed producers that surround me, |
| 0:29.5 | of which Rio bounces in and out of that group sometimes. |
| 0:32.6 | I was talking about how over the weekend I mended my dry, and Rio goes to me, |
| 0:36.4 | never had a dry, people in Sydney don't have drys. |
| 0:39.1 | It's true. |
| 0:39.7 | There's a never-ending list of people in Sydney. |
| 0:41.7 | Rio is a Sydney cider and there is this strange, never really discussed that much rivalry |
| 0:47.8 | between the two, I assume there was twin cities of Melbourne and Sydney. |
| 0:51.7 | There is a strange rivalry. |
| 0:54.1 | I've asked people in Sydney about this. They go, oh, it's a Melbourne thing. There is a strange rivalry. |
| 1:13.4 | I've asked people in Sydney about this. They go, oh, it's a Melbourne thing. It's the problem they have with us. They're jealous. When I asked my fellow Melbourneians, they're like, oh, it's this. They think they're better than us. This is another one from Rio where people in Sydney don't have dryers. They don't. I've never seen a cigarette in Sydney. There's people listening right now in Balkan Hills, right? |
| 1:13.4 | Or Cornell are going, I've never seen a cigarette in Sydney. I'm guarantee now there's people listening right now in Bulkham Hills, right? |
| 1:25.4 | Or Conella are going, I've got a dryer. You don't need a dryer in Sydney. You're not in Dubai. You have rain there, you have winter. We had a dryer. Wasteful. Wasteful. Wasteful. Don't need a dryer. Thanks, Alex. |
| 1:27.7 | He just, and just now he started going, |
| 1:30.7 | yeah, people in Sydney don't go out to many sporting events. |
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