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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Hard Talk, Hard Cheese

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

After a cheesy Misheard Lyric on yesterday's show we went down the cheese rabbit hole. Grab a wedge and get ready to dive deep into the cheesy abyss.

What makes the perfect hard cheese? Is cheddar cheese really all it's cracked up to be? And does parmesan deserve its place at the top? We'll tackle all the big questions.

Let us know which hard cheese you're ride or die for christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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Transcript

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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.

0:19.1

Yesterday, during the misheard lyrics, one of them was about hard cheese, and we started to speculate about our favourite hard cheeses and get into quite a hard talk about hard cheese.

0:28.7

And sadly, and I got thousands, if not millions of complaints, we ran out of time.

0:33.5

And now I listened to feedback, and I was hauled over the coles by the boss and said,

0:38.0

you should have dropped the rest of that pony old show you do.

0:41.6

And just solid 45 minutes, cleared the ads, cleared the songs and just gone into it, deep dive.

0:47.0

Boss, Sue, you're right.

0:48.4

I was wrong.

0:49.4

I'm still learning, still learning from the wise master.

0:52.9

So now we have time to the next 20 minutes to have

0:56.8

a hard talk about hard cheese. Great. Where are we on this? Who is in the corner of Edam? Are we all

1:03.2

cheddar? Who's with me with Manchago? Parmesan. Now that parmesan for me is untouchable goat.

1:11.4

I don't know how I actually don't know how you could put up any other cheese that comes close to it.

1:15.8

It does everything.

1:16.9

Bolognese.

1:17.9

It's a utility player, Swiss army knife.

1:20.3

You're right, I had a Caesar salad last night.

1:22.3

You put a bit of parmesan to flavor it up.

1:25.5

Yes, it's umami.

1:46.3

Spag ball. You can grate it. In a sandwich itself. Oh, yes. With some cured meats. No, it is. It's lovely. It's lovely. No, no, with some cured meats. Yeah, yeah, some chili jam. Yeah, you're talking. Yes. All right. So in terms of power rankings, all right?

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