MINI: How Are Rainbows Made?
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Christian O'Connell's morning show takes a heartwarming turn as he shares a lovely encounter with a dad explaining a rainbow to his kids on the beach. Christian reflects on how he would've handled the situation, and the dad's impressive explanation of refraction leaves him impressed. They dive into the science behind rainbows, discussing light, water, and the colors of the spectrum. Christian shares his own attempts to explain the phenomenon.
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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 | Yesterday I was walking my dog down on the beach near where we live |
| 0:22.4 | and I thought I'd pop into the ocean for a swim |
| 0:26.9 | and I was just getting out, saw a lovely scene, |
| 0:28.9 | I saw a younger dad with his two boys. |
| 0:33.1 | And then both the boys would have been under 10, right? |
| 0:35.5 | And they're having a way of time in there. |
| 0:37.3 | One of them was on the dad's back and the dad was doing a great game where he's pretending that he didn't |
| 0:41.3 | know where his son was he's going he's on your back dad and dad was spinning around and go where |
| 0:45.2 | he's there it was just a lot and it was early in the morning it was a really nice scene and then |
| 0:50.5 | the the younger the two brothers looked down and saw that on the ocean bed on the sand was a rainbow. |
| 0:58.1 | And then he said to his dad, how is there? |
| 1:00.1 | Dad, Dad, there's a rainbow on the floor here. |
| 1:02.3 | On the sand, how is there a rainbow here? |
| 1:05.3 | And the dad sort of looked at me and I look back and go, oh, yeah, there's a lot to explain. |
| 1:13.4 | Because we see a rainbow. We don't really understand what's going on in it and the dad goes it's complicated and I looked over like that ain't |
| 1:19.1 | going to be enough for them they don't it's like a press conference when it gets like that there's many |
| 1:23.5 | more questions to go and then the gun goes what what do you mean? And like, starts trying to |
| 1:28.9 | explain what a rainbow is and why you can see it through the water on the floor of the ocean bed. |
| 1:34.9 | Now, without Googling it, how would you have handled that situation? This dad did a great job. |
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