MINI: Mars Bar vs Milkway
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend Christian watched a tradie chomp down a mars bar in three bites.. as the saying goes "a mars bar a day keeps the doctor away" aka the Mars Bar slogan in the UK in the 80s
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| 0:19.0 | Do you see the moon last night? |
| 0:20.5 | Please tell me you saw it. I did, I did. This morning, it's like some kind of eclipse. Yes, a little slither. Yes. Beautiful blood moon. Very rare. Nightmare, though. Powerful. Crazy, crazy bright night. Couldn't sleep properly last night. Yeah, me too. Yeah. So, you feel there's a strange atmosphere? The weather was a bit squirrelly yesterday. Windy. Witten of Oz in the morning, then clearing yesterday afternoon, sun and then bizarrely mild. Yes. That's really warm. It was warm. You know, like when you're in a tropical country or something before there's a major thunderstorm and the atmosphere is heavy with irons. |
| 0:57.1 | Okay, a lot of ions in the air. I could feel there was ionetic. |
| 0:58.8 | Like crackling. |
| 1:00.6 | Static. |
| 1:01.8 | Static. |
| 1:02.5 | If I was an evil baddie, I'm not. |
| 1:04.6 | But if I was, I'd be harnessing this right now in a strange laboratory. |
| 1:08.4 | Yes. |
| 1:09.5 | But again, just for the record, I'm not. So relaxed, everybody. I was at the servo station the other day, filling up with fuel. And by the way, why can't that be easy? Getting out of the car with that clanky handle and putting it back in. It wasn't improved in a hundred years. No, exactly. Why can't he get with the vacuum where you press the button and just retracts its own lead? |
| 1:29.5 | That. |
| 1:30.2 | Come on, scientists, do that. |
| 1:32.1 | Anyway, as I was going into pay, there was a guy leaving who'd ordered a Mars bar. |
| 1:37.8 | And I don't mean the fun size, a proper, on a fist full of Mars. |
| 1:42.4 | And he's trading, and he was chomping it down crack crack three bites gone wow you don't see that legend that's like wow it's too much for me one of those big ones yeah those days are long behind me as a teenager sure a crazy young kid but in your 30s 40s 50s no way you can be doing that in the 80s in the 80s in the UK, Miles Barr's had a big young kid, but in your 30s, 40s, 40s, no way you can be doing that. |
| 2:01.1 | In the 80s in the UK, Mars Bar had a big national TV campaign. |
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