MINI: Operation Meat Tray
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we're talking about a wild ride in the radio world. Christian shares a hilarious story about how their show's first radio ratings came out, and they're sitting strong in Melbourne. But the real challenge is in Sydney, where the competition is fierce. The team's goal is to move from fourth to third place, and the boss has a special incentive - a meat tray for everyone if they succeed. But what does the show offer that sets it apart? We need you to describe the show in one line and share with us! Email: Christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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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. |
| 0:18.9 | You probably wear how radio works. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm sure that you've read about all the goings on the moment with Carl and Jackio. |
| 0:25.8 | It's dominated the news headlines all of last week and for the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:30.0 | And obviously, we are a breakfast show as well on our of January this year. |
| 0:33.6 | This show is in all five cities. |
| 0:36.3 | We are Australia's first ever national commercial breakfast show. |
| 0:40.3 | And last week was a big moment because it was the first radio ratings of the year. |
| 0:45.7 | And in this country, radio ratings are hysterical, ridiculous. I still can't believe it's actually reported as news. In the UK, it's just news for |
| 0:57.9 | radio nerds. And then I moved here and it was actually on, it was actually on the TV news. |
| 1:04.0 | I sort of, I remember the first couple of months of the show here in 2018. I was just watching the |
| 1:08.4 | TV news and I suddenly saw my face and there was a graph that was not going up to the right. |
| 1:14.1 | I don't know whether I had it upside down the TV company, but it was going down, down, down to the bottom right. |
| 1:19.6 | And there's a picture of me with the headline, expensive foreign import, as if I was some sort of, as if I was a car. |
| 1:26.7 | Like a beautiful silk or China. |
| 1:29.0 | Jaguar. |
| 1:29.5 | Jaguar or Ross Royce. |
| 1:31.7 | So anyway, that was nothing. |
| 1:33.7 | I thought it was a lot of the time and it was. |
| 1:35.6 | And to all the hysterical reaction, the team all saw this. |
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