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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Phobias

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Christian has discovered the weird phobia or someone he works with, so now he wants to know yours

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0:00.0

So yesterday at this radio station,

0:06.6

Huggy, our midfield general, Mr. Midmornings here, marked 29 years at this radio station,

0:12.8

a remarkable rum, which says a lot about just how well-loved he is and how good he is at his job.

0:18.1

Day in day out, he's never down. He's always happy to be on air.

0:22.2

And there are a lot of people who, when they've been in Radio Wilder, Jay, he didn't

0:25.0

cynical.

0:25.7

Huggy isn't one of them.

0:26.4

He's got a genuine joy of radio.

0:29.1

And the legacy of radio and still being lucky to be part of it today.

0:31.9

And when we started here, he was nothing but behind that 100% when he didn't need to be. So anyway, it's a big day yesterday for the station.

0:38.5

And obviously, Pat, you're out in Werribee after the show.

0:40.9

We all sat around and we sang kind of happy radio birthday to Huggy.

0:45.5

And we had some cake.

0:47.7

Now, I didn't know this about Huggy.

0:49.4

I've been working with him two years.

0:50.7

I met his lovely wife and now about his family and stuff like that.

0:53.3

But I didn't know about this, is the big guy's got a very specific fear to do with cake. Do you know this?

0:59.8

Yes. It's well known and well documented in that building in there. He, um, listeners have

1:06.2

sent him cakes and he hasn't liked to eat them. Well, there's a separate thing about why you

1:10.7

shouldn't do that because they might be poisoned.

1:13.2

But, you know, his fear of cakes is about, he'd say, it's a fear of not knowing the origins

1:18.2

of the cake.

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