MINI: The Ashes

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Music, Comedy

4.7 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The anticipation is palpable with "Ashes Fever" at a perfect ten. What started as positive anticipation has transformed into terror for our lone Englishman, who suddenly feels "behind enemy lines" in Australia during this intense five test cricket battle.

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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	I don't know if it's because the Ashes starts today,
0:22.1	but sports guy, Alice Cullen, I can see dancing to this song.
0:25.5	That Gilles is moving.
0:26.7	The North Face Gile is almost off today.
0:29.1	Ash's fever gets higher and higher.
0:32.3	I'm pumped to say this.
0:33.4	Out of 10 for you two right now, what is your temperature right now about Ashes fever? I get the feeling it's at an eight or nine with you two. 110. Yeah, 10, 10. And I forgot because it's in stupid Perth. We have normally be on it like 1030 or 11 the first ball. We've got to wait till 130. I know. Yeah, it does feel like an agonising weight today, doesn't it? It's such a pain.
0:55.5	Also, you know, this week, I was actually in a really positive frame of mine. Now it's actually
0:59.7	here. I'm terrified of the next couple of days. If only wasn't the only English guy on the
1:05.7	radio in this country, suddenly this is a very, very lonely next couple of weeks. Five tests, five days.
1:12.2	It's the loneliest time to be in this country.
1:14.4	I suddenly feel like I come behind enemy lines.
1:17.1	The Christian O'Connell Show.
1:19.1	Go on.
1:19.9	Podcast.
1:22.5	Now, guys, talk about the ashes.
1:24.7	Okay.
1:25.6	Before today's show, I thought, you know what, let's talk about our ashes highlights.
1:31.9	And I didn't realize how far I had to go back in a time machine, which is why I'm now very nervous about the ashes.
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