MINI: The Willy Wonka Experience
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | I couldn't get enough of a emerging news story coming from Scotland yesterday. |
| 0:09.8 | We have these big TVs out here in the office where the sales team sit. |
| 0:13.5 | These massive big TVs have got like, I don't know why they would have the news on, by the way. |
| 0:17.5 | They always got the news on. |
| 0:18.4 | But anyway, they had like this big flash up. |
| 0:20.7 | The headline was, immersive wonka experience horrifies children. And it was like some sort of made |
| 0:27.6 | up from a very funny, satirical American website, The Onion. And I got my phone out to take a photo |
| 0:33.1 | because I immediately thought, I need to know about this. It's not something you don't really see that together. |
| 0:39.2 | It felt like the ghost of Wonka was putting this together |
| 0:41.7 | because, you know, basically four kids died in the original immersive Wonka experience. |
| 0:47.5 | Those people are lucky they left with their wives and only losing their lives, |
| 0:51.1 | only losing 70 bucks. |
| 0:52.2 | But in Scotland, what was advertised as Willie's Chocolate Experience, |
| 0:57.4 | charging 70 bucks entry, |
| 1:00.7 | it was an immersive experience that promised to transport |
| 1:03.1 | Willie Wonka fans to a magical realm was such a letdown |
| 1:06.3 | that they called the police and said it looked like a meth lab. This is what happened to some of the people |
| 1:12.9 | that were in train spotting. They tried to rip off gullible Scottish families. And the police |
| 1:19.8 | were called, they called the police. Imagine you had such a bad experience that a kid's |
| 1:23.8 | non-attraction. You called the police. But it looks so bad. |
| 1:28.3 | It's awful. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from GOLD and iHeart Australia, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of GOLD and iHeart Australia and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

