Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

We had a great call from Mary, who had a famous neighbour.

My house was on the news because I was a neighbour of Chopper Reed.

I just walked into my front room and saw Chopper and Mark Jacko Jackson, who was his best man, wearing kiltz, having a smoke on my front veranda.

So there was footage of my house with me looking confused in the window and shopper and

Jack.

Would it can feel the weakest claim to neighbourly fame.

Jack, you're any significant neighbours over the years?

Yes, a young singer-songwriter from Australia, Angie McMahon, Triple J lover.

Her parents live over the back.

Oh, wow, okay.

We're taking a couple of steps back from Triple J.

Her parents leave over the back fence and two doors down from me.

It's like a chess move.

Olympic gold medalist Steve Hooker moved into my road about eight months ago.

And we had a street party and all I knew was he was a new neighbor.

I did know who he was.

And he's wearing a baseball cat, right?

He's with his dog and we're just chatting.

And he's talking about the radio show and he's uh i think he knows the

boy's hamish nandy so we're just having a chat and then i started to say what do you do and he

has something to do with housing at the moment and then he said you know i used to be an athlete

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