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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Weak Claim Special: Inventions

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We want to hear your Weakest Claims to Invention Fame

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:05.0

Yesterday, we had some great calls on the weakest claim to fame.

0:08.0

One of our favourite ones was this one about Fredo Frogs.

0:11.0

My grandfather invented the Fredo Frog.

0:14.0

When he was 14, he worked at Mac Robinson, and it was going to be a mouse.

0:18.0

Pop turned around and said, well, the housewives, they're scared of my, so why don't we make it a frog?

0:23.5

And his boss said, well, you make the mould of the frog and we'll do it.

0:27.6

Now, we don't want to look into the validity of that. Why ruin a good time?

0:32.2

I forgot that he was 14. So imagine what you were like at 14. You're just going to go up to what, the board meeting? You know, R&D, research and development. You went to be sweeping the floors. My grandfather invented the Fredo Frog. When he was 14, he worked at Mac Robinson. And it was going to be a mouse. Pop turned around and said, well, the housewives, they're

0:57.9

scared of mine. So why don't we make it a frog? And his boss said, well, you make the

1:02.1

mold of the frog and we'll do it. Imagine where it was a 14, you wouldn't even even even

1:06.2

11-year-old here in the race. So we said the door. I'm about to set something and go, wait a minute.

1:12.6

And I go, how old are you 14?

1:14.1

The housewife's Christian.

1:17.9

And I would just go, well, you make it.

1:19.2

This is amazing.

1:20.8

So we've got to go back into this.

1:22.0

We're doing a special motion now.

1:29.5

The weakest claim to fame simply to do with the subject of inventions. So maybe it's a distant grandfather, maybe it's your dad or your mum.

1:33.0

Any claim to fame, no matter how weak it is to do with inventions,

1:35.5

best song we get by House 7 this morning, we've got gold class,

1:37.0

double by our past to go to Gold Class.

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