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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Welcome To The Brightside Pete!

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Christian is excited to welcome Pete, a former key member of the Kyle and Jackie O show, to The Christian O'Connell Show! With a mix of humour and heart, Pete talks about his new role and the energy he's bringing to the team.

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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

Now this is genuinely very, very exciting. I'm sure most of you were. It's been a little interesting in breakfast radio here in Sydney. The entire world is talking about what's happened the last couple months, the fallout, with the explosion of the Carl and Jackie O's show. It's been huge. And I'm aware right now

0:40.4

that a lot of people are flicking around and a lot of people who love that show, number one

0:43.9

rating show for two decades right here in Sydney. So I'm very, very excited to announce

0:49.1

out of all of that. One guy who's been a very, very big part of that show, and that entire show,

0:54.7

whatever you think of the kind of Jackie O's show, very big, hardworking team to put that

0:58.8

together. And one of them was a guy called Intern Pete, a very familiar voice on that show.

1:04.2

An outstanding human, very talented producer, and I'm genuinely really excited to welcome him

1:09.8

now. I saw him last week.

1:11.4

He was homeless just by the bin singing and doing some tap dancing and see if anyone wanted to do

1:16.8

an impromptu lie detector test. And I offered him a job on the spot. Welcome to the bright side

1:21.9

the doll. That was a journey. Good morning. There's a hell of a journey. Seeing you there.

1:27.5

Welcome down. You'll find there's a lot of a journey. That was a... We went out and down.

1:28.1

Thank you.

1:28.3

Welcome. You'll find there's a lot of that in this show.

1:29.9

Intern Pete joins to Bright Side the Dial. Welcome to us. Thank you so much, guys. Absolute honour to be here this morning. I'm completely overwhelmed, but I'm so, so excited to be here. So how does it feel today? you announced this morning just after 8 o'clock saying that you're leaving and goodbye to the audience that you've been a big part of for many, many years. How many years were you with Conjerk? It was there 12 and a half years. So since we launched KISS basically. Oh, wow. You've been to have been through a lot with everybody. Yeah, long time, long time there. and yeah, big evolving changes there, which is great for them now,

2:03.2

because I'm here, which is very exciting as well. That's going to frame it. It's great for them. Do you mean the court cases? No, well, no, no, I'm having a half full, glass half empty. Old mate's got a job on breakfast ready. It's all good for Pete. Okay. Who knew he'd be the last person standing? Right.

2:35.5

The new king of Sydney. That's right. And you get the golden microphone, don't you? That much all you're using at the moment. I will go and get that as well. You got your grubby little hands on that, have you? It's like Game of Thrones. They're all stripping stuff and selling the merch. The copper out of the walls. Do you guys want the birthday wheel? because that is totally like a $30,000. We don't want the cock.

2:36.4

You can keep that pink.

2:37.2

Okay, no worries, Cashcock is. The copper out of the walls. Do you guys want the birthday wheel? Because that is totally my $50,000.

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