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The Christian O’Connell Show

The Best Bits: Midday Befuddlement

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

While the show is away, we’re revisiting some of our favourite moments, including the time Patsy and Christian both had a case of midday befuddlement in the car. Parking Fines and Wrong Cars.

The Christian O’Connell Show returns January 19.

 

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Transcript

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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.

0:19.0

Now, Patsy, you got caught with a parking fine yesterday.

0:22.2

I don't even get me started.

0:23.5

But Patsy is the thing, in this city, there are parking signs that are impenetrable, undecifable.

0:29.5

Four or five different signs.

0:30.5

Yeah, it's when there's like the crest of arms, the herald, where it's like four quadrants.

0:35.2

You're like, with no training, with no formal training, how are I'm going to know what are the different clauses that I'm looking up here? It's like a legal contract in a different language, isn't it? But your one is one of those split down the middle with the no parking sign. Yeah, all right. I see what you're saying. But let's put it into context. One o'clock in the afternoon, half asleep, been up since the middle of the night.

0:56.8

And obviously, All right, I see what you're saying, but let's put it into context. One o'clock in the afternoon, half asleep, been up since the middle of the night.

0:58.4

And obviously my mind... You're walking up that hill again with that sack of wood and bare feet in the snow.

1:01.7

Been up since midnight.

1:03.2

Mine was playing tricks yet again.

1:05.9

And I seriously thought I was in the right.

1:08.9

I thought, no.

1:10.5

I thought it was unusual that I got a park right out the front of a cafe. I was meeting the love God for lunch yesterday at Williamstown. Oh, lovely. Yeah, it was just one of those opportunity. He rings me, hey, I've got a spare 20 minutes, half an hour. Let's meet for, you know, a bit of lunch and how's your father?

1:27.6

What? And so.

1:28.4

Oh, my God.

1:29.5

Out the front.

1:31.1

Suddenly they're in the kitchen in that meat locker.

1:37.9

And right out the front.

1:39.3

How's your father and Bob's your uncle?

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