The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast, Melbourne's Gold 104.3.

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This is the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Melbourne's Gold 104.3.

Good morning. It's the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. Thursday morning.

How can it be, right?

This country, Melbourne gets used to being hot during its summer.

I know you have rain and at the moment we have thunder and lightning during the night.

Yep.

How can it surprise the people that look after the electricity,

that guess what,

people might put on the air conditioning at the same time to deal with the heat?

Power cut yesterday, power outage, run at our house from 2 till about 8 o'clock in the evening.

Now, do they choose the power outages purposefully or is it just an overload?

Because I only heard about the brownout.

Pat, you were telling me about the brownout.

That doesn't... Have you got the phrase right there, you know,

because I've had a couple of brownouts before and some big old nights out, you know?

I've had a brownout.

Well, I don't think that's got anything to do with the electric.

I try to blame it on that.

Explain the brownout.

But it wasn't a brownout yesterday for you, Christian, was it?

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