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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three
podcast playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good Morning Rio, Good morning, Good Morning Patsy. That'd be Friday,
and good morning Alex Cullen. Morning. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So every Friday, the first half an hour on our
show we go around the team. You also take partners
as well. We talk about the things that were really
enjoying this week. It might be a book, it might
be a TV show, something to stream or watch. Text
me yours O four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We call it double thumbs up. Two things from me
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I saw a photo a couple of weeks ago of
a man playing American football. He's on the sidelines. He's
the Philadelphia Eagles receiver A. J. Brown in his moment
between plays, and that he's reading a book. I assuming
think of Bloody or whatever this book is. It must
be really good. He's finding a calm, his center in
amongst all the chaos. He's reading this book called Inner
Excellence by Jim Murphy. I buy the book. I finished
(01:15):
it this week. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh what's it about? It's literally about inner excellence.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
He was Jim Murphy is a former pro baseball player
and now a coach for leaders, executives.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And other athletes and olympians all over the world.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a great book, great stories, good mix of like
too much science. But I've read quite a few books
on peop performance and mental states.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Now this is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I get why in the middle of a football game,
aj Brown is having a quick read, flick through a
little reminder and centering himself. I cannot recommend that enough
as a reason why. It's got like it's like three
thousand and five star reviews on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Wow, there's a few AFL players I've noticed that have
started reading before games as well. Jack Ginovan walks around
kicking a footy. I don't know, I'm not sure what
he's reading, but he's reading a book before.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Games as well.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now, comorick enough if you interested that kind of thing.
Inner excellence by the guy's called Jim Murphy. The other
thing this is on Channel seven last weekend. I couldn't
believe this is an inexcess documentary live at Wembley and
about an amazing show that they had in nineteen ninety
one at Wembley Stadiums behind the scenes, brilliant interviews. The
reason why I is a is exo special for me
(02:22):
that I was there. I was there nineteen ninety It
was the first gig I ever went to see my friend.
I was only seventeen me and my friend was seventeen.
He passed his driving test at seventeen. You can take
your driving test to pass at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
UK. He drove all the way to London.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm not from London, as we drove for two hours
in his VW Beetle that mom and Dad had got
him and we never even I've never even been to
London before. Was seventeen. We went to Wembley Stadium. It
was the first time I'd ever seen a music concert
and it happened to be my favorite band in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And that was in excess.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so I can't believe that they've made a documentary
about this show. And of course there were no camera phones.
There's no way I've got no photos of that other
than what is a hazy memory now. But I remember
the road trip up and going into London because it
was also exciting and the really big thing was Michael Hutchins.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Oh my god, just he had the leather cacs.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And also these days with Instagram, YouTube and social media,
we see a lot of our favorite rock stars. The
only way you got to see it is if they're
on the news or if you were in a stadium.
So it's the first time I've ever seen what a
rock star was. And it was like looking at an
exotic bird. It was just a beautiful guy, just magnetic, charismatic.
(03:34):
He was like drinking a vodka bottle. It was like
it was like pure rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And they were and also obviously a great front man,
tragic story, great front man, a brilliant, brilliant backing band
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What a great band they were live yep, still one
of my favorite shows.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I always think the first one always has a special
place in your memory. But to sit back and watch
what I haven't watched since nineteen ninety and one was
a real joy for me last weekend. It's up there
if you want to see it again and you're a big
music fan or an excess fan. They've got some great
behind the scenes footage interviews with the rest of the
remainding members of the band in Excess live at Wembley.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's on the seven plus player. Cannot recommend enough.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What were you just quickly, guys, what were your first
music shows you ever saw?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Was it a few parts.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Prince in the late nineties got us a big one. Yeah,
but I'm so jealous of you within Excess because the crowd,
the footage of the crowd was just phenomenal. I saw
that the other night. I think it was a Sunday night.
It was on seting yes, and I said to Chris.
I turned to Chris and I said, do you know,
I say, was at.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
This my first one? Yeah? Amazing? Yeah, Prince is incredible though.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, he was great. He was great, and he was
it his Diamonds and Pearls album, I think that tour
and he was where was it at rod Laver Arena
which was Melbourne Park then?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And he was on.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
A bed which gravitated on a big long arm out
over the audience as he's saying.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah again, just pure rock and roll. It was fantastic.
Who was it, Fury? Your first concert? Gigybs?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It was year ten, so I was fourteen and I
went to wolf Mother.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was the Great Noise and Energy.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So they had just released their EP but not the
full album. It was at Harden Pavilion in Sydney and
I was tiny, like I'm not even big now, but
when I was fourteen, I was even like more scrawny
and in the moshpit of these huge, hulking men just
getting I barely remember seeing it because you were just
just getting smashed around.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
By these blokes. But it was Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
That was truly a trial by fire.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm guessing for you, Alex, you know in some of
your taste, and it was it barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You're never done by the Swan at Thersl Club. No,
it was the Chemical Brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh Wow. At the Point Theater.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
In Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh gat a great music venue that is just nineteen
ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They just cleanse, surrender, hey boy, hey girl, And I
will never forget it as an eighteen year old kid
from the back of nowhere, just going how good is this?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Where am I for a start? Yeap?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And I just absolutely went off, really really had a
good time. I bought a T shirt. I don't know
what happened to the T shirt. Disappointingly, I wish I
still had it full of holes, but that was just unbelievable.
I'm a massive, massive fan of the Chemicker Brothers, as
is my brother who got to.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
See that they did with Noel Gallagher.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What was it called? They did a trap with no
years ago. It's a huge hit. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
These are great, these memories of your first ever gig
that you ever saw at Stay stays with you, Text
me yours on four seven five three, one oh four three,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Take a break, will be back with Rio.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Pats Analysis Double thumbs up gold one of four point.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Three Christian O'Connell show go on podcast. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Everyone is learning to know about the first gig you
ever saw. Mine was nineteen ninety one at Wembley Stadium
in London and in excess and Channel seven Bozoti had
a big documentary about it last weekend. Watch it. It's
a great watch. Patsily, what are you giving your double
thumbs up?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, I've got to rip a book, I'm Your Perry Godmother,
which is just one of the best titles you will
ever have and it's written by Shelly Horton, who is
a media commentator here in Australia who happened to be
on my podcast on this second season. Honestly, I felt
like I had known her, like we were best friends
in a previous life. We had the best chat. Anyway,
(07:21):
She's written this amazing book about her experience with perimenopause,
and I love the way she's written it. Reading it
is it's a bit like your book. Actually, the way
she's written it in that it is like she is
talking to you in your ear. It's not book speak,
it's not you know, jargon, it is just Shelley and
it is fantastic. She is in season two of Rage
(07:42):
Against the Menopause, which you can download on the iHeart
platform or wherever you get your podcasts. Have a listen.
I have a couple of copies that she's sent me,
so if anyone would like a copy, please just jump
into my DMS and I'll post it out to you.
So if that's for you, go for it. The other thing,
we've been to the movies to see Freaky of Friday.
(08:03):
I wasn't that the other two in the family said hey,
let's go to the movies. We'll go say that, but
it actually was good and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's her movie.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
She was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
She's having this incredible renaissance right to her career. Obviously
she's brilliant than the band. And now yeah, people are
raving about how.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Great she is in it.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know what I love about her, how gracefully she's
aging and just you know, not being fake. She's just
a self and she's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So author beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She's great beautiful, but she's she's very funny in this.
It's just you can't take your eyes off her on
the screen. She's just electric. And the other thing, I've
just finished my tax and I have found the best
life saving app for you know, when you go for
your tax, you've got all your receipts and you every
tax season you say, you know what next year?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is every year.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Next year, I'm going to make a pack to myself
and my accountant. I am going to be super uber
organized next year. And you never want you never ever are.
So it's just there's a lot of different apps. The
one that I've got on my phone is H and
R Block. It's that the tax tra what it is
you can when you say you're going to claim parking
(09:13):
right and you've got a receipt, take a screenshot, and
it categorizes it by date, by month, by what it is,
you know, parking or whether it's I don't know, meals
or entertainment, whatever it is. It's brilliant and it helps
you get organized. It is brilliant. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you know what I have to do every year?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I have to print off all my Amazon receipts and
go through them.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah, same, No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
No, it's that. It takes. It takes over a week.
I'm so badly organized.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And I literally have a tray that occasionally our chuck
a receipt in with no idea.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, well we had like a ziplock, a big ziplock
bag that goes above the fridge in the kitchen. And
also christ Yeah noah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'm hoping Ai. I'm homing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
If AI can do one thing for humanity, it's everyone
who self employed us to do their taxes.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's hell, isn't it? Trust And you're right there you go.
I'm going to write a note to myself.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yes, mean twelve months time, I've given you a gift
every four weeks, so I'm going to go through all
my receipt.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm never going to do it. You never do never
going to that. DNA has never changed your gun.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You think, no, ill if I just do it with
each like each time I get a receipt, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How hard is that?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And you never do it?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Get the air?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Great, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back and
we'll get into double thumbs Up with Rio and Alyx.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show. On the show right now,
we're doing double thumbs Up. You tell us about the
things you're into at the moment that you would recommend.
It might be a TV show book, whatever it is.
Oh four seven five three one oh four three, Rio,
what's yours?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I'm watching the second season, the new season of the craziest,
most unique show that I would say maybe ever been made.
It's called The Rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I saw the first season. I had to stop watching.
I found it so I felt sorry for the people
that are not kind of being pranked.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's like a high level pranking.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, it is like a social experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's all very upfront.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
The premise of it is and Fielder is a comedian
and like a documentary maker, and he finds people on
Craigslist who have a difficult situation coming up. And then
kind of like Willy Wonka, he recreates in excruciating details,
full replicas of the scenario so they can rehearse every
single different permutation of the event before it happens. So
(11:30):
one example is, and this is probably the one where
you got very uncomfortable, was the woman who wanted to
have a baby?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, that one.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
He recreates an exact replica of her house. He hires
actors to follow her, neighbors, her bosses, everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
In her It's like Truman shops, exactly like the Truman
It's a genius and of.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Production and how they must be millions, it's crazy and that.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And then he has like a rotating cast of babies
and then child actors and to progress.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It blows your mind how they make it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's worth watching a couple of episodes you never see, right,
You've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It is a hard watch at times, but it will
blow your mind. The second season. If you thought, if
you're uncomfortable the first season, please at least watch the
first three episodes. Yeah, there are times It's the only
show where you have to pause it and you have
to swear, you have to go your jaw drops the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
All right, I'm going to go back into it them
where are you watching it? Also her salng HBO Max right,
HBO Max, Alex, what are you giving your double thumbs
up to you?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Mate? Just quickly?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
The Agenda Setter is on Channel seven Monday and Tuesday
night from seven pm.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I love it. I think they do such a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, you would have been new to this, like Caro
and Carol Wilson is just one of the best sports journalists.
I'm just going to say, one of the best journalists
this country's ever seen. Her access and the respect they
have for her on that show is really palpable as well.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like I love how they deal with her.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I love like cane corns, they stop and they listen
to Carrow because she com on that show.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Default they're all so cowardly in the wake of like
when she glanced at them, like to say, just to
find that point.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Nick Parts thought, you know, had a bit of a
stashed the others after that, Sonya Hood was being sick
a fantic when they got to Alastair Clarkson there at
North Melbourne and that it was ding ding it was on.
But they came back the next week and everything was
okay again. But look, that's a really good show I'm
enjoying and I urge you to watch that. Also, where's Wally?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Remember where's Wally?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well from They've been around for like one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
One of the joys of having children is you get
to walk back down memory lane and show them what
you read as a child. Listen.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The idea of this is every week as we talk
about new things, were talking about that TV show we
talk commentary, this has come out shut out.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
To e t the movie. Listen, this is just alien.
This is what I'm enjoying. Where's Wally? We found him.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He's over there on the show right now in the
blue jumper.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Sliced bread, Christy, you heard it here first?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Bread? Sandwich or toast? Listen. Martin Hanford is the ill strata,
the writer is word. We're going and said, yeah, we're
going to the news and sport right now. No one's going.
Hang on a minute, let me grab a pen.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The man on the radio is telling about this brilliant
new book for children seven ways in Wallas worldwide.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's sometimes it took him eight weeks to do a
single illustration.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I've just started reading a new book. It's called The Bible.
No spoilererts, but does he come back at the end?
All right, let's get the latest news and sport now
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three
podcast playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Got anything good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good Morning Rio, Good morning, Good Morning Patsy. That'd be Friday,
and good morning Alex Cullen. Morning. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So every Friday, the first half an hour on our
show we go around the team. You also take partners
as well. We talk about the things that were really
enjoying this week. It might be a book, it might
be a TV show, something to stream or watch. Text
me yours O four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We call it double thumbs up. Two things from me
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I saw a photo a couple of weeks ago of
a man playing American football. He's on the sidelines. He's
the Philadelphia Eagles receiver A. J. Brown in his moment
between plays, and that he's reading a book. I assuming
think of Bloody or whatever this book is. It must
be really good. He's finding a calm, his center in
amongst all the chaos. He's reading this book called Inner
Excellence by Jim Murphy. I buy the book. I finished
(01:15):
it this week. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh what's it about? It's literally about inner excellence.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
He was Jim Murphy is a former pro baseball player
and now a coach for leaders, executives.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And other athletes and olympians all over the world.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a great book, great stories, good mix of like
too much science. But I've read quite a few books
on peop performance and mental states.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Now this is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I get why in the middle of a football game,
aj Brown is having a quick read, flick through a
little reminder and centering himself. I cannot recommend that enough
as a reason why. It's got like it's like three
thousand and five star reviews on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Wow, there's a few AFL players I've noticed that have
started reading before games as well. Jack Ginovan walks around
kicking a footy. I don't know, I'm not sure what
he's reading, but he's reading a book before.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Games as well.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Now, comorick enough if you interested that kind of thing.
Inner excellence by the guy's called Jim Murphy. The other
thing this is on Channel seven last weekend. I couldn't
believe this is an inexcess documentary live at Wembley and
about an amazing show that they had in nineteen ninety
one at Wembley Stadiums behind the scenes, brilliant interviews. The
reason why I is a is exo special for me
(02:22):
that I was there. I was there nineteen ninety It
was the first gig I ever went to see my friend.
I was only seventeen me and my friend was seventeen.
He passed his driving test at seventeen. You can take
your driving test to pass at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
UK. He drove all the way to London.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm not from London, as we drove for two hours
in his VW Beetle that mom and Dad had got
him and we never even I've never even been to
London before. Was seventeen. We went to Wembley Stadium. It
was the first time I'd ever seen a music concert
and it happened to be my favorite band in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And that was in excess.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And so I can't believe that they've made a documentary
about this show. And of course there were no camera phones.
There's no way I've got no photos of that other
than what is a hazy memory now. But I remember
the road trip up and going into London because it
was also exciting and the really big thing was Michael Hutchins.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Oh my god, just he had the leather cacs.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And also these days with Instagram, YouTube and social media,
we see a lot of our favorite rock stars. The
only way you got to see it is if they're
on the news or if you were in a stadium.
So it's the first time I've ever seen what a
rock star was. And it was like looking at an
exotic bird. It was just a beautiful guy, just magnetic, charismatic.
(03:34):
He was like drinking a vodka bottle. It was like
it was like pure rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And they were and also obviously a great front man,
tragic story, great front man, a brilliant, brilliant backing band
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What a great band they were live yep, still one
of my favorite shows.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I always think the first one always has a special
place in your memory. But to sit back and watch
what I haven't watched since nineteen ninety and one was
a real joy for me last weekend. It's up there
if you want to see it again and you're a big
music fan or an excess fan. They've got some great
behind the scenes footage interviews with the rest of the
remainding members of the band in Excess live at Wembley.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's on the seven plus player. Cannot recommend enough.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What were you just quickly, guys, what were your first
music shows you ever saw?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Was it a few parts.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Prince in the late nineties got us a big one. Yeah,
but I'm so jealous of you within Excess because the crowd,
the footage of the crowd was just phenomenal. I saw
that the other night. I think it was a Sunday night.
It was on seting yes, and I said to Chris.
I turned to Chris and I said, do you know,
I say, was at.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
This my first one? Yeah? Amazing? Yeah, Prince is incredible though.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, he was great. He was great, and he was
it his Diamonds and Pearls album, I think that tour
and he was where was it at rod Laver Arena
which was Melbourne Park then?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And he was on.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
A bed which gravitated on a big long arm out
over the audience as he's saying.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah again, just pure rock and roll. It was fantastic.
Who was it, Fury? Your first concert? Gigybs?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It was year ten, so I was fourteen and I
went to wolf Mother.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was the Great Noise and Energy.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So they had just released their EP but not the
full album. It was at Harden Pavilion in Sydney and
I was tiny, like I'm not even big now, but
when I was fourteen, I was even like more scrawny
and in the moshpit of these huge, hulking men just
getting I barely remember seeing it because you were just
just getting smashed around.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
By these blokes. But it was Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
That was truly a trial by fire.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm guessing for you, Alex, you know in some of
your taste, and it was it barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You're never done by the Swan at Thersl Club. No,
it was the Chemical Brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh Wow. At the Point Theater.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
In Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh gat a great music venue that is just nineteen
ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
They just cleanse, surrender, hey boy, hey girl, And I
will never forget it as an eighteen year old kid
from the back of nowhere, just going how good is this?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Where am I for a start? Yeap?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And I just absolutely went off, really really had a
good time. I bought a T shirt. I don't know
what happened to the T shirt. Disappointingly, I wish I
still had it full of holes, but that was just unbelievable.
I'm a massive, massive fan of the Chemicker Brothers, as
is my brother who got to.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
See that they did with Noel Gallagher.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What was it called? They did a trap with no
years ago. It's a huge hit. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
These are great, these memories of your first ever gig
that you ever saw at Stay stays with you, Text
me yours on four seven five three, one oh four three,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Take a break, will be back with Rio.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Pats Analysis Double thumbs up gold one of four point.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Three Christian O'Connell show go on podcast. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Everyone is learning to know about the first gig you
ever saw. Mine was nineteen ninety one at Wembley Stadium
in London and in excess and Channel seven Bozoti had
a big documentary about it last weekend. Watch it. It's
a great watch. Patsily, what are you giving your double
thumbs up?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, I've got to rip a book, I'm Your Perry Godmother,
which is just one of the best titles you will
ever have and it's written by Shelly Horton, who is
a media commentator here in Australia who happened to be
on my podcast on this second season. Honestly, I felt
like I had known her, like we were best friends
in a previous life. We had the best chat. Anyway,
(07:21):
She's written this amazing book about her experience with perimenopause,
and I love the way she's written it. Reading it
is it's a bit like your book. Actually, the way
she's written it in that it is like she is
talking to you in your ear. It's not book speak,
it's not you know, jargon, it is just Shelley and
it is fantastic. She is in season two of Rage
(07:42):
Against the Menopause, which you can download on the iHeart
platform or wherever you get your podcasts. Have a listen.
I have a couple of copies that she's sent me,
so if anyone would like a copy, please just jump
into my DMS and I'll post it out to you.
So if that's for you, go for it. The other thing,
we've been to the movies to see Freaky of Friday.
(08:03):
I wasn't that the other two in the family said hey,
let's go to the movies. We'll go say that, but
it actually was good and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's her movie.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
She was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
She's having this incredible renaissance right to her career. Obviously
she's brilliant than the band. And now yeah, people are
raving about how.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Great she is in it.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You know what I love about her, how gracefully she's
aging and just you know, not being fake. She's just
a self and she's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So author beautiful.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She's great beautiful, but she's she's very funny in this.
It's just you can't take your eyes off her on
the screen. She's just electric. And the other thing, I've
just finished my tax and I have found the best
life saving app for you know, when you go for
your tax, you've got all your receipts and you every
tax season you say, you know what next year?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This is every year.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Next year, I'm going to make a pack to myself
and my accountant. I am going to be super uber
organized next year. And you never want you never ever are.
So it's just there's a lot of different apps. The
one that I've got on my phone is H and
R Block. It's that the tax tra what it is
you can when you say you're going to claim parking
(09:13):
right and you've got a receipt, take a screenshot, and
it categorizes it by date, by month, by what it is,
you know, parking or whether it's I don't know, meals
or entertainment, whatever it is. It's brilliant and it helps
you get organized. It is brilliant. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you know what I have to do every year?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I have to print off all my Amazon receipts and
go through them.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah, same, No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
No, it's that. It takes. It takes over a week.
I'm so badly organized.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And I literally have a tray that occasionally our chuck
a receipt in with no idea.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, well we had like a ziplock, a big ziplock
bag that goes above the fridge in the kitchen. And
also christ Yeah noah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I'm hoping Ai. I'm homing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
If AI can do one thing for humanity, it's everyone
who self employed us to do their taxes.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's hell, isn't it? Trust And you're right there you go.
I'm going to write a note to myself.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yes, mean twelve months time, I've given you a gift
every four weeks, so I'm going to go through all
my receipt.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm never going to do it. You never do never
going to that. DNA has never changed your gun.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You think, no, ill if I just do it with
each like each time I get a receipt, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How hard is that?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And you never do it?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Get the air?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Great, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back and
we'll get into double thumbs Up with Rio and Alyx.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show. On the show right now,
we're doing double thumbs Up. You tell us about the
things you're into at the moment that you would recommend.
It might be a TV show book, whatever it is.
Oh four seven five three one oh four three, Rio,
what's yours?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I'm watching the second season, the new season of the craziest,
most unique show that I would say maybe ever been made.
It's called The Rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I saw the first season. I had to stop watching.
I found it so I felt sorry for the people
that are not kind of being pranked.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's like a high level pranking.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, it is like a social experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's all very upfront.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
The premise of it is and Fielder is a comedian
and like a documentary maker, and he finds people on
Craigslist who have a difficult situation coming up. And then
kind of like Willy Wonka, he recreates in excruciating details,
full replicas of the scenario so they can rehearse every
single different permutation of the event before it happens. So
(11:30):
one example is, and this is probably the one where
you got very uncomfortable, was the woman who wanted to
have a baby?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, that one.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
He recreates an exact replica of her house. He hires
actors to follow her, neighbors, her bosses, everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
In her It's like Truman shops, exactly like the Truman
It's a genius and of.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Production and how they must be millions, it's crazy and that.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And then he has like a rotating cast of babies
and then child actors and to progress.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It blows your mind how they make it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's worth watching a couple of episodes you never see, right,
You've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It is a hard watch at times, but it will
blow your mind. The second season. If you thought, if
you're uncomfortable the first season, please at least watch the
first three episodes. Yeah, there are times It's the only
show where you have to pause it and you have
to swear, you have to go your jaw drops the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
All right, I'm going to go back into it them
where are you watching it? Also her salng HBO Max right,
HBO Max, Alex, what are you giving your double thumbs
up to you?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Mate? Just quickly?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
The Agenda Setter is on Channel seven Monday and Tuesday
night from seven pm.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I love it. I think they do such a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, you would have been new to this, like Caro
and Carol Wilson is just one of the best sports journalists.
I'm just going to say, one of the best journalists
this country's ever seen. Her access and the respect they
have for her on that show is really palpable as well.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like I love how they deal with her.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I love like cane corns, they stop and they listen
to Carrow because she com on that show.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Default they're all so cowardly in the wake of like
when she glanced at them, like to say, just to
find that point.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Nick Parts thought, you know, had a bit of a
stashed the others after that, Sonya Hood was being sick
a fantic when they got to Alastair Clarkson there at
North Melbourne and that it was ding ding it was on.
But they came back the next week and everything was
okay again. But look, that's a really good show I'm
enjoying and I urge you to watch that. Also, where's Wally?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Remember where's Wally?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well from They've been around for like one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
One of the joys of having children is you get
to walk back down memory lane and show them what
you read as a child. Listen.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
The idea of this is every week as we talk
about new things, were talking about that TV show we
talk commentary, this has come out shut out.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
To e t the movie. Listen, this is just alien.
This is what I'm enjoying. Where's Wally? We found him.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He's over there on the show right now in the
blue jumper.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Sliced bread, Christy, you heard it here first?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Bread? Sandwich or toast? Listen. Martin Hanford is the ill strata,
the writer is word. We're going and said, yeah, we're
going to the news and sport right now. No one's going.
Hang on a minute, let me grab a pen.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The man on the radio is telling about this brilliant
new book for children seven ways in Wallas worldwide.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's sometimes it took him eight weeks to do a
single illustration.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I've just started reading a new book. It's called The Bible.
No spoilererts, but does he come back at the end?
All right, let's get the latest news and sport now
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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