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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
That'd be Friday, and good.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Morning Alex Cullen. Morning. All right. 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 O four three. We call it
double thumbs up. Two things from me this week. I

(00:52):
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.

(01:14):
I buy the book. I finished it this week. It
is phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh what's it about?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's literally about inner excellence. He was Jim Murphy is
a former pro baseball player and now a coach for leaders,
executives and other athletes and olympians all over the world.
It's a great book, great stories, good mix of like
too much science. But I've read quite a few books
on people performance and mental states. Now this is brilliant.
I get why in the middle of a football game,

(01:41):
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 5 (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 4 (02:00):
Games as well.

Speaker 1 (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 that this is an inexcess documentary live at Wembley and
about an amazing show that they'd in nineteen ninety one
at Wembley Stadiums behind the scenes, brilliant interviews. The reason
why I is a is exo special for me that

(02:22):
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. UK. You drove
all the way to London. 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 I was seventeen.

(02:43):
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. And that was
in excess. 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

(03:04):
London because it was also exciting and The really big
thing was Michael Hutchins. Oh my god, just he had
the leather cacs. 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

(03:26):
seen what a rock star was. And it was like
looking at an exotic bird. It was just a beautiful guy,
just magnetic, charismatic. He was like drinking a vodka bottle.
It was like it was like pure rock and roll. Oh,
it's amazing. And they were and also obviously a great
front man, tragic story, great front man, a brilliant, brilliant

(03:46):
backing band as well. What a great band they were
live yep, still one of my favorite shows. 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

(04:09):
of the band In Excess live at Wembley. It's on
the seven plus player. Cannot recommend enough. What were you
just quickly, guys, what were your first music shows you
ever saw? Was it a few parts.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Prince in the late nineties got us a big one.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah, But I'm so.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Jealous of you within Excess because the crowd, the footage
of the crowd was just phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
I saw that the other night.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
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? Yah, Prince is incredible though.

Speaker 6 (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 5 (04:52):
And he was on.

Speaker 6 (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.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Who was it, Fury? Your first concert? Gigybs?

Speaker 5 (05:08):
It was year ten, so I was fourteen and I
went to the wolf Mother.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was the Great Noise and Energy.

Speaker 5 (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 by these blokes.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
But it was Wow. That was truly a trial by fire.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm guessing for you, Alex, you know in some of
your taste, and that was it. Barbershop quartet.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
You're never done by the s at Thersl Club.

Speaker 8 (05:47):
No, it was the Chemical Brothers.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (05:50):
At the Point Theater in Dublin, Ireland.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh great, a great music venue that is just nineteen
ninety nine.

Speaker 7 (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 8 (06:06):
Where am I for a start?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeap?

Speaker 7 (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.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
To see that they did with Noel Gallagher. What was
it called? They did a trap with no years ago.
It's a huge hit. I can't remember. 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 take a break, will be back with Rio Pats Analysis,
Double thumbs up gold one of four point.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Three Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Thank you very much everyone is letting you 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 I had a big documentary about it
last weekend. Watch it. It's a great watch. Parasily, what
are you giving your double thumb up?

Speaker 6 (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. Will go say that, but
it actually was good and Jamie Lee Curtis it's her movie.
She was brilliant.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
She's having this incredible renaissance right to her career. Obviously
she's brilliant than the Ban and now yeah, people are
raving about how great she is in it.

Speaker 6 (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 6 (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.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
She's just electric.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
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 me every year.

Speaker 6 (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 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.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It is brilliant.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
There's a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you know what I have to do every year?
I have to print off all my Amazon receipts and
go through them.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, same, No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's that. It takes It takes over a week. I'm
so badly organized, and I literally have a tray. Occasionally
our chuck a receipt in with no idea what this.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Yeah, well we had like a ziplock, a big ziplock
bag that goes above the fridge in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And also Chris, Yeah, no, I'm hoping Ai. I'm homing.
If AI can do one thing for humanity, it's everyone
who self employed us to do their taxes. It's hell,
isn't it? Trust And you're right, I go, I'm going
to write a note to myself. Yes, mean twelve months time,
I've given you a gift every four weeks, So I'm
going to go through all my receipt I'm never going

(10:12):
to do it. You never do never going to that.
DNA has never changed your gun.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
You think, now if I just do it with each
like each time I get a receipt, that's easy.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
How hard is that?

Speaker 5 (10:21):
And you never do it?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Get the air?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Great?

Speaker 9 (10:23):
Brilliant.

Speaker 1 (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 3 (10:29):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (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 5 (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.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
It's called The Rehearsal.

Speaker 1 (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. It's like a
high level pranking.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
Yes, it is like a social experiment. It's all very upfront.
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

(11:26):
single different permutation of the event before it happens. So
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 5 (11:39):
He recreates an exact replica of her house. He hires
actors to follow her, neighbors, her bosses, everyone.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
In her It's like Truman Shops, exactly like the Truman
It's a genius and of production and how they do
it must be millions.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
It's crazy and that. 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. It's worth
watching a couple of episodes. You never see youre right,
you've never seen anything like it. It is a hard watch.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
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 1 (12:21):
All right, I'm going to go back into it. Them.
Where are you watching it? What'so her salng HBO Max Right,
HBO Max, Alex. What are you giving your double thumbs
up to you? Mate?

Speaker 8 (12:29):
Just quickly?

Speaker 7 (12:29):
The Agenda Setter is on Channel seven Monday and Tuesday
night from seven pm.

Speaker 8 (12:33):
I love it. I think they do such a great job.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, you would have been new to this, like Caro
and Carol Wilson is just one of the best sports journalists.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
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 8 (12:49):
Like I love how they deal with her.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
I love like cane corns, they stop and they listen
to Carrow.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Because she commands that show 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 8 (13:03):
And parts I thought, you know, had a bit of
a stashed the others.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
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.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Also, where's Wally? Sorry?

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Remember where's Wally?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well from They've been around for like one hundred years.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
One of the joys of having children is you get
to walk back down memory lane and show them what
you read.

Speaker 8 (13:39):
As a child.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Listen. The idea of this is every week because we
talk about new things, were talking about that TV show,
we talk commentary. This has come out shut out to
e t the movie. Listen, this is just alien. This
is what I'm enjoying. Where's Wally? We found him. He's
over there. It's on the show right now in the
blue jumper. Sliced bread, Christy, you heard it here first?

(14:01):
Got it? Bread?

Speaker 8 (14:03):
Sandwich or toast? Listen. Martin Hanford is the ill strata,
the writer my word.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
We're going into it. Yeah, we're going to the news
and sport right now. No one's going hang on a minute,
let me grab a pen. The man on the radio
sounding about this brilliant new book for children seven wallas worldwide.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
It's some times it took him eight weeks to do
a single illustration.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
I've just started reading a new books called The Bible.
No spoiler lots, but does he come back at the end?
All right, let's get the latest news and sport.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Now the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
What's the first band he saw live? Christian? It was
The Angels or the Vinyls nineteen eighty one at the
Aubra Cinema Center, Michelle, Christian. When I was eleven, my
dad won ticket at a Pizza Hut competition. Pizza Hut,
I remember that he wants its going to see Michael
Jackson at Paramatta in Sydney. No, no, no, that can't

(15:08):
be true. That's like one of those you know, there's
urban legends that get It's like a it's like a
pebble that gets shined and shined with every.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Talian, especially back then. Paramatta is like Melbourne's equivalent.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Of what did you say, Frankston or Brooklyn?

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, even further out than Brooklyn, like somewhere between Brooklyn
and whereby.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
It's not in the city.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Right, So Michael Jackson isn't playing there. Please go on
to Google. Do a live Google search right now Michael
Jackson live Paramatta.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
Maybe it was like way way back seven.

Speaker 8 (15:37):
He was out in eighty seven, wasn't he?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
No, wasn't it ninety?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
He was kidding? You're kidding, real, We've got to take
it all back for.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
The Bad Tour nineteen eighty seven.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
Paramatta Stadium, Razy, Melbourne Storm and Penrith played last night.

Speaker 8 (15:54):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
What's the capacity there, Alex?

Speaker 8 (15:58):
It's about forty thousand, Oh is it?

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (16:01):
They did a major upgrade not long ago, so it's
now Kombank Stadium.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
But it would have been when Jackson.

Speaker 8 (16:07):
Much smaller. Yeah, I reckon twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
It's we Oh this listener, Rachel huge, We just trashed
her dad's story. Let's rewind and I read it again.
This from Rachel. When I was eleven, my dad won
tickets from his job at Pizza Hut. Wow to go
and see Michael Jackson at Paramatta in Sydney. Oh my god,
that for sure happened. I believe it, Christian. It was

(16:33):
the most mesmerizing show a kid could see. However, the
biggest thing that I still remember to this day. Is
my mother in full panic meltdown when we've almost got
crush trying to leave the event. Yeah, Health and safety
to music shows back in the day was a burz
actually an orgy. There was only about four people working
there as well, and they were just like letting their

(16:55):
friends in for free. Do you believe to be just
like so many people on top of people. Yeah, now
it's like you're searched your ticket scans. There was none
of that years ago, Christian. My first KIG nineteen seventy
four was fourteen got to see the Hughes Corporation. Christian,
what was the app that Patsy recommended tax receipts?

Speaker 6 (17:14):
Oh, look, there's a lot I use the H and
R Block one. Not a feel affiliated to them in
any way, shape or form.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Just happened to now though you speaks.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
They're people there today. Giving them an invoice of two plugs.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
Just look to be the easiest user friendly. But it's
the H and R Block one and it's brilliance.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like Andrew Cooper would love a copy of the Perry
Menopause book his wife. Yes, if that's okay, on you.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
For taking initiative.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
That's great.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Can you please forward his detailshole today.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Every couple of days I have to forward on emails
to her Raw Highness.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
I love that though a man who's taking care of
his lady. Good on you for being involved and informed.
I love that cute os to you.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I just want to thank as well, Johnny Vincent Sam's
amazing Italian restaurant. We had a lovely team lunch yesterday there.
And those are the geniuses who are Soush Mango and
those videos on Instagram if you're looking for you probably
already know about them. They sell out mega stadiums all
over Australia. But those videos that they make, those boys
are comic geniuses. They got me through lockdown really really

(18:17):
funny videos. Anyway, Now they've got this amazing Italian restaurant
and it's beautifully done out and it's we were at
the Nana's table right in the middle of the restaurant.
Even the seats were they like they were like pre worn.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, they're like an old They're probably from an old house.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
They weren't new.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
You feel like you're sitting in on a.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it felt like. The even the
plastic cover they had on the large oval table we
had over like the lace doily tablecloth. The food was incredible.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Oh my god, so good god.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
We had so much food.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
I didn't stop. I didn't have dinner because we ate.

Speaker 8 (18:57):
Dinner.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well, I got back yesterday and my wife goes, oh,
why don't we go up for walk and then go
out for a bite to eat. My wife hadn't eaten
all day, and I don't want to go. I just
had a massive banquet of Italian food, so I went, yeah, sure,
And then we go there and I just ordered the starter.
She went, you're not going to have any fur. I like,
we had so much food. It was ridiculous. Now I

(19:19):
say we Rio. You had ninety five percent of the
table or it's like a Roman gods caligular. I don't
want to back Canalian excess. It was.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Where do you put it all?

Speaker 5 (19:31):
I don't know, got hollow legs as my mom. I
didn't want to send it back to the non. I
do want to offend her, so we have to eat
every single bite.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I also tell you what, when we left there, what
a beautiful yesterday afternoon was just magical. I know the
weather's going to change. It's rainy and windy this morning
when I was leaping like yesterday afternoon. My wife came
back right but half five and we went out for
a walk to see the sun set right overlooking the
the BAP and we saw gettlo of this. I've never
seen wild dolphins before. My nine ten dolphins.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Wow, I couldn't have sounded anymore English right I was
looking around. There were like a couple of people are
watching as well. I just went dolphins and they were like,
we get it. Bade new English dolphins in the world,
not even in a.

Speaker 7 (20:15):
And they weren't smiling. Oh my god, I'm dolphins. I
look like this smiling, but they're not really concentrating. Great,
yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
You ain't going to replace antabub with that attitude. I'm
telling you what. We're getting a lot of text about
everything we recommended on double thumbs up. Wait, there's nothing
about what was the book? Alex mentioned it? Where's forty
five million people? He got a copy?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Christian O'Connell Show Gone podcast, christ.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Of My first concert I saw was George Michael in
nineteen eighty eight. That would have been Wham at the
Entertainment Center Glasshouse. That's from val Christian. My first band
Duran Duran at the old Sports and Entertainment Center in
Melbourne in nineteen eighty three. Then I followed that up
with Wham and Culture Club. That's a pretty good you're
a role there. Christ My first band was Status Quo

(21:04):
in Sydney. I was thirteen. I still love them now.
They're a great band. Christian Powderfinger in two thousand and seven,
Silverchair's Great Divide Tour. Oh so amazing. How you remember
the name at least? Or so? When I saw in
Excess in ninety one, it was the Inexcess Excess Tour,
So did you see that?

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Though I didn't see this was huge because at the
time powder Finger and Silverchair were the two biggest Aussie bands,
but they sort of had a bit of a rivalry.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
It's a strange sort of beef between them. Yeah, they
talked about it, I think in a podcast I heard.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
And then they did this tour together and there's actually
a great documentary on it in like ten parts on
YouTube called the Great Divide Tour or something like that
Royal and it's incredible to see Daniel Johns and Bernard
Fanning like together doing it show traveling around Australia.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah. So yeah. In two thousand and seven, I was
so young and little. My parents had to stam me
on a ben at the back of the tent so
I could see Christian. My first concert was an amazing one.
It was here in Melbourne. It was Pearl Jam Sydney,
my musical. It's a very famous concert where ten thousand
gate crashes pushed down the fence and stormed in. I

(22:09):
didn't know anything about that. I have dedicated two hours.
I broke it up into an hour yesterday and an
hour this morning to hear this full Taylor Swift chat
with her boyfriend Travis and his brother Jason Kelse. They
do a great podcast together. You ever heard of called
New Heights. Yeah, it's inside their spot. Obviously you know

(22:31):
I'm not a mega fan, but they are just a
joyous brothers. Just hearing their energy hanging out. But anyway,
Taylor Swift was going on. Obviously she's dating Travis. So
the reason I wanted to watch is because my daughters
just adore Taylor Swift and have done for years, especially
my youngest daughter Lower She's been into Taylor Swift forev
and she can explain what the songs mean and why
they matter. And I went with the girls to see

(22:53):
Taylor last year at the MCG and it was almost
what I call a spiritual experience. I spent more time
watching the crowd. Oh my god, the connection she has
around the world with her fans. It was incredible. So anyway,
my daughters now, because they're eighteen and twenty one, you
have to find areas of connection with them. I have
to still find ways like a detective of being in
their world. They would not have heard this podcast yet,

(23:17):
they'd be stunned that I've taken effort to do this.
I'm doing this so I've got something to talk to
them about. And if you guys don't mate, I've made
some notes please because I've got then little stepping stones
they are to talk to my daughters about what I've
discovered it from. I really have got notes. By the way,
this is a page of some of my notes from
two hours of listening to Taylor Swift on the New
Heights podcast. Taylor Swift and Travis Okay play beer pong together.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
On the podcast.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
No No No, that that's their thing. When friends come around,
they play beer pong and they're very good at it
and undefeated.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Come on, that's that suck ups playing against your friends.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
When you want the honor of beating them. No, you
want to beat them. I know you at your competitive
Taylor baked sourdough. She goes on people's blogs to get
their recipes. She love her thing is to bake sourdough.
All kinds of living.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Flu didn't expect that.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
She hasn't tell you what I mean, I'm in all
of what I an artist, she is, but also how
she runs a business and that she there's a moment
in the in the interview that I actually did pause
and made a note about to talk to you guys
about about energy. She had this quote, you should treat
your energy as if it was a luxury item. Not
everyone can afford it. In other words, it's a scarce commodity.

(24:35):
Be careful what you give your energy to. And then
the really big takeaway from me was about the Otters.
Travis a boyfriend. I mean, he's huge, He's an American
football player. It's in the size of it, and that
is that Yeah, big beefy dude, right, he wants to
save an otter?

Speaker 4 (24:52):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Who doesn't love waters? Though he spends hours watching otter
videos Instagram. Some Scottish guy he follows probably didn't even know,
and watches him in his kayak going through these Scottish lake,
Scottish rivers rescue doing otters, and he spends his life,
his spare time, that's his hobby. He's watching this guy

(25:12):
and his kayak with these with thesetters. I can believe it.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
All I really use the Internet for is sour dough.
And when Travis to videos of otters on his Instagram.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
I want a wild so bad.

Speaker 9 (25:24):
He wants one, specifically whose life he saved, who knows
that he's seeing. He wants to see an otter and
the otters like my past called Michelle and he's like,
I got you. And then it's and you're kayaking and
it's like doing this to you, Like that's what he
wants and I want it to Honestly.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I get well, if you wanted an atter, you you
would want one that you've rescued, and that otter know
that it owes its life to you. A bond between
large beefy man and an otter.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Let's talk now about the passing of a titan of
journalism in this country and the UK as well. David
Stratton's so many of you would have grown up getting
excited or annoyed with some of his reviews of the
movies with David and Margaret's at the Movies. I remember
in the first months of this show I had to
be educated about David and Margaret and actually read one

(26:23):
of David's book, which is a brilliant book about Australian cinema,
Australia at the Movies, fantastic read. You all would have
grown up with David and Margaret the movies, wouldn't you. Oh?

Speaker 6 (26:33):
Absolutely? It was an institution, wasn't it. Raal It was
just everyone in the family knew about it.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah. Did you get it in the farmer out there
in your wet We did when I was on the Abasa, Yes,
we did, Margaret palmeran so I love the doing and frying.

Speaker 8 (26:46):
It was essential viewing.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah. What I have done then is we've found some
of their old reviews from various movies. Okay, so we're
going to play the review. You guys are going to
try and guess the movie. Great, all right, So we've
gone back through all the years, these are amazing just
hearing these What movie are they talking about here? This
is a gettable one? They get harder. What movie is
this is? Is Strand and Margaret pomarance them from David

(27:10):
and Margaret at the movies. What's this movie?

Speaker 10 (27:12):
It's a fable about an Aussie bat lad played by
Michael Caton. It takes just a little while to get
rid of the niggling thought that these characters are being
laughed at by the filmmakers.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Maybe I'm just not into that kind of humor, because
I just didn't find it funny.

Speaker 10 (27:25):
Whether you do make that breakthrough and think, oh no
they really like this this family.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
That shocked me, you don't know, No, no, it's the castle. Yeah,
but the fact that he didn't.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Like it squalid squalid one and a half stars. Wow,
not just one of the funniest Australian movies, one of
the best Australian movies and still really funny to watch
again now A stone called classic one and a half though.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
I did talk to my Irish friend's day and they
just looked at it and went, what is this? It's
such an Australian humor.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, Because I remember before we moved here, when I
met my wife and we were just going out together.
She'd been traveling a couple of years before I met
her in Australium. If i'd met my wife, I never
would be here in Australia. She was talking about this
country called Australia, how amazing it was, and she had
a video of the castle. And this would have been
in nineteen ninety six when we first met. And I
remember watching it thinking it's it's just really funny. Yes,

(28:22):
a classic, all right? What movie is is? This was
so big back in the day.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
I think the performances of the three actors are so
realistic and convincing, without which.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
The film wouldn't work at all.

Speaker 11 (28:35):
I just found it really invigorating, fresh and really terrible.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
So we're sort of seduced into thinking that it really
is happening.

Speaker 11 (28:42):
And this worked splendidly.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
This is a sort of cinema verite horror film.

Speaker 11 (28:46):
Yes, I love being scared witless in this film.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I love cinema verite horror film. What am I?

Speaker 5 (28:55):
It's just so hard to narrow down my face to
describe this movie.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, it's from the nineties, late nineties. It was like
a one hit wonder. Suddenly it was huge and then
it just sort of faded very quickly.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
Well, I was thinking, so it's not that.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Sorry three words, which.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
Yes, terrifying.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, yeah, it was not. According to David Stratton, gimmicky
didn't deliver another one and a half stars. That was his.
When we didn't like your movie, you wouldn't give you one,
but you get one and a half. Then what about this?

Speaker 12 (29:31):
Everything is tightly controlled by the all powerful president Business.
So an ancient prophecy predicts that a special will arrive
one day to overturn the conformity imposed by the dictator.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
That speisor movie.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Great movie, Lego movie.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes you got it from Business. That's David and Margaret
the movie's Lego Movie twenty fourteen, four stars, creative, funny
appeals to kids. This is the same movie them talking
about the Lego Movie.

Speaker 12 (30:03):
You could argue, on the one hand that this film
is an elaborate ad for children's construction Tour, and I
suppose it is, but it's a lot more than that.
It seems one of the freest and most inventive animated
films in quite a while.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Ah, Children's Construction Toys. I've never heard the joy of Lego.
Just daddy, can I have some children's construction toys? All right?
What movie is this? From David and Margaret at the Movies?

Speaker 13 (30:27):
The fact that he's got this tape from nineteen seventies
music that was given to him by his mother is
just that music counterpoints and it's so funny in the film. Oh,
I really I did not expect to have a good time,
but I ended up really thoroughly enjoying them.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
And he guesses, oh, absolutely, stuff. You're going to get
it if I play you this song?

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Oh, Guide into the Gully?

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah that three and a half stars?
What about this? Then there are a couple.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
Of moments in this film that are really lovely. There
are a lot that are really naf and there's a
jacket that I'd kill for Margaret.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
I think we're going to disagree over this.

Speaker 11 (31:10):
Film a male Why am I not surprised over.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Male female lines?

Speaker 12 (31:14):
Which is a shame because I think, by any standards,
just an appalling film.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I'm with you. I'm one hundred percent with you, David,
not devil, no, no, no, think worse. But you love
the TV show Pats Oh.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
God, Yes, Sex and the City.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Second the City.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, that's it. Perhaps you knew it's the second one. Yes,
Sex in the City too, he said, overblowing, charmless.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yes, it was just.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
Over acting as well, and that's coming from a fan diabolical.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I think he just caught at the end there. Yeah,
I've not seen it. And then it is dying wish.
David stratton'sdeying wish is that everyone should watch Singing in
the Rain. This is in my top ten movies. I've
never seen it. Often, we love it really Yeah. I've

(32:05):
got a YouTube playlist right, and I put clips in
there that just cheer me up and so I don't
need a little buzz before the show sometimes when I'm
tired or anything. On a Monday morning. I the first
cup I ever put in there was from Singing in
the Rain. There's a seven minute scene, you know, the
one Patsy, the good morning scene. I suppose that's Cerney
you sleep, and it's all one takes seven minutes. There
are three different scenes. There's no cuts. It would have

(32:27):
taken them weeks to rehearse. It's it's crazy.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
It took twenty four hours to film it. And Gene
Kelly was so fastidious and perfection. It's amazing, twenty four
hours of non stop takes.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yes, it's Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and then obviously and
it's it just it's there's something I've seeing people dancing
where it's hyper choreograph. That's just does something to us.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
It's joys.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
And I just don't look on Rotten Tomatoes right because
most of the time Rotten Tomatoes they trash any joints movie.
I've never seen one hundred percent. Oh wow, I've never
seen one hundred percent for a single movie reviewed on
Rotten Tomatoes, and rightly so for Singing in the Rain.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
But dis area, what are you to this weekend? Mate?

Speaker 5 (33:09):
We are going to the Melbourne Film Festival. Interesting that
we were speaking about David Stratton just before because he
was really heavily involved in sort of launching that back
in the day. And so that starts this.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
An incredible lineup every year. Myth isn't called the Melbourne
International Film Festival.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yes, that's the one, and it's incredible because they use
like so we're going to the Forum Theater, which is
never used for movies anymore. It used to be, you know,
in nineteen twenties, but now it's all you know.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I saw that there's a movie I want to see.
There's an English comedy movie that's here at the Film
Festival called The Ballad of Wallace Island, tim Key, and
apparently it's outstanding, and I was seeing where could I
see it, because obviously you're on the Film Festival, you
have venues aren't normally cinemas, and I saw it's at
the Forum and I thought they must be a mistake.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Yes, no, they're turning it into I think for the
next week or.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Something, a Sunday morning AM screening of it. So what
are you going to go and see?

Speaker 5 (33:58):
We're seeing Blue Moon, which is the new Richard link
Later film with Ethan.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hark and Andrew Scott as well. Oh yeah, yeah, I
you know, earlier this week we're talking about you saw
someone famous and you were kind of two in all
of them to say anything. My spirit brother is Ethan
Hawk and I was walking down in London Street once
in Soo and he just happened to be mining his
own business and no one's on the other side of the street.
I'm ashamed to say that. As we passed each other

(34:22):
the opposite side of the streets. I crossed over and
started to follow him, and then after about thirty seconds,
I actually thought, what are you doing? How does his
play out? What if he looks around? What if he
looks around? The only way he's going to remember you
as as a craze stalker. It's not good for either
of you. Just go on your business and let him
also just sees movies. Yes, you don't need to have

(34:45):
an encounter with him. Nothing's going to come out of this.
You're not going to become new besties.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
He's ageless as well.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Like those wild dolphins I saw yesterday, I'd equate seeing
him in the world. We seeing those wild dolphins yesterday.
It's just beautiful. So you're seeing a new Richard blue Moon,
isn't he.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
We're doing a back to back cinema double header.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Actually, we're going very high brown Blue Moon.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Straight into One More Shot, which is an Aussie comedy
about a time traveling bottle of tequila.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
That's all I know. Wow, so you're getting the highbrow
and comedy. Yeah, you're right, you're a time traveling bottle
of tequila. All right forward to online. Sorry theft and
Alex you've got a big day today. Happy birthday to
your son. Yes, he's been.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
To this day for days and weeks.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Four more slaves, three more slaps, no more sleeps now Max.
So happy birthday to our beautiful boy Max for today.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
And what's what's he into now? What's his big gift today?

Speaker 7 (35:48):
Well, we've got a well I can't say too much
because he listens to the show.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Is he ready? Four year olds can't listens. There are
certain producers on this show that but really don't understand
half the show Kit and I'm looking at you. Those
boganairs cleaned out.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
He's loving life and he's got a very very special
cake that we made for him.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
He's going to have that this morning.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
And he's uh parents are down as well. Yes, so
we're gonna have a little party as well. Yeah, that'll
be nice today and then maybe get along to Monopoly
Dreams if it's going to be raining over the weekend.
I heard it's really really good there in the city.
Kids love Monopoly. Playing Monopoly with them is a challenge.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Let me tell you, it's a complicated game with adults exactly.
You've got you've got three kids under six, who's going
to actually teach them about capitalism and property ownership and
destroying family members and not just destroying them and taking
all the money building a hotel where they used to live. Yeah,
it's a morally bankrupt game about being it is.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
But I figure teaching them early.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
You know, pe birthday to Max, and you owe me
two hundred dollars properties. I will bury you. Max, do
not collect.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Two hundred dollars. But no, happy birthday, Maxie. It's going
to be a big day and a big weekend. Hits awesome.
We've got the People's Playlist coming up.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Next The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Christian, I share you enjoyment of seeing those wild dolphins
in the bay yesterday. However, head down to bow Naring Beach.
My father trains a couple of his horses down there,
and he's always putting up videos on Facebook. It's literally
about one hundred to two hundred dolphins. Most mornings. They
swim alongside the race horses. It looks like they're racing

(37:32):
each other. Have a lot bow Narwing Beach race horses
on Facebook. There my dad's videos. You've got to get
your family down there, Sean, thank you very much. The
heads up. My family would love to go and see that. Honestly,
that sounds incredible. We've just been talking about our weekend
plans to some of you obviously every week. We want
to know your weekend plans. And we know that one
of you is having a divorce party. I have messaged

(37:52):
you back. I really am fascinated by this. I didn't
know about the concept. I need to know what is that?
Is that at home? Is it dinner? Is it a
long lunch? I want to know more. And also I
want to know now that this weekend, somewhere in Victoria
there's a vanilla slice competition and love it. Yes, now
the area is it's in Merben. I want to know

(38:15):
any given weekend there's always various competitions on whether it's
sport or I guess for the sites competitions. If anyone
knows of any other competitions that are active this weekend,
you might be in one, you might be in charge
of it. Please let the show know. Oh four seventy
five three one oh four three, all right, we have
important business.

Speaker 11 (38:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
They were listening and calling and choose and the music,
and just.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
When eight somebody paid the station chatty play the.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
People's play Listen Christian.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
Calling right now, when help.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Christian big the songs for Friday show.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
It is time to raise the vibes of their city
and Australia and the worlds. The People's played this every Friday.
We give you a theme. You picked the music from
eight this morning for our hour of power. Today. This
is going to get into because I've heard the way
some of you bann the English language in this country.
Song titles with verbs in the title. Now, there are

(39:18):
a variety of ways that verbs can be used, guruns, infinitives, rio.
Please remind everyone, let's go back to school. What is
a verb?

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yes, you all probably learned this at some point, and
I'm sure almost all of us have forgotten all of
this stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
A verb is a doing word, past and present.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yes, they've got a past tense one. So walked eight
saying I did it in the past, shook and shook exactly.
You had the base form, which is just the normal
one like run eat play. Then are you ready to
get a little bit harder? Please present participle that is
running eating Right, then you've got infinitive.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
That's you can do it, you know, infinitely.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
To infinity and beyond from toy story.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
Well literally to run, to sing too, dance? Yes, and then.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
What are you ready for?

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Runs?

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Ooh, that gets striky.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
That's iron G. Anything with iron G.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
But singing, singing in the rain? No more loving? What
about hot loving? That's my weekend.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
It's when you're using a verb but as a noun,
So it's a verb masquerading as a noun. So swimming
is fun. Swimming is a verb. But in that content, I'm.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Zoning out now, and I think a lot of the
listeners are. I was just starting to look out the
sunset and sunrise over there. All right, Okay, so we
put us all together that we're looking for song titles
calling now with verbs in the title thirteen fifty five
twenty two, Patsy, what should we play?

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Raise the roof?

Speaker 6 (40:43):
You say, I'm going to rip that damn roof off
with ac DC, who shook me all night long?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yes, coming out to the MCG.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
For the first time in November, and we have our tickets,
we have our tour merch already.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
We are ready to go.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
We take an order, ACDC.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
She's going to a very It's a ride of passage
for every Aussie kid.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Because I know you've taken us see like Juel LiPo
and obviously Taylors and now A C. D C.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
The forefathers of ossie music.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
She's got to be there.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Have you seen what they look like? Now? They look
like wizards, but they're phenomenal. They're wids of rock. Okay,
Alex verb in the title.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
I wanted to do Walking on Sunshine? I can, but
Bonnie was like, no, You've got to do a deal.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
What is it about, Bonnie, your wife every Friday controls
your music choices and your balls.

Speaker 8 (41:40):
I just thought maybe Rolling in the Deep by Adele.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Love Adele, but it ain't. This has not got Friday
vibes present one Yes for every song title, I want
you to break it down.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Patty's was a finite transit.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I knew that, Yeah, it was a tame in my tongue.
What about this one from you produce a Rio?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
That's just your classy face form spot. It's also transitive
and intransitive.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
At the same time, so it's several different types. Wow,
we Swiss army knife. What about this k rock and
Roll all Nights?

Speaker 5 (42:22):
That's compound action slash intransitive.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
The English language is way too complicated. I don't want
to any can anyone listening even to code what Riorg
just said or translate in all Right, songs with a
verb in the.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Title, Christian O'Connell show on podcast.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
This is the last song for us this week. Pick
by us you and control the music now from eight
o'clock at this time of this week's People's play this week,
give you a theme each week.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Yeah, they were listening and calling and choosing the music.
And just when it eh, somebody pay the station charty
play the people's play Listen Christian calling right now and.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Help Christian songs for Friday Show.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Songs with verbs in the title. Peter as a teacher.
He's he's broken down all the song titles and what
type of verbiage they are right, let it be brackets, imperative,
don't stop believing, present, participle killing me softly killing equals rumd. Wow,

(43:33):
thank you very much. All Right, some of the songs
coming in the one thing we say you pick all
the songs, right, they just need got to be big
Friday ones. It is the weekend, so they've got a
big Friday ones. Wow. Have heard this in a long time.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Hot Metro Station.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Metro station miss mid two thousands.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Yeah, it was that year of like dead hot Hunt.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah, it was a very short lived year.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Does Cardi b on this as well? I think that way?
Who else was on this?

Speaker 5 (44:08):
There was in the band, There was Miley Cyrus's brother
Wow Race, but that hard be shocked if Buddy be.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Was on it. Okay, so songs of verbs in it.
Snoop Dogg Grand Final? What a big story that's been
of the week playing the Grand Final pocket We asked
so the boss if we were playing any Snoop Dogg.
Swear words came my way. Squear words came my way.

(44:38):
Pump up the jam, Leo, sayah, anyone, it's always a
joy to play. Leo. On a Friday, ten year old
Sammy is on the school run and he loves this song.

(45:06):
Graham As texted and that this Michael Jackson song is
not called beating It. I don't know why that was
top of your mind there. It's nothing to do with me,
but it's can you imagine him singing that beating it?
Just beating it to It's like, Michael, Michael, we can't
release this is no radio station is going to be

(45:26):
able to play this beating beating it, but great song.
Bruce Springsteene is an active guy, right, He's just a
kinetic performer. So many of his song titles well like
Born to Run have verbs in the titles and Dancing

(45:47):
in the Dance also cover me.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
I think.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Cover to cover somebody? Yeah, yeah, you physically cover them
with that bit absolute Yeah, play that funky music wild
Cherry Jack Brown. This is a brilliant song. Running on empty.

(46:17):
This says Friday. You're free willing down a hill into
your weekend. So we're going to be playing a whole
hour of music. Pick by you Bird In the title,
what's Leo is on the line? It's not Leo? Say
is it? Hi?

Speaker 5 (46:32):
Guys?

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Leo? Welcome to show. What would you love us to play?
That says Friday Leo.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
I'd love to hear dancing Queen Byever.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
What do we find out this week?

Speaker 4 (46:49):
What's not in there?

Speaker 1 (46:51):
That's it? They back Voss all the way and Leo
have a lovely weekend. Let's go to Kelly now. Good
morning Kelly, Good morning Christian and guys, how are you going?
I'm good. I hope you've had a lovely week. Kelly.
What would you love us to.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Play because I've slept through the night.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Christian, ready to go. It's time for dancing on the ceiling.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
That's how you like to wake up? Is it great Friday?
I think we have to stick this on. Kenny. It's
coming up to the next hour. Have a lovely weekends. Thanks by.
Let's go to Brendan. Now, Brendan, good morning, Good morning guys,

(47:33):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Brendan. Now what would really kickstart
your Friday? What would you want me to play? What
about an early ladies clash with should I stay or
should I go?

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Shoot?

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Shoot? I stay or shoot?

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Love the clash? Brendon, great choice. Have a lovely weekend, Richard,
Good morning morning, Christian and team. How are we? Yeah,
we're good? Verbus up mate? I want to he jump
by Van Halen. What kind of as our baseball? Well?

(48:10):
Little bit sleepy over there? Remember I told you to
do it for every song? Jen, Good morning, Hi, how
are you? I'm good? Right, we're You're gonna be the
last caller. So what is the song you'd love us
to play with the verb in the title, Well, how
about we whip it? Whip it good?

Speaker 5 (48:25):
By Devo imperative.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Form that all right, we got some tough choices to
come up with. Play some of those duing the next
hour The.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast listener.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
I bumped into Ben Our Engineer. Ben Our Engineer is
a super mad Sint Kilda fan. Have you seen how
he's dress today? Is enough, He's got the He looks
like he's in the coaching squad, doesn't he He's got
the track top and track bottom of Sint Kilda. And
I just said to him, you're going to the game
tonight because they're playing the Bombers. He said, tickets are

(49:00):
now seven dots. Has that never happened? Form? It's got
that low. Some places in cough in Melbourne you can't
get coffee for seven bucks. Seven bucks. I'm not saying
they're worried about attendance between this clash of the Titans tonight,
you know, but I'm saying seven seven bucks.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
And I'm telling you that's not seven bucks.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Will Spink don't take my money.

Speaker 7 (49:28):
If anyone saw that game against Richmond Saints Richmond one
of the worst games ever, shock up.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
I have never heard of seven dollar deals on tickets.
All right, so we're gonna tell you about what we're
going to do in next week on the show. This
week we tried to have a week of cats versus Dogs.
I had good intentions. I thought, why don't we for
once in all settled who's going to give us the
better stories? Which animal? Cats versus dogs? Monday? Tuesday? Ten
out of ten stories? And then it just fell off

(49:58):
a cliff. There were stories coming in, but not There
are lots of stories not show worthy. No, no, they
weren't stories. They were what I can only describe them
as observations. There's a difference between this thing happened. The
story has three beats to at the beginning, the middle, and
the end. There was none of that. However, I have
once more big intentions for next week funerals and wedding week.

(50:22):
You've got two events. Two events actually have heightened emotions,
and when our emotions are heightened, raw events can happen.
People become unguarded, unraveled in both of those. Okay, funerals,
So next week on the show, we've got wedding stories
and funeral stories. Put them together. Who is cheering in Monday?

(50:50):
You're joining me for the show next week? Amazing mash
up there, Locky the engineer refused to make that for me,
so locky. Until you make it for me, I'm gonna
be doing live mixing horror movie. I'd call the movie

(51:10):
Wedding March. All right. So we're looking for stories about
weddings or funerals. Which one you've got real to kick.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Us off, I've got a wedding one.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Okay, take us there.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Back in twenty eighteen, my friends were doing their first dance.
They were doing a grease Medley heavily choreographed, a bit naff.
If I'm being honest, and Judge you today, just say today.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
And also, Patsy, come on, you're calling rio judge. They said, no, no,
come on, we love you. But yeah, judging Judge pants
in there? Why? And all I would say is they're
looking a bit.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
They get to the end of the grease, Medley.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Can tell he's loading up for a big finish, big finish,
huge splits. The groom does split in the middle of
the stage north to south, Yes, north to south.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
And then, my god, what's he done? Split?

Speaker 5 (52:08):
His blood curdling scream tears the hammy off the bone
of his own first dance.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
On his wedding night. Before we get to any of that.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Exactly.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
He had to go to hospital. Obviously, he ripped the
literally ripped the hand.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
James Brown kind of a show. People would have thought,
was it part of it? Is he going to come
back on? Because James Bowne used to go back off
like we collapsed, then come back out the wings. It's
all part of the master plan. Yeah, and it was.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
It was excruciating.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
The room fell completely violent, too old did you do
on that?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
And so what did you all carry on partying because
the wedding is gone now?

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Yeah, well we still got to the dance floor and
stuff like that. He went off. The pride actually stayed
for a little while and then she went to the hospital.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Until that effort, you got the dress on, the makeup,
You've got to exactly hanging around an emergency demand for
seven hours. But you know, he the poor man's John Travolta.
We had a good night. We had a all right,
the marriage, no none whatsoever, no no, no, all right,
lines are up. And now then have you got a
wedding story or a funeral story?

Speaker 3 (53:16):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Only when we're talking about weekend plans and one of
you text to the show saying it's your divorce party
this weekend. There were no more details. I sent you
a message back. You finally got around to replying, Christian,
it's tomorrow. It is my divorce party. It's the actual
date of the official divorce. Did any of you know
that you have to wait one month and one day
after the papers have been stamped in court before a

(53:40):
divorce is official. They have like a cooling off period.
And as that correspondent here says, seriously, who's going to
change their mind? I tell you what. Next week on
the show, has anyone done that? They've obviously put that
four week win in for a good reason. Someone must
have done. Anyway, my party, my divorce parties at my home.
My friends and family who are equally excited for my

(54:01):
great news. Being European brackets, Polish people will relate to this, Christian.
There'll be lots of good food and alcohol, including honey
vodka shots. Oh wow, sounds like a great divorce party.
Have a great time, all right. The next seak on
the show, we're looking for your stories funeral and wedding week.
You've got a story that happened at funeral or a wedding?

(54:21):
Cowling good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Oh, good morning guys.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. I hope you have had a nice week. Now,
what's your story about a wedding for us?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
It's going to be good.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Yep, we are ready to go.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Ah, sorry, I thought you. I thought I dropped out.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
No, no, no, I was here. You had me. You've
got our attention, your center stage. You said it's going
to be good. I relaxed. I sat back, I reached
into my popcorn and pressed play on your story, Kelyn.
All right, off you go, mate.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
I turned up at a wedding on the wrong date.
I'd like to explain. I was extremely hungover, and I
walked into the church, sat down and thought, I don't
know anyone here.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
I mean, we all have bad hangovers, but not going
to the wrong wedding.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Oh yeah, well I turned up on the RS the day.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Oh you're okay too early? Yeah, well you did see it,
to be fair, you did see a date anyway.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Then the bride walks in and I thought, I don't
know you either.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
How do you think she felt? She was like I
thought we were. I thought we had a chat about
the numbers.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
So, being extremely hungover, I thought, I'm not sitting through
someone else's.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Wedding, but how do you but how do you leave?

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (55:47):
That was that was the thing. I tried to unobtrusively
leave through a side door, except that the side door
led through to where they were doing concreting works. In
my hungover.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Stiletto heel state Benny Hill's story, doing concreting outside where
someone's getting married. I know who books that for a
wedding venue, and there's definitely going to be building work.
Wet cement, brilliant, great for.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
The photos an way, so I tripped himsel in the
wet concrete in front of the wedding. Limo drivers who
are sitting out front waiting for.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
You'd be like hand solo when he's frozen in carbonite.
You know, it's like Man's Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
You got your immortalized there.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
But they all applauded. They were obviously bored.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Yeah, day, the sight of.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
A wedding guest tripping and falling in concrete was obviously
very entertaining.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
For when you've entertained us today. This is a great story.
We're off to a great start with wedding and funeral
week Karen, have a lovely weekend. Thanks for sharing story.
Bye bye, it was good.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
This is producer rios Idea screams Friday Transport movies. Reason
is this is the one hundred and eleven year old
anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Put it in your calendar.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Oh my god, it's snooze fast celebrating the opening of
the Panama Canal.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
One of the best.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
No other radio show will have this kind of champagne
radio content on this show. Today. In April two thousand
and five, a fifteen year old Melbourneian tram enthusiast known
as Tramboy stole to Melbourne trams oh managed to drive
them across the city, manually switching the tracks, breaking masterfully

(57:43):
and picking up passengers. He navigated the city for forty
minutes before being stopped by the police. I mean, give
him the job.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
He's killing it.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
But he's described that the teenager as a good lad
whose passion. All right, then, so we're looking for transport movies.
Hell yeah, everybody loves the movies. Avatar, what about Avaca.
You have a car, a silver plus train man. He

(58:15):
loves trained yes, Twelve Monkeys was a good movie. Quite
out there, that movie. What about twelve Donkeys come on
in the Bible? Yes, yes, those wise man, Yes, Gold
Rome alone Rome, Oh yeah, Silver a jet star is born.

(58:36):
Silver plus missus doubt tire. You know, I doubt that
he's going to.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Make I'll give it to you.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
And every parent can relate to this on on a
day trip, sometimes a clear and present day trip. Right,
So don't sugar get it Rial, Just look at you
on there. Thank you. I'm lucky to even get that.

Speaker 11 (58:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
What have you got on this auspicious day? The celebration
of the Panama Canal.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
I now pronounce you chuck and lorry.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Oh, and you judge that is garbage, garbage, bronze.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Glorie inglorious busses.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Now that's more like it, all right, Gold.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
I am tramp and weely Wonka and the chocolate factory.
Weely Wonka.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Weally want transport, you know, wheels exactly?

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Yeah, yeah, but what there was the form of transport?

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Wheels?

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Yeah, okay, the most crucial part of transport.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
This is not interesting. This is not Friday, No, no, no.
The listeners add us rocking and now it's snooze forras.
Panama Canal had them turning off. All right, this is
we need to to save the feature.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
This week The Christian o'connall Show Podcast.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Christian O'Connell Show, Time Way Today Transport movies. You're still
listening this one? Weren't we? Producer Rio. You haven't heard
what they got you? I heard what you had. Okay,
up for grabs. That's the good bit. Double bars to
Red Hot Summer to All Sunday, November the thirtieth, Just

(01:00:14):
gonna squeeze one quick story about a dog. We're looking
for cand dog stories this week. There was a knock
at the door. Someone owned a beautiful black German shepherd dog.
Great dogs and knocked at the door. Mister police. They said,
as do you have a black German shepherd dog? They
said yes. Turns out for some time our dog would
wait for dark then go across the street from the
end of our long driveway to McDonald's a drive through.

(01:00:36):
Our dog apparently was waiting near the drive through until
the bag of food was being handed to the driver,
run up, grabbed the bag and run off and eat it.
This happened so often that the police were called to
find out whose dog this wants to stop it. The
police set up a stakeout and waited for the dog
thief to make his move and then follow the dog

(01:00:58):
back to our house. Wow, great story to end on
all right Transport Movies. I was just trying to feel time.
Toyota story Silver tire Tannic that's from eleven year old Canon,
Very good, Mikey, Largokey Lago Silver, a fish name Honda,
very good. Who's that, Bethany? Forrest Gump drives a dump truck. No,

(01:01:23):
not Rambo Lambole's his mate.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
He past another shout out, Chudge my fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
The devil wears Strava running magic, Mikey, These are brilliant.
Meet the truckers Silver, Look, who's Tuck Tucking? Leave? Very good?
And Big Mum's house boat. Who's your winner?

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
It is a fish called Honda.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Bethany Podcast