March 29, 2026 • 5 mins
Christian shares a personal story about his weekend, where he questioned whether following his favorite team was worth the stress and emotional rollercoaster. He talks about how his wife's words of caution and his own experiences with the team's ups and downs made him realize the true extent of his emotional investment. Christian also touches on the impact of technology on our viewing experiences, specifically how easily we can look up information during TV shows, and how this can ruin the enjoyment of the moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app Got
anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A couple of things I learned over this weekend. Everything
in your life is better if your team win. It
shouldn't be so. We should be able to toach from
our sports teams. But I'm sorry it isn't so. Everything
about your life is better when your team are winning. One.
Your bed feels better, your relationship feels better, the weather
(00:48):
feels better, you feel better.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Everything is better when your team win.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's crazy how much of your own happiness you entrust
with eighteen strangers that you will never see or never
know in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's almost too much, isn't it. Really? It's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So yesterday I was watching the game Sunday afternoon, and
at halftime I thought, I actually thought, do you know what,
I'm just going to not follow this team anymore. This
isn't worth the stress. I'm not nice to be around.
I was watching at home. I was in a good
mood and at a great weekend, and then my wife
was just like, think, I'm going to go and walk
the dog.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was just like, whatever happening you hear this?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
FuG She's like, she actually said at one point, just
don't maybe don't watch the second half.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's going to do this to you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I I can't. It's a bad relationship with your team.
It goes up and it goes down, and in the
second half they come back, they win. Everything's amazing, everything
is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And they did.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, I know, but it's just it's the hope that
kills you. I'm now back in. I've doubled down, you
know where. It's halfway through a halftime of life. I'm
giving up following this club. This is ridiculous. What's up
with them?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's liberating? Yes, freedom, I'm walking out the door. I'm there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'm unluiasing it now. Suddenly I'm thinking I'm going to
get a tattoo.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm calling it. We're going to win the flag. Kley's
going to be there to see it. Seriously, we should
be so lucky. It's all on the other thing. I
tell you this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Being able to google stuff during a TV show semi
related to the show is ruining our enjoyment. My wife
does this whenever all watching a show like, what do
we know him for? It doesn't matter, It doesn't actually matter.
The phone comes out. She's a serious Just google, hang on,
I just pause it now, we have to pause. Why
she has to research what we're watching. There was a
(02:30):
time when for decades we just watched the damn TV show.
We don't need to start researching everything. We've been watching this.
That's a three part Agatha Christie thing on Netflix. That's
seven dials. No, no, no, it's a dramatization. I'm not
sure if you'll know about this younger generation. Agatha Christie
wrote a couple of crime books.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I didn't know that. You know it's here a documentary?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are they making a documentary of another Agatha Christie book,
Murder on Your Expresse? It's an actual documentary? How we
It's not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She's made so many movies. We're gonna go and see
the new Agathet Christie movie. It's the documentary? Is it?
Is it a musical?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Has she written silent with Lloyd webber An We starting
to watch it's called The Seven Dolls Life Goes? Why
is it called The Seven Dollars when it's set in
London it's a big part of London. It's the Seven
Dolls in Covent Garden. I don't think you're right, Went.
I worked round the corner from there for twenty years.
There's a pub in the middle of the Seven Dollars. Cool.
Guess what the Seven Dolls. I know that area very well.
(03:37):
I was there for a lot of my life. Hey, Siri,
it's own area called the Seven Dollars in London. There
is I get no satisfaction being right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's just ruined watching it. Ruined the show. Now about
the Seven Dolls thing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Anyway, my three word weekend is taking care of business, Pats.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I finally got round to seeing it, Elvis Live in Content.
What did it be?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I thought it was incredible, absolutely incredible. I don't think
Baz Luhrman gets enough credit for a bit and one
incredibly gifted director and storyteller he is. The Elvis Presley
movie was incredible, and then he's done this live well,
he's edited together. When you're watching it, it's only an
our and a half, it's like Elvis live in concert.
It's like you really are there. And so I'm big
(04:17):
Elvis fan anyway, So I couldn't find anyone to go
with me. I went by myself. The other people in
the cinema ninety nine percent middle aged women. Oh really,
I was very surprised. I thought it was going to
be mainly dudes like me, but no, no, no, it's
ninety nine and also all getting their wine buzz on
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Right, yeah, what time of the day is it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Seven o'clock in the evening, So the second way to
it all day? But anyway, Sabas Lhermann found sixty eight
boxes of unseen Elvis footage and the Warner Brothers archives
and then stitched together this whole. It must have taken
painstaking forensic detail, but what great thing was. And everyone
was just so into this live performance with Elvis. Everyone
(04:59):
knows the story, but everyone gets lost in the tragedy.
You know, the kind of characterature of what he was.
You actually forget just what incredible singer he was. So
when you're watching him and rehearse and singing, now Hardy
worked with his incredible one of the best backup bands ever,
you realize this what.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A great singer he was.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I left thinking, my god, I really if there was
anyone I could see live from history, it would be
Elvis President. Oh my god, I loved it, but I
thought it was I thought it was a work of
aren't we You know, at the height of that Vegas
he was doing three to four shows a day for
something like seven or eight years like that No Wonder,
the podcast No Wonder, he had a physical, spiritual breakdown.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was just like and also he just puts so
much into these shows. Yes, heart, soul, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Also when they because obviously it's the seventies, and when
they cut away to the audience, you realize it's a
time before in visit line.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh my god, cut from the American ornors. We don't
need to see that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Christian O'Connell shown podcast
I Heart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app Got
anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A couple of things I learned over this weekend. Everything
in your life is better if your team win. It
shouldn't be so. We should be able to toach from
our sports teams. But I'm sorry it isn't so. Everything
about your life is better when your team are winning. One.
Your bed feels better, your relationship feels better, the weather
(00:48):
feels better, you feel better.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Everything is better when your team win.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's crazy how much of your own happiness you entrust
with eighteen strangers that you will never see or never
know in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's almost too much, isn't it. Really? It's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So yesterday I was watching the game Sunday afternoon, and
at halftime I thought, I actually thought, do you know what,
I'm just going to not follow this team anymore. This
isn't worth the stress. I'm not nice to be around.
I was watching at home. I was in a good
mood and at a great weekend, and then my wife
was just like, think, I'm going to go and walk
the dog.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was just like, whatever happening you hear this?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
FuG She's like, she actually said at one point, just
don't maybe don't watch the second half.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's going to do this to you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I I can't. It's a bad relationship with your team.
It goes up and it goes down, and in the
second half they come back, they win. Everything's amazing, everything
is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And they did.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, I know, but it's just it's the hope that
kills you. I'm now back in. I've doubled down, you
know where. It's halfway through a halftime of life. I'm
giving up following this club. This is ridiculous. What's up
with them?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's liberating? Yes, freedom, I'm walking out the door. I'm there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'm unluiasing it now. Suddenly I'm thinking I'm going to
get a tattoo.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm calling it. We're going to win the flag. Kley's
going to be there to see it. Seriously, we should
be so lucky. It's all on the other thing. I
tell you this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Being able to google stuff during a TV show semi
related to the show is ruining our enjoyment. My wife
does this whenever all watching a show like, what do
we know him for? It doesn't matter, It doesn't actually matter.
The phone comes out. She's a serious Just google, hang on,
I just pause it now, we have to pause. Why
she has to research what we're watching. There was a
(02:30):
time when for decades we just watched the damn TV show.
We don't need to start researching everything. We've been watching this.
That's a three part Agatha Christie thing on Netflix. That's
seven dials. No, no, no, it's a dramatization. I'm not
sure if you'll know about this younger generation. Agatha Christie
wrote a couple of crime books.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I didn't know that. You know it's here a documentary?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are they making a documentary of another Agatha Christie book,
Murder on Your Expresse? It's an actual documentary? How we
It's not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She's made so many movies. We're gonna go and see
the new Agathet Christie movie. It's the documentary? Is it?
Is it a musical?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Has she written silent with Lloyd webber An We starting
to watch it's called The Seven Dolls Life Goes? Why
is it called The Seven Dollars when it's set in
London it's a big part of London. It's the Seven
Dolls in Covent Garden. I don't think you're right, Went.
I worked round the corner from there for twenty years.
There's a pub in the middle of the Seven Dollars. Cool.
Guess what the Seven Dolls. I know that area very well.
(03:37):
I was there for a lot of my life. Hey, Siri,
it's own area called the Seven Dollars in London. There
is I get no satisfaction being right.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's just ruined watching it. Ruined the show. Now about
the Seven Dolls thing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Anyway, my three word weekend is taking care of business, Pats.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I finally got round to seeing it, Elvis Live in Content.
What did it be?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I thought it was incredible, absolutely incredible. I don't think
Baz Luhrman gets enough credit for a bit and one
incredibly gifted director and storyteller he is. The Elvis Presley
movie was incredible, and then he's done this live well,
he's edited together. When you're watching it, it's only an
our and a half, it's like Elvis live in concert.
It's like you really are there. And so I'm big
(04:17):
Elvis fan anyway, So I couldn't find anyone to go
with me. I went by myself. The other people in
the cinema ninety nine percent middle aged women. Oh really,
I was very surprised. I thought it was going to
be mainly dudes like me, but no, no, no, it's
ninety nine and also all getting their wine buzz on
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Right, yeah, what time of the day is it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Seven o'clock in the evening, So the second way to
it all day? But anyway, Sabas Lhermann found sixty eight
boxes of unseen Elvis footage and the Warner Brothers archives
and then stitched together this whole. It must have taken
painstaking forensic detail, but what great thing was. And everyone
was just so into this live performance with Elvis. Everyone
(04:59):
knows the story, but everyone gets lost in the tragedy.
You know, the kind of characterature of what he was.
You actually forget just what incredible singer he was. So
when you're watching him and rehearse and singing, now Hardy
worked with his incredible one of the best backup bands ever,
you realize this what.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
A great singer he was.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I left thinking, my god, I really if there was
anyone I could see live from history, it would be
Elvis President. Oh my god, I loved it, but I
thought it was I thought it was a work of
aren't we You know, at the height of that Vegas
he was doing three to four shows a day for
something like seven or eight years like that No Wonder,
the podcast No Wonder, he had a physical, spiritual breakdown.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was just like and also he just puts so
much into these shows. Yes, heart, soul, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Also when they because obviously it's the seventies, and when
they cut away to the audience, you realize it's a
time before in visit line.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh my god, cut from the American ornors. We don't
need to see that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
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