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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm going to do a very very powerful impression right now,
and I like you or imagine what this movie might be.
You can't go into a store and by plutonium dark
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh it's in the right continent.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But yes, back to the Future today is a very
significant date.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Brackets ish.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I left this show yesterday and the post show meeting,
believe that one of you told me that today, twenty
first of October twenty twenty five was the date in
Back to the Future too they traveled to in the future,
and that we should do something significant on it this morning.
I thought, hang on a minute, I'm pretty sure it's
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twenty fifteen. I then go on to by the movie,
scroll it on to get this bit Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Art Comma twenty first, twenty to fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm like those bloody.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Producers pinues off again.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So we're celebrating the anniversary ten years on.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yes, the ten year anniversary or anniversary right, Okay, so
it's a ten versary, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's one hundred percent of the show. Anyway, we're into
it now, We've got to keep going on.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So let's do this an annual thing.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is always going to be our Back to the
Future day as we celebrate time moving on from twenty
to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
It's depressing that ten years since when they went into
the future.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're right, it's so far you know what it is?
Rio is future plus ten, right, isn't it? Because future
was twenty fifteen Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
A Comma twenty first, twenty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That felt pretty futuristic. But imagine ten years on from
that moment, it's future plus ten.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Okay, I love it. That's all we're living in right now.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's very clear to understand hashtag future plus ten if
you want know me any social messages today on this
significant day. But what great movies Back to the Future,
and the first one is such an original idea and
it still stands a test of time. Now it's anyone
seen Back to the Future. Recently I watched it for
the very first time. I'd never seen I'm not an
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eighties kid.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, sure, I watched it for the first time on
the weekend with a little bit of apprehension.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Thinking, you know, just old movies are just like one.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Of those eighties ones. They really hang up. They're quite
slow on the editor.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now it's like twenty second tiktop reels and Instagram and that.
Then you're like, yean, cut the scenes go on just
a bit too long. I try to get my kids
to watch. I raised them enjoying Eddie Murphy and I
was like, oh, you should watch now, you're old enough
to get it to the swearing.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Let's do Beverly Hills cop it was. It was just
dragging on twenty minutes like that. I was like, yeah, okay,
this is a hard sale. It's a hard sell Back
to the Future.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Back to the.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Future went out of ten like it's just I had
a smile on my face the whole time.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's like comfort food.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It was a perfect movie, like beef beat everything, gripping, funny.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Warm warmth forul warmthful, yes warming. I loved every second
of it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was such a great idea. And I years ago
I was looking enough to interview Steven Spielberg right and
it was talking about so how did Zamechis and Weile
Girl come up with the idea? And it was they've
been trying to come up with an idea with like
a time traveling nostalgia movie for quite a while. And
then Robert Samechis went back to see his mum and dad.
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They were getting the photos out, you know, as people
used to do then now they're on you know, laptops
and now, and he was looking at his mum and
he thought and his mum and dad, and he was like,
I wonder if I went back in time and before
they got together, got married and had me, would I
like my parents? And he was like, my god, this
is the idea for the thing about time traveling where
you go back and see your parents before they became
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your parents. And then obviously it gets this strange scene
as they started to write it where it's but what.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
If your mum's hot? Okay, there is that awkward scene
there is you remember, I.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Mean they're pretty heavy handed on the old would You
Sleep with Your.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Engine?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It only when I saw it again last year. I
didn't realize at the time because when it came out
in eighty five, I was twelve, so it just felt
a bit a little bit giggy. Then I didn't really
understand the repercussions of that and how odd that is
until later on.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yes, yeah, it's a bit. We're in the school hour,
aren't we. But it is a bit. It's a bit much.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Some of the Disney rejected the script forty times. Yes, yeah,
they thought that the originals apparently were really too incestuous.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So I'm not was the original one? Did he have
a one night with his mum?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Was his own baby daddy they're in. We're making it
sound like it's the most extreme movie.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
This is a maze him. As a PG movie. It's layered. Yes,
let us say it's a very laid movie.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Anyway, when I was starting about to spilbalk about the movie,
he said, originally it was a time traveling fridge, okay,
And he actually said not if that's what we had
gone with, right, he goes not as successful a movie
because the delauring car, those choices that people make when
they make great stuff that stands to test the time
all compound and add up. The delooring car itself looked
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futuristic with the gull wing doors that came up, not the.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Same with the fridge. The only reason I said, what's
what what? What killed the fridge, he goes.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
In the end, some executive rightly pointed out, they're worried
that we copycat kids might get in fridges to go
time traveling. So that's I said, that was the only
reason you dropped the created decision. So here's a question, then,
on this semi significant day, if you could go back
in time, what year would you go to?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
If it was for me?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I was thinking about this down the way in. I'd
go back to twenty twelve for two reasons. Right, twenty
twelve was the London Summer Olympics, and there have been
so much criticism about how much money would be spending
on this and was it going to be any good?
And the opening ceremony was costing millions and millions and
millions and millions. The opening ceremony, I've never seen anything
like it before. It was a real moment where the
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country came together and felt proud, and then bizarrely we
happened to do well as well, and so it was
a really magical couple of weeks. It was on air
in London. There was just like this buzz in London
that the Olympics were here and it was looking good
on TV. The other thing is my daughters then were
eight and six. Those are magical ages. The kids are
just in this twilight. You get this window for a
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couple of years once they get over five. Up until
about ten, it's a phase of being a dad where
it's just really magical. And the ages a right now
eighteen and twenty one, it's a different kind of magical,
but then it's a real it's a twilight couple of years.
That's why we'd go back to that eight and six.
We went to some of the some of the events
as well, the beach volleyball. One of my kids actually
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just fell asleep during it, she was so bored. My
wife was like you telling us, was the only one
to get tickets for funny, how genuinely.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Was everyone's just running around in barely any clothes. It
that's irrelevant, it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, not on the significant day of twenty fifteen plus ten.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Perhaps where would you go time traveling to?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
You know, fairly recent I'd go back to twenty twenty
three and my first ACRAS win, which meant so much
to me after decades in radio, and it just was
it was just a pivotal point in my career where
I finally felt empowered and it gave me the confidence.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
You know.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I was about to launch the podcast Rage Against the
Metapause as well, and I really felt like I had
grown into my shoes as a presenter, and it just
gave me so much confidence as a woman in her
early fifties where you think, Okay, what what's ahead for
me now? And sort of roads feel like they're narrowing
a bit, but it's just opened up this whole new
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world for me and given me the confidence to think, well,
you know, anything is possible, you can do it, You're
good enough to do it. So I often sort of
reflect back if I have a day where i'm sort
of hum ha, I think, gee, that was a great year,
look at what you've done, and proud of myself. Yeah, yeah,
that was a great So.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It felt like that you've finally got recognition, yes, because
for too long I got the feeling that you've been ignored.
And you know, I think one of the lovely things
that since I've known your work with you, Patsy and
seeing your rise and rise and rise and rise and
rise and that will continue, is just how at first
I felt like you didn't quite trust yourself and that
you know, it's really hard for women in broadcasting. It's
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hard for women in many industries. How we're in broadcasting,
it's even harder the majority bosses and men your casting shows,
where sadly it's a very narrow role they want you
to laugh at someone like me. And so what's been
lovely about watching you just flourishing the Patsy is you
just grow into who you actually are.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Oh and you know what, thank you for accepting me
as who I am, because.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
This is a.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You shouldn't have to say that. No, it's just basic
to accept somebody for who they are. Could you not be?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
You?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Pats between the hours and six and nine?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
We laugh at that, but it's so true where you know,
bosses are so eager to pigeonhole some presenters, but this
isn't our company and this isn't your show, where every
member of this team is allowed to spread their wings,
and you so encourage that. And also, you know, we've
got some great female leaders in our company as well
who are propelling a lot of women in our company,
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so cute oster them as well. So yeah, I look
back at that much. That was nice.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
All right, let's take a break. So tell us then,
what year would you go back to? And the most
important thing is tell me exactly why that year. You
can text me four seven five three one oh four three,
and you can call us thirteen fifty five, twenty two.
And don't forget Today is a very very semi significant day.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's ten years on from that moment.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Christian O'Connell sha podcast today.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's so complicated to set up this non anniversary anyway.
Today is ten years on from the day in the future,
twenty first of October twenty fifteen. So it's that year
they went to the future, ten years on, ten years
from that, and you know what we are. We're also
now future future. We're marking it now where there our
(10:34):
friends in America? Oh true, Lea's tomorrow, Yes, future future,
back to the future.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Future. Today's show, I've Gotta be honest, is meta.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Very Yes, the only way I can describe it very postmodern,
can't you It's very very postmodern Christian. If you're asking
what year I go back to, Matthew, that's exactly the
question I just asked. Take me back, I don't. I
said it very clearly, take me back to where we
go My friend in a time traveling fridge. We're up
to the ninety two Olympics. Matthew wants to go and
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watch the Dream Team. Oh the basketball, Yeah, yes, you
got Bird Johnson, Charles Barkley. What was that bar Salona? Yeah,
that would be Yes, that would be some trip, Matthew.
That's a great one. Christian. I'd go back time traveling.
I'd go back to the year two thousand. I was
fifteen years old. The world was just a better place.
Skateboarding for me, picked up the guitar for the first time.
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Pop culture was peak. Everything just seems simpler and happier.
I'm still best friends with most of my friends from
that time. We constantly talk about how life is going
so quick, and we reminisce about those days. Christian, I
go back to nineteen eighty five, the end of the
school year in grade five. For me, the sun is
shining and walking home from school on the last day
of term four, knowing I've got the whole summer holidays
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ahead of my ahead of me in my pool, without
a care in the world, right before puberty, before any
teen stuff and things start to get a little bit screwy, beautifully,
said Christian. I go back in timeye twenty and eleven.
This is from Nathan, when my three daughters were very young,
ages one, three and five. I really missed those tiny people.
It's such a special time. Like you said earlier, the
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grants so far as that's from Nathan, Alex Makee. Where
would you go about?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
What year and why?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Well, I'd go back to Sydney two thousand, the Olympic Games.
You mentioned London, Well, I think Sydney was just incredible.
I was twenty years old, you know. University just had
just a wonderful, wonderful vibe there in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You had a great games.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
It was such a great games, the best ever apparently.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, to see every independent ball. But actually
we're lucky to have had Olympics, yes, because it's an
amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And obviously you do get home advantage.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
TMGB had not had a lot of success, so I
think that's what the country was like, why are we
doing this?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Then sudden we start winning, smashing goes up.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Hey you know what, how good are the Olympics right
in your backyard? So yeah, but the Sydney one looks
great on TV as well. I'm watching that there was
so many great moments and obviously kind of that people
still talk about now.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Eric was somebody Eric the eel in the crowd, this
guy lined up for his heats in the one hundred
meter freestyle.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
The guy jumps in his goggles coming.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You say jumped, and he didn't. He only just finished
his first level one of lessons.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Yes, well, and he only just finished his first lap.
He's on his way back. He starts dog paddling. He was,
and you know what, there was this moment in the
crowd where there was complete silence because it was shocked, like,
oh my god, this guy can't really swim, and.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Then all of a sudden everyone started clapping.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Exactly.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
It was one of the most beautiful moments of the
most beautiful sporting moments of people just getting up and
getting behind this guy and the world when Bananas and
where just.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
He became a cult hero.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He is afterwards he was like touring the country speaking
doors and apparently it was unlike our Letterman and Wogan
in the UK, it was like a really big star.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Massive cheering him home and he finally got there and
it lifted the roof off. And yeah, we only found
out later that he didn only trained in a hotel
pool at the hotel store. Now he teaches swimming back
in his arm Equatorial Guinea.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, come on, seriously, come on, he's a swimming coach.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Fakes has never played the game, but he's a great coach.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
He's just one back to back.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Such a good time, a beautiful time for Sydney as well.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
All right, we've got the new suport that would have
the time waste. Keith is coming.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Then what year would you go back to? And y
oh four seventy five O three one O four three.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
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