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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Good morning
jack morning guys, Good morning Patsy. Is everyone excited about
their weekends? What have you guys got on? Jackie boy?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What are you up to after the show. I don't
know if you'd call this exciting. My job is to
find a zucchini spiralizer to make an alternative to noodles.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh my god, yeah, yeah, you're doing the low car
but yeah, we've got one of those. Be careful. They
are worse than a cheese grade at cutting in fingers.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I hate using the cheese graterer.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You have to reassemble and it's unassembling it to then
wash the thing because it spiralizes the zucchinis, And then
to clean it. It's a nightmare getting the little juice
and the pippy bits in it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And is it worth it? Do they make a convincing noodle?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I have to say there's something really enjoyable about using
a spiralizer. Oh my word, Yeah, it's pleasurable. You do
the you sort of impale it on this circul thing
and then you're to crank the little handle. It's like
a kid's toy and then it goes into the blades
of death and it spiralizes it. It comes squirreling, scoiling, scoiling,
squalling out. I love doing it, but the cleanup is is,
(01:09):
really you will cut your fingers on it every time.
They're really dangering passy. What are you up to, mate?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, we're being very adult.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Tomorrow we're finally going to see a financial adviser over
your side of town. Actually, so I'm sort of like.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Lor out of trouble. Do I not have any finance guys.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Out of the room? Probably not, ass Jack.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
So we're doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Talking it's very your weekend as well. Oh my god,
bloody hell in the.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Year like probably twenty sixty.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, we had Sarah and I have to have the
meeting with the financial planer this week. It's very it's depressing.
You're like very clear that I can never retire.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was based on the teenager's university and then one
of them saying I might do another degree after Oh great,
will you I'll just add on all that Hex's debt
to me. Just check it on my back. I've been
in radio shows until ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And then your wife is going back to do a degree.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Is she's going to Yeah, so I'm the only literally,
there are three students in the family. Now I'm the
only one with the job.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But someone has to play the heck, yes, well.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Tell you it is me. No retirement for me. Yeah.
Those conversations are heavy, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I know, and we haven't done them.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Before we start thinking how much can we live?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We'll be living on two minute noodles.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That is so grown up, I know.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But I feel very sensible and very I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Know, I feel good about it that it's like, no,
we're putting pressure.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You got to do it. Yeah, yeah, Tomorrow big reunion. Ruby,
our twenty year old daughter, has been traveling for the
last four weeks around Thailand and Cambodia. We haven't seen her.
We see her tomorrow. We have a reunion dinner. Can't wait, right?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
How is she as well?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She is. They've had a great time. They have had
a really great time. Do you know what. I'm proud
of her. It's such a big thing when your kids
go where you'll have the misordie right, It is a
sign that you've done it right that they can actually
go to another country, especially place that cam in ty
end where you're worried about if anything happens, what the
hospital is going to be like, and stuff like that.
And for several days, no phone calls, no text and
(03:08):
you really have to don't want to keep bantering them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, you gotta let them be adults.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know that's what I had. But I'll tell you what,
it's really really really hard, really hard, and there's been
a part of me that hasn't been able to relax
until it's like them coming back to nest Right the
moment that she lands, I can then go, okay, this
is part you can't turn off, even even nighttime. During
the night I wake up and night right now. Yeah,
And also some of the places she's been staying like
(03:33):
we did when we go traveling, they're like ten or
eleven dollars, right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And it just like what it would have been. Okay,
they're going to be safe.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I just wanted to be safe. But they have had
a hair and a boyfriend, what experience they have had
such an adventure, But we've got that live three sixty
I've had to stop looking at because there's me down
to the bottom of Australia. And then there's really like traveling
around Cambodian like state parks where there's like there's there's
nothing around. So in the big reunion tomorrow, lots of
clothes to be washed as well. So yeah, that's the
(04:02):
highlight of the weekend for us. Coming up next and
we get into this week's Double thumbs Up, It's Gold
one four point three, a Christian O'Connell show podcast. Let's
get into this week's double thumbs Up. This is where me,
Jack and Pat's talk about the things we're into at
the moment, what we're enjoying and what's lighting us up. Patsy,
What's I for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Really a great book to read, especially at the moment
with the rise of anti Semitism in the community. It's
a beautiful book by Eddie jacku the Happiest man on Earth.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's not a brand new book. It's been around for
a few years.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I've read that, Yeah, I read it quite a few years.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He was living in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
He's passed away now, but he wrote this most spectacular
book about his time.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
As a prisoner of war as a child.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And yes, it's a very grim subject obviously, but it
is so enlightening and what it is is it's a
story of forgiveness in what was hell on Earth and
also finding happiness in you know, such a terrible situation
and how we make our own decision to be happy
in any situation.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's so, it's a great reading.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh it's beautiful. I'll read it again. I know Relent
Whips someone.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Recommended to me when I moved here, actually when I
was looking for great Australian books and someone recommend that.
And really it's an incredible read, very powerful outlook, such.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
A beautiful outlook. After all he came through.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The other thing that we've watched over our break was
a six triple eight on Netflix and it's based on
a true story.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It's based on the story of these.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Women who were the biggest at the first and the
biggest squadron of women to serve overseas in World War Two,
and Oprah has helped produce it. She also has a
role in the film. And it's a story of these
women who were sent overseas essentially to sort the mail.
They had this backlog of mail in World War Two
(05:53):
which was such a lifeline for the troops and kept
their spirits up to get you know, packages from Home
and Word for Home and they just had this massive
backlog and they sort of sorted through like something like
seventeen million items of mail in three months and they
set up base in Scotland. And it's absolutely gorgeous and
it's a story about really discrimination that they faced as
(06:17):
women and as black women, and it's it's really inspiring.
We sat and watched it with Audrey, which if you've
got a daughter with the girl.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Shara and my wife Sarah and the girls they were
watching together. I was with a friend. I came back
in the evening. They were all in tears. Yeah. Now
they were really moved by it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yes, Yeah, it was beautiful and these women talk about
the discrimination. Two of them were killed in the line
of duty and they weren't even acknowledged by the services
by the American Army. There was no funeral, no grave site,
and they had to pass the hat around to pay
for these women's help.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You, but the story is being remembered now.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yes, and Oprah's had a massive part in it. It's
a beautiful story.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah. They absolutely loved it. Yeah, yeah, I heard the story.
I didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
About it, did we We were just flicking through and
I thought, and we wanted something to watch with Audrey,
and I thought, this looks really great and it was
so not only if you've just got a daughter, just
everyone will enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The six Triple eight on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Great, thanks Pats. We'll take a break. When we come back,
we'll get into this week's double thumbs up for jacking
out The Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, Jackie boy,
what have you? I know it's hard because you know
you've got a three year old, so you haven't got
as much time to watch TV and stream.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's not even about the TV. It's now that anytime
the TV's on, we're watching Disney for Frozen, Moanna. It's
always the same ones as well. The Grinch. We would
have watched. They made an animated version of The Grinch
where Bennette Cumberbatch is the Grinch.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh wow, great voice.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Good movie. But once you've watched it one hundred times,
it's just again and again and again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's audmental cruel.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How do they not we've seen it happened Christmas?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Why do we want to watch again? Terrorist to talk,
It's just make them more those Keys movies again again again.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So I've had very little access to the TV TV,
but it means I've been picking up a lot of books.
I read one of my favorite books over Christmas, and
that was Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keith. He's become
my new favorite author because I was also read Empire
of Pain last year. Empire of Pain was about the
opioid epidemic in America and the Sacla family who got
(08:23):
rich billionaires billions and billions of dollars, got rich of
a lot of devastation, and then he wrote this, this
true story about the IRA and the troubles in Northern Ireland. Man,
I had no idea for reading it. Right, I've read it.
I didn't know that you would have read someone of that.
It's an incredible story. I bet it's hard to believe.
It's impossible to believe. I really didn't know much about
(08:46):
the IRA at all, and I just can't believe that
it was like within like the generation before us, it
was within our time.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I adapted it for TV. I saw that I
started watching this on Disney play Say Nothing. It is brilliant.
Hard watch it times to see it actually dramatized, but
it is brilliant It's outstanding, Yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
If you want a non fiction book that reads as
fast and it's page turning as a fiction, Patrick Radden
Keefe's amazing. It's called say Nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay for Me? Then Bliss Last Weekend. It was transported
back to the nineties and the two thousands. Tom Green.
Tom Green. Without Tom Green, right, there's no punk, there's
no jackass. He was a real visionary. Right. There's a
brilliant documentary that he's made himself called this is the
Tom Green Documentary. You used to do a TV show
called The Tom Green Show, and it was a brilliant
visionary show. All that reaction stuff that now it's a
(09:38):
lot of the stuff we see on Instagram with the
kids are all making. He literally pioneered that. It was
like a demented letterman. The documentary, it's an hour and
a half. I'm a big fan of Tom Green. I
remember getting videos sent over from America of the early
days of his shows before he went to MTV.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Tom Green Show.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Do you remember that? So you remember? I can remember
at the top of the head the Pizza Undercutter. I
still watched that on YouTube. Now makes me cry. Enough
with the slut my bill that he made for his
mum and dad and woke them up in the middle
of the night. My bum is on the right, the
bum bum song, the bum bum song. We've got to
play it. The documentary is brilliant, so obviously didn't. He
marries Drew Barrymore, becomes a massive Hollywood star, and then
(10:17):
it all sorts to fall apart, and now he lives
on a farm. He sold his Hollywood home. He lives
on a farm back where he grew up in Canada.
Still a touring stand up all over and a brilliant
stand up and he's got a new special out actually
on Prime where the documentary is. It's a brilliant look
back at the nineties and two thousands. We all grew
up during that time and Tom Green was a real visionary.
It's nice to see his story being told and people
(10:39):
appreciating for how good he was.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
People don't even realize he was at the forefront of
making your own big empire podcasting before there was Joe Rogan,
before there was much.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Joe was on it saying he came on, Tom did
a thing, he got he left MTV, and then he
realized that the internet was going to become a very
big thing, and so he created this thing called Webbovision.
He made a check show that sometimes I used to
love watching it. Some episodes would be four or five hours.
He built a chat show set in his house. Yeah,
paid for all the equipment, and you have guests on
(11:09):
and it was Rogan was a guest on it, and
Rogan was like, this is going to be a thing.
I want to I want to do something like this.
So he called it Webbovision, and of course that went
on to become podcasting. So the documentary is brilliant. It's
an hour and a half and it's a really great
story and there is so much nostalgia in there as well.
This is a Tom Tom Green documentary that's on Prime.
I love that. The other thing I started listening to
(11:29):
brilliant new podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. It is barely believable
what you're hearing. It's literally about that. It's incredible, The
Telepathy Tapes. And new favorite TV show, a medical drama
for grown ups. If you loved Er and I loved
Ear the Night, it's a groundbreaking TV show. One of
the stars of it was Noah Wiley. He's in this
new show called the Pit You've seen the adverts around,
(11:51):
has been nominated for loads of Emmys. It's fifteen hour
long episodes, and it covers a fifteen hour shift in
an American public Health system hospital. It's a miss. It
is so good. The pet is your new favorite TV show.
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
Got anything good.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Good morning
jack morning guys, Good morning Patsy. Is everyone excited about
their weekends? What have you guys got on? Jackie boy?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What are you up to after the show. I don't
know if you'd call this exciting. My job is to
find a zucchini spiralizer to make an alternative to noodles.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh my god, yeah, yeah, you're doing the low car
but yeah, we've got one of those. Be careful. They
are worse than a cheese grade at cutting in fingers.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I hate using the cheese graterer.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You have to reassemble and it's unassembling it to then
wash the thing because it spiralizes the zucchinis, And then
to clean it. It's a nightmare getting the little juice
and the pippy bits in it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And is it worth it? Do they make a convincing noodle?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I have to say there's something really enjoyable about using
a spiralizer. Oh my word, Yeah, it's pleasurable. You do
the you sort of impale it on this circul thing
and then you're to crank the little handle. It's like
a kid's toy and then it goes into the blades
of death and it spiralizes it. It comes squirreling, scoiling, scoiling,
squalling out. I love doing it, but the cleanup is is,
(01:09):
really you will cut your fingers on it every time.
They're really dangering passy. What are you up to, mate?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, we're being very adult.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Tomorrow we're finally going to see a financial adviser over
your side of town. Actually, so I'm sort of like.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Lor out of trouble. Do I not have any finance guys.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Out of the room? Probably not, ass Jack.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
So we're doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Talking it's very your weekend as well. Oh my god,
bloody hell in the.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Year like probably twenty sixty.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, we had Sarah and I have to have the
meeting with the financial planer this week. It's very it's depressing.
You're like very clear that I can never retire.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was based on the teenager's university and then one
of them saying I might do another degree after Oh great,
will you I'll just add on all that Hex's debt
to me. Just check it on my back. I've been
in radio shows until ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And then your wife is going back to do a degree.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Is she's going to Yeah, so I'm the only literally,
there are three students in the family. Now I'm the
only one with the job.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But someone has to play the heck, yes, well.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Tell you it is me. No retirement for me. Yeah.
Those conversations are heavy, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I know, and we haven't done them.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Before we start thinking how much can we live?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We'll be living on two minute noodles.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That is so grown up, I know.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But I feel very sensible and very I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Know, I feel good about it that it's like, no,
we're putting pressure.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You got to do it. Yeah, yeah, Tomorrow big reunion. Ruby,
our twenty year old daughter, has been traveling for the
last four weeks around Thailand and Cambodia. We haven't seen her.
We see her tomorrow. We have a reunion dinner. Can't wait, right?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
How is she as well?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She is. They've had a great time. They have had
a really great time. Do you know what. I'm proud
of her. It's such a big thing when your kids
go where you'll have the misordie right, It is a
sign that you've done it right that they can actually
go to another country, especially place that cam in ty
end where you're worried about if anything happens, what the
hospital is going to be like, and stuff like that.
And for several days, no phone calls, no text and
(03:08):
you really have to don't want to keep bantering them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, you gotta let them be adults.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know that's what I had. But I'll tell you what,
it's really really really hard, really hard, and there's been
a part of me that hasn't been able to relax
until it's like them coming back to nest Right the
moment that she lands, I can then go, okay, this
is part you can't turn off, even even nighttime. During
the night I wake up and night right now. Yeah,
And also some of the places she's been staying like
(03:33):
we did when we go traveling, they're like ten or
eleven dollars, right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And it just like what it would have been. Okay,
they're going to be safe.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I just wanted to be safe. But they have had
a hair and a boyfriend, what experience they have had
such an adventure, But we've got that live three sixty
I've had to stop looking at because there's me down
to the bottom of Australia. And then there's really like traveling
around Cambodian like state parks where there's like there's there's
nothing around. So in the big reunion tomorrow, lots of
clothes to be washed as well. So yeah, that's the
(04:02):
highlight of the weekend for us. Coming up next and
we get into this week's Double thumbs Up, It's Gold
one four point three, a Christian O'Connell show podcast. Let's
get into this week's double thumbs Up. This is where me,
Jack and Pat's talk about the things we're into at
the moment, what we're enjoying and what's lighting us up. Patsy,
What's I for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Really a great book to read, especially at the moment
with the rise of anti Semitism in the community. It's
a beautiful book by Eddie jacku the Happiest man on Earth.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
It's not a brand new book. It's been around for
a few years.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I've read that, Yeah, I read it quite a few years.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
He was living in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
He's passed away now, but he wrote this most spectacular
book about his time.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
As a prisoner of war as a child.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And yes, it's a very grim subject obviously, but it
is so enlightening and what it is is it's a
story of forgiveness in what was hell on Earth and
also finding happiness in you know, such a terrible situation
and how we make our own decision to be happy
in any situation.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's so, it's a great reading.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh it's beautiful. I'll read it again. I know Relent
Whips someone.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Recommended to me when I moved here, actually when I
was looking for great Australian books and someone recommend that.
And really it's an incredible read, very powerful outlook, such.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
A beautiful outlook. After all he came through.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The other thing that we've watched over our break was
a six triple eight on Netflix and it's based on
a true story.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It's based on the story of these.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Women who were the biggest at the first and the
biggest squadron of women to serve overseas in World War Two,
and Oprah has helped produce it. She also has a
role in the film. And it's a story of these
women who were sent overseas essentially to sort the mail.
They had this backlog of mail in World War Two
(05:53):
which was such a lifeline for the troops and kept
their spirits up to get you know, packages from Home
and Word for Home and they just had this massive
backlog and they sort of sorted through like something like
seventeen million items of mail in three months and they
set up base in Scotland. And it's absolutely gorgeous and
it's a story about really discrimination that they faced as
(06:17):
women and as black women, and it's it's really inspiring.
We sat and watched it with Audrey, which if you've
got a daughter with the girl.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Shara and my wife Sarah and the girls they were
watching together. I was with a friend. I came back
in the evening. They were all in tears. Yeah. Now
they were really moved by it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yes, Yeah, it was beautiful and these women talk about
the discrimination. Two of them were killed in the line
of duty and they weren't even acknowledged by the services
by the American Army. There was no funeral, no grave site,
and they had to pass the hat around to pay
for these women's help.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You, but the story is being remembered now.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yes, and Oprah's had a massive part in it. It's
a beautiful story.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah. They absolutely loved it. Yeah, yeah, I heard the story.
I didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
About it, did we We were just flicking through and
I thought, and we wanted something to watch with Audrey,
and I thought, this looks really great and it was
so not only if you've just got a daughter, just
everyone will enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The six Triple eight on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Great, thanks Pats. We'll take a break. When we come back,
we'll get into this week's double thumbs up for jacking
out The Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, Jackie boy,
what have you? I know it's hard because you know
you've got a three year old, so you haven't got
as much time to watch TV and stream.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's not even about the TV. It's now that anytime
the TV's on, we're watching Disney for Frozen, Moanna. It's
always the same ones as well. The Grinch. We would
have watched. They made an animated version of The Grinch
where Bennette Cumberbatch is the Grinch.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh wow, great voice.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Good movie. But once you've watched it one hundred times,
it's just again and again and again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's audmental cruel.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How do they not we've seen it happened Christmas?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Why do we want to watch again? Terrorist to talk,
It's just make them more those Keys movies again again again.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So I've had very little access to the TV TV,
but it means I've been picking up a lot of books.
I read one of my favorite books over Christmas, and
that was Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keith. He's become
my new favorite author because I was also read Empire
of Pain last year. Empire of Pain was about the
opioid epidemic in America and the Sacla family who got
(08:23):
rich billionaires billions and billions of dollars, got rich of
a lot of devastation, and then he wrote this, this
true story about the IRA and the troubles in Northern Ireland. Man,
I had no idea for reading it. Right, I've read it.
I didn't know that you would have read someone of that.
It's an incredible story. I bet it's hard to believe.
It's impossible to believe. I really didn't know much about
(08:46):
the IRA at all, and I just can't believe that
it was like within like the generation before us, it
was within our time.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I adapted it for TV. I saw that I
started watching this on Disney play Say Nothing. It is brilliant.
Hard watch it times to see it actually dramatized, but
it is brilliant It's outstanding, Yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
If you want a non fiction book that reads as
fast and it's page turning as a fiction, Patrick Radden
Keefe's amazing. It's called say Nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay for Me? Then Bliss Last Weekend. It was transported
back to the nineties and the two thousands. Tom Green.
Tom Green. Without Tom Green, right, there's no punk, there's
no jackass. He was a real visionary. Right. There's a
brilliant documentary that he's made himself called this is the
Tom Green Documentary. You used to do a TV show
called The Tom Green Show, and it was a brilliant
visionary show. All that reaction stuff that now it's a
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lot of the stuff we see on Instagram with the
kids are all making. He literally pioneered that. It was
like a demented letterman. The documentary, it's an hour and
a half. I'm a big fan of Tom Green. I
remember getting videos sent over from America of the early
days of his shows before he went to MTV.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Tom Green Show.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Do you remember that? So you remember? I can remember
at the top of the head the Pizza Undercutter. I
still watched that on YouTube. Now makes me cry. Enough
with the slut my bill that he made for his
mum and dad and woke them up in the middle
of the night. My bum is on the right, the
bum bum song, the bum bum song. We've got to
play it. The documentary is brilliant, so obviously didn't. He
marries Drew Barrymore, becomes a massive Hollywood star, and then
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it all sorts to fall apart, and now he lives
on a farm. He sold his Hollywood home. He lives
on a farm back where he grew up in Canada.
Still a touring stand up all over and a brilliant
stand up and he's got a new special out actually
on Prime where the documentary is. It's a brilliant look
back at the nineties and two thousands. We all grew
up during that time and Tom Green was a real visionary.
It's nice to see his story being told and people
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appreciating for how good he was.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
People don't even realize he was at the forefront of
making your own big empire podcasting before there was Joe Rogan,
before there was much.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Joe was on it saying he came on, Tom did
a thing, he got he left MTV, and then he
realized that the internet was going to become a very
big thing, and so he created this thing called Webbovision.
He made a check show that sometimes I used to
love watching it. Some episodes would be four or five hours.
He built a chat show set in his house. Yeah,
paid for all the equipment, and you have guests on
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and it was Rogan was a guest on it, and
Rogan was like, this is going to be a thing.
I want to I want to do something like this.
So he called it Webbovision, and of course that went
on to become podcasting. So the documentary is brilliant. It's
an hour and a half and it's a really great
story and there is so much nostalgia in there as well.
This is a Tom Tom Green documentary that's on Prime.
I love that. The other thing I started listening to
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brilliant new podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. It is barely believable
what you're hearing. It's literally about that. It's incredible, The
Telepathy Tapes. And new favorite TV show, a medical drama
for grown ups. If you loved Er and I loved
Ear the Night, it's a groundbreaking TV show. One of
the stars of it was Noah Wiley. He's in this
new show called the Pit You've seen the adverts around,
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has been nominated for loads of Emmys. It's fifteen hour
long episodes, and it covers a fifteen hour shift in
an American public Health system hospital. It's a miss. It
is so good. The pet is your new favorite TV show.
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