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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I
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free iHeart app. Got anything good?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Friday morning. Welcome
to the Christian O'Connell's Show. Good morning, Patsy, Good morning,
Good morning, Rio, Good morning. Before we get into this
week's double thumbs up, well we go out of the
team talk about the things we're enjoying this week long weekend.
What a gift? Ria, What are you up to this

(00:40):
long weekend?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I have a King's birthday long weekend tennis tournament.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh wow, God, so boring, My god, it's cool. Pho Oh, chaps,
what say we gather another? Really don't have a long
old I think I said you're gonna have a long
lunch or something of pup cruel tennis tournament. Yes, rather ra,
all the chaps down the club, are you? How are you? Jumpers?

(01:04):
Your gant jumpers over your shoulders.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
It is a lawn tennis tournament, so yes, will be fancy.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Why do you think I'm a fancy pom than me?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's in doubles and it's knockout as well.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Gosh, so much dry not there. There's a lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Tension I've got.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I've made a new tennis friend's someone I played against
and now we're friends.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Isn't that cute? Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:30):
This We're really excited. We're going up to Milliwa, to
the wine region, beautiful lance More and I'm very honestly lance.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
More lovely ones too. That's a beautiful place.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
I tell you how excited I am. We realized the
other night we actually haven't left city limits since Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Oh wow, so over you break?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, really looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What about yourself?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, tomorrow, Sarah and I am celebrating seven years of
the show. We're having if you ask me, I prefer
a long lunch too. Didn't even agree. It's just the
best long lunch. So a long lunch and then on Monday.
I am a des fan. I've been every year since
we here. God of the King's Birthday game. What's looking
forward to it? Two games ago? But if you saw

(02:13):
the D's hopefully didn't see the d S smash by
wait for Saints, then now you know I'm not. I'm
not looking forward to game, but I'm looking forward to
the occasion because actually what Neil Danaher has done the
money that Mayn has raised. I think he was raised.
He's one of the mos most incredible human beings in
the world. So obviously we celebrated seven years of the
show on Wednesday. So the first King's Birthday I went

(02:35):
to I'd only been on air a couple of days.
Hamis McLaughlin was working for the first year on the
show as our kind of footy correspondent. He was initiating
me into the great game, and he did a great
jowe with a lovely guy. He said, look, come along
and as you said to Neil Dan to her, you
know you should really find out about this guy. So
I met now Neil twenty eighteen on King's Birthday, and
I met his beautiful daughter Beck as well. What was incredible.

(02:58):
So for the next couple of hours I kept seeing
Neil walking around everywhere, being with people non stop. I
was exhausted, simply because we've done a breakfast show that day.
Nil's incredible, unrelating energy was unbelievable. I couldn't believe the
energy of the man. Oh incredible, and I really hope
one day they find a cure. If they will, it

(03:19):
would because because actually the money that that charity's raised
and Nil's raised and their whole team there has actually
is pioneering the research. No one does it more around
the world than Melbourne. It's all been driven out. Yeah.
I really hope they find a cure one day, and
it because of what Neil Danna has done. I mean,
what a legacy that man already had in an amazing career.
But then to get that diagnosis and to have a

(03:42):
choice about how's he going to be? I don't know
if I would who knows if anything tested like that,
how you would respond? But is an incredible man Neil Donah.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I don't think I would like that. It's just insane.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, And so Big Freeze is good fun. It's such
an institution now, isn't it. If were going down the
side and that, it's a really good day. So I'm
looking forward to that. You actually need to be someone
well known. They don't sound random. Mum Christian one of
the facts said, too many at lunch took a wrong turning,
so and next thing's going down a slide.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Already got he picked out. You could go as Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Has anyone done that in these ten or eleven.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Years Benny Mercury.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, I don't think of Bruce.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I tell you who did one of the best ones.
I think the last year was Eric Banners. What was that?
He can't remember what he did, but I all remember
he was very funny. He made a joke about nuts
and that is all you need to win this fifty
two year old child over all right, this play a song.
When we come back, we get into this week's Double
Thumbs Up Christian O'Connell Show, Gone podcast. It's the Christian

(04:48):
O'Connell show. Were doing Double thumbs Up now every Friday
we go around the team that's me, Rio and Pat
to talk about the things that we're enjoying this week.
So if you're looking for new TV shows, documentaries, or movies,
listen up. We've got some recommendations. All right, couple from
me finished watching Manhunts, Oh God for Bin Larden. This
is a three part document mentory. I was slightly cautious

(05:11):
about watching it because I thought would be a very
gung ho thank you America for Safe. It's not that
at all. It's an incredibly well made and what really
makes it brilliant and original is it's footage with all
the CIA insiders who spent over ten years, you know,
two different decades, had spanned over painstakingly researching and never

(05:32):
ever giving up, hoping that one day justice would be
served on Bin Larden and it happened. And they've even
got interviews with Rob Wilson, who was the swat guy,
who the Navy seal that shot beIN Larden and what
a great storyteller he is. It is gripping stuff and
actually at the end it's actually quite a sad ending.
You know, they talk about, yes, justice was served, but

(05:54):
at what costs? So many people lost their lives. It's
actually quite sad times it mind me, of all the
terrorist attacks we had in London, the London terrorist attacks
in two thousands and all the people that lost their
lives there. So it's actually quite sat times. But it's
a moment in our history and it is so well made.
The ending is actually very moving, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
And it's thrilling, like it is a documentary with no
narrator and my part, you know, how it ends.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
The last episode is actually is the twenty two minutes.
That's what it was from when they started repelling down
to helicopters and tour they shot him as twenty two
minutes and you're watching it and you've got goosebumps, you
can't be breathe.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, I.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
I didn't realize one of the Blackhawks crashed.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes, yeah, yeah, kidding no, and they just carried on.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, improvised, and so much chaos happened that they just
have to deal with that. We didn't know. Yeah, it's
on Netflix. It's called Manhunt. Can't recommend that enough. Another
thing that's on a completely different thing is a new
Own Wilson comedy called Stix. It's a golf comedy. I've
seen the whole season. It's just started this week. It
is very fun. It's a TV shirt yeah for our episodes.

(07:00):
I love Own Wilson. I wish him and Vince More
would do more movies together. Yes, wedding crashes. I was
hoping it was going to be a series of movies
with differences, because I thought those two were just gold
to the other cinemat to god, they're so good. Owen
Wilson here, it's back in a comedy show. It's very funny.
He's a washed out golf instructor. He finds some young prodigie.
It's really funny. Sticks is very good. That's on Apple TV. Rhea,

(07:21):
what are you enjoying?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I watched the Australian Story on Monday night for Ange
posta Coogloo.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I've got that saved, as we used to say back
in the day, got it on my VHS tape. So
watch over the weekends.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I urge you to watch it.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
It'll make you proud to be Australian because what he's achieved,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Flown under the radar.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Hardest league in the world with one of the worst
team of chokers as well, Tottenham.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes, such a long history, haven't won a European trophy
in forty years. He takes them over, this's never been
an Australian coach in the EPL.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Takes them over.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
And they are doing terribly last year there almost bottom
of the table, almost being relegated.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
He's a laughing stock.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
And then he says in the bottom of their bottom
he says, I always win a trophy in my second
year and he's.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
He did it. It's an amazing story. You should be
and Andngre is an incredible character as well. And that
is the hardest, most brutal league in the in the world.
The epl the richest one, but the hardest one. He's
had a really tough two years. Plus there's no guarantee
that he doesn't get fired in the next week.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yes, he still might get fired.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Daniel Levy has fired so many managers are they just
it's brutal And is a great guy. He's got a
lot of dignity and integrity as well. Even if he
does get fired as well, he'll go into another top
job in Europe. Tell you what those lads play for.
Ang is very very clear and he's brilliant the press conferences.
He's a crumpy old man. Yes, the poor guy should

(08:43):
put up with these relentless dumb questions in the UK sports.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, he doesn't suffer any fool It's from pren you know,
grew up in Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Really right, So it's a good watch.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, it's a great watch, really moving and a story
that just doesn't get told on him.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
All right, We're going to take a break and then
we'll come up with Patsy's Double thumbs Up. The Christian
O'Connell Show podcast Friday Morning. Welcome to the show. We're
doing Double thumbs Up. We go around the team and
we share the shows that we're enjoying at the moment,
or anything else. If there's anything you're into that you'd
like to recommend to us, you can text me four
seven five three one oh four three parats. What are
you loving this?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, we caught last Sunday they had to dom on Netflix,
which is.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Keep seeing that what is It's crazy? I knew nothing
about it.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
So it's like, you know, when you select something and
to do you get that oh sound effect? This super
Bowl performance and what it is is an announcement of
when all your favorite shows, the new seasons are coming out,
like it is a.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Big you're watching TV about TV?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, it's crazy, And they've got all the stars on
the stage, you know, bringing them on like a full
produced performance of just announcing.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
They do this. All the TV networks do it twice.
Is called the upfronts, right, so all the stars will
present to advertisers what the big shows are. I didn't
realize anyone would actually want to see that.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Sound man? Did you shoot him?

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Build up to our favorite show? So Stranger Things very
very late to the party because Audrey was a very
young teen when Strange or even younger when Stranger Things
started we knew that she would like it. She's just
started watching it. Chris had blitzed it, my husband had
blitzed it, but so I hadn't seen it. So we're
watching it together.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's a great show. It's really good. You love it,
love it?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, and it's a good story when you know stranger
things comes on the screen the red graphics and it's
like this about it.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
So that's coming in season five on November.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
End of November, we will watch from watching that TV
show to Nomber Nomber calendar November. This is double thumbs
up about shows are coming out in five years times
that might.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Be good episode two of season two.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
So by then I will great recommendation about a thing.
That's how in November it is June, happy Gilmour July. Yeah,
that is so close again the thing you haven't seen,
we're meant to recommend that we've seen, not potential shows either, predictions.

(11:32):
Another thing I just want to say. Then Fast and
Furious twenty two, it's coming out in thirty thirty nine.
I watched it on the TV show. Is it to done?
For Tedium?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I have nothing left to say other than you have
a lot to say.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Earlier giving us doughnuts today, Pats, No, come on, no fair,
all right, what.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Did you give us a podcast?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Not your own one?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
No, no, no, no, it's not you know, self promotion.
It is Charlotte from Sex and the City. Kristen Davis
has done a spin off podcast. So if you can't
get enough Sex and the City or and just tell
me this.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
By the way, you were talking about the news season.
It's huge, right is it good?

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
But it's a bit controversial. Well I can't.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I don't know if I can say, because it's a
family friendly show, but there's a certain scene with Aiden
that has like forums up in.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Sex and the City.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
It's a little bit racy, which is why we love
this series so much.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Editionary on TV is it? I must look away right now.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
For shy oh he does something that's a bit rank.
But anyway, the podcast.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Is right now. You tell me that I'm gonna have
to find out everyone get me going at half six
in the morning on a Friday.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
You know, they're pushing the boundaries with and just like that,
they're pushing the boundaries ever so just it's like, hang on,
have you gone over the top.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I loved it. I only got the other thing coming
in November.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm going to har you was Charlotte and it's on
the iHeart platform.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Way, it's good shows on there all right. I'm using
the sport. Coming up next, The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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