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Speaker 3: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do a very very powerful impression right now,

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Speaker 2: and I like you or imagine what this movie might be.

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Speaker 2: You can't go into a store and by plutonium dark

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Speaker 1: Oh it's in the right continent.

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Speaker 2: But yes, back to the Future today is a very

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Speaker 2: significant date.

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Speaker 2: I left this show yesterday and the post show meeting,

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Speaker 2: believe that one of you told me that today, twenty

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Speaker 2: first of October twenty twenty five was the date in

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Speaker 2: Back to the Future too they traveled to in the future,

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Speaker 2: and that we should do something significant on it this morning.

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Speaker 2: I thought, hang on a minute, I'm pretty sure it's

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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. I then go on to by the movie,

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Speaker 4: Art Comma twenty first, twenty to fifty.

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Speaker 1: I'm like those bloody.

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Speaker 1: So we're celebrating the anniversary ten years on.

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Speaker 5: Yes, the ten year anniversary or anniversary right, Okay, so

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Speaker 5: it's a ten versary, Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: That's one hundred percent of the show. Anyway, we're into

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Speaker 2: it now, We've got to keep going on.

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Speaker 1: So let's do this an annual thing.

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Speaker 2: This is always going to be our Back to the

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Speaker 2: Future day as we celebrate time moving on from twenty

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Speaker 5: It's depressing that ten years since when they went into

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Speaker 2: You're right, it's so far you know what it is?

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Speaker 2: Rio is future plus ten, right, isn't it? Because future

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Speaker 2: was twenty fifteen Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: A Comma twenty first, twenty to fifty.

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Speaker 2: That felt pretty futuristic. But imagine ten years on from

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Speaker 4: Okay, I love it. That's all we're living in right now.

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Speaker 2: It's very clear to understand hashtag future plus ten if

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Speaker 2: you want know me any social messages today on this

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Speaker 2: significant day. But what great movies Back to the Future,

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Speaker 2: and the first one is such an original idea and

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Speaker 2: it still stands a test of time. Now it's anyone

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Speaker 2: seen Back to the Future. Recently I watched it for

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Speaker 2: the very first time. I'd never seen I'm not an

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, I watched it for the first time on

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Speaker 4: Thinking, you know, just old movies are just like one.

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Speaker 2: Of those eighties ones. They really hang up. They're quite

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Speaker 2: Now it's like twenty second tiktop reels and Instagram and that.

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Speaker 2: Then you're like, yean, cut the scenes go on just

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Speaker 5: Future went out of ten like it's just I had

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Speaker 5: It was a perfect movie, like beef beat everything, gripping, funny.

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Speaker 2: It was such a great idea. And I years ago

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Speaker 2: it was talking about so how did Zamechis and Weile

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Speaker 1: If your mum's hot? Okay, there is that awkward scene

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Speaker 2: It only when I saw it again last year. I

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Speaker 2: Some of the Disney rejected the script forty times. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they thought that the originals apparently were really too incestuous.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not was the original one? Did he have

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Speaker 5: Was everyone's just running around in barely any clothes. It

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Speaker 2: Okay, not on the significant day of twenty fifteen plus ten.

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Speaker 2: it's even harder the majority bosses and men your casting shows,

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to say that. No, it's just basic

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Speaker 1: Pats between the hours and six and nine?

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Speaker 6: We laugh at that, but it's so true where you know,

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Speaker 6: bosses are so eager to pigeonhole some presenters, but this

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Speaker 6: and you so encourage that. And also, you know, we've

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Speaker 2: All right, let's take a break. So tell us then,

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Speaker 2: what year would you go back to? And the most

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Speaker 2: important thing is tell me exactly why that year. You

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Speaker 2: can text me four seven five three one oh four three,

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Speaker 2: and you can call us thirteen fifty five, twenty two.

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Speaker 2: And don't forget Today is a very very semi significant day.

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Speaker 1: It's ten years on from that moment.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell sha podcast today.

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Speaker 2: It's so complicated to set up this non anniversary anyway.

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Speaker 2: Today is ten years on from the day in the future,

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Speaker 2: twenty first of October twenty fifteen. So it's that year

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Speaker 2: they went to the future, ten years on, ten years

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Speaker 2: from that, and you know what we are. We're also

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Speaker 2: now future future. We're marking it now where there our

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Speaker 2: friends in America? Oh true, Lea's tomorrow, Yes, future future,

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Speaker 2: back to the future.

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Speaker 1: Future. Today's show, I've Gotta be honest, is meta.

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Speaker 2: Very Yes, the only way I can describe it very postmodern,

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Speaker 2: can't you It's very very postmodern Christian. If you're asking

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Speaker 2: what year I go back to, Matthew, that's exactly the

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Speaker 2: said it very clearly, take me back to where we

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Speaker 2: go My friend in a time traveling fridge. We're up

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Speaker 2: to the ninety two Olympics. Matthew wants to go and

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Speaker 2: watch the Dream Team. Oh the basketball, Yeah, yes, you

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Speaker 2: that would be Yes, that would be some trip, Matthew.

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Speaker 2: That's a great one. Christian. I'd go back time traveling.

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Speaker 2: I'd go back to the year two thousand. I was

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Speaker 2: fifteen years old. The world was just a better place.

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Speaker 2: Skateboarding for me, picked up the guitar for the first time.

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Speaker 2: Pop culture was peak. Everything just seems simpler and happier.

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Speaker 2: I'm still best friends with most of my friends from

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Speaker 2: that time. We constantly talk about how life is going

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Speaker 2: so quick, and we reminisce about those days. Christian, I

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Speaker 2: go back to nineteen eighty five, the end of the

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Speaker 2: school year in grade five. For me, the sun is

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Speaker 2: said Christian. I go back in timeye twenty and eleven.

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Speaker 2: This is from Nathan, when my three daughters were very young,

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Speaker 2: It's such a special time. Like you said earlier, the

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Speaker 2: grants so far as that's from Nathan, Alex Makee. Where

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Speaker 1: What year and why?

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Speaker 8: Well, I'd go back to Sydney two thousand, the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 8: You mentioned London, Well, I think Sydney was just incredible.

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Speaker 8: I was twenty years old, you know. University just had

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Speaker 1: You had a great games.

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Speaker 1: And obviously you do get home advantage.

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Speaker 1: Then sudden we start winning, smashing goes up.

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Speaker 2: Hey you know what, how good are the Olympics right

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Speaker 8: Eric was somebody Eric the eel in the crowd, this

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Speaker 7: The guy jumps in his goggles coming.

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Speaker 2: You say jumped, and he didn't. He only just finished

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Speaker 8: Yes, well, and he only just finished his first lap.

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Speaker 8: It was one of the most beautiful moments of the

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Speaker 8: getting behind this guy and the world when Bananas and

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Speaker 1: He became a cult hero.

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Speaker 2: He is afterwards he was like touring the country speaking

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Speaker 8: Massive cheering him home and he finally got there and

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Speaker 8: it lifted the roof off. And yeah, we only found

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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, seriously, come on, he's a swimming coach.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Fakes has never played the game, but he's a great coach.

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Speaker 1: He's just one back to back.

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Speaker 7: Such a good time, a beautiful time for Sydney as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got the new suport that would have

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Speaker 1: the time waste. Keith is coming.

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Speaker 2: Then what year would you go back to? And y

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Speaker 2: oh four seventy five O three one O four three.

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