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Speaker 3: So other than the Grand Final? What else on the
Speaker 3: long weekend? Is there to watch, stream or read? Double
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Speaker 3: obviously not here. Tomorrow will be on to celebrate the carnival.
Speaker 3: Have we got that? Have we got our float ready?
Speaker 1: Yeah? We're pole position number one. We're leading it, aren't we? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that in fatal boombox? Can of wait?
Speaker 2: Guys don't be together their early avoid disappointment if you
Speaker 2: missed us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we normally do some on a Friday. Double
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Speaker 2: We go around the team, we talk about things were
Speaker 2: into at the moment. For me, the big thing I
Speaker 2: cannot recommend enough. I've seen the whole series. It's the
Speaker 2: penultimate one. It starts this week. Slow Horses is back
Speaker 2: on the Breakout Show. So last years the novels are fantastic.
Speaker 2: You've got Gary Oldman, who's an Oscar winning actor, as
Speaker 2: Jackson Lamb, the smartest guy in the room. And the
Speaker 2: most slovenly dressed one as well. It's a very vague.
Speaker 2: This season is brilliance, the penultimate one. There's only going
Speaker 2: to be two more. They film them more or less
Speaker 2: back to bat because it's become so big. You'll find
Speaker 2: that on Apple TV. But this new series of Slow
Speaker 2: Horses is outstanding.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: I can't say this about the next recommendation because I'm
Speaker 2: only one half episodes in and my wife dropped out
Speaker 2: after episode one accusing of being bleak and miserable. She's right,
Speaker 2: but I'm still sticking with it. Because he's got two heavyweights.
Speaker 1: It's back Rabbit.
Speaker 2: You've probably seen it every time we turn on Netflix's
Speaker 2: Heavy Trail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's got two heavyweights.
Speaker 2: You've got Jason Bateman, who's an amazing actor, and on
Speaker 2: that brilliant podcast one while it's funniest podcast SmartLess as well, And.
Speaker 1: They've got Jude Law. You know what you like? Law?
Speaker 1: Is he from? Actually when Jude Law.
Speaker 2: He's still alive when it's only his fifties, the same
Speaker 2: age as us, which we still alive.
Speaker 1: What well, you don't need to get killed? Is they're
Speaker 1: not in movies anymore?
Speaker 2: Yes, and talented mister ripley yeh is a brilliant movie
Speaker 2: with him and the young Matt Damon. It's I'm still
Speaker 2: making my mind. I'm sticking with it. It's good enough.
Speaker 2: What's it about two brothers? Well, this is a bit
Speaker 2: where it gets weak. Would you watch the show? Two
Speaker 2: brothers used to be in a Nirvana grunge band, now
Speaker 2: run a restaurant.
Speaker 1: But guess what.
Speaker 2: There's a very hard working one and a shaky one
Speaker 2: who's into drugs. Have we seen this before so many times?
Speaker 2: And guess what? They used to run this restaurant together,
Speaker 2: but one of them has just sort of fallen by
Speaker 2: the wayside, leaving the hard working brother to run the
Speaker 2: restaurant alone. But the New York Times food critic is
Speaker 2: coming in tonight. It's got to be perfect. Guess who's
Speaker 2: come back after killing a guy? Dodgy brother? You got
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 4: It's like the Bear Meat Rat two.
Speaker 2: That's a timesas are and it is very miserable, really
Speaker 2: really bleak.
Speaker 1: It's really bleak. But I'm sticking with black grammar.
Speaker 2: It's not double thumbs up, it's half a thumb semi
Speaker 2: for now, Yeah, for now. It's a semi it's a
Speaker 2: thumbs up, but slow horses double thumbs up.
Speaker 1: That's great. Real what are you into at the moment?
Speaker 4: We are watching season four of Couples Therapy on SBS.
Speaker 1: It's a great show, isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's so good if you haven't watched it. It is
Speaker 4: couples that are sort of right on the brink of
Speaker 4: breaking up, usually married, and they go and see the
Speaker 4: most sought.
Speaker 2: After take us married people that I am. Gay people
Speaker 2: can get married to. Don't judge us. I've seen gay couple.
Speaker 2: I've seen gay couples on there. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: gay there are They struggle to the rainbows.
Speaker 1: Haven't got everything? You know, pretty doers have our problems.
Speaker 4: Well, actually, on this in season four, there's a poly couple,
Speaker 4: which means there are a thrapple poly polythrupple.
Speaker 5: So three people.
Speaker 1: So it's three people with three therapists. Just awner. But
Speaker 1: it is fascinating. I've never met even someone got excited.
Speaker 2: Then you have three three people hang on outputs, Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, brave New worlds.
Speaker 4: But it's a dangerous show because you start bickering when
Speaker 4: you watch, Yes, is their fights become your fight. That's
Speaker 4: an assholes.
Speaker 1: You Oh you do that?
Speaker 4: I do not.
Speaker 1: You do that more than I do.
Speaker 2: You know they did with Google Watch. I'd love to
Speaker 2: see hear a podcast of us watching that show.
Speaker 1: We had to give up on it. It was creating
Speaker 1: tension in our marriage. That was okay, we haven't had
Speaker 1: those fights.
Speaker 4: Now we're somehow implanted into their flights and now we're
Speaker 4: fighting sometimes you.
Speaker 1: My wife wouldn't even go you do that, It'll just
Speaker 1: be this pause, what does that mean? The same the same, familiar.
Speaker 2: But it's actually a beautiful show into what it is
Speaker 2: to be in a relationship because you're in a nation.
Speaker 2: We took people, but there's other there's other parts of you,
Speaker 2: and mums and dads that get and all those different
Speaker 2: parts of you get triggered in any argument or tension.
Speaker 2: It's a fascinating relationship. And it might sound like somebody's
Speaker 2: airing they're sort of dirty in that. It's actually very
Speaker 2: i don't know, life affirming because when they have these
Speaker 2: breakthroughs and the therapists are amazing on there who get
Speaker 2: them to a better place, it's so emotional.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's never about the thing in the fight.
Speaker 4: It's always about something else. It's something from the child
Speaker 4: who is the way?
Speaker 2: You know that Rio is life, isn't it? In a relationship?
Speaker 2: Last night my wife had an argued. My wife and
Speaker 2: I had an argument for about twenty minutes at ten
Speaker 2: o'clock about a light switch and a minute and I said,
Speaker 2: why I don't think this is about the light switch?
Speaker 1: As she goes, what are idiots? Even this morning when
Speaker 1: I was getting up, I.
Speaker 2: Stroked the light switch again, going it was never about
Speaker 2: the light stitching. Still learning after twenty eight years of marriage.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break. We come back with
Speaker 2: Alex and Pats's double thumbs up.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast. Today is a Friday, we all
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Speaker 2: Public Holiday tomorrow, Grand Final Weekends, People's playlist, It's coming
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Speaker 1: You play the judge.
Speaker 2: You're picking you happen tous pick the winner for the
Speaker 2: Grand final of Pimp Up My Crib?
Speaker 1: Patsy, what are you into moment? What are you giving
Speaker 1: your double thumbs up to you? Mate?
Speaker 5: We've seen a great documentary Our Family of Three on
Speaker 5: Netflix's Unknown Number.
Speaker 1: The High School catfish.
Speaker 5: It's good, it's brilliant. It is absolutely shocking, and it
Speaker 5: is brilliant at the same time. If you have teenage kids,
Speaker 5: I recommend that you see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, post of mine I watching saying this is very good.
Speaker 5: It is fabulous. So it's about the story of a
Speaker 5: teenager in the US who is the victim of cyber bullying,
Speaker 5: and it follows the story follows through to revealing who
Speaker 5: it is, and you'll never guess who it is. It's
Speaker 5: absolutely shocking. It's a true life story all over TikTok.
Speaker 1: How I google that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to know who it was?
Speaker 1: Is it someone in the family.
Speaker 5: I can't say. I don't want it's no spoiler.
Speaker 2: I can't help but think of its big other than
Speaker 2: it being the Pope, you know, or Trump. I can't
Speaker 2: think of, Like, what's a real big twist. You're not
Speaker 2: telling me someone in the family.
Speaker 5: I'm not telling you anything.
Speaker 1: The microphone twice if it is.
Speaker 5: But it's just it's absolutely shocking. It's absolutely shocking, and
Speaker 5: I know my.
Speaker 2: Kids are catfishing me getting ready to do my documentary
Speaker 2: about that. Credit is which used to selling my my
Speaker 2: final speakers. We've sold this week you know guy who
Speaker 2: we hear from. Was it a bed or something or
Speaker 2: a table that someone brought a table of somebody and
Speaker 2: the dad was crying as it left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2: This week came from my final speakers being with Anyway
Speaker 2: Patsy Catfish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's it's a brilliant show. It's a brilliant documentary,
Speaker 5: true life story and as as a mum of a teenager,
Speaker 5: it made me feel incredibly grateful that here in Australia
Speaker 5: we are about to introduce the under sixteenth social media
Speaker 5: ban elbows talking about it the UN just today in
Speaker 5: the afternoon session today, it made me think, wow, how
Speaker 5: lucky are we? How forward are we to be leading
Speaker 5: with these world first bands?
Speaker 1: And also do you enforce it? I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 5: Very difficult, it is, but I love that we're doing something,
Speaker 5: we're trying to do something. And also thankful for our
Speaker 5: school who is so vigilant with phone us. In this documentary,
Speaker 5: it was shocking these kids are allowed to have their
Speaker 5: phones on their person at their school in Middle America
Speaker 5: all day and when they interviewed the principal and say
Speaker 5: well don't you think it'd be a good idea if
Speaker 5: you just banned phones from school, and it was almost
Speaker 5: like you'd asked him to turn himself inside out.
Speaker 1: He could not believe that it.
Speaker 5: Would even be suggested that kids.
Speaker 2: Isn't it just thinking about how many decades of school
Speaker 2: where those things didn't even exist? And it was distracting
Speaker 2: enough school You're staring out the window for half of it,
Speaker 2: zoning out. You know, we prayed for a phone with everything,
Speaker 2: every TV show, movie ever, all knowledge ever, constant videos
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. We would prayed for that. It
Speaker 2: would have felt like some sci fi future, when was
Speaker 2: that going to be here? But and then the other
Speaker 2: thing is it's like, because it's as hidden life of
Speaker 2: teenagers now is their phones.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Number one concern that we have is social media, not
Speaker 5: so much as social group or her studies.
Speaker 1: It's totally birth social media. It's snapchat.
Speaker 5: So it feels for our vintage. I don't know about you, Christian,
Speaker 5: it feels so uncontrollable, like it's so foreign to us.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying. Watch the doco you will, I would actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. Have you've seen Adolescence Pats?
Speaker 5: You know, we started watching it, but we want to
Speaker 5: watch it with odds, but yes, a similar sort of thing. Absolutely,
Speaker 5: just eye opening and essential viewing.
Speaker 2: I'd be really interesting after you watch it with already
Speaker 2: what conversations might open up. Because I didn't want to
Speaker 2: watch it when I found out what it was about
Speaker 2: as every parent's nightmare. Okay, it was just too bleak,
Speaker 2: but my daughter's actually said you need to watch it,
Speaker 2: so I watched it, and then afterwards it helped me
Speaker 2: actually realize with more empathy and understanding.
Speaker 1: What they've dealt with.
Speaker 2: And they start telling me stuff that they've been sent
Speaker 2: on their phones, and I was like, my god, we've
Speaker 2: got to go to the police. When there's no point dad,
Speaker 2: It's just like that conversation is over. It's just stuff
Speaker 2: that people now that snapchat because it can be deleted immediately,
Speaker 2: there's no evidence trail, and so it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: when we were all at school, if you had a
Speaker 2: bad day, you got home, that was your safe space.
Speaker 1: You shut the door and you were right.
Speaker 4: That was it.
Speaker 2: Now it's like the worst bullying is after school. It's
Speaker 2: not even if they don't have the phones during the day.
Speaker 1: It's what happens.
Speaker 2: It's far more insiduous and evil and it's ruining teenage lives.
Speaker 2: It's just driving up their isolation, you know, even though
Speaker 2: they think they're connected. And also we didn't know if
Speaker 2: we weren't invited out right in an evening all the
Speaker 2: week and you had no.
Speaker 1: Idea, blissfully ignorant.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now they're on Snapchat and they're deliberately being you know,
Speaker 2: they've been gas sit all this photos of them all
Speaker 2: having good time. It's heartbreak and they want to come
Speaker 2: down because as we as parents then will just blow
Speaker 2: our lids. Oh call on the parents, and it short
Speaker 2: circuits the conversation. It's like it ends the conversation because
Speaker 2: you just get to kind of fix it mode. They
Speaker 2: just want you to understand how they feel. But please
Speaker 2: watch adolescents, Yes we will. It's a great shot, Alex,
Speaker 2: what are you in? Two mate?
Speaker 1: This week? A bit of inspo.
Speaker 6: Tracy Holmes is one of the greatest sports journalists this
Speaker 6: country has ever produced, and she's written a book called
Speaker 6: The Eye of the dragon Fly. She's done Colm Games,
Speaker 6: she's done Olympic Games, She's interviewed the likes of Pele
Speaker 6: and Senna, Kathy Freeman among the names, and an inspiration
Speaker 6: to me she's been really she's a celebrated journalist and
Speaker 6: she's written this amazing book. It's really really inspiring, especially
Speaker 6: to the current generation of female sports journalists, you know,
Speaker 6: like the Kelly Underwoods, even the Beck Maddens, the Kate Massey's.
Speaker 1: Of the world.
Speaker 6: And she did it from very early on, like in
Speaker 6: the late eighties. She's marched into the ABC and said,
Speaker 6: we need to be doing more on women's sport, and
Speaker 6: she started this program called Women in Sport. It was
Speaker 6: fifteen minutes in nineteen eighty eight. She was laughed at,
Speaker 6: sneered at by all those you know, pipe smoking old
Speaker 6: journos that used to walk up and down the aisles
Speaker 6: of all those commercial and ABC stations as well. And
Speaker 6: so she's just gone from there to do what she
Speaker 6: now does. And I think it's amazing. I've got daughters,
Speaker 6: and if I have, you know, women in my life
Speaker 6: that want to go and pursue a career in journalism,
Speaker 6: I'm going to say to them, read this book. She
Speaker 6: is a trailblazer. And I think we have heard a
Speaker 6: thank for the amazing coverage we have now of all
Speaker 6: the amazing women's sport, like the ever used to be
Speaker 6: like this. All we had was really the women's cricket team.
Speaker 6: We had the Matilda's that'd been going since the late seventies, Matilda's.
Speaker 6: Now look at the coverage they have now, you don't
Speaker 6: have these amazing sporting teams without the amazing journalists and
Speaker 6: about the media really giving it the attention it deserves.
Speaker 6: There's still a long way to go, I think, especially
Speaker 6: with the AFLW, I think we need to give it
Speaker 6: more attention than it's getting at the moment, and we'll
Speaker 6: get there. You know, You've got some amazing plays the
Speaker 6: ash Centers of the world, the Daisy Pierces as well,
Speaker 6: So go and have a look at it. It's called
Speaker 6: the Eye of the Dragonfly and she goes right in, deep,
Speaker 6: riding deep to those sporting stories, which I really enjoy
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 1: Great, thank you. We've got the news sport coming up next.
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