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Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, So we begin this chap.
Speaker 2: When you're doing these interviews, you're in a waiting room
Speaker 2: for them to finish doing the most previous interview. So
Speaker 2: we were waiting about half an hour forty minutes. It
Speaker 2: was all running late. Then when Robbie was there, there
Speaker 2: was a lot of technical problems, so trying to keep
Speaker 2: my call, I suddenly realized I hadn't done that morning
Speaker 2: my shoulder exercises. So I'm in the studio, I'm on camera,
Speaker 2: I'm filling time, waiting for Robbie to be available, and
Speaker 2: I'm using the time to do these shoulder exercises. And
Speaker 2: I suddenly realized that actually he's been watching me for
Speaker 2: about thirty seconds. And why am I saying all this?
Speaker 2: Because it begins in a strange way.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Oh sorry, I didn't know Robbie. This is Christian.
Speaker 3: Hi Christian. I used to speak to man.
Speaker 1: Sorry, can I just explain what I was doing? Then?
Speaker 2: I was doing some shoulder stretching because I've hurt my
Speaker 2: shoulder and I'm in my fifties, so I was supposed
Speaker 2: to be doing these exercises and I was just doing them.
Speaker 1: Then. I just want to explain why I was doing that.
Speaker 4: Oh there's always something going on for the middle aged man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what are your ailments?
Speaker 2: I was on holiday with my family last year and
Speaker 2: we walked past one of those outdoor gyms and my
Speaker 2: two daughters go, what are those? And it was like
Speaker 2: parallel bars, you know the people used to do dips
Speaker 2: on And I said, oh, I used to do a
Speaker 2: better do like twenty or thirty of those, and they.
Speaker 4: Went, when's the ninety degree angle and completely ripped it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah that is a but no Robbie on the second one.
Speaker 2: And my daughters are nineteen and twenty one. They were laughing.
Speaker 2: So I was my wife and I heard my eldest
Speaker 2: daughter go to a sister. Oh god, Dad tried to
Speaker 2: show us what he had and it was nothing.
Speaker 3: Less than nothing.
Speaker 4: I think it's been described to me as we used
Speaker 4: to be like elasticated, silly putty, and now we are
Speaker 4: frozen silly cutting that just snaps.
Speaker 2: Let's what war wings what's it for you right now?
Speaker 2: You know you're you're in the middle of the European tours,
Speaker 2: so there must be what knees?
Speaker 1: Is it knees? Shoulders?
Speaker 4: No, I've got arthritis in my facet joints at the
Speaker 4: base of my spine, and I've got two discs that
Speaker 4: are actually popping out, one in the neck and one
Speaker 4: in the lumber. What I did my groin in by
Speaker 4: just sitting down? I did my groining by sitting down.
Speaker 2: Well, what did you land on your nuts or on
Speaker 2: your land, on your testicles or what do you mean
Speaker 2: you sat down that?
Speaker 4: I did that for the first time this year. Sagon
Speaker 4: on a testicle?
Speaker 2: May because again, as we get older, they get they
Speaker 2: lower by about what three inches every year. May.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, I put my back out
Speaker 4: by sneak. Actually the worst one was I put my
Speaker 4: back out by turning around. Turning around, you know, like
Speaker 4: you're supposed to do as a human.
Speaker 1: Now you're a dad, how do you feel like?
Speaker 2: You know, we're a similar age, So how do you
Speaker 2: feel about I think we were very lucky growing up
Speaker 2: in the eighties and nineties. How do you feel now
Speaker 2: as a dad about the age that our kids are
Speaker 2: growing up into. I think we had it far better.
Speaker 2: I think there was far more is an all innocent
Speaker 2: time I thought it was. We were raised by boardom,
Speaker 2: which I think is quite a good thing. I think
Speaker 2: I feel sorry for my kids now. It's quite a
Speaker 2: tough time to be growing up, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that my father would have said the same
Speaker 4: thing about my generation too, you know, And so it is.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: My kids are having such a fantastic and varied and
Speaker 4: interesting life, and they have both parents, and both parents
Speaker 4: love each other, so there is a stable household, which
Speaker 4: I didn't grow up in.
Speaker 3: So in many ways they don't.
Speaker 4: Have what we had, which is the gift of boredom
Speaker 4: and outside, but they have so many more gifts in
Speaker 4: its place. Obviously, the Internet and screens is corrosive and
Speaker 4: is causing its own problems. But I mean, if I
Speaker 4: think about how much we helicopter them and how much
Speaker 4: we take care of them and make sure they don't
Speaker 4: break or think bad things or feel bad things when
Speaker 4: we like I was never in the house.
Speaker 3: I was never in the house, and I was.
Speaker 4: Up to all sorts of things with all sorts of people.
Speaker 3: It's and we're still alive.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right. We survived the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4: How survived. So yeah, I hear what you're saying. But
Speaker 4: my kids have got a beautiful life so and long
Speaker 4: made it continued.
Speaker 1: I love that, Robbie. What is it like when you
Speaker 1: come here to Australia.
Speaker 4: The great thing about Australia and the worst thing about
Speaker 4: Australia is it's so far away and I want to
Speaker 4: sort of and I do in private extol the virtues
Speaker 4: of Australia to people whenever it's brought up, and how
Speaker 4: much I love it, but also at the same time
Speaker 4: how incredible it is might be best kept a secret.
Speaker 1: Good point, you know.
Speaker 4: That's how I feel, you know. But you think about
Speaker 4: all the people over here and in Britain, and a
Speaker 4: lot of the time I just think, what you.
Speaker 3: Don't just move to Australia. It's better. It is no Christian?
Speaker 3: Am I right?
Speaker 1: Yes? I love it? It is. My family do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic place. They're very they're very sort of
Speaker 2: more upbeat. They're more positive as well. And when I
Speaker 2: moved here, I still have that London thing where you
Speaker 2: don't talk to strange as. You just keep moving, keep
Speaker 2: yourself to yourself, or it's weird. You're being weird, You're
Speaker 2: making it weird. And so people ask me how my
Speaker 2: day was and what my plans were up to, and
Speaker 2: I thought they were odd at first. It actually changes
Speaker 2: on a singular level, how much more friendly people are here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just think that in Australia there is a freshing
Speaker 4: lack of pretense. And I think the most authentic people
Speaker 4: that I know on the planet, you know, I think
Speaker 4: that's that's what I there is for me. When I
Speaker 4: get to Australia, my shoulders drop.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm constantly everywhere else scanning and thinking and what is it?
Speaker 3: What do they need? Where do I go?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: What are they going to say to me? And how
Speaker 4: are they going to say it? And what will that mean?
Speaker 4: And oh my god. And when I'm in Australia, I
Speaker 4: just know invariably I'm meeting somebody that doesn't give up.
Speaker 2: But they in Australian Tourist Board, Robbie, they should put
Speaker 2: on the posters come to Australia.
Speaker 1: They don't give us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, huge biggest marketing campaign ever. Oh, that's what
Speaker 2: we all want is to be Yes, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'm going to speak to the Australian Tourist Board the
Speaker 2: moment we conclude this chat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come to Australia. We don't give.
Speaker 1: Them zero fs hashtag zero fs.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Now when you're here, you're here in novemby it towards
Speaker 2: the end of the year, and I'd love to do
Speaker 2: a thing where you come and do the show with me.
Speaker 2: I don't mean just like, yes, we've said this, but
Speaker 2: now let's commit to it. We don't know how many
Speaker 2: more summers we've got, Robbie Peter Williams. We don't know
Speaker 2: how many winters, more springs, more autumns we've got. Why
Speaker 2: don't you come and do the show with me? Not
Speaker 2: just an interview, actually do the show, Do the travel news,
Speaker 2: do the weather if you want, do sport news if
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: Are you still up for that? Come and do that
Speaker 1: with me in November May.
Speaker 4: I've wanted to do this. I want to be the
Speaker 4: Robin to your Batman.
Speaker 2: I want to be but I want to be the
Speaker 2: Batman to your Robin. So listen, let's do this one
Speaker 2: year over and if you're up for it, you can
Speaker 2: either come in this studio with me and we can
Speaker 2: do the show you in Melbourne, Melbourne and Sydney, so
Speaker 2: you get your pick.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I'm saying to my management here we've been
Speaker 4: talking about this for years now and a need to
Speaker 4: go in. So can you make a note of it
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 1: I'll make it a note of it.
Speaker 3: How long's your show?
Speaker 2: Three hours? But listen, you can do all three. You
Speaker 2: can do an hour.
Speaker 4: I would do too. It would be a ripper mate.
Speaker 4: It's good for two.
Speaker 1: This is great.
Speaker 2: And what you're going to do six to eight, I'm
Speaker 2: guessing you're doing seven or nine. I'm on them up
Speaker 2: for an hour and then bang, you're on.
Speaker 4: Just depend what my jet lag is telling me, you
Speaker 4: know jet Lag. Accordingly, we will cut our cloth. I'll
Speaker 4: be in may I know we keep saying this. I'm
Speaker 4: sorry that I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 1: It's correct, you've been busy.
Speaker 2: Or I'll tell you what because obviously you'll be probably
Speaker 2: towards the end of the world tour, you'll be naked.
Speaker 2: We could do it anytime of the day. I could
Speaker 2: even do it. We could call the late breakfast show
Speaker 2: and it could be at six o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 2: I'll build it around your schedule.
Speaker 3: Okay, well there's an offer. Yes, let's look.
Speaker 2: Don't you don't get out of bed till about one
Speaker 2: in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: I seem to remember, mate, I don't get out of bed.
Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, you do the show from the bed.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, it's a late breakfast show live
Speaker 4: in bed. All of my face tims to lawyers, management
Speaker 4: friends are all spent with me stark bollocked naked.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And I only found out that this was unusual when
Speaker 4: I called somebody that I facetimed them and they were
Speaker 4: also stark, bollocked naked.
Speaker 3: And I was like, mate, mate, put some clothes on.
Speaker 3: This is weird.
Speaker 4: And then I thought, oh shit, that's how people are
Speaker 4: experiencing me. They're they're experiencing weird. Robbie Williams with his
Speaker 4: I've got bizarrely per nipples and I'm not turned on
Speaker 4: or cold. It's just their erect They're always just direct. Yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing else is anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, is gone there on that? Yes, we just
Speaker 1: need to move on to the next one. I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry to wrap you out.
Speaker 2: That's okay, because shame because we were just talking about
Speaker 2: Robie's AREC nipples. That's a real shame to get that
Speaker 2: kind that kind of champagne radio cut off. Hey listen, Robbie.
Speaker 2: I'll see you in November in a bed in a
Speaker 2: listener's house.
Speaker 3: Peace be with you, brother, Let's make it happen.
Speaker 2: All right, take care, lovely chat to you again, ye
Speaker 2: take care of
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