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Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Reo, Happy Friday, Guys, Happy Friday, Pats, Hello Alex.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Weekends. All right, so let's do double
Speaker 2: thumbs up. This is where we go around the team
Speaker 2: and we share what we're into this week. A couple
Speaker 2: of things for me. Brilliant, brilliant sports documentary. A really
Speaker 2: great sports documentary. Transcends whether or not you're a fan
Speaker 2: of that. And even if you're not an F one fan,
Speaker 2: you can watch Senna one of the most amazing documentaries
Speaker 2: ever made.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be into the sport.
Speaker 2: I would say that about this wild documentary on watching
Speaker 2: at the moment, about the nineties dynasty of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 2: the Gambler and his money, about Jerry Rice and how
Speaker 2: we transformed the NFL actually and out the wild ride
Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys when he brought the club of
Speaker 2: then nineties.
Speaker 1: It's a ten out of ten documentary. It is so good.
Speaker 3: I've seen some clips on Instagram.
Speaker 1: What a different time.
Speaker 2: Yes, all of it. And what a character that's Jerry
Speaker 2: rices as well. It's an amazing documentary. I'm halfway through it.
Speaker 2: I cannot stop thinking about it, googling about it. I
Speaker 2: don't know what a rusher is, you know, after he's
Speaker 2: probably go, oh, Terry, you know he's a he's a
Speaker 2: wide sacker or something.
Speaker 1: Is he legend? I don't know? Is that is that good?
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 1: Is he one of the offenders or the defenders?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, all that tight ends, tight end, wide ends.
Speaker 1: How many of you were in this team? It's ridiculous's
Speaker 1: doing what and so and so got sacked? Did he what?
Speaker 1: It's from the team. It's just it's a plague. I
Speaker 1: saw a clip on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Is it the one where he drills oil and he's
Speaker 3: trying to h and that's how he makes his fortune?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All on this one. No, no, no, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Gambler is money. Cannot recommend it enough. It's a
Speaker 2: brilliant documentary. And the other thing, I actually need some
Speaker 2: advice in our family. I find the TV shows, we
Speaker 2: watched them, but my wife loves sci fi. So this
Speaker 2: week I started to watch a sci fi I've done
Speaker 2: some research or what's good? Is anyone watching Foundation? Does
Speaker 2: it get better? We watched an episode last night and
Speaker 2: it seemed I'm not a massive sci fi fan. It
Speaker 2: feels like every TV show you've ever seen that sci
Speaker 2: fi there's something with a galactic federation. They're up to
Speaker 2: no good, and straight away first episode it's like the
Speaker 2: Galactins need the crayon crystals and we're not gonna let
Speaker 2: them have it so easily. And then there's some explosion
Speaker 2: in space and you're like, this is all very familiar.
Speaker 2: There's a shady foundation, there's a genius who they're going
Speaker 2: to arrest, and this was the first episode.
Speaker 1: It was like I've seen all this before.
Speaker 3: I find them so hard to follow sci fi. That's
Speaker 3: where I really struggle. Like I watched Dark the Netflix series,
Speaker 3: which is really good is it? But again like I
Speaker 3: had to be wikipediaing every single episode because I didn't
Speaker 3: exactly know what happened after I.
Speaker 2: Well, in episode one, the mad scientists have been banished
Speaker 2: to a planet Tyron and they say all this stuff
Speaker 2: like we know what that is.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, too much assumed knowledge.
Speaker 2: There's also a lot of very overhammy British cast in it.
Speaker 1: We're all that. Yes, well, the.
Speaker 2: Admiral's not going to get away that easy with it.
Speaker 2: You know, you just desperately be back on the West
Speaker 2: End theater. You're slamming it in this box sci fi script.
Speaker 2: How do you not laugh your head off when you're
Speaker 2: in that city tunic as well?
Speaker 1: And you go, Admiral, thank you for joining us. I'm
Speaker 1: a grown adult. I studied for ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, we're into it now, and that is
Speaker 2: my weekend. I have my own show with the Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys and then it's with Missus O'Connor.
Speaker 1: When watching this foundation, please.
Speaker 2: Tell me gets better or if there's a better sci
Speaker 2: fi show that we should be watching, please let me know.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell show podcast, Patsy, what are you into? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I've just finished a great book by Naomi Watts, who
Speaker 5: is leading the charge, helping to lead the charge in
Speaker 5: menopause awareness. Dare I say it? Everything I wish i'd
Speaker 5: known about menopause. So she featured on Oprah's recent Minopause
Speaker 5: Revolution show, very very open and doing amazing things. I
Speaker 5: recommend if this is you follow her if you're not
Speaker 5: already on Instagram she shares videos. It's really inspirational and
Speaker 5: like the forward in a book for the generations of
Speaker 5: women who've suffered in silence and for the next generations,
Speaker 5: may they suffer no more, which is exactly about it.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you're part of this movement? Yes,
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 2: You start these two years ago, to be fair, Yeah
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 2: How now you know what you've kicked started now it's
Speaker 2: like a real movement that helping millions of women all over. Honestly,
Speaker 2: whenever you talk about a book like this, I get
Speaker 2: emails every and every single day from not just women
Speaker 2: going through it, but men as well that want to
Speaker 2: help support the partner and actually read it and find
Speaker 2: out more. So, when are you writing your book no More? Seriously,
Speaker 2: You've got the podcast and it's great what name's doing,
Speaker 2: but you've got to do this as well, because your
Speaker 2: story be unique.
Speaker 5: Yeah I will, I will. I need your help on that.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't even know where to start. I think this
Speaker 5: is what I do before a big project is I
Speaker 5: get so overawed with the enormity of the task that
Speaker 5: I and also that imposter syndrome where I think, what
Speaker 5: could I possibly write being honest here, what could I
Speaker 5: possibly write that anyone would Well.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you could write.
Speaker 2: The only thing, listen, the only thing we're a master
Speaker 2: of is our own lives. Talk about your story, talk
Speaker 2: about what it's been like to do the podcast.
Speaker 1: What surprised you?
Speaker 2: You must have so many stories, some other women as well,
Speaker 2: that you can weave those together as.
Speaker 5: Well well, stories, so many common themes. We all say
Speaker 5: the same things like, so many common themes. And if
Speaker 5: it makes someone else, which is why I've done the podcast,
Speaker 5: If it makes someone else feel better about their journey
Speaker 5: and know that they're not alone, that is the biggest
Speaker 5: payoff for me.
Speaker 1: And I'm getting so many But that's when you write
Speaker 1: the book.
Speaker 2: When you go, why would I write the book? It's
Speaker 2: the same thing for the podcast. Why start podcasts? True,
Speaker 2: it's just the same thing and a slow exactly. And
Speaker 2: actually a book will mean that you going around and
Speaker 2: doing the interviews talking about it creates bigger rippors and
Speaker 2: helps more people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Do the book.
Speaker 5: I will do the book.
Speaker 2: I will. Yeah, it double thumbs up already it's maybe written.
Speaker 1: It's that good will come in the book to us.
Speaker 2: She didn't invite any of usus.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast, Ria, What are you into
Speaker 1: at the moment?
Speaker 3: I'm really been into this AVC News feature story of
Speaker 3: the Week. It has been a horrible, horrible news week.
Speaker 3: I think we all know that this is the perfect antidote.
Speaker 3: It's a story about this Ossie family who since this
Speaker 3: Ugandan kid whose name's Eddie, since he was four, they've
Speaker 3: been sponsoring him through the Child Sponsor Project and they've
Speaker 3: been writing letters. The kids have been saving up their
Speaker 3: pocket money since they were four, the same age as him,
Speaker 3: and sponsoring him and writing him letters every single month.
Speaker 3: He is now thirty six years old. He is a scientist.
Speaker 3: He's a researcher in America now in John Hopkins University
Speaker 3: studying HIV research. They still write letters.
Speaker 1: To each other.
Speaker 3: He has landed in Australia this week and has met
Speaker 3: the family for the first time.
Speaker 1: Why haven't we got him on the show? He's got
Speaker 1: so much it's giving me a goose bumps. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: There's a You might have seen the video on Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's been going crazy viral, so I didn't know what
Speaker 1: was going on as.
Speaker 3: A beautiful, beautiful moment where he comes out of the
Speaker 3: airport terminal and he sees the dad for the first
Speaker 3: time and they hug and it is it's the longest,
Speaker 3: the longest hug I've ever seen in my life. It's
Speaker 3: honestly like two minutes and he just collapses into his arms.
Speaker 3: He's got this big, beautiful grin and a story thirty
Speaker 3: years of sort of having his family but not really
Speaker 3: have like never meeting them, and now they've finally met
Speaker 3: in Australia. He's here for a medical conference actually, and
Speaker 3: now they finally had that moment. We're they're together as
Speaker 3: this complete family.
Speaker 1: It's really beautiful. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: If you just got on the ABC website or the
Speaker 3: ABC Instagram, you'll see the headline there.
Speaker 1: Beautiful stuff, Alex. What's it for you?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 4: Bit of a language warning on this one. It's called Pissants.
Speaker 4: It's a book written by Brandon Jack. I have been
Speaker 4: laughing every second page reading this book. It is searingly,
Speaker 4: brutally unbelievably great. And he's done so well. He's a
Speaker 4: former Sydney Swans player, a fringe player, it must be said,
Speaker 4: twenty eight games between well in the mid twenty tens.
Speaker 4: His brother is kier and Jack premiership winner in twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: His father is Gary Jack, rugby league legend played for
Speaker 4: New Wales, Baumin Australia as well.
Speaker 1: So serious sporting pedigree. But he's written this book.
Speaker 4: It's a fictional I guess, snapshot of a footy club
Speaker 4: and it is brutally funny. Like it's so so good.
Speaker 4: This kid is an amazing writer. He's only young and
Speaker 4: he's gone and written this book. He's first ever novel,
Speaker 4: and I just love it. It's just fantastic. It's a
Speaker 4: fictional account of a football club focusing on the everyday
Speaker 4: lives of these players. And you've got these young men
Speaker 4: like this, what forty four players on a team list,
Speaker 4: You're gonna get shenanigans. And this guy writes about these
Speaker 4: shenanigans the nicknames as well. I wanted to just read
Speaker 4: you quickly. Terry equals Terry top up. It refers to
Speaker 4: young players who are undrafted and respond positively to the
Speaker 4: olive branch extended by the club and the promise that
Speaker 4: if they're playable enough in the reserve grade team for
Speaker 4: a year and attend all training sessions then they may
Speaker 4: find themselves on the list at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: It is worth saying that this is never the case.
Speaker 1: What's the name of the book.
Speaker 4: It's called piss Ants by Brandon Jack. It is wonderful,
Speaker 4: very very funny. I just love it.
Speaker 1: Go and rd it. It's really good. The Christian O'Connell
Speaker 1: Show podcast