Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Going on four point three. It's the Friday Show, Christian
Speaker 2: O'Connell Show. Hey Jack, Happy Friday, Good morning guys, and
Speaker 2: happy Friday. Welcome to the weekend, Patsy two. What are
Speaker 2: you watching this weekend?
Speaker 3: Pats?
Speaker 4: I did promise Audrey that I would take it to
Speaker 4: the show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, oh busy?
Speaker 4: Yes, so I said, get up, we are going. This
Speaker 4: is a bit like Chris whom are going somewhere. We
Speaker 4: are leaving the house at eight o'clock, so no sleeping in.
Speaker 4: I got home from work yesterday at like eleven, she
Speaker 4: was still in bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not surprised by that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our teenager gets up at eleven thirty school holidays
Speaker 2: and we'll wake up yawning and tied.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know how.
Speaker 4: You still tired and a whole day's work.
Speaker 3: Yes, And what are you up to this weekend? Jacks?
Speaker 5: I've got a first birthday on Sunday, which is yeah,
Speaker 5: it is. It is like, just be honest, this is
Speaker 5: a friend of mine. I love him to love his kids,
Speaker 5: but there's so many birthdays on at the moment. I
Speaker 5: had to actually over the long weekend, Grand five all weekend.
Speaker 5: I skipped one to play golf, and I'm in the
Speaker 5: bad books with thek There ain't no skipping the birthdays anymore.
Speaker 3: That is bold.
Speaker 5: They come there every which why is expensive too?
Speaker 4: And get them there's.
Speaker 2: Nothing going on, really nothing. You shouldn't really go to
Speaker 2: being asked to come to a birthday. But until they're
Speaker 2: five and over?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, But it's more for the adults, isn't
Speaker 4: It's nice to get together.
Speaker 5: And you know what they should Actually, this is what
Speaker 5: we should do. All the parents should choose one day
Speaker 5: out of the year, like August twentieth and go, We're
Speaker 5: all going to celebrate our kids on that day, have
Speaker 5: a big old.
Speaker 3: It's a very good idea each other.
Speaker 5: And it's all done in one horse's birthday.
Speaker 4: When's the horse's birthday? The horse has a birthday once
Speaker 4: a year.
Speaker 5: I think August first.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, the kids This weekend on Sunday, I've
Speaker 2: been invited to go and do a talk at the
Speaker 2: Olward Dad's Group, which I'm really really looking forward to.
Speaker 3: Yeah about I guess it's the Elward Dads Group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but what are you coming in? As professional dad.
Speaker 2: Well not well, not professional dad very much, an hapless
Speaker 2: amateur dad. It's just to talk about They listen. I
Speaker 2: think a couple of them listen to the show and
Speaker 2: they just want me to come and chat about my
Speaker 2: opinions and thoughts to other dads.
Speaker 3: They're all dads.
Speaker 5: Are they mostly young dads or am they mixed?
Speaker 2: You've got teenagers little ones as well. There's about thirty
Speaker 2: or forty dads. It's a regular, regular, monthly thing they
Speaker 2: get around each other. I think it's a grand is
Speaker 2: So yeah, really, really, I'm looking forward to doing that
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon, all right, coming on next time we get
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Speaker 3: Podcast every Friday.
Speaker 2: Then to help you not have an argument this weekend
Speaker 2: when you're in front of the TV and you're like,
Speaker 2: what's we watch? And then you start flicking through all
Speaker 2: the different things on foxtail they drink streaming apps now,
Speaker 2: looking for TV shows or movies. We just tell you
Speaker 2: about the things that we're really enjoying at the moment. Patsy,
Speaker 2: what's it for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know what I've got on too? On stand this
Speaker 4: week it's just dropped. Brand news is called Joan.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've seen all the big adverts for this.
Speaker 4: She's so cool. So it's based it's a true life
Speaker 4: story in Britain of a woman in the eighties who
Speaker 4: turned into become this notorious jewelry thief.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it is so.
Speaker 4: Well made, you know what. The minute I turned it on,
Speaker 4: I loved it because it's just the soundtrack is incredible,
Speaker 4: just all these eighties songs. It's brilliant. It is so good.
Speaker 5: It's called Joan and she's what is she acting alone thief?
Speaker 4: Well, she's in this really nasty relationship and her husband
Speaker 4: goes away. She's a single mom and it's part sort
Speaker 4: of you know, desperation of being able to be a
Speaker 4: single mum and provide for a daughter and you know,
Speaker 4: get away from a home.
Speaker 3: Incredible story.
Speaker 4: It's great. Sophie Turner is played by her. She was
Speaker 4: in Game of Thrones. Oh, I know, married to one
Speaker 4: of the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 3: Yes, Barry Jonas Barry.
Speaker 4: That it's beautiful ash and it's just iconic eighties So
Speaker 4: I'm really loving that at the moment. The other thing
Speaker 4: is school holidays still if you haven't been to any
Speaker 4: of Melbourne Zoo's lately. Remember there's three. There's Hillsville Sanctuary,
Speaker 4: there's of course the Royal Melbourne Zoo in Parkville and
Speaker 4: out our way at Werribee Open Range Zoo. They're doing
Speaker 4: really exciting things there at the moment.
Speaker 3: Hillsville is great.
Speaker 2: It's a lovely trip to go out there as well,
Speaker 2: and the weather's going to be nice this weekend as well.
Speaker 3: What's the Weerraby one.
Speaker 4: Where every one is and it's We were speaking on
Speaker 4: the show yesterday about how big it was five times
Speaker 4: the Big Quiz. We found out it's getting bigger. They're
Speaker 4: moving all of the African elephants before Christmas. That's right
Speaker 4: from the park Field site.
Speaker 2: We were asked to come up with an idea about
Speaker 2: that to celebrate. Well, I don't know what happens like
Speaker 2: he didn't like the idea.
Speaker 4: So they're not there yet, but they're there early next year.
Speaker 2: So it takes him a long time to walk out
Speaker 2: to where you get fifty nfs over the West Gate.
Speaker 5: It's a nightmare, real animal spents.
Speaker 4: And millions out there, and they're eventually going to have
Speaker 4: a gondola ride across the Lion in closing. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: What do you mean.
Speaker 4: Amazing like gondolas like half his seat?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you on a lake like that. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure those big cats can swim close within an hour.
Speaker 3: But she was nervously with like a big poleh in
Speaker 3: doggy paddle the.
Speaker 4: Lines they are gone.
Speaker 3: You might get in venice or something, you know, but
Speaker 3: do go.
Speaker 4: You can spend the whole day out there. It's brilliant.
Speaker 5: The cable carr is still scary to be going across
Speaker 5: the linings a swing. You can't help it going one
Speaker 5: of those things and thinks what happens?
Speaker 2: Sometimes they just have a mechanical and you don't want
Speaker 2: to be that one who's in the middle.
Speaker 3: And the lions like, here we go.
Speaker 2: Come on for I doubt this is the best day ever.
Speaker 4: When we went to Queenstown, we went, they're really done.
Speaker 4: That gondola up queen it is.
Speaker 3: It is beautiful, but it is a bit scary, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Close my eyes the whole way I didn't see a thing.
Speaker 2: I started to get nervous when we were there two
Speaker 2: yars ago. Then Ruby started rocking the thing. We're you're
Speaker 2: trying to have a laugh. That is, let me film it,
Speaker 2: and they still got the video. I'm having a complete
Speaker 2: sense of even like trying to hang on to.
Speaker 3: The stop it.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Then we come back after this and we'll get into
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Speaker 2: about the things that we're enjoying at the moment. If
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Speaker 2: Jackie boy, what are you into at the moment?
Speaker 5: I've brought in some show and tell today. One of
Speaker 5: our lovely listeners, Karen wrote to the show and said, Hey,
Speaker 5: if Gordy wants a crocheted animal, I'll be happy to
Speaker 5: make him one. Her instagram is fantastic Karen j Crochet.
Speaker 5: She makes any animal that you want, she'll make. She'll
Speaker 5: knit it into a crochet soft toy and have a
Speaker 5: look at this. So I said, Gordy loves whales at
Speaker 5: the moment, and.
Speaker 2: She made these that is absolutely beauty, the size of
Speaker 2: the cottage.
Speaker 5: It's so good and he loves it.
Speaker 2: So I want a crochet animal now. Cooka, but I'd
Speaker 2: have a cook I'm actually wearing Kooko burrough socks right now.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are quite impressive.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen a Kooko bar on her Instagram, but
Speaker 5: her instagram suggests she could do any animal animal is
Speaker 5: too detailed or too differ Again at Karen J. Crochet,
Speaker 5: what a great idea for any kids presence you got
Speaker 5: coming out in the near future. And then a documentary
Speaker 5: that Bank and I watched last night on Netflix was
Speaker 5: called Will and Harper. It's about Will Ferrell and his
Speaker 5: friend of twenty seven years is transitioning from a man
Speaker 5: into a woman, and they go on this lovely road
Speaker 5: trip across the US.
Speaker 3: I love if it were about half an hour into it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: just started it.
Speaker 5: They go on the road trip to sort to have
Speaker 5: a conversation and sort out what this means for their
Speaker 5: friendship now they've known each other for twenty odd years
Speaker 5: as two guys, and it's actually really moving. It's really beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, things I'm enjoying at the moment.
Speaker 2: You mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Patsy and I
Speaker 2: wasn't sure about it, but it's really good. The perfect couple. Yes, oh,
Speaker 2: my god, it's very good. Nicole Kidman and Leif Schreiber
Speaker 2: very very very watchable.
Speaker 4: Stupid dance. Like the opening credit, they do this ridiculous
Speaker 4: stay but Nicole's.
Speaker 3: Doing all of them, all them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really really watchable. The other thing that I
Speaker 2: really enjoyed is a movie that came out last week.
Speaker 2: George Clooney and Brad Pitt together in a movie, first
Speaker 2: one together since Ocean's Eleven, which is lot older now
Speaker 2: than you think. They're still so good together. They need
Speaker 2: to do more movies together. It's called Wolves. Very very good.
Speaker 2: Really really enjoyed that. That is on Apple TV and
Speaker 2: on Foxtowl. If you're a big fan of Sopranos, probably
Speaker 2: I would say my favorite TV show ever is The Sopranos.
Speaker 2: There was a great two part documentary with David Chase,
Speaker 2: who came up with the show Fascinate and its interviews
Speaker 2: with all the cast as well, even the late great
Speaker 2: James Gannandlphini as well, and it shows you their audition
Speaker 2: tapes that they did for the various characters as well.
Speaker 2: It's brilliant. Can't recommend enough. That's on Fox TEW. You'll
Speaker 2: find it's called Wise
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