Speaker 1: Got anything good.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Good morning
Speaker 2: jack morning guys, Good morning Patsy. Is everyone excited about
Speaker 2: their weekends? What have you guys got on? Jackie boy?
Speaker 3: What are you up to after the show. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you'd call this exciting. My job is to
Speaker 3: find a zucchini spiralizer to make an alternative to noodles.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, yeah, you're doing the low car
Speaker 2: but yeah, we've got one of those. Be careful. They
Speaker 2: are worse than a cheese grade at cutting in fingers.
Speaker 3: I hate using the cheese graterer.
Speaker 2: You have to reassemble and it's unassembling it to then
Speaker 2: wash the thing because it spiralizes the zucchinis, And then
Speaker 2: to clean it. It's a nightmare getting the little juice
Speaker 2: and the pippy bits in it.
Speaker 3: And is it worth it? Do they make a convincing noodle?
Speaker 2: I have to say there's something really enjoyable about using
Speaker 2: a spiralizer. Oh my word, Yeah, it's pleasurable. You do
Speaker 2: the you sort of impale it on this circul thing
Speaker 2: and then you're to crank the little handle. It's like
Speaker 2: a kid's toy and then it goes into the blades
Speaker 2: of death and it spiralizes it. It comes squirreling, scoiling, scoiling,
Speaker 2: squalling out. I love doing it, but the cleanup is is,
Speaker 2: really you will cut your fingers on it every time.
Speaker 2: They're really dangering passy. What are you up to, mate?
Speaker 4: Well, we're being very adult.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're finally going to see a financial adviser over
Speaker 1: your side of town. Actually, so I'm sort of like.
Speaker 3: Lor out of trouble. Do I not have any finance guys.
Speaker 2: Out of the room? Probably not, ass Jack.
Speaker 4: So we're doing that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Talking it's very your weekend as well. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: bloody hell in the.
Speaker 1: Year like probably twenty sixty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had Sarah and I have to have the
Speaker 2: meeting with the financial planer this week. It's very it's depressing.
Speaker 2: You're like very clear that I can never retire.
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
Speaker 2: It was based on the teenager's university and then one
Speaker 2: of them saying I might do another degree after Oh great,
Speaker 2: will you I'll just add on all that Hex's debt
Speaker 2: to me. Just check it on my back. I've been
Speaker 2: in radio shows until ninety.
Speaker 3: And then your wife is going back to do a degree.
Speaker 2: Is she's going to Yeah, so I'm the only literally,
Speaker 2: there are three students in the family. Now I'm the
Speaker 2: only one with the job.
Speaker 3: But someone has to play the heck, yes, well.
Speaker 2: Tell you it is me. No retirement for me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Those conversations are heavy, aren't they.
Speaker 4: I know, and we haven't done them.
Speaker 2: Before we start thinking how much can we live?
Speaker 1: We'll be living on two minute noodles.
Speaker 2: That is so grown up, I know.
Speaker 4: But I feel very sensible and very I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, I feel good about it that it's like, no,
Speaker 1: we're putting pressure.
Speaker 2: You got to do it. Yeah, yeah, Tomorrow big reunion. Ruby,
Speaker 2: our twenty year old daughter, has been traveling for the
Speaker 2: last four weeks around Thailand and Cambodia. We haven't seen her.
Speaker 2: We see her tomorrow. We have a reunion dinner. Can't wait, right?
Speaker 3: How is she as well?
Speaker 2: She is. They've had a great time. They have had
Speaker 2: a really great time. Do you know what. I'm proud
Speaker 2: of her. It's such a big thing when your kids
Speaker 2: go where you'll have the misordie right, It is a
Speaker 2: sign that you've done it right that they can actually
Speaker 2: go to another country, especially place that cam in ty
Speaker 2: end where you're worried about if anything happens, what the
Speaker 2: hospital is going to be like, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And for several days, no phone calls, no text and
Speaker 2: you really have to don't want to keep bantering them.
Speaker 3: No, you gotta let them be adults.
Speaker 2: You know that's what I had. But I'll tell you what,
Speaker 2: it's really really really hard, really hard, and there's been
Speaker 2: a part of me that hasn't been able to relax
Speaker 2: until it's like them coming back to nest Right the
Speaker 2: moment that she lands, I can then go, okay, this
Speaker 2: is part you can't turn off, even even nighttime. During
Speaker 2: the night I wake up and night right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And also some of the places she's been staying like
Speaker 2: we did when we go traveling, they're like ten or
Speaker 2: eleven dollars, right.
Speaker 3: And it just like what it would have been. Okay,
Speaker 3: they're going to be safe.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to be safe. But they have had
Speaker 2: a hair and a boyfriend, what experience they have had
Speaker 2: such an adventure, But we've got that live three sixty
Speaker 2: I've had to stop looking at because there's me down
Speaker 2: to the bottom of Australia. And then there's really like traveling
Speaker 2: around Cambodian like state parks where there's like there's there's
Speaker 2: nothing around. So in the big reunion tomorrow, lots of
Speaker 2: clothes to be washed as well. So yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: highlight of the weekend for us. Coming up next and
Speaker 2: we get into this week's Double thumbs Up, It's Gold
Speaker 2: one four point three, a Christian O'Connell show podcast. Let's
Speaker 2: get into this week's double thumbs Up. This is where me,
Speaker 2: Jack and Pat's talk about the things we're into at
Speaker 2: the moment, what we're enjoying and what's lighting us up. Patsy,
Speaker 2: What's I for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really a great book to read, especially at the moment
Speaker 1: with the rise of anti Semitism in the community. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful book by Eddie jacku the Happiest man on Earth.
Speaker 4: It's not a brand new book. It's been around for
Speaker 4: a few years.
Speaker 2: I've read that, Yeah, I read it quite a few years.
Speaker 4: He was living in Sydney.
Speaker 1: He's passed away now, but he wrote this most spectacular
Speaker 1: book about his time.
Speaker 4: As a prisoner of war as a child.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's a very grim subject obviously, but it
Speaker 1: is so enlightening and what it is is it's a
Speaker 1: story of forgiveness in what was hell on Earth and
Speaker 1: also finding happiness in you know, such a terrible situation
Speaker 1: and how we make our own decision to be happy
Speaker 1: in any situation.
Speaker 4: I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's so, it's a great reading.
Speaker 4: Oh it's beautiful. I'll read it again. I know Relent
Speaker 4: Whips someone.
Speaker 2: Recommended to me when I moved here, actually when I
Speaker 2: was looking for great Australian books and someone recommend that.
Speaker 2: And really it's an incredible read, very powerful outlook, such.
Speaker 4: A beautiful outlook. After all he came through.
Speaker 1: The other thing that we've watched over our break was
Speaker 1: a six triple eight on Netflix and it's based on
Speaker 1: a true story.
Speaker 4: It's based on the story of these.
Speaker 1: Women who were the biggest at the first and the
Speaker 1: biggest squadron of women to serve overseas in World War Two,
Speaker 1: and Oprah has helped produce it. She also has a
Speaker 1: role in the film. And it's a story of these
Speaker 1: women who were sent overseas essentially to sort the mail.
Speaker 1: They had this backlog of mail in World War Two
Speaker 1: which was such a lifeline for the troops and kept
Speaker 1: their spirits up to get you know, packages from Home
Speaker 1: and Word for Home and they just had this massive
Speaker 1: backlog and they sort of sorted through like something like
Speaker 1: seventeen million items of mail in three months and they
Speaker 1: set up base in Scotland. And it's absolutely gorgeous and
Speaker 1: it's a story about really discrimination that they faced as
Speaker 1: women and as black women, and it's it's really inspiring.
Speaker 1: We sat and watched it with Audrey, which if you've
Speaker 1: got a daughter with the girl.
Speaker 2: Shara and my wife Sarah and the girls they were
Speaker 2: watching together. I was with a friend. I came back
Speaker 2: in the evening. They were all in tears. Yeah. Now
Speaker 2: they were really moved by it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, it was beautiful and these women talk about
Speaker 1: the discrimination. Two of them were killed in the line
Speaker 1: of duty and they weren't even acknowledged by the services
Speaker 1: by the American Army. There was no funeral, no grave site,
Speaker 1: and they had to pass the hat around to pay
Speaker 1: for these women's help.
Speaker 2: You, but the story is being remembered now.
Speaker 4: Yes, and Oprah's had a massive part in it. It's
Speaker 4: a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They absolutely loved it. Yeah, yeah, I heard the story.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anything.
Speaker 1: About it, did we We were just flicking through and
Speaker 1: I thought, and we wanted something to watch with Audrey,
Speaker 1: and I thought, this looks really great and it was
Speaker 1: so not only if you've just got a daughter, just
Speaker 1: everyone will enjoy it.
Speaker 4: The six Triple eight on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Great, thanks Pats. We'll take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll get into this week's double thumbs up for jacking
Speaker 2: out The Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, Jackie boy,
Speaker 2: what have you? I know it's hard because you know
Speaker 2: you've got a three year old, so you haven't got
Speaker 2: as much time to watch TV and stream.
Speaker 3: It's not even about the TV. It's now that anytime
Speaker 3: the TV's on, we're watching Disney for Frozen, Moanna. It's
Speaker 3: always the same ones as well. The Grinch. We would
Speaker 3: have watched. They made an animated version of The Grinch
Speaker 3: where Bennette Cumberbatch is the Grinch.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, great voice.
Speaker 3: Good movie. But once you've watched it one hundred times,
Speaker 3: it's just again and again and again and again and again.
Speaker 2: It's audmental cruel.
Speaker 3: How do they not we've seen it happened Christmas?
Speaker 2: Why do we want to watch again? Terrorist to talk,
Speaker 2: It's just make them more those Keys movies again again again.
Speaker 3: So I've had very little access to the TV TV,
Speaker 3: but it means I've been picking up a lot of books.
Speaker 3: I read one of my favorite books over Christmas, and
Speaker 3: that was Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keith. He's become
Speaker 3: my new favorite author because I was also read Empire
Speaker 3: of Pain last year. Empire of Pain was about the
Speaker 3: opioid epidemic in America and the Sacla family who got
Speaker 3: rich billionaires billions and billions of dollars, got rich of
Speaker 3: a lot of devastation, and then he wrote this, this
Speaker 3: true story about the IRA and the troubles in Northern Ireland. Man,
Speaker 3: I had no idea for reading it. Right, I've read it.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that you would have read someone of that.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible story. I bet it's hard to believe.
Speaker 3: It's impossible to believe. I really didn't know much about
Speaker 3: the IRA at all, and I just can't believe that
Speaker 3: it was like within like the generation before us, it
Speaker 3: was within our time.
Speaker 2: So I adapted it for TV. I saw that I
Speaker 2: started watching this on Disney play Say Nothing. It is brilliant.
Speaker 2: Hard watch it times to see it actually dramatized, but
Speaker 2: it is brilliant It's outstanding, Yes, very good.
Speaker 3: If you want a non fiction book that reads as
Speaker 3: fast and it's page turning as a fiction, Patrick Radden
Speaker 3: Keefe's amazing. It's called say Nothing.
Speaker 2: Okay for Me? Then Bliss Last Weekend. It was transported
Speaker 2: back to the nineties and the two thousands. Tom Green.
Speaker 2: Tom Green. Without Tom Green, right, there's no punk, there's
Speaker 2: no jackass. He was a real visionary. Right. There's a
Speaker 2: brilliant documentary that he's made himself called this is the
Speaker 2: Tom Green Documentary. You used to do a TV show
Speaker 2: called The Tom Green Show, and it was a brilliant
Speaker 2: visionary show. All that reaction stuff that now it's a
Speaker 2: lot of the stuff we see on Instagram with the
Speaker 2: kids are all making. He literally pioneered that. It was
Speaker 2: like a demented letterman. The documentary, it's an hour and
Speaker 2: a half. I'm a big fan of Tom Green. I
Speaker 2: remember getting videos sent over from America of the early
Speaker 2: days of his shows before he went to MTV.
Speaker 3: Tom Green Show.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? So you remember? I can remember
Speaker 2: at the top of the head the Pizza Undercutter. I
Speaker 2: still watched that on YouTube. Now makes me cry. Enough
Speaker 2: with the slut my bill that he made for his
Speaker 2: mum and dad and woke them up in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night. My bum is on the right, the
Speaker 2: bum bum song, the bum bum song. We've got to
Speaker 2: play it. The documentary is brilliant, so obviously didn't. He
Speaker 2: marries Drew Barrymore, becomes a massive Hollywood star, and then
Speaker 2: it all sorts to fall apart, and now he lives
Speaker 2: on a farm. He sold his Hollywood home. He lives
Speaker 2: on a farm back where he grew up in Canada.
Speaker 2: Still a touring stand up all over and a brilliant
Speaker 2: stand up and he's got a new special out actually
Speaker 2: on Prime where the documentary is. It's a brilliant look
Speaker 2: back at the nineties and two thousands. We all grew
Speaker 2: up during that time and Tom Green was a real visionary.
Speaker 2: It's nice to see his story being told and people
Speaker 2: appreciating for how good he was.
Speaker 3: People don't even realize he was at the forefront of
Speaker 3: making your own big empire podcasting before there was Joe Rogan,
Speaker 3: before there was much.
Speaker 2: Joe was on it saying he came on, Tom did
Speaker 2: a thing, he got he left MTV, and then he
Speaker 2: realized that the internet was going to become a very
Speaker 2: big thing, and so he created this thing called Webbovision.
Speaker 2: He made a check show that sometimes I used to
Speaker 2: love watching it. Some episodes would be four or five hours.
Speaker 2: He built a chat show set in his house. Yeah,
Speaker 2: paid for all the equipment, and you have guests on
Speaker 2: and it was Rogan was a guest on it, and
Speaker 2: Rogan was like, this is going to be a thing.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to do something like this.
Speaker 2: So he called it Webbovision, and of course that went
Speaker 2: on to become podcasting. So the documentary is brilliant. It's
Speaker 2: an hour and a half and it's a really great
Speaker 2: story and there is so much nostalgia in there as well.
Speaker 2: This is a Tom Tom Green documentary that's on Prime.
Speaker 2: I love that. The other thing I started listening to
Speaker 2: brilliant new podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. It is barely believable
Speaker 2: what you're hearing. It's literally about that. It's incredible, The
Speaker 2: Telepathy Tapes. And new favorite TV show, a medical drama
Speaker 2: for grown ups. If you loved Er and I loved
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Speaker 2: the stars of it was Noah Wiley. He's in this
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Speaker 2: has been nominated for loads of Emmys. It's fifteen hour
Speaker 2: long episodes, and it covers a fifteen hour shift in
Speaker 2: an American public Health system hospital. It's a miss. It
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