1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Christ Christian O'Connell show, Jack Boast. 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 2: What's the song that sums up your weekend? 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 3: Well, let me take you back to Saturday night where 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 3: we had our happy hour date night. It's something that 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 3: started during isolation where we make cocktails. Take it in 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 3: terms to make cocktails for each other and snacks every weekend. 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 3: So it was my week weekend to make the cocktails. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 3: I made the Godfather, which is a never had one. 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really good. 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 3: It's a Scotch whiskey with ameretto, which is an Italian liqueur. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: That's a heady combination. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well turned into a bit of a heady combination 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: because we were enjoying the cocktails and I was making 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: guacamole as our snack. Oh yeah, And I was telling. 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: You, by the way, how do you make it guacamole? 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: I made one yesterday followay a new recipe. It's the 17 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: best one I've ever tasted. How do you make Oh? 18 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 3: Mine was really good. Actually, I looked for a spicy 19 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: guacamole recipe yep, because I wanted to achieve. I actually 20 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: cut chilies up into it. 21 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: Oh, this one had a little bit of chock onion 22 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:00,959 Speaker 1: in there. 23 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: Yep. 24 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 3: I had read on in your mind. 25 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice and a little bit of line juice 26 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: as well. We give it some tang. 27 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: I think we're making from the same remp. 28 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: Anyway, Sorry, let's pres play again on the story. 29 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 3: I'm squishing up the avocados for guacamoli, and I'm telling 30 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: Bianchor about the thing you talked about on Friday Show 31 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 3: where you handed a Joy Division hoodie onto your daughter Lowess. 32 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. Joy Division an indie band from the eighties. 33 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was explaining how I once saw a 34 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 3: not a documentary about Ian Curtis and Joy Division, but 35 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 3: a movie remake of his life. And I mean he 36 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 3: had a super sad life had he had epilepsy and 37 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: he took his own life at twenty three. 38 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: It was the lead singer of the band, and then 39 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: the rest of the band went on to form New Order, 40 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: which was instead It's a huge band in the British 41 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: kind of rock and indie scene. But yeah, Ian Kurt's 42 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: a lead singer. Yeah, took his life when he was 43 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: only in his twenties. But yeah, I guess you're best 44 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: know Joy Division from Love Will Terrorist Apart, which is 45 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: an amazing song. 46 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: One of the greatest love songs ever. 47 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 3: So I put the song on so that we could 48 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: listen to it, and we were talking about the band, 49 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: and then she's reading from his Wikipedia page and we're 50 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 3: learning more about them. So we go through their first album, 51 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 3: and then we went through their second. 52 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: Drinking and you're having strong drinks. 53 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 3: And we're having strong drinks, and then all of a sudden, 54 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 3: the mood has really changed. 55 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: It's not I stay away from the top shelf a 56 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: you know one of my life will stay away from 57 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: the top shelf. 58 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: It just doesn't doo many favors of stuff up there. 59 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 3: So now we have the albums on repeat and we're 60 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: into the second cocktail, and it's become a real somber 61 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: It's a happy hours long gone, it's now. It's now 62 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: somber affair. 63 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: And I am. 64 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: Texting you on Saturday night telling you, hey, we're really 65 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 3: deeply listening to Joy Division and it's really connecting with us. 66 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: And then you said, oh great, after that, try new Order, 67 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 3: which we did, and then a few more cocktails go by, 68 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: and go next, try Nick Cave into my Arms. 69 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, what a song. It's like a hymn. It's that 70 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: beautiful sad song. 71 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 3: So this is by the end of happy hour and 72 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: picturing me on a bean bag in our living room 73 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 3: with a cock tail in hand, deeply, deeply connecting with 74 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 3: this nick Cave. 75 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: Song into my Oh Lord, into my oh lor. 76 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 3: You know those moments where you do just go like 77 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 3: you're you're at a moment in time where a song 78 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 3: just hits you so strongly, And this hit me I guess. 79 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 3: I mean the whiskey probably helped, yeah, but. 80 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: Still you could have just as paused to go, look, 81 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: let's let's put something else on now, and to cheer 82 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: us up. But it's a there's it's a beautiful, beautiful song, 83 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: but it's not your happy hours Saturday night song. 84 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 3: It's not a happy hour Saturday night song. 85 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: And then when did this move? It does something to you, 86 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: It just changed your internal being this song. 87 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, so but we had them, we had I guess 88 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: you would call it a sad hour instead of happy hour. 89 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: I'm really sorry for. 90 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: Ruins your night, but there is there's a there's a 91 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: melancholy is the the emotion about what I'm talking about here. 92 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: It's an underrated one. There is when there's a beautiful 93 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: sweetness to listening to sad song. 94 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love doing it. 95 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: It's not like we had a bad night and it's 96 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 3: not broken up. It's a very different thing and it's 97 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: not a negative experience. But there is something about sitting 98 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 3: in that sad, the. 99 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: Heart opening songs. But once you really drop into this 100 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: with Nick, where did you go next to you? 101 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: Did you listen to more sad songs? 102 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 3: We went back to join vision. 103 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 2: Now? And then what happened? Did you too? 104 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: Did you have a nice and Because sometimes when my 105 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: wife and if we're both your conspirats, so one of 106 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: us is that it's a it's a tinder box. It 107 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: can be a combustible. If we're getting on, it's fine, 108 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: but if there's a slight just one degree in the atmosphere, 109 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: it just you know, that's it. 110 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: Because I was connected so heavily into the music, which 111 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 3: I said, the anchor was telling me a story, but 112 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 3: I was locked in on the music. Then we had 113 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 3: a bit of a rebicked about the fact that I 114 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 3: wasn't listening to her and and I mean, she'll kill 115 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: me for saying this because I said that I understand, 116 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: but she said, when I'm telling you a story, you're 117 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: not listening. Just tell me you're not listening because I 118 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 3: tell you the whole story, And he. 119 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 2: Went, sorry, are you saying? 120 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: Son't get out of this bean bag? 121 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 2: It's like life. Sometimes you can't get out the bean 122 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: bag of life. 123 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 4: Christian Christian i'connell Christian o'connells Show podcast. 124 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you catch yourself saying something which part of 125 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: you knows isn't true, just to keep the conversation going. 126 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: That just happened with Patsy. 127 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: Excuse me, Well, we were chating about nick Cave and 128 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: we were just talking about that beautiful song into my 129 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: arms of his and you went, I went to school 130 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: with him, Jack goes, Jack went really, and you went yeah, 131 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: And then you went, I think he's dead. 132 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: No one, no one has a story like that. And 133 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 2: you go, if someone called in and produce a brad. 134 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: Witness go on the line thinks he went to school 135 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: in nick Cave, I go, we don't need time wasteff, 136 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: don't need them on the air. 137 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: Whereas, yeah, I think he's dead. About half a second, you. 138 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: Knew you were lying, and you couldn't even live I'm 139 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: not lying in three months and don't come back with 140 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: a fake lies trying to impress us Jones. 141 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 4: His dad was a teacher at one grat a high 142 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 4: where I went, and I believe I believe he was 143 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 4: Nick was in like year eleven or twelve, as I 144 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 4: was kind of starting earlier because he's a bit older. 145 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: True, you're a journalist. Facts truth, fake facts as that 146 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: they gave us. 147 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 3: Let's look at how are you happy to say? 148 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 2: How old? 149 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 4: I'm forty eight two? 150 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't go with an old shows one the radio. 151 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 3: You'll see what year that he was there, Jack, he's 152 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: sixty two, so he's fifteen years older than you. 153 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: No, okay, so he wasn't there. 154 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: He was there. Take a few year school with that cave. 155 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was in the year fifteen years ahead of me. 156 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 3: He's repeating year twelve for the eight years. 157 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 2: A really slow reader. 158 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 4: The facts get in the way of a good story. 159 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 2: Boy. I think it's that year nine kid in our class. Everyone. 160 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's well done. 161 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 2: The only kid in year seven. 162 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: He's got a fully formed beard in his school photos 163 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: for three piece suits. 164 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, I went to school then. I think anyway, 165 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: the news is coming up really soon. 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