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Speaker 1: App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
Speaker 1: show podcast. Christian, thank you very much to playing Abba
Speaker 1: ten minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I needed to hear and get me going
Speaker 2: today after three weeks off and my first day back
Speaker 2: at work. Actually, one are the odds you play Abba
Speaker 2: and I'm listening to the show for the first time
Speaker 2: in three weeks. I've been to Europe, I've been to
Speaker 2: London where I went to see Abba Voyage Lucky thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm so jealous. It doesn't look like it's going to
Speaker 2: be coming here, which is a real shame. Now talk
Speaker 2: about Abba we have on the show. I didn't realize Tina,
Speaker 2: who's a lovely producer on the show, I didn't realize
Speaker 2: it's a mega Abba fan.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Patch Oh I didn't. Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2: She came in and she started. She was screaming earlier
Speaker 2: when we were talking on here. Not unusual for the
Speaker 2: producer to be screaming at me, mainly about something I'm
Speaker 2: getting wrong or saying. But we were getting the name.
Speaker 2: The name we thought was Arnie. Isn't the name of
Speaker 2: the second lady in Abba?
Speaker 1: Tina? What's the name?
Speaker 3: So it's Anna Freed, but it's Frida orhere's Annie from?
Speaker 1: Where are we getting Annie from?
Speaker 3: Any fred?
Speaker 1: Any fred?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I see?
Speaker 2: And the other thing is I did not know, not
Speaker 2: a rio that the Abba name comes from their initials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, idea, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: I couplished.
Speaker 1: Don't know what he knew. Do you know that I
Speaker 1: did not know that. I didn't know that. I mean
Speaker 1: you finding this information out now?
Speaker 3: But Anna Freda.
Speaker 2: It should be fab Yeah, is a great name.
Speaker 1: Rename them rebrand.
Speaker 2: I want to tell them, Patsy, did you did you
Speaker 2: know Abbo each the initials?
Speaker 3: Well, I couldn't. I never remember the fourth member of
Speaker 3: the group. That's the trouble.
Speaker 2: Yes, because it shouldn't be Yeah. And the other thing
Speaker 2: is Tina was telling me that as part of her
Speaker 2: interview process here, she was asked to cast Abba of
Speaker 2: the movie, and I was like, what do you mean. Yeah,
Speaker 2: apparently it's a test to see Howard integrate with the team.
Speaker 2: That's the integration test to join my team is cast
Speaker 2: the Abber movie. I don't understand if it was like
Speaker 2: Springsteen movie or stuff like that. Tina, Please, what was
Speaker 2: your answer that landed you radio's hottest gig in town
Speaker 2: working on this dream team?
Speaker 1: What how did you cast it? I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Well, I got to choose which biopic I wanted, So
Speaker 3: I chose Abba, So then fag Nitha. I chose Sidney Sweeney,
Speaker 3: which I might change now.
Speaker 1: But why did you called him Sidney Sweeney? Because that
Speaker 1: Jean's advert pretty much? We live in an outrage age,
Speaker 1: don't we? All right? So not she's off the project, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 3: Off, but that's part. That's the time I said that
Speaker 3: Freda with Elvis's granddaughter Riley Keel. I don't know how
Speaker 3: I said last name o kyo. Yeah, yeah, she'd be great.
Speaker 3: I reckon beyond Tom Holland.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no no no no no.
Speaker 2: Way's boyish. You can play a children's movie like Spider
Speaker 2: Man and that.
Speaker 1: But no, he's not. He's not.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that got the kind of gravitas to pull that off?
Speaker 1: Too lightlyight?
Speaker 3: I reckon he'd be a perfect beyond Benny Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, it's quite a mix. So Sidney Sweeney, Tom
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is off the project.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is a strange interview question. If any
Speaker 2: of you have ever been asked a strange question interview,
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear about it.
Speaker 1: Text me O F seven five three one O four three.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was here the year before I
Speaker 2: started the show, and I came out with my family
Speaker 2: just to sort of have a look around to see
Speaker 2: if we actually do want to move here.
Speaker 1: And I had a dinner with.
Speaker 2: All the management here, and I remember one of them
Speaker 2: just said to me, Okay, what do you do?
Speaker 1: How do you connect with someone who hates English people?
Speaker 1: I think he was.
Speaker 2: Obviously had Patsy money, you know, and so it was like,
Speaker 2: how will I integrate you with Patsy Prince? Now Christian
Speaker 2: O'Connell showing Gold fourteen minutes past seven, Good Morning, ever
Speaker 2: been asked a weird question in an interview like cast
Speaker 2: and pick a biopic? If you ever want to join
Speaker 2: this team, you better have an answer ready for that.
Speaker 2: But you can't work for us.
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