Speaker 1: Got anything good.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3: It's the Christian O'Connell Show. Good morning Jack, Parting guys,
Speaker 3: Good morning Patsy. Are we excited about your weekends?
Speaker 4: Jack? What are you up to this weekend?
Speaker 2: I'm playing golf tomorrow, But I have a golf conundrum.
Speaker 2: My friend booked this package that's like eight people with
Speaker 2: all the carts and everything paid for, and then as
Speaker 2: we got closer to the date, he couldn't find eight
Speaker 2: people to fill the spot. So it's like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: anyone else got like I ask any friends? So I
Speaker 2: asked a friend of mine to come and play, Like,
Speaker 2: all right, he's locked in, he's pumped, and by the
Speaker 2: time I send that message, he goes, oh nah, all
Speaker 2: eight spots of field now, So you've got to turn
Speaker 2: around and tell your mate he's uninvited.
Speaker 4: Oh that's horrible. You've got to stand down at buddy.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: And he was so excited to play. We actually been
Speaker 2: mean him to play for a lot.
Speaker 4: Well are you playing this weekend? Where it'upposed to be great?
Speaker 2: And this is called Hidden Valley, this golf course in
Speaker 2: the north of this city, and they what they're famous for,
Speaker 2: or is it what's called an island green? So on
Speaker 2: the eighteenth hole, it's a green that's in the middle
Speaker 2: of a lake and you've got to hit.
Speaker 4: From the hell cold.
Speaker 3: That'd be great fun tomorrow. And Patsy, what are you
Speaker 3: up to?
Speaker 4: Sweet?
Speaker 1: Going out for dinner with friends tomorrow night, which would
Speaker 1: be lovely.
Speaker 4: Up to somewhere local Yah, somewhere.
Speaker 1: Local Sons of men are Actually we've booked and that
Speaker 1: I think they do like a beautiful barbecue sort of
Speaker 1: you know, long long barbecue, all day sort of meat.
Speaker 4: So I'm looking forward to that this weekend.
Speaker 3: We've got our oldest friends are over, knowing them since
Speaker 3: we were in our early twenties before kids and all that.
Speaker 3: They're over visiting Australia for the first time and so
Speaker 3: their daughter has moved to Sydney. So for ten days
Speaker 3: they were in Sydney and we kept hearing a lot.
Speaker 3: It's their first impression of Australia. Oh my god, Sydney's amazing.
Speaker 4: Sydney.
Speaker 3: There's fo We've been to this suburb, we've been to
Speaker 3: this bay. My wife and I were getting angry, okay
Speaker 3: and slightly defensive, like you know, really hope that actually
Speaker 3: they like Melbourne because they wouldn't say anything, but they'd
Speaker 3: be thinking, oh, why did they move to Melbourne. They
Speaker 3: should have gone to Shine Sydney that's got the harbor.
Speaker 3: So anyway, they came last weekend and Melbourne put on
Speaker 3: a show, fantastic weather. They're into their F one so
Speaker 3: they went for a wander into the city on Monday.
Speaker 3: They found the F one fan zone. So that's so
Speaker 3: far double thumbs up for Melbourne. They're now prefer over
Speaker 3: Sydney then.
Speaker 4: You god great.
Speaker 3: So we've got Mahaka this week. They've done Great Ocean Road,
Speaker 3: They've had two nights in lawn. The weather's been great.
Speaker 3: We're having an unusual summer at the moment, aren't we.
Speaker 3: It is really really nice. So this weekend we're doing
Speaker 3: the Bush Rangers Bay.
Speaker 4: Walk down there.
Speaker 3: If you have done that, it's befure down there Cape Shank.
Speaker 2: And if you go early in the morning as well,
Speaker 2: you see a lot of kangaroos.
Speaker 3: That's what we're hopeful at the middle of the day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like any Brits that come over, we just want to
Speaker 3: see kangaroos in wild. We saw some last weekend and
Speaker 3: they want to see more. My friends had actually looked
Speaker 3: like Jiassic Park.
Speaker 4: I went, it's not like kangaroos aren't like Gyassic Park.
Speaker 2: Don't raise that high.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then I'm off to see the D's with
Speaker 3: their opening round games Sunday. You said that Monday show
Speaker 3: could be tough, guys, because at the moment it's all potential.
Speaker 3: But we got the Giants, and obviously Giants were incredible
Speaker 3: last weekend.
Speaker 4: But no, nothing really counts. It was round zero, all right?
Speaker 3: Coming up next time we get into this week's Double
Speaker 3: thumbs Up. This is where I met Jack and Pats
Speaker 3: go around the team when we talk about the things
Speaker 3: that we're enjoying at the moment.
Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3: Every Friday, in the first half an hour, we do
Speaker 3: a thing called double thumbs Up where we go around
Speaker 3: the team and tell me about the things we're enjoying
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Speaker 3: what you're reading, watching, whatever it is streaming at the moment,
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Speaker 4: Me this week.
Speaker 3: Really enjoying a brilliant new TV show called Paradise. It's
Speaker 3: on Disney. Plus it's a political thriller. It's a who
Speaker 3: Done It that's smart and got heart as well.
Speaker 4: Same guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever short saw a show
Speaker 3: that ran for a couple of seasons. It was brilliant
Speaker 3: called This is Us.
Speaker 4: It was huge tears.
Speaker 3: Yeah that one, yeah, that one, yeah, yeah yeah, every
Speaker 3: episode in tiers.
Speaker 4: Brilliant show called This is Our.
Speaker 3: Same creator and writer of that doing Paradise, which is
Speaker 3: very very good. And then a very quick documentary on
Speaker 3: Netflix which is half an hour called The Only Girl
Speaker 3: in the Choir about the first woman to join the
Speaker 3: New York Filarwmonarct Orchestra. It's an amazing half our watch,
Speaker 3: really inspirational, great story as well.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be more Half our doctors.
Speaker 3: Such a perfect paid off in thirty minutes. It's great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: really really good. Only Girl in the Orchestra, it's very
Speaker 3: very good. That's on Netflix. The Christian O'Connell show podcast
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Speaker 4: The start of the show, then we do a thing
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Speaker 3: This is where we talk about the shows or the
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Speaker 3: oh four three Patsy, what have.
Speaker 4: You been enjoying?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: On stand ten pound palms.
Speaker 1: The second series has just dropped and we loved the
Speaker 1: first series.
Speaker 5: I love a period drama.
Speaker 1: This is about Australia and you know, the poems immigrating out,
Speaker 1: incredible stories and just the hardships that they faced and
Speaker 1: what you know, a snapshot of what Australia was at
Speaker 1: the time, and just the racism and just the hardship
Speaker 1: of even just securing housing and jobs.
Speaker 5: And all that they sort of all the flak that
Speaker 5: they caught do. We absolutely adore it.
Speaker 1: And I think the difference with this series from the
Speaker 1: first one is that there's this it feels like this
Speaker 1: renewed confidence from the cast, like they're really settled into
Speaker 1: the series and they're more it's like they're more confident
Speaker 1: and just sort of set in what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Love it.
Speaker 1: It's beautifully shot and it's just fantastic.
Speaker 5: It's on stand.
Speaker 4: We do it.
Speaker 1: And the other thing, we went to the movies the
Speaker 1: other day and saw Paddington in Peru.
Speaker 3: The going to see it next week with my two daughters, right,
Speaker 3: you know, genuinely I love the Palatine movies.
Speaker 4: Paddington two. I mean this. People think I'm joking. So
Speaker 4: this is in my top ten movie. I love.
Speaker 2: To Gordy to his first ever movie at the cinemas
Speaker 2: and they went saw, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is it good?
Speaker 1: I loved the little goes all the way out there
Speaker 1: he goes to find his aunt. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was missing, yes, missing, but it's all good. In the
Speaker 1: the thing about it, there's a really strong undertone of
Speaker 1: you know, kids spreading their wings.
Speaker 5: You'll really.
Speaker 4: Need world, you will. It was banged up for a crime.
Speaker 4: He didn't give me.
Speaker 2: The second that it's Paddington an adult Buriers child.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a child. It's a child.
Speaker 5: But there's a line in the movie and.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't stay imprue.
Speaker 3: Does he coming next Wednesday night?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: The line in the movie where the mom says, it's
Speaker 1: just what happens, and when you see it you will
Speaker 1: get the context of it.
Speaker 5: And I just said, tears in the context of it.
Speaker 4: They've time. I don't need this in it, just what happens.
Speaker 5: But home is always where the heart is.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. In my Peru.
Speaker 3: You know, the kids got me for for Christmas. They
Speaker 3: chipped and they got me a little toy Paddington by
Speaker 3: my computer desk. But if I go and see it
Speaker 3: next when it's sad, I'm going to have him face
Speaker 3: in the other way. I can't have him looking at me.
Speaker 3: Reminded me that he's left home as well.
Speaker 4: You got Paddington anymore?
Speaker 2: You love it, well, then you might know this. I've
Speaker 2: never seen Paddington's so I don't know the context. But
Speaker 2: since seeing it, Gordy started to put his sandwich in
Speaker 2: his heart.
Speaker 4: He's got over his head.
Speaker 5: And Antonio Banderas is in this one.
Speaker 1: And Olivia Coleman, who is always fantastic.
Speaker 4: Plays she should be in every show.
Speaker 5: She's so good.
Speaker 3: Must be the agent in the world because whatever thing is,
Speaker 3: she just elevates.
Speaker 5: Every rock gold. Yeah, you'll love it.
Speaker 3: It's brilliant to see it. Jackie boy, what have you
Speaker 3: enjoyed this week?
Speaker 2: We're still watching White Lotus. Honestly ten out of ten
Speaker 2: it's been my favorite show.
Speaker 4: Of the year.
Speaker 2: And then we're still watching a whole lot of nature
Speaker 2: documentaries with Gordy because.
Speaker 4: We had great It's like wholesome TV.
Speaker 2: I used to watch The Simpsons with him, and now
Speaker 2: Banker said, all right, he's old enough now to know
Speaker 2: what's inappropriate and that's got to stop. So it's nature
Speaker 2: documentaries now. But yesterday it was two seals attacking each
Speaker 2: other and you know, it got pretty violent, so we've
Speaker 2: had to turn that off even.
Speaker 3: And what is Gordy like when he sees stuff like that,
Speaker 3: because some of those nature documentaries are heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: Underwater, but he loves anything underwater at the moment, and
Speaker 2: he's so much so that like he even wants the
Speaker 2: ugly old anglerfish. Have you seen those things? Yes, a
Speaker 2: look at the bottom of the ocean. He even feels
Speaker 2: empathy for the angler Oh my god.
Speaker 4: That's great. And he loves Paddington. Christian Connell Show podcast