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Speaker 1: Welcome to the weekend. Rio.
Speaker 2: Hell Yeah, good morning Patty, Hello, and happy Friday. Alex
Speaker 2: Cullen Boom. You sound surprised, Rio, you won't show on Monday.
Speaker 1: A bit shaky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's hanging on strong the money now and that's honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any reasons here, we all know that.
Speaker 2: Anyway, listen, let's get through then, double thumbs up, Alex.
Speaker 2: We do this every Friday the start of the show
Speaker 2: because you know what it's like on a Friday night.
Speaker 2: Families are on the counches. There's too much choice. What's good,
Speaker 2: what's bad. It doesn't matter what you want to watch.
Speaker 2: You've got to somehow get the vector of what you
Speaker 2: happy with, your partner, the kids. It's a compromise. There's
Speaker 2: actually too much choice these days. There there's too much
Speaker 2: stuff to watch on about eighty billion streaming services now.
Speaker 1: After them, I don't even know what I'm paying for.
Speaker 1: I've got some building.
Speaker 2: They're like, I've never even heard of this, and the
Speaker 2: kids have got some VPN now where they're watching Tunnel
Speaker 2: Bear or whatever it is on I'm shelling out now
Speaker 2: for a bear.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we call it double thumbs up.
Speaker 2: We go around the team, we talk about the shows
Speaker 2: that we're into this week. So a couple of things
Speaker 2: for me then kick off this week. Something to listen to.
Speaker 2: I talked to before about how I love the podcast SmartLess.
Speaker 2: Jason Bitlan went on and Sean it's a very funny show.
Speaker 2: The guests they head in a couple of weeks, Hugh
Speaker 2: Grant the funniest episode ever.
Speaker 1: Really, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I actually pulled over at one at one moment to
Speaker 2: rewind it and laugh again. Hugh Grant is a funny,
Speaker 2: funny guy, right. I remember I watching an interview last
Speaker 2: year with Jerry Seinfeld when he had that Netflix movie
Speaker 2: out and hughes in it, and he talks about how
Speaker 2: he had dinner with you, and Hugh just said, I
Speaker 2: want to be in the movie, and Jerry said to him,
Speaker 2: there's not a role in it. And also we have
Speaker 2: an auditioned. He goes, I'm an audition shoe run and
Speaker 2: Jerry said he's one of the funniest people I've ever met,
Speaker 2: was getting so drunk, and I put him in the
Speaker 2: movie just because he was just so funny. There's this
Speaker 2: grumpy and she is like that, but he is the
Speaker 2: way he talks about his kids and his wife.
Speaker 1: This is a funny.
Speaker 2: That is an outstanding hour, And no matter what you've
Speaker 2: got going on in your life right now, everyone always
Speaker 2: leaves a laugh.
Speaker 1: And that is relentlessly funny.
Speaker 2: I always Hugh Grant on SmartLess is the podcast and
Speaker 2: then a couple of things to watch. I spoke a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago you land up watching it as well,
Speaker 2: American Manhunt Bin Laden, and it realized there's three documentaries
Speaker 2: they've made under this banner of American man Hunt. So
Speaker 2: there's been Larden and then there's three episodes of an
Speaker 2: OJ Simpson. One now about eight years ago. There was
Speaker 2: a brilliant dramatization Oh J versus the people there was
Speaker 2: really good. However, this three parter is the definitive look
Speaker 2: at everything. Is interviews with everybody again and they've gone
Speaker 2: and found load more stuff, like with the search of
Speaker 2: Bin Laden. Just when he thought you're up to speed it,
Speaker 2: you're not. You learn so much more from it and
Speaker 2: It really takes you back to that time and place
Speaker 2: just after the La Riots and all the characters there.
Speaker 2: It's mesmerizing, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: This is called O. J. Simpson. Cannot recommend that enough.
Speaker 4: Tough to be in the same series as a Summer
Speaker 4: Bin Laden.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: And then the third one my daughter doesn't watching at
Speaker 2: the moment, is about someone who disappeared from a cruise
Speaker 2: ship twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I've looked quite a mixed bunchout it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm out on that one. Ye, yeah, I'm out
Speaker 2: on that one. So anyway, that one's really good. And
Speaker 2: then the other thing is our very own. He lives
Speaker 2: in the city. Eric Banner on Netflix on a horse,
Speaker 2: Yes please. Eric Banner is like a training sheer ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's peppery, but he's aging beautifully. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Both Sam Nil's in it as well. Both of them
Speaker 2: are pulling off that they're park rangers with American accidents.
Speaker 2: You just get two Americans, Nil and Eric Banner. It's
Speaker 2: called Untamed Murder Mystery in Yosemite Park.
Speaker 1: Good luck. It's flipping massive.
Speaker 2: Your boy, Eric Banner has got like Spider Man, but
Speaker 2: for eyes. He's on that big old he's on that
Speaker 2: big old Horsey sud He's like this, what the hell,
Speaker 2: there's a gunshot ricochet. Then you're like, Eric, special agent,
Speaker 2: see that because he's Eric Banners riding on that beautiful water.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's come a long way from the castle, hasn't.
Speaker 2: He's out of a lovely log cabin.
Speaker 1: However, suddenly towards the end of.
Speaker 2: The first episode you realize why he's a little bit
Speaker 2: grumpy and he prefers silence, sadness. I was watching watching
Speaker 2: with the family and we're all obviously eyes forward. My
Speaker 2: two daughters go without even looking. That's crime right now.
Speaker 4: I went on, is it something to do with a
Speaker 4: daughter leaving home?
Speaker 1: Or son? Fictional? A fictional thing? Oh god, oh god,
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: Eric, there's face on that blanket for me to stare
Speaker 2: at the stars, washing every day under that shoe stoff
Speaker 2: for the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh the pain. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: Emy. Christian O'Connell show on podcast about the things, the
Speaker 2: shows that we're enjoying at the moment, Patsy wants a few.
Speaker 5: Mate talking of Hugh Grant, heretic on a prime video.
Speaker 5: Chris had already seen it and he said, you have
Speaker 5: got to watch this.
Speaker 1: It's a thriller, brilliant.
Speaker 5: He is amazing in it. It's almost like a Jeckyll
Speaker 5: hide though. When I was watching it, because he's brilliant.
Speaker 5: He it's almost like you're watching his character when you
Speaker 5: see Paddington. Paddington is in, you know, you want to
Speaker 5: like him. He's likable and he's smiling and you think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: you just like in Paddington. And then there's this other
Speaker 5: side to him, where is a serial killer?
Speaker 2: And I mean that's real range you know the acts
Speaker 2: of Felix in Paddington too, But wait, he's also a
Speaker 2: serial killer.
Speaker 1: Wait? What was Paddington bando about?
Speaker 5: Folix name in Paddington that's my favorite trilogy. But he's
Speaker 5: so likable on the screen, and I found myself physically
Speaker 5: smiling watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, a serial killer.
Speaker 5: I shouldn't be smiling because I know he's about to.
Speaker 2: Do and that fall in love with Syraculus and marry
Speaker 2: them in President.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's brilliant, it is so so quit's incredible.
Speaker 2: He was talking about you know, I was mentioning the
Speaker 2: podcast that was in on SmartLess. He's talking about that
Speaker 2: how he used to get work as a leading man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said. Now he's that.
Speaker 2: Age in the way he looks only is basically psychopathic.
Speaker 4: You can no heretic.
Speaker 5: I highly recommend it. It's brilliant and if you do
Speaker 5: get the chance, go and see Annie at the Princess
Speaker 5: Theater in Melbourne. It's so beautiful. It's got like the
Speaker 5: godfather of Australian theater, Anthony Waldow in it. He plays
Speaker 5: is he Anny, No, he's Daddy Robbert. They've got a
Speaker 5: real Grudle in it who is absolutely adorable, and it's
Speaker 5: got Greg Page, the original Yellow Wiggle and wow, it
Speaker 5: was so beautiful. I took my fourteen year old and
Speaker 5: when I didn't tell her he plays the President and
Speaker 5: as he comes out on stage, I didn't tell Aud's
Speaker 5: and she was right into the Wiggles. She was part
Speaker 5: of Emma's army. Your kids, Alex, I'm love sure Wiggles. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And when he came out, Audrey did like this audible
Speaker 5: gasp and I thought, oh you maybe fourteen.
Speaker 1: He's still still that kids still there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And he's just beautiful in it. And it's just
Speaker 5: there were lots of uhs right throughout and the dog
Speaker 5: is just so cute. Annie, go and see if you
Speaker 5: get the chance.
Speaker 4: It's brilliant.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we come back with Alex and
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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast double thumbs up.
Speaker 2: We go around the team on a Friday, we talk
Speaker 2: about the TV shows that we're into the moment. It
Speaker 2: might be a movie or TV show that you watched
Speaker 2: this weekend. Rio, what's the f you?
Speaker 1: Mate?
Speaker 4: I reckon? I found movie of the Year for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five Sinners. It was in cinemas. It's only now
Speaker 4: just made it to streaming. It's on HBO Max, it
Speaker 4: is in.
Speaker 2: I've seen nothing but outstanding reviews for this, saying it's
Speaker 2: the masterpiece.
Speaker 4: And I didn't think necessarily, Okay, it's Michael B. Jordan's
Speaker 4: great who is and hot just like the hottest man.
Speaker 2: I interviewed him and in the flesh and the person
Speaker 2: with what a beautiful man. If I could pick two
Speaker 2: men to ride on a horse with it'd be Eric Banner,
Speaker 2: Eric Banner up front, me and in the middle, and
Speaker 2: then Michael Jordan anyway too much.
Speaker 1: I should have kept it to my sound. Sorry. It's
Speaker 1: a good movie, is it. There's not just one Michael b.
Speaker 4: Jordan's, there's two Michael b Jordan's. Whoa he plays twin
Speaker 4: gangsters in sort of the Prohibition era and they open
Speaker 4: up an old duke joint that gets invaded by ancient
Speaker 4: Irish vampires.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, all right, you got me now.
Speaker 1: It is incredible.
Speaker 4: It starts off like a Tarantino sort of spaghetti western,
Speaker 4: then becomes this.
Speaker 1: It looks heavily steyinized.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's shot on real film. It's used the
Speaker 4: same the same exact same camera as they're used for
Speaker 4: Oppenheimer and The Dark Night.
Speaker 1: So it looks beautiful.
Speaker 4: There is a ten minute scene in there that is
Speaker 4: one of the most stunning, like scorchingly beautiful scenes you'll
Speaker 4: ever see in.
Speaker 1: So this is that's it. I'm sold. I'm watching it
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 4: You got to watch it. You gotta watch it.
Speaker 1: Brilliant and Alex, what have you enjoyed?
Speaker 3: Speaking of Irish rio, I have been right into this
Speaker 3: series called kin k I n.
Speaker 1: About the kinselling gangsters in k W A gang and Dublin.
Speaker 2: It is unbelieved Dublin, you say, hard to tell by
Speaker 2: the accent. It's so like come Mumbai, a drunk Scottish.
Speaker 3: Person perhaps listen. It was unbelievable. It changed me as
Speaker 3: a human being. It is that good. It's like ninety
Speaker 3: four percent on Rotten Tomas.
Speaker 2: It's got a Charlie what's his name in from Daran Devil,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's got Aiden Gillen who was a
Speaker 3: little Finger in Game of Throne.
Speaker 2: He's a great Irish accent, great Irish act. And there's
Speaker 2: also the guy who's because I've just started watching it
Speaker 2: because you were talking about it. It's very good. There's
Speaker 2: an Irish guy in that with a big beard who
Speaker 2: plays Joseph Kinsella, who is all Also when the recent
Speaker 2: Irish Mobland that I've been watching Tom Hardy, so hang on,
Speaker 2: he's working for two different Irish families when Pearce Brazenin
Speaker 2: finds them out.
Speaker 1: This so well, is it Francis McGee There might be
Speaker 1: Francis McGee. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: But I lived in Ireland for about of years. And
Speaker 3: I kind of know Dublin quite well to the north
Speaker 3: from the you live with a gangsta dig your TV
Speaker 3: pretty boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the rough streets, earning cash, fighting on the
Speaker 2: cobbles passes.
Speaker 3: Coming back to help me, isn't it? No, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: So go and see that. It's really really good. It's
Speaker 3: on SBS on demand. I stupidly paid money to watch
Speaker 3: it on Apple TV.
Speaker 1: I've done that so many times.
Speaker 2: And then you go, wait the free one SBS one
Speaker 2: simple emails.
Speaker 1: Or to log in. What they do with that email?
Speaker 2: They do nothing with it because they're wholesome. They won't
Speaker 2: sell out details. They're just looking after our emails.
Speaker 3: In case you get from so annoying, begon and say
Speaker 3: it kin And also Round the Twist unbelievable. So Paul
Speaker 3: Jennings wrote the book, of course, and way back and
Speaker 3: I think the nineties two thousand they made a TV
Speaker 3: series on it, and it's wonderful with kids, you can
Speaker 3: rediscover these shows and Prime Video is running the old
Speaker 3: Round the Twists and it's just such amazing viewing. And
Speaker 3: little did we know that it was filmed here in Victoria.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Lighthouse is down the Turkey. You should
Speaker 1: take the kids there.
Speaker 2: Done absolutely bit of a road trip to drive down
Speaker 2: there as well.
Speaker 3: And starring Frankie j Holden as well, who I keep
Speaker 3: running into in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: It's really weird.
Speaker 3: I read it to him in the ten and then
Speaker 3: I read it.
Speaker 1: To him again. You're kidding Park We locked eyes weirdly.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh do I say good?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I chickened out and I didn't
Speaker 3: because I want my kids to meet him and say, hey,
Speaker 3: here's the dodgy Man.
Speaker 1: Your kids enjoying it. They're all under six, so what
Speaker 1: do they make of it? They love it because some
Speaker 1: of those episodes are pretty trippy. There's a really.
Speaker 3: Scary one with this scarecrow and they won't watch that one.
Speaker 3: Sort of fast forwarded those bits. But like there's there's
Speaker 3: amazing fantasy and wonder and it's Ozzy as well, which
Speaker 3: I really.
Speaker 1: Love, and it's got that to know Melbourne as well.
Speaker 3: Definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Victorian film scene, so we're
Speaker 3: definitely going to.
Speaker 2: Go what a film scene around the twist Ramsey Street?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you know you start there anyway.
Speaker 1: Ken, that's not Dublin Frankston.
Speaker 2: Those we're going back, But no, go and sit around
Speaker 2: to us, especially if your kids, you know they they
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: I promise no one. I've never had that phrase. Go
Speaker 1: and see it when it's a TV show. Where are
Speaker 1: your TV is.
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: The cow shot up, Molly Mildren, don't.
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