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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So participating has mapped into the studio here for a

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Speaker 2: chat after the show Friday.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking about tourist attractions of the world,

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Speaker 2: and she said, I've seen Mona Lisa, and we were like,

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Speaker 2: my god, Wow, you've seen one of the most famous

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Speaker 2: bits of artwork in the world.

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Speaker 3: But no, you weren't impressed with the Mona Lisa.

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Speaker 1: No, it's tiny, like absolutely minute, and you're forty people deep,

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Speaker 1: so it's even smaller because you're further back. And so

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Speaker 1: when I went down there and saw it in the loover,

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Speaker 1: I just went okay, and I just kept walking.

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Speaker 4: I mean, but you've traveled all the way to France,

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Speaker 4: You've waited in the line to get into the museum.

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Speaker 4: Can't you wait till you shuffle to the front. It's

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Speaker 4: only another twenty minute, right.

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Speaker 1: Because it was so small and so light, insignificant, I

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Speaker 1: just thought significant.

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Speaker 2: You can't say insignificant about the Mona Lisa. And some

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Speaker 2: of those are like fine artworks. Now you need to

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Speaker 2: just give it a couple of moments to sort of

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Speaker 2: be more of You don't see art.

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Speaker 3: You become art. I did not become art, just just

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Speaker 3: jogged on by.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like just kidd a walking.

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Speaker 3: How big would you have wanted it to be? Maybe

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Speaker 3: impressive on those magic eye posters?

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Speaker 1: Maybe like double its size, because it's like I cannot

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Speaker 1: express to anyone if they haven't seen it, how small

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Speaker 3: Like you, I've seen it. It's you're making out like

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Speaker 3: it's a stamp.

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Speaker 2: It looks like a step.

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Speaker 3: Why it should be so big?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just because I've seen it on you know, the

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Speaker 1: internet that many times and you just assume it's an

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Speaker 1: old piece of artwork.

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Speaker 6: It's it's bigger, but yeah, my good. Is it like

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Speaker 6: an a four bit of paper?

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Speaker 4: It's like, seriously, it is Just grab a piece of

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Speaker 4: printer paper and start the model Lisa.

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Speaker 3: Size into the world. Think you're like, please don't be

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Speaker 3: like this. What was it like an a four bits

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Speaker 3: of in size?

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Speaker 6: In comparison, You've nailed it. Yeah size.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you ever seen a choice attraction of the world.

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Speaker 2: There's been much hype but then just didn't deliver.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it wasn't that imp with the Vegas sign

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Speaker 6: when we went to Vegas, the love God to get

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Speaker 6: this right. We traveled around America for about a month.

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Speaker 6: He brought a black suit from home in the luggage,

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Speaker 6: carried it, lugged it all the way because he wanted

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Speaker 6: that brat pack photo in front of the vein.

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Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. But where it is.

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Speaker 6: It's actually in the center median strip on the boulevard there,

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Speaker 6: but there's traffic, like three lanes of traffic each side,

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Speaker 6: zooming pass. So we took a cab out there because

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Speaker 6: we're staying ages away, and it was almost like a stop,

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Speaker 6: drop and roll to get out of the cab.

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Speaker 4: It was like quick Chris hit by the car.

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Speaker 6: So it was just yeah, it wasn't what we worked

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Speaker 6: it up to be. It was like, oh, okay, this

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Speaker 6: is it.

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Speaker 2: Disappointing tourist Attractions of the World, Well, underwhelmed you.

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Speaker 3: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Disappointing Attractions of the World. Andrina the Spanish steps. I'd

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Speaker 2: seen so many phones of them with pots, some colored

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Speaker 2: in forty two degree heat. Finally found them, just a

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Speaker 2: bunch of steps of people sitting on them, having their lunch.

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Speaker 2: They could have had any steps anywhere, No pots, no pots.

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Speaker 2: David Venice, after walking around in circles from now, I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to find a hotel, hadn't argued with my wife

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Speaker 2: went to the pub. It was full of men who'd

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Speaker 3: Denise.

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Speaker 2: The White House was so tiny compared to what I

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Speaker 2: thought it would be. I didn't know you could just

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Speaker 3: It doesn't, but I don't think it's tiny.

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Speaker 2: Jane didn't care much for the Leaning Tower Pisa. Felt

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Speaker 2: like we were in suburbia, in someone's backyard. Nine four

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Speaker 2: three Disappointing tourist attractions of the World Nikki, good.

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Speaker 7: Morning, good morning, disappointing to good morning, disappointing to rose attractions. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 7: Egypt and the Sphinx and no, the Great Pyramids.

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Speaker 3: Surely not. I'm desperate to go and see that. How

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Speaker 7: Well, we were on honeymoon in Cyprus and thought, oh,

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Speaker 7: opportunity to go to Cairo. Let's see the Sphinx and

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Speaker 7: you know, the pyramid experience. So we went there, got there,

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Speaker 7: spink some pyramid on your left, busy street, McDonald's and

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Speaker 7: all want of it. Nothing like the movie sets.

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Speaker 3: I don't like a sacred to sight. You can't have that.

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Speaker 7: Exactly right, That's what we thought.

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Speaker 3: And then we lined up.

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Speaker 7: We take bottles of water with us. We line up,

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Speaker 7: that's unusual. We'll just deal with it. We go inside

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Speaker 5: Smells of we and we're like, well, that's where they

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Speaker 4: Wait, she think the guy letting people into the entrance,

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Speaker 4: he's inside the pyramid.

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Speaker 3: Is that what you're Is that what you say, Nikki?

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Speaker 3: You reckon? He was beeing in the tombs.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they were just that's someone job, someone who really

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Speaker 8: No luck.

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Speaker 7: So we were just like, seriously, next time we'll go

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Speaker 3: Nikki. Thank you very much you called me. I have

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Speaker 3: a good day, no worried you too. Bye bye, Laura,

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Speaker 3: good morning, Hi Christian, there are you going. I'm good, Laura.

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Speaker 2: I have been a good weeknd thanks to cool on

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Speaker 2: the show. So we also disappointing a tourist attraction for you.

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Speaker 5: So Christian, we thought we would go to stone Pinge

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Speaker 5: because it's something that you just have to do when

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Speaker 5: how to see stone Hinge for free, and a couple

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Speaker 5: Ene and it would take around ninety minutes. And I

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Speaker 3: It's it's not a proper footpath.

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Speaker 2: You've got a lot of people who won't pay that

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Speaker 2: want to do that walk. It's a harder walk it's

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Speaker 5: Why I didn't know. I just sort of thought of

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Speaker 2: It's a pilgrimage, yes, And what did you think of

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Speaker 2: it when you get there? You see those giants When

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Speaker 5: Got there, were a few meters from everyone else that paid,

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Speaker 5: and firstly we sort of thought our suckers, but then

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Speaker 4: After five minutes, two hours back the other work.

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Speaker 3: And did you find the actual sort of the rocks?

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Speaker 3: And underwhelming?

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Speaker 5: Oh, completely underwhelming. We were honestly there for five minutes.

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Speaker 5: We took some photos and were out of there. It

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Speaker 4: I think it's less about the rocks and how they

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Speaker 2: It's more about the mystery. It's more about the mystery

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Speaker 5: No, I still don't know how they got there. But

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Speaker 5: the walk was really good. In the end, we got

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Speaker 3: That was the highlight of the day when he saw

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Speaker 3: stone age. Laura, thank you very much. You cool.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Christian, Kelly, Christian, hell are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good? Kelly? Have your wealth? So Mona Lisa.

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Speaker 8: Oh my God. So I was in my early twenties

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Speaker 8: Then I get to the Louver and I was so

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Speaker 8: and looked at it and thought, this is a postage stamp.

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Speaker 3: It's not. It's not a stamp.

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Speaker 8: It must they could have just put a photo copy

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Speaker 8: And the funniest thing is I went, I'm standing here, going, okay, well,

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Speaker 8: I've got to look cool because I'm in from the

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Speaker 8: Mona Lisa and I went, so how long do I

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Speaker 8: stand here and admire it? Is it one minute?

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Speaker 7: Is it two minutes?

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Speaker 5: What's the going rate of standing here?

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Speaker 3: It was the worst.

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Speaker 8: I was so disappointed.

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Speaker 5: And then I took a photo of it. So I've

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Speaker 5: still got the photo.

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Speaker 3: You can.

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Speaker 8: I'd be better off just taking a photocopy from the

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Speaker 8: internet and putting in my photo.

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Speaker 2: Wel bro Kelly, I've got to ask, what are the

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Speaker 2: noises we keep hearing? Come a seconds? Are you're in

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Speaker 2: an ice cream van?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: That was my story.

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Speaker 8: I'm at work.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I see gotcha? All right, Kenny, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: You killed me no saying a brighter no.

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