Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: So participating has mapped into the studio here for a
Speaker 2: chat after the show Friday.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: We were just talking about tourist attractions of the world,
Speaker 2: and she said, I've seen Mona Lisa, and we were like,
Speaker 2: my god, Wow, you've seen one of the most famous
Speaker 2: bits of artwork in the world.
Speaker 3: But no, you weren't impressed with the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 1: No, it's tiny, like absolutely minute, and you're forty people deep,
Speaker 1: so it's even smaller because you're further back. And so
Speaker 1: when I went down there and saw it in the loover,
Speaker 1: I just went okay, and I just kept walking.
Speaker 4: I mean, but you've traveled all the way to France,
Speaker 4: You've waited in the line to get into the museum.
Speaker 4: Can't you wait till you shuffle to the front. It's
Speaker 4: only another twenty minute, right.
Speaker 1: Because it was so small and so light, insignificant, I
Speaker 1: just thought significant.
Speaker 2: You can't say insignificant about the Mona Lisa. And some
Speaker 2: of those are like fine artworks. Now you need to
Speaker 2: just give it a couple of moments to sort of
Speaker 2: be more of You don't see art.
Speaker 3: You become art. I did not become art, just just
Speaker 3: jogged on by.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like just kidd a walking.
Speaker 3: How big would you have wanted it to be? Maybe
Speaker 3: impressive on those magic eye posters?
Speaker 1: Maybe like double its size, because it's like I cannot
Speaker 1: express to anyone if they haven't seen it, how small
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: Like you, I've seen it. It's you're making out like
Speaker 3: it's a stamp.
Speaker 2: It looks like a step.
Speaker 3: Why it should be so big?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just because I've seen it on you know, the
Speaker 1: internet that many times and you just assume it's an
Speaker 1: old piece of artwork.
Speaker 6: It's it's bigger, but yeah, my good. Is it like
Speaker 6: an a four bit of paper?
Speaker 4: It's like, seriously, it is Just grab a piece of
Speaker 4: printer paper and start the model Lisa.
Speaker 3: Size into the world. Think you're like, please don't be
Speaker 3: like this. What was it like an a four bits
Speaker 3: of in size?
Speaker 6: In comparison, You've nailed it. Yeah size.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you ever seen a choice attraction of the world.
Speaker 2: There's been much hype but then just didn't deliver.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it wasn't that imp with the Vegas sign
Speaker 6: when we went to Vegas, the love God to get
Speaker 6: this right. We traveled around America for about a month.
Speaker 6: He brought a black suit from home in the luggage,
Speaker 6: carried it, lugged it all the way because he wanted
Speaker 6: that brat pack photo in front of the vein.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. But where it is.
Speaker 6: It's actually in the center median strip on the boulevard there,
Speaker 6: but there's traffic, like three lanes of traffic each side,
Speaker 6: zooming pass. So we took a cab out there because
Speaker 6: we're staying ages away, and it was almost like a stop,
Speaker 6: drop and roll to get out of the cab.
Speaker 4: It was like quick Chris hit by the car.
Speaker 6: So it was just yeah, it wasn't what we worked
Speaker 6: it up to be. It was like, oh, okay, this
Speaker 6: is it.
Speaker 2: Disappointing tourist Attractions of the World, Well, underwhelmed you.
Speaker 3: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Disappointing Attractions of the World. Andrina the Spanish steps. I'd
Speaker 2: seen so many phones of them with pots, some colored
Speaker 2: flowers on them, lots of festive stuff, shoots around Rome
Speaker 2: in forty two degree heat. Finally found them, just a
Speaker 2: bunch of steps of people sitting on them, having their lunch.
Speaker 2: They could have had any steps anywhere, No pots, no pots.
Speaker 2: David Venice, after walking around in circles from now, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to find a hotel, hadn't argued with my wife
Speaker 2: went to the pub. It was full of men who'd
Speaker 2: done the same thing.
Speaker 3: Denise.
Speaker 2: The White House was so tiny compared to what I
Speaker 2: thought it would be. I didn't know you could just
Speaker 2: go and wander around the White House.
Speaker 3: It doesn't, but I don't think it's tiny.
Speaker 2: Jane didn't care much for the Leaning Tower Pisa. Felt
Speaker 2: like we were in suburbia, in someone's backyard. Nine four
Speaker 2: three Disappointing tourist attractions of the World Nikki, good.
Speaker 7: Morning, good morning, disappointing to good morning, disappointing to rose attractions. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: Egypt and the Sphinx and no, the Great Pyramids.
Speaker 3: Surely not. I'm desperate to go and see that. How
Speaker 3: can they be disappointed?
Speaker 7: Well, we were on honeymoon in Cyprus and thought, oh,
Speaker 7: opportunity to go to Cairo. Let's see the Sphinx and
Speaker 7: you know, the pyramid experience. So we went there, got there,
Speaker 7: spink some pyramid on your left, busy street, McDonald's and
Speaker 7: KFC and Pizza Hut on your right with traffic and
Speaker 7: all want of it. Nothing like the movie sets.
Speaker 3: I don't like a sacred to sight. You can't have that.
Speaker 7: Exactly right, That's what we thought.
Speaker 3: And then we lined up.
Speaker 7: To go into the pyramid because thought maybe it's different
Speaker 7: inside experience and all that sort of stuff. It's really hot.
Speaker 7: We take bottles of water with us. We line up,
Speaker 7: We get to the top of the line and the
Speaker 7: guy at the top of the line takes our bottles
Speaker 7: of water off us and we're like, oh, maybe we're
Speaker 7: not land to take them in. Then he starts drinking
Speaker 7: it in front of us, and we're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 7: that's unusual. We'll just deal with it. We go inside
Speaker 7: the pyramid and it.
Speaker 5: Smells of we and we're like, well, that's where they
Speaker 5: go to the toilet.
Speaker 4: Wait, she think the guy letting people into the entrance,
Speaker 4: he's inside the pyramid.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're Is that what you say, Nikki?
Speaker 3: You reckon? He was beeing in the tombs.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they were just that's someone job, someone who really
Speaker 2: doesn't like that job anymore.
Speaker 8: No luck.
Speaker 7: So we were just like, seriously, next time we'll go
Speaker 7: to luxere.
Speaker 3: Nikki. Thank you very much you called me. I have
Speaker 3: a good day, no worried you too. Bye bye, Laura,
Speaker 3: good morning, Hi Christian, there are you going. I'm good, Laura.
Speaker 2: I have been a good weeknd thanks to cool on
Speaker 2: the show. So we also disappointing a tourist attraction for you.
Speaker 5: So Christian, we thought we would go to stone Pinge
Speaker 5: because it's something that you just have to do when
Speaker 5: you go there. But there was no way I was
Speaker 5: going to pay for something like that. So I googled
Speaker 5: how to see stone Hinge for free, and a couple
Speaker 5: of articles came up, and one said that it was
Speaker 5: about a three kilometer walk from a place called wood
Speaker 5: Ene and it would take around ninety minutes. And I
Speaker 5: thought to myself, there is no way three kilometer walk's
Speaker 5: going to take ninety minutes. We'll do it way quicker
Speaker 5: than that. Anyway, we didn't. It took way longer than
Speaker 5: ninety minutes, walking through paddiics and avoiding cow dumps and
Speaker 5: all the rest.
Speaker 3: It's it's not a proper footpath.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot of people who won't pay that
Speaker 2: want to do that walk. It's a harder walk it's
Speaker 2: a hard walk.
Speaker 5: Why I didn't know. I just sort of thought of
Speaker 5: our three kilometers that's easy, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's a pilgrimage, yes, And what did you think of
Speaker 2: it when you get there? You see those giants When
Speaker 2: we finally.
Speaker 5: Got there, were a few meters from everyone else that paid,
Speaker 5: and firstly we sort of thought our suckers, but then
Speaker 5: we just looked and we left.
Speaker 4: After five minutes, two hours back the other work.
Speaker 3: And did you find the actual sort of the rocks?
Speaker 3: And underwhelming?
Speaker 5: Oh, completely underwhelming. We were honestly there for five minutes.
Speaker 5: We took some photos and were out of there. It
Speaker 5: was it was not worth it.
Speaker 4: I think it's less about the rocks and how they
Speaker 4: got them.
Speaker 2: It's more about the mystery. It's more about the mystery
Speaker 2: how did they get there. They still don't know how
Speaker 2: they got there.
Speaker 5: No, I still don't know how they got there. But
Speaker 5: the walk was really good. In the end, we got
Speaker 5: amazing totos on.
Speaker 3: That was the highlight of the day when he saw
Speaker 3: stone age. Laura, thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 5: Thanks Christian, Kelly, Christian, hell are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good? Kelly? Have your wealth? So Mona Lisa.
Speaker 8: Oh my God. So I was in my early twenties
Speaker 8: and this was the early nineties, and I was in
Speaker 8: the city of Paris, and I went, right, this is
Speaker 8: the city that has all these attractions, and I kicked
Speaker 8: off my list. I went to the Eiffel Tower, I
Speaker 8: saw the Shamps of Lisa, went to the Active Triumph.
Speaker 8: Then I get to the Louver and I was so
Speaker 8: excited because I saw the glass pyramid and I went, yes,
Speaker 8: I'm going to see the Mona Lisa, and I'm like,
Speaker 8: got my map and I went into the louver and
Speaker 8: I just zoomed past all the other whatever was hanging
Speaker 8: on the walls, and I went off to find it,
Speaker 8: to find it, following my map, and I turned a
Speaker 8: corner in the loose and I saw a little crowd
Speaker 8: of people hanging around the painting, and I went, right, well,
Speaker 8: it looks small, but I'm still at the end of
Speaker 8: the corridor. So I walked faster and I went, it's
Speaker 8: not getting any bigger. And I got to the front
Speaker 8: and looked at it and thought, this is a postage stamp.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's not a stamp.
Speaker 8: It must they could have just put a photo copy
Speaker 8: on an A four sheet of staper out on the wall.
Speaker 8: And the funniest thing is I went, I'm standing here, going, okay, well,
Speaker 8: I've got to look cool because I'm in from the
Speaker 8: Mona Lisa and I went, so how long do I
Speaker 8: stand here and admire it? Is it one minute?
Speaker 7: Is it two minutes?
Speaker 5: What's the going rate of standing here?
Speaker 3: It was the worst.
Speaker 8: I was so disappointed.
Speaker 5: And then I took a photo of it. So I've
Speaker 5: still got the photo.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 8: I'd be better off just taking a photocopy from the
Speaker 8: internet and putting in my photo.
Speaker 2: Wel bro Kelly, I've got to ask, what are the
Speaker 2: noises we keep hearing? Come a seconds? Are you're in
Speaker 2: an ice cream van?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: That was my story.
Speaker 8: I'm at work.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see gotcha? All right, Kenny, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: You killed me no saying a brighter no.
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