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Speaker 4: Good morning, Welcome to the Big Friday Show where the
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday guys. Okay to our next half an out.
Speaker 2: We've got your recommendations of you someone.
Speaker 1: It to watch or read this weekend. We have you.
Speaker 1: We call it double thumbs up.
Speaker 2: Two Things to Me, a book and a brilliant documentary.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the documentary. It is about one of
Speaker 2: the funniest people who ever lived, Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: Being Eddie is.
Speaker 2: A brilliant two hour documentary that dropped on Netflix last week.
Speaker 2: I love Eddie Murphy. My kids love Eddie Murphy. They've
Speaker 2: raised with lots of his movies. It's a great what
Speaker 2: a kind, calm, peaceful man. It's like a Buddha really
Speaker 2: ready leaves home.
Speaker 1: He's just happy with He's got like nine kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he just loves what's the name Spice Melby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he has to me.
Speaker 2: He's just done so many great movies from trading places,
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills, cop Natty Professor, coming to America. So many
Speaker 2: Two things are picked up from watching this documentary. He
Speaker 2: has a retractable roof. I've never seen such a beautiful,
Speaker 2: immaculate home in my life, you know when you see
Speaker 2: very wealthy people's homes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like, wow, now one you don't want
Speaker 1: to leave that just.
Speaker 2: A whole results, an actual kind of gold class cinema
Speaker 2: in his basement.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 6: What's the true retractable roof? As in like like a
Speaker 6: convertible on a car, it fully comes off.
Speaker 1: An entire room.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you think he's been he's been famous for
Speaker 2: decades like Marvel.
Speaker 1: Never had a drink in his life, never had any drugs. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fascinating document And the other thing is
Speaker 2: he just loves watching TV with his family. It's for
Speaker 2: Edie Murphy's TV show, you know, and the MTV show
Speaker 2: has been running for years.
Speaker 1: Ridiculousness.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, the clip that it's just like clips off YouTube.
Speaker 7: He's laughing out.
Speaker 1: Loud as he's talking about funny cat videos.
Speaker 8: Drave Deck or something they've done like a billion episodes
Speaker 8: of it, just watching Eddie Murphy sat his couch, but
Speaker 8: how much he loves his falling asleep watching that show,
Speaker 8: as like he's just like.
Speaker 1: The other thing.
Speaker 2: Then about another icon of entertainment is a brilliant book
Speaker 2: that I'm halfway through at the moment, is simply called Clint.
Speaker 2: It's about Clint Eastwood, the man and his movies. Same
Speaker 2: authorught Sean Levy. The wrote a best selling book about
Speaker 2: Paul Newman that was such a wildly entertaining read. This
Speaker 2: is as well. Clint Eastwood, another person has been around
Speaker 2: for a decade, six decades of acting. And it's not
Speaker 2: just about his life and times. It's also, at the
Speaker 2: same time just how the culture has has has has
Speaker 2: changed and transformed so many times. If you think about
Speaker 2: how the masculinity that he embodied, like Dirty Harry, and
Speaker 2: where we are now and what's changed and what hasn't changed.
Speaker 2: It's a brilliant book. Cannot recommend it enough about entertainment
Speaker 2: and culture and the great, the one and only and
Speaker 2: also brilliant director as well. Clint Eastwood is simply called Clinton.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you now you look at photos of how
Speaker 2: are you used to look?
Speaker 1: When he was younger?
Speaker 8: What an amazing looking guy he was, and his sunned
Speaker 8: We lost Patsy there.
Speaker 2: For I know you've found in love with Brian Johnson's Garden,
Speaker 2: so the CDC, but Clint sends me Clint Eastward.
Speaker 5: Wow, we steamed the screen of.
Speaker 7: Move on, I'm bidding a beer.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, let's that's actually genuinely just move on, okay
Speaker 2: and reset Patsy Gold one four point three. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with everybody else's double thumbs up.
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Speaker 1: We're doing double thumbs up.
Speaker 2: We go around the team talking about the other things
Speaker 2: we're into at the moment. Every Friday we do this.
Speaker 2: You can share yours as well. Oh four seven five
Speaker 2: three one oh four three. Patsy, what are you enjoy Well?
Speaker 5: It's all a Wicked week this week Wicked for Good
Speaker 5: hit Cinemas yesterday. It is the second installment and it
Speaker 5: is just this is just such an exciting time for
Speaker 5: Wicked fans. Even like you just haven't seen Wicked, do
Speaker 5: try to see the first one before you see this
Speaker 5: second one. It is even better.
Speaker 7: It's even better.
Speaker 5: Magnificent it is. It's funny, it's so funny. There's this
Speaker 5: street fight scene between Glinda the good Witch and.
Speaker 2: If you're a wreath, we're going to describe a scene
Speaker 2: for something we haven't seen, so.
Speaker 1: We've got no idea.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it is brilliant. It is so funny. Jeff
Speaker 5: Goldblum just absolutely take out of himself. He plays the
Speaker 5: Wizard and it's just and there is if you know
Speaker 5: the story, I'm not going to give anything away, but
Speaker 5: at the end of it it had me gasping.
Speaker 8: It's like.
Speaker 3: Arms.
Speaker 5: It was brilliant and you know massive. I think gold
Speaker 5: classes booked out all weekend with fans going to see
Speaker 5: it this weekend. Enjoy it. It's brilliant and there was
Speaker 5: a live performance. I think you'll still get it on
Speaker 5: seven Mate. The other night Wicked One Wonderful Night that
Speaker 5: was shot in the Dolby Theater in LA recently and
Speaker 5: shown on the NBC and we saw it through the
Speaker 5: week on Channel seven and it's beautiful.
Speaker 7: It's just like a live performance.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: And they come out and sing it and you feel
Speaker 5: like you're sitting in the theater. It's just it's you know, Wick.
Speaker 5: It just gives you such a beautiful, warm feeling.
Speaker 1: They've done such a great job with that story.
Speaker 5: It's all about it delves deeper into the friendship and
Speaker 5: it's a beautiful story about friendship and love and how
Speaker 5: you'll love that you have.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how the Wizard of Our story is stood
Speaker 2: around now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's such the original movie.
Speaker 2: We watched it all was the family again, the original
Speaker 2: one a Christmas time. It's still on beautiful story with
Speaker 2: a really lovely heart to it. Literally, it's so good.
Speaker 2: It was all it was there all along and her
Speaker 2: all the time. Yes, it's a great story, and they've
Speaker 2: done so good with Wicked.
Speaker 5: There's beautiful parts of the Wizard of Oz threaded through
Speaker 5: this Wicked for good as well, lovely little nods to it.
Speaker 5: That's just I don't know, it honors it so beautifully,
Speaker 5: so Wicked fans.
Speaker 1: Sho's not going to go and see it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the good songs left. That was my worry because
Speaker 6: the first film had all the brilliant songs are still
Speaker 6: good ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: So your decision about not about the powerful stories, well,
Speaker 2: whether you can have a little tap.
Speaker 1: And a dance. Yeah, I want to go, go and
Speaker 1: get your chock.
Speaker 5: I saw you, but I reckon watch this space next
Speaker 5: year's Oscars. It's I think it's going to clean the pool.
Speaker 5: It's going to scoop the pool. It's going to get
Speaker 5: clean sign that.
Speaker 2: Well known phrase they often say in speeches, don't they.
Speaker 1: I'm here to clean out the pool.
Speaker 7: And the poor boy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but honestly it's just fantastic and around a Grande
Speaker 5: has just like said she's not going to tour anymore.
Speaker 5: So maybe you know she's set her sights on Hollywood
Speaker 5: now because she's so brilliant in.
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Speaker 2: we're doing double thumbs up, which about our recommendations you
Speaker 2: might find your next favorite TV show rio what's it
Speaker 2: for you? I'm excited because you've been saying that you
Speaker 2: you think I'm going to like what you're talking about?
Speaker 7: Yes, big time. If you're in need of a sports
Speaker 7: fix on Netflix.
Speaker 2: I'm a home alone for the next eight days, says
Speaker 2: you know what, as much as I'm going to miss
Speaker 2: my family, I love my remote control. When it's is
Speaker 2: me and my remote No, I'm a fever pitch. Literally,
Speaker 2: I'm getting up early to cram in the shows.
Speaker 1: I'm going to see.
Speaker 6: Call me as soon as you start watching it. This
Speaker 6: is Physical Asia. You've probably seen it on the next homepage.
Speaker 6: It is awesome.
Speaker 7: So they send teams from each country.
Speaker 6: So Australia's in their teams for around ASI of Japan, Korea, Philippines, Turkey.
Speaker 7: They send their best.
Speaker 6: Athletes and like literally like Robert Whitaker from the UFC
Speaker 6: is Australia. Manny Pakiao is there for Philippines.
Speaker 7: They've got the best summer podcast. Yeah, they've got, but
Speaker 7: all types of.
Speaker 2: Did Australia send a suma wrestler? We've got any great sumos?
Speaker 7: So we don't. We'll send Australia's strongest man. And he's
Speaker 7: over there. Who is I don't know his name.
Speaker 1: But he's is that work experience we've had this week.
Speaker 6: But so they put them through these incredible challenges. It's
Speaker 6: sort of like, uh, Squid Games meets Gladiator meets the Olympics.
Speaker 7: I am all in physical age.
Speaker 1: How me about the Aussie team? What we got?
Speaker 7: Alarakan say okay.
Speaker 6: So they all come out, these strelions come out towards
Speaker 6: the end, and you've got you know, Japan and Korea
Speaker 6: in these beautiful garbs making these very dignified entrances, and.
Speaker 7: Then you hear the you know, it's a very cool
Speaker 7: you can hear them at first.
Speaker 6: They just charge out and they're like and they're high
Speaker 6: fiving everyone, and they're wearing gene shorts, jean shorts like
Speaker 6: white Stan smith sneakers and then just like a tzara
Speaker 6: on like schooling. So you've got you've got all these incredible,
Speaker 6: like literally a cream of the crop athletes from around
Speaker 6: Asia and then Australia. For some reason, I was like,
Speaker 6: who the hell is this guy.
Speaker 7: There's a guy who is a parkourt champion in Australia.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that, called Dominic Tomato.
Speaker 7: He's the biggest TSSA. It's just some chance I've never seen.
Speaker 6: He's just like big on Instagram or something, up against
Speaker 6: the best athletes of.
Speaker 1: The world and he's so.
Speaker 2: I'm buying what you're selling. Physical Alex would have you
Speaker 2: got what you enjoy me.
Speaker 9: So often when you sit down with the kids and
Speaker 9: they're watching something they own the remote these days, but
Speaker 9: sometimes there's a show they're watching that they This one's
Speaker 9: really good and it's called Hardball.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's on Netflix and ABC I View.
Speaker 9: It's about this good natured boy, this Kiwi boy who
Speaker 9: comes over from New Zealand with his dad and he
Speaker 9: goes to this new school. He faces fierce rivals and
Speaker 9: practices become the school's top handball player and it's just
Speaker 9: the most wonderful show.
Speaker 1: Check it out.
Speaker 9: It's called Hardball and it's on Netflix and ABC IV
Speaker 9: as well. Something for the kids and the adults too.
Speaker 2: You'll like it all right after get emails obviously, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of recommendations that we punt around, so if
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