1 00:00:09,685 --> 00:00:12,485 Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold one on four 2 00:00:12,485 --> 00:00:15,965 Speaker 1: point three Podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free 3 00:00:16,204 --> 00:00:20,045 Speaker 1: iHeart app Powderfinger, My Happiness, Good Morning Christian O'Connell's show 4 00:00:20,285 --> 00:00:27,125 Speaker 1: Gold one on four point three seven twenty eight. For 5 00:00:27,165 --> 00:00:29,725 Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, our eighteen year old daughter 6 00:00:29,805 --> 00:00:32,445 Speaker 1: who was the last to leave home at the start 7 00:00:32,525 --> 00:00:35,125 Speaker 1: of this year and when send my wife and I 8 00:00:35,125 --> 00:00:37,445 Speaker 1: became empty ness. She's in back at home. It's been 9 00:00:37,445 --> 00:00:39,525 Speaker 1: a break from university and it's been lovely having her back. 10 00:00:40,405 --> 00:00:44,604 Speaker 1: That said I was gonna get used to actually piece cut, 11 00:00:44,925 --> 00:00:47,885 Speaker 1: and I just suddenly settled back into being an emptiness. 12 00:00:48,045 --> 00:00:51,444 Speaker 1: And actually there are some positives here, the lack of 13 00:00:52,805 --> 00:00:55,765 Speaker 1: just never ending, an abundance of washing to do again, 14 00:00:56,725 --> 00:00:59,045 Speaker 1: and stuff that actually you've only just worn that like 15 00:00:59,125 --> 00:01:01,885 Speaker 1: two hours ago. There's no way it's soiled. You just 16 00:01:01,925 --> 00:01:04,045 Speaker 1: don't want to fold it and put it away. Just 17 00:01:04,125 --> 00:01:07,365 Speaker 1: been exhausted washing again. So in a way she goes back. 18 00:01:07,405 --> 00:01:09,885 Speaker 1: We're moving her back Sunday, so my wife and I 19 00:01:09,885 --> 00:01:13,885 Speaker 1: are obviously prepared for yet another heartbreak. However, yesterday I 20 00:01:14,005 --> 00:01:16,125 Speaker 1: thought she was out for the evening. Right my wife's 21 00:01:16,125 --> 00:01:18,405 Speaker 1: getting ready for this part of this a part of 22 00:01:18,445 --> 00:01:20,445 Speaker 1: her sort of dealing with the next part of her life. 23 00:01:20,525 --> 00:01:22,525 Speaker 1: Now she's gone back to university and she's doing this 24 00:01:23,165 --> 00:01:25,725 Speaker 1: ma in art therapy. She starts the day a placement. 25 00:01:25,765 --> 00:01:27,525 Speaker 1: She's gon be working two days a week as a 26 00:01:27,565 --> 00:01:30,605 Speaker 1: volunteer in a school. So she said, hey, listen, I 27 00:01:30,645 --> 00:01:33,005 Speaker 1: really just need some piece and quiet. So I said, 28 00:01:33,085 --> 00:01:34,285 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to cinema. I really want to 29 00:01:34,285 --> 00:01:36,565 Speaker 1: see this F one movie. Okay, and my mates have 30 00:01:36,565 --> 00:01:38,605 Speaker 1: seen it. They said it's brilliant. By the way, this 31 00:01:38,805 --> 00:01:41,405 Speaker 1: F one movie. Tina, who works on the show I've 32 00:01:41,445 --> 00:01:43,405 Speaker 1: spoken as before, right, she's an F one nut. 33 00:01:43,725 --> 00:01:45,725 Speaker 2: Okay. She goes to me, Oh, I don't think I 34 00:01:45,765 --> 00:01:46,325 Speaker 2: can see that. 35 00:01:46,805 --> 00:01:49,165 Speaker 1: Apparently Brad Pitt falls in love with the mechanic and 36 00:01:49,205 --> 00:01:52,765 Speaker 1: apparently you just don't do that. Said listen, then don't 37 00:01:52,805 --> 00:01:54,845 Speaker 1: seem listen, mate, don't see any movie ever. 38 00:01:55,125 --> 00:01:58,485 Speaker 2: It's all made up. Plus Brad Pitt is sixty something. 39 00:01:59,045 --> 00:02:00,125 Speaker 2: Any old sixty. 40 00:01:59,925 --> 00:02:02,925 Speaker 1: Year olds driving those F one cars in your beloved sport, 41 00:02:03,165 --> 00:02:06,045 Speaker 1: they're all young kids, old piastre. 42 00:02:06,165 --> 00:02:07,245 Speaker 2: There's about ten is a he. 43 00:02:08,845 --> 00:02:11,605 Speaker 1: It's sixty odd of your old guys getting in there. 44 00:02:12,285 --> 00:02:14,965 Speaker 1: So I booked one loan ticket and then suddenly my 45 00:02:15,005 --> 00:02:17,805 Speaker 1: heartbreaks when my daughter comes in the house and I'm like, 46 00:02:18,245 --> 00:02:19,525 Speaker 1: I was just getting ready to go out. She goes, 47 00:02:19,565 --> 00:02:20,805 Speaker 1: where do you go and go? And little Simbar come 48 00:02:20,885 --> 00:02:22,525 Speaker 1: with me. She goes, oh great, I'll come with I'll 49 00:02:22,525 --> 00:02:24,965 Speaker 1: get another ticket. There's only when I booked it five 50 00:02:24,965 --> 00:02:29,805 Speaker 1: o'clock on a Wednesday, there's only six people watching. So 51 00:02:29,885 --> 00:02:32,285 Speaker 1: I go, easy to get you another There's an entire 52 00:02:32,605 --> 00:02:34,764 Speaker 1: cinema you don't even know to sit next week, pick 53 00:02:34,805 --> 00:02:36,405 Speaker 1: her and see. She goes, wait, wait, you're not going 54 00:02:36,485 --> 00:02:39,205 Speaker 1: to go and see that racing movie. I am, But 55 00:02:39,245 --> 00:02:41,805 Speaker 1: I said, look, it's not about racing, it's a human drama. 56 00:02:42,045 --> 00:02:45,845 Speaker 2: She gets. She gets. She goes, it's two and half hours. 57 00:02:46,445 --> 00:02:48,365 Speaker 1: No, she goes, I'm not not two and a half 58 00:02:48,405 --> 00:02:52,445 Speaker 1: hours and half hour that's a lot. So anyway, she goes, 59 00:02:52,485 --> 00:02:55,685 Speaker 1: why don't you just not go? Yeah, I'm going Sunday 60 00:02:55,805 --> 00:02:57,845 Speaker 1: we can watch a movie together. I went, yeah, but 61 00:02:57,845 --> 00:03:01,125 Speaker 1: I really want to watch the movie. And uh, I 62 00:03:01,165 --> 00:03:03,765 Speaker 1: was really looking forward to the snacks. And she goes, 63 00:03:04,045 --> 00:03:05,645 Speaker 1: you know, you should just not go and then we 64 00:03:05,645 --> 00:03:07,605 Speaker 1: can watch a movie. Might you do it next week. 65 00:03:07,645 --> 00:03:10,725 Speaker 1: You'll have a lot of time. You'll be desperate to feel. 66 00:03:10,925 --> 00:03:13,285 Speaker 1: She goes to a bedroom. I sat there thinking it 67 00:03:13,405 --> 00:03:16,125 Speaker 1: was like two me's. I was like, my stomach was 68 00:03:16,125 --> 00:03:17,845 Speaker 1: getting ready for snacks. 69 00:03:17,885 --> 00:03:19,525 Speaker 2: Going alone. There's no my wife. 70 00:03:19,805 --> 00:03:24,764 Speaker 1: You can't have that crisis. So I'm thinking, I eat 71 00:03:24,805 --> 00:03:26,765 Speaker 1: whatever I want and then throw it on the floor 72 00:03:26,965 --> 00:03:29,005 Speaker 1: as well, and then watch two and a half hours 73 00:03:29,285 --> 00:03:31,484 Speaker 1: of men racing in cars a human drama. 74 00:03:31,765 --> 00:03:33,885 Speaker 2: But I'm thinking, oh god, I'm going to really miss it. 75 00:03:33,925 --> 00:03:35,045 Speaker 2: I can see this next week. 76 00:03:35,325 --> 00:03:37,445 Speaker 1: So going to bedroom and I go, hey, listen, I'm 77 00:03:37,485 --> 00:03:40,445 Speaker 1: not going to go to the movie. She just goes good, 78 00:03:44,605 --> 00:03:47,245 Speaker 1: and I go, will you watch the original Happy Gilmour 79 00:03:47,365 --> 00:03:47,965 Speaker 1: with me tonight? 80 00:03:48,085 --> 00:03:50,925 Speaker 2: She goes, yes, the new one's out this weekend. 81 00:03:51,005 --> 00:03:53,045 Speaker 1: And I in one area, I know I've raised those girls' 82 00:03:53,085 --> 00:03:56,125 Speaker 1: rights to appreciate comedy. It makes me so happy when 83 00:03:56,125 --> 00:03:58,005 Speaker 1: I hear them watching by just the two of them, 84 00:03:58,245 --> 00:04:01,365 Speaker 1: old episodes of Seinfeld or Modern Family or Parks and 85 00:04:01,365 --> 00:04:04,325 Speaker 1: Rex all the Office, And they've been raised on Adam Sandler, 86 00:04:04,405 --> 00:04:06,805 Speaker 1: on Will Farrell. Right, So I said, like this is 87 00:04:06,925 --> 00:04:08,805 Speaker 1: this is Sam Man when he was really aren't a 88 00:04:08,845 --> 00:04:12,165 Speaker 1: break brig it's nineteen ninety six, the original Happy Gilmore. 89 00:04:12,405 --> 00:04:13,965 Speaker 1: And I said to do you know what, you reminded 90 00:04:13,965 --> 00:04:15,765 Speaker 1: me of something that actually, there's nothing wrong in life 91 00:04:15,805 --> 00:04:18,205 Speaker 1: about owning your own needs. You're quite right, you just 92 00:04:18,205 --> 00:04:19,485 Speaker 1: want to hang out with me. I felt, you're talk 93 00:04:19,485 --> 00:04:21,885 Speaker 1: about small thing, big joy. We got to take away. 94 00:04:21,964 --> 00:04:24,284 Speaker 1: Me and her just watched Happy Gilmore. Right, she never 95 00:04:24,284 --> 00:04:25,884 Speaker 1: seen him before. I haven't seen it in years, and 96 00:04:25,885 --> 00:04:29,164 Speaker 1: I love the sad Man. Nineteen ninety six is peak 97 00:04:29,245 --> 00:04:31,844 Speaker 1: Sandman when he was just starting to leave essen now 98 00:04:31,885 --> 00:04:33,805 Speaker 1: and do movies right. It is for an hour and 99 00:04:33,844 --> 00:04:36,884 Speaker 1: a half, relentlessly funny. There's not a wasted scene in 100 00:04:36,885 --> 00:04:40,564 Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore. You've got one of the greatest nineties movie 101 00:04:40,604 --> 00:04:41,525 Speaker 1: baddies of all time. 102 00:04:41,804 --> 00:04:46,364 Speaker 2: Shooter, Yes, reendlessly even the pistol. 103 00:04:46,765 --> 00:04:49,964 Speaker 1: He buys the home in all of that, he because 104 00:04:50,044 --> 00:04:53,045 Speaker 1: he buys the foreclosed home of his NaNs. All that 105 00:04:53,685 --> 00:04:55,525 Speaker 1: he's brilliant. And I said, I gave love it's a 106 00:04:55,525 --> 00:04:58,324 Speaker 1: small speech. Beforehand, I said, Look, the thing about peak 107 00:04:58,404 --> 00:05:01,604 Speaker 1: Sandman movies is he's always best when he's a psycho 108 00:05:01,765 --> 00:05:04,765 Speaker 1: and he's yelling like this in the opening scene of 109 00:05:04,804 --> 00:05:05,964 Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore, Jerry. 110 00:05:05,964 --> 00:05:10,805 Speaker 2: Wait, wait, hold on a second. Yeah, you're not going 111 00:05:10,885 --> 00:05:14,085 Speaker 2: for good, are you, Honey. You're going nowhere happy and 112 00:05:14,125 --> 00:05:15,364 Speaker 2: you're taking me with you. 113 00:05:15,525 --> 00:05:17,964 Speaker 1: All you ever talk about is being a pro hockey player. 114 00:05:17,964 --> 00:05:19,085 Speaker 1: But there's a problem. 115 00:05:19,284 --> 00:05:20,765 Speaker 3: You're not any good. 116 00:05:21,044 --> 00:05:24,765 Speaker 2: I am good. You know what. You're a lousy kindergarten teacher. 117 00:05:24,964 --> 00:05:33,525 Speaker 2: I see no fingerpaints you bring home and they suck, Yeah, suck. 118 00:05:34,645 --> 00:05:37,124 Speaker 2: And it's just you forget. There's so many great bits said. 119 00:05:37,125 --> 00:05:38,044 Speaker 2: I've forgot about. 120 00:05:37,924 --> 00:05:43,404 Speaker 3: Chubs coach, cold Weathers, the great cold Weathers, the fake 121 00:05:44,525 --> 00:05:48,525 Speaker 3: behind it's way too big, but that's what makes it funny. 122 00:05:48,565 --> 00:05:49,125 Speaker 2: It should have been. 123 00:05:49,164 --> 00:05:51,765 Speaker 1: It's there's no way a fake hand would be that big. 124 00:05:53,364 --> 00:05:55,924 Speaker 1: And then the fingers keep coming off and it gets 125 00:05:56,005 --> 00:05:57,565 Speaker 1: run over, and he goes, don't worry about that. That 126 00:05:57,724 --> 00:05:59,725 Speaker 1: solid wooden't just crumble. 127 00:05:59,804 --> 00:06:03,964 Speaker 2: And that line, why don't you just go get in 128 00:06:04,044 --> 00:06:04,525 Speaker 2: the ball. 129 00:06:06,245 --> 00:06:10,404 Speaker 1: It's got more quotable jokes per minute than any other 130 00:06:10,685 --> 00:06:13,044 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler movie, and I think any of the Golden Movie. 131 00:06:13,125 --> 00:06:14,364 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's so good. 132 00:06:14,404 --> 00:06:16,605 Speaker 1: As we're watching it and just falling back in love 133 00:06:16,604 --> 00:06:19,525 Speaker 1: with the nineties, I actually started to google this morning 134 00:06:19,565 --> 00:06:20,404 Speaker 1: Timberland boots. 135 00:06:20,765 --> 00:06:24,165 Speaker 2: I might buy a pair of timber And boots. Do 136 00:06:24,245 --> 00:06:24,924 Speaker 2: you remember when. 137 00:06:28,164 --> 00:06:30,244 Speaker 1: I just won those choice to have a pair in 138 00:06:30,284 --> 00:06:33,565 Speaker 1: the nineties. I'm going to bring back Timberland boots. Oh god, 139 00:06:33,645 --> 00:06:35,164 Speaker 1: you have a hypercolor T shirt? Yeah? 140 00:06:35,284 --> 00:06:38,044 Speaker 2: Yeah. 141 00:06:38,125 --> 00:06:39,404 Speaker 1: And then the end of it, I said, what do 142 00:06:39,404 --> 00:06:41,684 Speaker 1: you think? We were laughing our asses after it. It's 143 00:06:41,765 --> 00:06:44,844 Speaker 1: still relentlessly funny. Do you remember when they're those those 144 00:06:45,245 --> 00:06:48,164 Speaker 1: those comedy movies of the nineties, you know, and obviously 145 00:06:48,164 --> 00:06:49,525 Speaker 1: there was like Dumb and Dumber as well. 146 00:06:49,885 --> 00:06:51,325 Speaker 2: They were like the big movies of the years. They 147 00:06:51,325 --> 00:06:51,964 Speaker 2: were the blockbusters. 148 00:06:52,005 --> 00:06:54,605 Speaker 1: They were the blockbuster and they just went for jokes. 149 00:06:55,005 --> 00:06:57,564 Speaker 1: They didn't worry about making a serious pointer ring. They 150 00:06:57,645 --> 00:07:00,205 Speaker 1: just weren't for jokes. And they're just joyous. They're plainful 151 00:07:00,205 --> 00:07:02,804 Speaker 1: and joyous. And both of us are laughing relentlessly. And 152 00:07:02,804 --> 00:07:04,325 Speaker 1: I was so pleased because I was wondering, like, is 153 00:07:04,364 --> 00:07:06,725 Speaker 1: it that good? Now at the end of it, I went, 154 00:07:06,804 --> 00:07:08,924 Speaker 1: just be honest, Mark set Tennis shows that is an 155 00:07:09,005 --> 00:07:12,405 Speaker 1: eleven out of ten. Wow, oh my god, oh my god, 156 00:07:12,445 --> 00:07:13,245 Speaker 1: You've got to watch it. 157 00:07:13,245 --> 00:07:14,165 Speaker 2: It is so good. 158 00:07:14,325 --> 00:07:18,045 Speaker 1: And now I'm even more excited, happy Gilmour two drops 159 00:07:18,285 --> 00:07:21,804 Speaker 1: tomorrow on Netflix. And you know what's really sad is 160 00:07:21,845 --> 00:07:25,325 Speaker 1: they they'd written the script for it, Adam Sandler and 161 00:07:25,364 --> 00:07:27,804 Speaker 1: the original writer of it, and they had. 162 00:07:27,645 --> 00:07:30,125 Speaker 2: A big role for Carl Weathers. 163 00:07:30,485 --> 00:07:33,245 Speaker 1: Oh but then he passed away two weeks before they 164 00:07:33,245 --> 00:07:36,445 Speaker 1: started filming. Oh yeah, I think they were going to 165 00:07:36,485 --> 00:07:38,765 Speaker 1: have like a big role of like a ghost kind 166 00:07:38,845 --> 00:07:41,445 Speaker 1: of advising her, but he passed away, so they've had 167 00:07:41,485 --> 00:07:46,085 Speaker 1: to redo it. Spits on the trailer. There's Son of Chubbs. Also, 168 00:07:46,725 --> 00:07:50,285 Speaker 1: has he got a fake arm? Of course he has. 169 00:07:51,085 --> 00:07:53,124 Speaker 1: He got that joke walk thirty years ago. 170 00:07:53,485 --> 00:07:54,165 Speaker 2: Bring it back.