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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Hey, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for downloading this. Sometimes the show is a kind

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Speaker 1: of radiotherapy to me as a dad, a shabby dad

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Speaker 1: trying to do his best, but sometimes I don't really

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Speaker 1: know what I'm up to. So it is a kind

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Speaker 1: of therapy coming here and sort of using it as

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Speaker 1: a diary to talk about my trials and tribulations with

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Speaker 1: two awesome teenage daughters. So we put this together for you.

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Speaker 1: Here's some of our favorite dad moments from this year

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Speaker 1: on the show. Enjoy. First of all, yesterday I was

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Speaker 1: saying how I was going to be starting a new

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Speaker 1: weekly thing with my thirteen year old daughter and a

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Speaker 1: movie club. Well, once a week we're going to watch

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Speaker 1: a movie, a movie, you know, those movies that are

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Speaker 1: about life. They teach us something, they show us something,

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to talk about it afterwards. And

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Speaker 1: I was looking for your recommendations, and so many of

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Speaker 1: you said stand by me. So last night we watched

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Speaker 1: stam by Me. I let a little fire close the curtain.

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Speaker 1: So we made a little kind of cuphouse down and made

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Speaker 1: some snacks and we sat down with the dogs and

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Speaker 1: the cats and then what stand by Me? And I

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Speaker 1: think when I first saw this, I think it came

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Speaker 1: out in eighty six. I was thirteen, and I remember

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Speaker 1: watching it with my three best mates, and it is

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Speaker 1: about friendship, what happens as you grow older on into

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Speaker 1: teens and all when you start to realize some of

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Speaker 1: the ugly truths about life. And I remember we all

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Speaker 1: watched it, and I remember we all cycled out of

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Speaker 1: there together. We'd cycled all the way there. We felt

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Speaker 1: like it was our movie. It was about us, even

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Speaker 1: though we didn't quite fully know what was coming our way.

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Speaker 1: As you go into and they talk about the movie,

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Speaker 1: they even say, this is it before girls came along?

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Speaker 1: In the narrator Jordie when he talks about it is

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Speaker 1: that's how we were before girls came along. And it's

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Speaker 1: got that Stephen King is a genius, you know, look

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Speaker 1: at Misery and Shawshank Redemption, which is also a short

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Speaker 1: story which what this originally was stand by Me called

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Speaker 1: the Body. It's got this great opening line. I was

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Speaker 1: twelve going on thirteen the first time I saw a

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Speaker 1: dead human being. What you're there, aren't you? It just

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Speaker 1: snaps your attention, It just draws you straight in the

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Speaker 1: Richard Drayfus had grown up. Ju It's about watching it

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Speaker 1: again now all those years later, watch it now as

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Speaker 1: a dad with my thirteen year old daughter, of course,

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Speaker 1: is going into that world now and seeing it again

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Speaker 1: as a you know, as a forty seven year old,

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Speaker 1: but with my daughter as well. It had an even

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Speaker 1: deeper meaning for me. I love seeing it my daughter.

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Speaker 1: She absolutely loved it as well. It's about as perfect

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Speaker 1: a movie as you'll ever see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you ache? Because I mean Biank and I

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Speaker 2: watch it as well. Inspired by your movie club, we

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Speaker 2: made a little one of our own, the Ache of Nostegia,

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Speaker 2: that I felt because I was the same. I saw

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Speaker 2: it originally when I was a teenager and I thought

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Speaker 2: that's a great movie. But now you watch it again,

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Speaker 2: you think about yourself at that age. We know can

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Speaker 2: help with friends at that age, and then what happens

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Speaker 2: from when you're twelve to where you are now. And

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Speaker 2: that's why it's got these two kind of things that

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Speaker 2: I think make it work and stand the testa time.

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Speaker 2: The movie is seen through the children's eyes, you know,

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Speaker 2: the four of them, but it's also threeing through this

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Speaker 2: kind of bittersweet knowing of the narrator's voice, who has

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Speaker 2: the knowledge of wisdom and time and knows what happens

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Speaker 2: to them all already in the opening scene, you know

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Speaker 2: when he fades at the end of it, it just

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Speaker 2: it breaks your heart's And it's a movie about a

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Speaker 2: loss of innocence, isn't it. Even when they talk about

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Speaker 2: their parents, and some of the parents are very neglectful

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Speaker 2: in the movie, you know, And it's quite brutal at all.

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Speaker 2: And there are those dark things in the dark things

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Speaker 2: viewed through the innocence of childhood. So everything is a

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful movie. There's a scene that I just loved.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of scenes that really stand the

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Speaker 1: test of time. There's a scene where they're all just

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Speaker 1: throwing pebbles and rocks in a can. Do you remember when

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Speaker 2: You didn't worry about what you had to do that night,

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Speaker 2: what do you have to do the next day, what

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Speaker 1: In your life.

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Speaker 2: You're just like you're in the moment completely in the

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Speaker 2: moment you felt like.

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Speaker 1: You had your place in the world sorted. And it's

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Speaker 1: an amazing movie. A Christian O'Connell show podcast. You know

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Speaker 1: when you wake up in the morning and then sometimes

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Speaker 1: to think about that instant to do list that drops

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Speaker 1: it's a dentist or whatever. Today was worried about what

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Speaker 1: I've got with this photo shoot the Herald. Someone want

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Speaker 1: kids have gone on, how my wife's got on, how

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Speaker 1: the radio show's go on, and all this, which is

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Speaker 1: all great. However, we've never done a family photo shoot together.

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Speaker 1: And there now I wish we'd done it years ago,

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Speaker 1: when they're eight or nine. Right, I was a golden

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Speaker 1: god to them, right, I could do no wrong. They

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Speaker 1: the very worst time, the worst told in the world

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Speaker 1: to do a photo shoot with them. Right, let's just

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Speaker 1: factor in. I've now had to broke or a deal

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Speaker 1: to pay them to be in it.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you're a dad.

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Speaker 1: I knew the boss. Do you know what they are?

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Speaker 1: It's like being in a house with fundamentalists. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what they are. Fascists. If I had a statue

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Speaker 1: in whom in my God, I mean bringing it down

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Speaker 1: right now, soaring the legs off. I mean, what should

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Speaker 1: bring the wrong people? What they do? Years miss rule? Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I said, look, please just do it. You know I

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Speaker 1: rarely asked you to do anything. It's I said, it's

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Speaker 1: be somewhere else in the world. And my fourteen year

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Speaker 1: dad Mattrix. I was like, can you be my agent?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to sack that guy. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, where.

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Speaker 2: Do you start with negotiations? I mean, you don't have

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Speaker 2: to put a dollar figure on it, but are they

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Speaker 2: making good bank?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: They both go to me like this. When I agreed

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Speaker 1: the deal, with both of them, right, so they're both

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Speaker 1: getting the same amount of money. They both go and cash.

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Speaker 1: a bit high. We're not paying GST on this one. Again.

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Speaker 1: Chad like doing the dog Poo Pig Christian Christian show.

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Speaker 1: As always, this show sometimes is therapy for me. I

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Speaker 1: need to talk to you about a terrifying incident that

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Speaker 1: happened in the house yesterday. I heard this crash, this

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Speaker 1: life goes Chris, ye Si because I heard, I went, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she goes, You're going to go and see what's there.

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Speaker 1: So I get up real so I'm hoping that someone's

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Speaker 1: my cat, Larry, right, the crash is obviously a bird

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Speaker 1: actually trying to reason with him. I'm Larry, drop that bird, okay,

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Speaker 1: Larry looks at me like, I don't compute. I Larry

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Speaker 1: I go, Larry, drop the bird. Right. Larry doesn't want

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Speaker 1: I have to then spend a while trying to catch

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Speaker 1: scumamish thing. I would not be good on that, essays

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Speaker 2: It's like when you kick a guy out of a

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Speaker 2: bar fight and he's like, I'm going straight for your safety.

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Speaker 1: Bouncing off the walls. And now unfortunately he is emptying

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Speaker 1: his bounds everywhere. I don't know whether they do that

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Speaker 1: He's now and Sarah's going, Sarah's going, does he come

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Speaker 1: I then have to run to these get hold of

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Speaker 1: the house, Oh, I say, right, my two teenage store

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