Speaker 1: Got anything dead.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Good morning Patsy, Good morning Jack, Morning guys. Now, before
Speaker 1: we get into double thumbs up, which is where we
Speaker 1: go around the team when we share what we're enjoying
Speaker 1: at the moment, where it's a Booker TV show, movie, whatever,
Speaker 1: let's find out what is everyone doing this weekend?
Speaker 2: Patsy, what are you up to?
Speaker 3: We're actually going out with friends for a brunch. Do
Speaker 3: you do much of a brunch? We do a lot
Speaker 3: of brunches as postsinners. Yeah, on Sunday, which is great.
Speaker 3: They've just moved like they semi retired. They've moved down
Speaker 3: the coast. How the other half live and so they're
Speaker 3: finally coming back to the big smoke.
Speaker 2: I prefer meeting friends for lunch. Yes, I like a lunch.
Speaker 1: I meet friends today for lunch, and I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about the evening thing, specially on Friday night.
Speaker 2: You're like, because I'm too.
Speaker 1: Formal, I always want to get too tired, you know,
Speaker 1: on a Friday, You're like, my poor wife, she looks
Speaker 1: forward of going out to Friday night and I'm always.
Speaker 2: Like, what time can we leave? Just shut your anti
Speaker 2: buzz question. Is it, my poor one? You think we
Speaker 2: can leave by night, So lunch it feels a bit
Speaker 2: more Yeah, I like.
Speaker 1: I love a long lunch sometimes as well. I think
Speaker 1: it's more exciting as well. What are you up to
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 2: Chack?
Speaker 4: Bianca has sent me a message already since I left
Speaker 4: the house this morning. She says, Hello, my handsome husband.
Speaker 4: I've booked us in for something very fun and weird
Speaker 4: on Saturday night. We'll have an early five point thirty
Speaker 4: pm dinner at home, then be ready by six forty
Speaker 4: five at the latest dress code cool and snazzy with
Speaker 4: some riz ah.
Speaker 2: Do you want to So you're not going out to
Speaker 2: a nice restaurant.
Speaker 4: No, because we're eating dinner beforehand. This is all I know,
Speaker 4: as much as you know, eating dinner at five point
Speaker 4: thirty to show.
Speaker 1: At the moment that I keep seeing advatise everywhere? Is
Speaker 1: it Museum of Desires?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know what what is that? Is it
Speaker 2: the sex one? Yeah? Oh yeah, it's like a sex museum.
Speaker 2: It's not sex museum.
Speaker 1: It's more sort of it's people of different persuasions and
Speaker 1: things not there's people there who might be into that
Speaker 1: thing that brings them joy.
Speaker 2: Might be just thing as an elf right, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure.
Speaker 1: I spoke to someone who works here that went there
Speaker 1: last weekend and said there was a lot of orc
Speaker 1: people and people looking for love dressed as elves.
Speaker 4: I could be going there. I would be surprised if
Speaker 4: that's what is trying.
Speaker 1: Oh, she said, it's going to be a surprised, a
Speaker 1: little bit cool, with a little bit of rasp.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's just send me her outfit. It is an
Speaker 4: elf Oh, there, you have a lovely time.
Speaker 1: Our whole weekend is about the events of Sunday, dropping
Speaker 1: off our youngest daughter, who is going to be the
Speaker 1: last to leave home. It's a one way trip for her,
Speaker 1: two way trip for my wife and I and I
Speaker 1: do believe around the corner there are going to be tears.
Speaker 1: I'm more worried now about how my wife is going
Speaker 1: to handle it right, because yesterday I said to my wife,
Speaker 1: because you know, we had Amanda Keller on the show
Speaker 1: and we were talking about, you know, like the ages
Speaker 1: of our kids now, and I said, oh, Amanda, last
Speaker 1: time I spoke to you, Ruby was leaving home. Can
Speaker 1: you believe fast forward two years was gone?
Speaker 2: So quickly. It's lowest this weekend, I said my wife,
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was really bringing it up for me right talking
Speaker 1: about what it's going to be up there Sunday.
Speaker 2: Wife just stops me. She goes, Chris, I'm just pretending
Speaker 2: it's not happening.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, I'm now more worried about Sunday.
Speaker 2: That is not a way to deal with it. Denial.
Speaker 4: That is enough the therapy parenting book.
Speaker 2: Should we drop off, she ain't coming back. Just pretending
Speaker 2: it's not happening.
Speaker 3: You need to plan something nice in the second half
Speaker 3: of Sunday for her.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe go to the l show in the Let's
Speaker 1: get our.
Speaker 2: King con What are we going to do with all
Speaker 2: that time? If nothing else? Good luck this weekend, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to pretend it's not happening. Is it's
Speaker 2: going to be big this weekend.
Speaker 1: We're getting to double thumbs Up coming up next here
Speaker 1: on Gold one oh four point.
Speaker 2: Three, a Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Every Friday, the start of the show, than we do
Speaker 1: a thing called double thumbs Up. This is where we
Speaker 1: talk about the shows or the things that are lighting
Speaker 1: us up at the moment. If you've got something that
Speaker 1: you want to share with us, new TV show, whatever
Speaker 1: it is for you, please, you can test the show.
Speaker 1: Oh four seven five three one oh four three. On
Speaker 1: that last week, one of you said, Christian, because I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a new TV show the moment You've got
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 2: Do you like Billy Bob Thornton. I love Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 1: He's in this new shown. I and my wife gave
Speaker 1: up twenty two minutes in. It was, yeah, a bit
Speaker 1: of it. It was men arguing about land rights for
Speaker 1: oil trilling, and I kept saying to your wife, no, no, no, this,
Speaker 1: this won't be another scene. And it was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need to get that least for twenty years. We
Speaker 1: got thirty pump jacks when I gotta do far By
Speaker 1: seven trillion bowels a day.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, this is linear.
Speaker 1: The next scene, No, there's more men cowboy hats arguing
Speaker 1: around tables about barrel price.
Speaker 4: And I think the TV show is made to make
Speaker 4: us feel empathy for the oil type cat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like this and this Billy Bob Thornton, who's
Speaker 1: brilliant everything. He's like the guy who's in charge of
Speaker 1: all and you meant to feel empathy for, like, this
Speaker 1: is the worst job in the world, making billions every
Speaker 1: day for rich fat.
Speaker 2: Cats around the world. Like I'm not. I'm struggling to
Speaker 2: connect with this.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. Double dumb sell for lamb Man left
Speaker 1: me cold. However, what has lit me up this week
Speaker 1: is the return of one of the smartest TV shows
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. It feels like it's
Speaker 1: a modern Agatha Christie and that is The Brilliant White Lotus.
Speaker 1: We're up to third season now, it launched this week.
Speaker 1: It's in Thailand. It's a different location each season. Two
Speaker 1: years ago it was The Beautiful Rounds of Italy, and
Speaker 1: before that, the first one was in Hawaii, So it
Speaker 1: feels like the actual location is one of the co
Speaker 1: stars of the movie and.
Speaker 2: It's just a mark.
Speaker 1: It's that really good grown up TV where within the
Speaker 1: first hour there's a lot going on, right, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of new characters there, and normally you can give
Speaker 1: it overwhelmed Game of Thrones, Yeah, which turns out do
Speaker 1: we like them with this? I don't know how they
Speaker 1: do it. Not till one hundred, over an arc of
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, I know all the characters. They're so
Speaker 1: well etched out, the family, the three school friends, the
Speaker 1: ladies that love each other but don't really underneath that
Speaker 1: there's something else going on.
Speaker 4: And you already get a sense of who you like.
Speaker 1: And who you do yes, yes, or within forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it. It's brilliant. I'm
Speaker 1: gutted they're only doing it once a week, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad in a way because actually, otherwise we'd have seen it.
Speaker 2: All by now.
Speaker 4: So what is the drop night?
Speaker 2: Monday?
Speaker 1: Monday night, Monday morning? Only because I went snipping around, I.
Speaker 2: Was like, what's the earliest? So if you hear me
Speaker 2: this month they stick on.
Speaker 1: Stairway to Heaven that I couldn't wait for episode two,
Speaker 1: So yeah, White Looatters cannot recommend that enough. Go back
Speaker 1: to the first season if you missed it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I'm really enjoying at the
Speaker 1: moment is a book about the nineties. Right, every different
Speaker 1: decade has something from it that you loved, But I
Speaker 1: really loved the nineties because for me, that was really
Speaker 1: where I felt like.
Speaker 2: I came alive.
Speaker 1: I left home, went to university, met a girl, got
Speaker 1: done by a girl, fell out of love, met my
Speaker 1: wife Sarah, arted in radio, got married. A lot for
Speaker 1: me happened in the nineties, and I moved to London
Speaker 1: for the first time. So for me, the nineties is
Speaker 1: a really special time in my life. So this book
Speaker 1: is it's not just a lazy nostalta trip about the
Speaker 1: nineties and how good was this or that. It's actually
Speaker 1: about what was going on culturally in sport, around the world,
Speaker 1: music around the.
Speaker 2: World, golf wars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you go back to twenty about Oasis, who
Speaker 1: are back around this year and performing live again, and
Speaker 1: it takes you back to just what There's such a
Speaker 1: great variety of music in the nineties, and it's not
Speaker 1: like all new music now it's bad, but this felt
Speaker 1: there was a real lot of variety, and also there
Speaker 1: was an explosion of grunge and Nirvana and Soundguarden and
Speaker 1: Pearl Jam. It was a great time for music. And
Speaker 1: also then you look at all the movies as well.
Speaker 1: There was a Gulf War, so this really interesting backdrop.
Speaker 1: And also what it really made me realize was when
Speaker 1: nine to eleven happened, so much changed, right when I'm
Speaker 1: reading this book in the nineties, I'm remembering it's the
Speaker 1: time before what happened in two thousand and one and
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and you really realize we're still fitting
Speaker 1: the massive ripples of what happened on nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: and even us before that life was so different. And
Speaker 1: this book, it's a great book. I'm loving it. It's
Speaker 1: by a guy American writers' a Brillian Wrights. He's written
Speaker 1: a couple of great books called Chuck Klosterman. You might
Speaker 1: have a podcast before, really smart, interesting guy. He's American Servicely,
Speaker 1: it's just filtered through. It's if only America had the nineties.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I'm getting so angry reading it, but it's
Speaker 1: still really good. It's simply called the Nineties Bringing But
Speaker 1: Chuck Coosterman, you love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we get Patsy and Jack's Double
Speaker 1: thumbs Up The.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's show. We're doing double thumbs Up. We do
Speaker 1: this every Friday. We tell about the things we're into
Speaker 1: at the moment. Patsy, what are you giving double thumbs
Speaker 1: up to? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I went to the launch es today of the Mother's
Speaker 3: Day Classic, which is the thumb run that they do
Speaker 3: each year for Breston Overian cancer research. They've raised a
Speaker 3: massive amount of money, something like nearly fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: for research across the course of doing it. So just
Speaker 3: letting you know. Registrations are open and you see lots
Speaker 3: of girlfriends running or walking with prams and all sorts
Speaker 3: of things. It's a really great weekend. It's for a
Speaker 3: really great cause. So just pop onto their website and
Speaker 3: you can register from now.
Speaker 2: It's a where is the website, Patsy.
Speaker 3: It is Mother's Day Classic. If you just look that up,
Speaker 3: it will come straight up and you'll be able to
Speaker 3: lots of drop downs to register and pay a nominal
Speaker 3: fee that goes to a really, really great cause and
Speaker 3: a really good book is I Love and Command? I
Speaker 3: love Will Ferrell. It's one of my favorite things that
Speaker 3: he's done. And he's done. Did you know he's done
Speaker 3: a Ron Burgundy book. It's been out for a little while.
Speaker 3: Let me off at the top. It's so good. I've
Speaker 3: already read it once, but I've read it again because
Speaker 3: we watched And Command with Audrey the other weekend.
Speaker 4: Reread it s high praise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best prase for any book.
Speaker 3: So so funny, and it's almost like you can hear
Speaker 3: him reading it now.
Speaker 1: I want to get the audiobook because hopefully Ron does
Speaker 1: his own book. I really hope he does the book version.
Speaker 4: Reminders of Steve Coogan writing the Oh that was Nomad's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's really funny. If you love and command,
Speaker 3: you will love it. Ron Burgundy, let me off at
Speaker 3: the top. It's hilarious from start to I think I
Speaker 3: did it in like two days one weekend.
Speaker 2: Jackie boy, what have you enjoyed this week? Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: got a book as well.
Speaker 4: I'm reading Rogues by Patrick radd and Keith, who is
Speaker 4: fast becoming my favorite author. I read two books of
Speaker 4: his last year and two of my favorite books. Say Nothing,
Speaker 4: which is about the IRA in Northern Ireland in the seventies,
Speaker 4: is an unbelie We'll read.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of emails from people who were
Speaker 1: so interested about you talking about that and us talking
Speaker 1: about it, and it's now a Disney Plus TV show
Speaker 1: has been adapted to drama of it. But the troubles
Speaker 1: in the Northern Line right the peaks of the troubles
Speaker 1: as well. That actually, quite a few of our listeners
Speaker 1: have bought the book and they finished it in record time.
Speaker 4: It's funny that reads like fiction. It's just first of all,
Speaker 4: it's it's incredibly hard to believe time that happened.
Speaker 2: But the way he writes.
Speaker 1: The detail he does about it in Lesser Hands, it
Speaker 1: would be a hard read because hard read. It's a
Speaker 1: hard story to tell as well, over so.
Speaker 4: Many years and so much there's so many go but
Speaker 4: he writes in a way that it feels like fiction.
Speaker 2: He wrote that book is brilliant.
Speaker 4: The other book I read of his last year was
Speaker 4: called Empire of Pain, which is about the Sackler family
Speaker 4: who made oxy conton and caused the opioid crisis in
Speaker 4: the US.
Speaker 2: A big, thick book.
Speaker 4: I thought I'll never get through this, but it had
Speaker 4: such great reviews. Now I tried it and it did.
Speaker 4: You read it like it was fiction, and you.
Speaker 2: Really, So, what's the new one? Rogues is that like
Speaker 2: his greatest head.
Speaker 4: Rogues is so he was a magazine writer before he
Speaker 4: became an author, and it is all his best magazine
Speaker 4: stories about it's true stories of grifters, killers, Rebels and Crooks.
Speaker 2: What a title.
Speaker 1: It's great his name again Jack, because people want to
Speaker 1: know who this.
Speaker 2: Is, Patrick Radd and Keith.
Speaker 4: The one I read yesterday was about this Dutch crime family,
Speaker 4: like essentially the mob in the Netherlands, and this sister
Speaker 4: ended up going to trial and putting her brother, her
Speaker 4: own brother in It's an amazing story.
Speaker 2: All right.
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