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Speaker 1: This Friday's show. That means is b E f E.
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Team, Happy Friday. Let's get straight into double
Speaker 2: thumbs up. These are our Friday recommendations. We go around
Speaker 2: the team talk about the things we're into at the moment.
Speaker 2: First of all, thank you very much for recommending Wicked.
Speaker 2: You raved about it, okay, And these days there's so
Speaker 2: much there's so much hype about everything. Everything is amazing, isn't.
Speaker 1: You don't know?
Speaker 2: Well, he think's amazing. Nothing's amazing. And so my daughters
Speaker 2: I said to go and see Wicked. They haven't stopped
Speaker 2: talking about it whatsoever it is. They went together. I
Speaker 2: see that don't live at home anymore. They've got some
Speaker 2: kind of different lives at university than nineteen and twenty one.
Speaker 2: And so they're back home from a union at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's lovely to have them back. They went to the
Speaker 2: cinema together huge. Just seeing them drive off it made
Speaker 2: me Momise so happy that they loved it.
Speaker 4: And a beautiful, a beautiful undertone of the whole movie
Speaker 4: as well about friendship, love, beautiful.
Speaker 5: For two sisters to go to as well. I said,
Speaker 5: relate a lot to it. Connection show.
Speaker 2: It's really it really touched me. You know some movies
Speaker 2: really they stay with us. Yes, you don't leave it
Speaker 2: at the cinema. They keep talking about it, saying it
Speaker 2: was a Now she said it was a work of art.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm going to go and see it this weekend.
Speaker 1: All right, my recommendations.
Speaker 2: Then there's a TV show that is I've never seen
Speaker 2: action sequences like this in a TV show ever. Years ago,
Speaker 2: there was a beautiful Jetly movie I think it won
Speaker 2: a couple of Oscars called Hero. It's about twenty years
Speaker 2: and in a cinematography and the action scenes were incredible,
Speaker 2: very artistic. This Last Samurai Standing I watched because I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be like John Wicks set in Japan, and
Speaker 2: when the Samurais were around, It's nothing like that. It's
Speaker 2: like of the Last of Us. It's amazing. It's a
Speaker 2: deeply moving, really emotional TV show and the action sequences.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a TV show like that. Right, movies, yes,
Speaker 2: but not that it is. I keep rewinding bits of it.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. One hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I didn't
Speaker 2: know it's based on a true story. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Suddenly Samurais were around for hundreds of years. There was
Speaker 2: such a respect to part society, and then America didn't
Speaker 2: want to trade with Japan if it was feudal. So
Speaker 2: they were the nudgement towards going are getting away with
Speaker 2: the feudal system. They did, and then suddenly the Samurais
Speaker 2: were outcast. They lost all their land, all their status.
Speaker 2: They had to surrender their swords. Wow, I didn't know
Speaker 2: this actually happened.
Speaker 6: Like the heading in the Machine, there was an.
Speaker 2: Act and suddenly they'd been revered for centuries and suddenly
Speaker 2: they were homeless, penniless, And so this is about that.
Speaker 2: But then mixes in squid game where someone says I'll
Speaker 2: give a million all the Samuraizes, like two hundred of
Speaker 2: them have to go and walk as separate Samurais killing
Speaker 2: each other, this last Samurai standing. Wow, that's the best
Speaker 2: part I've ever heard. This has been made for me,
Speaker 2: if this is an algorithm, you know.
Speaker 1: Me better than me. But they can partner up.
Speaker 2: If six of them remain standing and are a team,
Speaker 2: they can share the money.
Speaker 1: So some of them are partner.
Speaker 2: But can you really trust the other people in the
Speaker 2: team because you could turn around and goop job and claim.
Speaker 1: All their money.
Speaker 5: Chop job job.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of sound effects she got on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Wow. The incredible action then is incredible. Cannot recommend enough.
Speaker 2: It's on Netflix, Last Samurai Standing. That is my show
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast PEP.
Speaker 2: We're doing our Friday recommendations. We call this s double
Speaker 2: thumbs up, Patsy.
Speaker 1: What are you enjoying?
Speaker 5: Stranger Things? Series five?
Speaker 4: So the first part this is just such a masterpiece.
Speaker 4: How they have split it into three so.
Speaker 1: The food was still going, isn't it. I know it's
Speaker 1: the last season, but it's amazing.
Speaker 4: So the first four episodes have dropped on Netflix. With
Speaker 4: ripped through those, the next installment is I Believe is
Speaker 4: it Christmas Eve?
Speaker 5: And then All New Year's Eve is the.
Speaker 1: Ever?
Speaker 4: So there was nine EPs I think in the last series,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure how they're going to break it up,
Speaker 4: but I can't wait.
Speaker 2: That's not worry about the scheduling, shel we No, I'm
Speaker 2: getting confused. I can air traffic controlers. So they're doing
Speaker 2: the three on the fence carry over the nine.
Speaker 4: But I think it's so clever of them to do that,
Speaker 4: And I wonder if anyone else in future, you know,
Speaker 4: series that come out do that, because it's almost makes
Speaker 4: it even more sort of salivating over it because you know, Okay,
Speaker 4: we've got this little lot and you have something to
Speaker 4: look forward to.
Speaker 2: You know, because now we just we just smashed the show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in two days. I did last summer, I say it,
Speaker 2: and I miss it. Now I'm almost angering myself. What
Speaker 2: do you do that for?
Speaker 1: You feel sick a bit so much Samurai.
Speaker 5: Action, but this is even scarier.
Speaker 4: I reckon even Gooria, but not sort of gratuitously. So
Speaker 4: it's it's brilliant and it's we loved it, Audrey, all
Speaker 4: three of us.
Speaker 5: It's one of those shows that all three.
Speaker 2: Of us can we all watched as a family in
Speaker 2: the earliest seasons. It got us through COVID actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: because it's on during that. To me, I've got like
Speaker 2: PTSD reminds locked down, I'm not watching a TV on
Speaker 2: a Sunday to see what Dan's saying.
Speaker 1: One person is ill and the kids, but how old
Speaker 1: must they be?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: They like they.
Speaker 5: Are older and they do look.
Speaker 1: Older many Bobby Brown's married.
Speaker 2: Yes, the kid John bon Jovist, I know, and old
Speaker 2: what's his name?
Speaker 1: Papa did the ceremony.
Speaker 4: But the creators, the Duffer Brothers, there's a beautiful side
Speaker 4: story in that they have in this series created a
Speaker 4: role based on their old drama teacher. Oh cool, missus Harris,
Speaker 4: because it's like a tribute to her, because apparently she
Speaker 4: was their main driver in following their dreams and they
Speaker 4: were picked on a lot at school and she you know,
Speaker 4: you've got that one teacher that you can confide.
Speaker 5: In, champion teacher.
Speaker 4: Anyway, she led them to quit their small town move
Speaker 4: to LA and think maybe we've actually got a future
Speaker 4: in screenwriting. So they've paid homage to her in this
Speaker 4: it's an actor who plays a kindergarten teacher, but it's
Speaker 4: based on their drama teacher, which I think is really
Speaker 4: sweet aside from all the dimmer organs. But yeah, on
Speaker 4: Netflix season five, it's brilliant.
Speaker 1: Those biggest TV show now that is Stranger Things.
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Speaker 2: We're doing double thumbs up our recommendations. Rea, what's yours
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 6: All right, I got a sexy one, I got a
Speaker 6: nerdy one.
Speaker 1: Wow, combine them.
Speaker 6: I'll start with the sexy one. It's maybe my algorithm
Speaker 6: is very different to your guys, but mine. This show
Speaker 6: has been everywhere, so I finally gave in and watched it.
Speaker 6: It's called Heated Rivalry on HBO Max. It is steamy.
Speaker 6: It is about two professional ice hockey players who are rivals, enemies.
Speaker 6: Imagine like Decos Patty Cribs. But they fall in love.
Speaker 2: Than that, but they fall They have this sordid affair.
Speaker 6: They fall in love and it is I mean, watch
Speaker 6: the first episode within fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Get the kids out of the room because it is.
Speaker 1: It's a spicy taking those big gloves off. The gloves
Speaker 1: are off very much. But it's brilliant.
Speaker 6: It's actually very war It's got I don't know if
Speaker 6: you guys have seen Heartbreaker before. It's got a little
Speaker 6: bit of that heart and love. It's really really sweet.
Speaker 1: Said Rivalry.
Speaker 6: Yes, not one for the kids, but one for the
Speaker 6: adults and one for the kids, one for smart kids
Speaker 6: or dumb adults like me. It's called mirk Roper's crunch Labs.
Speaker 6: He's a huge YouTuber and he's kind of like, I guess,
Speaker 6: like a modern day myth Busters myth Busters sort of guy.
Speaker 6: And he does all these awesome science experiments. I'm not
Speaker 6: personally like a huge science person. I don't know much
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 1: The biggest nerd I know.
Speaker 2: You are.
Speaker 1: No, No, what are you watching that TV show for?
Speaker 1: And so it's your favorite one in the world. You
Speaker 1: need to come out of the closet.
Speaker 5: Golden Boy for nothing else.
Speaker 2: School mister, school cat you smell nerd?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why so shy?
Speaker 6: It's it's actually I've actually learned a lot. There's a
Speaker 6: great episode.
Speaker 1: Because you're hanging out with your people. No, No, probably experiment.
Speaker 2: You've probably got one of the bedrooms in a new place
Speaker 2: as a lab now remained of it because that you
Speaker 2: come home found you trying.
Speaker 6: If you're going to watch one episode, watch the one
Speaker 6: where the octopus goes through a maze.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 6: It will honestly blow your mind.
Speaker 1: You watch watch Davis.
Speaker 6: Smart Where are their brains? How are they doing it?
Speaker 1: How did they figure it out? Last Samurai standing Alex,
Speaker 1: what are you giving the double thumbs up to? Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, I got a real Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Yes, how the whole house smells of it. Sure you
Speaker 2: get in there. It's great, that fresh smell. It smells
Speaker 2: of Christmas. Beautiful.
Speaker 7: So this lovely place. It's on Ferra's Road, South Melbourne,
Speaker 7: real Christmas trees.
Speaker 1: I got to pop up there.
Speaker 7: I went and saw Darcy and he sorted me out
Speaker 7: for yeah, fair chunk of money.
Speaker 2: I got to say, they're not cheat and plus you
Speaker 2: got like some of them are like three foot four foot,
Speaker 2: five foot six foot, Yeah.
Speaker 1: What fae did you get?
Speaker 7: I got the small one, which was sort of a
Speaker 7: little bit shorter than me. I'm about six foots so
Speaker 7: not that big. But the larger ones you're looking at.
Speaker 7: One hundred and seventy five two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Is what you call South Melbourne money, and I think
Speaker 2: you you can't went over that West Gate you get
Speaker 2: one four ten bucks, probably just stolen from some bucks.
Speaker 7: It was one of those moments I thought he said
Speaker 7: fifty dollars and when.
Speaker 1: Again enough money on me, happ and go i't got
Speaker 1: fun and I went to pay, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: saw it, so it's one hundred and fifty. It gives, yeah,
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. That's what I thought you said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big difference, So fifty bucks.
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