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Speaker 1: Good Morning Rio, Good morning, Good Morning Patsy. That'd be Friday,
Speaker 1: and good morning Alex Cullen. Morning. All right.
Speaker 2: So every Friday, the first half an hour on our
Speaker 2: show we go around the team. You also take partners
Speaker 2: as well. We talk about the things that were really
Speaker 2: enjoying this week. It might be a book, it might
Speaker 2: be a TV show, something to stream or watch. Text
Speaker 2: me yours O four seven five three one oh four three.
Speaker 1: We call it double thumbs up. Two things from me
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: I saw a photo a couple of weeks ago of
Speaker 2: a man playing American football. He's on the sidelines. He's
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles receiver A. J. Brown in his moment
Speaker 2: between plays, and that he's reading a book. I assuming
Speaker 2: think of Bloody or whatever this book is. It must
Speaker 2: be really good. He's finding a calm, his center in
Speaker 2: amongst all the chaos. He's reading this book called Inner
Speaker 2: Excellence by Jim Murphy. I buy the book. I finished
Speaker 2: it this week. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Oh what's it about? It's literally about inner excellence.
Speaker 2: He was Jim Murphy is a former pro baseball player
Speaker 2: and now a coach for leaders, executives.
Speaker 1: And other athletes and olympians all over the world.
Speaker 2: It's a great book, great stories, good mix of like
Speaker 2: too much science. But I've read quite a few books
Speaker 2: on peop performance and mental states.
Speaker 1: Now this is brilliant.
Speaker 2: I get why in the middle of a football game,
Speaker 2: aj Brown is having a quick read, flick through a
Speaker 2: little reminder and centering himself. I cannot recommend that enough
Speaker 2: as a reason why. It's got like it's like three
Speaker 2: thousand and five star reviews on Amazon.
Speaker 4: Wow, there's a few AFL players I've noticed that have
Speaker 4: started reading before games as well. Jack Ginovan walks around
Speaker 4: kicking a footy. I don't know, I'm not sure what
Speaker 4: he's reading, but he's reading a book before.
Speaker 1: Games as well.
Speaker 2: Now, comorick enough if you interested that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Inner excellence by the guy's called Jim Murphy. The other
Speaker 2: thing this is on Channel seven last weekend. I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe this is an inexcess documentary live at Wembley and
Speaker 2: about an amazing show that they had in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: one at Wembley Stadiums behind the scenes, brilliant interviews. The
Speaker 2: reason why I is a is exo special for me
Speaker 2: that I was there. I was there nineteen ninety It
Speaker 2: was the first gig I ever went to see my friend.
Speaker 2: I was only seventeen me and my friend was seventeen.
Speaker 2: He passed his driving test at seventeen. You can take
Speaker 2: your driving test to pass at seventeen.
Speaker 1: UK. He drove all the way to London.
Speaker 2: I'm not from London, as we drove for two hours
Speaker 2: in his VW Beetle that mom and Dad had got
Speaker 2: him and we never even I've never even been to
Speaker 2: London before. Was seventeen. We went to Wembley Stadium. It
Speaker 2: was the first time I'd ever seen a music concert
Speaker 2: and it happened to be my favorite band in the world.
Speaker 1: And that was in excess.
Speaker 2: And so I can't believe that they've made a documentary
Speaker 2: about this show. And of course there were no camera phones.
Speaker 2: There's no way I've got no photos of that other
Speaker 2: than what is a hazy memory now. But I remember
Speaker 2: the road trip up and going into London because it
Speaker 2: was also exciting and the really big thing was Michael Hutchins.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, just he had the leather cacs.
Speaker 2: And also these days with Instagram, YouTube and social media,
Speaker 2: we see a lot of our favorite rock stars. The
Speaker 2: only way you got to see it is if they're
Speaker 2: on the news or if you were in a stadium.
Speaker 2: So it's the first time I've ever seen what a
Speaker 2: rock star was. And it was like looking at an
Speaker 2: exotic bird. It was just a beautiful guy, just magnetic, charismatic.
Speaker 2: He was like drinking a vodka bottle. It was like
Speaker 2: it was like pure rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: And they were and also obviously a great front man,
Speaker 2: tragic story, great front man, a brilliant, brilliant backing band
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: What a great band they were live yep, still one
Speaker 1: of my favorite shows.
Speaker 2: I always think the first one always has a special
Speaker 2: place in your memory. But to sit back and watch
Speaker 2: what I haven't watched since nineteen ninety and one was
Speaker 2: a real joy for me last weekend. It's up there
Speaker 2: if you want to see it again and you're a big
Speaker 2: music fan or an excess fan. They've got some great
Speaker 2: behind the scenes footage interviews with the rest of the
Speaker 2: remainding members of the band in Excess live at Wembley.
Speaker 1: It's on the seven plus player. Cannot recommend enough.
Speaker 2: What were you just quickly, guys, what were your first
Speaker 2: music shows you ever saw?
Speaker 1: Was it a few parts.
Speaker 5: Prince in the late nineties got us a big one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I'm so jealous of you within Excess because the crowd,
Speaker 5: the footage of the crowd was just phenomenal. I saw
Speaker 5: that the other night. I think it was a Sunday night.
Speaker 5: It was on seting yes, and I said to Chris.
Speaker 5: I turned to Chris and I said, do you know,
Speaker 5: I say, was at.
Speaker 1: This my first one? Yeah? Amazing? Yeah, Prince is incredible though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was great. He was great, and he was
Speaker 5: it his Diamonds and Pearls album, I think that tour
Speaker 5: and he was where was it at rod Laver Arena
Speaker 5: which was Melbourne Park then?
Speaker 4: And he was on.
Speaker 5: A bed which gravitated on a big long arm out
Speaker 5: over the audience as he's saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, just pure rock and roll. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Who was it, Fury? Your first concert? Gigybs?
Speaker 4: It was year ten, so I was fourteen and I
Speaker 4: went to wolf Mother.
Speaker 1: It was the Great Noise and Energy.
Speaker 4: So they had just released their EP but not the
Speaker 4: full album. It was at Harden Pavilion in Sydney and
Speaker 4: I was tiny, like I'm not even big now, but
Speaker 4: when I was fourteen, I was even like more scrawny
Speaker 4: and in the moshpit of these huge, hulking men just
Speaker 4: getting I barely remember seeing it because you were just
Speaker 4: just getting smashed around.
Speaker 1: By these blokes. But it was Wow.
Speaker 4: That was truly a trial by fire.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing for you, Alex, you know in some of
Speaker 2: your taste, and it was it barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3: You're never done by the Swan at Thersl Club. No,
Speaker 3: it was the Chemical Brothers.
Speaker 1: Oh Wow. At the Point Theater.
Speaker 3: In Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1: Oh gat a great music venue that is just nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine.
Speaker 3: They just cleanse, surrender, hey boy, hey girl, And I
Speaker 3: will never forget it as an eighteen year old kid
Speaker 3: from the back of nowhere, just going how good is this?
Speaker 1: Where am I for a start? Yeap?
Speaker 3: And I just absolutely went off, really really had a
Speaker 3: good time. I bought a T shirt. I don't know
Speaker 3: what happened to the T shirt. Disappointingly, I wish I
Speaker 3: still had it full of holes, but that was just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I'm a massive, massive fan of the Chemicker Brothers, as
Speaker 3: is my brother who got to.
Speaker 2: See that they did with Noel Gallagher.
Speaker 1: What was it called? They did a trap with no
Speaker 1: years ago. It's a huge hit. I can't remember.
Speaker 2: These are great, these memories of your first ever gig
Speaker 2: that you ever saw at Stay stays with you, Text
Speaker 2: me yours on four seven five three, one oh four three,
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Take a break, will be back with Rio.
Speaker 2: Pats Analysis Double thumbs up gold one of four point.
Speaker 1: Three Christian O'Connell show go on podcast. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Everyone is learning to know about the first gig you
Speaker 2: ever saw. Mine was nineteen ninety one at Wembley Stadium
Speaker 2: in London and in excess and Channel seven Bozoti had
Speaker 2: a big documentary about it last weekend. Watch it. It's
Speaker 2: a great watch. Patsily, what are you giving your double
Speaker 2: thumbs up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got to rip a book, I'm Your Perry Godmother,
Speaker 5: which is just one of the best titles you will
Speaker 5: ever have and it's written by Shelly Horton, who is
Speaker 5: a media commentator here in Australia who happened to be
Speaker 5: on my podcast on this second season. Honestly, I felt
Speaker 5: like I had known her, like we were best friends
Speaker 5: in a previous life. We had the best chat. Anyway,
Speaker 5: She's written this amazing book about her experience with perimenopause,
Speaker 5: and I love the way she's written it. Reading it
Speaker 5: is it's a bit like your book. Actually, the way
Speaker 5: she's written it in that it is like she is
Speaker 5: talking to you in your ear. It's not book speak,
Speaker 5: it's not you know, jargon, it is just Shelley and
Speaker 5: it is fantastic. She is in season two of Rage
Speaker 5: Against the Menopause, which you can download on the iHeart
Speaker 5: platform or wherever you get your podcasts. Have a listen.
Speaker 5: I have a couple of copies that she's sent me,
Speaker 5: so if anyone would like a copy, please just jump
Speaker 5: into my DMS and I'll post it out to you.
Speaker 5: So if that's for you, go for it. The other thing,
Speaker 5: we've been to the movies to see Freaky of Friday.
Speaker 5: I wasn't that the other two in the family said hey,
Speaker 5: let's go to the movies. We'll go say that, but
Speaker 5: it actually was good and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 1: It's her movie.
Speaker 5: She was brilliant.
Speaker 2: She's having this incredible renaissance right to her career. Obviously
Speaker 2: she's brilliant than the band. And now yeah, people are
Speaker 2: raving about how.
Speaker 1: Great she is in it.
Speaker 5: You know what I love about her, how gracefully she's
Speaker 5: aging and just you know, not being fake. She's just
Speaker 5: a self and she's.
Speaker 1: So author beautiful.
Speaker 5: She's great beautiful, but she's she's very funny in this.
Speaker 5: It's just you can't take your eyes off her on
Speaker 5: the screen. She's just electric. And the other thing, I've
Speaker 5: just finished my tax and I have found the best
Speaker 5: life saving app for you know, when you go for
Speaker 5: your tax, you've got all your receipts and you every
Speaker 5: tax season you say, you know what next year?
Speaker 1: This is every year.
Speaker 5: Next year, I'm going to make a pack to myself
Speaker 5: and my accountant. I am going to be super uber
Speaker 5: organized next year. And you never want you never ever are.
Speaker 5: So it's just there's a lot of different apps. The
Speaker 5: one that I've got on my phone is H and
Speaker 5: R Block. It's that the tax tra what it is
Speaker 5: you can when you say you're going to claim parking
Speaker 5: right and you've got a receipt, take a screenshot, and
Speaker 5: it categorizes it by date, by month, by what it is,
Speaker 5: you know, parking or whether it's I don't know, meals
Speaker 5: or entertainment, whatever it is. It's brilliant and it helps
Speaker 5: you get organized. It is brilliant. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I have to do every year?
Speaker 2: I have to print off all my Amazon receipts and
Speaker 2: go through them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, same, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, it's that. It takes. It takes over a week.
Speaker 1: I'm so badly organized.
Speaker 2: And I literally have a tray that occasionally our chuck
Speaker 2: a receipt in with no idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we had like a ziplock, a big ziplock
Speaker 5: bag that goes above the fridge in the kitchen. And
Speaker 5: also christ Yeah noah.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping Ai. I'm homing.
Speaker 2: If AI can do one thing for humanity, it's everyone
Speaker 2: who self employed us to do their taxes.
Speaker 1: It's hell, isn't it? Trust And you're right there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm going to write a note to myself.
Speaker 2: Yes, mean twelve months time, I've given you a gift
Speaker 2: every four weeks, so I'm going to go through all
Speaker 2: my receipt.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to do it. You never do never
Speaker 1: going to that. DNA has never changed your gun.
Speaker 5: You think, no, ill if I just do it with
Speaker 5: each like each time I get a receipt, that's easy.
Speaker 3: How hard is that?
Speaker 1: And you never do it?
Speaker 4: Get the air?
Speaker 1: Great, brilliant.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back and
Speaker 2: we'll get into double thumbs Up with Rio and Alyx.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show. On the show right now,
Speaker 2: we're doing double thumbs Up. You tell us about the
Speaker 2: things you're into at the moment that you would recommend.
Speaker 2: It might be a TV show book, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Oh four seven five three one oh four three, Rio,
Speaker 2: what's yours?
Speaker 4: I'm watching the second season, the new season of the craziest,
Speaker 4: most unique show that I would say maybe ever been made.
Speaker 4: It's called The Rehearsal.
Speaker 2: I saw the first season. I had to stop watching.
Speaker 2: I found it so I felt sorry for the people
Speaker 2: that are not kind of being pranked.
Speaker 1: It's like a high level pranking.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is like a social experiment.
Speaker 1: It's all very upfront.
Speaker 4: The premise of it is and Fielder is a comedian
Speaker 4: and like a documentary maker, and he finds people on
Speaker 4: Craigslist who have a difficult situation coming up. And then
Speaker 4: kind of like Willy Wonka, he recreates in excruciating details,
Speaker 4: full replicas of the scenario so they can rehearse every
Speaker 4: single different permutation of the event before it happens. So
Speaker 4: one example is, and this is probably the one where
Speaker 4: you got very uncomfortable, was the woman who wanted to
Speaker 4: have a baby?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one.
Speaker 4: He recreates an exact replica of her house. He hires
Speaker 4: actors to follow her, neighbors, her bosses, everyone.
Speaker 2: In her It's like Truman shops, exactly like the Truman
Speaker 2: It's a genius and of.
Speaker 1: Production and how they must be millions, it's crazy and that.
Speaker 4: And then he has like a rotating cast of babies
Speaker 4: and then child actors and to progress.
Speaker 1: It blows your mind how they make it.
Speaker 2: It's worth watching a couple of episodes you never see, right,
Speaker 2: You've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 4: It is a hard watch at times, but it will
Speaker 4: blow your mind. The second season. If you thought, if
Speaker 4: you're uncomfortable the first season, please at least watch the
Speaker 4: first three episodes. Yeah, there are times It's the only
Speaker 4: show where you have to pause it and you have
Speaker 4: to swear, you have to go your jaw drops the floor.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to go back into it them
Speaker 2: where are you watching it? Also her salng HBO Max right,
Speaker 2: HBO Max, Alex, what are you giving your double thumbs
Speaker 2: up to you?
Speaker 1: Mate? Just quickly?
Speaker 3: The Agenda Setter is on Channel seven Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 3: night from seven pm.
Speaker 1: I love it. I think they do such a great job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have been new to this, like Caro
Speaker 3: and Carol Wilson is just one of the best sports journalists.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to say, one of the best journalists
Speaker 3: this country's ever seen. Her access and the respect they
Speaker 3: have for her on that show is really palpable as well.
Speaker 1: Like I love how they deal with her.
Speaker 3: I love like cane corns, they stop and they listen
Speaker 3: to Carrow because she com on that show.
Speaker 2: Default they're all so cowardly in the wake of like
Speaker 2: when she glanced at them, like to say, just to
Speaker 2: find that point.
Speaker 3: Nick Parts thought, you know, had a bit of a
Speaker 3: stashed the others after that, Sonya Hood was being sick
Speaker 3: a fantic when they got to Alastair Clarkson there at
Speaker 3: North Melbourne and that it was ding ding it was on.
Speaker 3: But they came back the next week and everything was
Speaker 3: okay again. But look, that's a really good show I'm
Speaker 3: enjoying and I urge you to watch that. Also, where's Wally?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 3: Remember where's Wally?
Speaker 1: Well from They've been around for like one hundred years.
Speaker 3: One of the joys of having children is you get
Speaker 3: to walk back down memory lane and show them what
Speaker 3: you read as a child. Listen.
Speaker 2: The idea of this is every week as we talk
Speaker 2: about new things, were talking about that TV show we
Speaker 2: talk commentary, this has come out shut out.
Speaker 1: To e t the movie. Listen, this is just alien.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm enjoying. Where's Wally? We found him.
Speaker 2: He's over there on the show right now in the
Speaker 2: blue jumper.
Speaker 1: Sliced bread, Christy, you heard it here first?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: Bread? Sandwich or toast? Listen. Martin Hanford is the ill strata,
Speaker 1: the writer is word. We're going and said, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going to the news and sport right now. No one's going.
Speaker 1: Hang on a minute, let me grab a pen.
Speaker 2: The man on the radio is telling about this brilliant
Speaker 2: new book for children seven ways in Wallas worldwide.
Speaker 3: It's sometimes it took him eight weeks to do a
Speaker 3: single illustration.
Speaker 2: I've just started reading a new book. It's called The Bible.
Speaker 2: No spoilererts, but does he come back at the end?
Speaker 2: All right, let's get the latest news and sport now
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