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Speaker 3: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Good morning Alex Moday, Good morning Pats Yay. Small thing
Speaker 2: to say, but a big thing for us. Our boy Rio,
Speaker 2: our sick second day and real shame, big year of
Speaker 2: him personally and on this show as well. Gutter that
Speaker 2: he's not in the studio with us for our last show.
Speaker 2: He's been a transformation all year for that young kid,
Speaker 2: and what a shame.
Speaker 1: It's this awful kind of infection the moment. Anyone noticed
Speaker 1: your friends, they're all everyone's sick at the moment. Yes, yep,
Speaker 1: you know last last week. This is me and everyone's
Speaker 1: sick at the moment. All right.
Speaker 2: So on a Friday, it's all about two things BFY
Speaker 2: Big Friday, ANJI.
Speaker 1: And double thumbs up. These are our recommendations.
Speaker 2: We do this every Friday with us, book, TV shows, movies,
Speaker 2: things that we've really enjoyed the last seven days. It
Speaker 2: might be something your next favorite TV show, book or movie,
Speaker 2: your next half an hour, because the last show of
Speaker 2: the year. These are our favorite things of the year,
Speaker 2: so you take part as well.
Speaker 1: Every Friday we get your recommendations. What have you really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this year?
Speaker 2: What would you say your favorite TV shows, movies, books,
Speaker 2: anything that you've really loved the most this year?
Speaker 1: Is share it with me?
Speaker 2: Oh four seven five three one oh four three, Pats,
Speaker 2: let's kick off with you, mate, What if you loved
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 4: The thing that I can't or two things actually that
Speaker 4: I can't stop thinking about.
Speaker 5: One very recently.
Speaker 4: Wicked for Good, which is just absolutely sensational, better than
Speaker 4: the first movie, and just so much heart and all
Speaker 4: about friendship and love and connection and it's just a
Speaker 4: feast for the eyes on the screen and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: So would you put that over Frankenstein.
Speaker 2: I know you're blown away by the kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, spectacle of Frankenstein, But look.
Speaker 4: You know what I didn't find Frankenstein. And Joseph Lordie
Speaker 4: has actually been nominated. I think it's for a golden
Speaker 4: Golden Globe for his performance. But Wicked is Wicked for
Speaker 4: Good is just there's something really special about it and
Speaker 4: it's I think it's going to be a classic. It's
Speaker 4: so beautiful. The script is amazing. A lot of people
Speaker 4: will have already seen it, but if you haven't, going a.
Speaker 2: Week Saturday with my two daughters who've already seen it together.
Speaker 2: They went with each other about two weeks ago. They
Speaker 2: were like, they watched the video clip if you're talking
Speaker 2: about it. A couple of weeks ago on Instagram they
Speaker 2: were saying, it's that dad. It's literally one of the
Speaker 2: best movies ever made.
Speaker 5: It is and it's going to be one of those.
Speaker 1: So happy to go and see it again. That's taking
Speaker 1: me to see it. We're going a week Saturday.
Speaker 4: I love that and this is the sort of this
Speaker 4: is what it's going to do. It's one of these
Speaker 4: movies where you will want the special people in your
Speaker 4: life to be watching it with you, and it's one
Speaker 4: of those. It's like a warm blanket. Whenever you want
Speaker 4: to feel, you know, cheered up or you will put
Speaker 4: this movie on and it will just from your heart.
Speaker 5: It's beautiful.
Speaker 4: The other thing for me this year was Handmaid's Tale
Speaker 4: season six.
Speaker 1: It was that still good because I love watching that.
Speaker 2: Right we got into about the third season, Pats, but
Speaker 2: then it just coincided with a dystopian time here in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: You're not going to talk about Lockdown. It was a
Speaker 2: very or any more dystopian things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was no more space in your brain, but.
Speaker 2: Only not because it wasn't brilliant how much how one
Speaker 2: of the best TV shows ever, But.
Speaker 4: Do you want it to be uplifted at that time,
Speaker 4: especially when you confined to your house with your family
Speaker 4: all day.
Speaker 5: But no, this is brilliant.
Speaker 4: It's I would recommend like if you've read the books,
Speaker 4: definitely Margaret Atward's books, you know you'll be right across this,
Speaker 4: But especially if you're like a mum where you've got
Speaker 4: very rarely the house to yourself for like a few
Speaker 4: hours and you just want to escape. It is so
Speaker 4: beautifully made and Elizabeth Moss is so incredible in this.
Speaker 4: And then they're also in production with The Testaments, because
Speaker 4: you know, it's one of those series when you have
Speaker 4: a favorite thing you and Alex had know what it's like,
Speaker 4: where you just there's a thirst for more and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I wish it wasn't the final one. So knowing that
Speaker 4: another you know, whole new series is in production a
Speaker 4: few years down the track from where it left off.
Speaker 4: It just all the pieces were tied up and it
Speaker 4: was Yeah, it was so powerful. I loved every single
Speaker 4: season of it.
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
Speaker 2: All right, test your favorite things of the year four
Speaker 2: seventy five, three, one oh four three.
Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell Show, Oh Hells Alive. More later on
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Speaker 2: One of the best shows I've watched this year. This
Speaker 2: comes from Sarah Morning, Sarah Christian. All the best shows
Speaker 2: I've loved this year was The Paper I saw. I
Speaker 2: saw that on stand. Ricky Gervais is a producer. It's brilliant,
Speaker 2: very very clever. Really enjoyed that as well, Sarah. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your recommendations. All Right, it's our last double
Speaker 2: thumbs up of the year, the things that we've really
Speaker 2: enjoyed twenty twenty five, So, Patsy wicked wass.
Speaker 1: Movie of the Year for me Springsteen Delivered Me from Nowhere. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm biased. I'm big Springsteen fan. I'd be honest.
Speaker 2: Maybe that does make me a bit wonky eye, just
Speaker 2: a tiny bit, and it's just on the side, But
Speaker 2: I love that movie. I really really loved it so much.
Speaker 2: Deliver Me from Nowhere in my Movie of the Year podcast,
Speaker 2: my favorite podcast of the year. This is a strange
Speaker 2: one for me, but I really want to just talk
Speaker 2: about how great it was. Really well made, a very
Speaker 2: human voice in journalism, and it's a rival broadcasting organization,
Speaker 2: and it's an ABC podcast, and it was The Mushroom Daily.
Speaker 2: It was everything that was going on day by day,
Speaker 2: twenty minute episodes during an incredible trial. The captivated not
Speaker 2: just this city in Australia but the world, but the
Speaker 2: trial of Aaron Patterson's called The Mushroom Daily. Not sensationalists,
Speaker 2: just very human journalism. I thought it was pretty, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2: The whole family watched it with swap notes on it.
Speaker 2: It's very very good Mushroom Daily. You can still listen
Speaker 2: again to it. Favorite TV shows far from me. I
Speaker 2: loved all of these in no order. Task, the Studio,
Speaker 2: the Pit, and adolescents. If you have kids, no matter
Speaker 2: what age they are, whether you're a new parent or
Speaker 2: you've got teenagers or nineteen year olds, twenty year olds.
Speaker 1: It is essential you watch adolescents.
Speaker 2: You cannot say you're a parent if you don't care
Speaker 2: about the kids and the world they're in, not the
Speaker 2: world we are in, the world that they are in
Speaker 2: and growing into if you don't watch adolescents, it is
Speaker 2: more important than any book you read on parenting and
Speaker 2: how they getting them into sleep habits and changing their nappies.
Speaker 2: That is about the world that we are growing them into.
Speaker 2: We don't know enough about it. I wish that this
Speaker 2: TV show I've been around ten years ago. I think
Speaker 2: I would have been a better parent. But anyway, adolescents
Speaker 2: very very good. I love reading books. These are three
Speaker 2: books I picked. I read a lot of books. These
Speaker 2: are three books I've loved this year. These are three
Speaker 2: books I've recommended.
Speaker 1: Some of them.
Speaker 2: I've actually bought copies of friends who don't like to
Speaker 2: read that much, and they love them. So I just
Speaker 2: want to recommend books that I think you would really enjoy,
Speaker 2: even if you don't read tons of books, like a
Speaker 2: book nerd like me. First of all, book called great
Speaker 2: title this one. I can easily describe this if a
Speaker 2: nonna was Tony Soprano. This is a story. One of
Speaker 2: her kids dies, she's a honor, she goes on the revenge.
Speaker 2: It's an incredible story. It will become a movie, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: The Savage and Noble Death of Bab's Dione brilliant book.
Speaker 2: Second one, Sa Crosby's book, King of Ashes, banger of
Speaker 2: a book. You'll read it in two days over Christmas.
Speaker 2: Sa Crosby's written loads of books. I've read them all.
Speaker 2: This is the best one, King of Ashes. It came
Speaker 2: up this year. There's a reason why it's got I
Speaker 2: think that Summer Night two thousand and five Star of
Speaker 2: News on Amazon. And then if you really want one
Speaker 2: that's going to knock you off your backside. Ian McEwan's
Speaker 2: What Can We Know? I read it twice this year.
Speaker 2: It moved me that much. I can't even talk about
Speaker 2: the ending of it without welling up.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful, beautiful book. Read quite a few of
Speaker 1: his books.
Speaker 2: There's one of his books that became a movie movie
Speaker 2: with Daniel Craig called Atonement. You might have seen that
Speaker 2: Kieren Nightly a couple of years ago. But What Can
Speaker 2: We Know is my book of the Year by Ian McEwen.
Speaker 2: I love that, all right. Those are my record relations,
Speaker 2: all the ones we've talked about. Alex is coming up
Speaker 2: next with his, and we've got a load of yours
Speaker 2: coming through as well.
Speaker 1: We put all these. By the way, I.
Speaker 2: Get a lot of the emails about this feature because
Speaker 2: we're spoiled this so much stuff around to watch at
Speaker 2: the moment. Those about eighty seven streaming channels, books, movies,
Speaker 2: what's good?
Speaker 1: What do you like?
Speaker 2: We put up on our social channels as well, so
Speaker 2: if you're trying to remember what we've talked about, you'll
Speaker 2: find it all over the weekend. It might be books
Speaker 2: and things you want to get for friends over Christmas
Speaker 2: or else people to get you.
Speaker 1: Head to the Christian.
Speaker 2: O'Connor Shan Facebook on Instagram as well. And if you're
Speaker 2: around our recommendation anything that you've really enjoyed this year,
Speaker 2: text me four seven five three one oh four three,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell show on podcast.
Speaker 1: Last show The heear So double thumbs up.
Speaker 2: She do Every Friday, we talked about our favorite things
Speaker 2: that we've enjoyed the last seven days, our recommendations, our
Speaker 2: favorite things that we've enjoyed this year, Share yours. Good morning,
Speaker 2: Richard Christian Best book Have you heard it? Project? He Yes,
Speaker 2: it's the same author that wrote the Martian Great book
Speaker 2: Really Good.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a movie, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Ryan Gosling Andy Weir I figures the author Christian Best movie.
Speaker 2: I've seen The Penguin Lessons, which is Steve Coogan's movie
Speaker 2: this year, and our group Patsy hand May's Tale Final
Speaker 2: season incredible TV. And Christian my favorite podcast, Stephen Bartler's
Speaker 2: Diary of a Ceo, which is a banger on podcast
Speaker 2: that is so good. If you want to start, listen
Speaker 2: to Diary of a Ceo. I tell you what is
Speaker 2: really good, both interesting and entertaining. Other Jimmy Cart. Jimmy
Speaker 2: Car has been on it three times and the great
Speaker 2: episodes really very interesting. Christian, I got into a band
Speaker 2: had been around for years, The Darkness this year. I
Speaker 2: love their music, Sense of Human I've listened to your audiobook.
Speaker 2: I know you interviewed them back on the day, Christian.
Speaker 2: That story gave me a good laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Darkness step debut album I think came out two
Speaker 2: thousand and three. Permission to Land was a huge hue seller.
Speaker 2: They launched it on my old breakfast show. We did
Speaker 2: them live in front of two thousand people midway during
Speaker 2: a breakfast show. Unfortunately, one of their songs, they did
Speaker 2: the unedited version of it and it had eleven times
Speaker 2: they said the word MFH eleven times at ten past stay,
Speaker 2: middle of the school run to all of London.
Speaker 1: My radio career was only four years old, and I
Speaker 1: was like, we.
Speaker 2: Told them, we told them not to do this and
Speaker 2: if you know The Darkness, they won't listened to that,
Speaker 2: nor should they.
Speaker 1: We didn't get a single complaint.
Speaker 5: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Which also said to me maybe we didn't have a
Speaker 2: single listener about then, quite this small show. I don't
Speaker 2: know which was more true, with the lack of listeners
Speaker 2: or the lack of complaints, But anyway.
Speaker 1: Glad you enjoy The Darkness.
Speaker 2: They're a great band and he's a great follow on
Speaker 2: Instagram as well. It does a brilliant series where he
Speaker 2: talks about his favorite pop songs can be anything from
Speaker 2: Gaga to The Stones and how they're put together. It's
Speaker 2: really been I've learned so much from music about it.
Speaker 2: Justin on Instagram. All right, Alex, what have you love
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 6: Well, just before we get to that. The Darkness they
Speaker 6: are an incredible band. I saw them in Perth a
Speaker 6: number of years ago and they did the best rendition
Speaker 6: of ac DC's Back in Black that I think of.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what a tree. When bands do a good
Speaker 1: cover version, it was so so good. But my pix.
Speaker 6: So I have two crime dramas that have stayed with
Speaker 6: me my entire life. The first one is The Wire,
Speaker 6: that's an American one. It was an incredible show, incredible show.
Speaker 6: Closely followed by that is a show called Kin It's
Speaker 6: about an Irish crime family. It's on SBS on demand
Speaker 6: and I think about it often. It just rocks you
Speaker 6: to your core. So you put it up there with
Speaker 6: the wy The Why.
Speaker 2: I would say that's in my top five greatst TV
Speaker 2: shows ever long on the Sopranos.
Speaker 6: Definitely, it's just below the Wire for mine. Wow, because
Speaker 6: I think I spent a bit of time in Ireland.
Speaker 6: So I lived in Ireland just after I left school,
Speaker 6: and I guess there's this fascination there with these crime gangs.
Speaker 6: There's a kind of hand crime gang that I think
Speaker 6: this show is loosely based on.
Speaker 2: And I thought, you meant this show is Lucy based.
Speaker 2: You look in a pass then I hear, yeah.
Speaker 6: So it's it's a brilliant It's got Ad Gillen, a
Speaker 6: little finger from the Game of Thrones. You might have
Speaker 6: seen him around Kieren Hines. He starred in a couple
Speaker 6: of Australian dramas.
Speaker 1: Also in Gamer, also in Game of Thrones.
Speaker 6: Game of Thrones as well. So it's just fantastic and
Speaker 6: it's ten us around the death of one of the
Speaker 6: crime family sons and this revenge and this absolute I
Speaker 6: don't know, chase for the dollar and it's it's just
Speaker 6: it's fantastic and I couldn't stop watching it, and I
Speaker 6: watched it on my own and so I just absolutely
Speaker 6: loved it.
Speaker 1: We all have a TV show, don't we, that you.
Speaker 5: Watch and that was no interruptions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no where you start to watch it with
Speaker 2: your partner and they go, do you know what this
Speaker 2: isn't for me?
Speaker 1: This is your one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's last Samurai standing. My wife was as soon
Speaker 2: as you saw a samurai saw bit unsheath you and
Speaker 2: you know what, this is not one for me. You
Speaker 2: could have this one. So yours is king mineus last
Speaker 2: Samurai standing? Perhaps you just Chris watched Handmad's.
Speaker 4: No, no, it's like a little gift when he says, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think I'll go.
Speaker 1: Yes, any relationship. You need your own sovereign TV show,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 5: Absolutely it's the best.
Speaker 6: Yes, so ken else real quick Bill Simmons podcast the
Speaker 6: best sports caster I think in the world. If you
Speaker 6: want to get into American sports, say you're you know
Speaker 6: your grid Ion, your NBA as well.
Speaker 1: He is fantastic.
Speaker 2: He's a machine that guy Shane the ring The first
Speaker 2: podcasters in the world before Rogan or anybody else, was
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons.
Speaker 1: Have you seen his interview with John Cena from two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I have not. Oh my god, it's incredible. Really,
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I've never been to a wrestling event in my life
Speaker 2: and it was so good and it's so interesting about
Speaker 2: what it is like the live events that I googled
Speaker 2: when is it next? When is ww next back in Melbourne?
Speaker 2: It's here next year and I brought tickets.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Listen to the John Senia interview on Bill Simmons the Ringer.
Speaker 2: It's so good at it.
Speaker 6: You love it. He does it so well, mixing culture
Speaker 6: with sport and it's just hilarious. And my book would
Speaker 6: be ten percent happier by Dan Harris had got me
Speaker 6: through a very very difficult time earlier in the year.
Speaker 6: It's a wonderful journey through I guess self help meditation.
Speaker 6: He was an American journalist in that cutthroat world of
Speaker 6: TV journalism in the US, he started doing some more
Speaker 6: stories on religion, and he sort of got into Buddhism
Speaker 6: in a big way, not so much the religious side
Speaker 6: of it, but the meditative side of it and the
Speaker 6: looking inwards and taking time for yourself. And I started
Speaker 6: really to do that myself, and it really got me
Speaker 6: through the breathing. Something as simple as sitting there and
Speaker 6: taking those deep breaths. I did it yesterday. I took
Speaker 6: ten minutes to sit there and just meditate. And I
Speaker 6: can't tell you the difference it makes.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed his book and the podcast, The Brilliant
Speaker 2: Ten Percent Happier.
Speaker 1: Dan Harris is Britant.
Speaker 2: If you go on YouTube, you see a famous clip
Speaker 2: of his where the poor guy had a panic attat
Speaker 2: live on air and then starts talking about what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's an incredisor that that it's had millions of views.
Speaker 2: It's Yeah, that book is very simple, easy to read
Speaker 2: and use advice as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's fantastic going have a read. It could change
Speaker 6: your life, to change mind. I'll be honest, Yeah, it
Speaker 6: really did, because I'd never really been into that sort
Speaker 6: of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's sort of kicked around a bit.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, I don't know about the meditation thing.
Speaker 6: I read that, dang I do it and it's amazing.
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