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October 9, 2025 11 mins

Every Friday we go around the team and share what we're watching, listening to or reading this weekend. Got a recommendation? email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Thank you very much for two of you. But he
told me that there are.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
There are apps for the location of public toilets. I
wish we'd had this conversation earlier. It would have made
a dark Knight of the soul.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Knowing. But they're not twenty four to seven? What time
do they open? Right? Who turns up with the keys?
You have to go around to etails? How do they open?
Some look at sunset? Yes? Is this so whimsical?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Some person that runs cities who, in all of his responsibility,
like to turn the traffic lights on, also has one
the bogs the dunny, So you have to press two
things at the same time. The nuclear key coats start
the countdowns, and then all the doors a suddenly, cave
doors are open. All right, let's do double thumbs up.

(01:23):
Where this is where every Friday on the show we
go around the team. We talk about the TV shows,
the books, the movies that we're into at the moment.
And if you're looking for someone to watch or stream
this weekend. We might have it for you, Patsy, what's.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
If you mate?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I've been really taken back this week. We've watched Wayward
on nip.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Fleet or just started that last night. My god, that
it is creepy.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
We binged it all last weekend. So this is tiny
Collette's new offering. Its in eight parts.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
She is she just does such great stuff. She's never
even bad, No, she's not.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
And you know what the who the standout for me
and this is is the Canadian, a Canadian comedian that
May Martin, Yes, who is actually the creator and writer
they are.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
She had a great TV show that's got us through Lockdown.
May Martin is a brilliant very.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Goodness, so much screen presence.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Absolutely just did you know it's been a true story.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I did not know that. I did not know that,
which makes it even creepier. So it's a story of
a couple who moved back to a hometown just for
some pacing quiet. They've been in Detroit, things haven't gone well,
so they've gone back to this hometown not as all
what it seems. And it's ended on this youth academy
and what parents think this is actually isn't. So it's

(02:36):
a story of essentially a cult. So it's a little
bit Hunger Games. It's also just a little bit Charles
Metzen at times, but it's not out.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Old mate it binge through it the whole weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
We love a Souson of Manson of cult.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You've got me all we can.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
We watched one episode last night when I think this
is the thing we just watched every couple of days
because I actually didn't have to watch a sign. Did
you find it's too heavy Manson? Imagine the algorithm they're
going to start feeding out. Oh you like creepy stuff
like that.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's like a rom com for Patsy.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm seeing all the reviews with the new Charlie Huntman
by a picky stunner.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
For Ed Gaines, a serial killer. I'm watching that.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's a nice little one just to you just leave
Friday night, so that with a takeaway, it's like some choppy,
choppy et et all right, looks up in the basement
is how he did it? No?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I love that. I would love this. Let me just
message her now.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I do like that genre, but I particularly like this,
and I think I've got a big crush on May.
I think they were brilliant. The other thing this week
I have, you know, after school snacks. It is always
a constant tussle of they are famished. Audrey is famished
when she comes home.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh my god, you're sir, right, pads, even when the
kids come back. Now, so mine have obviously left home.
But the first thing you want to come back is
reached for the chrystal. Yes, still you drove here, can
stop off and get your own bloody Chris groceries. Oh god,
this house is turningcent We just have to assemble it yourself.
Got met with the other day because you're an adult

(04:17):
people to get your own.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Snatch as a UNI student coming back to your parents' house.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
They've got a full fridge.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
You're so true.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
What's great is they really appreciate every minute, even so
basic that first of thought they're taking the pace. Oh
my god, this chicken is so good.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
My kids that don't eat their dinner, they come have
and eat all the snacks. Yes, and then there's no
bigger than we're eating it out. Put that down. And
the other one was like, have some fruit, yes all
the time. So what do you do. What do you
do to?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
You know, we've started doing earlier dinner because she would
just you know, go crazy and then wouldn't eat dinner.
But I have found she's.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
So how early were we doing half five sitting?

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yesterday?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
It was four? No, that's no no. My defense, in
my defense, she had stage thirty.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
She had theater school last night, and so I had
to leave the house by six. So I thought, you
don't blame practical thing to do out of it, and
I did a beautiful special fried rice and these pork
buns about to tell you about. Yes for us, We've
tried a few different brands, and these are so good.
They're mister Chen's Hoisten pork buns. Why they are so

(05:38):
GOODE is because they taste You steam them on.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Top of the stove.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
You can microwave, but I prefer to steam. They taste
exactly like they do off the Young char trolley, like.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh, mister Chen, you're spoiling us. Pork bun is a
pleasing word to say west there's a frequency to.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
It, but there's a brilliant They're on sale this week
at Cole's Getting. I got about four packets the other day.
If there's any.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Left draw those killer shows she watches, Get Taste for Flesh.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Christian Show podcast perats. What's the weather going to be
that this weekend? Is it going to be good?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm sorry, no, no, no, just lie to them.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh you don't want me to be honest, It's gonna
be fabulous. You're like spring is here, we might even
say at times, it's just actually summer already, Like this is.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Great, this is news. I love fake news weather.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
So she put it our washing, Get ready for that?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Do the whole lot? All right?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Double thumb's up for me? What are what have we
all been enjoying this week? It's two movies, actually, and
first one is a wholesome, joyous, deeply soul nourishing movie
where it just makes you feel good about life. It's
The Thursday Murder Club. These are mega best selling novels
by actually a friend of mine, Richard Osborne.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Richard's story is a lovely story.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Richard was a really good but jobbing TV writer and
producer and he was working on a TV show, a
pilot for a TV show called Pointless, And there was
a comedian Alexander Armstrong who was hosting it. And they
tried out a lot of comedians to be a funny
co host and hadn't found the right one, and quite
a few times in run throughs, Richard, who was a

(07:31):
producer on the show, would sit in for the comedian
and then zand on one day said to.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Richard a pub why don't you do it?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
You're the best person that we've had, because I don't
want to be in front of the carricers. But that's
actually a plus all these other comanis who are desperate
to claw their way up out of stand up stages
and small, tiny comedy clubs to be on primetime on
BBC one. So Richard became a reluctant sidekick on TV.
It went on to become one of the BBC's most

(07:58):
successful quiz shows of the last ten years. Anyway, Richard
was going through a bit of a thing and he
wanted to just do something different to exercise his creative muscle,
and starting to write a book.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
He had no public deal.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
He wrote it just fro himself about his mum was
involved in some kind of retirement community and when he
used to drive down and see her and all these
people there that had led different lives that were retired
detectives and all this, and they would talk about, you know,
their lives and all this, and they still had all
this knowledge and wisdom. He's starting the comming idea, what
if they what if they solved unsolved crimes?

Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
And so he just wrote a book to please himself
for a year. Send it to his agent. Anyway, they've
now sold millions of copies.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And then it's a Netflix movie with Dame Helen, Mirren,
Pierce Brosnan and Sir Being Kingsley and I watched it
last weekend and we were like, I saw the trade.
It was a bit you know that piano plinky punky music, bigger,
you know the one there's a vicar on the bike
sighting through.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Said the bluebells are out, aren't they? Derek? And I'm like,
I grew up with a lot of this. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
And it's sad because the kids were like this, this
seems so black, just because a lot of TV were
watching the Excuse me, I thought it was all coming
back up.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
It's about ready to get the bucket.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's good they already filled up. There were no empty buckets.
It's all quite grim.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
A lot of stuff, and I watch it as well,
and so actually you think this canna be boring?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
We watched it.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It was so funny and the murder mystery in it
is very well done, and it's great cast. I mean,
you've got Piers Bros. And Dame Helen Mirren and Sir
Ben Kingsley right now. Some of you won't realize he
was a He won an oscar for playing Gandy. And
so my daughter goes, who earse that guy? That guy,
Sir Ben Kingsley played Gandy? And she went, but he
isn't from India. And I never really thought about that,

(09:50):
and I'm like, she googled the movie and she was like,
but your nan was from India. She should have played
Gandy or she wasn't an actress. And I said, look,
I said, can we just father under it was a
different time, no question that you not from an Indian mayor.
I hadn't even thought about it until she brought it

(10:12):
up with the right his side, with fresher eyes, to go, hey,
he paid, he's English shape, he's a different well hopefully
she wach is, hey, hey, Saturday replaces in Australia.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I cannot recommend enough.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I've not I've not read the books, okay, but I
cannot recommend it enough.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I thoroughly. I just enjoyed it, we all did.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
It gave us a nice glow afterwards, and right now
in the world, you can't need enough of that. The
other thing that I would really recommend is a great
movie was co written and as co stars Brett Goldstein.
Brett Goldstein is and Ted Lasso. He's one of the
writers on that. He played Captain Roy. He is now
in this beautiful and romantic drama that he co wrote
with one of one of the head writers with Charlie

(10:50):
Brookt and Black Mirror.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
It is is brilliant.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's an hour and a half and it is one
of the best romantic dramas and most natural. You know
where the dialogue is so good you're like, oh, obviously
improvised a lot of this. It is so good. It's
set in the future, but it's set now.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
So the cars are slightly different, they're not like hovering
in the air, but it's clearly in the future. And
there's now a company that will tell you who is
your perfect match someone you've never met? Great, and it's
that age old question what do you go with?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Head or heart?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
It's an hour and a half. It is beautiful. I
cannot It's my number one recommendation this weekend. It is
called All of You. It is so good. Brett's great
in it and his co Start Image and Boots as well.
They're amazing. They're screen chemistry is so great. I cannot
recommend it enough. It's great. That's it for me.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's called All of You on Apple TV. The Christian
O'Connell show podcast
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