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October 23, 2025 12 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Got anything good?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Friday morning.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good morning, Alex morning, Good morning, Rio morning, My word
nature a.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Bores of vacuum.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Patsy is off her second day blesser and now sidled
in to second base.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
This is how radio works.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You leave an empty seat in a studio, it'll be
filled by some very eager producer. Caitlyn, somehow mate barrowed
your way into this studio.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
My good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
You remember the Crazy Crew, Christian and the Crazy Crew.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Every morning from six all right, every Friday we go
around the horn. We go around the team with the
things that we're into at the moment. We call it
double thumbs up. Rio, what's it for you?

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Well, actually bought my first car yesterday day.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, whoa, Yes you got a house. You bought a
house couple of weeks ago that they move into shit soon.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yes, I've always had family hand me down cars.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You had mammas that Volvo.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
I I've got a ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
It's the two thousand and four Volvo S forty. It's
coming towards the end of its life, so time for
me to get a new car. And this might sound
like an ad but I promised no money was taken.
There's a company called Motor Scout and I hadn't heard
of them until my friend told me about them. And
they essentially you tell them what car you want. You say,
I want this car, said I wanted this VW. They

(01:45):
go off to all the different dealerships around Melbourne. They
do all the negotiating for you. Yes, you don't pay anything,
so they get a cut like a mortgage broker would do. Okay, yeah,
they get a cut from the deal they just give you.
You get sent like literally sent to your phone the
bids that you get from all the different dealers.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
You don't have to go around.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You guess what, So you've gone from a v W
when I volts wager? Now, yes, let me guess what
You're in a.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Golf No I went I went for the Polo SUV version.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
What you nev for?

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Well, city by day and then you know I'm an
adventurer out on the weekend. You are, Yes, that's what
the salesman's are you look like an adventurous sort of.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Guy, said, I am an adventuress.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Join the You joined the rest of us dollars with TV,
I know, like every other free range that is stay wild,
Stay wild.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yes, I've got you know another white c on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh well you have already grown up now bigger than Gangmre.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
We'll get you in. Your first house is SUV. You
don't have keys. It's having a dull ardan to TV.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
It's a very sensible choice. You can fold the seats
extra boot.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I do love that as well. I do love being
able to fold the seats down to TV.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Oh, it's so good and good for resal. Okay everything
you put your.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Hand up before you start jumping in the Bookay, that
made me regret my decision.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
You might even make it till seven this morning.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast Friday Morning with doing double
thumbs Up, where we go around the team we talk
about things we're enjoying in the moment.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
It might be a TV show or it might be
a movie. You can text in yours as well. What
are you enjoying? Four seven five three one oh four three?
For me, it's all about this weekend. It's finally out.
I was lucky enough to see it a couple of
weeks ago, took my eighteen year old daughter. Neither of
us had any idea of the emotional roller coaster this
movie is. I'm talking about the Springsteen movie Springsteen Deliver

(03:36):
Me from Nowhere. I love the fact that the Boss
has put its own name on the movie. By the
way you think about rocket Man, it wasn't Elton John's
rocket Man. We got it Ferdie Mercury Springsteen Deliver Me
from Nowhere. But the Boss is in a different mythic
kind of category. The amazing thing about this movie is,
if you look at all most of the movies that

(03:57):
are out right now, they are either remakes or part
of the big franchise movies. This is an original story
about an original. It's a proper big movie. Jemmy Anna
White big ass to try and pretend to be Springsteen.
And I was nervous going in to see it, even
though he's a great act and I love the Bear,
but Springsteen is Springsteen. And if it done wrong, it's karaoke.

(04:19):
You know, you're like, yeah, maybe, but he does something
different with it where you forget after a while you're
watching an actor pretending to be Springs in embodies Springsteen's
kind of intensity. Especially is this movie is about a
period of Bruce's life in the eighties where he's just
had his first big album, The River, and it's about
two or three years before he breaks big globally with

(04:39):
Born in the USA, and he's on his way to
start him he can't go back to his old life,
and he's stuck at the crossroads, and he's deeply troubled
by a very very traumatic childhood. His dad was later
diagnosed with bipolar, so he had a very very tough childhood.
So as much as this movie is about finding your
authentic voice and integrity, it's also a really surprising but

(05:02):
very very powerful moving movie about men facing their own
pain and healing. And I was lucky enough to interview
the director and writer of this, Scott Cooper, who won
an Oscar for Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges a few
years ago. And Springsteen's turned down, as you can imagine,
countless scripts and pictures, and he went for this one.
He said no to all of them. He didn't want

(05:23):
the big, dumb Born in the USA movie, which would
make billions. He wanted something different, and when he saw
a movie about this period of his life, he went
for that one. And what's interesting is, I love Springsteen.
He's my guy, and he is he's this kind of
mythic character. Really, when you go and see these epic
three and a half hour shows, it's Psyche's superhuman. With
this movie, it felt like Springsteen's giving a one last

(05:45):
final gift, which is actually he's dismantling his own myth Wow.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
And it's a really beautiful I.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Didn't know I was going to see a very moving
movie about a man going and facing his past. And
I think right now in the world, if you look
around and listen to the news, there's a lot of
stories of men who haven't faced their own healing and
are taken out on the rest of us. This is
a very very powerful movie in a gift from Springsteen.
Love for his music is big energy and it's big performance,
but what he's showing is real vulnerability. And as a

(06:13):
master storyteller, that Springs scene is this is a real
life story and I think his best story that he's
ever shared. It's a very raw, messy movie, and what
a beautiful, honest thing for him to show us that
it's incredible.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I left.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I don't know, I felt really alive and my daughter
and I made an old daughter ten minutes since she
looked at me.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
She squeezed my hand and she went, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I had no idea and she was like after she
was like the feeling you were going through your own
process with your own dad. During that, I went, yeah,
you saw that she was hard not to. I heard
you sniffling a couple of times, trying out the past.
But it might sound like it's a downer, it's not.
There's an amazing bit at the end where the screen

(06:58):
goes I don't want to ruin it. But then the
final scene is so powerful. There's no words in it.
Sometimes movies do that way you get it, you just
see it and you put it all together and you
don't insult us. But the screen then filled with like
talks about what went on to happen to Springsteen became
a global star. But it ends with this really powerful
message of hope about going and getting therapy and healing,
where it says Springsteen struggled with his depression for the

(07:19):
rest of his life, but never without hope or support,
and so what.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
A great way to end a big movie.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You know. Yeah, So I cannot recommend enough. Go and
see it this weekend. We don't get enough movies like this.
It's very easy to moan about all the franchise movies
and the endless remakes. Go and see something original. If
you listen to the show, you're into music with a
heart and soul, and this is a movie all about
that Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere. If you do go
and see it over the weekend, please email me. I

(07:45):
am desperate to be able to talk about it with
people have gone to see You don't need to be
in a mega Springsteen fan. It's about something bigger than that. Really,
hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, Friday Morning, Double thumbs up
producer Caitlin What is it for you?

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Alrighty minds? From Netflix. It's an adaptation of a book,
so it's called The Woman in Cabin Tex.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's Kieran for this.

Speaker 8 (08:11):
Is this good?

Speaker 7 (08:11):
It's actually great? So Zem and I watched it last
Friday and she hates scary movies, so she was like,
I don't know if I can do this.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So is it a horror thriller.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
It's a bit of a thriller, but not it's not scary,
so definitely watch it. If you're a person that's like
my partner, you'll be absolutely okay and it's worth it.
And there's you know, for the people that have read
the book, I have not read the book, never heard
of it, but just take it for what it is,
because it actually is brilliant and it's not one of
those ones where you're like waiting with baited breath the
whole time. It moves at a really really good pace

(08:42):
and it's kier Nightley, so she never does anything bad.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
And also the fact that you just.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Presume that we're all massacure and Nighty fans.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
She is good, that she's badding.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
There isn't one.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's just hard to think of that.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
I can only think of bend it like Beckham.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's only like last couple of years, isn't It's not
five hundred years ago Atonement.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Atonement was another adaptation of a book as well.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Also Love Actually all right, we don't actually go through
the present of care and Nightly.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I really shouldn't have let you in the studio. No,
it's good. Yeah, and you enjoyed it good. Is it
a movie or a TV series?

Speaker 7 (09:22):
It's a movie and it's a quick one too. I
think it's like an hour and twenty seven minutes. So
you're not wasting your Friday night going on.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah, I don't waste your Friday night in culture.
You're right, you've spoken like a bogan. Good think about this.
It doesn't outstand. It's welcome.

Speaker 7 (09:33):
We just don't have a lot of time, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 5 (09:35):
And so you see go all the.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Time in the world.

Speaker 9 (09:37):
It's no kid, Yeah, you can't judge you guys. Got
an suv now with nothing to put in it, become
an uber driver after nine put passengers in the.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Bat it's got air in the back. It's actually creepy
for Rio.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
It is a guy, a guy in an suv driving
around with no kids.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's creepy. No, they've surely done some kind of background share.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
They did. They did creep creep crowning around.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
It is around my suburb and the schools. Alex, what's
it for you, mate? What are you enjoying this week?
I love soul music. I grew up with soul music.
I needs to play the four Tops, the Temptation, Stevie
Wonder and.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Such happy, joyous music. Isn't it?

Speaker 8 (10:18):
Is it the best? You know, it's beautiful stuff. And
I found this guy on Instagram. His name is mister
Professor m r Professor three one eight on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Paper.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
I don't know he needs to work on that postcoding
why he's chosen that handle. But his name's Nick Harrison.
He's got one and a half million followers. And what
he does is he takes rock songs he flips them
into classic soul and it's incredible.

Speaker 9 (10:49):
That's this is food fights from rock to soul?

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yes, where to Fly?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
And is this him singing it? Or is it Ai?
It's a you're kidding? This is Ai.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, there's me trying to talk about Springsteen, heart and
soul and you're rolling over to the algorithms.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
Come on, man, I said, I'm slowly coming around to
it with stuff like this like it's incredible. He also
does Tomorrow by Silver Chair, Daniel John's becomes Soul.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's incredible.

Speaker 8 (11:19):
He also does Christian I know how much you love Oasis, please.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Go with it here in a week's time, the realm
with me flipping AI.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
No, this is wrong it's actually immoral.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
You it's really good knowing it's no no one's singing
this right, like this is a computer that's singing it.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do you think at some point and a not too
just in future would have a radio station where it's
AI artist.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
And it's so bazack because it sounds.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Normal, but this sounds human.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yes, but part of you knows that it's not quite right.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Ancient part Yeah, here for it.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I love it, welcoming you AI overlords.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
It is very good. And what's his handy name again?
Because nine x five one five five three loud he's
also he has music as well. It's under artificial soul.
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
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