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It’s the final show of the year, and the Christian O’Connell Show is emptying the tank. Christian fires off his favourite picks of 2025, from the “sensational” Wicked to the gut punch power of The Handmaid’s Tale. Alex wades in with his own obsessions: The Mushroom Daily and Ian McEwan’s What Can We Know. The team trade their best books, TV shows and music of the year, share a few surprises, and wrap it all with a massive washer dryer giveaway. Last show of the year, zero coasting.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good Morning Alex Moday coome Morning Patch Yay, small thing
to say, but a big thing for us. Our boy
Rio of sick second day and real shame, big year
of him personally and on this show as well. Gutter
that he's not in the studio with us for our
last show. He's been a transformation all year for that
young kid, and what a shame. It's this awful kind

(00:50):
of infectional moment. Did anyone noticed your friends they're all
everyone's sick at the moment.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, yep, you know last last week. This is me
and everyone's sick at the moment. All right.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
So on a Friday, it's all about two things BFY
Big Friday, ANJI and double thumbs up. These are our recommendations.
We do this every Friday with us A book, TV movies,
things that you've really enjoyed the last seven days. It
might be something your next favorite TV show, book or movie,
your next half an hour because the last show of
the year. These are our favorite things of the year,

(01:20):
so you take part as well. Every Friday we get
your recommendations. What have you really enjoyed this year?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
What di would you say?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Your favorite TV shows, movies, books, anything that you've really
loved the most this year?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Share it with me.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh four seven five three one oh four three, Pats,
let's kick off with you, mate, What.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
If you loved this year?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
The thing that I can't or two things actually that
I can't stop thinking about.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
One very recently.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Wicked for Good, which is just absolutely sensational, better than
the first movie, and just so much heart and all
about friendship and love and connection and it's just a
feast for the eyes on the screen and it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
So would you put that over Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I know you've blown away by the kind of like,
you know, spectacle of Frankenstein.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
But look, you know what I didn't find Frankenstein. And
Joseph the Lordie has actually been nominated. I think it's
for a golden Golden Globe for his performance.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
But Wicked is Wicked for Good is just there's.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Something really special about it, and it's I think it's
going to be a classic. It's so beautiful. The script
is amazing. A lot of people will have already seen it,
but if you haven't.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Going a week Saturday with my two daughters who've already
seen it together. They went with each other about two
weeks ago. They were like, they watched the video clip
if you talk about it a couple of weeks ago
on Instagram and they were saying, it's that dad.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's literally one of the best movies ever made.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
It is and it's going to be one of those.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
So happy to go and see it again. That's taking
me to see it. We're going a week Saturday.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I love that and this is the sort of this
is what it's going to do. It's one of these
movies where you will want the special people in your
life to be watching it with you. And it's one
of those. It's like a warm blanket. Whenever you want
to feel, you know, cheered up or happy, you will
put this movie on and it will just warm your heart.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
The other thing for me this year was Handmaid's Tale
season six.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
It is was that still good?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Because I love watching that right We got into about
the third season, Pats, but then it just coincided with
a dystopian time here in Melbourne. You're not going to
talk about down It was a very or any more
dystopian things.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, there was no more space in your brain, was it?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
But only not because it wasn't brilliant how much how
one of the best TV shows.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Have, But do you want it to be uplifted at
that time, especially when you confined to your house with
your family all day? But no, this is brilliant. It's
I would recommend like if you've read the books, definitely
Margaret Atwood's books, you know you'll be right across this,
But especially if you're like a mum where you've got
very rarely the house to yourself for like a few

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hours and you just want to escape. It is so
beautifully made and Elizabeth Moss is so incredible in this.
And then they're also in product with The Testaments because
you know, it's one of those series when you have
a favorite thing you and Alex had know what it's
like where you just there's a thirst for more and
it's like, oh, I wish it wasn't the final one.

(04:19):
So knowing that another you know, whole new series is
in production a few years down the track from where
it left off. It just all the pieces were tied
up and it was Yeah, it was so powerful.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I loved every single season of it.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
All Right, test your favorite things of the year four
seventy five three one oh four three.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
The Christian o'connall Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Christian, one of the best shows I've watched this year.
This comes from Sarah Morning Sarah, Christian, all the best
shows I've loved this year was the paper I saw.
I saw that on stant Ricky Gervais is a producer.
It's brilliant, very very clever. Really enjoyed that as well, Sarah.
Thank you for your recommendations. All Right, it's our last
double thumbs up of the year, the things that we've
really enjoyed. Twenty twenty five. For me, So Patsy Wicked

(05:06):
was movie of the year for me. Springsteen Delivery from Nowhere.
Yes I'm biased. I'm big Springsteen fan. I'd be honest.
Maybe that does make me be like won Key Eye.
It just a tiny bit and it's just on the side,
But I love that movie. I really really loved it
so much. Deliver Me from Nowhere in my Movie of
the Year podcast. My favorite podcast of the year. This
is a strange one for me, But I really want

(05:27):
to just talk about how great it was, really well made,
a very human voice in journalism, and it's a rival
broadcasting organization, and it's an ABC podcast, and it was
The Mushroom Daily. It was everything that was going on
day by day, twenty minute episodes during an incredible trial
that captivated not just this city in Australia but the world,

(05:49):
but the treal of Aaron Patterson. It's called The Mushroom Daily.
Not sensationalists, just very human journalism. I thought it was pretty,
absolutely brilliant. The whole family watched it. We would swap
notes on it. It's very very good Mushroom Daily. You
can still listen again to it. Favorite TV shows four
from me. I loved all of these, in no order. Task,
the Studio Pit and adolescence. If you have kids, no

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matter what age they are, whether you're a new parent
or you've got teenagers or nineteen year olds, twenty year olds,
it is essential you watch adolescents. You cannot say you're
a parent if you don't care about the kids and
the world they're in, not the world we are in,
the world that they are in and growing into.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
If you don't watch adolescents.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
It is more important than any book you read on
parenting and how they're getting them into sleep habits and
changing the nappies. That is about the world that we
are growing them into. We don't know enough about it.
It's I wish that this TV show I've been around
ten years ago. I think I would have been a
better parent. But anyway, adolescents very very good. I love
reading books. These are three books I picked. I read

(06:49):
a lot of books. These are three books I've loved
this year. These are three books I've recommended.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Some of them.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've actually bought copies of friends who don't like to
read that much, and they love them. So I just
want to recommend books that I think you would really enjoy,
even if you don't read tons of books, like a
book nerd like me. First of all is a book
called great title this one. I can easily describe this
if a nonna was Tony Soprano.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is a story.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
One of her kids dies, she's a honor, she goes
on revenge. It's an incredible story. It will become a movie.
I'm sure. The Savage and Noble Death of Bab's Dione
brilliant book.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Second one.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Sa Crosby's book, King of Ashes, banger of a book.
You'll read it in two days over Christmas. Sa Crosby's
written loads of books. I've read them all. This is
the best one, King of Ashes.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
It came up this year.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
There's a reason why it's got I think that sum
of Night two thousand and five star of views on Amazon.
And then if you really want one that's going to
knock you off your backside.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Ian McEwan's What Can We Know?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I read it twice this year. It moved me that much.
I can't even talk about the ending of it without
welling up.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's a beautiful, beautiful book. Read quite a few of
his books.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
There's one of his books that became a movie movie
with Daniel Craig called Atonement. You might have seen that
Kieren Nightly a couple years ago. But What Can We
Know is my book of the Year by Ian McEwen.
I love that, all right. Those are my recommendations, all
the ones we've talked about. Alex is coming up next
with his, and we've got a load of yours coming
through as well. We put all these. By the way,
I get a lot of the emails about this feature

(08:12):
because we're spoiled. There's just so much stuff around to
watch at the moment. Those about eighty seven streaming channels, books, movies,
what's good?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
What do you like? We put up on our social.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Channels as well, so if you're trying to remember what
we've talked about, you'll find it all over the weekend.
It might be books and things you want to get
for friends over Christmas or else.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
People to get you.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Head to the Christian O'Connor sean on Facebook, on Instagram
as well. And if you're go our recommendation anything that
you've really enjoyed this year, text me four seven five.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Three one oh four three Thank you.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Last show the year, so double thumbs up, sho do.
Every Friday we talked about our favorite things that we've
enjoyed the last seven days, our recommendations, our favorite things
that we've enjoyed this year, Share yours. Good morning, Richard
Christian best book?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Have you heard it? Project hell Mary?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, it's the same author that wrote the Martian great
book Really Good. It's gonna be a movie, isn't it?
Ryan Gosling and weir I figures the author Christian. Best movie.
I've seen The Penguin Lessons, which is Steve Coogan's movie
this year. And our group Patsy had Mays tell Final
Season incredible TV. And Christian my favorite podcast, Stephen Bartler's
Diary of a Ceo, which is a banger on podcast

(09:26):
that is so good. If you want to start listening
to Diary of a Ceo, I tell you what is
really good, both interesting and entertaining.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Other Jimmy Cart.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Jimmy Car has been on it three times and the
great episodes really very interesting. Christian, I got into a
band had been around for years, The Darkness this year.
I love their music, Sense of Human I've listened to
your audiobook. I know you interviewed them back on the day, Christian.
That story gave me a good laugh.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
The Darkness step debut album I think came out two
thousand and three. Permission to Land was a huge, huge seller.
They launched it on my old breakfast show. We did
them live in front of two thousand people midway during
a breakfast show. Unfortunately, one of their songs, they did
the unedited version of it and it had eleven times

(10:13):
they said the word f eleven times at ten Pa
stay middle of the school run it to all of London.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
My radio career was only four years old, and I
was like, we.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Told them, we told them not to do this and
if you know the Darkness, they won't listened to that,
nor should they. We didn't get a single complaint are
you serious? Which also said to me maybe we didn't
have a single listener about then by this small show.
I don't know which was more true, with the lack
of listeners or the lack of complaints.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
But anyway, glad you enjoy The Darkness.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
They're a great band and he's a great follow on
Instagram as well, does a brilliant series where he talks
about his favorite pop songs can be anything from Gaga
to The Stones and how they put together. It's really
been I've learned so much from music about it. Justin
on Instagram. All right, Alex, what have you love this year?

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Well, just before we get to that, The Darkness. They
are an incredible band. I saw them in Perth a
number of years ago and they did the best rendition
of ac DC's Back in Black that I think.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh wow, what a tree. When fans do a good
cover of Verse. It was so so good. But my pix.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
So I have two crime dramas that have stayed with
me my entire life. The first one is The Wire,
that's an American one. It was an incredible show, incredible show.
Closely followed by that is a show called Kin It's
about an Irish crime family. It's on SBS on demand
and I think about it often.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
It just rocks you to your core. So you put
it up there with the wy The Why.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I would say that's in my top five greatst TV
shows ever long the Sopranos.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Definitely, it's just below the Wire for mine. Wow, because
I think I spent a bit of time in Ireland.
So I lived in Ireland just after I left school,
and I guess there's this fascination there with these crime gangs.
There's a kind of hand crime gang that I think
this show is loosely based on.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
And I thought, you meant this show is Lucy based
you look Pats. Then I hear.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, So it's it's a brilliant It's got Aden Gillen
little far from the Game of Thrones. You might have
seen him around Kieren Hines. He started in a couple
of Australian dramas.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Also in Gamer, also in Game of Thrones.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
GA Thrones as well. So it's just fantastic and it
tenners around the death of one of the crime family
sons and this revenge and this absolute I don't know,
chase for the dollar and it's it's just it's fantastic
and I couldn't stop watching it, and I watched it
on my own and so I just absolutely loved it.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
We all have a TV show, don't we that you watch.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
That was no interruptions?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, no where you start to watch it with
your partner and they go, do you know what, this
isn't for me?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
This is your one? Yeah, that's last Samurai standing.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
My wife was as soon as you saw a samurai
saw bin unsheath you and you know what, this is
not one for me. You could have this one. So
yours is king mineus last samurai standing? Perparentsly does Chris
watch Handmad's.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Gosh no, no, it's like a little gift when he says, yeah,
I think I'll go to Yes.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Any relationship. You need your own sovereign TV show, don't you.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
It's the best, Yes, and so kense Real Quick Bill
Simmons podcast, The Best sports caster. I think in the
world if you want to get into American sports, so
you're you know, your grid Ion, your NBA as well.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
He is fantastic. He's a machine that guys Shane the
ring The first.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Podcasters in the world before Rogan or anybody else, was
Bill Simmons. Have you seen his interview with John Cena
from two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I have not. Oh my god, it's incredible. Really, Oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I've never been to a wrestling event in my life
and it was so good and it's so interesting about
what it is like the live events that I googled
when is it next? When is ww next back in Melbourne?
It's here next year and I brought tickets.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh wow, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Listen to a John Senia interview on Bill Simmons the Ringer.
It's so good at it.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
You love it.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
He does it so well, mixing culture with sport and
it's just hilarious. And my book would be ten percent
happier by Dan Harris had got me through a very
very difficult time earlier in the year. It's a wonderful
journey through I guess self help meditation. He was an
American journalist in that cutthroat world of TV journalism in

(14:12):
the US. He started doing some more stories on religion
and he sort of got into Buddhism in a big way,
not so much the religious side of it, but the
meditative side of it and the looking inwards and taking
time for yourself. And I started really to do that myself,
and it really got me through the breathing. Something as
simple as sitting there and taking those deep breaths. I

(14:33):
did it yesterday. I took ten minutes to sit there
and just meditate. And I can't tell you the difference
it makes.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I really enjoyed his book and the podcast, The Brilliant
ten Percent Happier.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Dan Harris is Britiant.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
If you go on YouTube, you see a famous clip
of his where the poor guy had a panic attat
live on air and then starts talking about what's happening.
It's an incredisor that that it's had millions of views.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
That book is very simple, easy to read and use
advice as well.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, it's fantastic going have a read. It could change
your life.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
It kind of changed mind, I'll be honest, Yeah, it
really did, because I'd never really been into that sort
of stuff. It's sort of kicked around a bit. I'm like, yeah,
I don't know about the meditation thing. I read that bang,
I do it and it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, Good morning, it's The Christian
O'Connell Show, our last live show of the year.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
What a banger of the morning as well. Oh my word,
what is it going to be thirty seven today, Patsy.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Any one today?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes? And how's the weekend looking?

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Twenty eight tomorrow, but it will there'll be a few
showers tomorrow, have.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
A warm showers, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Exactly, warm, right, exactly.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
And Sunday's cloudy and twenty but we won't talk about that,
so we don't.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let's focus on today and tomorrow. Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Over the last two weeks, the last ten shows, ten
days of e and esthmus, we've been giving you big prizes.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Thanks to us and Higher.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I've grad your kitchen, barthroom and laundry before the festive season.
Today huge prize. Literally they're stacked on top of each other.
It is the Higher Washer drier combo. Talk about four
grands worth of care. You've got the dryer and the
washer in a tower now before you call in going,
I want that the washer dry combo, the stack, the

(16:16):
tower power. You need to know it's a meet and
a half. So if you're winning this.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or you want to win it, you've got to have
the space. Bazari.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yesterday, we've got our brand new because we moved this week,
we've got our brand new dryer, and because we're downsized,
and we have actually done at the bog.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
And way stacked them on top of each other.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, not as one unit, but they are on top
of each other because we haven't got the space, all.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Right, So you can win this now.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now, over the last two weeks, here's what we've done,
all kinds of games with barrying. Yesterday's shaz A clause. Actually,
if you've got kids and you've got family, and you
really need a washer and try and this is both
of them in one tall meet and a half units,
you really need this. You haven't got time right now
for silly games. So today I just want to know.
I wanted to go to someone who really needs it,
because actually, you know, we've all got families on the show.

(17:02):
If you've got a knackered washer dryer, that's this misery
in your life. Honestly, we've had so many winners the
last two weeks. You just really need it for various reasons.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
The washers or.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Dryers we've given away, we've given away, also given away
wine fishes. But a washer and dryer to a young
family right now, or even a family with teenagers is
literally going to change your Christmas.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I just want to go to someone who really needs it.
So there's no game, there's no quiz.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
If you really need this right now, make a differency
in your life, give me a call.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Last show of the year of the last two weeks,
thanks to Ianis and Higher, we've been doing our ten
days of ian esmus today a big Bride's literally it's
a meet and a half. It's a stack, it's a
washer dryer, the Higher washer dryer combo all one unit,
meet and a half, wash your clothes, dry clothes. If

(17:54):
you tie on space that we all are. It's all
on top of each other. A stack, a tower, a
washing drying hour. Claudia, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (18:03):
You need this, Oh my goodness, I need it so much.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
What's the situation at home? What do you got young kids? Teenagers.

Speaker 7 (18:11):
And so I'm actually a single mom to a four
year old, and I had to move home this year
with my parents due to rent increases being absolutely bunkers. Yeah,
and now we have six adults in the household. Mom
and Dad's rusher pooped itself.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
We don't have a.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
Dryer, and they are using my old, tiny one from
when I was in a rental, and they are just
clothes horses everywhere. With that many people in one.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Household, we can end this right now. You're exactly who
needs this.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Claudia, it is yours.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh my god, no, Quez, you can win it right now.
You exactly who we wanted to give this to. Single mom.
That is hard, hard, hard for beautiful but single mom
back home with mom and dad.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's a lot going on, Claudia.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Oh my gosh, this is going to be so.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Much to us.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I bet you. I know what it's like.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's just you, you know, mom and dad, Dan, and you
know what you got, boil girl.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
I have a a four year old son, Jase.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Jase, Okay, Well, hopefully this can make things a bit
easier at the moment. And you're right, these rent increases
what a nightmare for people.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
I never thought i'd be back at home at you know,
twenty seven, But here, here you are.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 7 (19:25):
She's like, this is going to help us all so much.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I already hope. So, I already hope that. Well, we didn't
want to do a silly quiz. It's it's like, if you.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Really need your silly life, you can just have it.
We're so this is Claudia. I hope this makes real.
I hope this makes obviously a challenging year for you
just a bit easier over Christmas.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Oh, you have no idea, like, actually no idea.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, hope you and Jace and mom and dad and
all of you in that crazy noisy house have a
lovely Christmas New Year, and I hope a lot of
times ahead for you next year as well.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Claudia.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Oh, I appreciate all of you so so much.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's right, it's our pleasure. Why it's lovely to give
it to you. Claudia, have a lovely Christmas and a
great new Year as well as you and Jace.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Thank you so much too.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
All right, Oh, thank you, take care. Bye bye.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Hey, good morning, it's the Christian O'Connell show, last one
of twenty twenty five. Now, when we return after a
very short break, I barely get a day or two off.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
If you add them up, it's a couple of days. Sure.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
And I guess if you were going to be cynical,
you say it looks.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Like four or five weeks. All right, who's counting?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
But when we are back, this show will be available
to all of Australia.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I know whose idea was that. And I've had a.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Lot of emails this week, people saying, you know, it's
very exciting, and I know some of you are like,
are things going to change? They're not, absolutely not. There's
no reason why I would need to do that. It's
not going to change at all. And in January you'll
probably get sick of reading interviews with me. I apologize
in advance. They're going to be wheeling me out everywhere.
But we're on a mission here. I really believe that

(21:05):
right now, what we do on this show, whatever that is,
and you get to decide what it is. I make
the show, We make the show, but ultimately you take
and you get what you want from it. And it's
different from every single listener. But whatever that is, whyever
you come to us in the morning and hang out
with us for ten twenty minutes, an hour or whatever.
That won't change. I promise you there's no reason why
we do that. Whatever it is we do, it just

(21:27):
continues what it does mean.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
And this is.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why I'm so excited about this and why I have
been working on this for seven years. That's gone here
is it means more stories. It means more stories. And
that's what the show loves our stories, your stories. We
share our stories to get your stories. Your stories are
what is the life blow of the show. So what
that means is more stories on the show, funnier, well
maybe funnier time wastes, more time waster. That's what it

(21:52):
really means. In terms of am I going to change
or anything. No, And a lot of people right now
are all trying to go like, oh what about this?
What about that? It's just a radio show. All it
will be is us talking between songs.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Nothing changes. I promise you, hand on heart. I can't
wait for it. I think's going to change. Whatever you'ven
joined on last seven years or whether you or new
to the show, it won't change. There's no reason why
we would do that. I love what we do here
in the morning. I don't know how to describe it.
I don't need to, but whatever it is, it will
continue on CHAPPERD the nineteenth.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
You what you think I'm smart enough to come up
with some secret playbook? Sure do you know that? By now?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
There's no secret playbook. Whatever it is, it's right now.
And this is what the show is. Every day I'm
in a studio and at the window out into Richmond
of where we broadcast from every morning, there are post
it notes with random ideas. And here's how the show works.
I wander over to the window. I chat to the team.
We look at the post it notes with various things
written on there, like right now, pets with amazing names,

(22:51):
half in, half out, save the shout, running late, broke
in or out, thirty seven days. That means thirty seven
days the national show. Why do I smell our onions?
And I wander over there and I grab one of them.
That makes me interested, and we do that. That's what
Next year is more random post it notes with things

(23:12):
like that over there. That's it all right, So yesterday
on the show, and this just means more of this
yesterday on the show, we were talking about finding love
in an unusual place that West music. Now it is
not love in a homeless place. It's an unusual place.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Who do you. Three of you.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Found your love of your life in local pizza restaurants.
Two of you at the same one, Liddly Dell Chucci Pizza.
If you're looking for love, get down Lidlydale's Tucci Pizza.
We had a call from Steve was a traffic controller
when a lady gave her a number. They now been
married twenty two years. Kerry was watching a local cricket game.
Ball came through her window knocked up for six. She

(23:56):
ended up marrying the bowler obviously wasn't an English bowler.
Kylie was set up by her ex on a blind
date with a guy. They've been married thirteen years. Linda
Krishna met my partner the karaoke baby shower.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
We're getting married. I know there was a thing.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
What a wonderful world we live in karaoke baby showers.
We're getting married in April, a couple months time. We're
having the said baby as our flower girl.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
She is now six. All right, So if you found
love in an unusual place. We're looking for your story.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Give us a corn now thirteen fifty five twenty two
and you can also message me. Oh four seventy five
three one oh four three. It's the last show of
the year.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Good morning, Glenn Webber Christian. A quick question on the
England summer teams fling. Has any player ever missed a
Test match because of sunburn?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Glenn? How dare you? They'll be fine? They're all it
sucks up?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
You're right though, I don't know, you know, maybe I
was pasty when I got here, but when I see
that inkling team now they look real pasty.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Is that how we all look to you guys?

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now nutished and doing each other.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Sun's green coming in by.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
This is so hot here are there and Noosa, they'll
be boiling. They should be kept indoors until Adelaide. They
can't have any more excuses for poor performance.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Too hot a new sir, We've got sand up a cracker,
all right.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
So you found love in unusual place, Christian. I met
my husband at the Taurak and Line Pub. It was
one dollar a drink unionight. We've been together for eighteen years.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Fantastic.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I met my partner at a funeral. We've been chatting
at the wake. The rest is history. This is not
an uncommon place for people to hook up funerals. It's
something about being that close to death that reminds you
to live. I bet there's quite a few people listening
who've met people at weight. You might not get married
to them, but you might hook up. Christiana, I met

(25:53):
my love in bed. Oh we've been married thirty four us. Now.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
I did reply to.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
This person, I said, if you don't mind share a
bit more stories, Kenan, what have you found out?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
What do they mean they met their partner in bed?
And is it radio friendly?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Ken?

Speaker 10 (26:09):
We gave keV a call. He was unable to chat
on the air in bed. He did extend while he
was driving. He was on a night out with his mate.
Came back. He was like, yeah, you can go and
stay in this room.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
So he went in there, he went to sleep, and
then he woke up in the middle of the night
and there was a woman sitting on the end of
his bed. Yeah, and he was like, what's going on here?
They started chatting, fell in love and they've been together.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Who was the mystery woman. How did she get in?

Speaker 11 (26:33):
So her friend also came back with the mate.

Speaker 10 (26:36):
So the mate, the mate that told him go and sleep.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
She made no effort.

Speaker 10 (26:40):
No, he made no effort. He was sleeping.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
He needs to write book about manifestation.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
What's his bloody secret? Literally they could wake up and
have met somebody.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Love of his life sitting on the end of the bed.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Nothing single right now? Is going? If only that? Christian?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, so do not be going to bed right now,
scrunching her eyes open when they wake up, the.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Future love of the love just sat on the bloody
end of the bed. No effort involved.

Speaker 10 (27:06):
He did say you got lucky that night?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
I said, is it radio friendly?

Speaker 10 (27:12):
I said lucky?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
You mean he got lucky because he met the love
of his life.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Standards, guys, they're going to be standards next year as well.
Christ and I found love in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
We were both pastry chefs on a cruise ship. She
was from Brazil. She's now an Aussie's citizen.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
We've been married ten years and have a beautiful nine
year old son.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
His name is Doballs.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, of course it's not Doble chastory thing you can
make all right, You've found love. They're a little bit
sluggish today. It's Friday, end of the year. You know,
we're like a band that had been on tour all year,
get a bit frayed around the edges. Why are we
finishing today as well? I mean, I know this is
later than radio normally does. I think it's do you know,

(27:59):
by the way, it's my fault that Australian radio is
working later this For seven years, I couldn't believe how
early we used to break up in the UK.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I used to work up until Christmas Eve.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
So I campaigned to the governing body of Australian Radio
saying that we should work later into the air. I'm sorry, guys,
it's my it's my fault. But it's not late though.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Everyone we're talking to right now, they'd love to break
up right now today, They're not.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
They going to work.

Speaker 10 (28:25):
Australians are more relaxed.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Lazy, yeah, lazy. Need Australian radio shows are lazy.

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Look at what you've done. Half the team is unwell.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Your point, Alex, He's only been in eight hours and
my TV responsibilities ended.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
On the twenty five.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
He's got more downtime than cricket teams and joined them.
You can, yeah, a bit of golf and you can
rub their slip stop into their shoulders, stop them burning.
Ahead of next week in Adelaide. All right, you found
love in an unusual place?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
What's your story?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Christian O'Connell's shown podcast.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Christian O'Connell's show, last one of the year. If you
found love in an unusual place, feel like Jerry Springer,
if you found love and initials place.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Wait, look for your stories today. I love them. I
met my wife at a monastery, at a funeral monkey love.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Oh this is incredible. What hey, listen, monks want to
get it on.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
They and get it on.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
What goes on in that robe is not my business, Christian.
I met my husband at a milk bar when I
was fourteen.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh wow, it's appropriate. Don't worry. It's not one of
those stories. Two years later, when we were sixteen, we
got what.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
You don't get married at sixty. And I'm saying that
to my daughters. All right, nobody else. My daughter's lowest
form you do get married, it's sixteen. But however, for
Sharon was the right thing. They've been married thirty six years.
That is incredible these days once you get over twenty
years of marriage. And my wife and I've been married
twenty seven years. Let me tell people people who sort

(30:02):
of clap my oh, my god, that's incredible because obviously it's.

Speaker 10 (30:07):
Hard fifty divorce like marriages in divorce, I think it is.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, you get married next year to be excited, So
I'll go in the distance.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yea, we will. We've already been together ten years.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Oh then if you're doing ten years only living together, yeah,
that's the bigger test and getting married.

Speaker 11 (30:23):
And because we're gay, we started living together a year
after we met, like immediately.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Now you saying that because it's a gay thing, yeah
it is.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I mean because we're gay, we started living together women,
I was living together and I'm not gay with my
wife trying to steal soft from us.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
No, gays can't have all the fun.

Speaker 10 (30:38):
We often do it quick, so we're actually quite slow.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
And my partner for getting married like after ten years,
that's quite so for the lesbians.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Is it why our gay girls notorious have been.

Speaker 11 (30:48):
Quick notorious everything very very down the aisle?

Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (30:52):
Absolutely, they fall in love very quickly, very hard and
it's very like, oh it's just you and I are
They get very jealous very quickly.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
That is fascinating, not us, all right, So we did
the sort of Friday we call it the People's Playlist.
We give you a theme, you pig all the songs
from it. We play all your songs.

Speaker 12 (31:09):
Yeah, they were listening and calling and choosing the music
and just when hit eh, somebody made the station choy play.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
The People's play Listen Christian calin right now when help
Christian big the songs for Friday show, Christian.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I met my wife at the walk About Covent Garden.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Covent Garden is in London.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
The walk About is a chain of Australian theme pubs
in London. Oh my god, I've had many and many
many a late night, long afternoon and Walkabouts.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Go in there, smash the little beers and have.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
An Ostrich burger and us palms think, oh, it's not
what it's like in Australia. And there's like TV's only
show sports.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
But what's the ninety nine Cricket World Cup there? When
with Pakistan it was amazing. Well, Shane listened to us
in Sydney, met his.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Wife at the walk about in London's Covent Garden drinking
snake bites. They've been together twenty five years. All right,
people's played this this Friday. Here's the thing, last show
of the year. When we're back Janey nineteenth. The show
is back.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
If it goes well, we have some new friends.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
If it doesn't go well and we've got no new friends,
we're all out of a job. So let's aim and
shoot for guys, the new friends for twenty six So yeah,
the show is going to be available to all of Australia. Now.
It doesn't mean all of austraia' is suddenly going to
roll over and listen to us, but it does mean
we are coming to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Haa, Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Already here already.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
So we're taking the show on the road next year
from January the nineteenth, when we're back. Today's people's playlist
is songs about our road trips starting next year. What
are we listening to as we take this show? We
pack up the show we've been doing for seven years,
you do you guys, and be taking on the road.
The windows are down, the sun is what are we
listening to?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Pats? What are we listening to.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
I know what I used to listen to in a
blue Ford Feline growing up up, and that was my
dad was obsessed with the platters and he had one
cassette tape and I reckon it was in the deck, yes,
for about five years and it was just this song
going over and over.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
As he said, this isn't getting them rocking in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
But I tell you what we will Sydney on tuning
from Kay and Jay.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
I'll tell you what will.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
And that's Katrina in the Waves, walking on Sunshine.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Or as I call it, Patrina on the Waves.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yes, he gets it up and about there.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Now this is more like it. This is a road
trip anthem.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
That's all we need for the last hour of the
show this year, Big Friday anthems, road trip Anthems.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Caitlin, what's it you?

Speaker 10 (33:51):
Mine? Has to be the ultimate?

Speaker 11 (33:54):
Absolutely everybody by Vanessa and MOROSSI. We're bringing Australia together
with absolutely everybody.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
It's a part in a song, isn't it? What joy?
This one hundred percent? Is that your wedding year?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Is it?

Speaker 12 (34:09):
Actually?

Speaker 11 (34:10):
I actually said to my partner Nicole, I said, can
I please have this as our entry song, and she
said absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm going to bring my own small bluetooth speaker. I'll
play it for you.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
I'll let you do it, Okay, I'll be a rival
DJ to the DJ hide. Who's a weirding this guy
with a small bluetooth speaker.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Other's Christian?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
This is a vibe call us now then songs, road
trip anthems.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
What should we be playing? She took the show on
the road next.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Year thirteen fifty five twenty two Alex, What.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Do you Love?

Speaker 6 (34:45):
This is a criminally underrated Australian band, The Church, one
of the greatest Astralian songs.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Such a great band, You're such a great under The
Milky Way, Yeah, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant song, yourque Way.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
It's on so many lists of the greatest Australian songs.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Which you.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Still touring and still great live now the Church, brilliant song.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
I've got a young bagpipe in.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
It, yes, yes, about two thirds of the way through
it has a bagpipe solo. It's telling about Australian man's
loving the bagpipe solo. Only wait in the top. They've
got like a fifty two second bagpipe solo Johnny Father.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yes, you're right, all right, I'm going for this. Two

(35:46):
years ago I saw the Boss in Dublin.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
On a young characteristic be sunny Friday night in Ireland
and he did three and a half hours. It was incredible.
The lovely thing was there were people there of all ages. Right,
it's a very broad church and there were teenagers there
and you are the worst of songs like midle aged
people like me. And I've never been to a big
concert where as people left, everybody was in silence because

(36:10):
we've been humbled by the awe of just seeing there's
something special about whatever band it is for you when
someone does it well, whether it was Taylor Swipt a
couple of years ago, if you were Tata Fair at
the g there's something about music in the power of
everyone turning up as strangers and leaving us one and
everyone was in silence. It was like we were leaving
a church. We'd have been humbled by something or inspiring.

(36:32):
It's incredible, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
So road trip anthems, what are we playing from? Eights?
Lines are open now?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Big Energy, BFF, Big Friday Energy Songs only Please thirteen
fifty five twenty two. We're taking your calls next and
you can text me on songsh four seven fourth oh
four seven five. Sorry, oh, I don't know whose number
that is. I'm gonna give it out some point. Persons
again anthems on their phone? Who keeps messageway spam songs?

(37:00):
Maybe next week next year on the show, we just
give out a random phone number.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Ruin their life? Who do you hate? Give me their phone?
Numb spam the Nation.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
The Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
I've just caught up with a brilliant higo. It's gone
after us every mor morning from nine. He, like many
of you, cannot believe that a man woke up in
the middle of the night and his future wife was
just sat there on the bed. He'd never met her before.
I just find this a uniquely Australian story. This guy

(37:37):
had not spent a single dollar, he'd not spent a
single calorie and then he had fun that night. All
of this is like the plot of an eighties movie
that I thought, Oh, that's how life is. It was
the plot of like a Porky's movie. And another This

(37:58):
is another only in Australia news story. By the way,
have you heard this story today.

Speaker 13 (38:02):
A boat owner has come and stuck on the M
eight ring road. His four wheel drive rolled just past
the Jacana Tunnel around one pm. Unfazed. The driver then
set up a camping chair as he waited for the
mess to be cleaned up.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
If I had one word to describe all straight, it
would be unfazed.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
That's old mate, just go. This is a dream. Who
are you? Oh, I'm your future wife? Unface.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (38:32):
They were listening and calling and choose and the music,
and just when hit ate somebody reading the station chaty
lay the people's pay listen. Christian calling right now?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
When help?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Christian songs for Friday Show? All right?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Then all the music for the next and last hour
of the show this year picked by you road trip anthems,
A lot of love coming for this. This is a
great anthem anyway, Friday energy, the Killers, mister bright side
of the debut album. And this is a classic Auntie

(39:12):
anthem as well.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Are you're gonna be my girl? Probably, old mate said
on his bed as he yawned. The World's laziest lover.

Speaker 11 (39:25):
That seems like.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Story hashtag unfazed. And then there's anthems. There's Australian anthems,
and then there's the Bogan ones, t A for Sure,
Tina Arena, No no, why is in there a radio

(39:47):
station in this country called FM?

Speaker 5 (39:49):
How tar you?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
It would be huge, the biggest radio station in the world.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
She is the mother and so.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Absolutely do you reckon? She's in your world. She's a
spring seine of Australia.

Speaker 10 (40:02):
Incredibly you mean that was about Melbourne?

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Wow, all right, I'm looking for a road trip.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Anthrom Association calls now Brendan, good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Good morning guys, Happy Friday, a man.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Happy Friday. What do we need to play today, Brendan?

Speaker 8 (40:25):
What about a bit of Tom Cochran with Life as
a Highway?

Speaker 13 (40:28):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Maybe we open the hour with this also used in
the movie Dumb and Dumber.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yes, all right, yeah, it's on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
One that little scooter together for the first time. This
is the song.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Then padding up listening to Brendan, thank you very much.
Sure we support this ship, and he calls every Friday.
Might have a lovely Christmas New Year, Brendan, son of you.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
Guys, have a wonderful Christmas break and thank you for
the o blessure.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Thank you very much, buddy. Matt, good morning, welcome to
the show. Morning mate, very much mate.

Speaker 9 (41:05):
It's got to be Sunsets by powder Finger.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Matt, thank you very much. Great song. Will stick that
on til the next hour.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Have a lovely Christmas, Matt for a wonderful year listening.
Thank you, thank you very much. Janet, Janet morning, Good
morning Janets? Is that you Janets? Sure is a bit
of a cough there, Janet.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
He's up on the darts mate, and morning.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Good morning Janet. What would you love us to play? Oh,
there's no biggest song.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
Don't Stop Believing by JOUNI.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, you're quite right.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Mark Simpson, this is a road trip bound love it, Janet,
have a lovely Christmas in New Year?

Speaker 1 (42:10):
And who else we got here? We got Simon? Hey, Christian,
good morning to him.

Speaker 9 (42:15):
How are we?

Speaker 1 (42:16):
We're good, Simon? I have Are you having a good week? Someone?
What would you love.

Speaker 9 (42:18):
Us to play?

Speaker 1 (42:19):
For the next hour?

Speaker 9 (42:20):
Spider Byights version of Black Betty would have to be
I prefer.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Their version to the original.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
It's got more crunchy Nadi guitar in it.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
We got a nice black car in the film clip too,
what's that, mame. It's got a nice black hot rod
in the film clip too.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Right, Okay, love this stuff worth pointing out that in
the middle of the show and interrupting me, Simon, have
a lovely Simon, have a lovely Christmas and New Year, buddy.

Speaker 8 (42:47):
You two guys, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
All right, ple's your pleasure? Pleasure? All right? What are
we opening with? Life is a highway.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Let's start there next once we get news and sport
out the way.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
All right, I've got one thousand dollars. It's what we
normally give away for our Call of the week. I'm
going to give it away till the next few fifteen minutes,
and I'm going to give it to one of you
who simply tells me what you love for Christmas. Christmas
the time when kids write wishless. We stopped doing that
at a certain age. Let's bring it back grown up.
So I'm talking to you right now, what you would
you love for Christmas? I got a thousand dollars before

(43:25):
we end the show this year, I'd like to get
you something for Christmas? What would you love? You know
what I want for Christmas. I put it in my
wishless two months ago. It's a lego. Seinfeld TV said, guys,
I know I'm getting it.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
Oh how do you know?

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Because we've moved house this week, right. I get this
on missus O'Connell. She ordered it and put it in
my name.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh no, So package.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Turns up for me from Amazon and thinking, oh, shaky, shaky,
what isn't it? Got myself a gift I didn't even
know about. Open it and I'm like, oh, the lego
and then try and reset it. You can't, you know,
those perforations put it through.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Thank you exactly. It was okay, cattage, okay, kid, just
trying a birthday cake. I was like, god, damn it, Chris,
what did you do?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
And I said, it's got my name on it, Like Sarah,
what's you doing putting it to me?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
That's lazy Christmas shopping? But he got Jeff Bezos to
wrap it with the Amazon.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
He's got to get you something else now, Oh.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Yeah, I don't think that'll be.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
That's not the way it works in marriage.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Beginning to look a lot like Chris.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
And it's what it? What's the gift that you love?
This year? A gift that I would love this year.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
Well, I keep saying to Bonnie a membership to the
mc C or the mc G.

Speaker 10 (44:46):
Do you have to be on that from like birth?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah? Yeah, he's open to jump the que there. Yeah,
he's thinking he's going to be used privileges.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
You know what she did.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
She got me a membership to the North Norman Kangaroos
on my birthday, which was nice.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Really not the same.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
As it, man, I mean that's a membership to another
season of misery.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Now one are you getting hold of? Those are being
given away?

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Probably got it for free and gum tree to a
good home. It's just someone is out on someone's nature strip.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Closed loss at Marvel. Yeah, taxy, what's it for you?

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:22):
In chunks?

Speaker 8 (45:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
No, you have nearly born the old ones out.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
I wouldn't mind a dice in air wrap for my
hair because I'm sick of getting blow dryes all the time.

Speaker 10 (45:31):
Patsy, I feel like you've said that for the last time.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Someone's going to get it her because I judging my
wife and daughters.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
They love that.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Yeah, love God, so please.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
My wife loves her more than me, she do. She
gets excited about using it. We have to factor it
into and when we're going out press what time do
we need to leave? Okay, when I'll fire up the
air rap at five thirty.

Speaker 10 (45:53):
I understand that because they do so much for you.
I used one once.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
It's like it's like a vacuum. It's got eighty seven
different attachments. I don't get it.

Speaker 11 (46:00):
And I'm a girl who can't do my hair. So
when I used it, I was like, this is incredible.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
It's life changing.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Can no I would say?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
My wife would actually say that I don't don't understand it,
but she said it's like a fraction of the time
it would normally be because she's got long, frizzy hair.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
I married a fizzgog.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
And it's good for flyaways.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
No other blow dry flyway Well, you know you get
little bits after you dry your hair that kind of
stick up, Like I know.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
What you mean, sister.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
I am a man besies by flyways.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Do they do men?

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Well, you could use it. It's a unix.

Speaker 10 (46:35):
Yeah you could. It would be I mean, it wouldn't
do much.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Watch it different from a hair dry then? What's different
about it?

Speaker 5 (46:40):
It can curl?

Speaker 11 (46:41):
Yeah, it sucks it in and curls it for you,
so you don't have to Normally you'd have to get
a straightener and you'd have to get at the right
angle to curl it around.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Pull it. You know.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
I'm so glad I'm a man. You have My nineteen
old daughter. The other day he said to me, I
feel sorry if your dad had to live your life
as a man.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
I'm all right being a man. I like it. I said.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
If I think, if I put your mum's head on
for an hour, don't take it off.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Take it off.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
All these thoughts, all these things you have to think about.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Take it off. Give you my simple labrador head.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
The maintenance does grow, doesn't it. Caitlyn without a dobt between.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Guys him about this thing?

Speaker 2 (47:21):
All right, what would you, dear listener love for Christmas?
I've got a thousand dollars. I want to get it
for you.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Last thirty three minutes of the year. Please don't waste
some guys cherish this precious time.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
We have to go so quick.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh god, what would I do for this is color
weeks without a microphone to speaking too with all my thoughts?

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh god, would that be Okay, what do you want
for Christmas? I'm going to give one of you a gift.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Thousand dollars is what we spend every single week when
we hear a great story from our call of the
week or thanks too, very good sponsors of the show.
The Bennison's Day one but said he's Bence Berrick. Just
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You get seven k more than anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
What a deal? All right?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
So I'm gonna use that one thousand and I was
and get you something you'd love for Christmas. I'm talking
to grown ups. Kids, Get off the phones, all right,
this girl hang out. It's for us grown ups. Okay,
just please let us have one little gift under that tree.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Christian Marianne. When do you think I've got Suzuki Jimmy?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Oh, you know the fun little four by force, little
tinky little cars, aren't they?

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yeah? But they look fun? Just what she wants?

Speaker 11 (48:41):
What's the ladder on the back? I don't understand it.
It's the smallest letter.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
You might be stuck in a sand dune suddenly you
need to get out, and that will help you up
a couple of inches.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
See over the next end. I don't think you would
with that small ladder. Christian.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
I love a green house from a backyard. There's some
Adam Christian. All I want for.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Christmas is a five day Test match?

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Is that from Richard? Is it from Ben's Stokes? From
all the army? There's one a microwave. He wants a
microwave for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Beginning to look Alart Live Christmas, Jenny.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Let's talk to Jenny here. Jenny, welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (49:23):
Now are you seam? Hi Christian? Happy Christmas?

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Happy Christmas? And Jenny, what would you love for Christmas?
This year?

Speaker 8 (49:31):
I actually have everything I could ever want. I've had
a very challenging year, but a really blessed you. I
would love it if my daughter could receive something. She's
had really poor health. She has an ongoing condition that
caused one of her organs to fail this year, and
in March I donated a kidney to her and she's

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doing really, really well.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Oh my god, what a year fore going.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
Really financially hard for her. We've been helping to support her,
but obviously she doesn't have money to go and spoil herself.
I would really love it she could treat her absolutely
a spa day or a night away.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Or opposing like that thing.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
I need her and her partner that would be amazing.
I have everything that I could ever ask for this year.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Jenny, What an amazing mum. First of all, you are
what a thing to do for your daughter.

Speaker 8 (50:18):
Look, honestly, I appreciate that Christian that like you're a dad.
I know that if your kids needed it, you'd do
it and you wouldn't think twice. And I was just
very fortunate.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
We all say that we would do it, but to
actually do it is a very very big thing.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
And what is your daughter's name?

Speaker 8 (50:31):
Her name's Allie.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
And how is she now? She's twenty eight, and how
is she She feeling better?

Speaker 8 (50:37):
Oh, how she's doing amazing.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
She's got a supermum's kidney.

Speaker 8 (50:43):
Well, I have kind of said to her, you've pretty
pressy for the year. We have a funny.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
They take our wallets and sometimes they take our order
to raise these precious kids.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Oh my god, what a year for you and your family.

Speaker 8 (50:57):
It's been a bit tough, but there's plenty of people
out there doing it a lot tougher. But if I
could do something for her, it would mean everything.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
So a spa day yeah yeah, something like.

Speaker 8 (51:06):
That or not away, something to just that she can't
spend it on bills, that she just has to go
and do something fun.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Well we will.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
I'm going to put a call through to Andre and
the Langham and I know that he will look after
her and her team now as well and a partner
and then have an amazing time. Peratsy can donate not
a kidney, but one of her nights.

Speaker 5 (51:22):
Well i've only got one website.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Multiple Well that's what we're going to give away in genuinely.
When Patsy's organ she.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Will love the spar at the Langham and treated like
a queen as she should be.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
A thank you and Jenny, I want to offer that
to you as well, whether you go with your daughter
or she's going to go with a partner, but you
deserve that to one amaze.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
You're inspirational, mum, you are thank you so.

Speaker 8 (51:47):
Much and I just want to encourage everyone to every
year when you have your blood test with your doctor,
please ask them to run a kidney panel because you
can be down to five percent kidney function and not
know is that right?

Speaker 3 (51:58):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 8 (51:59):
Actually organs her. Yeah, you can. You can lose ninety
five percent of your kidney function and not know.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
So you can get it when you get a blood test.
You can just get it.

Speaker 8 (52:06):
Run a kidney panel. Yeah, most doctors will do it,
but just checked that they have. And like, you know,
she's a young, healthy person. You know, it's you know,
you need to look after yourself. If that's the one
thing you're taking to next year's your news resolution, please
do that.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
I will do that, and I hope everyone listening to
taste that as well.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Jenny, have a lovely Christmas in New Year, and I
hope the twenty twenty six is better for you and
Ellie and your family.

Speaker 8 (52:30):
Thank you so so much. I really appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I'm so glad we appreciate you. Thank you so much
for giving us a chorus. Well, I'm so glad that
you got through.

Speaker 8 (52:38):
You're very welcome. Thank you all.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Right, now, a couple of messages have come through over
the last couple of hours. When I was talking about
how the show is going to go national next year
and that doesn't mean anything really for you guys, it doesn't,
and someone said, Christian, I'm really wined that our stories
won't get through. They do, Just like Jenny. The right
stories I always believe do get through. Sometimes that wrong
stories get through, But that's down to the mumblies. They've

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call Themselve producers. And I was looking at you, some
of friends.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Best you do.

Speaker 11 (53:07):
We have a lot of calls coming every single day, Yeah,
and it can be tough.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
Majority of them have.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Who turned that microphone on?

Speaker 10 (53:15):
You did?

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Oh my world, what a mistake.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Rio's not here and she somehow crept into his seat
over She somehow crept in. You weren't in he yesterday
and I just heard he's piping up earlier and I
was like, how she got on it?

Speaker 1 (53:30):
You know what? You found?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
That little Suzuki Jimmy ladder. You've climbed up it to
Rio's microf the Horizon's.

Speaker 10 (53:39):
Very important minutes of the show.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
No no, no, no, all right, We have the last
time Waste of the year coming up next.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
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recipes and giveaways. We're looking for your Christmas bands.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
We three Kings of Leon.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Oh good Silver, My Carol Romance now my Chemical, My
Carrol Egg Carols.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
J C d C.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Rocking out, walking on water, Messiah Kerrey.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
Brilliant, She's a Massara.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
We were talking about the band Santana everywhere. You know,
he really transforms at Christmas for Cutlas Carlos Santa straight.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Out of a Christmas cracker bat.

Speaker 10 (55:09):
I'm still up.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Car Radio is exploding all around that comedy Toys to
Men and Noel Doubts.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
No, nice work.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
I'll give you a gold Oh thank you?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
All right, what have you got, Macca? You're will to
compt Christmas bands?

Speaker 10 (55:30):
Okay, I'm kicking off strong with the cause.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Sorry, the cause. That's good. That's gold.

Speaker 9 (55:39):
Alrighty.

Speaker 11 (55:40):
There's a band full of reindies Madonna and Dancer and
Prancer and and that's a.

Speaker 10 (55:49):
Bronze What about this one? This will be gold. Absolutely,
I'm so confident. Status ho ho ho.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
That's another bronze ball for you.

Speaker 11 (55:59):
Okay, Two Bankers Radio slid.

Speaker 10 (56:06):
Radio Slidila.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
That's good. That's good mate. Okay, here, come on and
strong with the gold.

Speaker 10 (56:12):
Okay, it's fletwood sack.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
That's gold.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
What have you got then? Christmas bands? It is the
last time Waster of the year.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Last show of the year. Last time was of the year.
Thank you so much everyone who sends them in every
single day, like you Richard Ran Christian. I can't think
of one today, but thanks for making my bor in
trying to work every morning enjoyable and encouraging us listeners
to share our stories each day.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
That's what we come here for. Richard, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Have a little bit Christmas in New year, all right, Katie,
you ready to mark to roll? Okay, Christmas bands, two
Christmas Hams thanks to the brilliant Butcher's.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Club to give away. Danny Powell, not Little Kim, little
hymn good.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
That's a goal.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Slady Gaga Silver, Slay Charles Silver. Jess has got drummer
Boys to men a.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Very good gold.

Speaker 10 (57:10):
Plus you can have a hair well.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Done Jess Simon and Gift Funkel. Wendy that's Wendy. That's
very good Ham, not wham. What about Franz Navi?

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Dad Daniel? That's very good. Bonbon Jo love a bonbon
that Nat King. You're getting cald for Christmas?

Speaker 5 (57:32):
No bronze that sucks and.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Jaxy's midnight trampoline set up? All right, who's getting the ham?
Then that's it for us. Have a lovely Christmas in
New Year. We will see you in January.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Take care, Melbourne.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
The Christian o'connal Show podcast