February 5, 2026 • 10 mins
This week on the Christian O'Connell Show, Patsy shares her latest TV obsession, the fourth series of Bridgeton. She gushes about its stunning scenery, beautiful period setting, and the show's clever approach to releasing episodes. Christian and the team discuss their own viewing habits, with Christian revealing his wife's reaction to his attempts to watch a Marvel TV show with their daughter. They also share their recommendations, including a new app that's been a game-changer for Christian's writing process.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more gold one I
four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey? This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Every Friday,
we give you our recommendations TV shows, movies, apps, books.
You share yours with us as well. Text me oh
four seventy five three one oh four three, Patsy, what
are you enjoying at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Dearest gentle reader. The fourth series of Bridgeton has dropped.
It is Catney for women.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The Globe absolutely loves it. What's the first two seasons
that I tapped out? But it's a big good show though, isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It beautifully made? Makes me want to go to Bath
and just have a look at all of the scenery.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is just stunning, just saying that Bath is a
modern city. Brigitton is a fictional.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Period, but you can still see where they feel.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Not love, that's not a snapshot of now. Bath is
a beautiful place. It's such a popular show, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, It's just beautiful and it's just it's gorgeous. And
the real highlight for me for this season is that
it features an Australian born actress, which is really really
exciting year. And her who is a Nighter graduate, is
in this series and she is the love interest this
time with Luke Thompson Benedict.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And I mean, yeah, for Rio and I we're not
watching it, and I imagine a lot of men listening
right now. Not to make generalizations, but I think it's
probably true. You could be naming anyone. And who plays
bing being this year?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How raunchy is it this year, Patsy, Well, we'll see.
We'll see. They're doing a bit of a Stranger Things
approach in that they're dumping sections of the series. So
we've got the first four EPs and the second part
two drops Lady this month about that, if that is.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
To let the ladies cool off, let me just and
myself on those steamy scenes when Lord wats his face,
dropped his breeches smelling salts.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's a bit like that, but.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's very clever, and they're doing it with a lot
of popular series now and it's just like, you know,
it's like feeding your addiction and then they snatch it back.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And tell me, this is that just your show, Patsy,
Because for my wife it's like she doesn't want me around.
Oh no, no, no, I for go and just do
something else because she just it's just her thing. Because
half the time I think it's also because they're sex scenes.
She doesn't want me to joke up to tea.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was thinking of the love God saying to me,
what's going on? Who's he on with?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But who is the who's narrating it? Who is later
whistled it? It's like, can you please just please just
let me.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Watch she's the lady that writes the blog.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, that, and it's revealed who she is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Scandal and they do that do they sort of the
great thing where they take pop songs and they have
like love that is so good?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, like with beautiful string quartets, and you think like this, oh,
I know this song is an e cheerance song, or
it's this it's very clever, it's brilliant. It sort of
pulls you back into the present when you're sort of
imagining this, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
My god, we're in the past. Insurance here would have
thought fantastic everywhere, no matter where you are, what decades
you're in, your century, living in tune? Is he not?
He's omnipotent?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He's busking in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast that we can why don't
he balance it out? Watch die Hard? Then Alan Rickman
pays for his infidelity with his life at the end
of the movie. Mike, that's a great idea. You're restoring
harmony in my marriage. See look karma he got his Wow.
(04:02):
How like that's a genius idea about that is I'm
going to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
High level husbanding. That Wow, that is.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Very very good. Christian. When Bassi said that Bridgeton was
doing a stranger things, then I was hope she was
going to say there are now paranormal demons killing off characters.
I will start watching us or having relationships with the regulars.
Glenn Webber, very very good. We're doing We're doing Recommendation
(04:32):
Station with its every Friday. We share our recommendations, what
we're enjoying at the moment. You shall you share yours
as well. Michelle is watching Nurse Jackie, which came a
couple years ago, which is absoually brilliance from the sopranos
Edie Falco's show. It's supposed to be incredible. That one
a lot of awards. It's on SBS. If you want
to see it here? All right? Two things to me?
What's a TV show? And one is I think in
(04:54):
my time here it's the first time I've ever recommended
an app. Oh wow, yeah, it's a TV show and app.
So yesterday evening I took a big, bold risk. Our
twenty one year old has moved back home for color
weeks getting over her back surgery, and so it was
just me and her last night, and I queued up
a new show for us to watch, and soon she
(05:15):
sat down she was like, no way, I don't like
sci fi frozen. On the screen was this big new
Marvel TV show called wonder Man. She was like, plus,
it's about what superhero guy? No, And I said, it's
got great reviews. It's supposed to be a very unsuperhero
TV show. Then I showed regarding review giving it four
(05:35):
out of five. She respects the girl ardi more sadly
than and so we watched three episodes straight through. Is
that good? And let me tell you this, not once
in three episodes. They're just twenty five minute episodes. Did
she pick up her phone? That is how I judge it.
That is huge. Didn't pick up our phone once? And
(05:59):
I heard it pinging, it was snapping, it was chatting,
it was gramming, it was talking, but she did not
reach for that phone. Hey look at you. Yeah, yeah,
they're gonna keep making show. Guys, there's only five more episodes.
Then the phone's going to take away from Papa. But yeah,
wonder Man, what a brilliant show. He's got superhero powers,
but there's hardly any of that in the show. He's
(06:21):
trying to control them because he wants to be a
Hollywood actor. That's that's not true. Me in It's So good,
cannot recommend enough that is wonder Man on Dizzy Plaster
and the other thing. I struggled to type at the
speed that I talk. So it's a nightmare me sending
(06:43):
an email. And recently it became a real problem when
I had to write a book, and so I was
getting so frustrated I was. I tried out a couple
of different voice dictation apps, tried two or three. There
were only about sixty to seventy percent curate. There were
Dissey's glitches, and so it's slowing me down. And so
then I found one that I have actually used to
write my book, the book that I've written that comes
(07:05):
out in August. The whole thing was spoken out loud.
Because it's a book about speaking and storytelling. It felt
right that it shouldn't be typed out. I should speak out.
So I would go for walks a couple of hours
and I'd be mumbling into my phone. People must have thought,
it's crazy, dude, much is he doing the show? How
he does he walking it in? Phoning it in? He's
(07:26):
walking in the show? What is this? But anyway, I
would dictate it. This thing called Whisper is ninety nine
point nine percent. It's incredible. So I now use it
for emails as well. You just talk away and it
comes out real time at the speed you're talking.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I wonder if it can do the Australian accent, which
we were a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, you have to, you have to. It gets you
to read various things at various volumes for like five
minutes beforehand. It learns you. Yes, yes, I'm sure it's
being uploaded to Chinese nefarious kind of organizations. I don't care.
I've got nothing remotely interesting in my life, just mumblings
of stuff I'm going to talk about on the radio show.
(08:05):
But yeah, Whisper. And because it's an app.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
NOI oh, of course, no.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Vowels in a square.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, Boomer wants to correctly spell out whisper no e
al rio. What's your recommendation station?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Scotty James Pipe Dreams on Netflix will get you so
fired up for the Winter Olympics, which start was already started,
but ceremonies tomorrow. Scotty James is Australia's best metal hope now.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He is.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Skateboarder, snowboarding, halfpipe.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Guy, so so crazy days it's mentally flying there courage
or Matt insane.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
And he has been in the Olympics since he was
fifteen years old. He's from Warren Dye, which is the
outer suburbs of Melbourne. Not exactly a hot, amazing story
in his family as well, it's amazing. And he's never
won Olympic gold, so he's the best in the world.
He's won seven X Games, he's been a world champion.
He's coming into this as the raging hot favorite.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So Australia could win it. Go.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yes, this is massive and it's been hanging over him.
He's been he was a child prodigy, Like I said,
he's been. This is his fifth Olympics and he's never
won a goal. It is his fifth one.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Old is he now?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He is in his thirties. This will be his last chance.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
To get around him. I hope he gets gone. So
when is he in action?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
They start on the eleventh and the finals on the thirteenth,
and it is an incredible story.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And he's in the half pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He's in the half pipe.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
His mum when he was a kid, every weekend you
think Saturday sports bad, he's had His mom had to
drive him nine hours on a Friday night to train
on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Where's the snowy half pipe?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Ye, somewhere like that, and then nine hours back on Sunday,
back to school on Monday. And they would do that
all through winter.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh what a story.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, so I'm really rooting for them. I really.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The documentary is called.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Scotty James Pipe Dreams. It is on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Brilliant. Okay, we're going to get the Leach's News and
sport now and then we're back with the people's played it.
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more gold one I
four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the
free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey? This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Every Friday,
we give you our recommendations TV shows, movies, apps, books.
You share yours with us as well. Text me oh
four seventy five three one oh four three, Patsy, what
are you enjoying at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Dearest gentle reader. The fourth series of Bridgeton has dropped.
It is Catney for women.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The Globe absolutely loves it. What's the first two seasons
that I tapped out? But it's a big good show though, isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It beautifully made? Makes me want to go to Bath
and just have a look at all of the scenery.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is just stunning, just saying that Bath is a
modern city. Brigitton is a fictional.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Period, but you can still see where they feel.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Not love, that's not a snapshot of now. Bath is
a beautiful place. It's such a popular show, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, It's just beautiful and it's just it's gorgeous. And
the real highlight for me for this season is that
it features an Australian born actress, which is really really
exciting year. And her who is a Nighter graduate, is
in this series and she is the love interest this
time with Luke Thompson Benedict.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And I mean, yeah, for Rio and I we're not
watching it, and I imagine a lot of men listening
right now. Not to make generalizations, but I think it's
probably true. You could be naming anyone. And who plays
bing being this year?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How raunchy is it this year, Patsy, Well, we'll see.
We'll see. They're doing a bit of a Stranger Things
approach in that they're dumping sections of the series. So
we've got the first four EPs and the second part
two drops Lady this month about that, if that is.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
To let the ladies cool off, let me just and
myself on those steamy scenes when Lord wats his face,
dropped his breeches smelling salts.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's a bit like that, but.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's very clever, and they're doing it with a lot
of popular series now and it's just like, you know,
it's like feeding your addiction and then they snatch it back.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And tell me, this is that just your show, Patsy,
Because for my wife it's like she doesn't want me around.
Oh no, no, no, I for go and just do
something else because she just it's just her thing. Because
half the time I think it's also because they're sex scenes.
She doesn't want me to joke up to tea.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was thinking of the love God saying to me,
what's going on? Who's he on with?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But who is the who's narrating it? Who is later
whistled it? It's like, can you please just please just
let me.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Watch she's the lady that writes the blog.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, that, and it's revealed who she is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Scandal and they do that do they sort of the
great thing where they take pop songs and they have
like love that is so good?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, like with beautiful string quartets, and you think like this, oh,
I know this song is an e cheerance song, or
it's this it's very clever, it's brilliant. It sort of
pulls you back into the present when you're sort of
imagining this, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
My god, we're in the past. Insurance here would have
thought fantastic everywhere, no matter where you are, what decades
you're in, your century, living in tune? Is he not?
He's omnipotent?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He's busking in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast that we can why don't
he balance it out? Watch die Hard? Then Alan Rickman
pays for his infidelity with his life at the end
of the movie. Mike, that's a great idea. You're restoring
harmony in my marriage. See look karma he got his Wow.
(04:02):
How like that's a genius idea about that is I'm
going to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
High level husbanding. That Wow, that is.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Very very good. Christian. When Bassi said that Bridgeton was
doing a stranger things, then I was hope she was
going to say there are now paranormal demons killing off characters.
I will start watching us or having relationships with the regulars.
Glenn Webber, very very good. We're doing We're doing Recommendation
(04:32):
Station with its every Friday. We share our recommendations, what
we're enjoying at the moment. You shall you share yours
as well. Michelle is watching Nurse Jackie, which came a
couple years ago, which is absoually brilliance from the sopranos
Edie Falco's show. It's supposed to be incredible. That one
a lot of awards. It's on SBS. If you want
to see it here? All right? Two things to me?
What's a TV show? And one is I think in
(04:54):
my time here it's the first time I've ever recommended
an app. Oh wow, yeah, it's a TV show and app.
So yesterday evening I took a big, bold risk. Our
twenty one year old has moved back home for color
weeks getting over her back surgery, and so it was
just me and her last night, and I queued up
a new show for us to watch, and soon she
(05:15):
sat down she was like, no way, I don't like
sci fi frozen. On the screen was this big new
Marvel TV show called wonder Man. She was like, plus,
it's about what superhero guy? No, And I said, it's
got great reviews. It's supposed to be a very unsuperhero
TV show. Then I showed regarding review giving it four
(05:35):
out of five. She respects the girl ardi more sadly
than and so we watched three episodes straight through. Is
that good? And let me tell you this, not once
in three episodes. They're just twenty five minute episodes. Did
she pick up her phone? That is how I judge it.
That is huge. Didn't pick up our phone once? And
(05:59):
I heard it pinging, it was snapping, it was chatting,
it was gramming, it was talking, but she did not
reach for that phone. Hey look at you. Yeah, yeah,
they're gonna keep making show. Guys, there's only five more episodes.
Then the phone's going to take away from Papa. But yeah,
wonder Man, what a brilliant show. He's got superhero powers,
but there's hardly any of that in the show. He's
(06:21):
trying to control them because he wants to be a
Hollywood actor. That's that's not true. Me in It's So good,
cannot recommend enough that is wonder Man on Dizzy Plaster
and the other thing. I struggled to type at the
speed that I talk. So it's a nightmare me sending
(06:43):
an email. And recently it became a real problem when
I had to write a book, and so I was
getting so frustrated I was. I tried out a couple
of different voice dictation apps, tried two or three. There
were only about sixty to seventy percent curate. There were
Dissey's glitches, and so it's slowing me down. And so
then I found one that I have actually used to
write my book, the book that I've written that comes
(07:05):
out in August. The whole thing was spoken out loud.
Because it's a book about speaking and storytelling. It felt
right that it shouldn't be typed out. I should speak out.
So I would go for walks a couple of hours
and I'd be mumbling into my phone. People must have thought,
it's crazy, dude, much is he doing the show? How
he does he walking it in? Phoning it in? He's
(07:26):
walking in the show? What is this? But anyway, I
would dictate it. This thing called Whisper is ninety nine
point nine percent. It's incredible. So I now use it
for emails as well. You just talk away and it
comes out real time at the speed you're talking.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I wonder if it can do the Australian accent, which
we were a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, you have to, you have to. It gets you
to read various things at various volumes for like five
minutes beforehand. It learns you. Yes, yes, I'm sure it's
being uploaded to Chinese nefarious kind of organizations. I don't care.
I've got nothing remotely interesting in my life, just mumblings
of stuff I'm going to talk about on the radio show.
(08:05):
But yeah, Whisper. And because it's an app.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
NOI oh, of course, no.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Vowels in a square.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, Boomer wants to correctly spell out whisper no e
al rio. What's your recommendation station?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Scotty James Pipe Dreams on Netflix will get you so
fired up for the Winter Olympics, which start was already started,
but ceremonies tomorrow. Scotty James is Australia's best metal hope now.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He is.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Skateboarder, snowboarding, halfpipe.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Guy, so so crazy days it's mentally flying there courage
or Matt insane.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
And he has been in the Olympics since he was
fifteen years old. He's from Warren Dye, which is the
outer suburbs of Melbourne. Not exactly a hot, amazing story
in his family as well, it's amazing. And he's never
won Olympic gold, so he's the best in the world.
He's won seven X Games, he's been a world champion.
He's coming into this as the raging hot favorite.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So Australia could win it. Go.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yes, this is massive and it's been hanging over him.
He's been he was a child prodigy, Like I said,
he's been. This is his fifth Olympics and he's never
won a goal. It is his fifth one.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Old is he now?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He is in his thirties. This will be his last chance.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
To get around him. I hope he gets gone. So
when is he in action?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
They start on the eleventh and the finals on the thirteenth,
and it is an incredible story.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And he's in the half pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He's in the half pipe.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
His mum when he was a kid, every weekend you
think Saturday sports bad, he's had His mom had to
drive him nine hours on a Friday night to train
on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Where's the snowy half pipe?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Ye, somewhere like that, and then nine hours back on Sunday,
back to school on Monday. And they would do that
all through winter.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh what a story.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, so I'm really rooting for them. I really.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The documentary is called.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Scotty James Pipe Dreams. It is on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Brilliant. Okay, we're going to get the Leach's News and
sport now and then we're back with the people's played it.
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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