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The Christian O’Connell Show

FULL: Quintessential Friday

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Double Thumbs Up, Things You Believed As A Kid, Weekend Plans, The People's Playlist, Ironing, Where Did You Go To Labour and That's SO Australian!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

iHeart podcasts you can hear more gold 104.3 podcast playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app got anything good

0:10.6

hey this is the christian o'connell show podcast welcome to the weekend happy friday, everybody. Good morning, Rio.

0:22.2

Happy Friday. Morning Alex. Morning. Happy Friday.

0:25.3

Morning. Now listen, team, let's get straight into this week's edition of double thumbs up.

0:30.9

This is where we go around the team. We talk about the shows that we're into, books, TV shows, apps.

0:34.9

Whatever, you might find your next favorite TV show during the next 20 minutes. Patsy, what are you giving a double thumbs up to?

0:40.9

I did want to pay homage to Diane Keaton, who we sadly lost this week, far too young at

0:45.6

79. And I was thinking some of my favourite movies, and there's so many. I watched Father of the

0:50.9

Bride last Saturday night. Yeah, we watched it Monday night with the girls, yeah.

0:54.3

But there was one, because I said so, which was a 2007 flick and, you know, just a romantic sort of funny story of an overbearing mum with three grown-up daughters and trying to get them set for life.

1:08.1

And essentially, and this is something that I'm grappling with right now with Audrey,

1:12.6

you have done so with your two girls, that whole thing of letting go as a parent. And so Diane's

1:20.5

character, there's this beautiful monologue in one of the scenes where she says, you know,

1:26.1

how do I let go and essentially let you fly,

1:30.7

birdie fly? It's just gorgeous. She could do incredible drama like movies, not the Godfather.

1:34.9

Then the comedies, romantic comedies. I've never seen Diane Keene in a bad movie.

1:39.4

No.

1:39.9

I don't think she made any bad movies. No. No. Incredible ones. If you really are looking for

1:43.6

something at a movie to watch every weekend, you can't go past any of the movies. No, no. Now, incredible ones. If you really are looking for something at a movie to watch every weekend,

1:45.1

you can't go past any of the light.

1:58.6

Was I remember 40 odd movies? I think I saw it the other day. She made incredible range. All right, what else, Pat, she gets your doll thumbs up? Yeah, the other thing last night we watched I Like Me, which is the John Candy documentary. Oh, I've seen this.

1:59.2

Enjoy it.

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