MINI: Cinema Encounter
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Christian recounts a wild encounter with an elderly couple, Malcolm and his wife, at an Elvis movie. As Christian tries to enjoy the film, Malcolm starts snacking on his popcorn and even makes off with his Toblerone. But what happens next is just the beginning of a series of events that will leave you in stitches.
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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 let me tell you about what happens Saturday night. |
| 0:24.2 | All right, so you're going to be stunned that I said nothing, but you need to understand. |
| 0:29.8 | In certain ways, I am becoming Australian. |
| 0:31.9 | I have an Australian passport, but there are certain characteristics and behaviour. |
| 0:35.4 | You can't deny your DNA and where you erase. |
| 0:38.7 | I am an Englishman and there's something in our DNA. |
| 0:41.6 | You cannot stand the thought of causing a scene. |
| 0:44.2 | However, it is extreme. |
| 0:46.0 | What happened to me Saturday night. |
| 0:48.1 | So I went to see this Elvis movie, epic, Elvis Live in concert. |
| 0:51.7 | As I take my seat, I've got my glass of red wine and my snacks. I'm good to go. |
| 0:56.8 | I sit down next to an elderly couple. They are bickering. They're really having a real, full-on |
| 1:04.1 | bicker. They are, I'm guessing, late 70s. As I'm sitting down, the credits are starting to come and |
| 1:10.5 | tell us about forthcoming |
| 1:11.8 | feature presentations at the cinema. They're still bickering. And people are starting to like |
| 1:17.2 | tut, but I don't know whether the mixture of them being old. They've also, you can tell, |
| 1:21.1 | had a couple of drinks. I'd simply lean over and say, hey, everything's all right? Right? And she |
| 1:26.7 | goes, he's forgotten his defade. I'm like, I said, well, look, I said, we're two rows from the screen, because we were two rows from the screen of a very big screen. I'm sure he's going to pick up enough of what's happening. It's Elvis live in concert. You're obviously been around for a while, but she goes, he's only going to hear some of it. And I'm like, okay. And they start bickering. I'm saying, I'm sure it's going to be fine. And then she goes to me, she leans over because he's in between us. She leans over to me and goes, you can tell him what he can't hear then. Oh, no. Six bats down, right? So, five minutes in, I swear to God, |
| 2:03.6 | Malcolm, we became that close friends, |
| 2:05.7 | leans over, it's the first of many times, |
| 2:07.7 | he goes, what did he say? |
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