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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Double Thumbs Up

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Looking for something to occupy you this weekend? Hear the team's Double Thumbs Up!

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0:00.0

IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app.

0:09.3

Got anything good?

0:11.1

Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:19.0

Now, I had a long weekend. So many things to go and see and watch. Every Friday on the show, we do a thing called Double Thumbs Up. And over the long weekend, families getting together. You'll all be gathering around the couch. You're confronted with way too much choice. There's too much choice. You don't know what to watch. And so that's what we do, double thumbs up. For me, it's still on

0:38.3

the cinema. I urge you to go and see it at the cinema because that's where it really, it needs

0:42.8

a big room because we're talking about a big talent. I'm talking about Elvis Presley. The Baslim

0:46.7

movie, Elvis was brilliant a couple of years ago. But he's found 60 boxes of unseen footage

0:52.7

of Elvis live in concert.

0:54.3

He stitched together forensically this live performance.

0:58.0

You see Elvis performing and also rehearsing as well.

1:01.8

I realize how hard he worked with that.

1:03.3

The world's greatest backup band as well.

1:05.1

It's called Epic Elvis Presley Live in Concert.

1:08.0

I can't recommend you go and see that enough.

1:09.9

It'll only be on for another week or two. It's one of those things where you do not need to be a big Elvis fan. It's the joy in someone

1:16.2

who is just so amazingly good and live to perform as well. And it reminds you just one amazing voice he had.

1:23.1

He doesn't get enough credit. There was such a big circus around Elvis, his whole life, especially

1:27.5

how it ended as well. That's the story of Elvis. This is the tragedy, not the talent. My God,

1:33.3

that voice. I haven't stopped listening to Elvis this week. I love that. My wife said,

1:37.7

Are you going through an Elvis revival? I just felt like I got to really experience what it

1:42.8

must have been like to seem live. And forget

1:45.3

about the histronics and everything else. Just what a singular talent, which also leads me to the

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