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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Double Thumbs Up

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Every Friday we go around the team and share the movie, tv and podcast recommendations we're giving our Double Thumbs Up to this weekend. Got a recommendation? Let us know. christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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Transcript

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0:00.0

IHart Podcasts.

0:02.3

You can hear more

0:03.1

Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.

0:09.2

Got anything good?

0:11.1

Hey.

0:11.8

This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:18.4

Welcome to the weekend Rio.

0:20.4

Hell yeah. Good morning, Patty. Hello. And happy Friday. Alex Cullen. Boom. He made it. Wow. You sound surprised, Rio. No, no, no. You weren't sure Monday. They're a little bit shaky. Oh, dear. Yeah, yeah. She's hanging on strong. I need the money. Now, and that's, um, honest. Yeah, don't we all. It's the only reason he's here. We all know that. Anyway, listen, let's get through then. Double thumbs up. Alex, we do this every Friday to start the show because you know what it's like? On a Friday night, families are on the couches. There's too much choice. What's good, what's bad. It doesn't matter what you want to watch. You've got to somehow get the vector of what you're happy with, your partner, the kids. It's a compromise. There's actually too much choice these days. There's too much stuff to watch on about 80 billion streaming services now. Half of them, I don't even know what I'm paying for. I've got some building there and are like, I haven't even heard of this. And the kids have got some VPN now when they're watching Tunnel Bear or wherever it is. I'm shelling out now for a bear. So anyway, we call it double thumbs up. We go around the team. We talk about the shows that we're into this week. So a couple of things to me, then kick off this week. Something to listen to. I talked to before about how I love the podcast Smartless. Jason Batelan, Winona and Sean. It's a very funny show. The guests they had on a couple of weeks, Hugh Grant, the funniest episode ever.

1:45.0

Really?

1:45.7

Oh my God.

1:46.7

I actually pulled over at one time, one moment to rewind it and laugh again.

1:51.6

Hugh Grant is a funny, funny guy, right?

1:53.9

I remember I watched an interview last year with Jerry Seinfeld when he had that Netflix

1:58.4

movie out and Hugh's in it.

2:00.0

And he talks about how he had dinner with Hugh, and Hugh hugh just said i want to be in the movie and jerry said to him there's not a role in it and also we have an audition and he goes i don't audition him she's right and jerry said he's one he's one the funniest people i've ever met oh wow he said we're getting so drunk and i put him in the movie just because he was just so funny

2:18.5

as just grumpy and Hugh is like that

2:20.7

but he is so...

2:22.2

The way he talks about his kids and his wife

2:25.1

this is a funny...

2:26.6

That is an outstanding hour

2:28.1

and no matter what you've got going on in your life right now

2:30.5

everyone always leads a laugh

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