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I'm Key Reseals and thank you so much.

It is for all of your beautiful messages after last week's episode, A little vulnerability hangover was cured with your lovely messages.

Honestly, though, your support makes me love this community so much, So thank you.

I love it when Vulnerable Key comes out.

I'm Kelly mccaren and I'm always vulnerable, so it's absolutely We were just having a bit of a giggle off Mike about like, you know, when Key opens.

Up, everyone's like wow, And.

I could say the most like diabolically honest thing and everyone's.

Like, oh yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before.

You told us as soon as it happened.

But guess what.

It is our official last episode of the year.

We do have some you actually don't even know what is coming out over the break.

I've got no glue, but I know you're gonna tell me.

Surprise.

We've got some fun stuff planned for Muma may have coined it hot Pod Summer, which is quite fun.

To make sure that everyone has some things to listen to during the break, and we will officially be back in your ears with a new season on January fourteenth.

Else I'm excited, But we know that lots of people are always looking for good podcast, movies, books, and TV shows to watch over the Christmas break, So our last episode of the year, this episode today is a bumper episode full of our favorite things from the past year.

That was Oh.

I love recommendation episodes so much, and please like, this is us telling you our recommendations.

We obviously need yours, though, so that we have something to listen, to watch, read whatnot over the break.

So please let us know what the greatest things you have consumed this year are.

First of all, how long do you have off Kiri cells?

And what are you doing?

Did you tell me you're going away or did I imagine that?

Yeah, we'll be going up north to see our family, and then we're not sure how long we're going to be up there.

We might come back for New Years, we might come back in the New Year.

It's all a little bit unplanned, but we'll just kind of see how it all goes.

We are driving with both kids and the dog and the dock, so we'll see how it goes.

We plan to do it in one go, which was very easy and doable with Rue.

But I don't know about Suki.

She's just you know, she's my little firecracker.

I'm never sure when she's going to go off, so I need to figure that out.

But we'll just take it as it comes.

If we need to stop, we can always stop on the way if needed.

But we've got quite a tight turnaround because we've got some things planned already in the calendar, catching up with friends, so it'll be really fun.

I'm really looking forward to it and just kind of vegging out and getting the kids all together.

That's like my favorite part of the holidays is having all the couzzies together.

What are you guys doing well?

We always go up to Foster.

I'm just so excited to have an actual break like I think I should be getting.

Hopefully, hopefully things crossed a few weeks off, and I'm really excited because the week of the fifth of Jan This sounds so mean, but he goes back to daycare and I don't have any records or work commitments until the week after.

How fun.

I can do whatever I want.

I can clean the house, organize things, I.

Can go to the beach.

That sounds like heaven.

Last Christmas, I actually worked through Christmas.

When I say work, I don't mean slogging it out for eight hours a day in front of the laptop, but sometimes to be able to actually take a break and not have to worry about doing anything, because even if it's just a couple of little things, that's like always on your mind.

Even when I went to Bali a couple of weeks ago, it was so nice to have that long weekend.

But you know, Monday morning, you and I were on the phone dealing with a really annoying work problem, and then I had a long work just like things that you don't when you work for yourself, you don't really get days off.

So yeah, exactly, No, No, I'm excited for you.

It's very well deserved and I can't wait to see it all play out.

You're not taking like a social media break, though, are you?

No?

No, Like I don't like having to do different things, but I enjoy sharing snippets.

And yeah, well I enjoy consuming the snippets.

Thank you.

I've already bought a blow up bed.

It was four dollars from Big w and I plan on doing a lot of reading in that bed in the couple of days before everyone else arrives for Christmas, because I feel like, hopefully I can just palm Leney off to my mum for a while.

So on that note, Kira Seales always has Christmas movie recommendations, and I knew she was desperate to tell people about them last week, but I was like, no, You've got to wait till this week.

So it's actually the way series because I didn't really watch any movies this year, so I doubled down on all of my series because that's where I've been living most of the time.

So I'm gonna let you actually take it away.

Girlfriend, Bridge, if you're a wigo with two wonderful children live, advice to you is.

Put your own orxygen mask on first.

You just have to get late.

I've set you up on tender.

What's tender?

Me and my girlfriend?

This was months ago.

Watched Mad About the Boy, the new Bridget Jones movie on Amazon Prime.

Oh my god, I never saw this.

You've just reminded me.

Yes, that's what I thought, because it is one that you have to hire from Amazon Primes, and it surprised me.

How good it was, and I think I said that at the time that I don't know why, you know how when movies they start releasing.

More and more and more.

I don't even remember what happened in the last one, like after the first one, and the same one was all right, but you know, they just aren't as good.

But the fourth one, which I think this one's the fourth one, it was so good.

It was so moving.

I cried.

I wasn't expecting to cry.

I laughed so much.

I just loved so many parts of it and thought it was so good.

So it's just a reminder that it exists and it's a great movie.

Yes, thank you for the reminder.

I shall be adding that to my list.

The second one that I did go to see it at the movies was called The Roses, and I didn't love it.

Oh, but I think that it's a really good movie to watch with other people because it's just so strange and it's really dark humor and lovely and sad and really funny, and like I couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards.

Yes, Okay, I just really love satire and I love black humor.

As we've discussed before, both of us have quite dark senses of humor, and this movie is exactly that.

It's infused with Tarigan.

It adds a bit of business.

Iby likes to dove a little bit of herself and everything she does.

I love this fun banter you guys do.

Sometimes Avey's mad at me and I can't even tell.

Sometimes he's got his cock and me and I can't even tell.

It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman.

Oh.

Yes, I saw the shorts for this.

As it's really good.

It's also podcast Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon in it, Alison Janey's in it.

But yeah, it's just funny in a really interesting way.

And I loved it.

No, I didn't love it, but like I loved thinking about it afterwards, and I just I don't know.

I want to know other people's thoughts basically interesting.

All right, Well I'll let you know my thoughts.

Are we moving down to TV shows please?

So my first one that I'm recommending is the thing that I watch each year.

It is my romantic comedy holiday drama y series and it is called Home for Christmas.

So I actually recommended this Lasar.

But the reason why I'm re recommending it I think I did last year.

Is because a new.

Season, season three to the series is dropping in the next week, so it gives you time to quickly watch the first and second series.

But let me tell you what it's about first.

So the first thing I want to tell you is that it is set in Norway, and it is just divine.

It screams Christmas.

It's festive.

They're like have their little one man sleds that they go to and from and it's just sick.

But anyway, it centers on joe An.

She's the lead character, and she's like a thirty something nurse.

She came out of a really heavy breakup about three years before and since then hasn't really been dating anyway.

She's at because in those Norwegian countries they kind of like celebrate Christmas from December first, like they'll get together each week in the lead up to Christmas.

She's at kind of the first kickoff family dinner of the season and she just blurts out of nowhere that she has a boyfriend.

And so the first season is following her frantic kind of quest to find someone and bring them home by Christmas Eve to her family, and it's funny because it's one of those Netflix Christmas series, right, every country does their own.

Where it would be done in the US, it would be really hallmarky and gimmicky.

You'd be able to kind of guess the ending before it happens.

What I like about Norwegian television and movies and things like that is that they are quite dark, like that's a sentence known for and when they even do like a comedy, it even is a bit dark.

And so it takes some interesting turns and you just don't know where it's going to go.

So that's kind of the synopsis of the first season, and I'll let you start there.

I won't go into it too far because I don't want to take up too much time.

But it is something that Charlie says, hey, should we pop this on?

Like is it too early to start watching this now?

So I think it appeals to different audiences.

There's a little bit of sex in there, so much comedy, so much humor, and a lot of that like Higer, you know, like the everyone talks about Hug.

Well, it just like feels like a warm hug.

So ten out of ten I can't say enough good things about it.

Oh, I love that Okay, I did watch it last.

Year, but I actually think maybe Luke and I really need to start it.

How many say that are Now.

There's the third seasons coming up, but look, they're half an hour episodes and the first season has six epps.

I think, so it's not too much of a commitment.

Obviously subtitled, but it's actually funny because they say absolutely all the time, but they say absolute like you have little giggles, and then they'll say English sayings in English and you're like, this is so funny.

It's like interesting to see how it all works in a different country.

Are looking for.

Mistake that I haven't done anything.

My next is Adolescence.

Now, I think if you haven't heard of it, I would be surprised.

But I had to throw it in just in case you get around to watching it during this year, because I think it is such a compelling watch and I think it's something that especially for those of us that are raising kids, it's an amazing drama to watch that really makes you think.

So basically, it's about a thirteen year old boy who is arrested for the murder of a classmate.

Intense, oh so intense, and basically the series follows the fallout for the family, the school, It follows the investigation and the community, and it really shows you what it's like when something like this happens.

The lead star is Stephen Graham, so if you watch any kind of like UK shows, you would recognize him.

He's this amazing actor, scouse actor.

He actually co wrote this with a British screenwriter called Jack Thorn.

And the thing that also makes it a really compelling watch is the cinematography in the way that it's shot and.

Directed, because it's just one shot each episode, right, Yes.

So Stephen, I'm actually worked with the director Philip Barantiny a few years ago on this movie called Boiling Point, which is an amazing movie.

Another recommendation, which is basically it was shot in that one shot style and it's set in the kitchen and it follows like a really busy night at like a very hip and happening restaurant, and it's just incredible.

So when you sit down to watch this, it's so interesting, right because that one shot for a movie is definitely different to one shot for a series, so you're going in and out from indoors to outdoors like this.

This amazing choreography that has to happen in order for these shots to work.

So when you go and you sit down and you're watching this and you're seeing how it all works, it just kind of elevates the show to a completely different level of anything I think that has been on television before.

And if that doesn't get it over the line.

It won every single award under the sun, including the lead actor, whose name is Owen Cooper, and this was actually his acting debut.

He is the youngest ever actor to win an Emmy.

Do you think I still need to watch it even though I've watched parts of it and know how exactly what happens.

I think as a parent or as anyone who is around kids, it's just a really important watch to kind of understand the dynamic of what's happening with our kids at school.

And this was quite groundbreaking in the way that the UK their schooling system have brought this into the syllabus for children to watch as like an educational tool.

So that's how well this was written and an important way just for us to kind of understand.

I don't know the gravity of something that happens like this, anyway, it's very interesting just watching something like this and how people react and humanity and all of that encapsulate it into one.

This island, this is your home.

This land will hold you long after I am gone.

This one is Chief of War.

If you liked Showgun, which is like that big, amazing dreamy production about the history of Japan and the different chiefs, you will love Chief of War.

So it is a historical epic and an action drama.

It is co created and led by Jason Momoa, and it basically tells the late eighteenth century story of Hawaii, so it talks about basically what happened just before Western colonization.

So it's really interesting that, like all of the Hawaiian islands, some were allies, some were fighting.

And when it came to the reason like why it's called Hawaii and why they are called Hawaiians, that's because basically the island of Hawaii won that battle.

So if it had gone differently, we today would refer to Hawaiians as Marlans or Marwins.

I guess I don't know how to say it, but I just find like historical fictions so interesting.

And because they have a lot of spirits within their culture, there is like this kind of whimsical thread that runs through it, and it's actually spoken in local dialogue, which I think is just like a beautiful way to see indigenous culture on our screens.

It's largely a Polynesian cast, so there are incredible New Zealand actors in this cast, and you would recognize a lot of them as well.

Do you have a girlfriend?

Nah?

Really, you seemed like such a girlfriend guy.

Things happening?

Is it really okay?

Sounds good?

The next one is overcompensating.

So there was so much buzz about when this was coming out.

This was Benito's skinner.

So you might know him as Benny Drama on Instagram, an amazing comedian who came to prominence on vine back in the day and then he did these amazing Kardashian impersonations and his career just kind of like took off from there.

This is semi autobiographical about him leaving high school and going into college.

So basically he's closeted and he's this very machro football playing, very good looking, prom king kind of guy, and he heads into college or university with this kind of like bravado, but then he very quickly falls in love with a friend and it's a very much like a will they won't they?

But is he understanding that he's gay when a lot of people around him already realize?

And it's just amazing.

I wanted to shout out the performance by comedian Holmes, who plays Hayley, who is just like this stereotypical sorority girl, but like so fucking funny.

Like I think it's in the new generation's new coming of age story, and I think it's so important to have these types of coming of age stories on our screen.

So obviously there is so much diversity from ethnicity, from sexual orientation to everything you can.

Thank god, it's all represented and it just doesn't miss.

So watch it.

It's hilarious.

I will definitely be watching that one because I am obsessed with him.

Oh yeah, he's so cool.

Are you guys happy?

What kind of question is that.

We sit in the same room monitoring different screens.

We're like coworkers at a nuclear facility.

Really quickly the four seasons.

Now, I don't know if there's got a lot of buzz, but it did well on Netflix at second season got announced pretty quickly after it launched.

It's a comedy drama with an amazing ensemble cast, so Tina Fey, Will Fort, Steve Corell, Coleman Domingo and more.

And basically it follows three married couples who have been friends for years, like I think since college, and each season they go on a holiday together.

Some really big things happen kind of in the first episode, and then you see kind of the fallout from that as it goes through each of the seasons, and it goes through different seasons of life but also during the season, so it's really cool to kind of see that on screen.

And any family or friends at a family get together that happens over like a holiday, there's always going to be like drama.

And yes, I love when you say, like the quiet part out loud of like what everyone's thinking.

I love like seeing that kind of behind the doors sing because everyone's going through it with their family but no one's saying anything.

But I love when you see it on screen and that's kind of reflected back to you.

It's always really funny.

This is the London I came here for.

It's like out of a.

Movie, yeah, horror movie, because people are full of pent up rage and dark secrets.

I know, would look at the Yellow House.

The next one is too much.

I mean, everyone was waiting for this to come out on Netflix.

It was Lena Dunham's big return.

She executive produced it.

She said it was about her kind of like when she moved to London and she fell in love with her now husband, But she said it wasn't like completely true to her story, but stand up performance by Megan Stalter, who you'd know from Hacks and also Will Sharp from White Lotus and a bunch of other things.

If you see him you'd be like, oh.

That guy.

He's really good looking and really amazing actor.

So basically it's a bit of a dark comedy, very much in the voice and tone of a Lena Dunham series, and it explores, I guess the overwhelming experience of being a elder millennial and you're kind of going through your career, your relationships and yeah, she just is a hopeless romantic at heart and puts everything into it and doesn't always get it out and is brutally dumped by her boyfriend, which is kind of the catalyst for her moving over to London.

And m Ratis stars in it as like the woman who quote unquote stole her Man and it's just hilarious.

I think it's really nice to see something from Lena Dunham on our screens because she still has such a strong voice for that generation of women, but I think she's obviously had a lot more experience as well, so it's just seeing the evolution of her writing is really lovely on screen.

Yeah, with your lack, I have no secrets, say one more time, I'm gonna lose my mind.

And then my last one, which is a little bit che yeeky, is for anyone out there who's wanted to enter the Real Housewives franchise and just feels like it's too far gone, I wouldn't know where to start.

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is probably the best franchise ever.

To ever exist.

It's in a six seasons.

When I said at the start, if you think it's too far gone, it's not because it's that good that you will watch it and just be like, oh my god.

So it follows the lives of some rich housewives who are in Salt Lake City.

But what's really interesting about that is that they obviously Salt Lake City is a largely Mormon faith area.

Is it near Utah.

Yes, it's set in Utah.

So it's just crazy.

I mean, it's so hard to explain why it's good.

But if I had to kind of like summarize it, in one episode of a different Housewives franchise, something might happen and that might be the plot line for the whole series.

Things happen minute by minute and every single episode.

Like, these women are crazy.

They are self absorbed.

They've got so much confidence.

They say that they're the greatest friends on the earth, but they backstab each other so poetically.

It's just really good entertainment.

It's cinematic.

It's also just like visually gorgeous because I obviously have the mountain as a backdrop.

So if you've ever wanted to join me on the dark side of a Real Housewives franchise, I highly recommend Salt Lake City as your first dip in the pond of Bravo.

Why would you say it's better than like say, New York or Beverly Hills or whatnot.

Though they're just a bit of a different breed.

I think it's interesting because any franchise that's added to Real Housewives, they have obviously an idea of the fandom the notoriety and things that can come, and I think that they understand how much your personal life gets waded into.

And a lot of the time new franchises can start and be a bit shit because people are producing themselves because obviously they want to be like the star of the show or a fan favorite or whatever.

But these ladies haven't done that.

They just kind of came and brought their a game.

It was the best rookie season of any Real Housewives that we have ever had, and so much real drama like happens.

Like I don't think it's a spoiler.

One of the lead people gets done for fraud and she's currently in jail.

She's actually getting out in a couple of weeks on good behavior.

But these ladies are bigger than life, and they just are chaotic and messy.

And you wouldn't think that people going on that show would let it out that much, knowing how hectic the fan base can be.

But they don't care.

They're just like messy and love it and lean into it and it's just fun.

Lore I would encourage you to watch it with a friend so that you guys can like delve into all of it and unpack it all because it's just my favorite thing.

Like every Wednesday, Lucy and I have like an hour and a half conversation about the episod because we like just love it so much.

Puffy Puff, Daddy, Diddy.

Show calls, all of those name changes were attached to.

Really bad deans.

Oh, I did have one more.

It's just the Diddy documentary Sean Comb's Reckoning, executive produced by fifty Cent.

It's amazing.

I think if you didn't understand, I certainly didn't.

I knew a lot about well what I thought.

I knew a lot about the history of hip hop, but I didn't really understand where Sean or p Diddy or Diddy, whatever you want to call him, kind of came into the picture.

And it's really interesting to see his backstory and to understand how much of a terrible person he was, and it kind of gives you a bit more context to his recent arrest and trial for which he was accused and convicted on some of the charges around eliciting prostitution, sexual misconduct.

He's got a lot of sexual assault allegations against so anyway, I just think to understand why that was so monumental to watch this you have a lot of answers from that.

All right, my TV show recommendations, I've stolen this recommendation from Key even though it was technically her recommendation originally.

The pit on HBO Max.

Amazing.

We've got some new faces with us today.

Hi, come on over.

I'm so happy to be here.

Talk to me at the end of the day.

Course production that's suited down.

Do you remember when you told me to watch it?

Though?

Oh yeah, I tell everyone it's cinematic.

It's amazing.

The new season's actually coming out soon, apparently, Kiris and I'm so excited.

I got HBO Max simply to watch this and then let other people use it and then canceled it straight away.

It's a medical drama set in a hospital emergency department, and the whole season covers one real time shift.

So a shift is in thirteen hours that the doctors are on everything that happens, and then every single episode is one hour in that thirteen hour shift, and the real time like coming back to some patients, the real emergencies that come through.

I've never seen anything like it, and so many actual medical professionals have come out and said it is the most realistic medical drama that's ever been made.

So I can't talk about this show more.

I just loved it.

If you love medical dramas.

If you don't like watching medical shows, you will hate it.

But if you do, this is just incredible.

This could be the medical show that you do enjoy watching though, because it's what it happens in there, and there are obviously relationship dynamics that come into it, and you understand that, but it's more about like the hospital systems are stress that these doctors and nurses are under, like the push and pull between making a profit and actually helping people.

It's really interesting.

And who is the lead in this who most people recognize from er he was on that long running series.

He was like, I never thought I'd come back and do another hospital series or medical series, but he was like, I was so compelled by the script in the way that it was written, and that he wanted to give a voice to us doctors and nurses who are really struggling within the current healthcare system in America.

So any interview that he's done, he really like pushes that agenda and tries to get as much people understanding just the stress they're under.

But the bitch of resources they have.

So it's I think it's got more of a meaning than just your average medical show exactly.

And it's so accurate people Ice Queen's going an ice queen.

Why that can be called you're not call My next recommendation is tell me lies that you can watch on Disney Plus.

Have you watched this?

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so good.

It's so good, but it's like a little bit embarrassing to adm So this is a guilty pleasure show because it's about teenagers or young adults, and it's a drama series exploring a very addictive, toxic relationship over many years.

And there are just so many iconic moments you've probably even seen, like I had that I didn't realize until i'd seen the show, if that makes sense anyway.

It's just so good.

It's about obsession, betrayal, super intense relationships.

Everyone's quite unlikable on this show as well, which makes it sound awful, but it's interesting that the writing still makes you really want to watch.

It's interesting because the relationships are so incestuous, yes, and there's so much to see and lying and manipulation that it's just a toxic group of friends and there's just things that earth shattering, things that have happened behind closed doors with other people, and you're just like, oh my god.

So it is just yes, it's kind of like the OC gossip Girl, but way worse people.

It's crazy because the lead actress and actors, Grace Van Patton and Jackson White, they actually date in real life.

And anytime I see them on their instagrams and they post that quite raunchy.

I mean, I'm always like their number one fan in the comments, Like literally, if you go and follow them, you'll see me.

I always comment, it's embarrassing.

You're so funny.

I always have to be like, oh my god, Okay, yeah, he is not that character and she is not that character.

Like, they are not bad people.

It'd be kind of fun to play a bad person.

But they make you.

Yeah, they make you believe in their characters so much.

It's just incredible, incredible.

It's a bit like Revenge ee as well.

Yes it's got better.

It's not as soapy exactly.

Yes, oh I love it.

How Revenge got super soapy towards.

The Yeah, I know it was really good at the beginning.

Agree your husband has been abducted.

A girl.

You need to resign as Prime Minister by tomorrow.

Hostage on Netflix.

It's a British political thriller mini series.

It stars that chick she's so good, Saran Jones.

She is the star of Vigil, which I recommended last year season one and season two.

One of them was based on a submarine, and then the second one was about drones, which sort of sounded weird but it was just so good.

So I just love.

Anything that she's in, and I will pretty much watch anything because I don't know, she only sort of ever puts her name to really good programs.

But she's the Prime Minister.

And then there's a hostage situation and it's about politics, but in a really fun way.

It's very high stakes, like you feel quite anxious the entire time.

There's a bit of like.

Terrorism, and it's just so suspenseful.

So if you like thrillers without anything scary, like I would say that.

Last week I talked about The Beast in Me, which is a really good thriller that's probably it's not scary, but there's probably a few parts in it that aren't for people that get scared easily.

This one is purely thriller, but in a suspense for way, if that makes sense.

Love it's so good.

I really really enjoyed it.

I liked seeing her in a different role as well, because she's an amazing actress.

Well see, I think she plays the same role in every single I mean, she's amazing, but she's always the same character.

I reckon.

Oh, I liked her in this maybe because she got to walk around outside true, true.

She wasn't stuck.

Yes, you are so much better.

I feel like you should actually do the summary of what every show is about, because Key does a really good job, and I just go, it's really good.

What No, I think you've got really good recommendation.

But you're so much better at actually describing what they're about.

We use groundbreaking therapeutic techniques.

To solve the problem of adolescents.

Wayward, did you watch this one?

I didn't watch this one.

Okay, well this is but it's been in a lot of lists of best things of twenty twenty five, so oh, way to go.

You, Tony Collette in this was incredible.

The entire cast was actually incredible.

It is shocker, another thriller.

It's set in a pretty small town and it's about a troubled, naughty teen rehab clinic, kind of like a school.

For naughty kids.

I love that, and it's quite interesting because I don't know about other people that have watched it.

But I spent the first half thinking, I don't get what the big deal is.

Isn't this kind of a good thing.

These kids really are quite naughty.

They deserve to go to a disciplinary school.

But then it kind of gets culty and I don't know.

I don't want to give anything away, but I hated the last episode.

I thought that it was annoying, but I guess it definitely left a lot of room for a season two, so it's definitely didn't put me off recommending it, though, even though I didn't really like the that it ended.

My cancer is back.

I'm too young.

I haven't done anything with my life.

I know it's cheesy, but everybody has a bucket list.

I've never even had an orgasm with another person.

Good, we have something for your list.

Orgasm with another person.

Slightly different tune Dying for Sex on Disney Bus Michelle Williams.

This is the.

Most beautiful, heartbreaking, funny, well written.

I loved so much about this show.

It was just so beautiful, like the ending part with the mouth key.

Yeah, I think that this was my favorite show of twenty twenty five.

Oh wow, I thought it was so interesting.

I loved it.

It is based on a true story and it follows Molly.

We're not giving anything away.

As the title suggests.

It is a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer and she doesn't have very long left, so she sort of turns life on its head and just starts living for her and doing exactly what she wants to do.

And it is just really raw, it's vulnerable, it's honest.

I first discovered it because I actually was looking when I thought I was gonna lose my nanny earlier in the year.

I was looking for clips about death and how to know if someone is nearing the end, and I came across this beautiful clip of a I guess she was like a hospice nurse and end of life nurse explaining the process.

And that's what made me discover the show.

And if there's one show that I think absolutely everyone would enjoy, and he enjoy sounds like a weird word when it is about death, but yeah, it's just beautiful, So I absolutely think that everyone should watch that.

The casting for this was incredible, So you spoke about Michelle Williams.

Her best friend, Nicki is played by Jenny Slat, and then the love interest, neighbor guy as they refer to him, is played by Rob Delaney, who is my absolute favorite actor.

He stars in one of my favorite series I have ever watched, Catastrophe, which I'm sure I recommended before, But he's just like this earnest actor who I just thought was perfect for this show because he gave such an amazing performance but it was so complimentary and it was supporting in the best way possible, and not all men I think could do that job as a true supporting actor and something like that, because Michelle Williams's performance is just so amazing and incredible, and it's something like I think death, Chemo, the relationships, how selfish it can be to the person that's your care All of that is so interesting to see because this did a really good job at showing the effect that it has on carers who of friends who become full time care errors and their stories often aren't told as well.

So there's also the podcast that this was based on, and she wrote a memoir.

So I haven't listened to the podcast, but it's been on my list because I would love to hear it told from the real Molly.

So anyway, amazing.

That was my favorite of the year, So thank you for putting it on your list.

Cal you are welcome.

He was trapped after.

We had a time critical window, Ollie hard was five minutes, we're going to explain it.

We went and he never came back.

Last Breath on Netflix.

That is about one of the most incredible cases I've ever heard, and I'd listened to a podcast about it years ago, but to see it in real time.

Basically, a bloke lives through something that you do not think is well, it's scientifically impossible.

He is without oxygen for an impossible amount of time and lives to tell the story about it.

Basically, that's the premise.

Go watch the documentary about how he survived and what happened.

I also think that that job is just so interesting.

They are deep sea divers.

I forget what the actual term is when they're working on construction sites at bottom of the ocean, and just about how long they've.

Got to be at the bottom.

Yeah, they've got to.

Be That's so interesting.

They've actually got to go down to the bottom of the ocean for thirty days because of the decompression and compression.

They've got to actually live down there for the thirty days while they're working on the bottom of the ocean.

They can't just come up to the surface.

Yes, they live in like this little chamber thing.

I cannot wait to watch that.

Hi, I'm Brian and I'm Gabby and this is our fortrensit connected.

I've been living in an we thought it was finally time to.

Give you a tour.

Then the Gabby Potato Netflix documentary.

All of these are on Netflix.

Actually I didn't know that, Like I knew about this case, but I didn't realize how much of her life she'd filmed, and because she was someone who've logged a lot of her travel, the way that it's been her story has been pieced together using real footage and the timelines and then sort of mixed in with the bodycam footage and everything.

It was just so well put together and really heartbreaking, just like all true crime stories are.

When one was that just on the emergency, the neighbors children, no Shriff's office for any of you guys over here, I said, with.

This lady.

And then I hadn't heard about this case.

But have you watched this one, The Perfect Neighbor I have?

Yeah, it's so good.

The whole thing has been put together using bodycam footage and police interview tapes, which you would think sounds awful because you just imagine that it's really shaky and low quality.

But I don't know how the filmmakers have done it.

But it's about race, it's about awful neighbors, it's about the system, and I guess this lady trying to hack the system with things that she'd googled, and I just wasn't expecting.

I don't even know what to say about this other than it was really good.

How would you have described it?

It's a documentary that is about racial injustice is at the core of it.

It's about being believed and people who use their privilege in a way to try and cast doubt over what is actually true.

And in this case, this neighbor who moves into the area just doesn't like black people, but unfortunately she's moved into an area with predominantly people of color and she I don't think it's giving anything away, but she basically makes their life a living hell, and it's very clear that she has spent her whole life getting away with doing things like that.

Obviously on a microscale, because what ends up happening is obviously quite life changing for everyone involved.

And it feels good because it feels like justice.

I mean, too little, too late, but it does feel like justice is served.

The reason why it is somewhat nice is because there are so many cases like this and them exactly that even with all of the footage, still can go the other way.

But I think what was really great in this instance is that people in positions of power, so the investigators on the case and the police officers that worked it, the black woman who was affected was always believed, which was something that you don't see, but it was a way that it kind of the allowances that happened after the fact for that white woman who everyone was agreement in had done the wrong thing, kind of the fact that she was allowed to go on Rome free.

It's very interesting, but yeah, it is I think quite eye opening and just I don't know, have a different perspective on it.

It's just crazy that, yeah, that people think that they can get away with things because of than they have, and probably more so than not, they do get away with things.

But yeah, there is.

Some hope there.

It's just her poor children.

I like think, yeah, me.

But nice that her memory has that vindication, you know.

And that I think that her memory definitely has and it will continue to evoke change.

I have one podcast recommendation from the year Gosh, clearly it wasn't the year four podcasts.

Seriously, if you think about there wasn't that much goodness, and there was just so many that were the same, like, how many podcasts about one mushroom lady can we launch?

Everyone?

I did not listen to one because I thought, I know the story.

Buger off with your mushroom tails.

Anyway, the one podcast that I do want to recommend is called Twice Displaced, and I think about this podcast all the time, and I listened to it months ago now.

It is a four part about three and a half hours all up.

It's by Lem Zachariah, who I was lucky enough to work with her years ago.

I did a podcast with her and I think that was the first time she did podcast and.

She's just a beautiful producer.

Lem is a queer Arab musician who now lives in Sydney, and I say this as someone who has a podcast.

This is the most well put together podcast I have ever heard, which doesn't surprise me because she is so talented and her production skills and the way that she story tells is like, I honestly think that this podcast should be winning awards because.

It is just so beautiful.

The way she blends her own stories with the voices of family.

She sort of goes between first person to third person, and she gets friends ex'es, and it just is this beautiful, like really layered arrative about her life.

It's about identity, belonging, exile from where she grew up, and it sort of follows her whole journey, like from leaving Jordan and coming to Australia, coming out to her parents.

It's just it is the most exquisite, beautiful podcast and you're just gonna love it.

I'm smiling right now because I'm so excited for you to listen to it.

I really want to listen.

It's been on my list to listen to all.

Yeah, I've heard such great things about it.

It's so good.

Key Okay, well we're moving on to books.

But because I didn't read any books.

I'm actually going to recommend two albums that I really liked that launch this year.

My first album i'd like to recommend is west Angle by Lily Allen.

Came out in October and I have not stopped listening to it.

I can't stop listening to it.

I won't stop listening to it because it's the best album that I've heard in a very long time.

And it's one of those albums that you have to listen to and order.

You can't skip song, you can't start in the middle, like you have to listen from the start to the end because it basically chronicles the demise of her marriage from Stranger Things actor David Harbor.

The way that she writes and the writers that she writes with and the melodies that they then put the lyrics to is just incredible, and they become these real earworms that are I don't know, just the way in which she kind of makes these observations about love and talks about trying to change yourself to fit the person that you love and losing yourself in that and it's still not being enough.

But what's really cool about it is like for a breakup or divorce album, it doesn't feel like woe is me, Like it feels like I learned some lessons.

You're a dickhead, I'm a bitch.

It's not gonna work.

I found myself.

It's not me, it's you.

It's like very like defiant without wallowing too much.

And it's funny as well.

Like there's this one track called non Monoga Mummy when she basically talks about like I was trying to be your non Monoga Mummy and I'm trying to be open and it's just the way she writes anyway, an.

I'm just trying.

It's really good.

Listen to it.

Support Lily Allen.

I just love her.

I know that she's a little bit controversial back in the day, but I think people can make mistakes in everyone.

We can move on.

And then the other one I wanted to shout out was Parcels, which is a band that I've just come across.

A girlfriend invited me to their concert last week and I went.

It was at the Opera House on the Steps, and it was anytime I go to concerts there.

It's just like, pinch me.

I can't believe I get to live in this beautiful city.

Kind of moment.

So Parcels launched an album called Loved this year.

It's the third studio album.

They're actually originally a band from Byron Bay and then they moved to Berlin and they are incredible.

It's that electro punk pop sound of like the early twenty tens was so much of my like I guess like young adult life, kind of like early twenties vibes and ah.

The songs are just they're like simple, bit deep and there's lots of repetition.

But also they are a band like they play musical instruments.

There are drums, there are bongos, there's guitar, it's every instrument under the sound.

Banging on those damn drums.

Yeah, and they sound just like they do on the album in real life.

So their vocals are just incredible.

They're like really velvety.

Yeah.

I'm really loving that album.

I've been playing that NonStop since I went to the Concepts.

So support Australian music.

Get into Parcels and listen to the album Loved, and it's like also all the music they release is like really positive, even if they're talking about heartbreak.

And one of my favorite songs is sorry on that album, and it's just like saying sorry for all these things, but in the most kind way.

Anyway.

I'm sorry for the climb on the well, I'm sorry for the fall on.

The way back.

Okay, moving on to your brand and Butterkel books.

People go mad for your book recommendations.

Yes, now, one of the best books.

I read it back in January and I'm still thinking about it are the Wedding People.

It's by Alison F.

Hush, and it's about a woman who travels to a hotel.

It sounds so grim, like it's definitely okay, I'll just use fin it.

So she travels to a hotel that she's always really wanted to go to, intending to ent her life, and then she mistakingly is like oh like someone thinks that she's there for a wedding, and then she somehow just gets like drawn into all of this chaos and all of her festivities.

And it's dark humor and it's funny and it's beautifully written, and it's just it's so good.

I don't know any I love that.

Yeah, I don't know anyone that hasn't enjoyed this book.

And it's kind of it is for everyone.

It's not.

It's not a rom com.

I guess it's a little bit, but it's not a thriller.

It's I feel like a lot of my recommendations are kind of dark, so this is nice and light, even though the subject matter doesn't sound like it is.

I promise you it actually is.

It barely touches on that, and it kind of it does in like a funny way, if that makes sense.

Yeah, someone will knock on a draw and she.

Like, for goodness sake, stop interrupting me when I'm trying to do this.

You know, like it's really really really good.

Oh so, if we're talking about thrillers.

Hidden Pictures by Jason I can't pronounce his last time.

I'll just pop it in the show notes.

The premise is so interesting.

The chick gets hired as a nanny and who's drawing like really really strange, disturbing realistic pictures.

That hint at a past murder.

So then she sort of starts going on this mystery hunt involving ghosts and secrets and the kids speaking to the ghosts, and I don't know, it's creepy, but it's an interesting premise that I hadn't read before.

Oh wow.

The best horror that I read this year was Gray after Dark by Noel west Hill.

All of her books are cooked.

I almost feel guilty for recommending them because they're like who sometimes.

I actually googled her at one point to find out more about it, because I was like, how does your mind.

Work like this?

This is about a young lass whose Olympic dreams are shattered, leading her like, instead of doing what she wanted to do, she has to take a summer job at a you know in America they do like summer's summer camps and that sort of thing.

Oh yeah, for the kids.

Anyway, she works at this mountain lodge and then she's abducted during one of her runs and she's held captive in a cabin by survivalists.

It's inspired by a real life amazing woman called Karrie Swenson.

And yeah, it's really scary and creepy, but it's a very good read.

Now I've got a couple of audiobooks because I think that audio is really good over the silly season, so you can sort of, you know, when you're cooking Christmas lunch or just doing things that you kind of want something to listen to at the same time, And I mean, my mum loves listening to Christmas carols and so do I, but not all day, every day.

Unfollowed by Christian White.

So this is free on Audible.

It's about influencer culture and it will definitely like it's kind of cooked.

So it's about a couple and they get a free holiday away at a luxury resort.

But then what happens in this Balinese luxury resort when their child Archie goes missing from kids club.

It touches on kind of how cooked influencer culture is and kids in content and making your whole thing about like family bloggers.

Basically, yes, oh my god, you recommended this.

I still think that everyone should listen to it.

No, it's good, So twice recommendation means it's really good.

I think, to be fair, I actually think everything that I'm recommending in this episode I have recommended on the pod before, but that's because I don't gate keep at the time.

Isn't it if you want a Christmasy book?

I recently listened to her Last Christmas, another free one on Audible by Clare McGowan.

It's a thriller.

Emma joins her new boyfriend for friend miss in the Alp.

So it's like set in the snow and you know, just like.

Juicy, but then they get trapped with a snow storm and then there's murder, and you know.

It's just it's got everything.

It's got sex, it's got drugs, it's got wealth, it's got all of the juicy stuff that you want in a holiday read.

That isn't a summer beach read, if that makes sense.

So if you want something more christmasy, then that was also another free audio book, and we will pop more recommendations on socials.

I will link my good reads because I could see it here brattling about books for hours.

That was so much fun.

I just I love having a good yap and remembering all of the good things, good stuff I happened in the entertainment world across the year, because honestly, that's been kind of my savior this year TV series, especially to kind of lose myself in.

So it's fun to talk about them and remember them.

And like we said at the top, we need to know your recommendations because we, especially me, I need things to watch and read over the silly season.

Thank you so much for supporting us this year.

We really love you and appreciate this community so much.

Thank you for being here.

We can't wait to show you, we'll show you, tell you what we've got in store for next year.

And a reminder that if you love the show, please please rate and review us.

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Please please, And as you know, this podcast is produced by us Kelly mccaren and Kiri Searls, with audio production by the wonderful Maddie Joanno.

It's been a great year, have a great silly season, and we will see you in twenty twenty six.

Goodbye bye,