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Speaker 1: Christian Iconnell The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Now on the show,

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Speaker 1: we often find ourselves talking about the eighties and the

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Speaker 1: nineties and we think about what is their ways. There's

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Speaker 1: something we can do once a week or we get

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Speaker 1: into those decades and we're gonna kick off, first of

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Speaker 1: all with the eighties and what we're going to do

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Speaker 1: over the next color is we're going to go through

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Speaker 1: our eight Z and your eight z of the eighties

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Speaker 1: and guess what, because we know radio, guess where we're starting.

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Speaker 2: To GEZ letter is the letter we've done radio before,

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Speaker 2: SLA of the alphabet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're starting with the letter A, letter E. So

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Speaker 1: think about the eighties, thinking about growing up in the eighties,

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Speaker 1: what connects you to the eighties with the letter A?

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Speaker 1: We want your stories and it might be Australian Crawel

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Speaker 1: maybe that was the first band you saw, or ac DC,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is about the eighties and the letter A.

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Speaker 1: For me, it would be ashtrays in cars. File this under.

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Speaker 1: It was a different time because people now be horrified

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Speaker 1: to know not only did our mums and Dan's and

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Speaker 1: are for me grandparents chain smoke in the car, there

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Speaker 1: were cigarette lighters and actual ashtrays to not just encourage

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Speaker 1: it but to support it right with no worries about

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Speaker 1: passive smoking. Wasn't really a thing then. But I remember

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Speaker 1: my nan, right, My Irish Nan was a very very

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Speaker 1: heavy smoker, like eighty day. People then just didn't realize

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Speaker 1: how bad it was. And she was eighty den I

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Speaker 1: mean the fall Tar Marlborough red Skate eighty day. So

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Speaker 1: on an average car trip she'd get through three or

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Speaker 1: four in the car windows wound up right me as

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Speaker 1: an eight or nine year old. To make it fun

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Speaker 1: and make it sort of bonding experience, she'd let me.

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Speaker 1: She'd passed me her cigarette and I would flick into

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Speaker 1: the ashtray and hand it back to her. Would I

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Speaker 1: tell my kids that, they go, you're making that up? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I know. There was nothing abnormal about any of this cars.

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Speaker 1: They were made with stuff They thought the public need

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Speaker 1: this ash trays. They can't possibly go on a trip

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Speaker 1: to the supermarket that might be five minutes without a

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Speaker 1: way of like flicking their ash somewhere. Of course they're

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Speaker 1: going to smoke in a car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The first cow we had had ashtrays on every door,

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Speaker 3: so awful. Even in the back and then one on

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Speaker 3: the back of the Senate console in the center, essentially

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Speaker 3: saying all five people in the car can smoke.

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Speaker 1: You know now they're like USB charging points, aren't they?

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Speaker 1: Of the car? And go where have you're sat? Don't worry,

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Speaker 1: you can smoke. You're never more than half a meter

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Speaker 1: away for a nearby ashtray. So A for me, the

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Speaker 1: letter A ash trays in cars, Patsy, what's the letter A?

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Speaker 1: And the eighties for you?

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Speaker 2: When I think of A in the eighties, it's definitely

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Speaker 2: acid washed jeans for me, which were as staple for

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Speaker 2: any blue light disco on a Friday night, and if

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Speaker 2: you were lucky, you had both the blue and the black.

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Speaker 2: I had the blue with the matching jacket I got

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Speaker 2: for my birthday when you.

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Speaker 1: Doubled up the classic double jen m and that was

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Speaker 1: the power look of the eighties.

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Speaker 2: It was, and you tuck it into your white converse

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Speaker 2: the bottom of them into your white converse socks with

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Speaker 2: white rebox, and you thought you were just eating a bit.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing for me was added ass Rome sneakers,

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Speaker 2: or my wish to have added us Rome sneakers. My

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Speaker 2: older brother had a part time job so he could

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Speaker 2: afford to buy his own, but I couldn't. I was

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Speaker 2: still at school, and so Mum went to cam Up

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Speaker 2: and got me the cheap version, which were like Roamas

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Speaker 2: or something, and they were vinyl and they are the shame.

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Speaker 1: It's all about news. I remember those romans that those

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Speaker 1: Adidas old school trainers now snea because they're huge now

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Speaker 1: they're all back in fashion, like Feeling Champion, all those

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Speaker 1: old brands they're back around now. Has acid washed ever

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Speaker 1: come back into fashion? You know everything it recycles? In fact,

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Speaker 1: what's that one the fashion trends that never ever came back?

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Speaker 1: It only lived in the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've got a pair of acid Washing.

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Speaker 1: It's back, but.

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Speaker 2: Not as big like it exploded in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: I've not seen that wave. Has anyone else seen? It?

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Speaker 1: Looks a bit nervous. Then no one else went me too?

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Speaker 1: What can you wear them in tomorrow? Here before acid

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Speaker 1: washes back?

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Speaker 3: I must be pulling it up so much that you

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Speaker 3: don't even know that it's standing out.

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Speaker 1: It's a natural look for you. And so your brother

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Speaker 1: had the Adida's rome training, you had.

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Speaker 2: Them in Mine had two stripes instead of the three

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Speaker 2: so it was obvious.

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Speaker 1: That you couldn't like a rank really was.

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Speaker 2: It was like try hard. It screamed, try hard.

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