Speaker 1: Christian Connell Christian o'connald's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Whether you grew up in the eighties, nineties or whatever,
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you had friends and you go around
Speaker 2: their house after school and it was very clear in
Speaker 2: the things that they had, the lifestyle they had, the
Speaker 2: objects they had, that their parents have more money than
Speaker 2: your parents growing them in the eighties For me, right,
Speaker 2: Mum and dad working class people. They worked really hard.
Speaker 2: Mum was a nurse and dad worked in a car factory.
Speaker 2: My friends, I didn't know at the time was something
Speaker 2: called middle class, but whenever I went around their houses,
Speaker 2: it was like going into a different world. First one
Speaker 2: was all I had for Syria in the morning, and
Speaker 2: I thought I was living like a king anyway.
Speaker 3: Was whetbigs me too?
Speaker 4: Every morning weet Bigs I was.
Speaker 2: Had a tiny little sprinkling or sugar. Do you ever
Speaker 2: do that when Mum and dad won't look him? No?
Speaker 4: I could only have sugar when I was at my
Speaker 4: men's house.
Speaker 3: Do you know what we should do? A phone in
Speaker 3: about what would nan and what would you nan? Let
Speaker 3: you do? It's always Nan.
Speaker 2: My nan ran a very my Irish Nan again out
Speaker 2: very loose with the rules.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh Christmas.
Speaker 2: And I used to go around to see a Christmas
Speaker 2: time and that would let me have, even teenage, just
Speaker 2: a little nip of sherry from her drink's cabinet.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: She would always go with a wink. Don't tell you
Speaker 3: mom and dad about this.
Speaker 4: Remember sugar cubes would let me eat sugar cubes. They're
Speaker 4: a pack of chips.
Speaker 3: How do we not have type two diabetes?
Speaker 2: So anyway, yeah, my friends though, they had something called
Speaker 2: musely and I was like what is this. You were, Oh,
Speaker 2: don't you have wheat bits? And they were like, oh god, no,
Speaker 2: we have muse And I was like wow. And the
Speaker 2: other thing was it's about the phone in the eighties
Speaker 2: and fighting over the phone because it was like tethered
Speaker 2: to the land. It was actually called a land line,
Speaker 2: you know, to speak to peoleback in the eighties, our
Speaker 2: voices went through a line into dirt and mud and
Speaker 2: then up a line into their house and into their ears.
Speaker 2: Still it was called the land line, and you you
Speaker 2: would have lots of arguments if you had a girlfriend anything.
Speaker 2: Your sister might be fighting on the phone chat to
Speaker 2: her mates, like god, mom, tell us my turn, and
Speaker 2: then your mom wants to speak to one of her sisters.
Speaker 2: You'll be fighting about that one phone in the house. However,
Speaker 2: friends of mine had see the cordless phone and I
Speaker 2: was like, this is amazing.
Speaker 4: You can move it around wherever you want with the phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the phone goes with you. This is unbelievable. So
Speaker 2: this morning, I want to you would have known this
Speaker 2: growing up. There were clear signs. What were the clear
Speaker 2: signs that your friend's parents had more money than yours?
Speaker 2: What was rich to you? When he went around theirs?
Speaker 2: There was just something different? What was it, Jack? What
Speaker 2: was it for you?
Speaker 4: A clear sign that my friend's parents had more money
Speaker 4: was when I went to the footy with my friends.
Speaker 4: Their parents would let us buy the food at the
Speaker 4: football all right, to turn up with stuff, whereas every
Speaker 4: time my dad took us we had to pack our
Speaker 4: sandwiches beforehand because the bucket of chips is too expensive.
Speaker 3: Christian o'connells show podcast, All right, let's go to Kylie.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2: How did you, Kylie? How did you know that your
Speaker 2: friends and parents had more money than yours?
Speaker 1: My friend's father had a mobile phone or a phone
Speaker 1: in the car in his Statesman back in the day.
Speaker 2: Wow, I remember the first Lethal weapon movie. Right, there's
Speaker 2: a badge who's like rich beyond money. The way they
Speaker 2: show this opening scene, he's driving on a car phone
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, Wow, that guy's a rich old baddy's
Speaker 2: got a car phone something.
Speaker 4: I only ever saw him movies.
Speaker 3: It was just like, you're never gonna but your friend
Speaker 3: actually had one name. It was the size of a suitcase.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was messy. It was like a brick.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I think you actually have an aerial right
Speaker 3: on the roof.
Speaker 1: Yes, any statesman the aerial in the brick phone? Wow?
Speaker 3: And were ever allowed to use it? Make it call?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to go in the car just.
Speaker 2: Warm this spaceman technology. Can he call masks? That's a
Speaker 2: great one, Candie, thank you.
Speaker 3: Very much for share. We have a good day you too.
Speaker 3: By Tracy Hi.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Christian and team. I had to wear jeans
Speaker 1: from Venture, which is a store no longer in existence,
Speaker 1: and everyone at my school got to wear East Coast jeans.
Speaker 1: They had a padlock on the side and my mother
Speaker 1: is used to pay twenty dollars for a pair of
Speaker 1: the diner jeans.
Speaker 2: This is this is amazing. Yeah, the cheaper jeans. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I as well. Yeah, you had your friends in Hugo Marson.
Speaker 2: You had something like Hugo Tarsan no no armand it
Speaker 2: was Georgio Fellini in some market rip off ones. And
Speaker 2: did anyone e get nice to wear that hurt in
Speaker 2: the wrong places.
Speaker 1: When they're uncomfortable. And the East Coast jeans were like
Speaker 1: cut to your body and they were just so cool,
Speaker 1: and they had the padlock on the side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all about that padlot. And also your
Speaker 2: friends knew, didn't they. They would sometimes just pull up your
Speaker 2: jumper and go.
Speaker 3: He's got chee exactly.
Speaker 1: Yes, come on, I used to steal padlocks on other
Speaker 1: people and put them on your jeans to pretend that.
Speaker 3: Tracy. We'll send your prize. That is a great memory.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. We'll give you a hundred dollar
Speaker 3: a pancake parlavoucher.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my goodness, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Guys comes straight for the eighties. It was some prizes
Speaker 2: left over from the old Gold Station in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: Tracy, thanks you, Cord. Let's go to who we got here?
Speaker 4: Heyth Hi yes more in Christian Hey.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the show. How did you know your
Speaker 2: parents had your friend's parents had more money than yours.
Speaker 4: Nineteen seventy six, I went to my neighbor's house and
Speaker 4: they had a color television.
Speaker 1: Woo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big deal, wasn't it, going from break color?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a piece of furniture.
Speaker 1: Juell speakers filled up half the land room and we
Speaker 1: were all a standard that we'd watch. We were watching
Speaker 1: the football in tower.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet that must have been amazing. And you're right,
Speaker 2: it was a piece of functure had that sort of
Speaker 2: fake wood around the surround of it all when it
Speaker 2: was huge at the back as well as backside.
Speaker 4: Yes, took three people to lift it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: It's just aware about eight hundred kynos heavy a car.
Speaker 2: And did you have to Someone would have to be
Speaker 2: told to go and change the channel. You'd have to
Speaker 2: leave it and almost punch those sort of big old
Speaker 2: levers to change between the two channels you had back then.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're yes, we're we're manually turning them on and
Speaker 1: off and actually turning a doll to the year. And
Speaker 1: we only had two channels.
Speaker 2: And then you had to when you got the TV.
Speaker 2: You had to actually tune it in and then remember
Speaker 2: that you remember that tuning in It was just like
Speaker 2: going through space frequencies to find the TV chat.
Speaker 3: They are, We can contact them. TV's there in our
Speaker 3: front room for a while.
Speaker 4: I remember us kids, we just didn't have Channel ten
Speaker 4: because we could never tune it in.
Speaker 3: We just lived without it. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast