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Speaker 1: Christian Christian Iconnell the Christian o'connells show podcast. Every week

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Speaker 1: on the show, then we go to the wonder year

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Speaker 1: and last week it was the nineties. Tonight it's nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty seven. Rough back to the eighties. This is going

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Speaker 1: straight to the pool room.

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Speaker 2: Are you telling me that you built a time machine?

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Speaker 1: Had warrant? I tell you what? Any boss who says

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Speaker 1: anyone but not turning up the dyers above Tyson bears

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Speaker 1: teeth wonder every week on my show. Then we to

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Speaker 1: go time travel and take you back to a year.

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Speaker 1: This week is out to the eighties and nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: all right. The first mobile phone call happened in Australia

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. Mel Ward, the Management director of Telecom,

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Speaker 1: made the nation's first mobile call on a Mitsubishi Electric handseet.

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Speaker 1: He called from the Sydney Opera House. Of course today

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Speaker 1: then Communications Minister Michael Duffy. The first mobile phones in

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Speaker 1: Australia were the size of a briefcase. They cost four

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars that's what it used to cost, and had

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Speaker 1: a battery life of twenty minutes. Twin minutes was just amazing,

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Speaker 1: all right. In uh in pop culture. Then this, Oh god,

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Speaker 1: I love this movie. The great Robin Williams one of

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Speaker 1: his best roles, Adrian Kroner DJ, Adrian Kroner, brilliant, brilliant movie.

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Speaker 1: It was just Robin Williams at his peak, or the

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Speaker 1: ad libbing and him being a radio DJ. I love

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Speaker 1: that movie. I have you've seen Good Morning?

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Speaker 2: I have seen it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like your Patsy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you love this one more. Also out

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, Oh my god, The Sways a

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Speaker 1: still love it, first movie to sell over a one

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Speaker 1: million copies on home video. Even that phrase home video,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen.

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Speaker 2: That, Oh jack don't rush stop it, don't rush jackets.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what. I watched that movie now, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I had a girlfriend years and years ago. I was

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Speaker 1: obsessed with that. We just to have to watch it

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Speaker 1: a lot, and I had to pretend to like it.

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Speaker 1: And when I watch it now as a dad, it's

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Speaker 1: a creepy old movie.

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Speaker 2: It's not well.

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Speaker 1: Swayze is an old is an older guy right clean

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Speaker 1: his thirties, falls in love with a young girl. It's

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Speaker 1: like sixteen gets her pregnant. That's the story of this movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get pregnant that you're thinking of Richie the Waiter.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeh see it's a creepy movie. Swayzey's role in

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Speaker 1: that needs to be re examined. But anyway, this was

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Speaker 1: the big line nobody. And then this was born into

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Speaker 1: the world, not originally as its own standalone TV show.

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Speaker 1: It's just a short in the Tracy ulmend Show in America,

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Speaker 1: just a cartoon short when it began live from a

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Speaker 1: Tracy Ullman Show forty eight short screen before it was

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Speaker 1: turned it into their own series. The rest is history.

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Speaker 1: What a show.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely number one favorite show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say still on the greatest TV shows

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Speaker 1: over the Simpsons. So many episodes that are so funny

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Speaker 1: and well written and ah, just genius what the Simpsons

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Speaker 1: have done over the years. Ending this year nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: seven Countdown run for thirteen years, one of the team

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Speaker 1: was brought in their beta match, killed up and played

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Speaker 1: this old episode. At the beginning of this it felt

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Speaker 1: like someone was banging it with a hammer. And then

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Speaker 1: this began life as well. Rang wow child, you guys.

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Speaker 2: Every Saturday morning, Christian Hello, Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: For me nineteen eighty seven. It was all about bmxpikes.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how I was doing at school,

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Speaker 1: That isn't interesting, but my BMX bike was everything. I

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Speaker 1: got it for Christmas, and to this day, that is

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Speaker 1: the greatest Christmas present I'll ever received. I don't want

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Speaker 1: for another gift at Christmas because I got it in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. I was obsessed all my mates that

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Speaker 1: we had BMX bikes. It was all about that. I

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Speaker 1: remember begging my parents just to give me an hour,

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Speaker 1: and on Christmas Day I woke up, I couldn't sleep.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited because I knew the Amaco two

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Speaker 1: O two Silver Star was coming, and I knew it

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Speaker 1: was in the house and even found when my dad

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Speaker 1: had hit it in the garage. Whenever him and Mom

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Speaker 1: went out, I went out, cycled it around the garden,

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Speaker 1: put it back away, got his rake out right back

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Speaker 1: the grass because it flattened a bit. You know, yes

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Speaker 1: I did, And a couples later he told me that

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Speaker 1: he knew I was doing that, but I love this bane.

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Speaker 1: I remember I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep, and I

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Speaker 1: can't say him my dad has he been as father

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Speaker 1: Christmas Bean, and then he said, I'll go and get

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Speaker 1: the bike. It was like half five. Now I remember

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Speaker 1: getting the bike, carrying it upstairs to my bedroom and

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Speaker 1: finally being able to rest because I could see it gleaming.

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Speaker 1: Its chromeness in majesty was like it spoke to me

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Speaker 1: like a Jack was. This is year zero for you,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, mate.

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Speaker 2: A baby was born tenth of November nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 2: so of course I have no memory of it. So

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Speaker 2: last night I asked my mom to share a few

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Speaker 2: thoughts of what young Jackie was like when he first

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Speaker 1: This is great, right, what Jack's mum has gone back

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Speaker 1: and remembered. It's actually really really cute listening to all this.

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Speaker 1: Jack sent me a text message last night saying he's

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Speaker 1: going to ask his mum for her thoughts of when

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Speaker 1: he was a brand new baby as opposed to there

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Speaker 1: being like a pre owned or second hand. That's why

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Speaker 1: my parents never really accepted me. I was a pre owned,

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Speaker 1: second hand baby.

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Speaker 2: Mom says, all the nurses on the ward when you

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Speaker 2: were born knew you because you had curly blonde hair,

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Speaker 2: and Jack was an unusual name. In nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: I checked this, it's right. Not even in the top

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Speaker 1: one hundred names for boys of nineteen eighty seven was Jack.

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Speaker 2: That's a common thing. My mum still claims that she

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Speaker 2: was a trailblazer and it was a very unique name.

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Speaker 2: People that were older than her, like her parents, my

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Speaker 2: dad's parents said, oh, you can't call a baby Jack.

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Speaker 2: When you were born, the hospital set to stay was

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Speaker 2: seven to ten days. John and I were even encouraged

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Speaker 2: to go out to dinner one night and leave you

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Speaker 2: in the hospital and then come.

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Speaker 1: Back right seven to ten days.

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Speaker 2: By the time I had your youngest brother, I was

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Speaker 2: in the hospit for forty eight hours. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think my mum just squatted down and popped me

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Speaker 1: out and carried on doing a day's work.

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Speaker 2: You were the first boy grandchild in the Post family,

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Speaker 2: and they all treated you like a prince.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, and.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: This is the price we're all having to pay now.

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Speaker 1: The father of the man is the child.

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Speaker 2: They'd all come running out to the car to get

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Speaker 2: you whenever you came around.

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Speaker 1: Princes here the rent. Do you know what he's done?

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Speaker 1: Patsy dragged a producer from show duties to go and

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Speaker 1: pick up his uber eats for himself.

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Speaker 2: Hi. Only he wanted to order something.

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Speaker 1: Boy Prince must eat. He didn't ask if we wanted anything.

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Speaker 1: He did not.

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Speaker 2: I was I was scared to ask you because you

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Speaker 2: banned me one time from getting these acable.

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Speaker 1: We're doing the show anyway. The Boy Prince read on

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Speaker 1: about the boy prints at zero.

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Speaker 2: One day you crawled out the front door and across

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Speaker 2: the road to the gutto across the street. John thought

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Speaker 2: I was watching you, and I thought he was a passerby.

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Speaker 2: Came and knocked on the door and asked if there

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Speaker 2: was If we knew the baby sitting in the gutter.

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Speaker 1: That's probably not how it said. He went, do you

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Speaker 1: know this boy prince? Beautiful curly golden locks? Is it him?

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Speaker 1: Is it the boy Prince?

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Speaker 2: And then the last thing she said is for your

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Speaker 2: first Christmas nineteen eighty seven, John got crossed with me

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Speaker 2: because I bought you presents. He said, you wouldn't remember

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Speaker 2: them anyway, and it was a waste of money.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what you got for your first Christmas?

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Speaker 2: I have no IDEA Christian Iconnell, The Christian O'Connell Show

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