WEBVTT - FULL: Headless Black Cat 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:08.400 Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show Podcast Showtime. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.200 I didn't think we've died this long, No, I didn't. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.520 Oh my god, you get a tea back. You get 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:18.120 a tea back. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.040 Christian O'Connell Show, Gold one four point three, Show one 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:24.200 and forty two. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.520 Christian O'Connell's Show. Good Morning, Patty. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:28.360 Morning, Good morning Jack. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:29.120 Hi guys. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.760 Good Let me ask you guys. Let me take you 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.960 back to your foremals. So this Friday, we've got our 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.919 youngest daughter. This will be the last kid going through 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.920 foremals formals for every parent is it's a mixed bag. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.360 It's a beautiful moment and a couple of hours. So 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.040 we go and join Lois round a friend's house where 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.280 we hosted last year for Ruby two years ago. Sorry 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.000 with Ruby. And so this Friday is some friends of 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.520 ours are hosting it. So mums and dad's all go around. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.200 Mums will get the photos, girls will get ready together, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.160 then we have some drinks, we wave them off from 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.160 the limo together and then unfortunately there's the other bit 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.880 of the evening when then they come home at midnight, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.760 there's a costume change and wait, so you go to 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.880 bed now, No, they're off to the after party. And 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.920 then I said to my daughter Lowis, yes, I said, okay, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.800 so do you need me to pick you up? She 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.200 was like no, we'll probably just get ubers. And I'm like, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.640 I don't mind, just I'll pick you up. Where is 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.440 it somewhere in Sint Kilda? And I said to her, 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.920 oh my god, you're gonna have to patrol the No, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.959 there's no sleep now somewhere in Sint Kilda. The heart 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.319 stops at the thought. And then then get this right, Obviously, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.720 kids and teenagers of that age seventeen, you think they're 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.440 very smart. Amazon delivery arrives yesterday in my name and 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.920 I open up and it's a pink hip flask all right, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.360 And I'm. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.000 Thinking, now, you do order some stupid things, but even 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:49.920 you wouldn't. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.040 Make it diamonte cheap one like coming off glitter on 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.120 my hands, going I've been drinking the last month, so 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.080 I haven't been drunk online buying crap again. Otherwise I 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.640 could easily this could be me a pink flows to 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.160 have during the show. I don't know, this isn't mine, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.880 I thought formal so Lois comes home from school yesterday, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.079 I'm doing that thing? How school? She goes straight away, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.880 she goes, what's up? What's happened? Am I in trouble? 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.800 And I just handled the hip floss? She went, Oh, yeah, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.160 I went, do we need to? Because no, everyone does it. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:20.840 I'm just going to strap it to my body and 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.120 taken it. Went, that's not happening. So do you not 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:28.280 like a James Bond feen for Talra? There's booze there, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.640 We've taking some beforehand. There's booze. There's booze at the 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.440 after party. There's no reasons booze. Are we boozing the livo? 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.880 No boz. I'm keeping this pink hip floss. I've got 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.960 it now. I might take it to the King's Birthday 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.280 game next Monday. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.760 The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.919 Christian O'Connell's show. What do you remember from your formal Patsy? Oh? 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.680 What do I remember from my Do. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.200 You smuggle boozing? No? 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:58.040 We were very very square at our school. We were 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.119 our teachers were like vigilant. They were right onto us, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.760 probably because of the years of the dead Balls a 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.919 couple of years earlier and the mayhem that they caused. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.280 So they were right onto a year twelve, so we 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.000 had to. But those of us who were eighteen, of 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.720 which I was one, we could all go up to 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.640 the nightclubs after we were finished because we were of age. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.040 How many nightclubs in Wangara? 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.560 Nightclubs? New York there was on the Strip which was 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:26.400 a sphere. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.360 The regional city that never sleeps. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.680 Wait, Jack, there was three? Can you imagine what they 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.640 must have been like? Were they just barns someone turning 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:34.079 a light. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.640 On days and lights and stuff? 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.160 But there was the mirror ball in the middle of 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:41.440 the bar. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.960 There was a pinno, the Northough and the Grand Central, 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.400 which is where I met a few months later. Which 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.560 one at the Grand Central after a radio station Christmas 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.680 party saw the love God? 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.560 What was Chris? There? Was you listening? Won a prize? 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.160 No, he wasn't a prize. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:00.760 Pig kissing. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.520 He was meant to go camping with his mates actually, 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.080 and decided not to go so the pub instead. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.320 Sliding doors moment, wasn't it? 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:11.640 Jack? 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.000 Yeah? And what was going on? What radios? Were you 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.240 doing like a ob there? What was happening? 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:16.599 No? 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.479 No, no, no, we'd had our Christmas party over the 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.719 ride at a restaurant over the ride and everyone said, yeah, 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:22.200 let's go there. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.480 God and also Patsy Christmas parties back in the day 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.320 for radio stations carnage. I've seen people ruin their careers 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.640 and those places just drinking too much, hooking up with 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.640 people they're definitely not married to. Even this place has 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.080 that email about how to behave that goes around, an 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.679 actual email. What kind of world are we in where 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.160 people the men have to be an email goes telling 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.480 you how to behave, be decent, to be decent, don't 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.280 touch anyone that you shouldn't be touching, and don't stay 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.599 out too late, and actually email goes round for hour. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:00.640 How are you twelve? 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:00.919 Formal? 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.120 It was much later in the year and they linked 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.640 it to the end of year exams to say, if 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.760 you misbehave at the formal, you won't be able to 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:08.839 see your exams at the school. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.320 Yes, I don't know why they don't do that. It 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.599 feels like it's really early now. The formal says Friday 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.599 Lewis has got all the exams in a couple months time. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.560 Now she's doing ongoing assessments of that. They don't need 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.000 like a three day hangover and also widely kids of 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.839 that a certainly nature. They don't need an after party. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:26.560 What is this the oscars? 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.440 This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.560 Christian O'Connell Show. Every day this week thanks to Smile 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.799 Solutions Transport Transform your Smile with the specialists that Smile Solutions, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.600 located in the beautiful iconic Manchester Unity Building. 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You're trying to 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.520 sing in the dentist's chair. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.200 Oh quite. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:17.600 Quite fuller, wait here home man, her hair, film, foul, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:25.080 her wife, work a wolf, work for while falk he 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.080 whall but anyway he. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.080 Hold home? 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.800 Wayne, come on and Wayne, come on Wayne, what do 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.360 you think the song is? Mate? And you can win 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:44.200 one thousand dollars in cash, time of your life. Wow 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.200 done Wayne in this morning's winner. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.080 Perfect may one a morning beautiful. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.680 Thanks guys, that's our pleasure. 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You won you 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:02.840 one thousand dollars, mate, Well. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.800 Done, awesome, thank you very much. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.440 It mean he sounds like he's in the dentist's chair 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.640 with you, the one that Wayne's talking there, Wayne's this 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.680 Morning's when another chance to wine morning on the show. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.520 Let's play Green Day, Timmy your life Now, this is 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:15.200 a brilliant song. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:15.720 Well. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.520 Christian Connell's Show podcast. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.440 Christian O'Connell's show PASSI how was your day yesterday? Mate? 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.240 I got busted yesterday big time. So I rang Chris 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.320 on my way home and he was clearly in the 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.679 drive through of Machas because I could hear you know, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.440 the lady, what would you like please on the speaker? 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.000 Yeah, And it was obvious, and I said, what are 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:38.520 you doing? 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.760 Because he has you know, every year goes to the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.120 gp has, you know, the twenty thousand k service, gets 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.280 blood tests, all that stuff, does that every year. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:47.920 That's right. And then for a while you put him 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.760 on that all green diet. He was on the or 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:50.840 green How long did that last? 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:51.559 Five hours? 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:52.079 Not like? 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.559 Well, now he's on a low carb diet. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.640 Because Donald's a well known for that. Go right, I'll 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.040 have the low carb option. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:05.280 Please to be on the plan because he's eating too many, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.320 too many, too many carbs and not burning them off. Essentially, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.199 because you know he's got a desk job, and so 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.680 he's been really really good up to this point. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:17.000 Anyway, lunch time he. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.200 Made it through Monday. A little treep eighteen. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.240 Celebrate how good he did the day before. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:24.960 What are you doing? 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.719 I suspect, and he goes, oh, I've just had such 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.520 a busy day. Haven't got time to go to like 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.719 a sandwich bar and get a salad. And I said, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.280 so you're having macas. That's not actually, that's not good. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.600 So I gave you read the ride act. What are 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:37.040 you doing? 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.040 Novius move from him to answer the phone. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.320 You just say you're in a meeting. As you're laughing 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.319 your arms off in the car park, look at yourself 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:46.600 from mirror eating all those nuts. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.199 Anyway, then he pulls up to the window, and I'm 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.560 obviously on the bluetooth on the speaker so I can 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.080 hear the lady at the window, and then she goes, oh, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.520 your wife was in here earlier this morning. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.640 That's so funny. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.719 I might answer just for coffee, but it was like 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.720 you could hear the delight in his Oh yes, it. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.679 Gets canceled out. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.319 Everything you could hear really so funny. But also that 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.000 you both go there so often that you're a familiar 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:18.559 first name. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:25.920 Basis you over a bluetooth in a car? That's I mean, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.200 how small is that village you live in? There's about 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.959 eight people, that's right? 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.400 With high rise buildings. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:35.160 How's that? 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:36.760 Though your wife was here? 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.439 And were you already getting a coffee? Did you have more? No? No, No, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:41.280 I got a coffee. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.600 I just got a coffee on the way to work. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.640 It's so hard these days because there's so many that 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.920 would like a live three six C find my phone. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.800 Everyone knows where everybody is true, you know, and even 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.559 like because you obviously got joint credit card statements and 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.199 stuff like that. Even now it's like, if you do 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.920 want to do anything off the books, it's so hot, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.040 you've got to have and even these days, you look 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.600 like such a badass if you go, I'm paying cash. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.320 What they don't want to touch like dirty and it's 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.439 like dirty money. These days people don't want even to 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.079 touch anymore, do they. Kaitlin, what happened? Didn't you have 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:14.800 something like this? 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.280 Yes? So I would have McDonald's maybe once a year. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.000 And the reason is my par Come on, who does 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.040 that once a year? 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.280 No, that's genuinely what happens because my partner is a 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.679 health freak, and so she just makes me feel bad 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.240 if I go and eat something like that. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.280 So I would probably have it once a year anyway. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:41.080 Sorry, is this a blink? Blink once a year? Okay, yeah, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.640 now I remember now once a year year? 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:43.280 Correct? 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.600 Correct? The other day was my once a year convenient? 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.679 What are the chances? What are the odds? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.040 I really hope she's not listening. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.000 I went through and I went to the extent of 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.520 hiding it. I didn't use credit card, I use cash 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.240 to pay, so would it come up? I also when 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.199 I got home, scrunched it all up, went out to 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.280 the back being lifted the night before running. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.400 Yeah, I've done that. In fact, what you shouldn't. It's 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.960 a rick state. You eat in the car park there 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.920 and use their bins and then I'll switch the cars 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:28.920 because that it has a smell smelling there you get 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.079 you go, you've been to McDonald's. It just hangs in 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.880 the air. So yeah, I'll even eat with all for 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.480 the windows sound the car part there, I need one 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.640 of those like CSI suits they wear. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.960 So she still doesn't know fingers cross, she's not listening 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.640 and doesn't. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.599 Yeah noticed that one. It is that annual visits. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.480 Workers the Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.520 Christian O'Connell's show, it's getting to this week's as said 0:12:54.559 --> 0:13:04.920 of school, all right this week? Then a is it 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.199 a score? It's about the letter D. What is the 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.360 letter D to you? And your school days are nine 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.000 four one four one oh four three, Patsy, what's the 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:13.920 letter D for you? Mate? 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.920 It's disco disco tech and definitely. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.360 The calls it disco tech. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.120 My mother used to call it the disco tech. Are 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.360 you going to the disco tech? 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:23.679 So? 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.320 Is this your version of a school dance? 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:25.760 Yeah? 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.640 Well blue light disco with blue light. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.040 Wouldn't it a phenomenal program? Jack? 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.280 So local police would put on discos essentially, especially for 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.000 kids in the country when there wasn't a lot of hosts. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.120 Why isn't Netflix made a documentary about this? Because I 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.240 thought Crawl first told about this when I moved, and 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.560 I thought he was just winding me up, so I didn't. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.360 I didn't take it seriously that the police would turn 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:51.079 DJs and do teenager school discos. It's a brilliant Yeah, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.080 it's an amazing thing. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.600 It really was a great initiative in the eighties. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:59.000 And the police uniform on the turntable shame. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.640 Yes, we used to have ours up at the Wangaratta 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.120 Town Hall and they might have had it, like I 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.599 don't know, every three or four months, and it was 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.920 totally the police. They do the security, of course, they 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.559 do the DJing, catering. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.800 They were fantastic. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.720 Superintendent's got a nice path for the kids and. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.680 It just used to foster a feeling of good spirit 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.680 and relationship with you know, local police and youth. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:24.320 When did it stop. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.000 I don't know whether it was a funding issue. I 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.240 don't recall them being held in the nineties. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.840 If you're a criminal as well, you literally got that 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.360 in your calendar. Were all the police. They've been cooking 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:40.760 all the DJ and they're working at the police Nobody 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.480 on the street, there's not around. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.200 But we used to love it because it was even 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.240 better than like because I went to the high school. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.280 It was even better than just your school dance because 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.640 all of the schools in the district would go, so 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.520 you'd meet other kids from other schools. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.600 It must have been just a free I'm trying to 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.200 find the F word without swaming it must it had 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.200 just been crazy. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:02.200 It was huge. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.400 It was many your first pash. We had a light disco, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:05.800 but it. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.680 Must have been very well behaved. You wouldn't have had 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.840 hip flasks, for example, strapped to your legs. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.400 Well not my my friendship group Jack, No, I'm sure 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.120 it was occasionally, but it was just a just good 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.120 night with you know, the disco ball in. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.960 The middle and the long time did the end? Was 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.520 it at midnight? 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.359 Wise like ten o'clock? It was fairly early from my recollect. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.400 Said the police drive everyone home in the back of 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:27.160 the tvvy mare. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.280 Yeah, and you know what to take like all night 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.440 to pluck up the courage to ask that boy to 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:33.120 dance with you. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.520 Oh my god, it was so huge. It was the 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.920 same as our one, right, so for our sort of 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.120 school disco and that it used to be once a 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.480 month on a Friday night, and it was like the 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.800 boys would be on one side of the school hall, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 the girls the other, and that couple of meters was 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.120 the hardest journey for a teenage boy to walk over 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.760 there and ask for the dance during the half an 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.000 hour the last TLF and that would be the slow selection. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.040 Yes, it was like a parting of the Seas, and 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.800 then the last song was always and Anderson suddenly you 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.600 know off the neighbors. You know they used it for 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.480 Scott and Charlene's wing songs. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:07.480 That's ye. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.440 Everyone was passing by that stage, and if you were, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:11.480 you're a bit of a loser. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:19.640 In my mind, they've got these losers over there, the 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.600 police on the top of the sort of DJ concol 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.520 got the blue flashing lights of stuff. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:27.200 So much fun. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.720 Jackie boy, what's the letter D for you? If you 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.440 remember blue blue light discos, please give us a called 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.000 nine four one four one o four three. Jack what's 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:35.760 the letter D for you? 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.840 So we had a different kind of dance in primary school. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.080 We actually had to do ballroom dancing for a couple 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:41.480 of years. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.040 Oh wow. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.360 So we would waltz at the end of the year 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.440 and they would encourage the boys as part of the program, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.160 to in their own time in recess and lunchtime go 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.360 and ask the girls to be their waltzing partner. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.760 This is incredible. I mean, you'd expect this to happen 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.880 in my homeland in the UKE, but we didn't have 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:00.880 ballroom lesson and. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.080 This was early years of high school. So sorry, primary school. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.280 So seven eight year olds doing the ballroom waltz? 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.560 Is this a thing in Australia. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.840 I don't know if many other schools didn't. We went 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.320 to the local town hall as well to do the final. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.680 After we'd waltzed for three months, we did our final 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.280 dance or the parents would sit on the second deck 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.440 of the town. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.200 Hall and we all dressed up as well smartened. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.159 Yeah, it wasn't tuxedos and suits, so it was like 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.240 your nicest button up shirt. I think mom was a 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:31.400 white shirt because. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.879 That was the its the look quite the look reminds 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.119 me of the early Bard's Lurma movie in the Strictly 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.480 Ballroom during in the early nineties. All right, the letter 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.600 D and school for you nine four one four one 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.960 O four three. So I definitely want to hear stories 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.840 some one about the Blue Light Discos. I wonder if 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.560 anyone actually met the person are now married to at 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.879 the Blue Light Disco and anyone else have ballroom lessons 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:54.760 or just Jack. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.560 This is the Christian o'connells Show podcast. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.400 Christian O'Connell's show eight is at a school this week. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.080 It's all about the letter D. What is the letter D? 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.520 And school Days for you on nine four one four, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.160 one four three, And now Patsy was talking about blue 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.520 Light discos and I was wondering when they stopped becoming 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:21.320