WEBVTT - MINI: Mullets

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Had to answer me this. Did you use the word

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<v Speaker 2>mullet in the eighties?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, because I see I remember where it was also

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<v Speaker 3>known in the eighties as ice hockey hair. I don't

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<v Speaker 3>remember him in the mullet to like the nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, further research into it. The Oxford English Dictionary

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<v Speaker 2>has credited the Beastie Boys with the term mullet as

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<v Speaker 2>a haircut.

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<v Speaker 4>The Oe d Roy is recognized all over the world.

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<v Speaker 2>How's this for a scandal? The OED first credited Australian

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<v Speaker 2>Street Machine Automotive Magazine with the first publication describing the

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<v Speaker 2>mullet in nineteen ninety two, pre dating the Beastie Boys.

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<v Speaker 2>Then later is discovered that the magazine image had been

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<v Speaker 2>faked and the twenty eighteen apology posted had the fake.

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<v Speaker 2>So the MAGA.

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<v Speaker 4>Post deep fake was about the mullet.

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<v Speaker 2>The magazine fudged their dates to say we were the

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<v Speaker 2>first one to come up with the mullet. Wow, but

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<v Speaker 2>apparently in the eighties we didn't call it a mullet.

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<v Speaker 4>Can someone calling?

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<v Speaker 3>Can anyone call in and tell us some of this? Honestly,

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<v Speaker 3>did you really call it the munet in the eighties.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't believe we did. I don't memory one calling

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<v Speaker 3>him money. It wasn't known as being awed unusual, just

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<v Speaker 3>how you had your hair.

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<v Speaker 2>And if the Beastie Boys did come up with it,

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<v Speaker 2>they should get more credit for coming up with the word.

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<v Speaker 3>Got enough credit, I mean, the Wandi recognized the pioneer

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<v Speaker 3>of music. There's nothing held the Beastie Boys back. When

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<v Speaker 3>are we going to get the ju kudos for coining

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<v Speaker 3>the words word?

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<v Speaker 1>Christian Connell Show podcast.

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<v Speaker 4>We're talking about the great Munnet still going strong here

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<v Speaker 4>in Austrow. Did it ever go away? No, it didn't.

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<v Speaker 4>You've stood by the monet now.

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<v Speaker 3>Jack has found some interestant research about the origins though

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<v Speaker 3>not of the mudllet the haircut, but actually the word mullllet,

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<v Speaker 3>which is what we universally all over the world called

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<v Speaker 3>that ye and.

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<v Speaker 2>When I actually think of the mullet as an eighties

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<v Speaker 2>icon hairstyle. But apparently it wasn't until nineteen ninety four

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<v Speaker 2>that we used the word mullet, and the Oxford English

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<v Speaker 2>Dictionary says the of the term mullet to describe a

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<v Speaker 2>hairstyle was coined by American hip hop group the Beastie

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<v Speaker 2>Boys in their song Mullet Heead nineteen ninety four.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what of You's emailed me saying you're actually at work,

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<v Speaker 3>supposed to be working, but actually now googling this doing

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<v Speaker 3>research for us about the origins of the phrase. Mullllet

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<v Speaker 3>send me a link to the Guardian website and a

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<v Speaker 3>very dry dollar con section they've got called semantic enigmas.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm listening to ABC through the night now it was

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<v Speaker 3>time for this week's semantic enigmas.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, we did Doyley's and Haberdashery ten.

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<v Speaker 3>Stand by that, stand by that. That's hard talk on

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<v Speaker 3>this show. Why is a muddet hairstyle called a mudet?

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<v Speaker 3>Mullett websites done, that was the thing. There are munet websites.

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<v Speaker 3>Munllet websites generally credit the car coining of this phrase

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<v Speaker 3>to Mike d of the of course Beastie Boys. This

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<v Speaker 3>came from the song Mullettheads on the ninety four album

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<v Speaker 3>Ill Communication, which described the hairgun it's wearers. Someone else

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<v Speaker 3>chipping in on this. Americans call it the biff rib,

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<v Speaker 3>which stands for business in front, rocking at the back.

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<v Speaker 3>Paul Newman apparently refers to actually says the words mullet

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<v Speaker 3>heads in his film Cool Hand Luke, which was out

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<v Speaker 3>in nineteen sixty seven, which is see if we can get.

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<v Speaker 4>Hold of the audio for that. You know, we need

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<v Speaker 4>to speak today, right, we've got color. You were lined up?

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<v Speaker 4>Is anyone who was a hairdresser in the eighties?

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<v Speaker 5>Yes?

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<v Speaker 4>What would a guy?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, come in and actually say what they want? Would

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<v Speaker 3>they just go look short the back? Leave it all

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<v Speaker 3>big on top?

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<v Speaker 2>I know the person my hairdresser used to be a

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<v Speaker 2>hairdresser to the star.

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<v Speaker 4>How did you leave it with them? When you leave

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<v Speaker 4>a hairdresser?

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, she retired, Oh she retired scissors. She hung

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<v Speaker 2>up the scissors. I had to leave. But she said

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<v Speaker 2>she used to do all the rock bands as they

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<v Speaker 2>came through the rolling stones on the show. Yeah, Colleen,

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<v Speaker 2>I bet she'll know what number.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, all right, let's try it at that. So all right,

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<v Speaker 3>let's go to lines right now. So we're trying to

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<v Speaker 3>find out what did we all say in the eighties

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<v Speaker 3>for the money? If it didn't come along to the

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<v Speaker 3>Beasti Boys in ninety four, Brett, good morning, good morning, Brett,

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<v Speaker 3>what do you reckon the money, when do we start

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<v Speaker 3>saying it?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, in my opinion, the muddlers known as the Bogan

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<v Speaker 6>cut in the eighties.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, we used to call it the ice ice

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<v Speaker 3>hockey hair in the UK. Mainly we thought it was

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<v Speaker 3>mainly like Canadians that sort of had that look in

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<v Speaker 3>the It.

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<v Speaker 4>Does feel like a very very Candian.

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<v Speaker 3>Sashes Australians as well, but yeah, go on, Bogan cut them.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, yes, So if you had the mullet, you were

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<v Speaker 6>known as a bogan yeap. And and if you went

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<v Speaker 6>to the hairdresser you would make sure that they kept

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<v Speaker 6>tails at the back.

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<v Speaker 3>And I think it's the nastiest manifestation and variation of

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<v Speaker 3>the munet. The munet I think can look good, right,

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<v Speaker 3>but those rattails if you see it on like a

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<v Speaker 3>five or seven year old boy, right, I'm afraid you

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<v Speaker 3>judge the parents don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, wait, I know. I spoke to bretton his

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<v Speaker 2>son has a mullet.

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<v Speaker 6>He does, and it's.

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<v Speaker 4>Down awkward, Brett. I'll send your price. Brett, thank you

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<v Speaker 4>very much for calling. He's triple.

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<v Speaker 3>Who knew we could fall out with this is a

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<v Speaker 3>rat tails? I didn't know that was my unpopular opinion.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's go to sorry Breton the son.

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<v Speaker 5>Good morning Joe, Yes, Hi, hello Christian.

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<v Speaker 4>My friend. What do you say mullets?

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<v Speaker 5>Man? Jack's right, we need to call with a mullet.

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<v Speaker 5>Matter of fact, back in the late seventies we should

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<v Speaker 5>just going in the head dresser and say look, I

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<v Speaker 5>takes some off the sides and leave the back along.

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<v Speaker 5>That was it.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no one said the word money. It wasn't known

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<v Speaker 4>as that one.

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<v Speaker 5>No, it wasn't. If you have look at some of

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<v Speaker 5>the some of the gangs back in the early seventies,

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<v Speaker 5>like the I think it was the sharpest, normal basedab

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<v Speaker 5>their heir along at the back and stuff.

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<v Speaker 4>But that too. Yeah, we have to have a look

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<v Speaker 4>at some of those gangs of the seventies.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to see Daniel day Lewis the Gangs of

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<v Speaker 3>Australia in a mullet.

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<v Speaker 2>Australia is the movie that needs to.

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<v Speaker 4>Be nice, getting Daniel day Lewis to call me on?

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<v Speaker 4>Who's calling?

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<v Speaker 3>Christian now pictured to him he set in the seventies

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<v Speaker 3>in Frankston.

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<v Speaker 4>You're rocking and money.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody has a mullet, but they don't call it that.

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<v Speaker 4>They don't call it that my friend soon as a bogan, Joe.

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<v Speaker 4>Great call, Thank you very.

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<v Speaker 5>Much, Well well.

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