Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago. It's my wedding anniversary and
Speaker 2: so our twenty second year. So I made it little
Speaker 2: playlist because that's what I like doing and for my
Speaker 2: wife of songs hits from nineteen ninety eight, and then
Speaker 2: I bought the playlist in and I played a couple
Speaker 2: of them to Jakobat. So we turned into a game
Speaker 2: which has grown over the last couple of weeks, and
Speaker 2: now each week we're going back to a year and
Speaker 2: playing a game with you guys at the end of it.
Speaker 2: But first of all, today we're going back to nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty three. Patsy nineteen eighty three. What were you up
Speaker 2: to in nineteen eighty three? You were at school.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty three. I was in Grade five at Wang
Speaker 3: South Primary in nineteen eighty three and about to take
Speaker 3: up basketball, which lasted about two weeks. I was hopeless
Speaker 3: at it. It was too rough for me, Prissy.
Speaker 2: I was tanning nineteen eighty three, and I was obsessed
Speaker 2: about one thing. My whole life was all about when
Speaker 2: am I going to next get back on my BMX pipe.
Speaker 2: It's what me and my mates did at all and
Speaker 2: when I mean all weekend, I mean for like fourteen
Speaker 2: hours on a Saturday, fourteen hours on a Sunday. BMX
Speaker 2: in building ramps. Do you like jump some ramps?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah.
Speaker 2: We used to spend hours doing these kind of elaborate
Speaker 2: jumps and raps. It was all about BMX biking for
Speaker 2: me in nineteen eighty three. Let's go back to nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty three then VFL Grand Final and he guesses who
Speaker 2: was in it who won?
Speaker 3: I think I believe Carlton was favorites, but Richmond took
Speaker 3: the flag. I think, didn't they?
Speaker 4: I reckon, I reckon. It's Essenon lost to Hawks.
Speaker 2: The Bombers guy knows the sad detail it is. Hawks
Speaker 2: beat was by eighty three points at the mcg int
Speaker 2: the crowd of over one hundred and ten thousand, Yeah,
Speaker 2: in nineteen.
Speaker 4: Eighty three, doesn't that make you?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, obviously people lost their lives in COVID,
Speaker 2: but you know, just the thought of not you know,
Speaker 2: I know, footies back tomorrow, which is really exciting, but
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand, that's what the mcg be,
Speaker 2: which is crammed final score one hundred and forty to
Speaker 2: fifty seven, Leigh Matthews bag in six scars, which is incredible.
Speaker 2: And then this is an amazing moment in your history.
Speaker 2: You must remember this, Australia winning the America's Cup. Australia
Speaker 2: broke the longest winning streak in sporting history, still remains
Speaker 2: a record to this day. On September the twenty sixth,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three, when the Australia two won the America's Cup,
Speaker 2: sailing into Rhode Island, New York.
Speaker 5: They're going about to go. Australia's about to do it.
Speaker 5: Here we go and they goes, They're gone off, Dad,
Speaker 5: done it. Australia has won the American's Cup. I can't
Speaker 5: believe it's Allan Vondid him Tom Amonius Hendership and I
Speaker 5: can see the barn Australia poo going for the Liberty
Speaker 5: is still to come over the bending line.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, obviously was an Australia ninety three? Was
Speaker 2: it commentated over the phone? I mean that sounds like
Speaker 2: the footage of man landing on the moon. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know America's quite a bit away Rhode Island, New York,
Speaker 2: but this sounds like it's the letlist of landing.
Speaker 3: And the other's probably satellite. Fine.
Speaker 5: It also sounded like a suburban footy match with car
Speaker 5: horns going up after somebody.
Speaker 2: I think that was attached to obviously, the Australian yacht
Speaker 2: is a bogan yacht that they'd pimped out.
Speaker 4: And then Bob Hawks said this, He declared.
Speaker 2: It a public holiday. An't the fact that you can
Speaker 2: just do that? He just declared a public holiday. We've won,
Speaker 2: We've won a sporting thing. No one's going to work.
Speaker 6: I tell you what, any boss who sex anyone but
Speaker 6: not turning up the dyer's a bump.
Speaker 4: Back when where there were great world leaders, it's not.
Speaker 4: And also they laughed at the end. There feels like
Speaker 4: from a Laurel and Hardy movie.
Speaker 6: I tell you what, any boss who sex anyone but
Speaker 6: not turning up the dyer's a bum.
Speaker 5: Laugh at a press conference.
Speaker 4: That's what they need of the game to orow night
Speaker 4: for the opening of round two.
Speaker 6: I tell you what, Any boss who sex anyone but
Speaker 6: not turning up the Dyer's a bump.
Speaker 4: Do you know what one day should we do the
Speaker 4: cans after the breakfast shop?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that would be so much fun.
Speaker 2: All right, then this, what's the biggest ending to a
Speaker 2: TV show ever in nineteen eighty three, I can get this,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five million people tuning to watch
Speaker 2: the final episode of Match. It is still in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty the most watched TV series fin Armie of all time.
Speaker 2: Second one is ten years later, nineteen ninety three Cheers.
Speaker 2: That got ninety four million, one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: million people, which is incredible, brilliant, brilliant show as well.
Speaker 4: For me, it was all about this movie.
Speaker 2: The BMX beans felt wild in the streets, in the
Speaker 2: chase twend Ole Chasers. It's thrills and spill, John Bis Chase,
Speaker 2: Gwendell Chases done, durious fun.
Speaker 4: There's only one word to describe it. Did you see
Speaker 4: this passing b less bands with a young nicole kidman?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was messive at the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to it at the cinema.
Speaker 2: And I remember recently when I turned forty and my
Speaker 2: wife got Mister Surprise.
Speaker 4: She got me the.
Speaker 2: Exact she used to track it down, the exact BMX bike.
Speaker 2: I had no way.
Speaker 5: Do you ride it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2: A good look when you're grown adult and you're cycling
Speaker 2: around your suburb on a BMX bike.
Speaker 4: You look like a Will Ferrell character. Still living. I'm
Speaker 4: not Step Brothers trying to do Bunny Hubs wheel.
Speaker 2: I sold it about a week about a week later,
Speaker 2: It's just like some things are best left in the past.
Speaker 2: But anyway, when you go on YouTube now, have a
Speaker 2: look at BMX bandit's right because as a kid, I thought, God,
Speaker 2: the girl and Nicole Kidman. I don't even know it's
Speaker 2: Nicole Kimmen. She was just the girl.
Speaker 4: She's doing all he own stunts.
Speaker 2: You go back now it's clearly an adult in a
Speaker 2: blonde wig. You know when they didn't worry about close up,
Speaker 2: so any kind of hint of realism.
Speaker 4: It's just a big dude. Suddenly it cuts to a
Speaker 4: big dude in a big wig. That's no way that
Speaker 4: is Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2: And then also in nineteen eighty three, the first ever
Speaker 2: Marrio Brothers video game was released.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well worth getting that circlip sounds like Mario's seven
Speaker 4: Trouble that. It sounds like Patsy's news at the moment,
Speaker 4: So my.
Speaker 3: Wine, was it really that bad?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's fine. Ye, it was awful Christian i'connell,
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell show, Christian nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: My absolute favorite year was seventeen years old, first full
Speaker 2: time job, first boyfriend, light clubbing every weekend down the
Speaker 2: Red Parrot in Northbridge, Perth. Good times. That's from Gail Kirby.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Gail. That's great. The Red Parrot screams nightclub
Speaker 2: of the eighties. It is there anyone in the world
Speaker 2: today actually available for business as I.
Speaker 4: Like cold called the Red Parrot.
Speaker 2: All nightclubs had strange names like that in the eighties
Speaker 2: and nineties, didn't they.
Speaker 4: Christian.
Speaker 2: For me, nineteen eighty three was all about Return of
Speaker 2: the Jedi. Went to see my dad and big brother.
Speaker 2: I was just five. It was exciting and terrifying, but
Speaker 2: most of all was awesome. For weeks after I walked
Speaker 2: around my hands classed together like Luke Skywalker saying nevertheless,
Speaker 2: huge Modia. All right, we've got some stories on the
Speaker 2: line now about nineteen eighty three. If you want to
Speaker 2: give us a cool morning nine four one four one
Speaker 2: four three, maybe do the stuntman in BMX Bandits who
Speaker 2: was badly pretending to be Nicole Kidman Andrea, Good morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning Christian, Good morning Andrew.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. What can you tell us about
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty three? What was it for you?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 7: I spent that was in year nine. I was fourteen,
Speaker 7: and I spent most of the time writing The Police
Speaker 7: Forever all over all my books, speaking it. And I
Speaker 7: loved Stuart Copelin the drama.
Speaker 8: He was just everything.
Speaker 7: My walls were plasted in police photos and I hardly
Speaker 7: did any work that year. I just thought about boys,
Speaker 7: music and the police pretty much. It's a big year.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't obviously write The Police Forever on my school books,
Speaker 2: but I remember we always should do that. Your favorite
Speaker 2: bands and stuff that used to your school bag we
Speaker 2: plastered with them.
Speaker 7: Oh definitely, I had forever, you know, together, never to part.
Speaker 7: I mean you just you were so in love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, teenage called teenage infatuation. My wife told me that
Speaker 2: she for her was Mark hamil Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 4: She said every night she would kiss his face good night,
Speaker 4: and he sends up with me. That's sad.
Speaker 2: Sometimes no one gets what they really thought they were
Speaker 2: when you were tea.
Speaker 6: Have you ever done any sort of Star Wars role
Speaker 6: plus dress pick.
Speaker 2: It's more Yoda, Now forty seven for me, Jack the
Speaker 2: Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 4: Andrew, that's a great call. We'll send your prize.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4: Take care of mate. Bye ken coome onning, Good morning, prison,
Speaker 4: come on and can welcome to a show. Nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4: What's it for you?
Speaker 8: Nineteen eighty three. I was fifteen years of age of
Speaker 8: ravent tech doing year ten and the morning paper a round.
Speaker 8: But the biggest thing that happened that year was the
Speaker 8: reunion of the classic lineup of Skidels.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, did you managed to get tickets? Go and
Speaker 4: see that?
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 8: Of course this was pre internet day's, pre phone booking.
Speaker 8: You had to go and queue up, so as an
Speaker 8: excitement built for this, because this was just getting bigger
Speaker 8: and bigger. The hooks were everywhere. They were all over
Speaker 8: the newspapers, TV and radio. The night before that first
Speaker 8: Melbourne show went on sales says for all. I thought,
Speaker 8: that's it, I've got to get tickets. I raced off
Speaker 8: to my local back outlet. I was the first one
Speaker 8: in the queue of about twenty people, and of course,
Speaker 8: racing off at fifteen years of age, totally forgot about
Speaker 8: taking any food or order to scrap the sleeping bag,
Speaker 8: and off I went.
Speaker 4: What did your parents say about you?
Speaker 2: Listen, Jack, you weren't there the eighties. It was the
Speaker 2: decade of parental negligence. Seriously, they barely they said hello
Speaker 2: when you were born, and then when we're going to
Speaker 2: do what we do, you do what you do?
Speaker 4: Okay, that was it.
Speaker 8: There were different days, but I do believe that mum
Speaker 8: did a couple of secret drive bys for local pats
Speaker 8: out there, just to chick.
Speaker 4: I was, okay, oh blessed.
Speaker 2: I don't think my pers would have even done that.
Speaker 2: Now you'd have like live streaming tracking. I've never drowne
Speaker 2: up in the sky. They've some fifty liter bottle of
Speaker 2: water there. Make sure you take a sip every two minutes.
Speaker 8: That's not embarrassing.
Speaker 4: Thanks loud, and tell me what was it like? Then
Speaker 4: you got your tickets, got the tickets.
Speaker 8: I was in the front row and it was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 8: I mean, the mighty Skyhooks. Those guys are absolutely incredible.
Speaker 8: But to see them live and to see that classic
Speaker 8: lineup back on stage at Festival Hall. They sold out
Speaker 8: one show, the first show, in record time, faster than
Speaker 8: even the Featable sold out Testball Hall and the demand
Speaker 8: was so huge they ended up doing four shows at
Speaker 8: Festful Hall in Velhena. Was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: What a great memory for you to have it and
Speaker 2: tell me this, Ken, I get the feeling. I know
Speaker 2: the answer, But is that your favorite memory of live music?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: Absolutely, they were just amazing. I mean people who didn't
Speaker 8: see Skyhooks don't know what they mean.
Speaker 4: And isn't it funny?
Speaker 2: But because obviously nowadays you'd have had you had tons
Speaker 2: of photos of that and selfies and that, but but
Speaker 2: you've got no photos of that.
Speaker 8: I've got a few photos. I took the on home.
Speaker 8: It's one ten camera and Wie.
Speaker 2: Trid with the facts Brownie.
Speaker 1: Christian christ Christian o'connells show podcast.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: The final thing we do when we take you back
Speaker 2: to a year each week love be doing over the
Speaker 2: last half an hour or so. Thank you very much
Speaker 2: at the stories and calls we've got different year from
Speaker 2: a different decade.
Speaker 4: Next week is you.
Speaker 2: Played this to one second Winners where I play a
Speaker 2: couple of hits from that year. This week nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: Jack and Pat's taking each other on. Last week we're
Speaker 2: in the nineties. Jackie boy, you've had a comeback. You're
Speaker 2: on three, Patsy's still lead on five. Okay, a couple
Speaker 2: of songs and I'll throw it open to the one
Speaker 2: second winner, where you can try and win in and
Speaker 2: guess the song in one second from nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4: Uh you you both ready ready?
Speaker 3: Yep oh oh, Lionel Richie, all night long.
Speaker 2: Well done, jack jack gets to win for that one
Speaker 2: bit of assistance there from Patsy and they can't a
Speaker 2: point each.
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, what's this, Patsy?
Speaker 2: You should give this immediately one of the songs of
Speaker 2: the eighties.
Speaker 3: Oh no, look at the harmony.
Speaker 4: Stay with you, guys, it's beautiful. Listen to this much.
Speaker 2: In the wedding song artists, please title nartists. You know
Speaker 2: how radio is built.
Speaker 3: Spare ballets us.
Speaker 4: True span do a tribute and this much is true.
Speaker 4: I would accept that thank.
Speaker 2: You was a school disco that didn't play this in
Speaker 2: the eighties.
Speaker 4: What a song?
Speaker 2: And good memories last year of ta by Tony calling us,
Speaker 2: I'm doing cold live on who's calling Christian?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What's what's the schools? By the way, Patsy is on
Speaker 4: one and a half, got my half? Yeah? What's this?
Speaker 3: Oh? Come and come a chameleon? Boy George?
Speaker 4: Hello, you're on fire? Patsy still a sponge?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I love George? A funny funny guy. Boy, George is
Speaker 4: really funny? All right? What's this other? Police?
Speaker 3: Every stick you take the place.
Speaker 2: Every breath you take, win a win a chicken dinner.
Speaker 2: Gos to Jackie, Boy Jack you would know this.
Speaker 4: Show your wedding, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah? We had a cello version of players by five
Speaker 5: cork down the aisle.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that at the time.
Speaker 2: Who does in the eighties we didn't Who when you
Speaker 2: got married a couple of years ago?
Speaker 4: Who didn't know?
Speaker 2: This was a well known if you do a survey,
Speaker 2: if we worked on the streets right now as ten,
Speaker 2: what's the creepiest song ever made?
Speaker 4: Every breaking new tea? Are we watching you? What's not
Speaker 4: all right? One? Final one? Team? Oh?
Speaker 3: What a feeling?
Speaker 4: Ire in Kara he loves this game? Must a live.
Speaker 4: You've been all week on the show, sleep walking through
Speaker 4: the rest of it.
Speaker 5: But this.
Speaker 4: It's my genre, man, alight, it's my genre, man, all right?
Speaker 4: This one is for the dear listener. This is your clip.
Speaker 2: Okay, one second winner, have a guess at this nine
Speaker 2: four one four one oh four three.
Speaker 4: What's the big hit from nineteen eighty three? This one's
Speaker 4: for you. Yeah, I'm on, let's get out.
Speaker 3: That's hard, but that's really hard today.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting out for jack doesn't really sound great on
Speaker 4: the reddit? Does it? Just silence? We went off air
Speaker 4: then I don't know what I was doing. Then just
Speaker 4: a little one man played for Jackie Boy. You'll get that.
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Speaker 2: It's in the it's in the style of an eighties
Speaker 2: what do you call it?
Speaker 4: Boom box? Gettu boombox?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Christ O'Connell's show podcast, Huge.
Speaker 2: Hit from nineteen eighty three? Is this just one second?
Speaker 2: We're playing the one second winner? What do you think
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 4: Huge hit? Linda? What do you think it is? Mate?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 7: I think it's ever my hap I Rod Stewart.
Speaker 4: Good song, good guests, but not the right one.
Speaker 2: Linda, have a good day, Johnny boy, Mario's back, Johnny.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Kristin Connell Breakfast Show.
Speaker 4: Are you Johnny? Johnny? What do you reckon? The song is? Mate?
Speaker 8: I reckon this song reading not all bedst burning.
Speaker 4: No, it's not that Johnny. Tough luck. Johnny's gone, everyone, Melissa,
Speaker 4: good morning?
Speaker 8: Hello, Hello?
Speaker 4: What do you think it is? Melissa?
Speaker 7: I reckon it's Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 4: I could understand that, but Melissa, it's not the song.
Speaker 4: Tough luck. Thanks for trying. All right?
Speaker 2: So no right answers so far. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: add on another half a second. Oh, I reckon. That's yeah,
Speaker 2: that's easy. Now that's too easy.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: We're asking you what song this is? From nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: We originally only played you this no answers, so we've
Speaker 2: now extended it with it. You'll get that now, tarn
Speaker 2: you reckon, you got it?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 7: It's a total equip for how by Bonnie Tyler.
Speaker 2: Well well, dun Charania, welga, tany you just changed your life.
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Speaker 7: Oh great, the V of.
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Speaker 4: Why don't Tarny have a good day?
Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you too.
Speaker 4: Bye.
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