1 00:00:09,685 --> 00:00:12,245 Speaker 1: I Heeart podcasts. You can hear more gold one I 2 00:00:12,285 --> 00:00:15,645 Speaker 1: four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the 3 00:00:15,685 --> 00:00:21,284 Speaker 1: free iHeart app Got anything good? Hey, this is the 4 00:00:21,485 --> 00:00:28,965 Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right. So there's a video 5 00:00:29,005 --> 00:00:31,005 Speaker 1: that's going viral at the moment, and I wouldn't normally 6 00:00:31,005 --> 00:00:33,125 Speaker 1: talk about some of this, but it is so interesting 7 00:00:33,525 --> 00:00:35,644 Speaker 1: and I've shown to a few friends of mine. I've 8 00:00:35,645 --> 00:00:38,165 Speaker 1: watched it quite a few times, and actually it makes 9 00:00:38,205 --> 00:00:40,964 Speaker 1: me a bit sad, but also makes me happy that 10 00:00:41,004 --> 00:00:44,004 Speaker 1: I grew up in a different time, the eighties and 11 00:00:44,085 --> 00:00:46,765 Speaker 1: the nineties. So it's a video what I'm about to play, 12 00:00:47,045 --> 00:00:49,644 Speaker 1: and it's young kids as if they were in the 13 00:00:49,765 --> 00:00:54,325 Speaker 1: nineties finding out about life now. For the counterparts, kids 14 00:00:54,365 --> 00:00:58,084 Speaker 1: growing up in these times with mobile phones glued to 15 00:00:58,165 --> 00:01:00,645 Speaker 1: their hands like us as well, I'm not judging, like 16 00:01:00,765 --> 00:01:03,164 Speaker 1: us as well. But haven't listened to this. Wait, so 17 00:01:03,205 --> 00:01:06,445 Speaker 1: you're telling me in the future people just stare at 18 00:01:06,485 --> 00:01:10,324 Speaker 1: a little box all day inside outside, And in the future, 19 00:01:10,325 --> 00:01:12,925 Speaker 1: you don't even own the music. You just pay every. 20 00:01:12,725 --> 00:01:14,645 Speaker 2: Month to borrow it. 21 00:01:14,765 --> 00:01:18,925 Speaker 1: Like if you stop paying, the music just disappears. So 22 00:01:19,045 --> 00:01:21,525 Speaker 1: in the future, everyone has their own phone and they 23 00:01:21,685 --> 00:01:24,725 Speaker 1: use it to type messages instead of call, and if 24 00:01:24,725 --> 00:01:28,325 Speaker 1: someone calls you without typing it first, it's considered rude. 25 00:01:28,645 --> 00:01:31,405 Speaker 1: Our moms always say don't talk to strangers. But in 26 00:01:31,445 --> 00:01:33,885 Speaker 1: the future, everyone just talks to strangers all day on 27 00:01:33,925 --> 00:01:37,205 Speaker 1: the little box and shows them their house and their kids. 28 00:01:37,845 --> 00:01:43,605 Speaker 1: In the future, everyone's connected to everything and people are 29 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:46,645 Speaker 1: still lonely. It's really sad, but there is an epidemic 30 00:01:46,685 --> 00:01:48,765 Speaker 1: of loneliness. Actually makes you made me cry when I 31 00:01:48,765 --> 00:01:50,205 Speaker 1: first watched it, I was like, God, this's not really 32 00:01:50,525 --> 00:01:52,565 Speaker 1: sad about what we're doing now to our kids and 33 00:01:52,565 --> 00:01:55,365 Speaker 1: ourselves has grown up as well. You know, we're just 34 00:01:55,405 --> 00:01:57,365 Speaker 1: as bad as the kids. We say, get off your phones. 35 00:01:57,885 --> 00:02:00,525 Speaker 1: But anyway I was thinking about, I feel blessed actually 36 00:02:00,525 --> 00:02:02,885 Speaker 1: to have grown up in the eighties and nineties where 37 00:02:02,925 --> 00:02:06,885 Speaker 1: actually boreden was my best friend, because through boredom was 38 00:02:06,885 --> 00:02:10,764 Speaker 1: a great motivator use your imagination, or to reach out 39 00:02:10,805 --> 00:02:13,765 Speaker 1: and just go and see friends. Nowadays, it tastes ages 40 00:02:13,764 --> 00:02:16,445 Speaker 1: for me to range to hang out with my friends. 41 00:02:16,484 --> 00:02:19,005 Speaker 1: Me and nine mates are going fishing this weekend. It 42 00:02:19,085 --> 00:02:22,765 Speaker 1: has taken at least six months. No seriously happened last 43 00:02:22,805 --> 00:02:25,685 Speaker 1: year we start planning it to sort this out years ago. 44 00:02:26,245 --> 00:02:27,645 Speaker 1: So what I want to do this morning is to 45 00:02:27,685 --> 00:02:30,725 Speaker 1: celebrate a growing up in the nineties. Growing up in 46 00:02:30,725 --> 00:02:33,245 Speaker 1: the nineties. In one line for me, it'd be you 47 00:02:33,325 --> 00:02:36,045 Speaker 1: just went around to your mate's houses. You didn't call ahead, 48 00:02:36,445 --> 00:02:38,765 Speaker 1: and if they weren't in, you just cycled to somebody 49 00:02:38,765 --> 00:02:41,525 Speaker 1: else's and then if they were in, you just grabbed them. 50 00:02:41,565 --> 00:02:43,845 Speaker 1: And then you went to another friend's house. You would 51 00:02:43,925 --> 00:02:46,085 Speaker 1: like pick up a gang, yes, yes, and then you 52 00:02:46,205 --> 00:02:49,165 Speaker 1: just sort of go and hang around the shops. Missus 53 00:02:49,205 --> 00:02:54,045 Speaker 1: so and so's Christian home. Yes, parents who were always 54 00:02:54,125 --> 00:02:58,605 Speaker 1: an adults were seen with slight fear, trepidation and respect. 55 00:02:59,125 --> 00:03:02,325 Speaker 1: It was always mister or missus. Yes, now it's your 56 00:03:02,405 --> 00:03:06,725 Speaker 1: first name basis oh hi a Christian for mister Christian 57 00:03:06,765 --> 00:03:09,165 Speaker 1: actually back in the day in the nineties, also grown 58 00:03:09,205 --> 00:03:11,005 Speaker 1: up in the nineties. In one line for me, you 59 00:03:11,085 --> 00:03:14,525 Speaker 1: arrived on time. There was no you couldn't message anyone 60 00:03:14,565 --> 00:03:17,845 Speaker 1: to say run in five minutes late. People just presume 61 00:03:17,885 --> 00:03:20,445 Speaker 1: because everyone was on time. People just presume if you 62 00:03:20,485 --> 00:03:22,285 Speaker 1: didn't arrive on time, then something must have happened to 63 00:03:22,285 --> 00:03:24,285 Speaker 1: you or you were dead. And they were just they 64 00:03:24,325 --> 00:03:26,085 Speaker 1: would just go out without you. I guess they're dead. 65 00:03:26,125 --> 00:03:29,365 Speaker 1: There was no a well, shame what happened to Chris? 66 00:03:29,965 --> 00:03:31,885 Speaker 1: And you didn't get a raisin until much later, But 67 00:03:31,925 --> 00:03:35,405 Speaker 1: no one really cared anyway. Whatever to you, I can't remember. 68 00:03:36,565 --> 00:03:39,005 Speaker 1: I hate it now because you always get that your 69 00:03:39,005 --> 00:03:41,565 Speaker 1: phone pings, and yet six o'clock when you SI admit, 70 00:03:41,685 --> 00:03:44,805 Speaker 1: you know it's the I'm running late. Traffic's bad today. 71 00:03:45,045 --> 00:03:47,485 Speaker 1: Oh who'd have thought at six o'clock the traffic's bad 72 00:03:48,045 --> 00:03:49,445 Speaker 1: rio growing up in the nineties. 73 00:03:49,445 --> 00:03:52,245 Speaker 2: In one line, they don't make kids shows like this anymore. 74 00:03:52,285 --> 00:03:55,005 Speaker 2: I was watching some shows with my little nephew, he's six, 75 00:03:55,365 --> 00:03:59,365 Speaker 2: and they're very educational. They're very thoughtful, they're very gentle. 76 00:03:59,725 --> 00:04:02,485 Speaker 2: They've got, you know, a valuable life lesson. Back in 77 00:04:02,485 --> 00:04:05,925 Speaker 2: the nineties, where we were raised by television, they were 78 00:04:05,965 --> 00:04:06,485 Speaker 2: nothing like. 79 00:04:06,445 --> 00:04:07,165 Speaker 1: That at all. 80 00:04:07,245 --> 00:04:14,885 Speaker 2: But it would completely the most unhinged, crazy, inappropriate, dangerous. 81 00:04:13,605 --> 00:04:16,165 Speaker 1: Shows the ones that come to mine. In Australia. 82 00:04:16,205 --> 00:04:18,044 Speaker 2: That was the Ferrls, which was about a bunch of 83 00:04:18,085 --> 00:04:21,165 Speaker 2: feral cats and dogs that played together. There was cat 84 00:04:21,245 --> 00:04:22,525 Speaker 2: Dog about two animals. 85 00:04:23,085 --> 00:04:26,844 Speaker 1: I remember Cat Dog. Yes, there was think also the 86 00:04:26,885 --> 00:04:30,044 Speaker 1: Barrier to get on TV was really low. These days, 87 00:04:30,085 --> 00:04:32,364 Speaker 1: you have to have a big concept, like eight seasons 88 00:04:32,484 --> 00:04:36,364 Speaker 1: or art out. Imagine that. The pitch meeting for Cat Dog, 89 00:04:37,085 --> 00:04:40,085 Speaker 1: they're like, wait, what is It's a cat and the Dog. Great, 90 00:04:40,085 --> 00:04:44,365 Speaker 1: you've got two season order round The Twist was the most. 91 00:04:45,844 --> 00:04:49,445 Speaker 1: Still have nightmares. My kids love it though I've I've 92 00:04:49,484 --> 00:04:52,244 Speaker 1: been showing them that they enjoy the show. They absolutely 93 00:04:52,284 --> 00:04:55,324 Speaker 1: love it. They have it almost every day. It's so cool. 94 00:04:55,804 --> 00:04:58,165 Speaker 1: It's a bizarro show to watch, isn't it. You kind 95 00:04:58,164 --> 00:05:00,765 Speaker 1: of like, it's so strange to understand how this came 96 00:05:00,804 --> 00:05:01,364 Speaker 1: into being. 97 00:05:01,804 --> 00:05:05,284 Speaker 2: And that adults made it, like grown paid riders sat 98 00:05:05,325 --> 00:05:06,645 Speaker 2: down and wrote these. 99 00:05:06,484 --> 00:05:09,445 Speaker 1: Ship seemed to be made with one aim to confuse 100 00:05:09,525 --> 00:05:13,325 Speaker 1: young children in the audience and terrify Game of Thrones. 101 00:05:13,484 --> 00:05:15,164 Speaker 1: Very hard to keep up with what was going on? 102 00:05:16,525 --> 00:05:18,685 Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about growing up in the nineties. 103 00:05:19,005 --> 00:05:20,724 Speaker 1: In one I thought I actually was starting to play 104 00:05:20,765 --> 00:05:27,765 Speaker 1: teenage dirtburns lock. He's made this confused. I actually now 105 00:05:27,804 --> 00:05:30,404 Speaker 1: just want to hear the song. Does anyone else? I 106 00:05:30,484 --> 00:05:32,724 Speaker 1: just want to hear teenage dirtberg It's such a great song. 107 00:05:33,085 --> 00:05:34,724 Speaker 1: Let's play it in a minute. We're talking about growing 108 00:05:34,804 --> 00:05:38,245 Speaker 1: up in the nineties in one line, grown up in 109 00:05:38,245 --> 00:05:41,085 Speaker 1: the nineties in one line. By the way, christ and 110 00:05:41,085 --> 00:05:44,364 Speaker 1: I've dealt with a police officer recently in New South Wales. 111 00:05:45,164 --> 00:05:49,485 Speaker 1: Officer Lawless as like a British those one of those 112 00:05:49,484 --> 00:05:53,445 Speaker 1: TV shows on BritBox Lawless, the detective who doesn't play 113 00:05:53,445 --> 00:05:55,685 Speaker 1: by the rules. But he's been thrown out the big 114 00:05:55,724 --> 00:05:58,445 Speaker 1: smoke and he's now in a small hun drum town 115 00:05:58,565 --> 00:06:01,885 Speaker 1: or village in a remote Yorkshire grim town up north 116 00:06:01,924 --> 00:06:04,964 Speaker 1: where guess what the sudden spate of killings. But luckily 117 00:06:05,044 --> 00:06:09,205 Speaker 1: old Detective Lawless it's there. He picks up the phone. 118 00:06:09,645 --> 00:06:12,765 Speaker 1: That's the beginning of every episode. Christian grown up in 119 00:06:12,765 --> 00:06:15,885 Speaker 1: the nineties. Friday and Saturday nights. Video shops were the 120 00:06:15,964 --> 00:06:18,564 Speaker 1: king They were actually Sata. It was all that they were, 121 00:06:18,565 --> 00:06:21,404 Speaker 1: the kings of the high street. Was the video shop? 122 00:06:21,685 --> 00:06:24,484 Speaker 1: Please be kind rewind Christian. Any age on the school 123 00:06:24,484 --> 00:06:27,485 Speaker 1: holidays sent outside at nine am, I would actually say, 124 00:06:27,525 --> 00:06:30,445 Speaker 1: by my parents are thrown out. They were just coming 125 00:06:30,484 --> 00:06:32,365 Speaker 1: to us and just rip open the curtains. You and 126 00:06:32,404 --> 00:06:34,285 Speaker 1: your dad would do that. Just stand there in that 127 00:06:34,445 --> 00:06:38,884 Speaker 1: Superman post staring at daylight. Gorgeous day out there. Unlikely 128 00:06:38,964 --> 00:06:40,564 Speaker 1: you'd grown up in the UK. It was ever a 129 00:06:40,604 --> 00:06:44,124 Speaker 1: gorgeous doubt there dad, just another grim, overcast doubt the sun. 130 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:46,645 Speaker 1: Get out there, I make something of his South Today's son, 131 00:06:46,724 --> 00:06:49,404 Speaker 1: Come on, get out. They would throw you out and 132 00:06:49,565 --> 00:06:51,364 Speaker 1: only tell you to come back when the street lights 133 00:06:51,364 --> 00:06:56,124 Speaker 1: come on. That was the provision for me. And you 134 00:06:56,205 --> 00:06:59,325 Speaker 1: had to have an entire glass of milk down in one. Oh. 135 00:06:59,565 --> 00:07:02,885 Speaker 1: That was somehow ward off all germs and bugs. I 136 00:07:02,924 --> 00:07:07,165 Speaker 1: was raised by calcium santo, Thank you very much for that. 137 00:07:07,685 --> 00:07:09,885 Speaker 1: Growing up in the ninety He's running away from home, 138 00:07:10,085 --> 00:07:14,605 Speaker 1: but only going just down the road. Remember that you 139 00:07:16,165 --> 00:07:20,245 Speaker 1: still be showing I'm still running away for real, still going, 140 00:07:21,325 --> 00:07:23,205 Speaker 1: you know, And I'd always be I did that whole thing, 141 00:07:23,405 --> 00:07:25,885 Speaker 1: I'm leaving now, And then you'd be finally going too 142 00:07:25,925 --> 00:07:27,285 Speaker 1: far in case no one came to look for you, 143 00:07:28,285 --> 00:07:34,005 Speaker 1: maybe just me that one that threat I could run away, 144 00:07:34,045 --> 00:07:37,205 Speaker 1: you know, And your parents were totally Unfazedeh, where are 145 00:07:37,245 --> 00:07:39,925 Speaker 1: you gonna get? Yeah? Unlikely? You know how you know 146 00:07:39,925 --> 00:07:44,165 Speaker 1: how good you have it? Yes, Christian, I'm new to 147 00:07:44,205 --> 00:07:47,685 Speaker 1: the show. Grown Up in the nineties mixtapes, It was. 148 00:07:47,804 --> 00:07:51,564 Speaker 1: It took a lot of a lot of cognitive load. 149 00:07:51,685 --> 00:07:55,684 Speaker 1: To record music back in the day. Was it pause, play, record, 150 00:07:56,045 --> 00:07:58,285 Speaker 1: It's like three different buttons. Give me a little tape 151 00:07:58,325 --> 00:08:01,245 Speaker 1: counter button. There was a lot to record music back 152 00:08:01,285 --> 00:08:03,925 Speaker 1: in the day. Then when CDs came along and you 153 00:08:03,965 --> 00:08:06,765 Speaker 1: could burn your own CDs, you had to be careful 154 00:08:06,765 --> 00:08:09,124 Speaker 1: because you could be put in prison for that. Yes, 155 00:08:09,205 --> 00:08:13,445 Speaker 1: you were a legal downloading line stealer car Yes, yes, yes. 156 00:08:14,325 --> 00:08:17,285 Speaker 1: Christian grown up in the nineties se Me Grunge and 157 00:08:17,405 --> 00:08:21,045 Speaker 1: ren and Stimpy ren Stimpy was a brilliant show. That's 158 00:08:21,445 --> 00:08:24,965 Speaker 1: Shawney when your best mates live next door or three 159 00:08:25,045 --> 00:08:30,004 Speaker 1: doors down, neighborhood mates. That's from Chris Christian O'Connell show 160 00:08:30,605 --> 00:08:31,845 Speaker 1: on podcast