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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right. So there's a video
Speaker 1: that's going viral at the moment, and I wouldn't normally
Speaker 1: talk about some of this, but it is so interesting
Speaker 1: and I've shown to a few friends of mine. I've
Speaker 1: watched it quite a few times, and actually it makes
Speaker 1: me a bit sad, but also makes me happy that
Speaker 1: I grew up in a different time, the eighties and
Speaker 1: the nineties. So it's a video what I'm about to play,
Speaker 1: and it's young kids as if they were in the
Speaker 1: nineties finding out about life now. For the counterparts, kids
Speaker 1: growing up in these times with mobile phones glued to
Speaker 1: their hands like us as well, I'm not judging, like
Speaker 1: us as well. But haven't listened to this. Wait, so
Speaker 1: you're telling me in the future people just stare at
Speaker 1: a little box all day inside outside, And in the future,
Speaker 1: you don't even own the music. You just pay every.
Speaker 2: Month to borrow it.
Speaker 1: Like if you stop paying, the music just disappears. So
Speaker 1: in the future, everyone has their own phone and they
Speaker 1: use it to type messages instead of call, and if
Speaker 1: someone calls you without typing it first, it's considered rude.
Speaker 1: Our moms always say don't talk to strangers. But in
Speaker 1: the future, everyone just talks to strangers all day on
Speaker 1: the little box and shows them their house and their kids.
Speaker 1: In the future, everyone's connected to everything and people are
Speaker 1: still lonely. It's really sad, but there is an epidemic
Speaker 1: of loneliness. Actually makes you made me cry when I
Speaker 1: first watched it, I was like, God, this's not really
Speaker 1: sad about what we're doing now to our kids and
Speaker 1: ourselves has grown up as well. You know, we're just
Speaker 1: as bad as the kids. We say, get off your phones.
Speaker 1: But anyway I was thinking about, I feel blessed actually
Speaker 1: to have grown up in the eighties and nineties where
Speaker 1: actually boreden was my best friend, because through boredom was
Speaker 1: a great motivator use your imagination, or to reach out
Speaker 1: and just go and see friends. Nowadays, it tastes ages
Speaker 1: for me to range to hang out with my friends.
Speaker 1: Me and nine mates are going fishing this weekend. It
Speaker 1: has taken at least six months. No seriously happened last
Speaker 1: year we start planning it to sort this out years ago.
Speaker 1: So what I want to do this morning is to
Speaker 1: celebrate a growing up in the nineties. Growing up in
Speaker 1: the nineties. In one line for me, it'd be you
Speaker 1: just went around to your mate's houses. You didn't call ahead,
Speaker 1: and if they weren't in, you just cycled to somebody
Speaker 1: else's and then if they were in, you just grabbed them.
Speaker 1: And then you went to another friend's house. You would
Speaker 1: like pick up a gang, yes, yes, and then you
Speaker 1: just sort of go and hang around the shops. Missus
Speaker 1: so and so's Christian home. Yes, parents who were always
Speaker 1: an adults were seen with slight fear, trepidation and respect.
Speaker 1: It was always mister or missus. Yes, now it's your
Speaker 1: first name basis oh hi a Christian for mister Christian
Speaker 1: actually back in the day in the nineties, also grown
Speaker 1: up in the nineties. In one line for me, you
Speaker 1: arrived on time. There was no you couldn't message anyone
Speaker 1: to say run in five minutes late. People just presume
Speaker 1: because everyone was on time. People just presume if you
Speaker 1: didn't arrive on time, then something must have happened to
Speaker 1: you or you were dead. And they were just they
Speaker 1: would just go out without you. I guess they're dead.
Speaker 1: There was no a well, shame what happened to Chris?
Speaker 1: And you didn't get a raisin until much later, But
Speaker 1: no one really cared anyway. Whatever to you, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I hate it now because you always get that your
Speaker 1: phone pings, and yet six o'clock when you SI admit,
Speaker 1: you know it's the I'm running late. Traffic's bad today.
Speaker 1: Oh who'd have thought at six o'clock the traffic's bad
Speaker 1: rio growing up in the nineties.
Speaker 2: In one line, they don't make kids shows like this anymore.
Speaker 2: I was watching some shows with my little nephew, he's six,
Speaker 2: and they're very educational. They're very thoughtful, they're very gentle.
Speaker 2: They've got, you know, a valuable life lesson. Back in
Speaker 2: the nineties, where we were raised by television, they were
Speaker 2: nothing like.
Speaker 1: That at all.
Speaker 2: But it would completely the most unhinged, crazy, inappropriate, dangerous.
Speaker 1: Shows the ones that come to mine. In Australia.
Speaker 2: That was the Ferrls, which was about a bunch of
Speaker 2: feral cats and dogs that played together. There was cat
Speaker 2: Dog about two animals.
Speaker 1: I remember Cat Dog. Yes, there was think also the
Speaker 1: Barrier to get on TV was really low. These days,
Speaker 1: you have to have a big concept, like eight seasons
Speaker 1: or art out. Imagine that. The pitch meeting for Cat Dog,
Speaker 1: they're like, wait, what is It's a cat and the Dog. Great,
Speaker 1: you've got two season order round The Twist was the most.
Speaker 1: Still have nightmares. My kids love it though I've I've
Speaker 1: been showing them that they enjoy the show. They absolutely
Speaker 1: love it. They have it almost every day. It's so cool.
Speaker 1: It's a bizarro show to watch, isn't it. You kind
Speaker 1: of like, it's so strange to understand how this came
Speaker 1: into being.
Speaker 2: And that adults made it, like grown paid riders sat
Speaker 2: down and wrote these.
Speaker 1: Ship seemed to be made with one aim to confuse
Speaker 1: young children in the audience and terrify Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: Very hard to keep up with what was going on?
Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about growing up in the nineties.
Speaker 1: In one I thought I actually was starting to play
Speaker 1: teenage dirtburns lock. He's made this confused. I actually now
Speaker 1: just want to hear the song. Does anyone else? I
Speaker 1: just want to hear teenage dirtberg It's such a great song.
Speaker 1: Let's play it in a minute. We're talking about growing
Speaker 1: up in the nineties in one line, grown up in
Speaker 1: the nineties in one line. By the way, christ and
Speaker 1: I've dealt with a police officer recently in New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Officer Lawless as like a British those one of those
Speaker 1: TV shows on BritBox Lawless, the detective who doesn't play
Speaker 1: by the rules. But he's been thrown out the big
Speaker 1: smoke and he's now in a small hun drum town
Speaker 1: or village in a remote Yorkshire grim town up north
Speaker 1: where guess what the sudden spate of killings. But luckily
Speaker 1: old Detective Lawless it's there. He picks up the phone.
Speaker 1: That's the beginning of every episode. Christian grown up in
Speaker 1: the nineties. Friday and Saturday nights. Video shops were the
Speaker 1: king They were actually Sata. It was all that they were,
Speaker 1: the kings of the high street. Was the video shop?
Speaker 1: Please be kind rewind Christian. Any age on the school
Speaker 1: holidays sent outside at nine am, I would actually say,
Speaker 1: by my parents are thrown out. They were just coming
Speaker 1: to us and just rip open the curtains. You and
Speaker 1: your dad would do that. Just stand there in that
Speaker 1: Superman post staring at daylight. Gorgeous day out there. Unlikely
Speaker 1: you'd grown up in the UK. It was ever a
Speaker 1: gorgeous doubt there dad, just another grim, overcast doubt the sun.
Speaker 1: Get out there, I make something of his South Today's son,
Speaker 1: Come on, get out. They would throw you out and
Speaker 1: only tell you to come back when the street lights
Speaker 1: come on. That was the provision for me. And you
Speaker 1: had to have an entire glass of milk down in one. Oh.
Speaker 1: That was somehow ward off all germs and bugs. I
Speaker 1: was raised by calcium santo, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 1: Growing up in the ninety He's running away from home,
Speaker 1: but only going just down the road. Remember that you
Speaker 1: still be showing I'm still running away for real, still going,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'd always be I did that whole thing,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving now, And then you'd be finally going too
Speaker 1: far in case no one came to look for you,
Speaker 1: maybe just me that one that threat I could run away,
Speaker 1: you know, And your parents were totally Unfazedeh, where are
Speaker 1: you gonna get? Yeah? Unlikely? You know how you know
Speaker 1: how good you have it? Yes, Christian, I'm new to
Speaker 1: the show. Grown Up in the nineties mixtapes, It was.
Speaker 1: It took a lot of a lot of cognitive load.
Speaker 1: To record music back in the day. Was it pause, play, record,
Speaker 1: It's like three different buttons. Give me a little tape
Speaker 1: counter button. There was a lot to record music back
Speaker 1: in the day. Then when CDs came along and you
Speaker 1: could burn your own CDs, you had to be careful
Speaker 1: because you could be put in prison for that. Yes,
Speaker 1: you were a legal downloading line stealer car Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Christian grown up in the nineties se Me Grunge and
Speaker 1: ren and Stimpy ren Stimpy was a brilliant show. That's
Speaker 1: Shawney when your best mates live next door or three
Speaker 1: doors down, neighborhood mates. That's from Chris Christian O'Connell show
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