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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian o'connel show podcast. Right now, though,

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Speaker 1: there are certain ways that you can kind of date yourself.

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Speaker 1: You can let people know how old you are simply

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Speaker 1: by not using numbers. So this morning, let's try this

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Speaker 1: without using numbers, tell us how old you are? God

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Speaker 1: a people already and started to do this. Christian, I

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Speaker 1: watched a moon landing at school. That's from Charmain. I

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Speaker 1: used to be able to get five dollars from the ATM.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember when they used to give up smaller amounts.

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Speaker 1: That's all you had in there? There was no more

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Speaker 1: money coming out five bucks. Christian, Humphrey be Bear taught

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Speaker 1: me about the importance of pants.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love Humphrey for me, I can.

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Speaker 1: Easy let you know how old I am. But the

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Speaker 1: fact that I used to have the ring three times

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Speaker 1: if I wanted mom and dad to come and collect

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Speaker 1: me from the swimming pool to save on actually using

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Speaker 1: coins in the payphone, Patsy, without using numbers, how old

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Speaker 1: are you? At the end of the night on the TV,

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Speaker 1: the test pattern would come up to signify the end

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Speaker 1: of programming for the day. Do you remember that when

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Speaker 1: they used to have like office hours where they were

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Speaker 1: just go to sleep. The TV would go to sleep.

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Speaker 3: At night a time before infomercial.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember about twenty odd years ago I went

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Speaker 1: to stay with my Irish friend in Ireland. Right, And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm sure this doesn't happen now,

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Speaker 1: but twenty years ago there was an announcer who were

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Speaker 1: between every TV show would introduce what you're about to

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Speaker 1: watch that original and he was smoking, right, he had

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Speaker 1: a whiskey, he was sat by the next he had

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Speaker 1: a cigarette on the go, a dicky bow timey goes well,

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Speaker 1: good evening, there island coming up there a lovely thick

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Speaker 1: come now from England about three lengths and opeully it's yes,

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Speaker 1: great to a smile and he like raises glass and

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Speaker 1: have a little sip of whiskey. It was like five o'clock.

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Speaker 1: It's like, this is amazing.

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Speaker 3: In the fifties, the very first bit of a strained TV,

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Speaker 3: because they replay it sometime, is a guy that welcomes

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Speaker 3: you to TV. Oh, hello, welcome to TV.

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Speaker 1: Oh let's say we can get hold of some of

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Speaker 1: that all right, So, without using numbers, called us up

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Speaker 1: and tell us how old are you? The Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: show podcast Christians to know off by all my family

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Speaker 1: and friend's phone numbers because they were all in a

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Speaker 1: book that got posted through my door every year. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember that the phone book white in the yellow

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Speaker 1: pages looking up your friends or a girlfriend's phone number

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Speaker 1: in did you just have their dress as well? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It did. Now we worry about too much information that

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Speaker 1: you look up some name stranger and just call them

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Speaker 1: up and have a chat. That's nuts, nuts when you

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Speaker 1: think about it. Jack, you boy, without using numbers? How

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Speaker 1: old are you? All right?

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Speaker 3: The first income I ever made was selling burnt CDs.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it was a time where not.

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Speaker 3: Everybody had the CD burner, but everyone was playing CDs.

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Speaker 1: She burned them from LimeWire or what were using napster.

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Speaker 3: Or No, this is before even downloading them illegally. So

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Speaker 3: just copying a CD that I had to have a

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Speaker 3: copy of and burning a copy of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And do you remember some people would have that

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Speaker 1: home printer where you could print off the CD.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever I had a you could get all

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Speaker 3: that stick a paper that's right to put over the

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Speaker 3: top of the CD.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you could actually make you look quite good, couldn't you?

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Speaker 1: Christian I, without using numbers, I could tell you how

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Speaker 1: old I could fill up my car for under twenty cents.

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Speaker 1: I presume that's a typo sharp and it is twenty

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Speaker 1: bucks unless you are Henry t Ford. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: go to lines. Good morning, Margaret.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you this morning?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Margaret, And without using numbers, tell us how

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Speaker 1: old you are.

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Speaker 2: Well before there was head, shoulders, knees, and toes. You're

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Speaker 2: actually counting groups. So really I'm fingers, toes, fingers, toes,

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Speaker 2: fingers and blind mice, and you should be able to

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Speaker 2: work out exactly how old I am, how well we

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Speaker 2: do Back.

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Speaker 1: In the day, it changed.

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Speaker 2: Back in the day they counted in groups, so they

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Speaker 2: use fingers, toes, fingers, toes, fingers, and blind mice. Surely

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Speaker 2: you can figure that out to you.

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Speaker 1: Think, don't understand people got OCD. This would have set

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Speaker 3: We were meant to do like Black and White TV. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: a math question?

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Speaker 1: Wait about our IQ level?

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Speaker 2: No, not even close. That's how people used to count

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Speaker 2: in groups of things. Let's say you trigger at numbers.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't about saying the.

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Speaker 3: Number, so you go buy some milk. It's like Oh,

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Speaker 3: there'll be six fingers.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and.

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Speaker 2: You don't you sick? Remember their brief was no numbers, right,

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Speaker 2: gotcha figure out exactly how old I am. Any fingers will.

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Speaker 1: Help to finish, yeah, Margaret, Yeah, thank you guys. Do short, Luke,

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Speaker 1: good morning morning. So if I wanted a hot lunch

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Speaker 1: at primary school, I'd have to put money in a

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Speaker 1: brown paper bag. I remember this, Luke, this is what

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Speaker 1: we're looking for. What Louke, we're sending your prize for

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Speaker 1: this or that's a great one.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Really good with sending one the chemist warehouse hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty on the vouchers.

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Speaker 3: How do kids do lunch all of these days? Do

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Speaker 3: they not? Do you not still send them around? We've

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Speaker 3: got an chat pages and there's the old gluten free option.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, the allergies and it is unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: We only had lunch orders on a Friday as well.

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Speaker 3: You had to wait all week until you could do

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Speaker 3: a lunch order.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, so you just starved a.

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Speaker 3: Week you had to do packed lunch for back in

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Speaker 3: the day.

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Speaker 1: You can just eat kids. Yeah, lucky you have Friday.

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Speaker 1: Oh look at greedy, Luke. Thank you very much and cool.

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Speaker 1: Have a good day, two guys. Thank you. Catherine, good morning,

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: How you're doing?

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Speaker 1: Ah? Yeah, good Catherine. So without using numbers, how old

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Speaker 1: are you before Visa.

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Speaker 3: And master Card?

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Speaker 2: I had a bank card?

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Speaker 1: Yes, the old bank card. I remember that. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember me first opened up your bank account? You really

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Speaker 1: thought you're an adult? I think I've had like two

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Speaker 1: or three bucks I put in there. You had to

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Speaker 1: put at least a buck in to open up a

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Speaker 1: children's account. You've got one of these sort of a

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Speaker 1: large sort of executive wallet, you know, with a with

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Speaker 1: a clipp and all this thought. I put in my

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Speaker 1: accounts here as I start learning the art now, so

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Speaker 1: it's a payoff in later life.

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Speaker 3: We had to put fifty cents a week into a

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Speaker 3: dollar mine account through school. Yeah, I'm just realizing, now.

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Speaker 1: Where's that going?

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Speaker 3: Cushed?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 3: Cush that out? Does the Commonwealth Bank still have my.

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