WEBVTT - FULL: ET With LOLS 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:05.080 Good morning. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:09.920 It's a Christian o'connall show podcast. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:12.840 I sit down and I start crying. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.080 Boom, that's the knockout punch. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.320 I'm not a mom. I'm getting a little. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.520 Bit here, you guys, the Christian O'Connell show. I'm Gold 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.079 one four point three. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.680 Hey, good morning, Thursday morning. Welcome to the Christian O'Connell 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.040 Show on Gold. Come on in, Jack, how are you? 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.800 I'm frustrated, really really frustrated morning Patsy. Hey boys, you 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.800 guys would have been through this. Everyone's had this where 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.599 they call up the customer services number and try and 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.320 leave a company. Good luck. I tried yesterday. I tried. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.120 I tried. I tried, tried, tried so hard call this 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.200 company to leave my gym. It's easier to get to ball. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:51.360 Jim's are the worst one. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.480 Oh my word. And when I signed up a couple 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.800 of years ago, I've got a cheaper local gym now 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.600 where I go to with the kids and my wife. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.240 So I said, I counsel I member ships. I thought 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.120 it'd be really easy. I didn't think they did those 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.160 fixed term, long term contracts. Twenty minutes Yesterdrow twenty minutes 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.000 transferred to three, three different people. All right, I rang, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.640 and straight away the lily went, they must just I 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.520 think it was. She sounded excited. She went, oh, I 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.560 can't do that. Let me transfer to anyone's another team, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.720 And I'm like, where am I going now? Then there's 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.240 music for ten minutes. Am I trapped in the system, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.120 and I know what they're trying to do. They are 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.840 urging me to hang up. I'm not going anywhere. If 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.360 i'm I'll cancel the show. I will. I'm staying here 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.000 until I die. Okay, I'm going to wait this out. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.040 So I feed the dogs, I start unloading the washing machine. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.800 I started using it, and then a humanoid picks up Hello, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.560 and I said, yeah, I'd like to cancel my gym membership. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.000 When she goes, I just need your phone number. They 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.600 do the old sound effects basically, aren't they And they 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:56.880 were laughing listening guys, I'll put him on speaking. Oh no, no, no, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.520 you can't leave for it for a year? I went, no. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.880 I was told it was like a month. So I'm 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.560 just letting you know. Now you know, I'll be leaving 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.360 in a month's time and we have five minutes you 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.280 know where they It's just someone trying to do a job. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.520 But they're reading from the script, aren't they about what 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.400 to say you? They're not listening to anything you say. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.120 They just keep repeating the same phrases. You know, my 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 good douglasn't you? The anger starts to rise up, and 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.880 you're just trying to get it, says the human trying 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.440 to do a job. And then she goes, so basically, 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.320 there's nothing you can do. I went, look, I'm really 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.799 unhappy with this. This doesn't seem fair. I said, does 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.560 it seem fair to you? Silence from the human but 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:31.680 obviously not allowed to say if. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:32.520 You got one off script? 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.720 Yeah, there's nothing that She goes, would you like to 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.639 take this further? I went, yeah, I really would. She goes, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.040 that's what she said. She goes, I'll take it to 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:40.800 the escalator. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:42.840 Is that a person? 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.400 That's why I said? I said, who? I said, the escalator? 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.200 That's someone? Is the escalator there? She went up, this 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.120 it's actually a team. There's a team of escalators. She goes, yes, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.560 I'm now back in hold for seven minutes. I don't 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.880 know whether there's an escalator to get up to the escalators. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.840 She disappeared. Then she comes back on going. The escalation 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.480 team will call you back in three to five working days. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.640 Are how many escalations are they working on three. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.880 To five days? 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.880 How many people are escalating to get to the escalation. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.720 Three to five days? So now I just want to well, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.000 I don't sleep. She said that they call you at 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.200 some point. I want to keep the phone on during 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.320 the night. I don't want to miss that call they're 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.560 going to call me. So yeah, I've got to work. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.720 I just wait around now next three to five days 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.000 where someone from the escalation team will call me once 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.600 they reviewed get this my case and now, and then 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.760 I got emailed at a case number, you know, like 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:38.920 in a criminal in coll. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.840 You know, you're just going back to square one. Anyway, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.560 escalation team is going to be even better at doing 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.280 that script. The first person is. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:46.920 They're going to have skills that I don't know. Then 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.160 I train hostage and thegotiot. They're going to grind the 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.480 man that they're going to drind this man down. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.000 And you're only what you're trying to do is meet 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.800 them on an emotional level, which they don't want to 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.480 meet you at, which is like do you think that's 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.280 very wise? 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:58.440 Thing? 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.280 I was trying to appeal to a human side. Forget it. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.520 I actually think I might just give away my gym 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.520 membership to a listener, maybe a different one, each month 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.000 of the next one month. At least someone could get 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.200 a free work out on me, because there's no way 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.280 they're going to let me go. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.040 The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.159 Patsy, look at that? Would you take up my case? 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.400 Well, I was about to suggest before you do need 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.240 to get onto Consumer Affairs Victoria. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:24.080 They'll sort it for you. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.839 But if I've signed a contract, that's on me. Then 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.000 that I've signed the contract, did it. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.080 Say you would have to like it locked you into 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:32.839 a certain period? 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.160 Do you check all that stuff? 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.120 Look, I trust them. I trust the gym to have 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.160 looked over the contract more than I trust you. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.720 You are now the man. No, I hate the escalator. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.800 I finally met him. You are the wizard of ours 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:49.440 behind the curtain. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.240 You're the escalator. I've done my fair share on the phone. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.880 I had an internet company once where the internet was 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.240 transferring to a new house and it just wouldn't work 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.080 at the new house. And then they said, we can't 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.960 cancel it until you go take your modem to a 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.840 next door neighbor and see if it works at their house. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.200 I'm kind of knock on my new neighbor's door and 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.479 plug my modem in. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.360 Because you think they're trying to like piggyback or anything. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.760 I'm not falling for that. You're catfishing. I don't think 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.920 that's catfishing, but anyway, they're fishing in some way. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.480 And they said, until you try that, we can't cancel 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.200 you really do I think I. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:28.839 Did lie and went hang on him, close the door. No, no, no, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.000 he's just tried it. But a great idea to at 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.840 least try it. So can we cancel that now? But 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.200 consumer fers aren't going to get involved in a petty. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.880 S, but they'll be able to tell you about your 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.040 rights where you stand in this situation. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.599 I got to be honest, right, I think I need 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.840 someone more tenacious than me. Would you? I would actually 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:47.880 pay you, right, Patsy? 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:48.719 Are you serious? 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.800 Seriously? I just need this. I can't you want me. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.640 To bust some heads for you? 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.440 This escalated really quickly. You're this show's escalator. Bust some heads. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.760 Remember, I'm going. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.560 To call it back today. I go, look, I didn't 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.920 want to do this, but I'm this close to gett 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.719 a friend of mine, to bust some heads. You recording 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:18.599 this good bust some heads? So which way which? Once 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.240 I dropped this hammer, I can't undrop it? Okay, so 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.600 just think through the next move. Let that escalection team 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.039 right now. You've got my case number. By the way, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.559 the case number of the game is like an eighty 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.479 seven digit and I think you write this down. I'm like, yeah, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:38.359 you're not a A A four one. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:38.719 Hello. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.359 Christian O'Connell show podcast, the. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.000 Kicks off this week at said of the eighties. Each 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.560 week we're going to go through the alphabet and ask 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.839 you what is that letter and the eighties? Yesterday it 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.720 was the letter a Bat. She shared a love letter 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:59.479 to her first teenage crush, Andrew McCarthy. A lot of 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.159 emails some ladies who also had the hues crushes and 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.680 post on the wall of this guy went from the 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.800 eighties into the nineties. Andre Agassi a double A really 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.800 Andrea Gassy had the hair. Yesterday Pats was all talking 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.560 about acid wash jeans, Jack and I find a phone 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.880 of him playing in an open wearing denim not the 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.000 kind of ultra thin gossomer thing sort of Nike shorts 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.640 wear wearing actual denim acid wash jeans and if you've 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.720 read his book a week, Yeah, and he still wins. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.960 Imagine being beaten by that, you know, playing for five 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.240 hours and the heat. Well, guy wearing a wig and 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.200 basically denim. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.239 Cut off what they do with sports signs now where 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.520 everything is like to the Miller meter aerodynamic and to 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.760 improve your performance look at Catherine. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.480 And cut off the shoes, creat big basically mullet of 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.920 a week and he still managed to become a world champion. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.840 It's pretty great. Uh. The his book, Andrea Agussi's book, right, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.480 I recommend to so many people. It's called Open. It's 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.640 an amazing book. You don't need to be a tennis 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.720 fan or a sports fan. It's one of the most 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.680 incredible books. The opening chapter chapter describes you basically if 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.760 you're not going to read the books, the whole book 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.600 can be condensed into this line. He hated playing tennis. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.160 He hated playing tennis. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.320 I think that's pretty much the opening lines. I'm about 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.560 to go out and play my last game of tennis 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:20.760 and I've always hated tennis. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.960 Yeah, and you're like, wow, you're into it and then 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.920 you find about the wig, and then his dad. It's 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.120 an incredible book. A couple of days ago, there was 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.880 a clip that was going around on the internet and 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.920 it was Andre I guess he talking about how he 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.280 finally worked out how to beat Boris Becker. He'd notice 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.800 that Boris Becker had this tell and I guess when 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.839 they faced each other for so long, so many hours, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.320 all over the world, you're analyzing everything they do every 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.520 single time, trying to work out what is it they've got, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.920 And he worked out it's something to do with his tongue. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.520 Boris Becker, for an example, who beat me the first 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.360 three times we played, And I started to realize he 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.480 had this weird tick with his tongue. Just as he 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.240 was about to toss the ball, he would stick his 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.680 tongue out and it would either be right in the 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.959 middle of his lip serving up the middle, but if 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.199 he put it to the side, he was going to 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.600 serve out what. The hardest part was not letting him 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.640 know that I knew this. I told him at Octoberfest. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:09.959 Do you know he used to do this and give 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:10.480 what you serve? 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:11.120 He says. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.160 I used to go home all the time and just 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.200 tell my wife. It's like he reads my mind. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.160 Isn't that incredible? Yeah, the book's called it Open by 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.200 the way. Oktoberfest is like a giant German beer festival. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:30.240 What's Boris Becker? Andre Agassi chugging steins at that over 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.760 beers and go by the way. You know he used 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.640 to do this thing with your tongue more beer. So 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.520 that was a letter A, so letter A in the 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.720 eighties Christian Helen Christian. For me, it's the TV show 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.280 in the eighties and nineties Alf, about the alien life 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.120 form Alf who crashed his spaceship from meilmac into the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.880 Tenor family's garage. Did you watch this? I loved it. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:52.440 I loved it. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.120 I had an Elf stuffed toy you could buy them 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.800 in the kmart and stuff. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.880 Never far away from a ca Mark conviction. When we 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.560 get to the letter K in the eighties from down 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.600 Side Team an Hour, perhaps his recollection of various things 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:15.160 from Kmark, this is the TV show theme tune for Alf. Jack. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.080 You won't be familiar with this. I've asked Jack to 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.000 read up on ALF, the TV show from the eighties 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.600 and the early nineties about it was basically I remember 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:25.840 Patch did he eat cats. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.199 He loved to eat cats, and he chased them. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.520 She is a kid. I'm like, you know, a cat. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.600 Alf a wise cracking alien. I love it. I used 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.920 to dream that basically a spaceship with crash into our 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.840 born house and I would have as a mate Alf. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.400 He commented on the stupidity of mankind. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.920 Yes, sounds like a comedy version of at Yes, eat 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.840 with lolls. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.440 What have you got? What we could be? To day? 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.079 Jack Arabian knife form. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.120 ELF is an alien from the planet Melmac who follows 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.920 an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash lands into 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.800 the garage of the Tennor family. Unsure what to do, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.439 the Tanners take Elf in and hide him from the 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.640 Alien task Force and their nosy neighbors, Trevor and Raquel. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:08.079 That's it. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.400 It was announced. In twenty eighteen, it was announced that 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.760 Warner Bros. Would produce an Elf reboot. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.240 That's why Anthony Hopkins was going to be Alf. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.640 He cannot play anybody I know to go from you know. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.040 The real gut wrenching drama Beauty of the Father to 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.479 be announced. He's going to play Alf. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:28.720 An alien. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.880 Sadly, by November twenty eighteen, it was announced, the reboot 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.280 was canceled of ELF. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.040 This would age it right before I play this out. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.199 He had a catchphrase, I kill me. Do remember that? 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.679 Perhaps that was his catchphrase. He was sort of bashly said, look, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.240 I kill me, and it was a lot easier to 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.559 get laughs back in the day. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.360 Has anybody seen the yellow ribbon? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.520 I don't know what color is it? Ha, yeah, I 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:52.160 kill me. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:58.839 It's kind of unlucky, he was putting. Don't diss that 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.920 she had that stuff too. Don't come from the future, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.520 laughing at the eighties, mister time traveler with your fancy 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.600 waste from the nineties Millennial. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.160 The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.040 Just a quick word with my producers, can you never 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.720 label up a caller with some of the details. We've 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.200 got this very expensive phone system where they can put 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.040 a little bit of detail about what the call is 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.880 going to say. And someone has put on there to 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.920 simply the two words major spunk. That is distracting, right, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.559 that's distracting me. Now, I don't know. I don't want 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.679 to know what's going on on Line one? Is it 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.000 good or bad? What is that? The name of a band? 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.640 Is it a song request? What is it a safe word. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.040 We do not need to get into that whatever that 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.720 is on line one. Please delete all those words, all right? 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.800 So eight is out of the eighties kicked off this 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.360 week with the letter A seeven. Guess what we'll be 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.400 getting to next week, John says, A for Atari, it 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.079 was the Atari two thy six hundred, the first console, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.760 which is what they used to be called slash computer. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.400 I owned the Blockie graphics, the blippy sound effects. I 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.360 thought it was great. It was such an exciting thing 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.360 they were. I remember a friend of mine, my best mate, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.960 had His parents were a lot posh in the mind, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.160 and he had an Atari, right and we would all 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.880 par around their after school. This thing was the size 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.760 for a door. You had to have two full time 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.360 engineers living the attic to run it. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:21.160 It was. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.520 And also all this kind of fake wood paneling. TVs 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.880 used to have that as well, with this kind of 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.319 everything was like that made to look like furniture to 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:30.280 give it a bit of class. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:31.160 You know. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.839 It's also at the time where they stuff though, is 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.160 you remember the video cassettes You used to to put 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.600 them in those fake encyclopedia sort of covers to make 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.800 it a lot. You had volumes of encyclopedias, but they'd 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.199 just be like videos in it. But this used to 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:47.079 be the sound of an atari. Oh, isn't that just 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.800 sounds old? This does not sound like now you have 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.480 the guests a year. You're not You're not saying the 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:54.360 last twenty years? 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:54.640 Are you? 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.360 You wouldn't have had Natari? What did you get to know? 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.360 Even though I wasn't young enough to be around with 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.439 the atari, I was a child in a family that 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.640 wasn't allowed to have consoles. So I would go over 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.959 to my cousin's house and they had Mario on the 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.439 first Nintendo system, and I was like begging never to 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.200 go home. From time to go home. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.400 Did you say to your parents, don't but so and 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:19.960 so can have this his parents. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:25.680 And give me one more death of Mario? Until one 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.320 strange day out of the out of the blue, not 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.600 a birthday, not Christmas or not anything. They picked us 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.920 up after school and took us to the park and 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.920 in a plastic just jeans bag, they said, we have 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.200 a present for you guys. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.240 And your mom and dad had just stolen it. Just 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.080 meet in a public place and followed just looking at 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.520 the bank. They're on a bench they're looking ahead right, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.200 look in the bank, look at make it look curs 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.600 just jeans because they shotlifted it, so that's not consoleing 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.680 the It was just jeans. Look at the bag shop 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.600 us jeans. Okay, it's got really big blockie gene. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.880 Something was up about it because they were adamant that 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.400 we couldn't have a console on and out of the 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.320 blue there was a PlayStation one in the just jeansburg. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:11.800 You must have lost your mind. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:12.200 We did. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.240 We couldn't be in the park. Where'd you plug it in? 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.080 Your dad got a long extension lead. They're behind that tree. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.040 The TV is there and we were eating red rooster. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:25.320 We have the ever got fast food gank or summing. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.800 He's walked to white in this story, isn't he. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:31.000 H? 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.160 Some of the other a's that came in from you guys, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.960 I love reading about this Christian grown up in the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.920 outer western suburbs of Saint Alban's in the eighties, you 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.320 could be randomly stopped in the street and quizzed about 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.280 liking a c DC. If you said no, you might 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.360 literally punched in the face by some bogan wearing a 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:54.120 mullet and Adidas rome. About thugs and Adidas Rome, who 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.280 said on this show yesterday how they loved Adidas Rome, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:58.560 Patsy and who said on. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.040 The Thugs, who said on the show today, I'm going 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:01.800 to bash them heads in. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.120 So this comes from Graham. It's nice that you met 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.680 Patsy back in the eighties, DC, you might also be 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.440 punched in the face back to Grahame and being punched 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:13.680 in the face on the world Streets of s and 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.640 Urbans in the eighties. You might also be punched in 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.160 the face if you preferred Brian Johnson over Bond Scott. Luckily, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.920 I was raised on T and T and let there 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.280 be rock. That comes from Graham. How many of you 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.680 remember the joy of sewing on your favorite bands patches 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.240 to denhim. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.640 Oh yeah, I got so good at sewing because of that. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.080 Yeah, this is great Christian. My a memory from the 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.960 eighties is buying a denim hat and my mum's spending 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.440 ages sewing a fell a on it, like the one 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.600 anguswore while my friends were head over here. So Abba 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.680 in primary school was in love with angers. I never 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.880 did fit the mold. Yeah, I used to love those 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.520 so on patches you put it, I put them everywhere 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.080 your jeans, your geen jacket. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:52.600 I'd put them on my backpack as well. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.600 Do you think it's worse? Can you still buy them? 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:54.760 Now? 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.680 To bands do as much? Shall we try and get 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:01.480 a show? So on Patch show? What's going to do? 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.640 What are they going to sell it onto? These stags? 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:04.800 Do we try and do that? 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.440 The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.520 At some point in our lives, when we're teenager, we 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.040 suddenly don't put posters up on our walls in the 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.240 bedrooms anymore. It's not appropriate. Now, fire come home today, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.440 get the blue tech out and above the bed just 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.960 start putting up a D's poster. Oh god, what the 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.000 hell is that? Does it go with the carpet? What 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.520 are you doing? The colors don't match? Are you having 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.119 a moment? What's going on here? In fact, I might 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.560 actually do that to see what happens. See how long 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.520 before they just get torn down? This is not appropriate anymore. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.399 It's it's a shame because the posters we used to 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.920 have on our bedroom walls were like us, saint the world, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.280 who we were now, And there were moments where they 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.720 suddenly weren't right anymore, and he were like a snake 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.440 shne the skin, they'd come down and new posters would 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.040 come to represent who you are now for me, the 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.199 big one's growing up for me. I had my boxing here, 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:00.520 sugar Ay, Leonard, Bruce Lee, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.120 Those were the big players in my bedroom that meant 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.520 everything to me. Those posters. I still wish I had 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.960 them now as well. And did you used to arrange 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.760