Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: We were just talking to study about when you were
Speaker 2: a kid, there was always that one TV show that
Speaker 2: was unmissible.
Speaker 3: Speaking about that six o'clock news. I had a friend
Speaker 3: who got paid fifty cents a night if he watched
Speaker 3: the news with his family. Oh your kids pocket money?
Speaker 4: What really?
Speaker 3: I guess the idea was to make him more worldly?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, how at him? For me? Growing up? Right?
Speaker 2: Often the TV show that was unmissible that we watched
Speaker 2: with the appearance was mainly about actually trying to go
Speaker 2: to bed as late as possible.
Speaker 1: So I was watching whatever TV show your dad was into.
Speaker 1: For some reason. It was always aboutrunning down that clock.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it the lady who get the better?
Speaker 5: Go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Dad, tell us that story again that I've heard about
Speaker 2: nine hundred times.
Speaker 1: Oh, talking this one before.
Speaker 2: Some I could have played for Match United and you're
Speaker 2: looking at the clock. The cricketting out on this one.
Speaker 2: In my house, it was all about, oh god, it's
Speaker 2: stars giving up cho tonight, Dad, I said, kid, this
Speaker 2: is as poor and as crap as.
Speaker 1: Show to me? Who cared those undercovered clocks?
Speaker 2: I hadn't been to me, But when the music came
Speaker 2: on and went, this is an hour. This will see
Speaker 2: until eleven o'clock, wow, eleven pm on a Saturday night,
Speaker 2: And then you'd be as quiet as a church mouse,
Speaker 2: so you'd almost forget you were in the room, barely breathing.
Speaker 1: There, Patsy, what's a TV show that was unmiscible growing
Speaker 1: up in your house?
Speaker 6: When we were kids, my brothers and I never missed
Speaker 6: an episode of the Goodies, And it used to come
Speaker 6: on the ABC just before six o'clock. And when I
Speaker 6: hear that news theme, I can smell Mum cooking dinner.
Speaker 6: So I can smell three nut roast yeah, no, three
Speaker 6: bachin meat like chops and sausages. Me low, yeah yeah results.
Speaker 6: But we used to love it.
Speaker 2: What do you call me?
Speaker 1: And we'd lay on the car, the toilet so I
Speaker 1: know it's you, slipstick.
Speaker 6: We'd lay on the carpet in front of the TV
Speaker 6: with our head in our hands, and we just absolutely
Speaker 6: loved it. But my dad was into the Don Lane Show,
Speaker 6: which was a big sort of talk show, but we
Speaker 6: couldn't watch it. It was on at nine o'clock. It
Speaker 6: was too late, and we'd sometimes creep out of bed
Speaker 6: and sort of just peep through the kitchen and Muma.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 6: We were there every time, go back to bed. It
Speaker 6: was massive with Don Lane and Bert Newton.
Speaker 3: How did we get an American guy doing a talk
Speaker 3: show on Austrain and TV set this one out?
Speaker 1: This guy, I'm Irish, I'm Australian. Who am I?
Speaker 2: I'm Jason Morn I got eight passports. I'm like a
Speaker 2: lazy season of nationalities for US.
Speaker 3: Unmissable TV was every Saturday night appointment viewing. Hey hey,
Speaker 3: it's Saturday.
Speaker 1: Brad Love Studios on Channel Gan.
Speaker 4: On the Globe, Sitney.
Speaker 1: Game, Brorisbond, Welcome Dona, two hours of Madame mad Gas.
Speaker 2: We need to have these watch the ratings rise again.
Speaker 4: Oh Mac.
Speaker 1: I like the way he went on to lay around
Speaker 1: the world. The rest of the world never saw it.
Speaker 5: And you know they go to London, New York parents,
Speaker 5: he went Brisbane, Hobar. He's getting small Frankston, Frankston South,
Speaker 5: That's so good.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 6: We used to go out on a Saturday night and
Speaker 6: religiously get ready to that show. You between getting ready
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 4: The weekend for you guys growing That was a huge
Speaker 4: red faces to me and my brother.
Speaker 3: It was it was like the height of performance TP.
Speaker 3: We used to talk about what we could one day
Speaker 3: do on Red Faces. Wow, Perry's in the studio with us, Perry.
Speaker 3: What was the TV show for you? The driest police
Speaker 3: of all time?
Speaker 1: The Bill? How dare you? It was the British Starsky
Speaker 1: and Hutch.
Speaker 2: Even this plotting kind of intro of those two the
Speaker 2: police feet walking down that lane.
Speaker 1: I used to love watching Bill. Did you get the
Speaker 1: Bill here there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We did? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Was it me?
Speaker 1: Did they have an audience?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was pretty massive. Although the up Shop in the eighties,
Speaker 6: which was an assy police show went up. No, not
Speaker 6: a rip off.
Speaker 2: We can think of a police show but set in
Speaker 2: the UK rip off. Come on, guys, all right, what
Speaker 2: was the unmissible TV show for you growing up?
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Just to head up listeners, Jack Posts aka the Music Nerds.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we see him about once or twice here like
Speaker 2: a very rare in change of species. It's seasonal. He's
Speaker 2: woken up because someone mentioned the TV show The Bill.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the Bill back in the day? Well,
Speaker 2: we're here, this is the This is a TV show
Speaker 2: from the eight So the UK Cup Show Jack, here
Speaker 2: is it, and it's in an irregular time.
Speaker 3: What happens hard to like tap along with the bill
Speaker 3: and I've gone online and sure.
Speaker 1: Right, you're right. I mean Sony Man's ready.
Speaker 2: I don't know if my cart is going to do
Speaker 2: it in October where he's going to go two three fo.
Speaker 5: You all know.
Speaker 1: John and I used to go.
Speaker 3: But it is in an irregular time signature seven four,
Speaker 3: which most you know, ninety nine songs, pop songs especially
Speaker 3: are in four four one two three four one two.
Speaker 3: I understand, so four seven seven four is one two
Speaker 3: three four five six seven one two three four. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's unsettling, don't you find.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, now you mentioned it is.
Speaker 6: It's a regular Now.
Speaker 2: I do know that there's only one or two other
Speaker 2: songs that I know that are in that same thing.
Speaker 2: One of them is a Pink Floyd song money, right,
Speaker 2: I believe it we get a clip of money. The
Speaker 2: music nerd will know this a bit of verified because
Speaker 2: it can't just take my own word on it, right,
Speaker 2: is that I'm Stephen Fry of the music world. And
Speaker 2: then the other one, this is going to make a
Speaker 2: dog wars Beny zero point one percent of the audience
Speaker 2: are going to know this. If you're like the band
Speaker 2: of the National. I think the song Demons is in
Speaker 2: that as well.
Speaker 3: Right, another one that Paul McCartney will be playing at
Speaker 3: Marble Stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh the hits Jack the Bill, Demons by the National.
Speaker 1: All right, so we're talking about the here we go.
Speaker 1: We got a money hook hit Jack.
Speaker 3: Five six seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well recognized, and we also got good to go
Speaker 2: Demons by the National. Maybe it might take it. I'll
Speaker 2: have to go home and get that vinyl and bring
Speaker 2: it in for us. All right, let's go to Errol here. Errol,
Speaker 2: what was the unmissible TV show for you growing up?
Speaker 1: The missible show was at six pm every night?
Speaker 7: Was Olf from Melmack.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Alien Life Form. What a show.
Speaker 3: That he was as tall as his son.
Speaker 6: Did you say did you say he was no taller
Speaker 6: than his son?
Speaker 1: He was no taller than his son, Yeah, which was Ben.
Speaker 8: He was only six years old then, and.
Speaker 1: He was LUs alien kids. You know, they grew up
Speaker 1: definitely to us humanoids exactly.
Speaker 3: Also, what's this elevated music that was the theme song?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 8: I don't know. Back then they used to use anything
Speaker 8: for a thing.
Speaker 3: So this sounds like I'm on hold to Telstra.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a terrible TV theme, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Years ago used to put in, but this it is.
Speaker 1: You're right, it's hold music.
Speaker 3: Was done by a piano.
Speaker 2: A few matter of fact, again when he we've started
Speaker 2: the next feature, whole fact has started early. We've just
Speaker 2: faded into it, sonly Errol, thank you very much, and
Speaker 2: no more from Errol.
Speaker 1: Now let's go to uh.
Speaker 3: The two tidbits were Elf was as tall as the
Speaker 3: sun character on the show. And you can play the
Speaker 3: piano a new feature?
Speaker 1: What is er all same? Because to me it's fun?
Speaker 1: All right? Have we got here? Ellianna?
Speaker 7: Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good?
Speaker 2: Have you having a good week? And what was the
Speaker 2: unmissable TV show for you growing up?
Speaker 7: Mate? So growing up, mom and I used to watch
Speaker 7: some form of news and then we'd switch over to
Speaker 7: Channel eleven and we'd watch The Brady Bunch and Happy Days.
Speaker 7: And I forgot to add this, but we also used
Speaker 7: to watch mcgyver and Mork and Mindy.
Speaker 1: You're making the team work really hard very early on
Speaker 1: getting all these things.
Speaker 4: So Brady Bunch Bank, we watched a lot of Brady
Speaker 4: bunch of kids.
Speaker 1: And then you said happy days. Yep, one of the best.
Speaker 1: And then did you say mcguy V Yep? This is mysterious,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Chews you in.
Speaker 4: A smart man?
Speaker 1: The thinking man's the bill way older than a sun.
Speaker 1: So much got three feet on his kid. What's happened?
Speaker 1: So I thought it was alarm going off Carl and Braker. No,
Speaker 1: you're listening to the question. You know, Kyle's show podcast.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the TV. What's the TV show for you?
Speaker 1: Grown up?
Speaker 2: That was unmissible? Now, producer Caitlin, what is it for you?
Speaker 2: What's the TV show that it's unmissible for you? Every
Speaker 2: single night?
Speaker 3: Home and Away? Couldn't miss it.
Speaker 4: Now, Home and Away over Neighbors absolutely.
Speaker 6: Now, I'm from New South Wales and I think that
Speaker 6: everyone in New South Wales watched Home and Away without
Speaker 6: a doubt.
Speaker 1: Oh so it was seen as a album thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Neighbors just like anyone that watched Neighbors was a
Speaker 6: weirdo where I was from.
Speaker 2: WHOA, you're gonna judge us up there? Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Normally it's the other way around. But I tell you
Speaker 2: what great theme tune Home and Away?
Speaker 1: This was a great one. You know we below to get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a great theme tune.
Speaker 2: You were that boy, and I actually think it throws shade.
Speaker 2: I love Neighbors, loved it well growing up.
Speaker 3: You're right, Neighbor's a better show. But Home and Away
Speaker 3: the better thing song.
Speaker 1: It's a slow burned banger. Even sounds like a fireworks
Speaker 1: going on. Did my heart? It actually sounds like yet
Speaker 1: they're dropping.
Speaker 8: A double D A B B double no bad where
Speaker 8: you are.
Speaker 2: We should insist that McCartney isn't even allowed on any
Speaker 2: stage in this country as he agrees to do this
Speaker 2: as his closer, because.
Speaker 1: Ye had five words going up. You know of marble,
Speaker 1: you know we below, It would be.
Speaker 3: Every person in the audience would be out of think
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 1: Legend is you're my guy?
Speaker 3: You keep pausing it before we get to the want
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 1: He wants you want to?
Speaker 7: You want to?
Speaker 1: You know we below to get.
Speaker 6: You win that fil and.
Speaker 1: No man or where you are?
Speaker 7: You're my guiding starre birth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot about this. Let's lady coming into gives
Speaker 1: young producer Gating Queen's ander.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this has got a lot more going on than Neighbors.
Speaker 2: Please I'll tell you what, though, smell it. It's a
Speaker 2: whiff of bogan about it. Though there's a barbecue, a
Speaker 2: car with no front tires. I mean, I'm not mad
Speaker 2: at it, but I'm just saying this is like a
Speaker 2: bogan anthem as it was this. There's a little bit
Speaker 2: more top end of town.
Speaker 3: Okay, everybody needs good it's a big goodie two shoes.
Speaker 1: Speaky thing. Kylie and Jason. Where's this barbecue somewhere on
Speaker 1: the go?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Well were we Oh yeah, we're asking you about which
Speaker 2: TV show you were was unmissible growing up?
Speaker 1: Deb Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 8: How's everyone today?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 8: I am awesome. It's such a beautiful sun and I'm
Speaker 8: just loving that everyone's focused on the theme song rather
Speaker 8: than what the actual show was.
Speaker 1: Who cares love and melody? We get to stratch with
Speaker 1: the melody on the show. What's it for you? Debbie?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean it's actually great. It's a great segue
Speaker 8: into my favorite show, which was Countdown.
Speaker 3: God, that's a lot going on any things.
Speaker 1: I think this is this is easy to way you.
Speaker 1: All right, Debbie, Let's go to Colin. Good morning, Colin,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 8: There are you Christian.
Speaker 1: I'm good Colin. What was the unmissable TV show for you?
Speaker 8: The greatest, the most classicst one you could get ahead
Speaker 8: of everything for everyone. That's the Benny Hill Show.
Speaker 2: You know, we were talking last week on the show
Speaker 2: about how certain thing's age and you know, a man
Speaker 2: chasing women around heartbenchers with his trousers.
Speaker 1: Falling off, and I'm man here is there's there's something
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