Speaker 1: Welcome to them Christian Non Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Who wanted to call us up this morning and tell
Speaker 2: us what is the song that reminds you of your
Speaker 2: first love?
Speaker 1: Patsy, what is it for you? It's Charles and Eddie.
Speaker 3: Would I lie to you?
Speaker 1: What a song? This is a brilliant song. This is
Speaker 1: a banger.
Speaker 2: He's a banger.
Speaker 3: Every time I hear it, I think of Chris the
Speaker 3: Love God picking me up for our very first date.
Speaker 4: It was the summer of.
Speaker 3: Ninety two and he had it on cas single which
Speaker 3: was so cool.
Speaker 1: Layers in town.
Speaker 2: Let me just rewind this so we can hear it again,
Speaker 2: young lady Penny.
Speaker 1: More that more singles in the booth. A life with
Speaker 1: me is a life of singles.
Speaker 4: Remember the cassette case you'd carry around in your car
Speaker 4: with the handle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like fighting them. There were many fighting
Speaker 2: cabinets for those tapes. And also, out of all the
Speaker 2: music formats, the most unreliable that cassettes. Do you remember
Speaker 2: if you left it in the sun or you son
Speaker 2: to just get that pencil like re spoil it, and
Speaker 2: it was sometimes it was just randomly like eat itself up.
Speaker 1: Yes, because singles, but this is a great song.
Speaker 2: It was a good song. We should play it this morning, actually,
Speaker 2: Charles Eddie Jackie Boy tell us about the song that
Speaker 2: reminds you of your first love?
Speaker 1: All How old were you?
Speaker 4: I was seventeen and the last year of high school,
Speaker 4: and the girl I was dating. I tried to convince
Speaker 4: her to do a White Stripes cover with me at
Speaker 4: the end of year concert.
Speaker 1: So were you in music class together or no?
Speaker 4: She wasn't a musician, so she had to learn the
Speaker 4: drums to be part.
Speaker 2: Of that sort going on for you. Meg White there
Speaker 2: and Jack White.
Speaker 4: I would play the guitar and sing and she would
Speaker 4: play the drums, and she's getting quite good, but not
Speaker 4: good enough, and she felt confident doing it in front
Speaker 4: of the whole school.
Speaker 1: So much going on for your seventy year old Jack Post.
Speaker 4: I also had seen the White Stripes of the year
Speaker 4: before at Magic Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were awesome, amazing live, weren't they? Great band?
Speaker 1: Those twos.
Speaker 4: He comes out in these tight red pants and I
Speaker 4: had some actually had some red pajamas, so to wear
Speaker 4: the red pajama pads on stage.
Speaker 2: I love that my one, actually, because not all first love.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's tinged with sadness of having you a heart
Speaker 2: cracked open. So it was all about the end of
Speaker 2: term school disco. When I was a teenager in the eighties,
Speaker 2: it was the high night, right, It's all about.
Speaker 1: Who you go?
Speaker 4: Are you going to take?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So Leanne and I went together, right, and it is, actually,
Speaker 2: I would still say to this day one of the
Speaker 2: top ten happiest nights of my life, until I found
Speaker 2: out afterwards she'd asked my best friend Toby, and he
Speaker 2: said no because he knew that I fancied her. She
Speaker 2: asked him before she asked me, and I didn't know this,
Speaker 2: And we slow danced to this song right, And now
Speaker 2: wherever I hear it, it just breaks my heart again.
Speaker 1: I should have known at a time guilty feet, they've
Speaker 1: got no.
Speaker 2: Rhythm bringing it back Againe helpit you.
Speaker 1: Oh what a song.
Speaker 4: Nice of Toby though, Are you still making Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It comes up a lot.
Speaker 2: It comes up a lot sometimes when I'm alone, I
Speaker 2: go on Facebook and open I check in, I check in,
Speaker 2: see what she's up.
Speaker 5: To that.
Speaker 2: No, No, am I okay with it? All those decades later,
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. Nine four one four. This is
Speaker 2: the Christian o'connells show podcast.
Speaker 1: We got here, Jillian, Good.
Speaker 6: Morning, Good morning, How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? So take us back there? So how old
Speaker 1: are you? When was it?
Speaker 6: How old was I? I was seventeen eleventh of August
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: We'll really going there, right, Okay?
Speaker 6: I had just spoken to him on a CB radio
Speaker 6: a day before. We decided to have a date night.
Speaker 6: He picked me up. We drove to the Frankston Fall Shore.
Speaker 6: It was roughly about nine thirty.
Speaker 1: The start of a true crime podcast. They worry about
Speaker 1: people meeting on the internet online. You went out with
Speaker 1: a guy? You on Cbee radio the.
Speaker 6: Original everyone I bore me and I said yes, let's
Speaker 6: go for it. Went to Frankston Beach, sitting along the
Speaker 6: fourth book was the Beach. Back then we didn't have
Speaker 6: a separation between the beach and the roads. And this
Speaker 6: song came on and it's just stuck forever. He is
Speaker 6: my first love. We have been married thirty years now.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, engaged after three months of the meeting.
Speaker 1: Radio break breaker broak up.
Speaker 6: No, actually, he proposed to me in the car.
Speaker 1: Same night.
Speaker 6: Three months later, I arriving at the by the way
Speaker 6: you married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is speed.
Speaker 2: Say nice, lovely to meet you, marry me what you are?
Speaker 1: I can't really offer more than this is me. I
Speaker 1: am phil You take me as I am. Oh god,
Speaker 1: that is great news. Well done.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send you our two hundred dollars into
Speaker 2: Flora voucher for some flowers on Monday.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank you.
Speaker 1: So that's a lovely story. I love that.
Speaker 6: That's He's the love of my life. I've been through
Speaker 6: cancer and my mum was cooler car accident four days
Speaker 6: after we got married, and he has just been my rock.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, a beautiful soul.
Speaker 2: Well you are as well. You deserve soon of that.
Speaker 2: And what is your your husband's Ashley?
Speaker 1: I feel like we're.
Speaker 2: Starting Valentine's today. That's a told Stan. How are you now, Jillian,
Speaker 2: if you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 6: I still have health issues, but I'm doing doing good.
Speaker 6: I have an amazing husband and three amazing children. So
Speaker 6: William yeah, yeah, Oh my gosh, I'm so emotional now.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. What to survive you are. What a life story.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and just to think I was only seventeen, he
Speaker 6: was eighteen, and you know we've been together we will
Speaker 6: be thirty four years this year and Mary incredible thirty. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm lucky. So yeah, he's.
Speaker 1: Lucky as well, Jillian.
Speaker 6: Of course he is.
Speaker 1: Of course he.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't be anything without.
Speaker 3: Me made.
Speaker 2: Jillian, it's been a real joy, you know, checked everyone
Speaker 2: up this morning, been a real joy here. If you okay,
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy Valentine's Day Monday. And thanks for
Speaker 2: sharing your story with us this morning as well.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you so much. I will thank you all right.
Speaker 1: Well Christian Connell's show podcast. But Linda, good.
Speaker 5: Morning, good morning team.
Speaker 6: How are you a good team?
Speaker 1: Officially? Good? And Belinda watched your.
Speaker 5: Song Handsome Box Banger.
Speaker 1: So first love? Did he look like one of them?
Speaker 5: Or oh he had longish blonde hair.
Speaker 1: I suppose now why that song was on the radio
Speaker 1: at the time.
Speaker 5: Or I was obsessed with handsome, so obsessed and I
Speaker 5: had been listening to them all day. It was my
Speaker 5: birthday and I'd.
Speaker 2: Had friends just pause, I just need that to sink
Speaker 2: and listening to them all day, Yeah, all day.
Speaker 5: Look, I had a video that was just pulling handsome
Speaker 5: videos and it helped us in pop on there about fifty.
Speaker 4: Times they didn't have that many other songs.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when you were a teenage fan, you
Speaker 2: weren't just a fan if you liked to man, you
Speaker 2: were an obsessive super fan.
Speaker 1: That's what the repeat button was.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, So.
Speaker 1: There's no link to him, it's just that you liked
Speaker 1: them the band.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and we so I listened to that song
Speaker 5: all day. And then I've had friends over. We'd had
Speaker 5: a movie night and he'd been over, and we had
Speaker 5: our first kiss that night, and in my bedroom surrounded
Speaker 5: by posters of Hanson.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's intimidating for you so much, I'll inane greens.
Speaker 5: Well. The funny thing is he tracked me down years later.
Speaker 5: One of the first things he said to me was,
Speaker 5: do you still love Hanson?
Speaker 1: It's a deal breaker.
Speaker 4: And what's the answer, Belinda, We got to know it.
Speaker 5: Look, there's a little part of me that still loves them.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to run.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that's still in there. Let's do an hour
Speaker 2: song shin off us up and let's put this in
Speaker 2: there and on the chance neddie.
Speaker 1: But then that's a great one. You have a great weekend,
Speaker 1: thanks to cooling.
Speaker 6: Mate, you two, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Steve, that gang the song absolutely that that gets me
Speaker 3: every time as Bonnie Tyler's totally cups at the heart.
Speaker 1: It was what an awesome song and awesome song.
Speaker 3: It is awesome eighty three I think it was. It
Speaker 3: was at the Laser's disco adding Spring Barth had my
Speaker 3: girlfriend ingrid vand even at the time, and this song
Speaker 3: came on and we're on the dance floor and we
Speaker 3: passed through the entirety of this song from fut start
Speaker 3: to finish, and it was awful.
Speaker 2: When you when you're that sort of teenage as it
Speaker 2: doesn't get any better than that, does it.
Speaker 3: It doesn't. It was just one of those great times.
Speaker 3: And the song was that loud and and you know
Speaker 3: that great sound systems m days and every time I
Speaker 3: hear that song on the radio, it takes you straight
Speaker 3: back to black and way where when you were SnO.
Speaker 1: Lasers given just a word lasers to help futures.
Speaker 2: Oh lasers, that's a thousand years is the future.
Speaker 4: That's the real aphrodisiac lasers Laser show.
Speaker 2: Steve, that's a brady one. Thank you very much to
Speaker 2: give us a call. You have a great weekend, mate.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast,