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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Every week on The Christian O'Connell Show, then we do

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Speaker 2: something called a Wonder Year. Will we go back to

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Speaker 2: a year? We look at the music, the movies, the

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Speaker 2: TV shows, what we're all up to. You can email

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Speaker 2: us tonight is nineteen ninety four. What were you doing

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four? What does ninety four mean to you?

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Speaker 2: Email me Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot am No

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Speaker 2: wonder Jack gone to press. You obviously want two three six.

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Speaker 1: I was six years old in primary school. I have

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Speaker 1: a vivid memory, and it's amazing what memories stay with you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I should have by this age, I guess had been

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Speaker 1: off training wheels, but on a pushbike. I was still

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Speaker 1: on training wheels. And I remember Daniel Rodgers had his

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Speaker 1: bike at school before the bell rang and I said, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's a cool bike.

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Speaker 2: And he pulls up.

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Speaker 1: And he said, well you can have you can have

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Speaker 1: a go on it in front of everybody. And I

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Speaker 1: had to pretend that I just wasn't interested. But he

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Speaker 1: was so persistent. I was like, oh, nah, na, I

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Speaker 1: can't be bothered with that. He was so system that

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Speaker 1: I ride the bike, and I knew I couldn't, but

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't say I can't ride the bike. I

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Speaker 1: just had to pretend I could, but I wasn't interested.

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Speaker 3: Right, training wheels for ages and you know what?

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Speaker 2: Finally, twenty five, wasn't it when you're a funny learners

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Speaker 2: on for a twenty five year old giant lady sort

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Speaker 2: of cycling around with training wheels and it's a bit

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Speaker 2: off a grown up.

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Speaker 3: One of my brothers got the hammer to them because

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Speaker 3: he was convinced when I was about like how much,

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Speaker 3: because he knew I wouldn't take them off. I wasn't

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Speaker 3: game enough, so I said, I'm going to take them

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Speaker 3: off and hammer them and then you'll go and have

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Speaker 3: to ride your bike. And that's how I learned to ride.

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Speaker 2: I think you always remember learning the wholt or trying

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Speaker 2: to learn how to ride a bike, I think is

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Speaker 2: one of the formative things for there. You don't really

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Speaker 2: remember trying to have no memories. If you guys have

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Speaker 2: ever learning how to walk, it's not in there. I

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Speaker 2: think you're too young, but learning how to ride a bike.

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Speaker 2: Get this then, my dad, I would a lovely man,

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Speaker 2: but definitely definitely in my sort of one to sort

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Speaker 2: of fifteen. Was what I would call an old school

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Speaker 2: seventies man, right, And he did not believe in the

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Speaker 2: concept of training wheels. Same with those rubber bands for

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Speaker 2: your arms. Yeah, like ut no floating to me, drown

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Speaker 2: or swim If he had a DVD or training online thing, right,

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Speaker 2: that would be called Liam O'Connell's drown or swim. And

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Speaker 2: when it came to learning how to ride a bike,

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Speaker 2: no stabilizers. I remember crying and my friends have stabilizer

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Speaker 2: and he would go, your lean.

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Speaker 1: Quicker, your lane quicker at the top of a hill, yeah,

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Speaker 1: pushes you down.

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Speaker 2: He saw darfe to chop off Luke's hand and he

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Speaker 2: thought that was just a weak dad.

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Speaker 1: So I do.

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Speaker 2: I did. I was the first out of all my

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Speaker 2: friends to learn how to ride a bike because I

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Speaker 2: just kept falling over. Do you know how often your

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Speaker 2: knees were graced? Then he photos, it just looks like

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Speaker 2: I was living in a war zone, Like knees just

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Speaker 2: ripped open like gravel. Even those shrapnel wounds used to

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Speaker 2: get there for like graveling.

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Speaker 1: You used to have a constant gab on.

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Speaker 2: Ye scabbines is Howard just sum up my childhood, and

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Speaker 2: so I learned how to ride a bike really quickly

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Speaker 2: because there were no training wheels alone allowed for me.

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Speaker 2: All right, nineteen ninety four, Patsy, for you, I.

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Speaker 3: Was twenty one, and it was a big turning point

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Speaker 3: for me because I moved out of home for the

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Speaker 3: first time and I was terribly homesick.

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Speaker 2: I bet you I left home when I was nineteen.

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Speaker 2: It's a big, big, big deal for mom and dad,

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Speaker 2: and that when you leave home. For me twenty one,

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Speaker 2: like Patsy in nineteen ninety four, I could tell you

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Speaker 2: about being at university. I could tell you that I

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Speaker 2: had a proper, very serious girlfriend. Then all of that,

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Speaker 2: I've got to be honest, pals into insignificance. Don't have

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Speaker 2: any real stand up memories because nineteen ninety four to

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Speaker 2: me is punched into my heart. It's the time that

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Speaker 2: the England football team never made it to the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: The pain, the anger is in me right now is

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Speaker 2: bubbling up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just assume they're one of those teams like France, Italy,

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Speaker 1: Brazil that will always be in the form.

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Speaker 2: You're win never gonna win it in my lifetime. The

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Speaker 2: only time England I don't know if we ever hear

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Speaker 2: us bang on about it was in nineteen sixty six

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Speaker 2: and in what made it hard it is in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety four. Years before that the World Cup Italian ninety

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Speaker 2: the greatest one I'll ever know in my lifetime. We

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Speaker 2: made it to the semifinals. Should have gone all the way.

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Speaker 2: That should have been our World Cup. It was eventually

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Speaker 2: won by Argentina, who'd only won two games qualifying. It

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Speaker 2: was England's World Cup and the semifinal denied on penalties.

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Speaker 2: We weren't beaten an actual playtime, and to me, ninety

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Speaker 2: four is a write off. We've just never made it through.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's nothing you've spoken more passionately about

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Speaker 1: on the show in two years.

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Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell Show