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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We found out last week the passy bought itself a

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Speaker 1: news briefcase. In fact, I was actually wondering who has

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Speaker 1: a briefcase this day and age, and one of the

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Speaker 1: people who came to get the photo with the three

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Speaker 1: of us actually brought a photo. He spotted someone on

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Speaker 1: the tram last week with a brand new speakersman briefcase,

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Speaker 1: so one of them this morning. What did you spend

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Speaker 1: on your first paycheck? What did you buy with your

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Speaker 1: first paycheck? What did you do jackie boy?

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Speaker 2: My first job was boundary umpire at the local footy,

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Speaker 2: and I saved up for a bowler's hat which they

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Speaker 2: were in clockwork orange, and I thought would be a cool, different,

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Speaker 2: unique look for a teenage boy who was joined like

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Speaker 2: your punk music as well.

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Speaker 3: She has a kind of auntie establishment look.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was the late singer of a bend. I thought,

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Speaker 2: you know what, this will be our like Bono has

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Speaker 2: his glasses, this will be my on stage persona.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The ball actually even did two weeks two classes of

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Speaker 2: not wearing it no circus no like circus school to learn.

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Speaker 3: How to do radios game. It's the big tops loss

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Speaker 3: was that the frying flying fruit fly circus they were.

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Speaker 2: It was just off Brunswick Street. I forget what they were.

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Speaker 3: Called, of course, it was just I remember school.

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Speaker 2: Rocking up with my hat, thinking that there would be

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Speaker 2: other hat people there, but they weren't. They were jugglers,

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Speaker 2: people with the dire blo. So I didn't learn too

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Speaker 2: much from circus school, and I didn't make it to

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Speaker 2: past two classes.

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Speaker 1: I didn't notice you came on stage Friday night in

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Speaker 1: your Friends of rom T shirt that we got a

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Speaker 1: few birthdays.

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Speaker 3: I remember. So you've got a briefcase, patsy, Yes, I've

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Speaker 3: got a satchel. Yes? And how old are you when

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Speaker 3: you've got that brief.

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Speaker 2: When did I start working? Probably nineteen or so.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen rocking in with a briefcase bloody hell.

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Speaker 1: My first paycheck, I brought myself a leather biker's jacket,

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Speaker 1: like you, Jack.

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Speaker 3: I thought, this is what wild I do. People probably

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Speaker 3: think it's a Hollywood stuff. I wonder amount my local suburb,

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Speaker 3: not so it is me. It was it proper leather

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Speaker 3: or pl No, it actually.

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Speaker 1: Was proper leather, but it was about I think even

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Speaker 1: if I put it on now it would still look

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Speaker 1: too big. It was one of those where roomy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a look like the bomber jack.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, all right, what did you buy

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Speaker 1: with your first paycheck?

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Speaker 3: Nine four one O four three Christian o'connells show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Right now we're asking you what did you buy with

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Speaker 1: your first paycheck? Rom Win saved up my first few

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Speaker 1: paychecks from my paper round by myself. A radio to

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Speaker 1: listen to three k z? Which is this what well

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Speaker 1: this used to be, isn't it? It goes back to

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Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties. I think Huggy and Patsy did the

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Speaker 1: first ever show when they were in their thirty first paycheck.

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Speaker 1: I bought a three and one stereo system. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was the future with such a purchase. Wish now

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Speaker 1: from Richard Huyten. I remember those raining ones there used

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Speaker 1: to be like a radio tape to tape and then

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Speaker 1: the turntap as well, and you were the stack sys.

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Speaker 2: Do you the cabinet with the glass still you'd push

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Speaker 2: it open.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, graphic equalizers on there as well. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: got a less here, Come on in.

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Speaker 3: Less good man, here you go, good lesson thanks for

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Speaker 3: calling the show. What do you do with your first paycheck?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 5: I was four in nine fifty six, worked at my

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Speaker 5: dad in Davies Cooper's in Collingwood, and I think I've

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Speaker 5: got four nine shillings my first pay. And in the

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Speaker 5: front window of fours in Smith Street and Collingwood they

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Speaker 5: have a Brevel radio gram, which is like an old

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Speaker 5: squeare TV with four legs. I couldn't afford it all,

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Speaker 5: so I paid it off. It took me there five

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Speaker 5: or six weeks and I still have that radio gram.

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Speaker 3: Does this does this still work? Less?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, I had it reconditioned in about nineteen ninety

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Speaker 5: seven and yeah, I sit out there and I'll play

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Speaker 5: me records, having a beer, just having a good time.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful. They're amazing looking things, aren't they. Well that beautiful

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Speaker 3: old wood.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well now breve of Michael cooking hardware and stuff. Now,

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Speaker 5: but in those days they made rotograms.

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Speaker 3: Yeah awesome.

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Speaker 2: I wonder when they went from like we make radios,

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Speaker 2: like let's try a toaster.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah they did that there toasters.

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Speaker 3: Let's thank you very much for cool the show mate.

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Speaker 3: You have a good week.

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Speaker 5: Love to talk to promise, can you play a bit

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Speaker 5: of old rock and roll for me?

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Speaker 3: Fifties has been of Eddie Cockran.

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Speaker 5: Eddie Cochran, Buddy Harley, l Early, Elvis. Yeah, Australian.

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Speaker 3: What wish she give you a fifties show of the weekend?

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Speaker 5: Let's oh, I wish you would now idea? How many

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Speaker 5: people would listen?

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Speaker 1: He's threatening many putting a move on me.

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Speaker 3: Let's coming for the job. You never say this job.

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Speaker 3: Let's okay, all right, thanks, you have a good have

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Speaker 3: a good days.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: That is that amazing. Layby is another word from the past,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, along with Lino earlier that Patsy mentioned Karen,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Karen, money money.

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Speaker 4: I was an apprentice steven mechanic, and I spent my

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Speaker 4: whole paycheck on a pair of purple docks that had

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Speaker 4: really cool footprints on them.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, you're going to still wear them. That's so good.

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Speaker 1: You do vividly remember the first thing that you brought

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Speaker 1: with your own money that you'd earned, whether it's a paycheck,

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Speaker 1: you felt, you felt an adult.

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Speaker 3: Karen, that's a nice one. Thanks to calling him. I

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Speaker 3: have a good day. Chris. Good morning, Chris, good morning.

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Speaker 3: How are you going, I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: Chris had a good weekend. So what did you buy?

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Speaker 1: What did you treat you south with your first paycheck?

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Speaker 4: The first paycheck. I was an apprentice chef and I

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Speaker 4: was only making ninety nine dollars a week, and I

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Speaker 4: bought a pair of odd boots which were ninety nine dollars.

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Speaker 4: They were a thing to wear back then, like that trendy.

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Speaker 4: Everyone was wearing them in the street, you know, and

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Speaker 4: hiding wearing them in their bedrooms and stuff like they

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Speaker 4: do now. But but yeah, those things were great. They

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Speaker 4: I wore them a lot. The sides wore out, the

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Speaker 4: toad came out, you know. I have to redo the

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Speaker 4: bit under me foot and then then the whole base

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Speaker 4: the well, no, the bit of fur between the soul.

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Speaker 4: There's a bit of fur inner that to replace the fur.

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Speaker 4: All the time my feet would go.

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Speaker 3: Through it and the sweet feet in the christ were

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Speaker 3: getting there. We get the idea. We don't even a

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Speaker 3: whole history of it. What is it a podcast episode? No?

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Speaker 3: Not so you know right between the toe jam, Thank

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Speaker 3: you mate. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast