Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 1: We found out last week the passy bought itself a
Speaker 1: news briefcase. In fact, I was actually wondering who has
Speaker 1: a briefcase this day and age, and one of the
Speaker 1: people who came to get the photo with the three
Speaker 1: of us actually brought a photo. He spotted someone on
Speaker 1: the tram last week with a brand new speakersman briefcase,
Speaker 1: so one of them this morning. What did you spend
Speaker 1: on your first paycheck? What did you buy with your
Speaker 1: first paycheck? What did you do jackie boy?
Speaker 2: My first job was boundary umpire at the local footy,
Speaker 2: and I saved up for a bowler's hat which they
Speaker 2: were in clockwork orange, and I thought would be a cool, different,
Speaker 2: unique look for a teenage boy who was joined like
Speaker 2: your punk music as well.
Speaker 3: She has a kind of auntie establishment look.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was the late singer of a bend. I thought,
Speaker 2: you know what, this will be our like Bono has
Speaker 2: his glasses, this will be my on stage persona.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The ball actually even did two weeks two classes of
Speaker 2: not wearing it no circus no like circus school to learn.
Speaker 3: How to do radios game. It's the big tops loss
Speaker 3: was that the frying flying fruit fly circus they were.
Speaker 2: It was just off Brunswick Street. I forget what they were.
Speaker 3: Called, of course, it was just I remember school.
Speaker 2: Rocking up with my hat, thinking that there would be
Speaker 2: other hat people there, but they weren't. They were jugglers,
Speaker 2: people with the dire blo. So I didn't learn too
Speaker 2: much from circus school, and I didn't make it to
Speaker 2: past two classes.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice you came on stage Friday night in
Speaker 1: your Friends of rom T shirt that we got a
Speaker 1: few birthdays.
Speaker 3: I remember. So you've got a briefcase, patsy, Yes, I've
Speaker 3: got a satchel. Yes? And how old are you when
Speaker 3: you've got that brief.
Speaker 2: When did I start working? Probably nineteen or so.
Speaker 3: Nineteen rocking in with a briefcase bloody hell.
Speaker 1: My first paycheck, I brought myself a leather biker's jacket,
Speaker 1: like you, Jack.
Speaker 3: I thought, this is what wild I do. People probably
Speaker 3: think it's a Hollywood stuff. I wonder amount my local suburb,
Speaker 3: not so it is me. It was it proper leather
Speaker 3: or pl No, it actually.
Speaker 1: Was proper leather, but it was about I think even
Speaker 1: if I put it on now it would still look
Speaker 1: too big. It was one of those where roomy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a look like the bomber jack.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, all right, what did you buy
Speaker 1: with your first paycheck?
Speaker 3: Nine four one O four three Christian o'connells show podcast.
Speaker 1: Right now we're asking you what did you buy with
Speaker 1: your first paycheck? Rom Win saved up my first few
Speaker 1: paychecks from my paper round by myself. A radio to
Speaker 1: listen to three k z? Which is this what well
Speaker 1: this used to be, isn't it? It goes back to
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties. I think Huggy and Patsy did the
Speaker 1: first ever show when they were in their thirty first paycheck.
Speaker 1: I bought a three and one stereo system. I thought
Speaker 1: it was the future with such a purchase. Wish now
Speaker 1: from Richard Huyten. I remember those raining ones there used
Speaker 1: to be like a radio tape to tape and then
Speaker 1: the turntap as well, and you were the stack sys.
Speaker 2: Do you the cabinet with the glass still you'd push
Speaker 2: it open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, graphic equalizers on there as well. All right, that's
Speaker 1: got a less here, Come on in.
Speaker 3: Less good man, here you go, good lesson thanks for
Speaker 3: calling the show. What do you do with your first paycheck?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I was four in nine fifty six, worked at my
Speaker 5: dad in Davies Cooper's in Collingwood, and I think I've
Speaker 5: got four nine shillings my first pay. And in the
Speaker 5: front window of fours in Smith Street and Collingwood they
Speaker 5: have a Brevel radio gram, which is like an old
Speaker 5: squeare TV with four legs. I couldn't afford it all,
Speaker 5: so I paid it off. It took me there five
Speaker 5: or six weeks and I still have that radio gram.
Speaker 3: Does this does this still work? Less?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, I had it reconditioned in about nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: seven and yeah, I sit out there and I'll play
Speaker 5: me records, having a beer, just having a good time.
Speaker 3: Beautiful. They're amazing looking things, aren't they. Well that beautiful
Speaker 3: old wood.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well now breve of Michael cooking hardware and stuff. Now,
Speaker 5: but in those days they made rotograms.
Speaker 3: Yeah awesome.
Speaker 2: I wonder when they went from like we make radios,
Speaker 2: like let's try a toaster.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah they did that there toasters.
Speaker 3: Let's thank you very much for cool the show mate.
Speaker 3: You have a good week.
Speaker 5: Love to talk to promise, can you play a bit
Speaker 5: of old rock and roll for me?
Speaker 3: Fifties has been of Eddie Cockran.
Speaker 5: Eddie Cochran, Buddy Harley, l Early, Elvis. Yeah, Australian.
Speaker 3: What wish she give you a fifties show of the weekend?
Speaker 5: Let's oh, I wish you would now idea? How many
Speaker 5: people would listen?
Speaker 1: He's threatening many putting a move on me.
Speaker 3: Let's coming for the job. You never say this job.
Speaker 3: Let's okay, all right, thanks, you have a good have
Speaker 3: a good days.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 1: That is that amazing. Layby is another word from the past,
Speaker 1: isn't it, along with Lino earlier that Patsy mentioned Karen,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Karen, money money.
Speaker 4: I was an apprentice steven mechanic, and I spent my
Speaker 4: whole paycheck on a pair of purple docks that had
Speaker 4: really cool footprints on them.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you're going to still wear them. That's so good.
Speaker 1: You do vividly remember the first thing that you brought
Speaker 1: with your own money that you'd earned, whether it's a paycheck,
Speaker 1: you felt, you felt an adult.
Speaker 3: Karen, that's a nice one. Thanks to calling him. I
Speaker 3: have a good day. Chris. Good morning, Chris, good morning.
Speaker 3: How are you going, I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Chris had a good weekend. So what did you buy?
Speaker 1: What did you treat you south with your first paycheck?
Speaker 4: The first paycheck. I was an apprentice chef and I
Speaker 4: was only making ninety nine dollars a week, and I
Speaker 4: bought a pair of odd boots which were ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 4: They were a thing to wear back then, like that trendy.
Speaker 4: Everyone was wearing them in the street, you know, and
Speaker 4: hiding wearing them in their bedrooms and stuff like they
Speaker 4: do now. But but yeah, those things were great. They
Speaker 4: I wore them a lot. The sides wore out, the
Speaker 4: toad came out, you know. I have to redo the
Speaker 4: bit under me foot and then then the whole base
Speaker 4: the well, no, the bit of fur between the soul.
Speaker 4: There's a bit of fur inner that to replace the fur.
Speaker 4: All the time my feet would go.
Speaker 3: Through it and the sweet feet in the christ were
Speaker 3: getting there. We get the idea. We don't even a
Speaker 3: whole history of it. What is it a podcast episode? No?
Speaker 3: Not so you know right between the toe jam, Thank
Speaker 3: you mate. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast