WEBVTT - FULL: On Holiday Best Bits 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.280 Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.480 Right now, then, we're looking for your stories. What would 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.320 kids today have no idea about? There's so much of 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.280 the stuff that you and I grew up with that 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.640 they have got no idea what it was like to 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.600 try and get on the internet or even meet your friends. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.319 So today on the show, what would kids today have 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:22.200 no idea about? 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.680 Jackie? Well, what will kids today have no idea about? 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.440 When you wanted to walk through for a game hints 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.560 and tips, you had to call a Nintendo hot lone. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:31.880 I want to get like cheat cost stuff. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.920 Yes, the particular game I was playing was Game Boys 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.480 Pokemon yep, and I couldn't get through the dark cave 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.400 with the diglets and I had to call this line and. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.320 For was it one of those sort of premium lines? 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.239 Yes, because I didn't even get to the point where 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.440 they gave me the walkthrough because I got told off 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.160 by parents for calling their hot r But Nintendo would 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.000 have a hot line that you can call and ask 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:53.440 a specialist about games. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.520 Yeah, these days you'll just watch what is it on 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.920 Twitch there on? With all the cheat codes and YouTube 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.920 They've got all these hacks. The other thing that I 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.560 was boring my kids the other day with this is 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.919 like years ago, before texting and mobile phones and everything 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.320 like that, you simply go around to your friend's house 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.760 just to see if they were in. You'd have to 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.400 knock on the door. It was normally else by their 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.960 mum or dad, and they might not be in it. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.600 If they weren't in, there was that walk of shame 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.520 where you had to then get the bus home or that. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.600 So kids see the asa that would ever have any idea. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.880 There's no whatsapping or anything like that. You had to 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.600 go around somebody's house and walk out whether or not 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.480 they're coming out to play. All right, let's sitch some 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.279 calls then about what would kids today have no idea about? 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.480 On Facebook page? 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.800 The terrifying excitement of a girl giving you her house 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.160 number to ask you out. Radio Mike, who I believe 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.520 is a friend of yours, paying one dollar sixty nine 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:42.960 for a track on iTunes. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.640 Yeah, I found an old eyebad the other day. I said, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.040 that's so much money trapped in that fee. I mean 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.800 so much money now going to stream. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.160 It for like ten bucks a month or whatever it 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.640 is on Spotify multiplayer meant sitting beside your brother playing 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.680 Super Mario Brothers on the any snares and then starting 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.160 a full on brawl. That's from Merjo waiting for computer 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.920 games to load off the cassette tape, then realizing it 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.799 fell because the volume was wrong. Servo attendance, Christian. I 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.440 remember in Australia when there were a tendency used to 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.639 fill up your car for you. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.080 Oh, I only say that as an American thing in 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.040 American movies. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.639 Yep, that's from Nick. Now, Peter, what would kids today 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:22.760 have no idea about. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.000 No idea about the classic wall phone, the landline with 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.680 the extended cord. I'd be talking to my girlfriend and 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.640 I wanted to tell I love her, and I'd go 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.639 into the cupboard and shut the door so now and 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.360 I could hear it, and I'd say, I love you. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.680 This is how we used to be, this is love 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:39.920 in the eighties. I was the same as you. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.799 My dad wouldn't step to the long cord, so I 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.160 drag the phone into the understands cupboard, shut myself in 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.200 the dock, and go I love you. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:49.840 Terrifying. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.679 Yeah, yeah, it was illicit love in the eighties, or 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.520 like hiding on that phone, and then you were your 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.840 sister would yell at you You've been on too long. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:58.320 Peter. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.880 Were also only allowed to make calls to friends in 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.560 the evening when it was half priced. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.320 Oh look, that was about the case. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.480 And I'd tell whenever the landline would ring, it'd be 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.959 like now the phones ringing. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.040 Who is it? 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.639 Yeah, the world's calling. Who's come through the land with 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.680 a message for us to that special line through arth? 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.520 Peter, thank you very much, you call mate. That's cool the. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.040 Show, Thanks guys, Ryan, Yes. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.800 Welcome to show. And what would kids today have no 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.120 idea about the. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.840 Way to tell if your friends were home, there would 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.480 be a pile of bikes out in the front of 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:30.920 their house. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.240 You are all just dumped on top of each other 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.000 and there's like an orgy of bikes there. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.600 Definitely, Ryan, thank you very much. She call ER's get 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:39.920 a peet. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:40.760 We will. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.160 Kids today have no idea about, ah. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.560 The magic and wonder of a cassette type. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.040 Yeah, yeah, there. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.240 Were enough very flimsy tents, you weren't They spoiling it 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.600 with that pencil and then we get chewed up in 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:53.560 the tape deck. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.920 Putting them a bit of sticky type over the tape 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.480 so you could record over a recorded tape and the 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.360 ash of actually fast forwarding is stopping right at the 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.200 beginning of the track. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.760 It was a fine art. It was a fine art. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.760 Yeah, if you did that, people would steer in wonder 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.760 you were a legend. It was great. But yeah, you 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.800 could have also the drama having to try and pull 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.279 the tape out, or listening to a song that slowed 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.440 right down in the middle because you heard it too much. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:19.919 But that it was fantastic stuff. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.200 Because the other thing if you left on the dashboard 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.080 in the heat and it got all mounted, that was 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:25.440 the end of that album. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:26.880 In the Ocean in the cast. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.920 The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.840 Christian overhead projectors and transparencies in the school classrooms, do 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.000 you remember the ohp, that loud noise that used to 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.760 make as well, And they used to have that piece 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.000 of paper where they wouldn't want you reading ahead or 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.279 too much the lesson. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.960 They were to get really protective about that. Don't cover 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:45.599 that over. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.800 They would block out the Christians coming on, you. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:55.280 Know, gas all the good stuff she yet to come. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.159 I feel like they always put that transparent piece of 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.760 paper down the wrong way first. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.120 Yeah, had to flip it over every lesson we're talking 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.440 about what were Kids these days have no idea about 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:10.200 cars without air conditioning or power steering. Yeah, pain by 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.360 check feels like a real old school thing, now, doesn't it. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:13.839 Christian. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.520 I'm not saying I did this, but connecting your friend's 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:22.000 VCR to yours to illegally copy movies, paying twenty five 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.520 cents per text, creating ring tones, pushing corresponding numbers. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.160 Remember in text when we was paying for every text 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.200 and you had one hundred and sixty characters and you'd 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.960 start backspace, backspace. What can I lose? So this is 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:35.960 on the cost of one text now too. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.240 Tapping out phone number on a rotary dial phone using 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.320 the button and the cradle, if your parents had put 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.800 a lock in it. My dad did put a lock 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.280 on it. Kids would have no idea about handing an 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.680 assignment on floppy disk, hearing the pips on a payphone. Christian, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.240 when the Christmas countdown to number one was a really 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.240 really big thing about who it's going to be this year, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.480 and then Romperum it's coming back around. I remember on 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.919 Romperum they used to say Grace Before the kids their snacks. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.480 They were to say this God is great, God is good, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.559 and then us thank him for our food. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.279 That's a kid. It bothered me installed us that good 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.240 and food do not rhyme. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.880 Only on paper. Looks right? Yeah, that sound right? 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.279 Thank you Carol. All right, let's go back to what 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.920 kids today would have no idea about. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.480 Tim. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.880 Yes, I'm the guy that people rang up if they 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:25.640 got stuck on. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:26.440 A video game. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.279 I'm the guy. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.520 So who did you work for? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.080 I'll work a seagupe. But it was my first job, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.839 my very first job I had, and I always say 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.359 I picked way too early. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.200 I found it incredible. So I used to call the 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.080 Nintendo hotline in time before internet, when you couldn't get 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.960 tips or walk throughs. I called the Nintendo hot line 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.240 to a guy who knew essentially every part of every game. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.560 How did you know so much about the games? 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.560 We basically played them? So we in our hotline. We 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.839 had two huge covers. It's full of game Oh my god? 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:06.040 What was Basically you came into work, you cracked them. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.279 So there was four main guys and I was one 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.520 of them, and we were all called Sega masters at 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:11.880 the time. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.520 Yeah, I remember Masters. I remember we had a game 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.280 some of my friends. Do you remember wonder Boy? 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.640 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wonderful game. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:20.720 Yeah, wonderful game. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:20.960 Yeah. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.720 I can never get very far on that which I'd 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.040 called you, I ford you about you about then. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:29.320 Tim, Yeah we could have. But ironically, the most common 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.400 game we ever got called up about was a game 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.080 called that Alex Kidd in Miracle World. And it was 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:38.560 like every second call was about this game. And the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.240 first thing they'd say is I'm stuck in a room 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.640 and say, oh right, we just give them the sequence 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.800 and we'd say some wave moon stuffs, some moon waves, fish, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.360 starfish and they were the symbols, but they had the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.320 war cave up to finish the game. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.560 It sounds like a song off Rump Room the Starfish. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.840 It was a different kind of song. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:02.040 We all have nightmares about that because we can still 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:02.840 remember the scene. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.960 To keep coming, well, lovely to chat him. Thank you 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.040 very much for giving us a call. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.760 Nowhere is going am the Christian O'Connell show podcast today. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.920 Then we're asking you what did you buy from a 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.920 door to door salesman. Patsy was telling us about the 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.760 yellow salves. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.720 It Rulies Yellow salv Yeah, mister Rauley's Yeah. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.760 Door to door used to be a thing. I don't 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.600 know if you still have door to door anymore. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.600 Oh the way went Oh god, no, well we even 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.920 perished the thing. You wouldn't answer the door anyway. I 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:35.160 really wouldn't know. I'm the same. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.240 We were taught as kids not to answer the door, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.800 and so our family if we had a knock from 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.760 somebody we didn't know, the whole family would just go 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:42.800 quiet and wait for them out. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.959 If my wife's not in and that door goes, there's 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.200 no way I'm answering it. I just turn the TV 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.720 up and just ignore. So what did you buy door 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:57.440 to door? Catherine bought a painted a canvas picture of Venice, Italy. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.920 I then had it framed. It's now hanging on my 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.760 all in my house. I love it. Christian. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.320 When I was a young girl, there was in the 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.959 country that was a daor to door company called Dickens 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.480 and Carrie. The guy would come once a month that 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.120 he could buy anything from him. Mom would buy clothes, linen, 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.720 cook where he would collect monthly payment too. If there 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.920 was something you needed, you would just tell him and 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.560 he'd bring it in four weeks time. I couldn't wait 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.880 until I was sixteen so I could buy something from him. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.160 I bought a lovely suitcase. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.559 It costs me about twenty bucks, and I paid about 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.360 two dollars off a month. I'm fifty nine and still 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.320 have it to this day. The handle on he broke 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.439 a couple of years ago. It now stores Christmas decorations in. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.760 I'm glad you do that, Susan. We have two old 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.960 suitcases too with broken handles that have the Christmas decorations in. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.320 Is there something suss about Dickens and Carrey though, that 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.680 they can get anything you want? 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.600 Yes, Ginger. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.200 My mom brought a recliner of two guys who came 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.480 selling couches daughter door from the back of a truck 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.760 that seems Dodge j'sdy Caroen. My mom would buy from 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.320 the Avon lady. Mine would too, actually the Avon lady. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.360 They would come in the house and do demonstrations. You 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.400 must remember that Patsy water makeup perfume. Ricky brought two 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.000 thousand dollars worth door to door. Two thousand dollars worth 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.280 of stainless cookware, not just run of the mill pots. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.480 Is put here heat dispersing alloy inserts and cool to 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.880 touch handles. I'm sorry, Ricky, those are exactly what you 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.040 buy in David Jones or anyway. They're all like that 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.959 now with these different inserts. No one's getting burnt from 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.000 touching a handle that comes from Ricky. All right, what 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.920 did you buy door to door two? 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:37.840 I head the stainless steel pots. Yeah, inserts, oh yeah, yeah, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.560 definitely cool touch handles. But these pots are going to 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:41.840 change our lives. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:42.680 Yeah. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.280 They give you the big shell, don't they. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.120 Yeah. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:45.440 Yeah. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.559 Honestly, it was about two hours growing in you. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.160 Doing cookie like a three cross banquet with these fable pans. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.319 We didn't think, you know, we couldn't afford these back then, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.400 it was like late eighties. We just started out, and anyway, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.240 he convinced us. We just signed the dotted line honestly 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.400 to get him out of the house. We didn't think 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.200 we'd get the line, because we did. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:08.520 They him that way. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.920 Were basically the only way that we're going to leave 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.800 your house was you to sign a load of really 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.320 dodgy paperwork. Harder than getting divorced those people. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.200 Yeah, but we didn't think we'd get the line. But 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.040 we did, and it took us bloody four years to 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:23.640 paint home. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.160 Shocking. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.400 Isn't this ridiculous? 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.440 It's not been on counterfair. You can't be mind pots 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.319 and off four years? 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.040 How much were the pots and pans two. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:34.480 And a half. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.880 Then it's a moral, isn't it. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.559 We got a free set and nized there. I think 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.280 it was an egg poacher, an electric oil filled fry pan. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.720 And I'll tell you what. You just went on and on. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.319 You about the egg poacher. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:54.040 Now work. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:59.040 This is a great deal. That's the guy's details, all right, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:00.920 So thank you very much. What's your story? That's a 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:01.280 great one. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.120 Have a good week too, No worries you two Debra 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:05.160 door to draw. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:14.440 Oh my grandfather was a rawly daughter door salesman, brilliant 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:19.400 for cops and colds, saw muzzles, the salve fix anything, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:20.480 cuts and grays. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.079 And he's obviously trained you up. You're like you're sprinking 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.679 it to us now, medicated ointments cut some bruises. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.160 Oh, don't forget the peppermints. Us kids used to go 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.720 through the tea chests and the peppermints. If he knew that, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.360 we got into trouble. But you can still buy it 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.040 at the market. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.600 Yeah, around that the blue one was for colds and 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.199 the yellow one was the yellow salve. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.120 There was two tins, yes. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.240 Yes, when you were talking about it, I thought, mister Rawle, 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.400 he himself needs over to your house. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.400 Well that's what mum used to call him, mister Rawley. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.000 She said, it was mister Rawley himself. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.120 Yeah, and in my mind it was someone who had 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.960 like one of those big handlebarshes. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.000 That was wax World up at the end. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:06.600 And you can buy the wats as well from God Well. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.520 Christian Connell's show podcast. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.040 Patsy's husband, Chris is always on call. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.960 He works office works, okay, and he's got an office 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.000 works car, and we feel sorry for him. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.679 Obviously, Patsy's pimping him out. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.880 So we had a third birthday a few weeks ago 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.000 and Patrina said to the parents, I'll have Chris come 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.920 in the office works car and have him take kids 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.920 for a ride around the park in the office works car, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.079 fucking some sort of clown car and a circus. Honestly, 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.120 I felt a little bit like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.000 Simon is always on call, Okay. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.679 Christian, it's Simon here I'm a graphic designer, and for 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.200 the best part of fifteen years I was asked to 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:52.959 do everyone's wedding, invite, family photo, retouching, new business cards, and. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.120 All of that sort of stuff. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.079 The strangest thing I've ever had to do is retouch 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.600 a second husband out of a family photo. I left 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.400 moved into marketing in horticulture, and I still get hounded 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.800 about how to keep your apples nice and what to 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:10.920 do with your grass. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.880 You've got two different jobs, so that's always on call 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.840 for I did not know that was a thing that 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.679 you can remove someone from a photo. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.240 When I went to my brother in law's wedding banks brother, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.480 they did a series of photos with me in it, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.360 and then, because I was only new to the family, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.480 a series of photos with me without. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:35.080 They looked at it. He ain't a long term Well. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.040 When we did a photo shoot me Jack and Patsy, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.040 they do the team photos and then one by one as. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.560 Well, don't they. Yeah, they do. Yeah. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.920 I wonder if radio stations have ever done that thing 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.600 as well, where they've got one of those awful team 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.240 photos together and they've never called someone like Simon to 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.000 take someone out of a photo. All right, So always 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.600 on call? Do you have a job where you're always 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:56.840 on call? Natasha? 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:57.560 Hello? 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.240 How are you? 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.440 I'm good, Natasha? So why is why are you always 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.200 on cool? What are you doing? 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.320 I'm a massive therapist, a mobile massage therapist, so I've 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.080 got my friends and family constantly asking me for a 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.760 little help with a niggle here or there. But for me, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.720 the worst is when my mom brings it up at 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.080 social occasions because he mentions the celebrities and athletes that 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.200 I treat sometimes and I'm forcing these conversations I don't 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:21.720 want to be in. 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.640 I be honest, Now, I get why your mum would 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.120 do that. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.600 I have to sit there awkwardly like yeah, but yeah. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.040 On holidays, even when people find out I'm on the 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.080 bus in Central America, people are like, can you fix 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:43.160 my neck or not? The bus driver? Yeah. Anywhere you 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.080 mention it, people just all of a sudden have some 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.120 kind of pain somewhere. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.520 Thanks for Esha, that's she cool? Thank you, Bye, Tigan. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.800 Why are you always on call? 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.720 My husband's actually always on calls. So he's a biomedical engineer, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.520 so he works for a busy hospital in my family 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.840 take that as him being a doctor. They called him 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:03.680 and asked him advice. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.640 They must be sat next to a doctor, wander out 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.120 to reception and go doctor. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.680 What does the biomedical engineer do? What's his day to day? 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.840 Pretty much? He told me I had to drive him 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.320 in the city this morning and he was like, I've 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.800 got to go first thing into theater because something's not working. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.280 And so he said, yesterday he was really stressed. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.360 He was like, something's not working. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.600 What's just something had. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.800 To be replaced. It was all fine, everything worked out fine. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.240 But what to see as you're counting backwards and going 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.920 under is some I too guy going have you turned on? 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:42.160 And he grabs his like test and tak yeah pretty 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.680 much yes, and off and on again. And so it's 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:46.480 just little things like that. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:47.360 So it was an. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.040 Engineer in a hospital with all the expensive state of 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:50.840 the art machinery. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.040 Don't got that, yeah, pretty much. So he'll watch medical shows. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.600 He goes, oh, I fix sat I fixed one of those. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.640 Before he's pausing graz anatomy. You don't. You don't ever 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.240 move in like that. You'd rip the light right off. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:07.000 Oh that's so. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.960 Good to worry about going into just you know it 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:11.560 breaks down. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.000 Of course, we don't want to know it. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.400 Think of how much stuff breaks down here day. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.240 You've got to you've got to hope that the hospitals 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.480 ever run better than this. I pray for that. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.679 The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, So what do you do 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.520 for living, Pete? 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.600 I drive a truck made so I'm everyone's personal courier. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.439