Speaker 1: Christian I Connell Christian o'connalds show podcast.
Speaker 2: All right. So often on the show we have like
Speaker 2: a spillover from three topic Tuesday, which we did yesterday
Speaker 2: and we do every Tuesday where we do three phoners
Speaker 2: at the same time. One of the topics yesterday is
Speaker 2: still around, and it was what's the first thing you
Speaker 2: ever saved up money for? Because I think if you
Speaker 2: actually do take a moment to think about it, you
Speaker 2: remember the very first thing you actually saved up, whether
Speaker 2: it was your pocket money, your little piggy bank, or
Speaker 2: whether it's like from a Saturday job or a part
Speaker 2: time job. When you saved your own money to actually
Speaker 2: go and buy something with your own money, it was
Speaker 2: quite a moment in your life. This comes from Kim
Speaker 2: in Frankston. Christian I was just a show, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I love the topic. The first thing you saved your
Speaker 2: money up for? This took me back to saving for
Speaker 2: a box of Dorn't pencils. Oh yes, ult that big
Speaker 2: sort of keyboard of them that the full keyboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the full seventy two was the If you had that,
Speaker 3: then you had all the colors year made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when it was thirteen years old. This is all
Speaker 2: I wanted, Christian. Those pencils. They were the Rolls Royce
Speaker 2: of pencils. They came in boxes of twelve, twenty four.
Speaker 2: Then there was the really big one. I thought there
Speaker 2: was like a thirty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I'm provy. Twenty two had like two
Speaker 3: layers of pencil. You'd open up the box and then
Speaker 3: you would have the chocolate. Yeah, a Cigarett layer underneath.
Speaker 2: Box with favor food that you're eating the pencils, maybe
Speaker 2: out your way. A school friend had the twenty four
Speaker 2: box only had the cheaper faber castales. I remember those
Speaker 2: from school, favorite costelles. Do you mean that that used
Speaker 2: to grade pencils was like a two d or three
Speaker 2: hs or something? That the lead in them was Grady
Speaker 2: or something? And I really wanted those Derwins. I saved
Speaker 2: my pocket funny for money for months and finally had
Speaker 2: enough for a pack of twenty four. I probably went
Speaker 2: down to the news agents and asked a man behind
Speaker 2: the counter for them. He said, do you want the twelves,
Speaker 2: the twenty fours or the thirty six? I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Hang on a minute, sir, they come in a thirty
Speaker 2: six pack now, oh my god, the dilemma extra colors
Speaker 2: a bigger box. Was torn between taking immediately the twenty
Speaker 2: four packed there or holding out and saving extra for
Speaker 2: the larger This is a life lesson. Isn't about deferred
Speaker 2: gratification and what had done or what pats he would
Speaker 2: doe it? Just ate the whole twenty four Christian, I
Speaker 2: want to stick it to my friend with a twenty
Speaker 2: four box. So I held out for another couple of
Speaker 2: months to say, for the bigger one. The joy when
Speaker 2: I walked back in there to get the thirty six
Speaker 2: pack of owning those beautiful rolls Royce of pencils, the doors,
Speaker 2: the smell of the newness when I opened that beautifully
Speaker 2: illustrated hard box. It used to come in, that real
Speaker 2: hard box. It was the metallic.
Speaker 3: One, was it?
Speaker 2: Even you couldn't call it. It was a very flimsy tin.
Speaker 2: He used to put that in your school bag and
Speaker 2: just moving a shoulder again and the other shoulder on
Speaker 2: were just dent half of it. And the amazing selection
Speaker 2: of such vibrant, rich colors. I remember, It's amazing how
Speaker 2: you can still remember this, Christian. I wouldn't let anyone
Speaker 2: else use them, and slept with them under my pillow.
Speaker 2: That's so cool, only to be used for special occasions,
Speaker 2: coloring homemade birthday cards and stuff like that for mom
Speaker 2: and dad and all my school friends were so envious.
Speaker 2: So I was so proud until a few weeks later
Speaker 2: past the same news agents he had a big up
Speaker 2: in the window brand new seventy two bocks on My
Speaker 2: thirteen year old me did not to know how to swear,
Speaker 2: but that's how angry I was. Great Email Kim Christian.
Speaker 2: I still got my set of Derwin's seventy two in
Speaker 2: that ten brand new box. I've still got them unused
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety holding on to them for one rainy
Speaker 2: day justin thank you very much for text mate Max.
Speaker 1: Same here are we Max?
Speaker 2: What was the first thing you saved up your money
Speaker 2: for a.
Speaker 1: Brand new Melbourne Star dregster when I was thirteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll be saving pocket money. Or did you
Speaker 2: have a little paper round?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I used to work selling papers and saved up and
Speaker 1: got me one hundred dollars and went to the end
Speaker 1: of the shop to buy it pay cash and me
Speaker 1: brother wanted to put it in the car to drive
Speaker 1: and bring it home. I said no, I'm riding at home.
Speaker 1: I paid for it.
Speaker 2: I bet you felt like a young man at that moment,
Speaker 2: didn't he won. You're handling cash one hundred dollars as
Speaker 2: well to a young thirty year old. It's an eye
Speaker 2: watering amount sort of thing that they'd rob a bank for.
Speaker 2: This is one hundred dollars. Then you're psychling it yourself,
Speaker 2: your own thing. I got this myself. None bought this
Speaker 2: for me. It's a real moment, isn't it. Oh?
Speaker 1: It was, It was. It was the turning point. It
Speaker 1: was just like I played for this. I wish I
Speaker 1: had it now because there was a lot of money now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Max, thank you very much and cool,
Speaker 2: take care.
Speaker 1: Helen, Helen Christian.
Speaker 4: I was eleven. I wanted this cassette player and I
Speaker 4: didn't care if I had to wait for a better one.
Speaker 4: I wanted this particular model and it was about thirty
Speaker 4: dollars and it was a Panasonic and it came in
Speaker 4: the leather case. And my dad said, oh, do you
Speaker 4: want to wait for another model? You know we'll get
Speaker 4: you a better one. No, no, no, I want this one.
Speaker 4: I want this one. And then I would go home
Speaker 4: and I would sit by the radio, Christian, and I
Speaker 4: would hit record and record my favorite songs off the
Speaker 4: radio and play them back on my cassette player. And
Speaker 4: you know, I used to sit there and wait for
Speaker 4: the songs, and I'd get really annoyed if I missed
Speaker 4: the start of the song.
Speaker 2: That I used to get really annoyed too when the
Speaker 2: DJ would talk over the end of the song, which
Speaker 2: I now do for a living.
Speaker 4: I know, now annoying.
Speaker 2: And DJ, you said, trash the last like forty seconds
Speaker 2: of the Beastie Boys. Shut up. Now I am that guy.
Speaker 2: This full circle. What was the first album you got
Speaker 2: on cassette?
Speaker 4: Then, well, the first single I bought was going to
Speaker 4: See My Baby Tonight by the Laddie Doves. And my
Speaker 4: first album was split with Mac Rumors. And I would
Speaker 4: lay by my records and I've still got most of
Speaker 4: those vinyls today.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's great, Hey, Hella, lovely talking.
Speaker 4: To you, Christian. Christian O'Connell Show podcast