Speaker 1: Christian Connell The Christian o'connalds Show podcast, Take an evening.
Speaker 2: Thanks are tuning in.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show, and we're just about
Speaker 1: to do nineteen ninety five until about nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: That's tonight's and this week's Wonder Year. Well, once a
Speaker 1: week we go back to one year, look at what
Speaker 1: really happened in that year and what happened to you
Speaker 1: in that year, and it's nineteen ninety five. Took about
Speaker 1: the posters we all used to have on our teenage
Speaker 1: bedroom walls. What did you have up there, James and Frankston?
Speaker 2: It used to have cars. Yeah, for a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: It was just like the Magnum car Ferraris testers just cars, cars,
Speaker 1: guns n' roses and pam Na Anderson. You can age these,
Speaker 1: can't you. That's nineties, yea Christian. My first ever poster
Speaker 1: was the young Leonardo DiCaprio is Jack in Titanic. I
Speaker 1: had like a hundred posters in total load of my
Speaker 1: bedroom wall and on the ceilings as well. James Hunt.
Speaker 1: James Hunt was a very charismatic Formula One driver in
Speaker 1: the seventies. It was a movie where Chris Hemsworth played him.
Speaker 1: We came out a couple of years ago movie.
Speaker 2: Actually Rush about his life. Hemsworth has brilliant in it.
Speaker 1: James Hunt started a trend of long haired men on
Speaker 1: posters on my wall, which my dad for some reason
Speaker 1: got very annoyed by men with long hair on the wall.
Speaker 1: Just kept looking at them, pointing and going he get
Speaker 1: his air cut.
Speaker 2: Good old short back inside to sort out that. Simon Lemon.
Speaker 1: Christian I had just about every boy band, brass, new
Speaker 1: Kids on the Block, Robbie Williams, we just played also
Speaker 1: Moulder and Scully.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but a lot of people about the X
Speaker 2: Files ones on there. Christian.
Speaker 1: I used who had a big wham one? And I
Speaker 1: used to kiss George Michael good night before going to bed,
Speaker 1: and you originally got nothing from me.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the let's go to the lines.
Speaker 2: Colleen Christian loved the show.
Speaker 3: I had many posters of John Farnham. All of my
Speaker 3: posters had to be on the back of the doors.
Speaker 3: We didn't have blue tech. It was the old sticky tape.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so it became a closer to post a girl.
Speaker 3: I still have still have John finnim I'm sixty years
Speaker 3: of age. I have him on the inside of our
Speaker 3: study door. He's in black Speedos with the V.
Speaker 1: With with.
Speaker 2: Was it really the veal? Was it that little kind
Speaker 2: of birder belly and then.
Speaker 3: A little bit of a V that we can pretend.
Speaker 3: But he had the white T shirt on with the
Speaker 3: kend in Australiana signed because it was when they were
Speaker 3: doing that, you know, Australia.
Speaker 2: Can you do as a favor, can you take a
Speaker 2: picture of that?
Speaker 1: I need to see that picture of him and Speedos
Speaker 1: funs in Speedos amazing, Sinan.
Speaker 2: Who was on your bedroom wall A Bruce las Yes,
Speaker 2: me too?
Speaker 1: Enter the dragon or fist a few You know that
Speaker 1: one with the nunchucks under is right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The first one was the way of the Dragon when
Speaker 3: you had the nunchucks under the arm and.
Speaker 2: Then that scratch, that scratch across his chest. Belinda? How
Speaker 2: are you all good? Blinda? And I hope you're well.
Speaker 2: Who did you have on your bedgel wall?
Speaker 5: When I was thirteen, I had a shrine to hands me.
Speaker 5: It was oh yes, it was all walls, all feelings.
Speaker 5: You could not see anything except for their faces.
Speaker 1: Just their faces. Now it's like a serial killer's lair
Speaker 1: with their eyes all cut out. No, not that bad,
Speaker 1: all right, but a shrine all the This a handsome shrine.
Speaker 5: Then then I finally developed some music taste and sixteen
Speaker 5: year old me turned the shrine to slipnot.
Speaker 2: Wow gear change. But this is what it is.
Speaker 1: Been a teenager, isn't it? One minute you're into that,
Speaker 1: then the look changes everything. You go from handsOn to
Speaker 1: slipknot love it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, give me nightmares?
Speaker 4: Going to sleep with the mask?
Speaker 2: What slipknot want?
Speaker 5: No? I slept fine?
Speaker 2: Oh that's incredible. Hello.
Speaker 5: Remind Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: This week's wonder year is nineteen ninety five. This is
Speaker 2: going straight to the pool.
Speaker 5: Are you telling me.
Speaker 3: That you built a time machine?
Speaker 1: Hand of a door warrior? I tell you what any
Speaker 1: boss who sets anyone but not turning up the die
Speaker 1: of about it looked as if tax.
Speaker 2: And bears teeth. Oh won.
Speaker 1: We go back to nineteen ninety five the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety five, Paul Keating was the Prime minister. Average
Speaker 1: movie ticket price here in Australia was four dollars scorne
Speaker 1: up that a little bit, But that's actually that we
Speaker 1: don't even have movies at the Cimmer now.
Speaker 2: We can't go pod dollars, kha key, baggy jeans and
Speaker 2: moon rings were the height of fashion.
Speaker 1: And Brad Pitt was named the sexiest man alive. Beanie
Speaker 1: babies and POGs were all the rage.
Speaker 4: Hogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember those POGs? Do you reckon?
Speaker 1: There must be just thousands of land filled sites all
Speaker 1: over the world with POGs and beanie babies.
Speaker 2: Sadly just discarded in them.
Speaker 1: Ere Seinfield and Friends are all the most popular American
Speaker 1: imports shows all over the world.
Speaker 2: eBay launched.
Speaker 1: eBay launched in nineteen ninety five, and Amazon sold its
Speaker 1: first book.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest movies of nineteen ninety five was
Speaker 1: talking about Toy Story.
Speaker 2: This movie just know what all person for you. I
Speaker 2: love the Toy Story movie.
Speaker 1: Although we're all up to speed with them now, there
Speaker 1: have been so many great moments in them. They just
Speaker 1: did that really good thing of their were heartfelt and funny.
Speaker 1: They actually when the first one came along in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five, it was actually a really truly game changing movie.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the way it was just not The animation was incredible.
Speaker 1: We've not seen animation that lifelike and that good that
Speaker 1: made these little figurines, cartoon characters essentially very very three
Speaker 1: dimensional and human.
Speaker 2: And no one better, no one better.
Speaker 1: Than Tom Hanks as well in that it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be Billy Crystal was supposed to be the voice
Speaker 1: they wanted.
Speaker 2: He passed.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing an interview with him on David Letterman
Speaker 1: and he says the only regret he's got in his life.
Speaker 1: He was the guy that said, I can't see that working.
Speaker 1: Another great movie out this year. Mel Gibson in This
Speaker 1: Braveheart for one chance, just.
Speaker 2: One chance, gone back here and tell our animal. Then
Speaker 2: they may take our life, but they'll never take.
Speaker 1: Great got five Oscars Best Picture, one for mad Mell,
Speaker 1: as well for Best Director. Amazing movie. If you're ever
Speaker 1: interested in the history, uh the true story of what
Speaker 1: the Brits and I speakers on what they did to
Speaker 1: William Wallace, the Scottish rebel. What they actually did to
Speaker 1: him was so so bad. When mel Gibson found out,
Speaker 1: was like, we're not having any of that in the movie. Also,
Speaker 1: this TV showed you remember Gladiators. We had this the
Speaker 1: same year as well. Launched in the UK from America
Speaker 1: Huge on a Saturday night. Was it Saturday Night TV here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It was a pointment viewing for us in our family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have the pugil sticks and the travelator
Speaker 1: and hang tough and all of that.
Speaker 2: Jack, you probably remember this. She a little bit younger
Speaker 2: than Patsy and I Cheese TV.
Speaker 4: Jack.
Speaker 1: July seventeenth, Channel ten launched Cheese TV streading kids cartoon
Speaker 1: show that and Weekday Morning is at seven am by
Speaker 1: hosted by Rye Uping and Jade Gap.
Speaker 2: You must have watched this.
Speaker 4: Without fail every morning. Actually, remember entering a competition where
Speaker 4: you had to draw a Rye Beiner berry for the
Speaker 4: Rye beIN a drink And it was the first time
Speaker 4: my parents had to explain to me just because I
Speaker 4: entered the competition didn't mean no one, because as soon
Speaker 4: as we put it in the mail, I was dancing
Speaker 4: around the living room waiting for my Rye been a pact.
Speaker 1: We still have to explain that to a lot of
Speaker 1: listeners that until we pay you, you might have entered,
Speaker 1: you ever won it?
Speaker 2: So that show, did that knock off Agro before that?
Speaker 2: Different channels? Ah right, okay?
Speaker 1: And then in nineteen ninety five Windows ninety five him
Speaker 1: of the size of the monks that were coming was
Speaker 1: just huge.
Speaker 2: It was like that four Encyclopedia Britannicas just to get
Speaker 2: all that futuristic knowledge.
Speaker 1: It was called the Information super Highway then as well,
Speaker 1: do you ever that the Information super Way the world
Speaker 1: Wide Web? When we come back, then I'll ask Jack
Speaker 1: and Bats and I'll tell you what nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: was for me as well. If you've got any memories
Speaker 1: about nineteen ninety five and what it was for you.
Speaker 1: Jackie Boy entering Cheese TV, what did you win?
Speaker 2: What was the prize?
Speaker 4: Just some ryebina a Riebena pack. I think it was
Speaker 4: a plush toy of a Riebena berry and.
Speaker 1: Only wish sometimes we were working in radio then, because
Speaker 1: you didn't have to try that art. Did you make
Speaker 1: in a show?
Speaker 3: Then?
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