WEBVTT - MINI: Wonder Year 1995

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<v Speaker 1>Christian Connell The Christian o'connalds Show podcast, Take an evening.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks are tuning in.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the Christian O'Connell Show, and we're just about

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<v Speaker 1>to do nineteen ninety five until about nineteen ninety five.

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<v Speaker 1>That's tonight's and this week's Wonder Year. Well, once a

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<v Speaker 1>week we go back to one year, look at what

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<v Speaker 1>really happened in that year and what happened to you

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<v Speaker 1>in that year, and it's nineteen ninety five. Took about

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<v Speaker 1>the posters we all used to have on our teenage

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<v Speaker 1>bedroom walls. What did you have up there, James and Frankston?

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<v Speaker 2>It used to have cars. Yeah, for a lot of guys.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just like the Magnum car Ferraris testers just cars, cars,

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<v Speaker 1>guns n' roses and pam Na Anderson. You can age these,

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<v Speaker 1>can't you. That's nineties, yea Christian. My first ever poster

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<v Speaker 1>was the young Leonardo DiCaprio is Jack in Titanic. I

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<v Speaker 1>had like a hundred posters in total load of my

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<v Speaker 1>bedroom wall and on the ceilings as well. James Hunt.

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<v Speaker 1>James Hunt was a very charismatic Formula One driver in

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<v Speaker 1>the seventies. It was a movie where Chris Hemsworth played him.

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<v Speaker 1>We came out a couple of years ago movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually Rush about his life. Hemsworth has brilliant in it.

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<v Speaker 1>James Hunt started a trend of long haired men on

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<v Speaker 1>posters on my wall, which my dad for some reason

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<v Speaker 1>got very annoyed by men with long hair on the wall.

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<v Speaker 1>Just kept looking at them, pointing and going he get

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<v Speaker 1>his air cut.

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<v Speaker 2>Good old short back inside to sort out that. Simon Lemon.

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<v Speaker 1>Christian I had just about every boy band, brass, new

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<v Speaker 1>Kids on the Block, Robbie Williams, we just played also

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<v Speaker 1>Moulder and Scully.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, but a lot of people about the X

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<v Speaker 2>Files ones on there. Christian.

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<v Speaker 1>I used who had a big wham one? And I

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<v Speaker 1>used to kiss George Michael good night before going to bed,

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<v Speaker 1>and you originally got nothing from me.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go to the let's go to the lines.

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<v Speaker 2>Colleen Christian loved the show.

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<v Speaker 3>I had many posters of John Farnham. All of my

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<v Speaker 3>posters had to be on the back of the doors.

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<v Speaker 3>We didn't have blue tech. It was the old sticky tape.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, so it became a closer to post a girl.

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<v Speaker 3>I still have still have John finnim I'm sixty years

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<v Speaker 3>of age. I have him on the inside of our

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<v Speaker 3>study door. He's in black Speedos with the V.

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<v Speaker 1>With with.

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<v Speaker 2>Was it really the veal? Was it that little kind

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<v Speaker 2>of birder belly and then.

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<v Speaker 3>A little bit of a V that we can pretend.

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<v Speaker 3>But he had the white T shirt on with the

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<v Speaker 3>kend in Australiana signed because it was when they were

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<v Speaker 3>doing that, you know, Australia.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you do as a favor, can you take a

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<v Speaker 2>picture of that?

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<v Speaker 1>I need to see that picture of him and Speedos

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<v Speaker 1>funs in Speedos amazing, Sinan.

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<v Speaker 2>Who was on your bedroom wall A Bruce las Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>me too?

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<v Speaker 1>Enter the dragon or fist a few You know that

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<v Speaker 1>one with the nunchucks under is right? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>The first one was the way of the Dragon when

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<v Speaker 3>you had the nunchucks under the arm and.

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<v Speaker 2>Then that scratch, that scratch across his chest. Belinda? How

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<v Speaker 2>are you all good? Blinda? And I hope you're well.

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<v Speaker 2>Who did you have on your bedgel wall?

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<v Speaker 5>When I was thirteen, I had a shrine to hands me.

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<v Speaker 5>It was oh yes, it was all walls, all feelings.

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<v Speaker 5>You could not see anything except for their faces.

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<v Speaker 1>Just their faces. Now it's like a serial killer's lair

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<v Speaker 1>with their eyes all cut out. No, not that bad,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, but a shrine all the This a handsome shrine.

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<v Speaker 5>Then then I finally developed some music taste and sixteen

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<v Speaker 5>year old me turned the shrine to slipnot.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow gear change. But this is what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Been a teenager, isn't it? One minute you're into that,

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<v Speaker 1>then the look changes everything. You go from handsOn to

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<v Speaker 1>slipknot love it?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yep, give me nightmares?

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<v Speaker 4>Going to sleep with the mask?

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<v Speaker 2>What slipknot want?

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<v Speaker 5>No? I slept fine?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's incredible. Hello.

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<v Speaker 5>Remind Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>This week's wonder year is nineteen ninety five. This is

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<v Speaker 2>going straight to the pool.

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<v Speaker 5>Are you telling me.

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<v Speaker 3>That you built a time machine?

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<v Speaker 1>Hand of a door warrior? I tell you what any

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<v Speaker 1>boss who sets anyone but not turning up the die

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<v Speaker 1>of about it looked as if tax.

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<v Speaker 2>And bears teeth. Oh won.

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<v Speaker 1>We go back to nineteen ninety five the mid nineties.

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<v Speaker 1>Nineteen ninety five, Paul Keating was the Prime minister. Average

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<v Speaker 1>movie ticket price here in Australia was four dollars scorne

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<v Speaker 1>up that a little bit, But that's actually that we

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<v Speaker 1>don't even have movies at the Cimmer now.

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<v Speaker 2>We can't go pod dollars, kha key, baggy jeans and

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<v Speaker 2>moon rings were the height of fashion.

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<v Speaker 1>And Brad Pitt was named the sexiest man alive. Beanie

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<v Speaker 1>babies and POGs were all the rage.

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<v Speaker 4>Hogs.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, remember those POGs? Do you reckon?

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<v Speaker 1>There must be just thousands of land filled sites all

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<v Speaker 1>over the world with POGs and beanie babies.

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<v Speaker 2>Sadly just discarded in them.

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<v Speaker 1>Ere Seinfield and Friends are all the most popular American

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<v Speaker 1>imports shows all over the world.

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<v Speaker 2>eBay launched.

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<v Speaker 1>eBay launched in nineteen ninety five, and Amazon sold its

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<v Speaker 1>first book.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the biggest movies of nineteen ninety five was

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<v Speaker 1>talking about Toy Story.

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<v Speaker 2>This movie just know what all person for you. I

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<v Speaker 2>love the Toy Story movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Although we're all up to speed with them now, there

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<v Speaker 1>have been so many great moments in them. They just

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<v Speaker 1>did that really good thing of their were heartfelt and funny.

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<v Speaker 1>They actually when the first one came along in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety five, it was actually a really truly game changing movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Wasn't the way it was just not The animation was incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>We've not seen animation that lifelike and that good that

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<v Speaker 1>made these little figurines, cartoon characters essentially very very three

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<v Speaker 1>dimensional and human.

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<v Speaker 2>And no one better, no one better.

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<v Speaker 1>Than Tom Hanks as well in that it was supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be Billy Crystal was supposed to be the voice

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<v Speaker 1>they wanted.

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<v Speaker 2>He passed.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember seeing an interview with him on David Letterman

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<v Speaker 1>and he says the only regret he's got in his life.

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<v Speaker 1>He was the guy that said, I can't see that working.

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<v Speaker 1>Another great movie out this year. Mel Gibson in This

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<v Speaker 1>Braveheart for one chance, just.

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<v Speaker 2>One chance, gone back here and tell our animal. Then

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<v Speaker 2>they may take our life, but they'll never take.

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<v Speaker 1>Great got five Oscars Best Picture, one for mad Mell,

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<v Speaker 1>as well for Best Director. Amazing movie. If you're ever

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<v Speaker 1>interested in the history, uh the true story of what

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<v Speaker 1>the Brits and I speakers on what they did to

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<v Speaker 1>William Wallace, the Scottish rebel. What they actually did to

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<v Speaker 1>him was so so bad. When mel Gibson found out,

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<v Speaker 1>was like, we're not having any of that in the movie. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>this TV showed you remember Gladiators. We had this the

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<v Speaker 1>same year as well. Launched in the UK from America

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<v Speaker 1>Huge on a Saturday night. Was it Saturday Night TV here?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah? It was a pointment viewing for us in our family.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do you have the pugil sticks and the travelator

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<v Speaker 1>and hang tough and all of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Jack, you probably remember this. She a little bit younger

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<v Speaker 2>than Patsy and I Cheese TV.

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<v Speaker 4>Jack.

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<v Speaker 1>July seventeenth, Channel ten launched Cheese TV streading kids cartoon

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<v Speaker 1>show that and Weekday Morning is at seven am by

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<v Speaker 1>hosted by Rye Uping and Jade Gap.

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<v Speaker 2>You must have watched this.

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<v Speaker 4>Without fail every morning. Actually, remember entering a competition where

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<v Speaker 4>you had to draw a Rye Beiner berry for the

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<v Speaker 4>Rye beIN a drink And it was the first time

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<v Speaker 4>my parents had to explain to me just because I

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<v Speaker 4>entered the competition didn't mean no one, because as soon

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<v Speaker 4>as we put it in the mail, I was dancing

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<v Speaker 4>around the living room waiting for my Rye been a pact.

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<v Speaker 1>We still have to explain that to a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>listeners that until we pay you, you might have entered,

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<v Speaker 1>you ever won it?

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<v Speaker 2>So that show, did that knock off Agro before that?

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<v Speaker 2>Different channels? Ah right, okay?

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<v Speaker 1>And then in nineteen ninety five Windows ninety five him

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<v Speaker 1>of the size of the monks that were coming was

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<v Speaker 1>just huge.

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<v Speaker 2>It was like that four Encyclopedia Britannicas just to get

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<v Speaker 2>all that futuristic knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>It was called the Information super Highway then as well,

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<v Speaker 1>do you ever that the Information super Way the world

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<v Speaker 1>Wide Web? When we come back, then I'll ask Jack

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<v Speaker 1>and Bats and I'll tell you what nineteen ninety five

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<v Speaker 1>was for me as well. If you've got any memories

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<v Speaker 1>about nineteen ninety five and what it was for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Jackie Boy entering Cheese TV, what did you win?

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<v Speaker 2>What was the prize?

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<v Speaker 4>Just some ryebina a Riebena pack. I think it was

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<v Speaker 4>a plush toy of a Riebena berry and.

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<v Speaker 1>Only wish sometimes we were working in radio then, because

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't have to try that art. Did you make

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<v Speaker 1>in a show?

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<v Speaker 3>Then?

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<v Speaker 1>Actually we did our big thing happening for the next

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<v Speaker 1>ten weeks Ribena for Life.

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<v Speaker 3>Christian Christian i'connell The Christian

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<v Speaker 2>O'Connell Show podcast