Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast
Speaker 1: Golden Year.
Speaker 2: We're going back to the eighties this week in the
Speaker 2: Golden Year.
Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's Golden Years nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Your move, mister Gorbachev, Tear down this wall?
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty seven? What was teenage pats up to? Patsy?
Speaker 4: I was fifteen, I was in year nine at high school.
Speaker 4: I pinnacle year for me. Actually, I just danced in
Speaker 4: the Highland Dancing State Championships and placed, and I thought,
Speaker 4: you know what, I might retire now because you competitively
Speaker 4: go to about sixteen and then you can either drop
Speaker 4: out A lot of girls drop out and boys or teach.
Speaker 4: And so I thought, you know what I'm going to
Speaker 4: that's the next thing I'm going to do. So I
Speaker 4: set my teacher's license.
Speaker 2: Did you really have fourth of fifteen?
Speaker 4: And so then started up my own class, which was good.
Speaker 4: And what else was I doing?
Speaker 2: You were running your own hide and dance drops and
Speaker 2: my mum helped me.
Speaker 4: She'd take me along because I couldn't drive.
Speaker 2: Of course, how many students did you have?
Speaker 4: Quite a few we had, maybe I don't know twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: So you then raised a next generation, the.
Speaker 4: Next generation of dances Christas.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: What else was I doing? I was my love affair
Speaker 4: with radio would be gone because we were doing work
Speaker 4: experience at school, and so I did a stint at
Speaker 4: my local radio station. I thought, yep, this is for me,
Speaker 4: this is what I.
Speaker 2: Want to do. And what were you actually doing? Were
Speaker 2: you allowed in near the microphone?
Speaker 4: I was just could Actually I was in every department
Speaker 4: and got to read like the five o'clock news through
Speaker 4: the week, the five pm.
Speaker 2: It must have been a small, old crappy station experience.
Speaker 2: Nose brat in a skirt.
Speaker 3: Isn't that my dance teacher doing the five o'clock news?
Speaker 2: America has blowing up? It's fustiness, But that was.
Speaker 4: A beauty of it. You could sink your teeth into
Speaker 4: it and get a real like there's nothing like on
Speaker 4: the job experience to really see if that's what you
Speaker 4: think you might want to do.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: I loved I love the people there. I was riding
Speaker 4: to neighbors and home and away. You know, it was
Speaker 4: the era of Kylie Minoque and Jason Donovan and her
Speaker 4: single I should be so Lucky was out and that
Speaker 4: was at the Blue Light Disco with our bubble skirts
Speaker 4: and lace gloves. It was like eighties overload, eighties.
Speaker 2: On steroids, Jackie boy. So this was the year you
Speaker 2: were actually born.
Speaker 3: November nineteen eighty seven. I was born and I was
Speaker 3: the most beautiful baby the hospital had ever seen.
Speaker 2: Who said that?
Speaker 5: My mom?
Speaker 2: Okay, independent source.
Speaker 3: I even got her to record the story, which she
Speaker 3: tells over and over many times in my life.
Speaker 2: I've heard this story. All right, let's even listen. This
Speaker 2: is from Jack's mom.
Speaker 3: When Jack was.
Speaker 5: Born, he was perfect. He had blonde curls, had his
Speaker 5: beautiful round face, and it was perfectly proportioned. And all
Speaker 5: the nurses would come and tell me so much so
Speaker 5: that when I went back to the hospital eighteen months
Speaker 5: later to have his younger brother, Harry, one of the
Speaker 5: nurses came up to me and said, I remember Jack.
Speaker 5: He was such a beautiful baby.
Speaker 2: Wow, your mum is a lovely, charming lady. But I
Speaker 2: am I'm sorry, mother, post called him bs on that.
Speaker 2: I remember one of those corners where you would go,
Speaker 2: I don't put this woman on air. It's like, what
Speaker 2: are the odds? And you know, what Fifteen years later
Speaker 2: she went, Oh, my god, you're the mom of the
Speaker 2: nice people baby I ever saw. How is he now?
Speaker 2: Fifteen years later, that's what she said to me. Let's
Speaker 2: not put this one through on air.
Speaker 3: Wow, the nurses still remember the most beautiful baby they
Speaker 3: ever said.
Speaker 4: Well, you were long baby, How long we.
Speaker 2: Have any proportioned? Didn't you? Patty who gets the mom
Speaker 2: to make that? Bring it in?
Speaker 4: Jack does yes, explains a lot.
Speaker 2: Also in nineteen eighty seven, I do remember this pack
Speaker 2: Cash winning Wimbledom because it was outragous, because he was
Speaker 2: like quite a wild man, packcash for stuffy old Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: He the when he won Wimbledon, he claims on top
Speaker 2: of the commentary box, the roof of it. Who are
Speaker 2: proposed to his girlfriend? It was so wildly exciting. First
Speaker 2: ever mobile phone call in Australia was made. A phone
Speaker 2: then costs over four thousand dollars, was the size of
Speaker 2: a briefcase. They were to be huge and had a
Speaker 2: battery life of no more than twenty minutes. Fast forwards
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four, mobile phone has killed the alarm
Speaker 2: clock industry. Are you using your phone as your clock?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I use an old stool clock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I use the device where and I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say it anymore because every time we
Speaker 3: say one of like hey hey l hey goo, we
Speaker 3: set off people's at home.
Speaker 2: What them are you doing? There's probably about four people
Speaker 2: listening Siri. The world is like some going out now
Speaker 2: all over the world. Most of the citizen blowing away
Speaker 2: ange in the night. Everyone, some women talking to Fridays.
Speaker 2: I've been blowing out to Bendigo. The last that worries
Speaker 2: is their electric devices, said, most of them don't remember.
Speaker 2: They couldn't even upload an attachment when I was paying
Speaker 2: their bills a couple years ago. The people listening to
Speaker 2: show they've got Alexa, they beat it with rocks and sticks.
Speaker 2: That's the level of what we've got. Patsy, Oh, still
Speaker 2: got the old dial up landline?
Speaker 4: Fright, you're the one with the clock radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, never let me down there in twenty six years, trustworthy.
Speaker 2: The average Australian spends four hours and forty seven minutes
Speaker 2: a day on your phone. That is depressing. Do you
Speaker 2: think you're both in that category?
Speaker 3: No, I'm making a conscious effort not to use mine,
Speaker 3: but before especially on chest dot com, I was racking
Speaker 3: up easily six hours.
Speaker 2: Of the modern addiction story that's this week on Australian
Speaker 2: Story on chess dot com. I was a beautiful chess
Speaker 2: player because she played that clip from My Mum. The
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell show podcast. We're doing the Golden Year this week.
Speaker 2: It's about nineteen eighty seven, the year that well I
Speaker 2: was fourteen pounds of fifteen. Jack was born and it's
Speaker 2: been regaining us that he was a baby first trap
Speaker 2: nurses falling in love with this as he described himself
Speaker 2: as the perfectly proportioned baby, not the Thetruvian man, the
Speaker 2: the Trivian baby.
Speaker 3: This is just what the nurses at the hospital with s.
Speaker 2: This is just science talking here, Okay, this is just
Speaker 2: actual truth and science talking here. He will be the
Speaker 2: one that all future babies are measured against, and if
Speaker 2: they're not these measurements, they are not the Golden post
Speaker 2: baby other stuff. In nineteen eighty seven, the Golden Girl
Speaker 2: shown in Australia for the first time. Thank you for
Speaker 2: being a friend back when this uncher in eighty seventh
Speaker 2: they were flipping old bare Yeah, your heart is bold
Speaker 2: and the Beautiful aired in Australia for the first time,
Speaker 2: and then this came into the world as well, stud
Speaker 2: as an animated short in the middle of the Tracy
Speaker 2: Oman comedy show in America, The Simpsons. As you know,
Speaker 2: we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How
Speaker 2: bad is it, Secretary Van Hutton, We're broke. That's from
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. They've predicted Trump becoming the president many
Speaker 2: many years late. In twenty sixteen. I think it's one
Speaker 2: of the longest running comedy TV shows in the world.
Speaker 2: To Simpsons, how many seasons do you think it's still
Speaker 2: going for? Thirty four, thirty six? Jenny a nose in
Speaker 2: the pub quiz a couple of weeks ago, and it
Speaker 2: was one of the questions about how many seasons thirty
Speaker 2: six season and still going as well. A couple of
Speaker 2: the things nineteen eighty seven, did you watch Three Men
Speaker 2: in the Baby Patch? Yes, yes, this was Hue. This movie.
Speaker 2: Three incredibly eligible men hoping to meet some incredibly perfect women.
Speaker 2: So many way.
Speaker 6: Now at last they're about to find that wond girl
Speaker 6: who will sweep them off their feet.
Speaker 2: That's a movie. It's a baby, of course, it's a baby.
Speaker 2: It's you a movie. Also, it was the year that
Speaker 2: Dirty Dancing came out. Nobody Q Patsy's swooning. Now this.
Speaker 4: Movie of big decade.
Speaker 2: I would put lethal weapon, throw shade all over Dirty Dancing.
Speaker 2: Lethal Weapon. I remember seeing that cinema in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Of My Mates was such an electrifying movie. It was
Speaker 2: the real biggest when Miles Gibson McCain the world's biggest
Speaker 2: movie star that year. Such a funny, smart action movie.
Speaker 2: And it was also Good Morning Vietnam. And you've seen
Speaker 2: the next one I also came out in eighty said,
Speaker 2: which is an amazing movie. He's got Kevin Costner and
Speaker 2: Sean Connery and the Untouchables. Do you remember I made
Speaker 2: you watch it? You hated it? It's a great movie.
Speaker 2: And then do you remember I remember getting this sound
Speaker 2: from Blockbuster Video store watch it my friends Stakeout Emilio
Speaker 2: Estevez and Richard Dravis. Great comedy from the eighties. And
Speaker 2: then the other big TV show in Australia still going
Speaker 2: strong these days, Rage Wow Child Silk big music show.
Speaker 3: The hours I spent watching this show and then on
Speaker 3: Saturday night they would have a guest programmer, so a
Speaker 3: band who was traveling in Australia would pick all the
Speaker 3: music video clips from midnight until six A.
Speaker 2: So who do you remember seeing on?
Speaker 3: I would watch all my favorite pump bands, the Offspring
Speaker 3: and NORFX. I would set the vair chs as well,
Speaker 3: so tape it and watch it the next day.
Speaker 2: How cool? Yeah, this is a bit from when Metallica
Speaker 2: even guests hosted.
Speaker 7: Hither we are the Better Half of Metallica.
Speaker 2: I think we're playing Matt one I VHS tapes here thing,
Speaker 2: let me just put it back in. Please be congree wined.
Speaker 7: Hither we are the better half of Metallica and we
Speaker 7: actually are going to be here all freaking night, believe.
Speaker 3: It or not, to host feeding you hot metal video for.
Speaker 7: Metal videos and some other kind of cool ass stuff
Speaker 7: we did that you're going to learn to dig, as well.
Speaker 2: As when Freakin used to think that was real edgy stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh CC, mister rock Star.
Speaker 3: Although it felt like they had the first take and
Speaker 3: then someone behind the cameras that you can't so on
Speaker 3: the ABC.
Speaker 2: In Australia and I'm guessing so was the Rage rated
Speaker 2: A fifteen mature content.
Speaker 3: Overnight they would play, Yes, even the music clips was
Speaker 3: wearing in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Listen to some of these people then who have
Speaker 2: done the guest programmers over the years, Billy joel Ice,
Speaker 2: Q Beck Slash, Dave Grold, Green Day, Moby Outcast, Coldplay, Art,
Speaker 2: Chic Monkeys, Meat Loaf. Also in nineteen eighty seven there
Speaker 2: was a massive search operation for the Lockness Monster. Now
Speaker 2: I know even Hamish Nandy they did a special jidn
Speaker 2: gap year they did. We were trying to find NeSSI
Speaker 2: were you with him? Were there in what.
Speaker 3: Was it would have been two thousand and nine. Yes,
Speaker 3: we started looking for Locknest Monster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when I first met the boys went over
Speaker 2: doing that Locknest Monster. If you're not familiar with this,
Speaker 2: do you know much about the legend lo Nest Monster?
Speaker 2: Patsy a little bit? Yes, Well, they believe up in
Speaker 2: a shoes of lake in Scotland, Locknest, that there's a
Speaker 2: monster underneath it and has been for years. And if
Speaker 2: you've ever heard any of the eyewitness accounts, it's mainly
Speaker 2: from Scottish people often who do boat tours of the
Speaker 2: Lockness area.
Speaker 6: This trial man on the twenty fourth of for July,
Speaker 6: I was bear in mind he's seen a monster, all right,
Speaker 6: and it sounds like he just knocked on his door
Speaker 6: and he's just telling you about a boor and walk
Speaker 6: here yesterday.
Speaker 2: So yes, a large monster there. Marine.
Speaker 1: On the twenty fourth of for July, I was sitting
Speaker 1: in my room looking out directly onto the loch. Now
Speaker 1: the following day we're having the World Clan gathering of
Speaker 1: mcclennar's and logans. So the cloan sectory came into the
Speaker 1: room to discuss us with me, and Luke said, look
Speaker 1: out there at point monster. And here was the monster
Speaker 1: of its great big humps, quite clearly, moving around for
Speaker 1: about three or four minute.
Speaker 2: If you measure this guy's heart right, it ain't getting
Speaker 2: about three look humps? What are the odds of that?
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast The Golden Year. This week
Speaker 2: is nineteen eighty seven. I've got a bunch of the
Speaker 2: biggest hits of nineteen eighty seven, Jack and Bats taking
Speaker 2: each other and you can play along. Two. They're just
Speaker 2: gonna hear one second clips from all these big songs. Patsy,
Speaker 2: are you ready?
Speaker 6: You bet?
Speaker 2: I look less monster gotchas.
Speaker 4: The button and obviously not properly. You bet I'm ready
Speaker 4: because this is in my genre. You're just away, baby, jack.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm quaking him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you better make give it ten seconds? Have you
Speaker 2: have another sledge? Ready? Are you ready? Patch? Yes? I
Speaker 2: am there we go, shut the gut. That's so good,
Speaker 2: Jackie boy, you're ready. He's in a baseball today, he's American,
Speaker 2: all right? One second? Winning from nineteen eighty seven? Who's this?
Speaker 4: Oh that's Kylie Me and I do the like emotion.
Speaker 2: Even a little flourish there and a Patsy's strong song.
Speaker 2: What about this from nineteen eighty seven, one of the
Speaker 2: biggest songs. Oh yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 3: Way Streets have No Name?
Speaker 2: Half a fair enough.
Speaker 4: Right album?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 4: I love that album.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jungle, Yes, well done, Guns and Roses,
Speaker 2: well done? All right? What about this surre Can pats
Speaker 2: you'll know this one? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, bum Bumby movie.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's right.
Speaker 4: Richie's gonna Richie story. I was gonna say, Richie Barber, Richie.
Speaker 2: Rocky bo is Less, You're gonna fight me, brother, Gary Music,
Speaker 2: Mexican boxer.
Speaker 4: He did something with the Wiggles too at one point,
Speaker 4: didn't he? I think like a guest appearance anyway.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the actor that played Diamond finished right,
Speaker 2: Lou Diamond, Yes, I think he did. Actually were quite
Speaker 2: right back? Yeah, Lost Lobos? Do you remember the lost
Speaker 2: low Bos? This is huge on this album as one
Speaker 2: of LaBamba. All right. Another big song from nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the world as we know it? I don't
Speaker 2: see all right? Tim want to go?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Faith?
Speaker 2: George Michael Pancy so quick instant all right? Last one
Speaker 2: then from nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4: Dance with someone Whitney Huston.
Speaker 2: Or someone never you want to say Patsy hues Win there,
Speaker 2: Patsy hughes Win, all right, after the seven o'clock news,
Speaker 2: Which one of these do we want to play? R? E. M.
Speaker 2: Whitney George Michael U two streets have no name? What
Speaker 2: do you fancy?
Speaker 3: I would like to play Faith, but the Olympith version.
Speaker 2: Okay, that is never going to happen. And also you lost.
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast