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Speaker 1: Christian Christian Iconoll the Christian O'Connell show podcast Light. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's have a look at some of the emails that

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Speaker 1: came in over the weekend for Late to the Party. Christian,

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Speaker 1: you were talking on the show about what you remember

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Speaker 1: from history lessons at school after helping your daughter with

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Speaker 1: a Cuban missile crisis test. It reminded me that when

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Speaker 1: I was eleven at the time, at the height of

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Speaker 1: the Cuban missile crisis, the government put out an information film.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember how scary government information films used to be,

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Speaker 1: those public service announcements and videos. There used to be

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Speaker 1: some terrifying ones in the UK about the dangers of

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Speaker 1: Chippan fires flying a kite near overhead. Yeah, that, Christian,

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Speaker 1: the government put out an information film. This is incredible,

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Speaker 1: Bearing in mind this is quite a few years ago, right,

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Speaker 1: this is a height that Cuban missile crisis. On how

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Speaker 1: to build an atomic bomb shelter by taking the doors

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Speaker 1: off from inside your house and putting them around the

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Speaker 1: kitchen table. So basically, the atomic bomb is going to

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Speaker 1: be set off anytime soon, and you've got to start

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Speaker 1: finding the screw drive to take that. That's going to

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Speaker 1: stop an atomic bomb. That's what stopped all those people

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Speaker 1: surviving is they didn't take their doors off. It would

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Speaker 1: honestly take you half an hour or more to take

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Speaker 1: a door off the Here a door versus an atomic detonation.

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Speaker 1: When the four minute warning went off, we were then

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Speaker 1: supposed to get the mattresses off the beds as well

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Speaker 1: to reinforce this bomb shelter, and the whole family was

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Speaker 1: supposed to get under the table. We also had drills

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Speaker 1: at school around the same time that if we got

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Speaker 1: the four minute warning, we were there also to get

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Speaker 1: under the desk. I would have thought after Nagasaki in Hiroshima,

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Speaker 1: the powers that would have realized that none of this

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Speaker 1: would even work if it did happen and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: supposed to reassure the panicking population kids. Yeah, what a

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Speaker 1: traumatic thing for kids to tell them about that. That's

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Speaker 1: Usan in Diamond Creek Christian. On the show, you were

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Speaker 1: talking about what was the first thing you saved for? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had some great stories last week about what was

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Speaker 1: the first thing you ever saved up for. My husband

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Speaker 1: wanted to buy a forty dollars Panasonic cassette back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, his parents had rising damp in their house,

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Speaker 1: so he got paid two dollars an hour to dig

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Speaker 1: up and remove the dirt from under the house. It

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Speaker 1: took him six months. I mean, isn't that slave labor?

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Speaker 1: I mean the sort of conditions out to building that

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Speaker 1: rip river Kwai six catte you get under the house

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Speaker 1: and dig son two dollars an hour. As a kid

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Speaker 1: as well, there was nothing scarier than under the house. Yes,

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Speaker 1: yescially in Australia. I mean all kinds of dangerous animals

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Speaker 1: under there. Christian. Last week on the show You sent

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Speaker 1: Me Off down Memory Lane, you were talking about the

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Speaker 1: Derwent pencils. Growing up. I also wanted the box of

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Speaker 1: seventy two, but my parents couldn't afford them. The most

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Speaker 1: I got was the pack of twelve. Each week I

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Speaker 1: saved my pocket money and once a month I was

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Speaker 1: allowed to buy one I went pencil as a local

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Speaker 1: news agent sold them as a single I think I

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Speaker 1: managed to accumulate ten before the newsagent stopped selling them

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Speaker 1: as a single item. I was devastated. Last year, it

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Speaker 1: was my fifty fifth birthday and my dad got me

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Speaker 1: a box of seventy two he'd Stillmiah remembered. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Marianne and Berrick, thank you very much for email. If

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Speaker 1: you ever got an email, late clap parts it, anything

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Speaker 1: you've heard us talk wort on the Shining Up, be

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Speaker 1: a couple days later that you sudden remember it and

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Speaker 1: you got a story for us. That's how it works.

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Speaker 1: Email us Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot au. The

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